imprint.com for certain well, welcome to all you watching us here in the states, canada, and all around the world. >> i'm kimberly, who bird this? his cnn newsroom, wall calls today for president joe biden to step away from the 2024 race how he's reassuring top donors that he's up for the task. first major hurricane of the 2024 season is churning in the atlantic where hurricane beryl is expected to go next. and thousands protests in israel is a former more hostage speaks out about her ordeal details plus how the united states is getting involved in the latest ceasefire efforts live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber after spending time at camp david to prepare for the debate, joe biden is now at the presidential retreat to spend time with his family following his poor performance. but there's no getting away from the calls for him to end his canon campaign. and those calls just got a bit louder. sources tell cnn that the family gathering isn't aimed at making a decision on that. the white house says this was a long-planned family event expected to include a photo shoot still we're told the topic of just how badly the debate went is expected to come up. and these are the people who more than anyone holds significant influence over such decisions. biden and vice president kamala harris spent part of saturday trying to reassure donors that he is still the best candidate for the democratic party fundraiser saturday, biden told those gathered that he'll fight harder despite new calls for him to exit the presidential race. the largest newspaper here in the battleground, state of georgia is the latest a call for biden to drop out of a look, the atlanta journal constitution editorial board wrote, if he displays the courage and dignity than have defined his political career, you might follow in the footsteps of the nation's first president. and welcome his retirement secure in the knowledge, he again served this country with honore cnn's arlette saenz has more on the presence latest efforts to put the debate behind him president biden sought to reassure inke says donors after his debate performance, telling a group at a new jersey fundraiser, the he's ready to fight harder in this campaign, the president spent saturday with the first lady attended been three fundraisers in the hamptons in new jersey at each of those events, he acknowledged his poor debate performance, but try to assure donors that his candidacy remains on track. >> it comes as biden's advisers have fielded phone calls from anxious democrats and donors concerned about the state of the race and what it could mean to keep biden at the top of the demo chronic ticket after that debate, performance sources tell cnn that democrats are conducting polling and research over the weekend and early into next week to try to gauge the exact impact that debate will have on this reelection bid. they said they're not just looking at biden's reelection bid, but also how house and senate democrats who are in competitive races says could be affected as well. now the biden campaign so far has doubled down on the fact that president biden is remaining in the 2024 race. they say that he intends to debate donald trump in september and a memo from the biden campaign's chair jen o'malley, dillon said that they believed that this will be a very close race, but do believe that their team we'll put in the work to help joe biden beat donald trump in november. now president biden is going to spend saturday at camp david with the first lady and other members of their family all at a time when many questions are swirling about what could come next for biden in this campaign are let signs, cnn traveling with the president in new york joining us now from lancaster, england is richard johnson. he's a lecturer in u.s. baltics at queen mary university of london. thanks so much for being here with us. so we just heard some measured views there, but it's impossible to ignore the growing sense of panic among democrats strategists are racing around conducting new polls. the presence, meeting with his family this weekend. do we do you expect them to make any big announcement that perhaps he will step aside i mean the. timetable i've been hearing is he's got a week to prove himself and the important date to keep in mind is the convention. beginning on the 19th of august. and you have at the moment you're biden is not the democratic nominee. that will be a choice made by the convention the convention consists of about 4,000 delegates. now, joe biden has 99% of those delegates are pledged to joe biden. the rules of the democratic party say that those delegates should vote in good conscience for the candidate that they have pledged to vote for. but they don't actually have to vote for biden. that was a rule that was changed in the 1980s after ted kennedy's challenge of jimmy carter. it's called the robot rural by critics who said you just have to robotically vote for who you are pledged to vote for. so there is some room for biden's own delegates to vote against him, but i think it's unlikely that they would vote against him and so the question really then is a much more closer question, much more proximate question, which is, would joe biden? himself. pull back. and in effect, open up the process for a replacement exactly right. and if he were to i mean looking at some of the editorials written one on one of the many blows was that new york times editorial and in it they wrote, there are democratic leaders better equipped? crypts are present clear, compelling, and energetic alternatives to a second trump presidency. but is that true? i mean, one of the problems is the lack of a clear successor. normally it would be the vice president, but as has been pointed out many times, her numbers are actually worse than the precedents that i think is exactly the problem that has been the problem all along. i think dubai, there was a chance that joe biden might have been voluntarily a one-term president. he ran for president 2020, saying that he'd be abridged the future when he selected kamala harris four years ago as his vice presidential nominee, many people thought that in effect he was going to prepare her to be his successor. but from the start of his presidency doubts emerged about her ability to connect with the electorate. perceptions of her competence and so on some fast, some not so fat. and i think joe biden and effect decided at some point during his presidency that kamala harris would not be a strong candidate against donald trump and that the termination really i think meant that he had to run through election because biden couldn't say, i'm not going to run for reelection, but i also don't have confidence in my vice president to succeed me as the nominee and that is i think still his problem right now is i think probably the biggest barrier to him pulling back is his lack of confidence and kamala harris. but then if there's a groundswell for somebody else, let's say if they were to i guess leap frog her metaphorically, there would there be a danger of alienating certain groups of voters and the party essentially tearing itself apart exactly. so then, so then the problem becomes okay, well, in theory, biden could say actually i want us to have a fully open convention. i released my delegates. i want them to listen to the speeches. perhaps we'll have some cnn debates in the next few weeks between potential candidates might delegates can listen to those debates. the problem with that is that kamala harris we'll have a strong following within the party, maybe not enough to win the nomination. and her supporters will fail, will fuel to a certain extent, rightly aggrieved that the person who selected her to be the next in line for the presidency right now, doesn't feel comfortable saying that i think she should be the next president in january of next year. and then the risks for the democrats becomes depressed. turnout in november. and this is an all hands on deck election. the democrats need everyone all of their supporters to turn out they don't have the luxury of key constituencies staying home. or having lethargic turnout in november. and that i think is the risk of a messy nomination contest levs, i listed all of the left-leaning media that are calling for present bind to stand down after that debate. but we haven't seen the same mobilization by the right wing you know, basically calling for donald trump to stand down after, after he was convicted. i mean the double standards seems particularly acute here. the certainly is a double standard and you can look at, we can maybe go back to say 2016, actually, when the access hollywood tape came out and trump spoken pauling ways about treating women there were calls at that time for trump to stand down. i think if you look back at the media commentary around that time, people effectively thought trump would be, would be toast in the election. trump's inner circle told him to just plow on, to ignore it the fundamentals of the election were what mattered more and in that sense, they were vindicated i think the republicans took a certain lesson from that. and i wonder if the biden in a circle, will take a similar lesson. obviously it's a very different set of circumstances, but the biden campaign might, might basically say, look what really matters is the fundamentals of the election the economy back that you have been the president. people know you can be president because you are the president at the moment and i think there is a chance that biden does pull through. i'm not saying it's the right decision for november, but i think that there will be strong voices who might even look at the trump example and say, you can weather this storm and still win healey, a fascinating, a window of decision as you spoke up there, as we see what happens, richard johnson. thank you so much for urinalysis really appreciate it. >> thank you now, despite my last question there, joe biden, isn't the only one being asked to drop out of the presidential race. >> the philadelphia inquirers editorial board says donald trump is the candidate who should end his campaign. the board says the debate was a reminder of what another four years of trump would look like, quote, more lies and hate the board does acknowledge that president biden had a bad night, but says biden and his worst is still, quote, light-years better than trump as best voters across france are heading to the polls for high-stakes snap parliamentary elections. there will be two rounds of voting. first, today, and the second round will be held on july 7th. present in my no qualms party is facing challenges from both the country's far-right and a left-wing coalition. my colon called the vote after his centrist aligned lance was defeated by the far-right in european parliament elections earlier this month several caribbean nations, including barbados and grenada, are bracing for impact as beryl, the first hurricane of this year's atlantic season is expected to move across the windward islands late sunday night is now located north of french guy vanna and is getting stronger. the u.s national hurricane center forecasts beryl could bring life threatening winds and storm surge as a major hurricane record, warm ocean temperatures are to blame for the unseasonably early tropical system. and experts warn beryl is just the first of what could be more than a dozen hurricanes to come during this hype practice, atlantic season, warmer waters aren't the only breeding ground for more tropical systems and hurricanes. they can also lead to deadlier storms through a process called rapid intensification. cnn meteorologist chad myers explains why the phenomenon is so dangerous we know is going to be rough, but i wouldn't expect it all house flooded. >> it just started going deeper and deeper. and my time we were walking out, we were mid thigh those who have lived through hurricane that has undergone rapid intensification are often shocked by its speed and strength. rapid intensification is when a storm's maximum sustained wind speed increases by 35 miles per hour in 24 hours or less. and it could be a significant part of the 2024 hurricane season with both record warm ocean temperatures and developing, lead mean, yeah, it means essentially that one day you can look at a storm. it could be a tropical storm, maybe a category one hurricane when you wake up next morning and it's up to category four or five for the strongest hurricanes that have ever hit the united states, the high-end category four is a category five, were all tropical storms or less three days before landfall? one example of dramatic rapid intensification, hurricane ian in 2022, which took more than 100 lives across florida and the southeast i've been here since 1965 and this is the worst hurricane that i've ever been through. >> i was working at midnight shift when i 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about one 120 hostages who are still in captivity. now on the diplomatic front, washington has proposed a new language in the stalled ceasefire plan for gaza, according to a senior us official, while on the front lines, tensions on israel's border with lebanon are escalating war with words with iran. elie gucken joins me now with more from london's so first elliott on the ceasefire talks, any reason for optimism around these new efforts? >> i wish they work in, but look, we've had a month now since president biden made that announcement of this new ceasefire proposal, which he said israel had signed off on. you've had the americans pressuring the egyptian and qatari mediators it has to put pressure on hamas to accept the deal. and yet despite all of that in the passage of that past month, there hasn't been any breakthrough. now, as we understand from a senior us administration official, they are trying to tweak some of the wording to bridge the gaps between israel and hamas but we 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