1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Well, things keep getting worse for President Joe Biden. He's 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: been diagnosed with COVID nineteen. He was due to make 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: a speech in Las Vegas, but has now flown home 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: to self isolate in Delaware. The White House pre sextury 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: release a statement saying he was vaxcitted, boosted and experiencing 6 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: mild symptoms. One use US correspondent Logan Church is with 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: us this evening, high, Logan. Could this illness come at 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: a worse time for Joe Biden? 9 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: Oh? Jack, It's a terrible time for Joe Biden. I mean, 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: just cast your mind back a couple of weeks ago, 11 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: and we had that disastrous debates that the former president 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: had agoth the current president had against Donald Trump. But 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: then the fallout from vas and since then, Joe Biden 14 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: has been in the fight for his political life. What 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: he needs to be doing right now is being us 16 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 2: in the campaign trail, holding rallies, showing his country and 17 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: the world that even at eighty one years old, he 18 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: is young enough and this enough and with us enough 19 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: to have another go at being president. And the last 20 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: thing that he needs to do right now is be 21 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: sitting in his home in Delaware. Isolating while Donald Trump 22 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: has the spotlights. 23 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. A Logan reports today that senior Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, 24 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: who's the Senate majority leader, have now told Biden he 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: should step aside. Adam Schiff has done the same, hackeing Jeffries, 26 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. I mean, for goodness sake, how much longer 27 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: can he withstand these calls? 28 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, and those calls are just mounting by the day. 29 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: I've been spending a lot of time, obviously talking to 30 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: Republicans here in Milwaukee where I'm at at the Republican 31 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: National Convention, but there's also a number of Democrats around 32 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: the city here I've been chatting to on my walks 33 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 2: around when we're out filming, and many of them are 34 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: just wondering when Joe Biden will set aside. Not a 35 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: matter of f it's very much when. Now it's understood 36 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: that the Democrats will be holding a virtual those in 37 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: early August as to sort of decide where they want 38 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: to go in terms of their presidential peck ahead of 39 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: their national convention in mid August. But you've got to 40 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: wonder at this stage how long Joe Biden can really 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: hold on for of course, at this point Joe Biden, 42 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: if we look at his public statements, he doesn't want 43 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: to go anywhere at all of his rallies, at every 44 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: chance he's got, He's publicly stated very loudly, that he 45 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 2: is there to stay for better or for worse. He 46 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 2: thinks that he's the only man that can beat Donald Trump, 47 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: and he, as we know so far, it tends to 48 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: give it a good old crap. The problem for Joe Biden, though, 49 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: is an increasing number of his pasty don't think he's 50 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: up for it. 51 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, Donald Trump speaks tomorrow at the Republican National Convention. 52 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: What are you expecting? 53 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 2: Well, it's quite interesting. So after the assassination attempt on 54 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's life, as party said, his campaign said that 55 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: he essentially threw out his plans. Campaign has planned speech 56 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: for tomorrow and totally rerose it. Now, if you think 57 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: to what a typical Donald Trump's speech is like, you 58 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: can think of things like a very fiery, combative language. 59 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: We're not expecting that tomorrow. We're expecting messages of unison 60 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: and messages are bringing the country together. So that's what 61 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: we're expecting from Donald Trump tomorrow at the Republican National Convention. 62 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: Very good looking forward to it. 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