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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we have some absolutely massive breaking news

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Speaker 1: which is that much anticipated or speculated about. President Joe

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Speaker 1: He is not resigning that position. I'm going to pull

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Speaker 1: up for you the letter that he posted, which I'm

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Speaker 2: I actually haven't.

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Speaker 1: Read yet, so we're going to read it together right

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Speaker 1: now in real time, because I wanted to jump on

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Speaker 1: obviously Ryan Grimm here with us to help us pass

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Speaker 1: through what all of this means. So he says, my

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Speaker 1: fellow Americans, over the past three and a half years,

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Speaker 1: we have made great progress as a nation. Today, America

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Speaker 1: has the strongest economy in the world. We've made historic

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Speaker 1: investments in rebuilding our nation, in luring prescription drug costs

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Speaker 1: of Americans. We've provided critically needed care to a million

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Speaker 1: veterans exposed to toxic subs sinces past. The first gun

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Speaker 1: never been better positioned to lead than we are today.

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Speaker 1: I know none of this could have been done without you,

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Speaker 1: the American people. Together, we overcame a once in a

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Speaker 1: the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.

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Speaker 1: And while it has been my intention to seek reelection,

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Speaker 1: I believe it is in the best interest of my

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Speaker 1: nation later this week in more detail about my decision.

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Speaker 1: For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all

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Speaker 1: those who have worked so hard to see me reelected.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being

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Speaker 1: an extraordinary partner in all this work. Let me express

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Speaker 1: my heart felt appreciation to the American people for the

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Speaker 1: today what I always have, that there is nothing America

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Speaker 1: to remember we are the United States of America, signed

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. So, Ryan, a few things that jump out

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Speaker 1: That was a new push that Republicans in particular were

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Speaker 1: if you're not fit to run for office, how are

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Speaker 1: While he expresses his gratitude to Kamala Harris, his of course,

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Speaker 1: process to succeed him as Democratic nominee, here, leaving an

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Speaker 2: So what is your initial reaction here?

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Speaker 3: Yes, all of that, thanking Kamala Harris for being a

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Speaker 3: It opens up the next several days to be a

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Speaker 3: period of intense jocking Biden, as has been reported basically everywhere.

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Speaker 4: And Griffin did you say something.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Griffin says he just endorsed Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 4: So breaking news from Griffin.

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Speaker 3: That he did not endorse her in the letter but

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Speaker 2: The political machinations of political machinims.

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Speaker 4: That's how democrats think. That is very Democrat brain.

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Speaker 3: So now you're going to see the entire Now you're

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Speaker 3: Now is just rally behind Kamala Harris and just right,

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Speaker 1: So here's the Joe Biden tweet in which he endorses

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Speaker 1: My very first decision as the party nominee in twenty

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Speaker 1: So we'll see whether the strength of Joe Biden's endorsement

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Speaker 2: This, this is incredible.

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Speaker 1: But if you're just going by the data at this point,

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Speaker 3: Yea, and I think the argument that she's been vetted

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Speaker 3: There hasn't been a whole lot of focus on her,

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Speaker 3: The most scrutiny she got was over her massive staff turmoil. Now, journalistically,

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Speaker 3: reporters because you know, the vice president's office has been

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Speaker 4: Her office was just a disaster.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just with people rotating in and out constantly and

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Joe Biden's decision making process

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Speaker 3: And I haven't said a bunch of Democrats were like

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Speaker 1: Thing, that it would be such a disaster. That's right,

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Speaker 1: and that is what unfolds now. I didn't actually expect

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Speaker 2: We got to do something else.

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Speaker 3: I cannot wait to help elect president Harris. That's your

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Speaker 3: kind of Lincoln Project centrist community.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha.

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Speaker 1: I've got a ron Klain tweet for you here. Now

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Speaker 1: that the donors and electeds have pushed out the only

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Speaker 1: candidate who has ever beaten Trump run claim of course,

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Speaker 1: being Biden's initial chief of staff, it's time to end

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Speaker 1: the political fantasy games and unite behind the only veteran

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Speaker 1: of a national campaign, our outstanding VP Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 2: Let's get real and win in November.

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Speaker 1: You also, you don't have a number of the coconut

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Speaker 1: pilled lefty crew who are excited about the gabblers endorsement.

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Speaker 1: I like you, Ryan, agree that it would be better

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Speaker 1: listen the time to have an actually democratic process. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: they passed by Well they've got five weeks, right, but

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Speaker 1: we could have had like actual primaries and a normal

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Speaker 1: process if they hadn't been so committed to hiding Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden's true health condition from the American people with.

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Speaker 4: His whole I'm going to be a bridge candidate one

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Speaker 4: term they primary. That is going to get my.

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Speaker 1: Uber great point as well. All right, why don't you

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Speaker 1: drop off and I'll wrap this up. Ryan's going to

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Speaker 1: be in a studio with me tomorrow. By Ryan then,

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Speaker 1: So in any cases we were saying, you know, if

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Speaker 1: they had had a true primary process, then there was

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to do this in actual democratic fashion. They

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Speaker 1: decided to not have any debates, They decided to not

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Speaker 1: even house a primary in many states. They decided to

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Speaker 1: really circle the wagon is to make sure that no

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Speaker 1: establishment candidate, you know, national competitor could emerge from that process.

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Speaker 1: And so now you're left with this very short time frame,

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Speaker 1: so I think it is very likely at this point

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Speaker 1: that you know, the wagons basically get circled around Kamala.

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Speaker 1: Ryan is probably correct that just as they decided to

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Speaker 1: take a pass in the fall after the midterms, any

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Speaker 1: also take a pass and decide it is in their

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Speaker 1: personal political self interest just to get behind Kamala. That's

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Speaker 1: probably what we're going to see. So in terms of

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Speaker 1: her odds for the fall, you know, I think probably

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Speaker 1: tomorrow Ryan and I are gonna have to totally reschedule

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Speaker 1: that looked very nice. But now obviously that's totally different

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Speaker 1: world that we're living in today. But I suspect we'll

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Speaker 1: go through the polling about how she matches up Visa v. Trump,

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Speaker 1: and look, she's got an uphill climb. You know, she's

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Speaker 1: starting the campaign late. Now they've sort of got the

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Speaker 1: run against Donald Trump. The public Larrety very much has

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Speaker 1: feelings about Donald Trump, and those feelings are largely negative. However,

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Speaker 1: she has been she has had her own weaknesses as

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Speaker 1: a national candidate. She is tied to the Biden Harris administration,

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Speaker 1: which is unpopular, not you know, solely because partly because

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Speaker 1: of the lies and the cover up in the betrayal

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Speaker 1: of American people Visavi his health condition. So she has

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Speaker 1: a lot to overcome. But you know, looking today, unless

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Speaker 1: there is a major organized like Dodor revolt Nancy Pelosi

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Speaker 1: at all coming out to not only push the president aside,

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Speaker 1: that he just endorsed, I think it's very likely that

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Speaker 1: that raises questions about who she will pick as her

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Speaker 1: vice president contender. There has been a lot of speculation

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Speaker 1: about this already. Roy Cooper, the governor of North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: He has been mentioned quite a bit. I'm sure there

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Speaker 1: some of these possible vice presidential picks. So some other

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Speaker 1: things for us to take a deeper look at tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But I'll just wrap it here from now. I got

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Speaker 1: a million thoughts. I could go on all day, but

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Speaker 1: I want to get this video posted so I can

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Speaker 1: get it out to you all too. Bottom line, Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden withdrawing from the presidential race, endorsing his vice president

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, and we are in unprecedented Times,