Along loo lines, weve done more for veterans than any president in American History. His son is convicted felon at a very high level. The only person on this stage a convicted felon is the man im looking at right now. I will have that war settled between putin and zelenskyy as President Elect before i take office on january 20th. Ill have that war settled. This guys three years younger and a lot less competent. I think just look at the record, look what ive done, look how ive turned around the horrible situation he left me. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 28th. Im Jonathan Lemire, and im Live In Atlanta following last nights president ial debate. And it was an historic night featuring a current president and a former president going head to head for 90 minutes. With polls showing the race to be incredibly close, the stakes were high for both men. But lets be clear, the debate was particularly rough for President Biden. Concerns about his age, undeniably his biggest weakness according to polls, were on full display as he struggled through some of his responses. His voice was thin and raspy, and his campaign blamed his hoarseness on a cold hed contracted during debate prep at camp david. His answers often meandering, he often would lose his train of thought. It comes as no surprise donald trump his performance included his usual stream of grievances along with many, many false and misleading claims, which went unchecked by moderators. On multiple occasions Last Night Trump called biden the worst president in u. S. History. Biden hit back by pointing to a poll of historians that was conducted earlier this year. Its ridiculous. We have a debate. Were trying to justify his presidency. His presidency hes without question the worst president in the history of our country. We shouldnt be having a debate about it. Theres nothing to debate. The worst president in history . 159 president ial scholars voted him as the worst president in the history of the United States of america. This shouldnt be a debate. Hes the worst president. He just said about me because i said it. But, look, hes the worst president in the history of our country. Hes destroyed our country. If he wins this election, our country doesnt have a chance, not even a chance of coming out of this rut. We probably wont have a country left anymore. Thats how bad it is. He is the worst in history by far. Thank you, President Trump. President biden . We are the most admired country in the world. Were the United States of america. Theres nothing beyond our capacity. We have the finest military in the history of the world, the finest in the history of the world. No one thinks were weak. No one wants to screw around with us, nobody, number one. Number two, the idea that were talking about worse president s, i wasnt joking. Look it up or go online. 159 or 158, i dont know the exact number, president ial historians they had meetings and they voted whos the worst president in American History going from best to worst. They said he was the worst in all of American History. Thats a fact. Thats not conjecture. He can argue theyre wrong, but thats what they voted. Trump was also asked twice last night to respond to those who blame him for the january 6th capitol insurrection, and in both answers he took zero responsibility. After you rallied your supporters that day some of them stormed the capitol to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral votes. As president you swore an oath to, quote, preserve, protect, and defend, unquote, the constitution. What do you say to voters who believe you violated that oath through your actions and inaction On January 6th and worry that youll do it again . I dont know too many believe that. And let me tell you about january 6th. On january 6th we had a great border, nobody coming through, very few. On january 6th we were energy independent. On january 6th we had the lowest taxes ever. You have 80 seconds left. My question was what do you say to those voters who believe that you violated your constitutional oath through your actions and inaction On January 6th, 2021, and worry youll do it again . Well, i didnt say that to anybody. I said peacefully and patriotically, and nancy pelosi if you just watched the news from two days ago on tape to her daughter whos a Documentary Filmmaker they say, but shes saying, oh, no, its my responsibility, i was responsible for this. Because i offered her 10,000 soldiers or national guard, and she turned them down. I had virtually nothing to do. They asked me to go make a speech. Look, he encouraged those folks. What theyve done to some people so innocent, you should be ashamed. Youve destroyed the lives of so many people. President biden also called Into QuestionDonald Trumps character last night as it relates to multiple criminal and civil cases against him. Here is that exchange. The crimes you are still charged with and think of all the Civil Penalties. How many billions of dollars do you own in Civil Penalties for molesting a woman in public, for doing a whole range of things, of having sex with a porn star while your wife was pregnant. I mean what are you talking about . I didnt have sex with a porn star, number one. Number two, that was a case that was started and moved. They moved a high ranking official, the doj into the manhattan d. A. s office to start that case. That case is going to be appealed and won. We had a very terrible judge, a horrible judge, democrat. The prosecutor, all high ranking democrats, appointed people. Hundreds of millions of dollars came pouring in because the public knows its a scam, and its a guy thats after his political opponent because he cant win fair and square. It seems sort of unconscionable it took more than a half hour into Last Night Emphasis Debate for there to be any discussion about the 2020 election, january 6th, or trumps criminal conviction. President biden also missed opportunities to drive those points home throughout the evening. Joining us now reporter for bloomberg news. We really appreciate you being up this early after a late night for us all. There is certainly, look, as the night went on, President Biden improved. He certainly landed some points, and as noted donald trump lied throughout. I dont think this was a good night for donald trump, but theres no way to spin this. It was a pretty disastrous night for President Biden. And one from the get go. He walked out of the stage President Biden did sounding hoarse, being kind of meek. And you noticed through the course of the debate there were things President Trump wanted to say and he was able to do that effectively. I think the bar was set very low for President Biden, so much so he was being ridiculed by both sides and of course he wanted to clear that bar. And he didnt. He has wandering eyes, and yes, there was a lot of lying. There was a lot of looseness with the truth on the former president s part but he was effective in getting four or five things across over and over again. Perhaps it was the format of the debate. Go back to talk about the border, the creative way in which he spun january 6th is astonishing, yet as you said President Biden missed his opportunities to underline that moment is being wrong, i thought abortion was another moment he did that as well. We had former President Trump coming out and saying he was in favor of carving out exemptions for certain abortions that we saw with the Supreme Court decision like we saw this week. President biden in the past has painted donald trump as having risky policies when it comes to abortion rights. He didnt do that effectively last night. The number one goal for biden last night they had to get accomplished and did it effectively was to prove to americans im so up for us, my age is just a number, i can do it. Last night he didnt. We saw it immediately. His surrogates tried to spin it and his campaign shifted. They talked about how he had a cold. They were pushing and calling leading democrats trying to get them to, hey, dont panic onair. But lets be clear, privately there was nothing but panic last night. And theres even some discussion that amongst some leading democrats about can our nominee this year not be President Biden . I think theres conversation about sort of the political irresponsibility surrounding President Biden going into this debate. Ill pull back the curtain a little bit. We were in the spin room last night, this debate ended, we all went onto the floor of the hall. President bidens surrogates came in force. People were coming down from every entrance of this arena. It took 10, 15 mines we saw any democrats come out. There was gavin newsom, Rafael Warnock coming down. It didnt have the same feel, i you can get a sense the vacuum emerged they were going to coalesce around whatever message as a result of this. But im not sure what that message is going to be going forward. And the trajectory of the race now is going to be shaped by questions of bidens fitness and democratic panic, which is going to be troublesome for the reelection effort. Well hear President Biden has a rally in north carolina. A lot of eyes will be on that. David, thank you for starting us off this morning. Still ahead on way too early well have much, much more from Last Night Emphasis Debate including what President Biden and former President Trump had to say about israel as well as their back and forth about veterans. Those stories and a check on the Weather Forecast when we come right back. 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Biden noted that trump tried to undermine nato while he say president , and he also touted the latest ceasefire proposal and defended his decision to with hold some bombs from israel. Everyone from the United NationsSecurity Council straight through the g7 to the israelis and netanyahu himself have endorsed the plan i put forward endorsed the plan i put forward. In the meantime whats happened . In israel the only thing ive denied israel was 2,000pound bombs. They dont very well in populated areas. They kill a lot of people. We provide israel all the weapons they need and when they need them. By the way, theyve greatly weakened hamas. Greatly weakened and they should be. They should be eliminated. But youve got to be careful using certain weapons among population centers. He said the only one who wants to keep going is hamas. Actually israel is the one, and you should let them go and let them finish the job. He doesnt want to do it. Hes become like a palestinian, but they dont like him because hes a very bad palestinian. Hes a weak one. President trump, just to follow up would you support the creation of an independent Palestinian State in order to achieve peace in the region . Id have to see. But before we do that, the problem we have is that we spend all the money. So they kill us on trade. Ive made great trade deals with the european nations. The only reason that he can play games with nato is because i got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. I said and hes right about this, i said, no, im not going to support nato if you dont pay. Not much Fact Checking done last night, but we can certainly tell you very little of that was true. Trump also accused President Biden of not caring about the military, claiming that he had done more for veterans than any president in history. Our veterans are on the street. Theyre dying because he doesnt care about our veterans. He doesnt like the military at all, and he doesnt care about our veterans. Nobodys been worse. I had the highest Approval Rating for veterans, taking care of the v. A. Hes the worst. Hes gotten rid of all the things ive approved. All the Different Things i approved, they abandoned. Every single thing he said is a lie, every single one. For example, veterans are a hell of a lot better off since i passed the pact act. 1 million of them now have insurance and their families have it. Their families have it because what happened whether it was agent orange or burn pits, theyve all been covered now. Were also in a situation where we have Great Respect for veterans. My son spent a year in iraq next to one of those burn pits, came back with stage 4 gleoblastoma. I was in france for dday and spoke to all those families who had war heroes that died. And he said i dont want to go in there because theyre a bunch of losers and suckers. My son was not a loser. Youre the sucker and youre the loser. That was one of bidens strongest moments last night, and he was referring to a 2020 piece in the atlantic, which revealed back in 2018 a thenPresident Trump canceled a visit to a cemetery in france where fallen american soldiers are buried calling them suckers and losers. Trump tried to claim the quote was fake. First of all, that was a made up Quote Suckers and losers. They made it up. Its failing like many of these magazines. He made it up. He put it in commercials. We notified him. We had 19 people that said i didnt say it. And think of this who would say im at a cemetery and im talking about our veterans, because nobodys taking better care. Im so glad this came up and he brought it up. Theres nobody thats taken better care of our soldiers than i have. To think that i would in front of generals and others say suckers and losers. We have 19 people that said it was never said by me. It was made up by him just like russia, russia, russia was made up. Just like the 51 intelligence agents are made up, just like the new thing with the 16 economists are talking. Its the same thing. 51 intelligence agents said that the laptop was russia disinformation. It wasnt. That came from his son hunter. It wasnt russia disinformation. He made up the suckers and losers, so he should apologize to me right now. A four star general on your side, on your staff who said you said it, period. So that fourstar general biden just mentioned was trumps former chief of staff, john kelly, who confirmed on the record that quote in 2023. In a statement to cnns jake tapper. Tapper moderated last nights debate but, again, offered no fact check of that exchange or really any other. Coming up here well continue to have complete coverage of the debate in atlanta. Donald trump has yet to announce his vp pick, but he teased they were here last night. 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