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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
to give that it s so interesting, it s always great to have you here. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you. and thank you all so much for joining us today. i m kate bolduan. have a great weekend ac30 60 starts now tonight on 360, the day after the debate, disaster, very different. joe biden shows up on the campaign trail, is democrats agonize over his debate performance? and then your times editorial board says biden should drop out also tonight would voters in the host state and swing-state georgia took from the debate the weather 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 we re six 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,
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
cnn is going to have special coverage of that immunity ruling. reading it live to you from outside the supreme court, what that decision is, i ll be there starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on monday. so make sure join us. thank you for joining tonight. seen a news night with abby. phillip starts now could joe biden be replaced? that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york today. uh, north carolina crowd saw a very different joe biden. but it will do pretty much nothing to contain the active and ongoing serious discussions that are happening inside the democratic party right now about the potential for another nominee? this afternoon. biden looked and sounded every bit what he did not look like last night, coherent energized, different in almost every measurable way. yes. he did have a teleprompter. but if americans were watching, they watched the joe biden that they saw at the state of the union diseases i used to. i don t speak as smoothly that i u