Sure that he and his campaign have the democratic party behind him because there have been multiple questions over the last several days of whether or not he is a viable candidate for this election year. Now, while that campaign blitz was ongoing, president was working the phones. We know he had one meeting already with progressive lawmakers and another call is currently ongoing where he is listening to what they have to say and what concerns they may harbor about him going forward and going up against former president donald trump. Of course, this comes after he was in michigan yesterday hey, also very important state for him and trying to convince voters and target former president donald trump, drawing the stark contrast between him and his record. But perhaps the clearest indicator of just how difficult the last few days have been came from vice president kamala harris during her rally earlier this afternoon we always knew this election would be tough the past few days have been a
You see something like that? all of these things mean that the europeans have to take more responsibility for their own defense on themselves and they re worried about that i m kim, it s great to see you. General as always. Thank you so much. And new hour of cnn, new central starts now with brand new polling that shows a majority of his own supporters want him to drop out. Can president biden saved his campaign? with a press conference today? dangerous and deadly heat in texas temperature soaring with more than 1 million people without power. And this is four days after hurricane beryl hit and dartmouth under investigation for an alleged hazing incident after a student was found dead? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. This is cnn news central happening right now, president biden s fight to stay in the 2024 race and disproved democratic doubters comes to a head today with press conference. This evening, his first since the cnn debate, the exact unscripted type event tha
Tausche at the white house. And this is cnn a public and private battle among democrats that s over the fate of president biden behind closed doors. The biden campaign making its case to democrats as they weigh their support for him. While out in the open were finally hearing from the top democrat in the house. And on the biggest stage possible, we re just hours away from hearing from biden directly luckily in a news conference the fate of president biden is hanging over this critical nato summit, the 75th anniversary of the alliance in washington. World leaders grilled hold about his political future as they negotiate over how to support ukraine and its fight against russia. We are expecting to hear from biden this hour as he meets with ukraine s president and a first since the pandemic prices are actually falling, it s a big boost to american consumers and potentially a political gift to president biden we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right
He president is going to take or what exactly the questions are going to be. But i certainly expect that the age of his issue and his fitness to serve another four years is going to be a key theme and sort of regardless of what exactly the questions are that are asked to the president, this is his opportunity to really prove to everyone that is watching his theory of the case and particularly why he believes that it needs he needs to be him. That is at the top of the democratic ticket. Now our level of suspicion or contrary views. They call everyone and they beat the out of them and they say, stay on message, not obviously, that is a really heated quote, but we re highlighting it because it does just get at the level of anger that we have heard from so many democrats across the party. All right. Mj lee, thanks so much. Let s bring in our panel in on that note i want to share something with you all that a longtime biden adviser, just texted me. Okay. It s his we seem to know a lot about
Breaking news, we re awaiting a highstakes news conference. By president biden. This hour as he s facing intensifying pressure right now to exit the race for the white house. Anxious democrats and the world watching very closely to see how the president does today. More and more members of his own party now going public with their fears that president biden no longer has what it takes to defeat donald trump welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i m wolf blitzer. You re in the situation room the skis cnn breaking news. And let s get right to the breaking news this hour, a pivotal moment president biden s flight for political survival. We re standing by for the president s first extended solo news conference since his poor debate performance two weeks ago, thrust his reelection campaign into crisis. You re going to see it live, of course, right here on cnn, our cnn senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche, she is attending the news conference over a