atlanta and hey, don t miss an all new episode of violent earth hurricanes tomorrow night at nine eastern emphasis right here on cnn. another hour of cnn this morning starts right now good morning welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 29. i m victor blackwell and i m isabel resolve this in for amara walker. thank you for joining us this morning. then just a little bit busy week around here. well, here, catching up on are red? all right, well, president biden is back on the campaign trail today. he is in new york for several campaign appearances this morning and will make stops in new jersey this afternoon. his team is scrambling to do damage control after a op-ed from the new york times editorial board, the board join the chorus of voices calling on biden to step aside after his performance in thursday s cnn presidential debate and the op-ed, the board said dropping out would be the greatest public service he could now perform but in a friday rally, the presid
i think there are bigger issues in this country that need to be addressed. as you can see, a lot of different opinions tonight and reaction to this debate that was happening, a really consequential moment. i m in a swing state with so many voters who know what the stakes are so what now the next few hours, we ll we will be crucial in the political future of joseph robinett biden, if there is a future and actually that s not hyperbole after the historic cnn debate, luck as tonight, one which has democrats so nervous, one told our friend kasie hunt, quote, we are eft. now so far, no elected democrats that we know ab have publicly asked for buying this step aside, but prominent supporters, including columns as thomas friedman, they are out there saying, quote, i cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in american presidential campaign politics in my lifetime precisely because of what it revealed, joe biden, a good man and a good president has no business running for re
washington. we begin this hour with the breaking news. president biden s advisers are rejecting calls for the presumptive democratic nominee able crumbled last night. now the question is whether biden can rebuild it and 81-year-old president stumbled and stammered through much of the primetime debate on cnn. all you have to do is read some of these headlines to see how his performance has raised serious new doubts if he can remain the democrats nominee biden is toast red one fumbling performance and time to go joe to name a few the top democrat in the house says biden should not step down in an adviser tells cnn that the president plans to debate. again in september, but make no mistake last night was filled with cringeworthy moments it d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for when i ve b
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
the oval office. but history may not be our best guy. i d here of course, the politics now are far more vitriolic and rough and tumble, but president biden has been practicing at camp david, the presidential retreat outside washington engine for this very reason, there s no american politician alive who is debated as often he knows well that first term presidential curse. that s why even tonight, he s still practicing with his aides jeff zeleny. thanks. the news continues right here on cnn and outfront next to a special edition lie from cnn s debate headquarters in atlanta, breaking news tonight on biden strategy, a technique that insider for say a said biden s favorability, quote, off the charts. this as questions swirl over whether trump will announce his bp as early as tomorrow. has a real-time demonstrate patient of what will happen when one candidate tries to interrupt the other. the question everyone has that and everything else you need to know about the debate rules