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well, a lot of people on your side of the aisle we live in i think the front of that obviously had a rough night last night right? >> the debate was not one that any of us were expecting to see him do but it's still clear the choice between the president and the former president is still very clear. we have one person on the stage who wants joe biden who wants to maintain people's freedoms and wants him make sure that they still have choices to make in their own lives. and we have donald trump, who wants to take those choices away, like most maga republicans, i think when people pay attention to the choice on the ballot, i think those still find that job button is the one that they want. are you confident the ballot is going to look like we expect it to look like in november as far as i know, that i was going to be the only person is going to make that choice is going to be joe biden. >> i think. here's the question that we are going to have to figure out. was last night a bad night, or is the president in a bad way? and i think that's one of the things that they're going to have to convey of our them. perhaps this is time for joe biden to go out there and give his version of rock obama's race speech and talk about his age, and talk about the fact that he's got arthritis in his legs and talk about the fact that maybe he's moving a little slowly, but he's got to own it in a way that will give people confidence that he understands what's going on. let them in on it with him, and then he can start to change the narrative to talk more about the other things that as he wants, problem is not that americans think his legs moving slowly. the problem is that they've looked at last night and they think his mind is moving slowly and it's too slow to be the president of the united states. this is an election where i agree with you. the choice is clear, the contrast is very clear, and this was an election where voters are looking for someone to give them stability donald trump has always been mr. chaos. so this should have been a lay up for joe biden but he sent the message last night at the control room is empty. if you want stability, joe biden did not convey anything along those lines last time, which was why is it is going to be up to the president and the president's team to convey that in a way that gives everybody more confidence that there is somebody at home. let's amazon, the white house for a year. it's been a couple of years now, but that was it for a year because now the president, but i saw working in the white house every day, but that was the end of 2022. he's going to have to convey that more going into the rest of 2024. >> well, and that's the problem, right? is that they have been out there, people in the white house saying that he's still that same guy that you saw in 2022, jeff zeleny. i want to look big picture here. get your latest reporting as we wake up. this morning because i mean, i was talking to dozens of people last night and the panic was at an all time high. i woke up this morning to a couple of notes about groups of democratic members of congress unlikely to come out and say anything publicly at this point. but wondering who else can they put at the top of the ticket? these are some of the quotes from people that i collected last night as this debate that i'd be taking calls tonight. that's about gretchen whitmer and gavin newsom. now, newsom, of course, came out and was staunchly behind the president. but what are you hearing at this hour about what's next? >> look, i didn't save my text messages, but there are similar to yours and some of them can't be printed. this goes beyond democratic started with that, couldn't be different yawn democratic bed wedding. this is a very different thing and it was more sense of concern, alarm, pain. i was in the spin room last night after the debate sort of looking around and boy, talk about not a single biden person could be found for quite awhile. finally, governor gavin newscum came in. senator rafael warnock i came in and yes, they did talk about the policy, but very little talk about the performance. so look, today's a new de, the president has to address this when he speaks in north carolina today, it's it would be unthinkable for him not to, but going forward from that, i think we need a few days to settle into what is he personally, what is his family personally thinking about this to me, he was over he looked over, prepared, completely tired, and he may have had a cold that's probably the most charitable thing. but biden advisers know how to reach everyone. why didn't they alert people to his cold at say, 5:00 as opposed to 945 during the debate? >> i told you i got a text from someone who said they should have lied and said he had covid if they knew that this was the guy that was going to show up. >> i mean, perhaps he does who knows, but i think i was struck by also, we've talked all week here in atlanta about the curse of the first term president at the debate it wouldn't happen to joe biden because he has so practiced and whatever it was this is more than that as well. so not having his notecards, not having advisors. i think it was clear he had a bad night. is it more than that? he'll have to answer that question. i2 had a few text messages as being one of the only republicans that has endorsed joe biden i won't read my honore either. i'm sure you're republican friends were very generous they were not they were generous with their words. but i think it's interesting, right? both of these guys were sitting at the edge of the cliff, right? with their parties, if donald trump would have had a horrible night last night, there would've been some wrangling here with republicans talking about what maybe it would look like to have somebody else be the nominee. but he didn't he had a great night as far as delivery. now the content was full of leinz and riddles and the windows. but i think the interesting part to this is all good analogies are baseball analogies, right? so this is your starting pitcher, just went out and give up five runs in the first ending before he got an out. and the question is, do you pull them or do you just think he had a bad any jamal to your point is it is it a system a systemic problem or is it just one episode? i think. america has got to figure that out. there is one good piece for democrats is that there are still tens of millions of people in this country. they would take joe biden at 110-years-old, then vote for donald trump. the problem is there's probably not enough of those millions of people. and part of the problem is someone that's covered, joe biden's age for the last 3.5 years is they deflect a gaslight at times they have not told the truth about the limitations of his age that he gets up late in the morning, that he does not appear on camera, usually late at night. the does not do interviews and more than he's done less interviews than any president in decades. there are limitations on this present because he is old and he is not been forthright and addressing those in a way that jamal was saying. and so that's why you have this collective freak out because now it's four months to election day. and you realize that maybe he does have some bad moments. where it raises the question, why do you go to europe twice, right? you seem like there's sort of over-working him to show this mode, this movement, and what you're talking about that somebody is at home i mean, it's working, but he is 81-years-old. let the them stay home on one of those trips that the vice president go to, one of those trips so that he could be focused on his job. and it does raise questions about staffing if he had a cold, i would've liked to have known as somebody who's been out talking about about for democrats because at least that way when we heard the raspy voice and the beginning of the beginning of the debate, we would have had a moment and say, oh, he's got a coal, let's give them a chance. again as pudding, but that's not what happened. what about the stair? it wasn't just the colder. let's be honest if you watched the debate, it was more than just his voice. it was how he carried himself and it was almost like he wasn't sure which camerota luck through. but again, he was so prepare it was the over-prepared just look at that. this is not the first time this has happened necessarily. we have covered many events with him this is actually the joe biden we see on most days, the state of the union address was the outlier here, at least according to last night. well, and of course, the reason that president biden has said that he ran for reelection in the first place is because donald trump was running for president. again, and that he had no option. and the reason why democrats are so upset and concern this morning it's because they view beating donald trump as much more than just another political contest, but rather an existential one that really will determine the future of our democracy. that's the reality that we face this morning up next here more on the morning after president biden waken up in north carolina for a campaign rally, will the address his debate performance plus biden campaign co-chair mitch landrieu joins us live to discuss the president's next steps we brought it back to the states and the country is now coming together on this issue. >> it's been a great thing terrible july 4 cnn concert event with performance by keith urban, ashanti, maybe wrexham, the killer in many more go forth in america thursday, july 4 at seven eastern on politicians can never agree we don't always agree like you're in a politics. >> it stresses me out. >> your sleep. i sleep cool, like sleeping and luxury. i like spending less i guess that's why we agreed on this safa mattress. maybe american needs asada. at least we'd be comfortable disagreeing sought luxury mattresses made affordable it was unnecessary no. >> neither is missing your daughter's competition to do payroll with pay calm employees do their own payroll. so you don't have to miss your daughter's big day time to shine get pay calm, and make the unnecessary unnecessary what a theory and exposure right in your brokerage account, get it with the symbol e, the grayscale ethereum trust the world's largest if theory i'm fund. the crypto investing, begins here. >> oh, are you i'm in a child you really need life is some fricking torque our job i wanted are to the total torque doubt crossover right now during the dodge fourth of july sales event, get no monthly payments for 90 days and all 2024 dodge brennon vehicles go to dodge.com and hurry to your local dodge dealer today? 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>> california governor gavin newsom, bear defending president biden after his lackluster to debate performance. why does that matter? newsom, one of the names that's on democratic all throughout private democratic conversations, this morning about the top of their ticket. now, biden today is returning to the campaign trail and just a few hours, he said to participate in a campaign event in north carolina. he was greeted by supporters at the airport. when he arrived following last night's high-stakes debate joining me now cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche, she is live from raleigh, north carolina with the president at kayla. what is your latest reporting? from inside the biden campaign after last night well, casey, it's clear that there are many frustrations, but president biden himself attempting to defy some of that criticism and course-correct. >> late last night into the evening visiting a waffle house and atlanta talking with patrons and saying that he thought he did well. and defense sending himself in saying that it's hard to debate someone like donald trump who lies so much. and then when he arrived on the tarmac, close to 2:00 a.m. here in raleigh, he was greeted by hundreds of supporters, spent more than 30 minutes shaking hands and flashing thumbs-up from the bce, which is of course the car that he rides in in his motorcade before delivering that speech that he will give in north carolina today. that of course, on the back of a forceful defense from vice president kamala harris last night, who in what appear to be some coordinating messaging sheet to defended biden and what she described as a slow start to the debate. but then she said, voters are ultimately going to have to make a decision based on the past three-and-a-half years not based on an hour-and-a-half. here's what she said yes. >> there was a slow start, but it was a strong finish. people can debate on style points, but ultimately, this election and who is the president of the united states has to be about substance and the contrast is cleared despite the performance of the president, which was at times meandering and he appeared confused on stage the biden camp did feel that on substance there were some moments that stood out to voters, namely the president's response on january 6, his going on the attack about trump's myriad legal issues and then some exchanges on climate change as well. >> but they are frustrated on a few points. one, they're frustrated that biden in their view, had to spend a lot of time fact-checking. and also that he spent the majority of the time on stage on the defensive, not using the attack messaging that they had developed so carefully over the last few days when i talked to other democrats crowds, casey, i mean, the the reactions are wide ranging as you guys have been discussing for the last 12 hours, some are saying that the president and the first lady need to stop denying what's been true for the last several years and step aside. but another that i spoke with said that's why you do these things in june because there's going to be 1,000 more news cycles before november. casey but there is also i don't think it's lost anyone time to replace someone at the top of the ticket before the convention, which is an unusual reality, of course, kayla tausche forces morning, kayla. thank you very much. are coming up next year sketching points on the night on waste is pregnant what would you talking? 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