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Speaker 1: Richard arnold'st outside morning good, what do you make?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: Way to start the week?

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Speaker 2: Eh, stunning. We anticipated this still it is a stunner

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Speaker 2: uncharted territory. As you've been outlining what a political season

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Speaker 2: this has turned out to be. After days and days,

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Speaker 2: what almost three weeks of Joe Biden insisting he would

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Speaker 2: never quit his reelection bid, he does so in this

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Speaker 2: one page letter, written while he has retreated at his

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Speaker 2: beach house in Delaware, where he is also because recovering

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Speaker 2: from his latest about with COVID. He writes it is

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Speaker 2: in the best interests of his Democratic Party and the

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Speaker 2: country that he stands down. Biden says he will address

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Speaker 2: the nation and the world later this week and that

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Speaker 2: he will quote focus on fulfilling his duties as president

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Speaker 2: for the rest of his term in quote so not

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Speaker 2: quitting the presidency at the minute, even as some Trump

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Speaker 2: Republicans have been calling on him to do so. This

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Speaker 2: announcement by President Biden comes following all this period when

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Speaker 2: his administration of the entire Democratic Party was basically twisting

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Speaker 2: in the wind, and ends one crisis for the party.

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Speaker 2: But as you indicate, opens up and he has endorsed

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Speaker 2: his VP couple of Harris, But will that stand? Harris

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Speaker 2: has access course to millions in Biden Harris campaign cash.

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Speaker 2: Other say no, no, no, there should be this open primary.

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Speaker 2: How would that happen? You've been talking about some of

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Speaker 2: the convention process. It's no US political convention has gone

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Speaker 2: past the first ballot since well, not in my lifetime.

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Speaker 2: I think it was nineteen fifty two the last time.

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Speaker 2: How will this play out among other potential Democratic hopes,

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Speaker 2: as the national reputation to put together a campaign being limited,

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Speaker 2: or is there a whole host of people you mention

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Speaker 2: folks like and he bashered Gavin Newsom, Gritch and Whitmer,

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Speaker 2: all of these possibilities. But the clock is certainly ticking.

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Speaker 2: We have never seen a US president sitting US president

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Speaker 2: quitting a reelection race so late in the political season.

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Speaker 2: Republicans already because had their convention. The Democrat gathering is

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Speaker 2: set for Chicago in just a few weeks, just undred months,

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Speaker 2: it is. As for what was going into Biden's decision,

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Speaker 2: there is this from famed reporter Bernstein of Watergate, Woodward

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Speaker 2: and Bernstein's fame, who has sources in the Biden camp.

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Speaker 2: Here's what he said, of Biden just prior to his announcement.

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Speaker 3: President is angry. He feels abandoned. The word abandon was

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Speaker 3: used several times in discussions I've had with people in

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Speaker 3: the White House. The people that he has supported through

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Speaker 3: his political career and helped advance through the ladder of

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Speaker 3: leadership in Washington have now turned their back on him,

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Speaker 3: in his view and in a really ugly way.

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Speaker 2: So something of the inside view, However, the Yanks was

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Speaker 2: building elsewhere. You poll out today just prior to the

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Speaker 2: Biden announcement showed sixty one percent of Democrats thought Biden

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Speaker 2: should quit the race. Joining them earlier today was Senator

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Speaker 2: Joe Manchin, an independent who caucuses with the Dems and

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Speaker 2: has known Biden well for decades. Really, he joined those

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Speaker 2: calling for Biden to withdraw and save his reputation.

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Speaker 3: The time has come for him to pass the torch

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Speaker 3: to new.

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Speaker 2: Generation, past the torch while you still have the party's respect,

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Speaker 2: is what Manchin was saying.

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Speaker 1: He can finish this job that he started and finished

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Speaker 1: it where he wanted to lead.

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Speaker 2: So does he have the wherewithal to do so? Sure,

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Speaker 2: says Mansion. Political campaigns are a kicker when you take

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Speaker 2: that out of the equation, it's a different thing. But

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Speaker 2: when you're president of doing this campaigning at the same time,

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Speaker 2: it is excruciating. Israel's PM Netanyahu is Stewart Washington tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: There's timing for you at a point when all this

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Speaker 2: is swirling. This is going to be one of the

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Speaker 2: most volatile, unpredictable, extraordinary political campaign finales we have seen.

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Speaker 2: It's already that I'm taking a breather for a few days.

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Speaker 2: Back in time for the convention fights. Trump has taken

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Speaker 2: off his bandage and is playing the hero role at

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Speaker 2: his first post convention rally, saying he quote took a

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Speaker 2: bullet for democracy. They are also selling t shirts with

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Speaker 2: the photo of the bloody deer and the fist in

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Speaker 2: the air and all that stuff. Meantime, he is turning

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Speaker 2: his attacks onto Vice President Harris Kamala.

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Speaker 3: I call her laugh and Kamala never watch a laugh.

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Speaker 3: She's crazy.

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Speaker 2: So she's nuts, he said. Later, So it begins, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, might go well, we'll see in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much, Rich Arnold state side. Just if

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Speaker 1: you didn't see it in tragics like me in our

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Speaker 1: thirty two the thing that was disappointing about Trump on

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Speaker 1: Friday was not the fact that he played to himself

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Speaker 1: as usual, but the fact he claimed to be a

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Speaker 1: different person and a change person, and you were going

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Speaker 1: to hear a different message. And for about three and

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Speaker 1: a half minutes at the start, and they wheeled out

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Speaker 1: the dead man's hat in his uniform, and he went

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Speaker 1: over and kissed it, and you thought, right, we might

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Speaker 1: be onto something. And then that, basically for the next

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Speaker 1: hour and twenty was it, as he returned to everything

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Speaker 1: he always was. So But having said all of that,

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Speaker 1: the way this is unfolded this morning, he probably doesn't

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Speaker 1: care because I'm sure they feel be home free for

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