go four is in america thursday, july 4, x 70s dirt on cnn damage control, panic sweeps the democratic party as a top official shall scrambled to freeze the fallout from president biden s debate performance when you get knocked down, you get back in his down the ticket. two of the president its most prominent supporters, former house speaker nancy pelosi and congressman jim clyburn. our next and the path ahead, as calls grow for biden to step beside his campaign says that would cause chaos and give trump the win. we ll lawmakers agree, stay the course. sheila, our panel of experts is here too. discuss plus victory lap after a torrent of debate, falsehoods former president trump calls it a when we had a big victory. but did he convince any he swing voters, senator lindsey graham will be here hello i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is at an inflection point president joe biden is in camp david today for a long-planned family gathering. it comes as he faces
muesli.com slash tv i m zachary cohn and washington. and this is cnn hello, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom, analyse and camerota president biden is fundraising and red bank, new jersey tonight, he s trying to reassure some major donors who are reportedly rattled by his very shaky debate performance. the president hit some wealthy zip codes today. first, the hamptons and then this new jersey event hosted by governor phil murphy. many democrats are wrestling with the question of whether president biden should continue to stay in the race and if he can win in november, seeing a white house correspondent, arlette saenz joins us now. so our let, what is the president s saying to these donors and how are they responded? well alison president biden is once again trying to assure members of the democratic party the he is up for a second term as president. the president is about to speak any minute now at that fundraiser and red bank, new jersey, that s hosted by the state s
the source tonight, a fiery president biden says he s not going anywhere. as the new york times editorial board is calling on him to drop out of the race for the good of the country and the fallout tonight from donald trump s avalanche of lies last night firehose of false. so it s really aimed directly at. now, we ve learned more than 50 million viewers. i m kaitlin collins, and this is the source even at this. late hour tonight, president biden and his campaign are still scrambling, like they never have before. pull off what could be a mission impossible on ringing the alarm bells that are sounding within his own party. this after the president and the presumptive nominees disastrous performance in front of 50 million viewers last night, right here on cnn. if you re still processing what happened and what you saw, trust me so are we and president biden today was out on the campaign trail attempting to tamp down the panic among democrats i know i m not a young man. i don t
whether a change, how they plan to vote, plus, even with no supreme court decision yet on trump s claim of immunity for january 6. one supreme court ruling today will affect some january 6 defendants. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with this time magazine s new cover, which certainly speaks to the panic many democrats felt waking up this morning more than 51 million people watched last night cnn debate in atlanta, 51 million within moments of what they watched a halting performance by a fragile looking joe biden, seemingly unable to counter a torrent of lives by the former president. the calls began from within the democratic party to consider the possibility of him valium the race. today, there were also calls for the exact opposite chill the f out is how pennsylvania democratic senator john fetterman put it today now at the end of a traumatic night and day since the debate, both the chill out and freak out democrats have something to point to, because
it s got no problem other than it s his competence he is grossly incompetent. you know, they keep saying olds. i know people that are much older than him that are doing unbelievable things, making a fortune. i knew a man that it s 79. he was never a success and he made a billion, billion and a half dollars from 79 to 92 and that s what it is. it s not as age, it s his competence is not respected anywhere in the world. our country is being laughed at all over the world. biden is using the weaponization of his justice department, the fbi, local district attorney s that attorney please general, to try and win an election against his political opponent. that happens to be made, you know who i am something that actually was unthinkable in our nation. but which is very common in third world countries are in banana republics. that s what he s doing. he s using law enforcement to try and hurt his political opponent every one of those things last night, you saw that was all started by