Joe Biden's press conference last night was a disaster for him, but maybe he can still pull himself back into the race. Democrats are desperate to force him out of the race, but they don't know what to do with him, and they don t know how to get him to leave the campaign if he doesn't decide to run for re-election. Biden's poll numbers continue to tank, but there's still a chance that he could still win the 2020 election if he decides to jump back in the race at some point. But it's going to take a lot more than that to win in 2020, and there's a lot of reason to believe that he won't be able to do so, and that he'll have to decide if he wants to stay in the campaign or leave it all together. And that's a problem for the Democratic Party and for the country at large, because Joe Biden is running out of time to change his mind and decide whether or not he should stay or go home. Today's episode is all about what s going on inside the Biden camp, and what s happening inside the White House, and why it's so important for Joe Biden to stay or leave the race and what he needs to do to keep his campaign on track to win the nomination and keep his 2020 campaign on the path to victory in the 2020 Democratic primary race. We'll talk all about that and much more in this episode of the latest from CNN's Rachel Maddow and the New York Times' Maria Menounos. breaking down the latest on Joe Biden press conference and why he should or shouldn't be running for president in 2020. and why you should stay in 2020 and what it s going to do if he s not running for President in 2020 after all of the polls are not good enough. And much, much less what s really going to happen if Joe Biden decides to run in 2020 and what to expect going forward in 2020 if he does run for president next time. Subscribe to our new podcast, The Other Side of Biden's 2020 primary debate? Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about Joe Biden s 2020 campaign and more! Subscribe and leave us your thoughts on the latest breaking news from Joe Biden's White House campaign and what's going on in 2020! on our new book, What s the worst thing Joe Biden should do in 2020? Learn more at CNN s 2020 2020 campaign is the best moment for him and what should he do next?
00:00:00.000So let's try to think of worst case scenario for Democrats right now.
00:00:04.000Worst case scenario is not Joe Biden dropping out.
00:00:06.000If Joe Biden dropped out, they'd get Kamala Harris or somebody else, and then they'd have a fresh race against Donald Trump.
00:00:13.000And worst case scenario is not really Joe Biden staying in, because if he just stays in, And everybody consolidates behind him, then he probably loses, but it doesn't have this massive down ballot effect.
00:00:25.000The worst case scenario for Democrats is not being sure.
00:00:28.000It is, in fact, the worst case scenario because half the party, more than half the party, wants Joe Biden out.
00:00:38.000It's creating massive chaos inside the Democratic Party and it is sinking Joe Biden's poll numbers and the rest of the Democratic Party.
00:00:44.000And what Joe Biden has done over the course of the last couple of weeks is make that situation so much worse.
00:00:51.000So when you take a look at the polling data right now, the polling data is very consistent.
00:00:55.000It shows Donald Trump with a very consistent three to five point lead in the national polling data.
00:01:00.000That is according to RealClearPolitics.
00:01:01.000According to that RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump is leading in the following battleground states, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
00:01:09.000He's within spitting distance in Virginia, New Hampshire, and even Minnesota.
00:01:14.000All of which is a disaster area for Joe Biden because the map is very, very broad for Donald Trump and it is extraordinarily narrow for Joe Biden.
00:01:23.000However, the Democratic Party can't force the old man out.
00:01:26.000And they can't force him out because despite the fact that he currently has a 32% approval rating, according to Pew Research, 32%, including a 27% approval rating among people aged 18 to 29, which is supposed to be his radical magical base.
00:01:41.000Despite that fact, every so often there will be a sort of outlier poll that shows a dead heat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:01:48.000And that's enough for Joe Biden to believe that maybe he can pull this thing out after all.
00:01:53.000A brand new Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll released on Thursday found that Trump and Joe Biden are in a dead heat for the nation's popular vote.
00:02:01.000Those results almost mirrored those of an ABC News Ipsos poll from April, in which registered voters favored Trump by 2 points, 46 to 44, the 8% going someplace else.
00:02:14.000The big problem for congressional Democrats is if they want to oust Joe Biden, they're going to need better data than that.
00:02:19.000And what they really need to do is somehow convince Dr. Jill Biden, who is the driving force behind Joe Biden's logic, that there's no way that Joe Biden can win.
00:02:28.000But there's no way to convince him of that, because Joe Biden keeps thinking that whatever poll shortcomings he is having right now are due to the fact that his own base is not supporting him properly.
00:02:36.000According to Politico today, the First Family remains committed to the campaign, with First Lady Jill Biden and the President's son, Hunter, both telling Confidants they still believe the President is the only candidate who can beat Trump, according to two people familiar.
00:02:49.000The First Lady has also expressed fear that bailing out would make the Atlanta debate a defining image of her husband's presidency, an outcome she finds unacceptable, the people said.
00:02:57.000Biden's sister, Valerie, also remains committed to the campaign, but has not ruled out advocating changes if the race becomes damaging to her brother's health and legacy.
00:03:04.000So, in essence, all of the immediate family of Joe Biden is telling him to stay in.
00:03:09.000And Dr. Jill Biden, who has this bizarre image in her head that if Joe Biden steps down, that's going to be much worse for him than if he runs and loses, she's the one in his ear.
00:03:18.000Meanwhile, aides are bracing for a new wave of defections following Joe Biden's press conference that happened last night.
00:03:27.000It wasn't as big a disaster area as many of the Biden critics had hoped.
00:03:31.000In fact, it was sort of best case scenario for Trump, because if you are Donald Trump and the Republican Party and you want chaos inside the Democratic Party to maintain, what you want is Joe Biden not to perform well.
00:03:49.000He continues to divide the Democratic Party and be terrible, but not quite terrible enough that you can take the old man and throw him off a bridge.
00:03:56.000That is the best thing that could happen to the Trump campaign right now.
00:03:59.000And that happens to be precisely what is happening.
00:04:02.000The leaks around the Biden White House are getting worse and worse and worse.
00:04:06.000According to CNN yesterday, Even before Biden made remarks at the George Clooney fundraiser, whispers of concern rippled through the audience at the Peacock Theater about the president who had just arrived from a long flight from Italy.
00:04:18.000He was less cogent than usual, said one attendee, who was surprised that during a smaller meeting with donors before the main event, Biden barely spoke.
00:04:24.000Instead, this person said he left virtually all of the talk to former President Barack Obama, which struck some guests as unusual for an loquacious politician like Biden.
00:04:33.000But significantly worse than that, back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage-managed, with lists of talking points, names of questioners, and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides.
00:04:44.000Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides.
00:04:57.000That means they haven't had a regular cabinet meeting for years inside the White House.
00:05:01.000You know, one where everybody sort of comes in and informs the president and they have an interesting conversation about what's going on in the world?
00:05:07.000Instead, they're submitting pre-written talking points to White House aides so they can then translate that into Dr. Seuss rhymes for the old man.
00:05:16.000So apparently at the cabinet meetings, they are literally submitting pre-written talking points at the cabinet meetings, which is unbelievably stupid.
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00:06:45.000Have you ever had a meeting at your company that was pre-scripted, like full-scale pre-scripted, where you and your aides, the people who work at your company, you tell them, like, 25 minutes in, I need you to ask this question, I'm going to answer you such and such.
00:06:56.000That has never once happened at our company.
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00:07:00.000I've never even heard of a cabinet meeting working like that at the White House.
00:07:48.000You'll recall that just a couple of days ago, Joe Biden did an interview on Milwaukee Radio.
00:07:53.000This would be the interview where he infamously suggested that he was the first black vice president to the first black president.
00:08:00.000As we'll see in just a few minutes, he has some real trouble in labeling who exactly was vice president when and who the vice president is now.
00:08:06.000Because everything is going fine in Joe Biden's brain.
00:08:21.000Civic Media, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a Wisconsin-based progressive talk radio network, said Thursday it had agreed to make two edits to an interview with Joe Biden at the request of his campaign before the broadcast aired.
00:08:32.000A decision the station said fell short of journalistic interview standards.
00:08:35.000The station said it stood by its popular host, Earl Ingram.
00:08:39.000But apparently, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired.
00:08:44.000Civic Media Management immediately decided to cut them.
00:08:50.000Well, there's one statement where Joe Biden said, quote, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.
00:09:30.000Article after article after article talking about the build inside the Democratic camp against Joe Biden, the massive problem they were having.
00:09:38.000The New York Times reported yesterday afternoon, quote, Biden advisors way how to convince him to end his campaign.
00:09:45.000President Biden found himself increasingly isolated on Thursday, as a small group of his longtime aides and advisors have become convinced he will have to make what they see as the painful but inevitable decision to abandon his campaign for re-election, according to three people who have been briefed on the matter.
00:09:58.000In recent days, the group has been trying to come up with ways to persuade Biden to step aside from the campaign.
00:10:03.000Those discussions were recounted by three people familiar with them who, like others in this article, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation.
00:10:10.000There is no indication that any of the discussions have reached Biden himself, according to one of the informed people.
00:10:15.000At the center of it all is Mr. Biden, who is convinced he's the only one who can beat former President Donald J. Trump.
00:10:21.000So again, his aides are themselves leaking, like fury, everywhere that Biden needs to leave the race.
00:10:29.000The people closest to the president, remain adamant Biden will stay in the race, according to the New York Times.
00:10:36.000But it is a massive problem and it is a burgeoning problem.
00:10:40.000NBC News quote, No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path.
00:10:44.000Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall.
00:10:46.000The set of Democrats who think he should reconsider his decision to stay in the race has grown to include aides, operatives, and officials tasked with guiding his campaign to victory.
00:10:55.000According to Jonathan Allen, Natasha Karecki, and Carol Lee, quote, several of President Joe Biden's closest allies, including three people directly involved in efforts to reelect him, told NBC News they now see his chances of winning as zero.
00:11:29.000And indeed, just yesterday, two more House Democrats called for him to step down.
00:11:33.000One House Democrat, one so far, has to actually call for him to quit the presidency entirely.
00:11:38.000Forget about the race, the actual presidency, which, by the way, is the only honest answer.
00:11:41.000If you believe that he is not up to this race, then you also believe he is not up to the job of being President of the United States.
00:11:47.000Meanwhile, in advance of Joe Biden's big boy press conference, this is the big story yesterday, is that Joe Biden, all week long, had been touting how he was going to stand strong at his big boy press conference.
00:12:14.000In fact, so much buildup that according to Politico, House Democrats were preparing to break with Biden if he tanks his NATO press conference.
00:12:20.000Democratic lawmakers are making contingency plans, they write, in case Joe Biden tanks his highly anticipated solo press conference later Thursday, with at least a half-dozen lawmakers preparing to go public against the president, according to six people familiar with discussions.
00:12:33.000Three of those lawmakers had already drafted statements according to two people who had been briefed on
00:12:38.000This is a moment that will make a difference, said Representative Dan Kildee of Michigan,
00:12:41.000who's retiring from his Michigan swing seat this fall.
00:12:44.000Among House Democrats, there's a pervasive sense of panic about Biden at the top of the ticket.
00:12:50.000But there's a deep divide internally about how to handle the situation.
00:12:53.000Many are privately skeptical that any number of Democratic defections would convince Biden to leave the ticket, calling it delusional.
00:12:59.000Others insist a large enough groundswell could make a difference, pointing to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi, who could theoretically relay concerns to Biden himself.
00:13:07.000Regardless, all Democrats agree on one thing.
00:13:09.000The party is running out of time to come up with a strategy to help them defeat Trump and take back the House in November.
00:13:16.000Representative Brittany Peterson of Colorado, Democrat, said Biden's NATO presser is part of a bigger picture of whether he's able to answer unscripted questions.
00:13:25.000Meanwhile, major Democratic donors are putting an end to their fundraising.
00:13:30.000Until, at the very least, they find out whether Joe Biden is going to be at the top of the ticket.
00:13:34.000One Democratic donor named John Morgan, a Florida attorney major donor to Democrats, told CNN's Abby Phillip he had paused an end-of-summer fundraiser planned for Joe Biden due to uncertainty about whether Biden was even going to be on the ticket.
00:13:46.000So again, all of this has been building for two weeks.
00:13:49.000It should have been building for years, given the fact that the president is not only wildly unpopular in terms of policy, but also is gone in terms of his senescence.
00:14:01.000But all of this really came down to yesterday.
00:14:04.000So yesterday was all about his performance at NATO.
00:14:07.000Now, the good news for Joe Biden is the bar has been set so low, so unbelievably low by his debate, that if he is at any point a little bit conscious, it appears to be a win.
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00:15:23.000So, going into the day, world leaders were already signaling their concerns.
00:15:28.000According to Politico, nervous world leaders greet Biden at NATO.
00:15:31.000You're worried if he knows which direction he's going, which is always a good look.
00:15:35.000According to Politico, the contrast couldn't be starker.
00:15:37.000President Joe Biden, physically and politically frail, presiding over what could be his final NATO summit at a moment when the alliance has never been so strong.
00:15:44.000NATO officials are both saddened at how Biden's fortunes have turned and frustrated the storyline has distracted from what was to be a celebratory summit.
00:15:51.000They are also increasingly resigned to his defeat this November.
00:15:55.000Now, the reality is that the Europeans, and I'm talking with a bunch of people who are at all the parties with European diplomats at this NATO summit, and what they are saying is that the Europeans behind closed doors, they're not all that worried about Trump.
00:18:29.000I mean, that is the equivalent of during World War Two, Churchill visiting and FDR being like, I'd like to welcome to the podium Adolf Hitler.
00:19:30.000And no, but again, the standard was death.
00:19:35.000So, he comes out, and the first thing he does, he just starts babbling nonsensically.
00:19:39.000I think it's like a couple of minutes in.
00:19:41.000And he's talking, and he just starts garbling his speech.
00:19:45.000I directed the intelligence community to a significant amount of intelligence to be declassified so I could start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion.
00:19:55.000Then in February, some of you remember, I warned the world that the invasion was imminent.
00:20:01.000I rallied a coalition of 50 nations from Europe to Asia to help Ukraine defend itself.
00:20:08.000My foreign policy, many foreign policy experts thought as Putin amassed Russian forces just 100 miles north of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, but he thought he, Putin thought it was the mother home of Russia.
00:20:23.000Inspiring words from an inspiring leader.
00:20:26.000By the way, that's him on teleprompter.
00:20:27.000He started off with this little speech about Ukraine and foreign policy and the economy.
00:20:33.000All of that was designed to sort of get him in his groove.
00:20:35.000And now he was ready to take questions.
00:20:37.000So, the first thing he mentions is that it will not in fact be like a normal press conference where he just calls on people randomly.
00:20:56.000I will say that the press corps is absolutely awful at their job.
00:20:59.000None of them asked about, you know, no cabinet meetings for nine months.
00:21:02.000None of them asked about the fact that Joe Biden's White House literally called to edit radio interviews this week.
00:21:09.000None of them asked about the prognosis on whether he has any form of Parkinson's, for example.
00:21:16.000None of them asked about why Hunter Biden, a convicted felon and longtime crack addict, is now in the inner circle and attending, like, cabinet meetings.
00:21:24.000I mean, these would all be good questions.
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00:23:17.000But you're not the current President of the United States, who apparently doesn't know either that Trump is not the Vice President or that his current Vice President is a cringe-worthy human named Kamala Harris.
00:23:27.000Joe Biden trying to talk about Kamala Harris and somehow talking about Trump.
00:23:32.000I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president.
00:23:35.000So I think she's not qualified to be president.
00:23:38.000So yesterday we learned that Donald Trump is the vice president under Joe Biden.
00:23:44.000Learning many things, we are, in this new magical era of Joe Biden's dementia.
00:23:50.000We do have some pretty astonishing tape of the cabinet.
00:23:53.000So, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, they were all sitting there as this happened.
00:24:00.000Here is an outtake of them reacting as he calls Vice President Harris, Vice President Trump.
00:24:07.000I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President.
00:24:10.000Look at Tony Blinken as he got smacked in the head.
00:24:29.000Okay, so Biden was asked about mixing up Zelensky and Putin, and his answer was not magical.
00:24:37.000I wanted to ask you about your mixed-up presidents, Zelensky and Putin, earlier today.
00:24:47.000You now have your key allies, including the British Prime Minister, the President of France, and the German Chancellor, having to step in and make excuses for you on that.
00:24:56.000Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable.
00:25:00.000Hasn't this now, frankly, become damaging for America's standing in the world?
00:25:12.000And the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin, and I said, and now, at the very end, I said, here, I mean, Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry, Zelensky.
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00:28:54.000He did have a few malfunctions during this presser.
00:30:16.000That is a ball of yarn, that particular sentence.
00:30:19.000Joe Biden did admit that he's doing things that lead to him catching hell from his wife, and that I would not doubt one moment, that he catches hell from his wife, Dr. Jill, the greatest doctor in all the land on a fairly regular basis.
00:31:17.000He says, theoretically, you could be at the convention and people could decide they don't want to vote for me, even though they're my delegates, but it's not going to happen.
00:31:24.000And what Joe Biden presser would be complete without some creepy whispering?
00:31:30.000If I may, your convention is coming up where your delegates are pledged to make you the official nominee.
00:31:35.000If they have second thoughts, are they free to vote their conscience?
00:31:39.000Obviously, they're free to do whatever they want, but I get overwhelming support.
00:32:26.000If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race?
00:32:36.000No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win.
00:34:41.000This thing did conclude with somebody asking him, you know, Donald Trump is like contemporaneous, like right now, this minute, mocking you for mixing up Zelensky and Putin and calling him the Vice President of the United States.
00:36:04.000It's available for you to watch for free on DailyWire+.
00:36:07.000Then, on Wednesday, I testified before Congress about a report confirming what we've known all along.
00:36:12.000A global cartel is threatening to control what you see and hear in the media.
00:36:16.000It sounds like a conspiracy theory, except they say it pretty much right out there in the open.
00:36:19.000The evidence shows The Daily Wire, Joe Rogan, Fox News, and others are being targeted for not towing the left-wing line.
00:36:25.000All of this is yet another reminder that at The Daily Wire, we don't just complain about problems we see, we act to try to fix them, but we can only keep fighting with your support.
00:37:42.000Meanwhile, so the fallout, the fallout.
00:37:45.000So the fallout is the Democrats don't know what to do, which is like the best case scenario for Trump.
00:37:49.000Because on the one hand, you have reports from CBS news that dozens of Democrats in the house are preparing to come out and blast Biden and say he needs to stop.
00:37:58.000On the other hand, you have members of the media saying that Joe Biden is just as amazing as he ever was.
00:38:09.000Their headline today, top of their website, quote, Biden shows foreign policy depth in news conference with a few stumbles.
00:38:16.000If by foreign policy depth, you mean that he clowned himself.
00:38:19.000I mean, his takes on Israel in this particular news conference were so delusional, they're beyond the pale of his normal levels of delusion.
00:38:26.000He was asked if he would have done anything differently in the conflict, and then he talked about how he had done the right thing by depriving Israel of weaponry in the middle of the war, didn't mention one thing about hostages, and then pretended that Hamas was not popular in the West Bank.
00:38:37.000Like, he's just wrong on everything foreign policy related is possible to be wrong about.
00:38:43.000But again, the point is the media reaction.
00:38:45.000So you got the Washington Post backing him up.
00:38:49.000Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee chair, Jamie Harrison, he says, you know, this whole Zelensky, Putin, Vice President Trump thing, it's all just nitpicking.
00:39:26.000I mean, just a magician, a wizard of foreign policy.
00:39:30.000But he presents it badly, says Rachel Maddow.
00:39:34.000He is a master of the foreign policy field and has been for decades in his career in the Senate, the Vice President, and the presidency.
00:39:42.000And yet he undercuts his own presentation of those facts simply in the way that he presents them, with his self-interrupting and elliptical style, the very soft-spoken monotone that he sometimes uses.
00:39:56.000There's a big mismatch between his stylistic presentation and his truly masterful command of the subject.
00:40:03.000On the subject that was the main focus of this presser, which was foreign policy.
00:40:08.000Okay, then Maddow went into the fact that he had said that there's no way that he's losing, and she's like, well, maybe he doesn't have the relevant data.
00:40:17.000I think that what Nicole points out about the reality about polling numbers for incumbent presidents and the real history of that versus what President Biden said, which was not actually factually accurate as far as I can tell, that's worrying because it makes me worry that the president is being given information about his political standing that may not be based in reality, that may be sunnier than is real.
00:40:42.000But on the other hand, Joy Reid is very much in his camp.
00:40:51.000The guy that we just saw for the last hour is definitely not someone who is considering leaving the race.
00:40:58.000He cited the polls showing that there's no data that he's seen that says that he can't win.
00:41:03.000He was very praiseworthy of Kamala Harris, of Vice President Harris, as he should be, and said some really warm and good things about her.
00:41:11.000But he also said Even though that he believes that she is clearly qualified to be president and that's why he chose her, even if someone showed him data that showed that she did better than him, unless he sees data that he can't win, this doesn't sound like a man that's thinking about getting out.
00:41:27.000Okay, so, again, the divide in the Democratic Party is being exacerbated.
00:41:30.000And as Politico reports, there are still Democrats who are going to call for him to get out.
00:41:34.000In fact, just after the press conference wrapped up, there were more Democratic lawmakers who called for Biden to step aside.
00:41:40.000Representative Scott Peters of California put out a statement saying, quote, Today, I ask President Biden to withdraw from the presidential campaign.
00:41:46.000The stakes are high and we are on a losing course.
00:41:48.000Just minutes earlier, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, called on Biden to step aside in a post on X.
00:41:55.000Purple District Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois wrote on Next, I am hopeful President Biden will step aside in his campaign for president.
00:42:04.000One House Democrat watching the appearance responded to the flub of Vice President Trump.
00:42:08.000He said, unreal, but it's an obviously much better second half.
00:42:11.000Another Democrat texted about the Trump moment, ouch.
00:42:14.000Overall, he sounded coherent, but calling Zelensky, President Putin, and Harris VP Trump overshadows the rest of his time, that lawmaker added.
00:42:21.000Still, it wasn't as bad as some Democrats feared.
00:42:24.000Biden flexed his foreign policy chops, including his role on expanding NATO, and defended his record of legislative accomplishments.
00:42:29.000Holy bleep, he's on fire, texted one aide as Biden lit into Trump's record.
00:42:34.000Asked about his ability to do the job, the president said there's no indication he's slowing down.
00:42:39.000Looks and sounds 100% better than he did at the last debate, one House Democrat said in a text, adding Biden was almost as good as his last State of the Union appearance.
00:42:46.000Talked too long, but if this had been the debate, none of the last two weeks would have happened.
00:42:53.000As I have said before, we do a prayer at our synagogue every week for the health of the President of the United States.
00:43:00.000And never has that prayer been more ardently said than today, when Joe Biden is busy losing his reelect to Donald Trump.
00:43:07.000And if he dropped out of the race, it would be a significantly different race.
00:43:10.000So, I hope that he should live, he should be healthy, and he should just be just solid enough, like, just solid enough that Democrats can't get rid of him.
00:43:19.000Meanwhile, Democrats are hedging their bets.
00:44:23.000And she, I don't know what it is, she has this weird verbal tick where she talks about exploring possibilities unburdened by what has been.
00:44:31.000She just does it over and over and over.
00:44:34.000She sounds like Kylo Ren from The Last Jedi.
00:44:36.000She's like, well if we get rid of all the old people then we'll be unburdened by the past and we can explore the future together.
00:45:20.000We want to go into the future, which is where, that's where we go forward into the future, not backward into the past, like with the time machine.
00:46:02.000She's very strong, especially on one of the core issues that made the election maybe won or lost something, which is abortion rights.
00:46:09.000You know, and this is why I think what she did out and did a couple of interviews after the debate, people were, I was sitting on the set with a bunch of other MSNBC anchors and we were like, everybody was like, that was great.
00:46:19.000It's like, yeah, that's what she's doing out in the country and nobody is really tracking it.
00:46:25.000It's just, That's who she is, but there is a character out there.
00:46:31.000It's almost like public opinion hasn't caught up with what she is doing out there.
00:46:35.000And also, we live in a country that is sexist and racist.
00:46:56.000Okay, well, there is one sort of last hope for Joe Biden, and that is maybe Jerome Powell will save him.
00:47:02.000So, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:47:03.000inflation eased substantially in June, extending a recent slowdown in price increases that clears a path for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by the end of the summer.
00:47:15.000The Consumer Price Index, a measure of goods and services costs across the economy, fell slightly from May, dropping the year-over-year inflation rate to 3%, which was the lowest since June 2023.
00:47:24.000Now, again, you'll notice that the year-over-year inflation rate is supposed to be 2%, so it is still 50% too high.
00:47:31.000Nonetheless, they're now talking, once again, about cutting rates.
00:47:35.000Core prices, excluding volatile food and energy items, seen as a better gauge of underlying inflation, rose 0.1% since May.
00:47:41.000That was the mildest increase since January 2021, when you-know-who took office.
00:47:45.000Altogether, the report showed prices cooled broadly in the second quarter and were below economists' expectations, the reverse of what happened in the first three months of the year when inflation was surprisingly brisk.
00:47:54.000The report keeps the door wide open to a September interest rate cut.
00:48:29.000Meanwhile, while Joe Biden continues to tout the magic of NATO, the actual increasingly awesome strength of NATO, NATO still is not providing Ukraine the actual necessary resources for a counteroffensive this year.
00:48:42.000According to the New York Times, despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance NATO announced this week, Allied officials said Ukraine would not be ready to launch a dramatic counteroffensive or retake large swathes of territory from Russia until next year.
00:48:55.000I'm so glad that Joe Biden slow-walked all of this stuff.
00:48:56.000and air defenses from the United States and European countries will take weeks,
00:48:59.000if not months to reach the front lines.
00:49:01.000Some of the newly committed weapons have not yet been bought or built.
00:49:05.000So good news, I'm so glad that Joe Biden slow walked all of this stuff.
00:49:10.000I mean, he slow walked it to Israel also.
00:49:12.000And I don't know what this administration has against our allies actually winning
00:49:17.000or being provided the weaponry necessary to cut the best possible deal with Russia per se,
00:49:21.000but they're doing it now, belatedly, as always.
00:49:25.000I'm Apparently, several allies have promised new assistance, but it was not clear when any of the material would be delivered.
00:49:34.000Ukraine's military is already using drones produced by its defense industry to strike targets inside of Russia, but there are not enough of them.
00:49:42.000So hopefully the NATO summit will end with more of a commitment to provide the kind of military pressure necessary to reach an off-ramp with regard to Russia.
00:49:51.000Joe Biden's slow walking of the aid certainly did not help here.
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