>> i did.you know george stephanopoulos did press him on that point numerous times.rological assessment? would you take a cognitive test and would you release it to the american people? he put that question to him repeatedly and you heard the president's answer was always that i do have a cognitive test every day. it's what i do. look how i've expanded nato. look how i've pulled together, you know, groups to push back on putin. look how i've helped in the south pacific and increased japan's defense budget so he talked about all those things. i was really struck watching this thing in full that he definitely has a different perception than what a lot of us hearing out there. we read the articles. we hear the leaks. we hear people who have gone public now saying we don't want him on the ticket anymore. donors saying they're going to pull their money not only from him but from anybody who is supporting him. yet in this conversation with george stephanopoulos he pressed him numerous times, what would it take to convince you to drop out? what if nancy pelosi and schumer a

>> brian: 8.5 million watched george stephanopoulos. >> steve: they can't hide anymore. white house is trying to control everything he does and some democrats are saying we told him behind the scenes he has to go. he has to do something big. maybe the press conference tomorrow, then again, you have "new york times" on editorial page saying get out two times and he doesn't do it. joe biden paralyzed democratic party. we forecast after that debate no way that guy from thursday, last thursday can beat donald trump. >> lawrence: they keep talking about this press conference, how much worse can he do? >> brian: let's see. >> lawrence: what moment could he have even if he does not rise to the occasion that is worst than the debate? >> brian: even the rehab tour has not been good. two or threein loos are unintelligible. he changed republican insstance too. trump has taken a step back and not talking and saying the minute i pick a v.p., it steals the news cycle. who should i pick that will be best against kamala harris or whitmer. >> steve: all it would take is to see another br

i don't know what answer he could give to george stephanopoulos. ges those senatorsr bi back into line for biden. well, first of all, i haven't heard any democrat senator question his ability hie they're all, you know, pleasedap with all the massive deficit spending that i guess. like so they're pleased with the 40 year high inflation. they certainlyth like the open n borders until the mainstream media started reporting. now they're lookinow tg for political cover. so, again, they've been solidly be biden.at has and democrats have a real problem. any democrat has a real problem. if rea you lose the media and ba lost the media overnight after that debate, it's pretty difficult because democrats can lie, they can enact policiesg are disastrous to this country. as tbut as long as the media isn their side covering up for him, they can survive. the minute nute the they lose the media, they really are toast. but vice president biden is president. he has the nominee. he has the he has diffi the nomination. he has the votes. it's going to be difficultculti

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what the president said to george stephanopoulos this weekend. listen to this. i don't know if you caught this here. it is manila play it marcus. do you know, not only am i campaign, i'm world, i'm running the world. he said i am running the world. by naturally seems to think that he's the president of the not the president of the united states, but rather the president of the entire world. i mean, not only is the economy let that come a ridiculously insulting. it's incredibly disrespectful, especially to people like mister moti, especially to people like other leaders who are forging new alliances like bricks, specifically because of the hedge amount of comments like the one that mr biden just made. by the way, it's not just the president. look at this story, this was published on the eve of the meeting between president clinton and mounting . look at this, apparently the state department or folks at the state department. don't want india and russia to be friends. they're coming out and saying they're quite concerned about the fact that they are cooperating wit

look the stephanopoulos interview. the july, 4th events, more democratic senators and members of congress are turning on the president. the page continue to go way south on him. i mean, it's bad news on top of bad news on top of bad news, getting this guy stay in the race. what do you think of? yeah, rick, 1st let, let me ask you something in that jibberish moment. yeah. that bite and went off script. was he imply that he somehow did away with traffic in america? yeah, for jam. that's it. it sounded like a read for jersey. it hasn't been of i have a lately to him, or, or ela or any other us city where i guarantee it was really number. go ahead. mission of thought, finish or that. so within 2 business day, if you're an ad, well one of the things about buying when he says something like this is disconnection, right? this guy has not had a real job in his entire life. so for him to be speaking off, what it's like to be a commuter stuck in traffic is ridiculous. like, don't even go there. don't you know nothing about this.

the fact that stephanopoulos didn't push back on it was incredible.who shut down vladimir putin. he is not shutdown. he said trump recommended during the pandemic, he created 50 million jobs, the most of any president in history, most of the jobs were restored that were lost in the pandemic so ask yourself this. why does president biden need another 6 days to press for the press conference he's going to hold next thursday, the first that he has helped this year of the solo variety, why does he need a days prep, why was he so slow to do this interview after 8 days of news cycle that completely swept this president away and his chances of winning. too old, not noble enough for the job. the election is held today trump wins quite easily. will: either this will push them out of the race or reconfirm for democrats relax, everything is going to be fine. ari fleischer was interesting when he said he might have hit the imperfect sweet spot. put democrats in the most difficult position. he wasn't bad enough to push himself out but wasn't good enough to calm th

that was george stephanopoulos' own point of view.feels that the current president and he saw him up close, should not be president of the united states for four more years. he can't make it. >> ainsley: we have heard that barack obama and biden don't get along. has that been -- have you ever heard that, brian? >> brian: i have heard that especially the camps. the staffs behind the scenes. >> lawrence: going at it. >> ainsley: what about bill clinton? george helped with his campaign in 1992 and became the white house spokesperson. >> brian: that's a great question i would think this when james carville said i have an idea get bill clinton together with barack obama and have them oversee some contenders in a blitz primary, i don't think either of those names would have been brought up if you, to your point, ainsley, if you knew that bill clinton knew that he wasn't all there. and on top of that, hillary clinton probably knows the same thing. she also probably saw that poll that says she beats donald trump, which is ridiculous if she is

on this week with george stephanopoulos. portions will also be airing on good morning america starting tomorrow morning. >> all right. we are going to turn now to the weather. and parts of the bay area are in for another hot day tomorrow. >> the stretch of this heat wave just continues to lag on. meteorologist sandyha patel here with a look at the temperatures and the warnings out there. sandhya. >> that's right. julian and ama, we're going into day five of this heat wave tomorrow for our inland areas. it was certainly a scorcher. today, 107 degrees in livermore, 106 in fairfield, 103 in concord, 82 in downtown oakland. that was a new record for today, even though it doesn't seem that warm. 94 in san jose, 95, santa rosa, 71 degrees in san francisco. look at half moon bay sitting pretty at 65 degrees. all right, inland areas will be baking once again. excessive heat warning in effect until wednesday night. next week, 11 p.m. bay shoreline under a heat advisory until that same time period as those temperatures will soar well

howard: well, stephanopoulos not a democratic operative since the clinton house.y said biden was dangerously out of touch and is it enough to do one interview? >> i think david axelrod and other democrats are out there and made it a point. is it enough? no. i think what you're going to have to see to erase the 90 minute debate about two weeks ago is you're going to have to see more interviews just like the george stephanopoulos one. molly is right. did this look like the president a couple months ago? yes. but the american people for this entire presidency is used to a president that's a little slower and i think and i said this before eisen think for the bide biden white house for this moment should lean into this a bit more. he's somebody whether you like it or not has expanded nato and a lot of reporting that many world leaders around the country turn to him for advice and the democratic party should lean into that and utilize the new generation that's been built up under joe biden to tell part of this administration's story. wes moore, gretchen whitmore saying

the abc news exclusive with our george stephanopoulos.

in an interview with abc news anchor george stephanopoulos president biden was asked about his fitness to serve. >> elections are about the future, not the past. they are about tomorrow, not yesterday. the question on so many people's minds right now is can you serve effectively for the next four years? >> george, i'm the guy that put nato together, the future. the only one that can expand it. i'm the guy that shut down. i'm the guy that put together the south pacific addition. i'm the guy that got 50 nations, not only in europe, outside as well to help ukraine. i'm the guy that got the japanese to expand their budget. for example, when i decided we said 40% computer chip, we reinvented the chip. from cell phones to weapons. we used to have 40% we are down to virtually nothing. i fly to south korea. i convince them to invest in the united states billions of dollars. now we have tens of billions of dollars being invested in the united states making us back in a position where we will own that industry again. >> addressing his performance at the debate biden said he had a cold and it was

george stephanopoulos of abc. he's already being targeted by republicans i mean, this might be one of the, if not the biggest interview of george stephanopoulos is career so far is being seen almost as carrying the mantle, maybe in a way for all of these white house reporters who've been chomping at the bit to get, to get to ask president biden questions they were asking in the briefing room why can't breath and binding just come out here and ask questions for us. >> so a lot of eyes will be on on george stephanopoulos, the types of questions he asked. he doesn't have a ton of time. he has less than 30 minutes to get this interview done now it's kind of ironic because george stephanopoulos himself is a former white house communications director. he knows what it's like to be on the other side of this in moments of crisis and in an ironic twist, you know, he's been in a very similar situation. on the other so i am in a major interview because when he was advising then presidential candidate bill clinton in 1992, th

even george stephanopoulos has doubts, he let this one slip. watch. >> do you think biden should step down? you have talked to him more than anybody else, you need to be honest. you don't think he can serve four more years? >> carley: and vice president kamala harris is taking heat for her latest stance and anti-israel campus protest. what she said about warning about iran involvement in the crisis. >> todd: and supreme court justice, luckily for her, her armed security detail was outside. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. starting with our top story, the new numbers are in, former president trump is leading president biden in wisconsin. electoral college ratings are trending toward the former president as questions surround the current one. >> todd: brooke singman has more on the v.p. >> brooke: six key states toward trump, arizona, georgia and nevada, shifting from toss-up to lean republican. minnesota, new hampshire and swing district in nebraska shifted to lean democrat. new poll shows p

george stephanopoulos teed it up for him a lot of the questions he asked what needed to be asked but also some of them came from a place of concern like a concerned son or grandson of joe biden urging him to get out of the race and that was the last question of the interview. that's how it ended on a really bad note. not just from a cognitive standpoint but a policy standpoint that's the thesis of the biden campaign. >> then there is joy read calling for keeping hitler out of the white house. >> if it's biden in a coma i will vote for biden in a coma i don't even particularly like the guy. he's not donald trump at least. we keeping project 2025 out that's what i care about. school board up to the white house everything in between, governors members of congress i will though all the way down to keep these people out. >> doctor how do you assess that? >> it's ridiculous of the comments i expected during election season's a pretty crazy time right now where there's a lot of hysteria and panic and when that happens you will see big public figures using their platform to spread more hyste

he got to extend it back and forth with stephanopoulos, specifically over a polling. what it says about his candidacy and how he measures up against donald trump in that polling. i want to play some of what he said and get you back, check nobody swap mine. i prepared, but i usually would do sit down as i did come back for invaders or nasa security council for explicit detail and i realized about partway through them all, i quote, the new york times had me down ten points before the debate. nine now, or whatever the hell it is because they have the numbers, right? >> he does not have the numbers, right? i'd call that claim false. so he said he gained ground in new york times polling pre-debate to post-debate. he actually lost ground. so let's look at the actual numbers in the final pre-debate. new york times sienna college poll, he was down three points to donald trump would likely voters in the post-debate pole, he was down six points, so lost three. and then with registered voters, same story of pre-debate pole. he was down six post-debate pole down nine. so he did c

stephanopoulos regarding the almighty. they write on the op-ed page. mr.nt, the almighty is on the line. not the deity you invoked friday night in your interview on nbc the r. the big guy appears to be sitting out this presidential race. we mean the closest thing in almighty in american politics, democrat media establishment. they want you gone, sir. the question is when you admit it and oblige. ultimately it's going to take the first lady is going to have to say, joe, you know what? they're right. >> he might very much resent the media for the way he has been treated. >> steve: he has had great media conch for his whole life. >> guy: he hasn't but he doesn't see it that way. yesterday he was lecturing some reporter saying you guys have been wrong about everything. counted me out so many times. you are wrong again. the order of the day is defiance. it's a huge week in washington in front of the cameras and of course behind the scenes. >> ainsley: when republicans and moderates and independents were worried about him mumbling through speeches. having large

with george stephanopoulos. the white houses latest effort to quite at the controversy and save biden's jobs are already disintegrating. hello, everyone this is "outnumbered," kayleigh mcenany joining me fox business anchor and host of american dream home, cheryl casone, fox contributor and former fbi special agent, nicole parker, the fellow for steamboat institute and senior fellow for independent women's foreign, kaylee mcgee white, fox news contributor, joe concha. biden's team now unveiling a new strategy to resuscitate sweltering campaign, including casual, unscripted events and aggressive travel schedule two battleground states and a 50 million dollar paid media blitz here they will sit down with the ex-clinton aide, george stephanopoulos, for airing in prime time but a growing group of leading democrats, operatives, donors say the president's attempt to salvage his campaign simply won't work. and just the last 24 hours, this is important, listen to this, "the new york times" reporting that, "major democra

this is what he told abc news anchor george stephanopoulos for more money cannot sit yogurt out the race i gather races, lord, on monday is not coming down these hypotheticals. george i mean, if it's not that hypothetical anymore. i grant that they have not requested the meeting, but it's been rotated. i met with them i remember a lot of these people. i've talked with them right our conversation with that key. i had more time 11 jim clyburn i spent time with many hours off and on the last room with chuck schumer it's not like i had all the governors all the governors? >> biden also dismissed any suggestion that he is not the most qualified candidate to beat former president donald trump. he slammed his critics. he slammed the polling. he also took the blame himself for his disastrous debate performance did you ever watched the debate afterwards i don't think i did know. well, i went i'm sure it what i want to get at is what were you experiencing as you're going through debate? did you know how bad adelie it was going? >> yeah. look the whole way. i prepare. nobody's fault. mind nobody's

and i think he answered the questions exactly as george stephanopoulos was giving it to them. and so i think if the broader interview is similar to that i think it's going to give many democrats a little bit of peace it doesn't mean it's going to quiet down all of the panic because there is still a lot of concern. i think that if that continues to be what he does, let's remember that right before this, he had a rally. he was fantastic at the rally from what i hear and i talked to a lot of voters who went to the rally and we're very pleased with what they saw. he was struck he was forceful he delivered the right message, the contrast against president trump are against former president trump. and so again, this is not going to be it, right? everyone is talking about talking to lawmakers. but as we were talking about earlier, you can still count those lawmakers who have come out publicly on one hand the ones that have come out publicly, yes. what i said, the one privately. >> right. and that's fine people will talk privately, but until it becomes public, it's not going to be any

on this week with george stephanopoulos.ortions will also be airing on good morning america starting tomorrow morning. >> all right. we are going to turn now to the weather. and parts of the bay area are in for another hot day tomorrow. >> the stretch of this heat wave just continues to lag on. meteorologist sandyha patel here with a look at the temperatures and the warnings out there. sandhya. >> that's right. julian and ama, we're going into day five of this heat wave tomorrow for our inland areas. it was certainly a scorcher. today, 107 degrees in livermore, 106 in fairfield, 103 in concord, 82 in downtown oakland. that was a new record for today, even though it doesn't seem that warm. 94 in san jose, 95, santa rosa, 71 degrees in san francisco. look at half moon bay sitting pretty at 65 degrees. all right, inland areas will be baking once again. excessive heat warning in effect until wednesday night. next week, 11 p.m. bay shoreline under a heat advisory until that same time period as those temperatures will soar well ab

. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos, president biden maintains he hashe capacity to serve four years. >> you said going back to 2020, watch me, to people concerned about your age, 50 million americans watched that, seemed to confirm fears they already had. >> president biden: after that debate i did ten major events in a row including until 2:00 in the morning. i did events in north carolina. i did debates in georgia. large crowds, overwhelming good, i had a bad night. i don't know why. >> reporter: the president did say donald trump was shouting which distracted him. when pressed by stephanopoulos whether he would be open to taking an independent medical examination the president said there is no need. >> specific cognitive tests and a neurologist or specialist do an examination. >> president biden: no one said i had to. they said i'm good. >> would you be willing to undergo an independent medical evaluation that included neurological tests and release the results to the american people? i have a cognitive test every single day. >> reporter: new york t

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there is no question how he answers george stephanopoulos.e are all older than we were seven years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. what is your sense of how he responded and what sort of de biden world in the senti performed today? >> the view of the campaign tonight is when you take gh tonight's interview, in which he took every tough question george stephanopoulos could muster and you combine that a with the rally i was covering in wisconsin this afternoon, you see a president that se continues to energize and motivate the core group of supporters in that room but or also still has the values that got him into this office in the first place and is focused on the right thing for voters and can still beat donald trump. now, as i have been working and looking at my phone every minute since this interview was over, it is not clear to me that the audience he needed to c reach and convince tonight was satisfied. a lot of democrats i cehave bee talking to throughout the past n week feel like it has been two steps forward and three steps back. may

so, i expect him to perform well in that george stephanopoulos interview, but i also don't know thathat's going to quell people who, you know, are concerned about what they saw in the debate. okay. >> and to wrap things up, we know and we mentioned this earlier, that biden is set to meet with those democratic governors from across the country within about an hour or so. can we expect a mind shift or a mindset shift when it comes to the president's decision after that meeting? >> i'm not sure. and i think that's really important to point out that it is right now, the president's decision. there's essentially one person, one person only, that determines whether or not he's going to be going into the democratic convention in chicago as the party's, standard bearer. he won the primary, and it is up to him and his family and his own decision if he wants to continue forward in this contest. and i think that what's going to happen is if he decides to go forward in this contest, all those governors that are at the, at the white house right now, including our own governor newsom, are going to

george stephanopoulos called out nikki haley for the mental fitness abided. >> no way joe biden will finish his term i think, that harris will be the next president and that could send a chill up every american spying and the fact that we have a primary. >> excuse me one second how do you know joe biden will not finish his term, what is not based on. >> ask americans do you think he will finish his term? >> let me review this, this is what he posted on x, it's amazing to think that joe biden's fate is in the hands of bill clinton's communication director george stephanopoulos, in 1992 he saved clinton from a bimbo abruption, what's he going to do for biden will he go for the kill or try to save them during the interview. >> that is the interesting thing the variable is not joe biden, the same joe biden is going to be with george stephanopoulos he might be debating current pop in 1963 but that'll be the joe biden the variable out george stephanopoulos is he going to prompt answers and steer blankly as joe biden jumbles through his words those are two styles of interviews and we don't

the interview yesterday with stephanopoulos, he did it well. let me remind you and anyone here to solicit in all of his interviews, he's soft spoken and doesn't scream into the interview and doesn't get in a fight with the interviewer and that's his style. and also -- >> even soft spoken and he struggled in that interview with stephanopoulos and fully agree he didn't have major flubs but did at times trail off and struggled to finish sentences. that's what the american people are seeing so my question to you really is is president biden in denial about his -- about the concerns about his health? about his ability? >> let's deal with what -- what those inconsistencies. you did that just not more than 15 seconds ago when you were asking the question. we all do that. i've done that two or three times on this interview. finding the right word. carrying on the discussion. he did that and now since he's under sita microscope, all of ziti looking for those -- us looking for those flubs, what would be a normal part of any conversation is considered to

pressure on stephanopoulos to show that he's contrast a lot of tough questions. wish that this was live and not pretaped because that would be more similar to the debate were his performance is so visible he just said in a radio interview that he screwed up, nobody is arguing with that. so i think if he can answer those questions in a way that we feel like to his credit abc says it's going to publish the whole transcript so it's not like we will see what this is but they have made this litmus test and so if he doesn't passes footman test by well i think that's want to disappoint some of the people we would like him to step aside even further. >> will be watching. a lot of people be watching tonight. we appreciate your thoughts and your insight. we will see you soon. >> good to see you spee-mac president biden saying just months ago he won't be dropping out of the race. but he's facing pressure from donors who are reportedly cutting off the cash. abigail disney tells new york times the party will not get another time until they replace the president on the ticket.

. >> number six tonight, president biden sitting down with abc news anchor george stephanopoulos for his first tv interview since the debate last week. you can watch the 30 minute special at 8 p.m. right here on abc seven. >> number seven. who would have thought this cassette tapes are making a comeback? the sales spiked more than 400% from 2015 to 2023, and one company even launched a new portable cassette player. another company selling blank cassettes. so apparently gen z is really eating these up and they're snapping them up at concerts. i know, >> good morning, america. for our viewers in the west, wild players explode overnight as hurricane beryl takes a turn towards texas, and president biden fights to keep his campaign alive. ♪ ♪ overnight, hurricane beryl roars ashore, making landfall in mexico just south of cancun as a category 2 just moments ago. now the new track. is texas next? and new wildfires explode overnight. more than a dozen burning right now. firefighters battling triple-digit temperatures on the front lines, with more than 110 million americans on alert for dang

i think george stephanopoulos did a good jobiew. of drawing o those delusions, saying that, of coursoudelusione he was able to continue for another four years, but he was not abln' going to do a neurological test. he's delusiona dl about his poll numbers, denying that he has a 36% approval rating. ratihe's about donald trump. i mean, he lied there that trump was shouting at him. you pointed out that that wasn't trush pointe. there was no evidence. we watched the split screen and donald trump didn't shoutthr once. so i think the problem is yoleus have a delusional candidate. and i think joe biden's been this way his whole life. it's just that now he doesn't have the adequate filters to cover it up himself. >> you kno w, only have time forr a quick yes or no here. but kayleigh, does he stay or doesion buay he go?ay i think he stays. i think kamala is a much worse alternative and democrats know it, huivh? mark stays or goes. he stays. they would lose the black vote if they don't nominate kamala and they can't. she's horrible. wow. last

what are you thinking now in light of the stephanopoulos interview? >> i basically michael with all due respect, disagree with about everything you just said i think the audit i think that we have to look at some reality here the last time the white house has held by a party without any come, but with 1988, that's 36 years, hasn't happened this century that's probably for a reason. no president with these economic numbers has ever lost three elections since we've been keeping economic numbers the greatest weakness in any party is dissension for the nomination was an incumbent president so you get somebody like pat buchanan, who runs against george bush and 92 92, 90 wasn't going to threaten him but he cost him probably the election what cost jimmy carter the election probably take kennedy running. when you look at what allan lichtman called the keys to the presidency being challenged within the party is one of the key determinants. if you can win or not i don't think that what has happened in that debate, if president biden stays and i don't think it'

the president meeting today with his campaign cochairs one day after he told our george stephanopoulosy the lord almighty could drive him from the race. now, a fifth democrat in congress has joined calls for him to drop out. ahead of tomorrow's meeting with democrats, while some major donors are threatening to withhold their money. the president's defenders trying to calm the panic. maryalice parks from the white house, rick kline on the road ahead. >>> texas braces for beryl, the the deadly storm that wreaked havoc throughout the caribbean, building up steam again, likely to make landfall as a hurricane. >>> the heat dome tightens its grip. more than 125 million americans under heat alerts. those brutal temperatures and dry conditions fueling more wildfires in california. additional evacuations ordered. >>> a promising nfl rookie and two former college football players killed in a devastating car crash. an alleged drunk driver now facing charges. >>> a 21st birthday party turns deadly outside cincinnati. at least four killed, several others hurt. >>> the holiday weekend travel blitz.

george stephanopoulos one-on-one with the president. the entire interview will air at abc, right here at 8:00 p.m. >>> we move on now to hurricane beryl tonight, taking aim at the gulf of mexico and possibly the texas coast. the hurricane now a category 2 storm, winds up to 110 miles per hour. and it could target mexico or texas as early as sunday night. the storm already blasting the cayman islands and jamaica, causing widespread damage, destroying homes and downing trees and blocking roads. abc's faith abubey reporting from jamaica again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane beryl, now a category 2 storm, churning toward mexico after hammering the cayman islands with a powerful storm surge. >> it was really blowing for a bit. we had very strong tropical storm-force winds. >> reporter: beryl has flattened homes and battered harbors across the caribbean. at least nine people dead, including two reported in jamaica. people here picking up the pieces after the storm ripped roofs and knocked out power to more than half the island. roads

tonight, george stephanopoulos one on one with the president. his first televised interview since his faltering debate performance against donald trump. the questions millions of americans are asking. is he mentally fit to be president? and can he defeat trump in november? what he's now saying about calls to drop out of the race. at a rally in wisconsin earlier today, biden insisting, "i am running and going to win again." george's full interview airing in primetime tonight. how will voters respond? and rachel scott with late reporting on the state of the race. >>> also on this friday night, tropical storm beryl now taking aim at the texas coast. the storm slowing from a hurricane, now with winds up to 70 miles per hour. it could regain strength before making landfall, hitting with a life-threatening storm surge. mireya villarreal in texas. >>> the wildfire emergency in the west. new fires erupting in california. firefighters battling triple-digit temperatures. 158 million americans on alert for dangerous heat. las vegas possibly hitting an all-

>> abby: after the stephanopoulos interview.ause that alternative is for some people just as scary as the prospect of biden staying on the ticket. >> stephen: sure. which is why i don't have dryland to stand on and say it should be so. who knows with her politics with the right thing is to do here. >> abby: right. >> stephen: do you believe his letter to capitol hill and his joe scarborough call this morning saying that's it, do you think that's the end of it? >> abby: no, not at all. not at all. this feels like one of those, it's like a slow-moving roller coaster. there are some moments like last week was like, we are going down. it was really fast. then this week it feels like we are taking up a little bit. we could very well go down again. >> stephen: that's why you tick up. if roller coasters just ticked up and let you off. >> abby: we are not at the end of the roller coaster. we are not where you slide into home base. >> stephen: are you going to be in chicago? >> abby: yes. >> stephen: me too. >> abby: that will be excitin

there is no question, regardless of how he answers george stephanopoulos. we are all older than we were seven years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. what is your sense of how he responded, and what is the biden world's sense of how he performed tonight? >> well, the view of the campaign tonight is that when you take tonight's interview in which they believe he took every tough question george stephanopoulos could muster and combine that with the rally that i was covering here in wisconsin this afternoon, you see a president who continues to energize and motivate a core group of supporters who were in that room, but also still has the values that got him into this office in the first place and is focused on the right things for the voters and can still beat donald trump. as i have been looking at my phone every minute since this interview was over, it's not clear to me that the audience he needed to reach and convince tonight was satisfied. a lot of democrats have been talking to throughout the past week feel like it is been maybe two steps forward but three

on this week with george stephanopoulos. portions will also be airing on good morning america starting this morning in the south bay. the san jose fire department says it's been inundated with hundreds of calls, especially on the 4th of july, and among them, multiple fires near lake cunningham, which held the city sanctioned fireworks show. abc seven news south bay reporter laura martinez spoke to a longtime advocate who works to stop illegal fireworks, and she says it's time for a change. >> 4th of july celebrations turned fiery across san jose near the city's sanctioned show at lake cunningham. fires did break out on friday. you could see small, charred patches of grass. it's not clear yet if those fireworks are what caused the fire. >> it's bombs. people are setting off bombs because it's fun. >> for years, suzanne maroney has been advocating to stop illegal fireworks in the city and even city run events. maroney says they send the wrong message. >> you model the behavior you want, and if you're going to explode things to

george stephanopoulos can ask tough questions, ask any republican that comes on there. he pinned him to the mat on afghanistan and he threw the generals under the bus saying, no one told me the government would fall. >> steve: and george stephanopoulos is going to be the proxy for the united states. the biggest question, is joe biden okay? if you watch the debate, you know he is not okay in a physical way that night. he just said he fell asleep. if you watch him, he did not know his own policy, he is prompterized, everything written for him to say out loud. jerry baker told to brian, at w "wall street journal," editor at large, essentially things have cracked, the dam is cracked open. there are top democrats who are talking to people in the media saying, hey, joe has to go. here is jerry. >> what we've seen revealed so clearly in the last 72 hours or so, most media does not cover joe biden and the democrats, they cover for joe biden and the democrats. the fik is in, they are moving to get rid of him. they are talking to friendings in media saying, it is time to go. we s

stephanopoulos said, quote, earlier today, i responded to a passerby, and i shouldn't have.washington, the nato summit continues celebrating 75 years of the alliance, one of the main subjects, of course, ukraine, ukrainian president zelenskyy, perhaps reading ahead to the election, asking for more weapons, fewer restrictions on those weapons sooner rather than later. here's president biden at that same summit in the coming months, the united states and our partners intend to provide ukraine with dozens of additional tactical air defense systems. the united states will make sure that when we export critical air defense interceptors, ukraine goes to the front of the line, vice president kamala harris campaigned tuesday in nevada. former president trump was in florida, brought her up in a speech, something he doesn't normally do. meanwhile, the radical left democrat party is divided in chaos, and having a full scale breakdown, all because they can't decide which of their candidates is more unfit to be president. sleepy crooked joe biden or laughing kamala, laughing kamala. trum

kira brie before you go, i want to ask you abc's george stephanopoulos is now walking back. comments that were caught on camera that he made after his recent one on one interview with president biden. can you talk about that? yeah. that's right. kira and that was a closely watched interview. stephanopoulos says he regrets appearing to say he doesn't think president biden can serve another four years in the white house. now, he reportedly made the comments to a passer by in new york city and tmz then posted the encounter in a statement, stephanopoulos says he should not have responded to the individual. now, we should point out that that point out that his response in this video, it is a little hard to make out. stephanopoulos had the first interview with president biden following his rocky debate performance. now, in a separate statement, abc news says, quote, george expressed his own point of view and not the position of abc news kyra. all right. thanks, brie so much for that. we're going to turn now back here locally to a follow up on a push to ban encampments along creeks

here's what he had to say with a b news anchor, george stephanopoulos. >> have you convinced herselfhat only you can defeat him? >> i convince myself of two things, i am the most qualified person to be tim, and i know how to get things done. >> if you can be convinced you cannot beat trump will you stand down? >> [ laughter ] depends on if the lord almighty comes down and tells me that. >> williams of georgia, chair of the georgia democratic party, congresswoman, thank you so much. first, i wanted to get your reaction on abc and the criticism and speculation concerning his ability to win in november. >> katie what i heard is a president who has a record to run on. he went down in 80 sitdown interview, defended his record, and talked about the transformational policies that have been enacted over the past 3 1/2 years. i am here at the new orleans essence festival with thousands of black women from across the country, and they appreciate the $16 billion that have been invested in hbcus, they appreciate that black businesses have grown exponentially over the past three and half years, a

george stephanopoulos will be nicely protected in his studio.hear he will get 15 or 20 minutes to ask questions that is not conducive to a probing interview we've been promised. >> kayleigh: thank you, miranda devine. america's adversaries cozying up and biden candidaty called into question. morgan ortagus on the political chaos making america look weak. bass pro shops and cabela's stands tall in our unwavering commitment to honoring our heroes. we extend our gratitude... beyond words... by proudly offering a legendary salute discount to those who protect our freedoms. our dedication to those who selflessly serve us runs deep within our dna. it's not just a discount... it's a commitment to making a difference. because every day is a chance for us to say thank you. bass pro shops and cabela's... your adventure starts here. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo

george stephanopoulos, being a journalist is the only job or you can't tell the truth.ur job as a journalist is tell the american people the truth that he didn't. and he gets paid for not telling the truth, that is insane. >> jeanine: what is amazing as he apologized but he's not saying he was misquoted, he's not saying what he's saying was inaccurate. is he apologizing for gracie stepped outside the mainstream media's narrative? >> harold: i don't know. i hope no one catches me on the street and asks me, there's another reason why shouldn't speak to people you don't know on the street especially about politics. i hear people talk about dei, i think there are parts of it that aren't great but we didn't have any diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for a while and it's almost like the liberal press knows you can't believe your bashing biden. no one is bashing the president, he didn't know where he was two weeks ago, they asked for the debate, that's why we are having this conversation. all the people we showed in the segment are as concerned as i am about what's at

president biden's first post-debate tv interview is tomorrow with our george stephanopoulos. it airs tomorrow night at eight eastern, right here on abc. >> overseas, israel says it killed a top commander of the militant group hezbollah. officials say he was killed in a drone strike in lebanon. in response, hezbollah launched 100 rockets targeting israeli military positions. israel did not report any injuries. meanwhile, israel has approved what's being called the largest land seizure in the west bank in decades. officials okayed the taking of about five square miles in the jordan valley. >> now to california, where a jury has convicted a man for the gruesome murder of his former high school classmate. a hate crime killing because the classmate was jewish and gay, samuel woodward committed hate crime and first degree murder. this morning, a california jury finding samuel woodward guilty in the hate crime killing of his former high school classmate, blaze bernstein. >> no verdict can bring back blaze. there will never be anyone quite like him. his gifts will never be realized o

stephanopoulos tonight on abc >> it's time to check the pulse.e top dog relishing this july fourth, a new record was set at nathan's hot dog eating contest. >> the historic performance came from miki sudo. she won her fourth consecutive contest and her 10th overall, by downing 51 dogs in ten minutes, and she's vowing to work harder to eat more. >> even ten years into this, i still have more to show. the women's record is just going to improve from here on out, and there are a lot of exciting things to come. >> well, on the men's side, a new top dog was crowned with joey chestnut out due to a sponsorship conflict. pat bertoletti took the title, eating 58 dogs in ten minutes. >> still nothing compared to legend joey chestnut. he was at this event in texas in 857. hot dogs in just five minutes. now here's a different way to spend the holiday weekend. walking on the wild side in the steel city. >> pittsburgh is hosting anthrocon, the largest furry convention in the world, a record gathering of 17,000 people from around the world are expected to atten