pete: by the way, ted kaufman, if you've never heard of him, neither have i.he was a senator of delaware for 10 minutes when joe left to become vice president. he's apparently his best friend in the whole world. do you think ted's sitting there saying, you immediate to go? we're atop the pinnacle. they're likely not advising him to move on. and you know what? good. good. i'm scared for our country. we should be -- rachel: i'm very scared. pete: run that guy again, let him get beat and they walked themselves right into it. rachel: well, and it's sad because he has, like, since, seven months -- six, seven months whether he wins or not, runs or not, and the country couldn't be in a more dangerous position. we don't really know who's running the show. is it jill, you know, in the way that woodrow wilson's wife was running the show when he became incapacitated, or is it the obama team? i think the american people deserve to know. what they do know is the people who were behind the scenes and allowing this to get this far, you know, they thought they could continue

wrong clean a former senator ted kaufman, mike donal, in one of his long time advisors, a small group of white house staffers like jake sullivan, uh, current national security advisor, and of course his wife 1st lady joe biden. so that's a good thing that it's a small circle of really trusted advisors, but that's also kind of difficult and seen as sort of a counsel, elders or a campaign and presidential oligarchy, as some people have called it. so while it's good for him, it's also a little bit difficult in terms of the advice that he might be getting from a very small circle of people. at the same time, donald trump has stage the big for the pride of types in virginia have his legal problems affected him at all. is not to the extent that many people may have expected and some people may have hoped. it's kind of difficult to look at polls and take them seriously. i mean, we're still many months a few months, i guess i should say away from the election in november. but his legal lowes haven't really swung voters in one way or another. he has a pretty strong base of supporters and of co

senator ted kaufman 85 years old, so does that concern you?e: the binder says trump has got it in the bag. >> it is not about him, it is about the american people. it is not about what political grievances he may have. it is not about trenta get back at people. it is about making sure he stands with the majority of americans pay or not even the majority of americans, all of americans. >> jesse: dana, welcome back. >> dana: thank you. >> dana: where were you? >> dana: i was not selling cbd oil anywhere and i was not feuding with hannity. i had one week off, guys. >> jesse: we missed you. >> dana: my mom even texted me, "there is something about cbd oil," it's not me. >> judge jeanine: i had an investor. >> dana: i'm picking about it. >> jesse: when you prepare for "the five" every day do you have a fake set at your house with advisors? >> dana: i am fascinated by this communications team. i always am. i cannot understand the level of detail they're giving us about his debate prep. why not just say yes, the president is preparing for the debate.

formal advisors to the president and they are all white men in their 60s or higher, former senator ted kaufmanrs old. is that too insular? >> harris: vice president kamala harris was asking flat out why it is the race so close? >> if the contrast is so obvious, what's going on? why does it pull so closely? why is the race so close? speak of these races are always close, it's the election of the president of the united states. and everyone in an election for president of the united states will critically examine all the issues and make a decision, but at the end of the day, we are going to win. >> harris: okay, so former president obama and hillary clinton are coming to the rescue according to the "new york" magazine, obama has become "increasingly involved with the biden campaign, would that be increasingly like helping them off the stage. come on, let me grab you by your wrist, or is there something else? if reportedly there is worry that donald trump may very well win. the vice president may not agree, but others do. hillary clinton used an op-ed to publicly swoon over president biden ahead

longest-serving advisorse advisors to the president all our white men in their sixties.rs even senator ted kaufmanhat too old.. >> they say joe biden has in the bag. h >> it's not about him it's about the american people it's not about what political person they havevanc it's about not just soe americans all americans. >> dana welcome back where werec you?ana: >> i wasn't selling cbd oil anywhere. i am here. >> we missed you there something about cbd oil that's not true. >> in investor called me. >> when you prepare for the 5es eversey day do you have a fake t at your house 16 advisors involved? >> i'm fascinated by the communications team i can't understand the level of the detail they giving us about hise debate prep. why not sa gg usy he's just prea for the debate that's enough doh we nee.d to know there are 16 people in golf carts having lasagna for dinner i don't need to know that i don't care whatn' gender they are or sexualr ge orientation how old they are i don't care about any of that. what i do think is 16 people sounds like a lot.need i just know president bush would see a need for offe

former senator ted kaufman, 85 years old. is that too insular?e: the media wants to dei debate prep, even though obama is calling the shots, i guess he's not black enough. think about it, joe biden needs to take a week off of his job to prepare to do his job. this is the first time in presidential history where the president has taken a full week off to prepare for a debate. maybe he does not remember the last four years, i'm sure trump will jog his memory. biden is incapacitated so they are making him memorize thousands of sentences for seven days, but on the debate stage, biden is his own worst enemy, he torpedoed his own campaign during a debate in 87 where he plagiarized a brit. >> why is it that joe biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? why is it that my wife who's sitting out in the audience is the first and her family to ever go to college? is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? is it because i'm the first biden in 1000 generations to get a college and graduate degree, that i was smarter than the rest

former senator ted kaufman, 85 years. >> i'm glad you mentioned immigration because one thing president biden wants to talk to donald trump about on thursday and you'll see him do this, is why did you stop your maga cronies in congress from moving forward with the historic immigration bill that was bipartisan. would have solved a lot of issues we're dealing with at the border. why did you stop them from doing this when you say immigration and our situation at the border is one of your top priorities. when it comes to prices, president biden has done a lot to lower prices. we came off of a once in a generation pandemic which president biden made sure we didn't go into a recession because of policies he put in place. donald trump practically cheered from the sidelines when inflation was going up. so he's going to talk about that. i'll talk about the people who president biden surrounds himself with. some of his top aides. these are loyal, dedicated public servants who have a lot of experience and are part of a team that helped get some of these major economic policies in place and are pre

decide not to run his joe biden and he would be influenced by jill biden by vow his sister and by ted kaufman, his best friend in delaware and none of those people are going to say to him you shouldn't run. and so what we just saw today was the reset and the question is, how long does he keep that up for? how can he keep that up? and we'll people believe it or will they go back to what they saw last night, which was someone who was halting who didn't have much of a voice, who got confused that was very difficult for people who were biden supporters to walk. but to that point fluorometer really interest point because your eyes aren't lying to you that you saw a different person in north carolina, different person at his event after the debate last night, then you saw during the debate if you're his team, if your democrats, if you're all the lawmakers who are texting everybody on background emojis and f bombs, but won't actually they go on the record and say it how do you change course here? i mean, it's just a surprise for anybody. i mean, like we all have eyes, we all ears if you've been payi

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require a kind of family intervention by jill biden, hunter, his sister, val, god knows who else ted kaufman perhaps mcdonald on to persuade him to step aside. and there's no indication that they want to do that. even if that succeeded, then you have the problem of this disparate democratic party somehow magically coalescing around some candidate. and who knows who that would be of course the notion of the whole idea of an open convention that way just size disaster. i mean, we've been down that road before, so look, there is no plan b, no viable plan b. i think it's gonna be joe biden. >> well, you know what there's a lot of effort to get to even a potential consideration for somebody else. i stick around, i want to come right back to you, but i want to expand our conversation with cnn commentator karen phineas in an opinion chapter, sophia nelson and republican track just maliuk, abdul. thank you. all. and you heard a little bit about what he was saying. first of all, there's been a lot of criticism of the president's performance, but there's also a lot of christian, but the former preside

people like ted kaufman, who of course has been with them for decades in some ways, his communication with them is almost non-verbal. he can read from them if it's a moment to go ahead or a moment to pull back but i think for the moment there is no sign. i think you saw this very clearly in his performance in north carolina, which was a very strong performance. there is no sense that they believe that their moment has arrived two get out, if anything, they are doubling down and i think that's that's the moment we're in on this day. but let me ask you the thing. i don't understand about last night is given all the biden team was putting out about the preparations the mock debates, things like everybody's watched the nixon kennedy debate, and everybody knows about like the cutaway shot and a reaction shot. and you know, you're gonna be on camera watching a candidate and even the cutaway shots i mean, that they nobody would seem to have prepared the or thought about even the way the prison looked at when he wasn't speaking. i mean, that's a basic thing that's not thinking like the reason

scandal in that race when he was trying to figure out if he could ride it out and it was his friend, ted kaufman who said, look, the only way you escape the sharks here, i'm paraphrasing is to get out of this race. but there have been other moments and this is the central mythology of joe biden's life is there are times when you get knocked down that you have to get back up. and i think it's those two instincts to read the room or to believe in your capacity to rise above and to be resilient that are competing within him, right? >> yeah. and tim, what do you think? do you think the president should be huddling with that type council of inner, inner circle advisors that he has to decide what to do here. it sounds as though from what we're hearing from the president's campaign, is that nope, he's not he's not dropping out. this was just a bad night. he's going to keep going well, jam evan wrote a wonderful book on joe biden and evan would know best if the deterioration that we saw last night is a sign of something much deeper than a cold i'm my concern is that if indeed the president has something

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i do think this is a time that ted kaufman and rosheti and donlan and ron klain are going to have toith the president about his ability to exude strength. andil listen, nobody is a bigge fan of kamala harris than i am. and, you know, governor newsom did a remarkable job tonight as a surrogate. and what he said -- it's not i disagree with anything they're saying, but those two people are signaling to a whole lot of americans that are paying attention how come they're not running? how come the democratic party doesn't have them at the top of the ticket instead of using them to shore up what have become after tonight some pretty glaring weaknesses in our president? >> but specifically, though, given that we are 130 days out, and the democratic convention is very, very late, and president biden has been confronted with these questions from the very beginning of this campaign, actually before the begin of this campaign. as soon as he was sworn in, people started talking to him about say now that you won't run again, and y he's been firm tha he's the guy. and if he's not going to jump, nob

there's jill biden, ted kaufman, who is it? yes. yes. jill jill biden is the single most important person in terms of sharing criticism in terms of being direct and will she you opinions you absolutely. absolutely. yes. and i imagine that there will be there will be serious conversations within the president's inner circle. people like mcdonald's and people like zebra chetty, people like it needed done, who will have very direct conversations with the president. he is not somebody who shies away. he is absolutely. i think as was said earlier, he's absolutely somebody who is stubborn and resilient, but he's actually not somebody who shies away from having tough conversations is it having directive x? so yes, absolutely. i have to imagine there will be direct discussions with him about how to adjust the campaign for this. but i also think to this point about waiting to see where actual voters land on this is critically important before, before the, before the elite sitting at this table determine that the rest of the country created the pe