it will be president biden or bust, top democrats say they don t have the plan b to replace the president at the top of the ticket at this point. voters for months now have been giving him terrible marks on top issues and expressing grave concerns over his age, fitness for office, foreign policy, economy, you name it. the list is ugly for him. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. those top democrats sounding totally dismissive of the idea of abb, anybody but biden. we aren t going to have plan b. it s plan a, joe biden. this is palace intrigue. you don t think there is a risk to putting your eggs in one basket. he is our president and we have a nominee. nobody has a plan b. he is the president. i expect him to be the nominee and win. the oldest president ever. did ronald reagan have a plan b? i don t think that s how elections happen. harris: that is at the lack of a plan b could be driving the party to kill any competition to the president is
coming up this hour, home free. the emotional homecoming as the first group of hostages released by hamas are united with loved ones. a second set of hostages is expected to be released any moment now. we will have a live report of what is happening in the region and whether this fragile truce between israel and hamas can continue to hold. shock and awful. congress prepares to return next week, and nearly reach revealed interview highlights the extreme and shocking views of knew how speaker, mike johnson. even comparing abortion to an american holocaust. we ll have more on that in his mar-a-lago meeting with donald trump. later, sounding the alarm. a call for conservative leaders to stand up for donald trump s assault on the constitution. judge michael bedyk joins me live to a new legal movement to counter the danger of a second trump presidency. all of that and more is coming up. any moment now we are expecting news of yet another release of hostages by hamas in exchange for
that looks like a real blunder. and a cabinet minister said to me, you ve got a $100 million bill lying on the floor and you don t pick it up. so it s notjust the mistake, it s also the lost opportunity of the mistake. and laura, last night when we did newscast, you mentioned that text you d had about somebody saying, this is just the worst operation ever. and as i was going to bed last night, i was like, i wish i d asked laura more about that, because that s an amazing quote. not to get you to reveal your sources, but what sort of people are messaging you with that stuff now? is this, like, candidates? is this, like, former friends of rishi sunak? i think it s what. the sense i have, henry, and i don t know if you would agree with this, is that what is happening now, it seems to me almost every day, the group of people who are still really putting their shoulder to the wheel in this campaign is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. and there are more people, including
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