stephen collinson there also are the this is pulling from democratic donors. we don't normally report on it, but i have to tell you the overwhelming amount of internal data that i've seen from various campaigns and people. some of it is we know stanley greenberg, for example, john king has reported for trying to get this data to the president that just shows this massive a gap in the wake of his debate performance. it doesn't necessarily seem to be reaching him. and then even when you look at the senate, candidates that are up here in arizona, nevada, michigan, pennsylvania. you can see this is from the times and the yougov polling. these are actual numbers here. i mean, these gaps are enormous, like sometimes over ten points this is typically, i mean this is not normally goes and it shows you just just why democrats are so concerned that the president is going to be a massive drag on their chances of retaking the house, keeping the senate, which is basically gone at this point. but where are we in this conversation? we were talking a little bit about this ear

>> our panel's here joining me now, stephen collinson, senior politics reporter. brad woodhouse, former communications director for the democratic national committee, and scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w bush. welcome all of you. >> how much sleep? collectively do we think we've all got maybe four hours i'm simply running on adrenaline and holcomb mania at this point. >> that's it. that's all i got yeah. >> scott, i will say the energy that you had is we were up in that booth earlier in the evening when whole cogen did take the stage i'm still feeding off of it here. this morning. >> shut my childhood hero stephen collinson, i want to start though with big picture and you paint these so well for us. i mean, going into this, i had talked to advisers to donald trump who had said he is a changed man. what happened on saturday is going to completely change his speech. he's not going to say biden's name a single time. the message is going to be unifying. i think we laid it out there if he had stopped, you know, 20 minutes into that speech,

stephen collinson, cnn senior politics reporter and shane goldmacher, national political reporter for the new york times. we're also joined by bakari sellers, cnn political commentator and former south carolina state representative. welcome to all of you this morning. thank you so much for being here. stephen collinson, i would like to start with you as our viewers who've gotten gotten to know you a little bit, understand you are someone who here at cnn kind of thinks about the world in which we live. it takes the sweeping point of view about what this means for our country and i kind like to to just set the stage with you on this morning. donald trump is going to be here. we're expecting his speech later on this week. the tone, the tenor everything about this campaign has changed this morning that's right. >> i think this is a foreboding moment for the country things can go a number of ways the trauma of an assassination attempt against the presidential candidate is something that we haven't had to deal with for 40 years or so none of us obviously remember the trauma of the 1960s, th

so let's bring in cnn politics, white house reporters, stephen collinson mega hayes, former special assistant in to president biden, and lins over former spokesperson for doug programs, 2024, presidential campaign all right. i want to start with you, stephen yesterday or biden and talking about how trying to shore up his concerns about his mental fitness. but he also made a joke to a group of governors that didn't go over. well, he said quote, i'm fine. i don't know about my brain though. what is the state of play for the president right now? >> the problem for the president is a week ago, after the debate, we were sitting here talking about all of these questions about his fitness, his mental acuity. an opposition was building within his own party to the idea give him continuing to be the nominee everything the white house has done and everything the president has said since then, has exacerbated this question. it hasn't made it go away. it's still a big question that's why the interview with george stephanopoulos on abc tonight is going to be very important. the present is traveling this we

versus weakness a bullet couldn't stop trump virus, just stop biden so here's how my colleague, stephen collinson, he is a friend of the show and he kind of paints all these big pictures for us. he describes the past few weeks this way, quote, a white house race that's slumbered for months has suddenly erupted over a momentous three weeks bookended by biden's cataclysmic debate performance and the attempted assassination of donald trump, a whiplash of events unseen in half a century and i do think karen, some of this is still sinking in just how how much this race has changed in the past couple of weeks. the history that we are all living through on van for that's really that comment was really over the top even when donald trump got covid, he had to any of us when we get covid. that's what you're supposed to do is isolate that who knows what's going to happen in this race. i think what we've learned, we have forgotten 2016 where every day, every week was a new adventure. with donald trump living it's teen or the entire trump administration. but i was in the 2016 race and let me tell you it was r

so i think we're gonna see that stephen collinson, this is a big moment when this is somebody that's going to be at the center of our political lives for the next four years and probably many be on that if he doesn't, he's still he's already at the top of the list for potential maga candidates. in a future republican race the energy, the people aren't going to probably remember ten years from now, or even ten months from now. >> what he said exactly. but if he brings a youthful energy to this stage, could usher in a new era. >> i mean, he could also put a chair next to him and talked to a chair and then we might not how many years after 2012 we are now tampering a dog that's been done. right? good luck most of the tone what not just the policy differences, but what is the tone? because his tone on saturday after that horrible event was quite harsh and not in the spirit of what this convention is. >> it will see if he au, see if he got the memo. this is tjada answers big chance to interview do so himself to a country that's still really hasn't met him yet, thanks to our panel. thanks

. >> happening today, a defiant president biden back on the trail as our colleague stephen collinson this morning sums up where his campaign is right now. quote, biden's critical news conference didn't end his reelection, but it showed why it will be so hard for him to save it as soon as biden finished speaking last night, three more democratic lawmakers called for him to step aside, including the top democrat on the house intel committee, congressman jim hime. >> imagine that three months from now, we get another performance like there was in the debate right before the election. do you want to take that risk? i don't. >> well, overnight, cnn exclusively learned former president obama and former speaker nancy pelosi have now expressed concerns with one another about biden's ability to win in november. more on this in just a bit. but first, let's bring in cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche. how is biden himself feeling about his performance last night in that press conference, sarah, i spoke with several white house officials and campaign officials last night in the w

this is what our colleague stephen collinson writes. he says, these images will stand in history rich trump's mythology just as surely as a picture of his mug shot. and atlanta jail in the footage of his return to the white house and 2020 after beating a serious covid-19 infection. i mean, it was no question, no surprise, i suppose what the trump campaign was quick to point out, some of these images of him yesterday, pumping his fist it's the american flag and amalgam blood on his face. they believe it looks great for him. i think what i found to be most remarkable from it, from a purely political slash imagery sense is in the moment the former president stopped the secret service agents stopped his detail around them. you can hear him say, wait, wait, wait. and what he's doing is he's popping up to be able to pump his fist so people can see him when you can see him mouth, fight, fight, fight. and does it several more times on the way that he was aware of that in that moment, which i don't know what it takes in a moment where you just g