is cnn. the world's news network damage control, panic sweeps the democratic party as top officials scrambled to freeze the fallout from president biden's debate performance. when you get knocked down, you get back in his day on the ticket two of the president's most prominent supporters, former house speaker nancy pelosi and congressman jim clyburn. our next and the path ahead, as calls grow for biden to step aside, his campaign says that would cause chaos and give trump the win. we'll, lawmakers agree, stay the course. sheila, our panel and i love experts is here to discuss plus victory lap after a torrent of debate falsehoods former president trump calls it a when we had a big victory did he convince any swing voters, senator lindsey graham will be here hello, i'm dana bash in washington where the state of our union is at an inflection point. president joe biden is in camp david today for a long-planned family my gathering, it comes as he faces pressure from panic democrats to reconsider his reelection bid. and amid persistent concerns about his capabilities following cnn's presidential debate yesterday evening, biden's campaign brushed off those concerns, including from a stack of newspaper editorials this weekend urging him to step aside as top campaign officials argued, the panic is coming from the bed wedding brigade and the beltway class. and does not reflect voters views biden himself told donors in new jersey yesterday, quote, i understand the concern after the debate. i get it. i didn't have a great night, but i'm going to be the fighting harder and a senior biden campaign official told me that the president has not wavered and his belief that his candidacy is the only path forward for his party. his campaign warned and a fundraising email that replacing biden with another democrat would cause chaos and be quote, a highway to losing just this morning a new cbs yougov poll taken after the debate finds that 72% of voters now say they do not think president biden has the mental or cognitive health to serve as president here with me now is one the top officials in the democratic party, a close ally of president biden former house speaker nancy pelosi. thank you so much for being here. what is your reaction to that poll? 72% of voters say they don't think that the president is fit mentally or cognitively to be president well, what do they think about the other guy do they think that he has the integrity to be president after that performance? let us just go let us not make a judgment about a presidency on one of one debate let's talk about what it means to people in their lives. and that's why you're not seeing much change in the polls on this. the difference between joe biden and the former president is so clear, if you are a woman and you care about your reproductive freedom and your health, them, women do you see a complete difference between enforce a woman's right to choose on the part of joe biden and a ban on abortion with the other guy. if you care about job creation in america, 15 million more jobs created hi joe biden, the worst job performance records since herbert hoover for the other guy, if you're concerned about saving the planet, you're young person, you're caring about the planet and its future. joe biden, the first person in the congress to pass a resolution to study the climate change in the 80s, even before i was in congress a guy who goes to the fossil fuel industry and says, give me $1 billion. so i can reverse what had happened in the ira, right? save the planet. the list goes on and on. whether you're talking about guns in the rest and 16 nobel laureates said, when it comes to inflation, if the other guy gets elected, inflation will soar because of his fiscal policies. so it's not about performance in terms of a debate. it's about performance in a presidency. and i want you to know that the fact is that the reaction to the lai's of donald trump is something that maybe tv isn't focusing on, but people are and to have a debate where you have to spend half your time in the gating. what he said because he has no nothing knows the truth. one side of this, and one side of the screen, you have integrity. the other side? but you have dishonesty. yeah. and we have definitely been pointing out the about 30 falsehoods that we heard from former president trump. but what you just did madam speaker was make the argument for joe biden's reelection in a way that he did not on thursday night, isn't that a problem? >> i don't want i don't say it's a problem. it's a bad night. i see everything as an opportunity. okay. you want to contrast? what these people could do debate if you're not even telling the truth or do you want to tall what it means to you in your life? when this person becomes president, this president he, he lied about january 6. this was a horrible event in our country's history. he was an its president i'd stays who instigated an insurrection. he tries to blame it on me. yeah, i plan my own assassination when he was sitting on his button, the white house, not sending the national guard and lying about it on the show. and people people are are well-meaning. they i had one of your reporters say that he really send the national guard know if they don't want even know then how can we make a judgment about how other people evaluate a presentation? so this is a dangerous person as opposed to a person who again saved our country from covid the first bill we pass shots and the arms, money and packet people its own jobs, children at school. this president with his denial and delay, cause people to die. yeah. and i completely understand what you're doing and you are making the arguments that you were hoping that democratic voters or listened to about why donald trump is bad and shouldn't be put back in the white house. but the reality is there are still a lot of concerns that joe biden is the person to get you to that point, too, making sure that donald trump is not back in there are some prominent columnist, several newspaper editorial board's are just simply calling for biden to step aside for the good of the country. tom friedman, a friend of president biden biden's, wrote the following. he wrote joe biden, a good man and a good president has no business running for reelection if he insists on running and he loses to trump, biden and his family and his staff and party members who enabled him will not be able to show their faces what do you say that that should is there any part of you that believes that president biden should step aside i want you to know. >> i came home to california south and north and people are for joe biden and kamala harris. they have some judgment about a person who said, i don't want that stood on that stage and light, light, light, light. if you're just talking about the debate, i respectful of some of the opinions that people have, but it also respectful the grassroots my people are very much biden kamala harris and this is an opportunity for joe bind to go out there and show show. he has the stem and the rest. and by the way, while the press and for some reason they don't there are healthcare professionals who think as that a trump has dementia that his connection, his thoughts of not go together not only that he just lies, he doesn't even know the truth. so if we're just talking about mental acuity, let's be fair about it. i don't think tom friedman thinks that donald trump should be president of the united states and while, while he may be saying we are enablers, we see joe biden up-close. we know how a tune two yards to the issues, how inform t is i debate with him about legislation and the right not debate but discuss it with them. he's right there so in a case, it was a bad night. let's not sugar coat that. it was a bad night. it was a great presidency. and that's what the american people have to choose a night where somebody is going to just misrepresent the facts completely and then you're on your guide. the other person has to negate that or again, it was a bad night. let's move on from that. it's all an opportunity. are our members have had been very thoughtful. they're very concerned about a president who would lie the way they they do and then the republic me ask, just go embrace those misrepresenting me. ask you about those members because there are house and senate democrats who are worried that joe biden could be a drag on their races and could ultimately cost you the senate. >> maybe even the ability to retake the house. do you have any of those concerns we definitely will win the house of representatives. >> it may come as a surprise to you, but one, they saw that performance of trump donors doubled down and said, we absolutely have to have the congress so it kind of, it kind of had an opposite effect in terms of the races, numbers are always concerned about the top of the ticket that's just the way it is. there are always conserved out the chart. are they more concerned now? and i don't sink we'll see you. can't make a judgment after one note. we'll just see how kim has said. we'll have our discussions as we go as we go forward. but how do we how do we walk away from a record of great performance on the part of this president was a promise to do more in terms of all the issues we talked about and what we like to see it, that bus and some of the women's caucus woman omics where women in the workplace, while we have family and medical leave, where we have affordable childcare, where we have home health care for women who are caregiver as men or caregivers to. so that we can have a conch an economy where everyone participates to the fullest and children are cared for because it's all about the children. so it is it's difficult politics is difficult. it's never easy and again members will make their own decision isn't wouldn't be the first time in campaigns as long as i've been involved since i was chair of the party in the 80s that people have not said, i'm running my own race. i'm not getting associated with, you me or yeah, the top of the ticket. yeah. just real quick because you mentioned that you have been at a party chair before. is there even a mechanism that you think would work? i've gif president biden did decide to step aside the campaign says that it would cause weeks of chaos and internal food fighting well, again, there's nothing as well as just as joe biden getting up and taking the ball over the finish line something else could be chaotic. >> i don't say that to say that could never happen because it might not i don't mean now. i mean, in history it could but understand this. this is really important for people to understand. joe biden has won the nomination. he has won the nomination. it's not if it's not officially, he hasn't roll call, hasn't happened you know what real call husband happening around the country because of the timing of the election. >> it's a very different year at it. and so you would have to undo the nomination to be somebody else that would not be a reason to do it or not do it? the question is joe biden's decision to go forward is a decision that we will all embrace because of the record he has an the performance that walk come with it and the contrast. woman's life, job creation reducing inflation saving the planet stopping the gun violence. the list goes on and on lgbtq rights and all the rest. so much it's sake including our democracy. our flag was still there with liberty and justice for all. that's what the election is about. we are not about, we're out of one nights section. forgive me. we are out of tacky. we're out of time. thank you so much for being here this morning. appreciate it. he saved joe biden wants does he want to do it again congressman jim clyburn joins me next, and we're talking about president biden. but what about president trump? 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>> i believe on friday, north carolina, he had a teleprompter, but i want to ask about something that you mentioned late last week, which is that you intended to have a conversation with the president. did you talk to him? and if so, was there any discussion at all about him stepping aside? >> i have not talked to the president since friday and if he asked my opinion, i would give it as are always do, and that is very clearly he should stay in this race. you should demonstrate it going forward. here's capacity to lead the country and i think the american people are demonstrating that i just left the state of florida. i was in a convention. we had 8,000 african american men registered for that conference i did not find one single one of them. who told me that they are not fully confident in joe biden. and that's just a fact having hear from people even the people on the floor. yes. there were some trepidation to the next morning but only one of the people i talk to expressed in opinion that joe biden should drop out. everybody else says, we need to make some calibration ship going forward. and that's what we need to do. if you're going to have another debate. the preparation for that debate needs to be different if no question in my mind we cannot be another candidate with all well, i don't know i think that jill biden will do well, but the debate i think it all depends upon what the rules are. i don't like that the bag, but nobody will do in fact, check-in. you just say what you want to say. you know, its ally, the got took 30 some odd lives and nobody checked him on it and say that was up to joe biden to do i'm not sure if i asked you a question and you lied to me with the answer our to follow her up and give you what the facts are and see what your reaction to that would be. and so that to me was not the way to plan the debate. and whoever did that, it agree to that really should think about what they're doing yeah. okay. well, it was a debate, agreed to by president biden. first two proposed this debate? 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