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Speaker 1: Pressure is continuing to mount on US President Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: to step down on the next election. During a leadership

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Speaker 1: call over night, a number of senior House Democrats agreed

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Speaker 1: that Biden should step aside. Following his disastrous debate last week.

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Speaker 1: The president has been trying to clear his name doing

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Speaker 1: media interviews, and a pre recorded sit down with ABC News,

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Speaker 1: we hear addressed allegations of being unfit for office.

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Speaker 3: It's a bad episode. No one a kids, very serious condition.

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Speaker 3: I was exhausted. I didn't listen to my hands thinks

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Speaker 3: in terms of preparents and bad names.

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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchinson is a US correspondent and he joins me, now.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, Dan, Hi franchise are good.

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Speaker 1: How much influence do these Democrats have, the ones who

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Speaker 1: were speaking out behind closed.

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Speaker 2: Doors, Well quite a bit. I mean, if you're to

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Speaker 2: believe reports, they're about a half dozen of these top

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Speaker 2: members of the House that held this meeting today and

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Speaker 2: basically they're saying that we have to get Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: to withdraw from this election. And mister Biden spent the

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Speaker 2: day at a number of campaign rallies where he was

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Speaker 2: joking again about his age. But there are, you know,

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Speaker 2: just more and more people that don't think he has

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Speaker 2: a chance at this point to be Donald Trump. So

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Speaker 2: over in this corner you have the other Democrats who

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Speaker 2: are saying, okay, that would mean Kamala Harris would have

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Speaker 2: to step up and slide into the role vacated by Biden.

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Speaker 2: But she just doesn't have the it factor. I mean,

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Speaker 2: some polls show right now that she's ahead of mister Biden,

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Speaker 2: maybe by two or three points, but she hasn't had

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Speaker 2: the support of Democrats that she really needs. And yet

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Speaker 2: you can't really bypass her because that's never been done.

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Speaker 2: Even if you have somebody like California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 2: who's been circling this party for some time, despite him

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Speaker 2: saying he's not and will likely run in the election

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Dan Joe Biden seems very steed fast. I you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll go call is going to

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Speaker 1: continue literally until eleakhand I do you.

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Speaker 2: Think, well, I think so. I think we're going to

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Speaker 2: have to find something out in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Adam Smith, who's the ranking member

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Speaker 2: of the Armed Services Committee. You've got Jim Heimes Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: he's a ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, they want to give mister Bien room to

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Speaker 2: exit the race on his own terms before they make

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Speaker 2: a call for him to do so. But they're also

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Speaker 2: aware that there may be no way at this point

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Speaker 2: to prove to voters that he's he's not too old

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Speaker 2: for this task. But I think what's really interesting too,

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Speaker 2: and there was you know a number of health experts

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Speaker 2: have talked about this on the on the talk shows

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Speaker 2: over the weekend here on TV that said, how we're

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Speaker 2: talking about Bien right now treating his age as systematic

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Speaker 2: to a growing problem in our country agism. And he's

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Speaker 2: got symptoms that you know are basically textbook cases that

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Speaker 2: you find as people get older. It's wait response time

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Speaker 2: and you can't find the words and so on. So

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Speaker 2: you combine that with little sleep and if you really

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Speaker 2: did have a cold, like he said, you know, they're

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Speaker 2: saying that anybody over the age of forty or four

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Speaker 2: I would problem.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that that debate is going to

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Speaker 1: stop as it Dan Hey, thank you for the update.

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