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Anderson Cooper Welcome back to the whole story. Im anderson cooper. President Bidens Decision to step aside from the race came as a shock to many americans, including some of his own campaign and White House staff. Even after the disastrous Cnn Debate against former President Donald Trump and the growing calls from democrats for him to pass the torch, biden seemed Dug In. So the question is, what finally changed his mind . Over the next hour, cnns Pamela Brown examines the Rise And Fall of cand...

Whole story. Im te house staff. Even after the disastrous cnn debate against former president donald trump and the growing calls from democrats for him to pass the torch, biden seemed dug in. So the question is, what finally changed his mind? over the next hour, cnns pamela brown examines the rise and fall of candidate joe biden from his motivations for running against donald trump to the final days and hours before his historymaking decision. [music playing] pamela brown (voiceover): it was sum...

You do. so i think hes speaking to -- its the same message he gave the world with that stephanopoulos interview, which is, well welcome any help. >> and then, you know, the two of them kind of joking about, you know, fake news, in fact this is it, that moment again. so thats disturbing for so many, here they are joking about journalists and their role, and then joking with a leader who has been accused of having journalists, you know, killed and imprisoned. so why is there, you know, a deafening...

Not know right from wrong. >> a i threw out a strategy. i said impeachment is the branding problem, its a word. i said call it the trump criminal investigations, everything tie it all together, donald trump beat, drum beat. but even the reaction to the new trump dirt thing, not like this is the next of impeachment. one more criminal thing to look at, are you kind of feeling that strategy out there? >> thats sort of the strategy the leadership wants to take, although i do think speaker pelosi wil...

Win the election. i mean, our whole -- democracy and constitution is structured around keeping foreign interference out and were talking about the legitimacy of the president. of the presidency. this is incredible. a lot of people, 50% of americans, think the russians interfered and may have pushed trump over the top and now hes saying in 2020, i have no problem with this. go ahead and break the law, hack my opponents email and give me the information and ill decide what to do with it. that is t...

Happened in 2016 involving the clinton campaign and the steele dossier. but the reactions are spanning around -- run the gamut. but for the most part, defending the president in saying that the president, if it came down to it, probably would go ahead and call the fbi. take a listen. >> i listened to the interview. what i heard the president say is that he would do both. he would listen, and he under certain circumstances would call the fbi. look, there are some exceptions to this, obviously. bu...

But theyre going to need allied support in the region and the other gulf nations to weigh in and participate in this. that probably is the real bottom line at the moment. making sure these shipping lanes are open, what is so different today, these are not tankers sitting in a port, as tough as that attack was back in may, these are tankers underway in international shipping lanes. the economic implications, the security implications are very significant when you go after commercial ships and att...

Picks at large editor chris cillizza joins me. he wrote that president trump lies daily, more often than most americans wash their hands. which comments stood out from the new interview. >> take the hour. here we go, no sthorter than that. but there is a lot. lets first start with donald trump in general. "the washington post" fact checker, 10,796 false or misleading statements in the first 869 days and 12 untrue claims every day hes been president of the united states and the average person in ...

Government for the u.k. of intelligence services, one of our closest services, and the russian government which is an avowed hostile power, wants to damage the u.s. political system. they definitely had an interest in trying to make sure one person did -- did not become president because they were upset at what she had done previously with regard to vladimir putin. >> i want to bring in manu raju on capitol hill speaking to republicans trying to get reaction. manu, senator graham said the presid...

Manipulate the american people. and then they used it to get a fisa warrant. and then they exonerated hillary after peter strzok interviewed her and they brought the exoneration months earlier. and i am trying to think, you cant make this ironing up when you think about it. >> its not just ironic. you look at the last 16 months, what do we now? we have no evidence of russian collusion between the president and his campaign. but we know for certain that james comey is a liar. we know that james c...