your money s good, you feel good the number one want to win earth with leah primer sunday at nine on cnn the first presidential debate of 2024 is in the books and at this writing, it s likely to be remembered as the defining moment of the race good morning, everyone. cnn this morning is live in atlanta. it is 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us to stakes last night, we re extraordinarily high and in the eyes of many democrats, their candidate failed to meet the moment he failed to prove that he has the ability to lead for four more years. they say because of moments like this thank you. sure. that we re able to make every single time person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with if we finally beat medicare president s performance marred by a frequently inaudible voice and several instances where he struggled, seems to struggle to complete a thought or
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
their record now on the subject of pennsylvania, just moments ago, we spoke to the governor of that commonwealth, josh shapiro. listen to what he told us here s the bottom line joe biden had a bad debate night, but donald trump was a bad president. i think we have a responsibility right now to ask ourselves what kind of nation? we want it be. i think the answer is clear on that, and then we got to stop worrying and start working. right? a lot of questions for the biden campaign. let s get right on the ground where president biden is today in raleigh, north carolina. that s where cnn senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche is. what are you hearing from the biden team? kayla will john the biden team as of this moment, plans to pack up what few wins they had on the debate stage last night, you ve already seen some of those packaged and posted on social media and to move on and focus on what s coming down the pike. there are no plans. i m told for the president to dro
washington. we begin this hour with the breaking news. president biden s advisers are rejecting calls for the presumptive democratic nominee able crumbled last night. now the question is whether biden can rebuild it and 81-year-old president stumbled and stammered through much of the primetime debate on cnn. all you have to do is read some of these headlines to see how his performance has raised serious new doubts if he can remain the democrats nominee biden is toast red one fumbling performance and time to go joe to name a few the top democrat in the house says biden should not step down in an adviser tells cnn that the president plans to debate. again in september, but make no mistake last night was filled with cringeworthy moments it d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for when i ve b
trump s conduct in on january 6, related to january 6 is fundamentally different to that of someone who just simply showed up to the capital engaged in violence and an obstructed the proceeding in that way, there are many pieces of evidence that they can use to tie donald trump s alleged conspiracy back to documents or to the effort to essentially delay the proceedings to obstruct them in process, all that sort of stuff. so i think there are many arguments let me made to leave those charges in, but it will require really changing the sort of evidence that they think about putting in front of the jury. so bottom line is basically a variant encouraging good day for donald trump. no question. donald trump benefits from this, from this ruling, even if it s just in the context of creating numerous issues for him to challenge the indictment, to challenge the charges before this case ever goes on in the process, delay any criminal we ll trials, which is what he s trying to do. r