WEBVTT - TOTAL Debate Disaster: Dems move to Replace Biden IMMEDIATELY 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:02.800 Total and utter disaster. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:09.640 Democrats now calling for replacing Joe Biden, calling an operation 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.440 Replace Sleepy Joe. Dems are now scrambling with just one 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.480 hundred and thirty days to go, and the White House 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.600 is trying to spend the worst performance in president's debate 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:25.319 history as quote, Joe has a cold. That's right, It's 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:30.480 just a cold, folks, coming from NBC News Biden Trump 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:35.280 twenty twenty four debate. Well, the President had a cold, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.640 but don't worry. Biden tested negative for COVID. Quote sources say. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.559 Two sources familiar with the situation confirming to see it 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.440 in or NBC News that President Joe Biden has a cold. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.640 Biden was a minister of COVID tests, which was negative. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:55.080 Three sources confirm. Yeh, that's why Biden sounded horse throughout 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.880 the debate. That is exactly how they're going to try 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.400 to spend this. So really it was totally fine to 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.040 see here, right, how bad was this debate? Democrats afterwards 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.360 coming out and the first person you heard from on CNN, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.679 John King, put it this way. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.560 It's into the debate and it continues right now. It 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:19.000 involves party strategists, it involves elected officials. It involves fundraisers, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.600 and they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.040 think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.800 down the party in the ticket, and they're having conversations 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.720 about what they should do about it. Some of those 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.880 conversations include should we go to the White House and 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.640 ask the president's step aside or other of the conversations 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.000 are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.840 because they feel this debate was so terrible. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.520 They do say in moments in the debate. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.880 Later the president got better and got his footing, but 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.680 then at the end, even his closing statement was a 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.720 little halting the contrast between the two candidates. Let me 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.919 be clear, none of them and a lot of Republicans 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.680 don't think Donald Trump had a great night. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.720 Donald Trump broke. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.639 The fact check machine more than I can count tonight. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.000 That will be on the record we go forward. He 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.040 refused to answer some very specific and direct questions about 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.480 his conduct about January. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.440 Sixth and what all, So that will be dealt with 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.720 out there. And sometimes there's a parallel. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.280 Universe between the political elites and the American people. Be 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.639 nice to see what the voters say, but I can. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:16.720 Tell you it started minutes in. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.920 It started with the first couple of answers, and it 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.240 has continued throughout the night from oh my god, Oh 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.040 my god, Oh my god, to what do we do 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.600 about this? And it involves very senior people in the 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.840 Democratic Party, including elected officials, saying we have a problem, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:29.160 and just. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.160 We have a problem. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.000 Joe Biden in one of those moments was this where 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.520 it looked like he blew a fuse on national TV. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.680 And yes, Democrats have been lying to telling you, oh, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.679 Joe Biden's fine. The White House, Saggie's as sharp as ever, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.280 runs circles around his staff in an entire week to 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.720 plan for this at Camp David. And this is the 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.320 Joe Biden that showed up, and they want you to 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.080 believe it was just because he had a cold. Listen 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:56.440 to this. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.040 Get sure that we continue to suppend in our healthcare system, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.119 making sure that we're able to make every single solitary 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.840 person are eligible for what I've been able to do 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.960 with the with the COVID, I excuse me, with dealing 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:20.240 with everything we have to do with Look if we 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.200 finally beat medicare. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.480 Thank you, President Bob Biden. President Trump, He's right. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.799 He did beat medicare, beat it to death. And he's 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.440 destroying medicare because all of these people are coming in, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.160 they're putting them on Medicare, They're putting them on social Security. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.800 They're going to destroy social Security. This man is going 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.000 to single handedly destroy social Security. These millions and millions 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.200 of people coming in, they're trying to put them on 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.120 Social Security. He will wipe out social Security. He will 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.200 wipe out Medicare. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.480 Now, if you want to debate, you know just how 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.600 bad that moment was. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.720 You know that it looked like a man who completely 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.680 lost his train of thought, didn't know where he was, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.840 didn't know what he was talking about, and then brought 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.520 up Medicare. Now, Donald Trump there could have gone after 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.880 him saying what are you doing? Do you even know 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.800 where you are? He didn't. He went in on Medicare 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.760 and used a smart line there. But there was also 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.760 another part in the debate, and it was a moment 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.719 when the slurring of the words and the cognitive decline 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.560 of Joe Biden was very evident to everyone watching. This 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.640 is the disaster that John King just mentioned, and listen 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.760 to how the President responded to this. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.560 Across the border illegally. That's better than when he left office. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.560 And I'm going to continue to move until we get 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.800 the total band on, the total initiative relative to what 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.200 we're gonna do with more border patrol and more a 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.120 cybum officers. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.120 I really don't know what he said at the end 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.960 of this, and I don't think he knows what he 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:57.440 said either. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.279 Look, I don't think he knows what he said either. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.560 It was a great way of handling it, and then 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.200 immediately the president moved on to the border, which is 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.440 exactly what he should have done, is to move on 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.120 very quickly from that and just be like, I don't 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.600 think he knows what he's saying, but he said it, 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.520 and the fact that he didn't harp on it, I 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.320 actually think was even more damning. See him in after 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.480 the debate and they were the host, right, so they're 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.599 losing their minds. Here is what Aaron Burnett had to 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.440 say on Joe Biden's debate. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.960 He goes through six days of preparation a campaign, and 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.920 they know the rules more than a week, okay, and 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.240 so more than a week they know the rules. He 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.720 practices with the mics. He knows every one of these 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.920 questions is coming, and yet he couldn't fill the time. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.480 Now that I just want to, let's see what the 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.080 White House is saying. Sourceus goes to the White House 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.840 are saying he had a cold, wasn't feeling well. I mean, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.040 as you expect, that came out early on in the debate. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.680 But what accounts for someone with so much experience, doing 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.120 so much preparation, and this. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.719 Thing the outcome honestly, the questor and answers itself, he 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.040 wasn't capable of doing any better than he did. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.560 Aaron Burnett, former colleague of mine when I was at CNN. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:08.799 She's angry. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:09.600 Do you hear that? 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.520 She's like, he goes through six days of preparation of 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.159 Camp David. They know the rules, he practices with the mics. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.360 He knows every one of these questions is coming, which 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.640 by the way, that screams like, well, will you guys 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.760 give him the questions? 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.280 And yet he couldn't fill the time. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.000 He couldn't fill the time on Social Security, they looked 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.600 like you got another like eighty two seconds, man, eighty 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.880 four seconds? Another question about African Americans, like you got 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:33.520 another minute? 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.560 You like you want to keep talking. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:41.640 Mister president, you can't fill two minutes of time about 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:49.760 two extremely important issues. How is that even possible? How 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.600 is it even possible that you can't fill the time. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.680 And yet here we are, and this is the conversation 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.400 that wasn't all that was said on CNN about this 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.720 as well? And again I'm playing CNN because they were 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.960 the host of debate and CNN is carrying water for 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:05.600 Joe Biden. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:06.840 Listen some of them. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.720 He said, he's the only president in a while who 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.800 didn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.640 Troops have, of course, died on his watch. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.880 He said, He's put in a fifteen dollars per shot 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.280 cap on insulin and Medicare. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.040 It's a thirty five dollars a month cap. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.240 He said, It's a two hundred dollars cap on overall 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.200 drug spending in Medicare. It's two thousand dollars a year. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.480 He said the border now has fewer crossings than when 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.960 Trump was in office. That's generally not true, he said, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.760 or at least strongly suggested. Unemployment was that fifteen percent 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.920 when he took office, it was actually six point four. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.880 He said, Trump's want Trump wants to get rid of 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.880 Social Security. Trump doesn't. He said, billionaires pay eight point 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:38.960 two percent in taxes. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:39.760 It's much higher. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.600 He said Trump told Americans to inject bleach amid COVID. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.680 We know Trump made foolish comments about scientists studying disinfectant injection, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.440 but didn't frame it as advice to people. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.840 And Biden said the Border Patrol endorsed him. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.920 No, it's union supported the border bill he'd supported, never 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.080 endorsed him himself. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:02.240 Again fact checking. This is CNN fact checking Joe Biden. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.600 I like rapture alert. Now it's not really a rapture alert. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.560 You need to understand why they're doing this. Okay, why 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.560 why this conversation's happening. It's because they want to replace him, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.040 and so now they have to do this to replace him. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.560 CNN watching it. I said this when I was watching 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.360 it right away with Cinder Cruz and and and one 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.119 of the things that I was as I was watching 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.360 it was like, this is like watching a funeral of 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:34.679 someone who's still alive. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:37.800 A great example of it was. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.080 This there there is no two ways about it. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.720 That was not a good debate for Joe Biden. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.160 Man. That was painful. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.240 I love Joe Biden. I worked for Joe Biden. He 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.280 didn't do well at all. He did not do well 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.840 at all, and he looked, Yeah, I'll give you the analysis. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.840 You kind of have the old man versus the con 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.760 and I can walk you through how I'm supposed to 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.120 see it and say it, but I'm just want to 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.200 speak from our heart. I love that guy as a 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.800 good man. He loves his country. He's doing the best 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.199 that he can. But he had a test to meet 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:20.160 tonight to restore confidence of the country and of the base, and. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:20.959 He failed to do that. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.920 And I think there's a lot of people who are 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.839 going to want to see him. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.440 Consider taking a different course. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.400 Now we're still far from our convention, and there is 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.360 time for this party to figure out a different way 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:35.839 for it, if you will allow us to do that. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.760 But that was not what we needed from Joe Biden. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.280 And it's personally painful for a lot of people. It's 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.080 not just panic, it's pain for what we saw at night. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.559 It's a funeral, y'all. Like this is a funeral. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:56.439 You're witnessing the Democratic Party saying we're going to throw 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.000 you out now. By the way, if you want to, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.600 you know who's thrilled tonight. It's got to be Gavin Newsom. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.800 Gavin Newsom was asked because he thinks he could be 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.520 the guy. Listen to Gavin Newsom quickly. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.480 Are you going to be the next Democratic nomineed? 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.720 No, we are nominee as Joe Biden. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.239 I'm looking forward to voting for him in November. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.000 He's going to be our num because. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.319 You know that everyone we're talking about you as a 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.160 possible nominia. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.720 Thanks, he said, Oh, I appreciate that. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.600 That is below the CNN debate headquarters tonight, this reporter 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.600 asking Gavin Newsom, are you going to be the next 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.360 Democratic nominee? That's his answer while he was glowing and 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:40.439 grinning from ear to ear. Let's also talk about America's 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.839 reaction to all this. Forget CNN for a second. What 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.400 did America say who won the debate? With debate watchers 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:53.640 and a CNN poll that was conducted tonight right after 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.000 the debate, their poll number says this, you ready, this 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:03.920 is unbelievable. Who won the first debate? Donald Trump sixty 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:12.120 seven percent, Joe Biden thirty three percent. Now there's thirty 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.520 three percent of the country that are hardcore Democrats they 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.120 talk to that we're not gonna admit that Donald Trump won. Right, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.000 they're partisan hacks. They're not going to ever admit that 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.840 Donald Trump won. And that's the way that thirty three 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.439 percent comes fromp the sixty seven percent of the public 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.160 that says Donald Trump won. That is the number that 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.520 everybody right now should in fact be talking about, because 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:38.760 this number is truly incredible. Scott Jennings over at CNN 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.200 also when he was asked about this, like how bad 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:42.560 this is? 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.000 Listen told for weeks weeks by Democrats who say, oh, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.920 in private meetings, I've seen Joe Biden do cartwheels and 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.920 handstands while doing trigonometry while solving all the nation's problems. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.959 We now know that every single person who said that 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.480 has been lying to the America people. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.480 There are a lot of Democrats who've been lying to 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.080 each and every one of us. It's a point that 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.520 I said during the debate with Center Cruz, and you're 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.000 gonna hear that our conversation in a moment. But this 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.560 is a everybody that went on stage, okay, everybody that 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.839 went on TV, everybody that went out there defending Joe 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.320 Biden until tonight when clearly the lights were out, nobody 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.560 was home, and Joe Biden's head, they were all lying 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.920 to you like, oh, he's in great and everything's wonderful, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.959 everything's amazing, and look, you can't like, you can't tell 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.320 people that what they saw tonight was not what they 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.719 saw tonight, like they saw a man that was completely lost. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.400 And that's the reason why in that moment, I think, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.240 I really do. I think the point of the night 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.400 that was the biggest line of all that won Joe 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.920 Biden a seat to the exit ramp of the Democratic 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.560 Party and one Donald Trump. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.280 The entire night was this moment. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.160 Continue to move until we get the total ban on 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.280 the total initiative relative to what we're gonna do with 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.800 more border patrol and more a cybum officers. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.520 President Trump, I really don't know what he said at 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.440 the end of this, and I don't think he knows 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.200 what he said either. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.040 I don't think he knows what he said either. And 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:21.960 did you notice that he didn't fight back? 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:23.679 Right? 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.840 Did you notice what was said? He didn't fight back. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.840 Quaeren mccaskell hardcore Lefty On with Rachel Maddout a night 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.840 on MSNBC for their coverage. Listen to what she said. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.240 Well, first, the easy part, Donald Trump is a liar, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:50.560 a flawed character, mean, a jerk, very unlikable, and that 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:56.200 was obvious tonight. Now the horn and heartbreaking part. I 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.720 have been a surrogate for some presidential candidates in my time. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.920 I know what the job is after a debate of 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.480 a surrogate. I've never wanted to be a surrogate more 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.680 than I do right now, because when you're a surrogate 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.920 you have to focus on the positives. But I have 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.400 said very clearly and very plainly on this network, and 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.840 my job now is to be really honest. Joe Biden 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.640 had one thing he had to do tonight and he 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.239 didn't do it. He had one thing he had to accomplish, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.000 and that was reassure America that he was up to 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.800 the job at his age, and he failed at that tonight. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:44.280 Now does that mean that my phone blowing up with 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.480 senators and campaign operatives and donors, big donors from all 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.480 over the country. Does that mean that Joe Biden is 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.080 not going to be the candidate? I don't know that. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.760 I think we'll know a lot more in a few 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.520 weeks how this plays out, how the polling plays out. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.120 But I think a couple of things are going on 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.840 right now. I think I'm not the only one whose 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.400 heart is breaking right now. There's a lot of people 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:17.440 who watch this tonight and felt terribly for Joe Biden. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.600 And you know, you have to ask, how did. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:22.000 We get here? 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.480 How do we get to the point that we're spending 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.000 a whole lot of time talking about the vice president 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:32.160 tonight instead of talking about the president. And I don't 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.160 know how the rest of this story is written. I 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.680 don't know if things can be done to fix this. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.880 They might, and you know, Trump is so terrible that 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:49.520 this might heal itself. But based on what I'm hearing 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.400 from a lot of people, and some of them are 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.680 people that are in high elective offices in this country, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.720 and you might guess where they serve, there is a 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.480 lot of more than hand ringing tonight. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.920 I did more than hand ringing. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.320 She's either referring to Chuck Shimmer and Kama Harris are 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.840 both folks. She's making it clear in the statement she 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.200 just made. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.360 And again, who won the debate? 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.960 Seeing it on TV, having to tell you, yes, Donald 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.840 Trump beat the crap out of Joe Biden. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:22.880 Who won the debate? 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.880 We asked debate watchers in our instant poll and the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.720 answer is a resounding Donald Trump did. Sixty seven percent 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.520 of debate watchers in our poll say Donald Trump won 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.200 the debate tonight. Joe Biden thirty three percent say he 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.240 won the debate tonight. Now, this group of debate watchers, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.840 they told us who they thought would win the debate 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.880 going into it, before the debate, and take a look 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.800 at how that changed over time. Fifty five percent thought 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:53.400 before the debate that Donald Trump would win the debate. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.600 Forty five percent thought Joe Biden would win the debate. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.880 There is no way to get out of what everyone 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:06.800 just witnessed tonight. There's no way to get around just 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.280 how bad this is. Joe bat Biden. You can you 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:16.200 can say all you want. Okay, you can. You can 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.760 say all that you want that he had a cold. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.440 And by the way, the first lady looking at Joe Biden, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.360 this is what they said. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.560 They're after party. It's just listen to this. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.960 Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:37.760 Can you know, let me ask the crowd. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.200 What did Trump do? 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.640 Maybe she's going to be the candidate now Joe Biden's 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.720 out there at their party there after party in Atlanta, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.359 and you've got the first lady who's saying, you answered 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.080 every question, you knew the facts, and what did what 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:57.919 did Donald Trump do? 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:58.520 He lied? 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.280 I mean, there's there in a room not realizing they're 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.639 at a funeral. They're at a funeral for him, Like 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.000 that's it, Chuck. By the way, Chuck Todd at NBC 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.240 News describing it this way, even though they're saying on 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.840 stage right now, oh no, everything's fine. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:17.240 You know. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.359 One of the things was, would either candidate look like 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.760 the caricature that the other campaign has been trying to 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.600 paint of him? And at the end of the day, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.879 Joe Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.080 been painting. And there were no clips tonight, right this 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.160 was you saw it before your eyes. Look, I don't 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.320 want to just tell you what I think here, Tom. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.560 I've been talking to a lot of leaders in the 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:48.520 Democratic Party, elected coalition leaders. There's a full on panic 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.160 about this performance, not like, oh, this is recoverable. It 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.720 is more of a okay, he's got a step aside. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.159 There's a lot of that chatter. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.400 This is about as bad. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.200 Of a performance in order to do that, Biden could 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:07.639 have delivered. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.000 If his goal was. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.680 To try to sort of calm the waters among Democrats. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:14.119 I mean, look the. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:20.080 This is chick tod saying this at MSNBC Mark Levin, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.520 who's a dear friend of mine and a mentor. He said, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.879 think of all the public people who've intentionally lied to 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.399 the American people. Think of all the public people, all 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.760 the elected officials, everybody around the president who just straight 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.840 up lied to you and told you that this guy 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.480 was in great shape. Who's running the country. That's the 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:49.520 other question, like who is running the country? Who's running 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.760 the country. I want to bring in Senator Ted Cruz. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.560 We did an instant response to this, and I want 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.639 you to hear our conversation. 0:19:58.520 --> 0:19:58.879 Center. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.240 I want to get to some of the highlights. But 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.480 even before we get to the debate, I think the 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:10.120 most shocking part is what happened directly after the debate. 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.120 This was the first thing that America heard on CNN, 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:15.479 the host of the debate. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.520 It's into the debate and it continues right now. It 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.960 involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers, 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.520 and they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.000 think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.760 down the party in the ticket, and they're having conversations 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:33.000 about what they should do about it. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:34.960 Some of those conversations include. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.119 Should we go to the White House and ask the 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.000 president's step aside? Or other of the conversations are about 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.919 should prominent Democrats go public with that call because they 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.800 feel this debate was so terrible. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.440 They do say in moments in the debate. 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.800 Later the president got better and got his footing, but 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:52.639 then at the end, even his closing statement was a 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.680 little halting the contrast between the two candidates. Let me 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:57.879 be clear, none of them and a lot of Republicans 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:00.520 don't think Donald Trump had a great night. Trump broke 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.560 the fact check machine more than I can count tonight. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:04.679 That will be on the record as we go forward. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.720