sandra: issues continue to drop in hollywood you may remember this moment when he attended the star-studded campaign fund-raiser in l.a. that raised $30 million and it was spearheaded by george clooney. john: and you will remember this moment from left that night when there was video of president obama guiding biden off stage. that video set off a social media firestorm of claims the president froze up on stage. the white house responded that this way. president obama, president biden have a relationship. they are friends. they are like family to each other. and i think that is what you saw. who saw the president put his hand on the back of presi president biden and they walked off the stage. sandra: that was then fast forward to today george clooney peeling back the curtain even more writing the biden he saw at the fund-raiser was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. hello and welcome everyone i am sandra smith in new york here we go, john. john: here we go
all so much for joining us. cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts right now a counterpunch as the president races to save his campaign. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby philip in new york and i want to get right to it tonight in just a few moments, the head of the congressional black caucus will join me live on his group s critical meeting with the president. just a short time ago but here is the backdrop that we face as a country, the president is now defiant. he s launching an all-out offensive as conversations in time and so far among democrats about replacing him over conversations about questions about his mental fitness now, today alone, he called into a morning show. he sent a letter to house democrats. he spoke with his donors. he chatted with black lawmakers. and biden s message is that he s not going anywhere he says that he s fine. there s nothing to see here. and he continues to insist that he is the only one who can beat donald trump. he s ev
bash in just a moment with what she s hearing from her sources. but first cnn s are led signs is live outside the white house tracking in all these breaking developments, it s really quite incredible. the split-screen arlette of a president digging in his heels and members of his own party telling him to step aside. yeah. pamela, you know, president biden when he was traveling today, it said that he does believe that the democratic party is behind him, but you are consistently seen the public and private pressure grow on president biden to step aside in this race. the latest coming from cnn reporting that during a call with house minority leader hakeem jeffries, this out afternoon, several top house democrats said that they do believe it is time for president biden to step aside sources have told cnn that there were about six of people who spoke up on this call say that they do not think that the president should be the democratic nominee. that includes people like adam smi
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joe biden has now caused and is now unable or unwilling to resolve. this weekend, the terrible news just kept coming and coming. first, after weeks after bragging about americans over rising anti-terror capabilities, the biden administration was forced to admit that last month s drone strike in kabul actually killed a humanitarian worker. ten civilians, seven children, and a zero terrorists. and after biden promoted covid-19 booster shots, for all americans over 16, his own fda refused to approve the shot and granting authorization to only high-risk individuals and people over 65. next up, biden bragged that america was once again respected in the world and on the world stage. france recalled their ambassador to the u.s. after getting shafted on a nuclear submarine deal. this is the first time in history that france ever recalled its ambassador to the u.s. and that is not all. the administration is also dealing with accusations of treason is leveled at the joint chiefs of sta