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Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to Catherine Ferkin, a US correspondent,

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Speaker 1: because the first Democratic senator has questioned President Joe Biden's

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Speaker 1: election chances. It comes as Nancy Pelosi has weighed into

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Speaker 1: this in an awkward way too for Joe Biden. Catherine,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. What's the latest?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning, Ryan. Well, it just really keeps getting

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Speaker 2: worse for Joe Biden, doesn't it. I mean, now we're

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Speaker 2: basically a fortnight out from that disastrous debate between the

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Speaker 2: President and Donald Trump, and just nothing that he does

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Speaker 2: seems to be helping him in terms of improving his

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Speaker 2: standing amongst the American public. You know, since the debate,

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Speaker 2: we saw him, we've seen him out on the campaign trail,

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Speaker 2: We've seen him call up radio stations and TV stations,

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Speaker 2: We've seen him do a whole sit down TV interview

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Speaker 2: about what went wrong. And none of this is resonating

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Speaker 2: with voters. None of it is changing people's minds. Now,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned today, we've heard from the first Democratic

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Speaker 2: senator who's spoken out with really the most damning comments yet.

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Speaker 2: Colorado's Michael Bennett says he fears his party could lose

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Speaker 2: in a landslide to Donald Trump. If Joe Biden stays

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Speaker 2: on the ticket. The language he used was really, really strong.

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Speaker 2: He says he believes Donald Trump is on track to

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Speaker 2: win November's election, and he's worried that he will take

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Speaker 2: both the Senate and the House if the Democrats don't

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Speaker 2: make a drastic change. Interestingly, he didn't actually call for

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Speaker 2: Biden to step down, but rather he said the party

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Speaker 2: itself now has a moral obligation to do everything it

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Speaker 2: can to stop Trump from returning to the White House.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Nancy Pelosi there in the intro. She's also

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Speaker 2: given some really quite awkward comments about the fact that

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Speaker 2: time is running out for Biden to make a decision.

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Speaker 2: We have also heard from actor and Democratic donor George

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Speaker 2: Clooney today. He published a guest sam The New York

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Speaker 2: Times basically saying we need a new nominee. Now. This

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Speaker 2: is particularly strong because Clooney is a longtime friend of

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Speaker 2: and he's outwardly passionate about the Democrats. That he says

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Speaker 2: that Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at

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Speaker 2: the fundraiser was not the Joe big effing deal Biden

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Speaker 2: of twenty ten. So unfortunately for Biden, I mean all

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Speaker 2: the signs appointing to exit stage left.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, Catherine, thank you very much for that. Are US

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Speaker 1: correspondent Katherine Ferkin with US Live from the United States

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