in decades whether or not biden still should be at the time top of the ticket, whether or not he can continue to lead the nation. a question illuminated at lead last week, cnn presidential debate for years, biden his push back on that question consensus distantly answering in two words, he would say, quote, watch me. here he is in september 2022 ask whether you who are fit for the job. and when you hear that i wonder what you think let s take that and it s all my watch me. if you think i don t have the energy level mental acuity then then, you know, that s one thing another thing watching and keep my schedule just one month after that. i asked the president to respond to american voters who frankly admin watching whenever anyone raises concerns about your age you oldest president in the history of the united states, you always say, watch me. voters happened, watching you democratic voters approve of the job you re doing. democratic voters overwhelmingly like you but one poll
with manu raju starts right now. thank you digging in. when you get knocked down, you get back out president faces calls to drop out. i know i m not a young man his democrats, he s tough questions. if you think there should be a new candidate while trump masks in the fall lot did anybody last night watch a thing called the debate in repeats falsehoods to pollsters help us break down the aftermath plus supreme suspense of major decision looms you have to have a guaranteed immunity for president. otherwise have president is not going to they able to function while each trump ally reddy s for prison inside politics. best reporting from inside the corridors of power starts now good morning. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m manu raju, president joe biden and his team spent the weekend in a full-blown efforts to contain the damage to his candidacy from thursday s cnn debate, performance. many in his own party called disastrous as they fear could lead to a donald trump vic
i m just happy to be here. my good black job. we ll get into that in a bit from the debate, but think about this that for czar riff on black jobs and hispanic jobs 20 years ago, really might have been the consequential moment of the debate it wasn t this week. and we did expect former president trump to lie. that s what he does at every debated rally and interview by cnn s count, he said more than 30 things that are not true during that debate. president biden, nine false claims in lives. and even after facing a twice-impeached former president convicted felon, its president biden, who s having to make clear that he will stay in the race. our colleagues govern the white house and campaign report advisers have been calling democratic members of congress, donors, other key supporters to reassure them, post the bake, their message essentially, do not panic. the president can still do the job. there is still a long way to go until the election. the president biden s certainly has
yesterday, manhattan, it s what we ll continue to talk about every day until the first debate and atlanta. but michael real quick that trump campaigns suggests that they think it s blown up in your face and in the movie you guys made yesterday saying that it proves the case that they ve been trying to make the whole time that politics is motivating the case. jason miller said after months of st. politics thanks, had nothing to do with this trial. they showed up and made a campaign event out of lower out of a lower manhattan trial for president trump. did this backfire on you no, not at all we re not talking about the trial. we re talking about the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. his embrace of political violence, that he does every single day, whether he s outside the courthouse there in manhattan or he s down to mar-a-lago or he s shouting into an echo chamber on truth, social. that s what we were talking about with robert de niro and officers for know
he s boasting about the fact that he that he canceled roe v. wade. i think joining us thank you to our viewers. thanks very much for watching our special coverage of debate night in america continues right here, right now on cnn with anderson cooper and erin burnett good evening from cnn headquarters in atlanta. we re just two hours from now. history will be made joe biden and donald trump s squaring off on the stage. we are showing you in the earliest ever presidential debate, the first ever between the president and ex-president the first in which one of the candidates is also convicted felon awaiting three other criminal trials and so much sets this debate apart from others, including rules tailored just for this occasion in and agreed to by both candidates. but there are so many unknowns about what will happen tonight. anderson, can president biden overcome the difficulties that so many incumbent presidents have faced in their first debates, can donald trump do what