announcing he s dropping out of the race. god must have spoken because he said the only thing that was going to make him bow out was the great almighty. how did joe biden tell the world he wasn t running for reelection? he wrote us a letter. he said, i believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. the guy who got more votes than anybody in american history is leaving after one term. why is it in the best interest of your country for you to leave? joe well, we know the answer, but why don t you tell us? is it because the last four years have been a disaster? is it because you re mentally unfit? or is it because you were pushed out in a bloodless coup? i want to hear him say it. because if later in the week, he says i m not running because i can t win, that s not how we do things. democrats don t get to push candidates through the primary. millions of ame
dash.com right now and see how much you can save i m lauren fox on capitol hill are there? thanks for joining me. i m alex marquardt in today for fredricka whitfield, a defiant president joe biden is pressing ahead with his plans to return to the campaign trail. as early as next week, despite growing calls for him to end his reelection bid. now the president has come down with covid and is recovering from that. in the meantime 35 democratic lawmakers are now publicly urging him to step aside with the latest announcement coming in the past few hours, but biden is vowing to stay in the race and a source says that he is quote seething at the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, since some of her close allies in congress are joining in the calls for him to drop out cnn s priscilla alvarez is with the president in rehoboth beach, delaware. so priscilla, we ve also just gotten an update from the president s doctor on his condition after coming down with covid, what did that update s
jessie says hello, everyone. i am jesse watters. it is 4:00 in milwaukee and this is the five live. the republican party uniting like never before, three days after a would-be assassin tried to take him out. president trump sporting a bandage and getting a rock star welcome at the rnc. compare the love and unity to the backstabbing that is the democratic party. joe biden lecturing americans to lower the temperature unheated political rhetoric after the attempt on trump s life but does this sound tone down? so much violence now. we talk about it, i got in this race early on, i wasn t going to run again because i lost my son, and until i watched what happened in virginia. folks were coming out of the woods with torches, carrying swastikas. the then president at the time said there were very fine people on both sides. no excuse. zero. jesse: joy reid is upset trump gets treated like a victim of his own shooting. people are concerned and expressing concerned we won
the east coast, 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news, fox news @ night . breaking tonight, the biden campaign is now insisting the president is back on track, as sharp as ever, stronger than ever. and for his part the president is again reiterating that he has no plans to drop out. folks, you probably noticed there s a lot of speculation lately, what is joe biden going to do, stay in the race, drop out? i am running and we are going to win. trace: but many democrats are very skeptical of the president s mental capacity and two of the parties most influential figures are now very concerned about joe biden s path to victory is vanishing. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with breaking information on this. reporter: good evening my friend. in the movie good fellows, joe pesci s character thinks he s about to become a made man. only to be led into a woodpaneled room by them and he s been around his entire life in many ways, presiden
perhaps the most critical press conference in president biden s 54 year long political career. the lead starts right now all eyes on president joseph biden with an immensely consequential news conference set to start soon ahead. an avalanche of new reporting, revealing anger and shock over efforts to hide hi president biden s decline this hour, i ll speak with one of the latest house democrats calling on the president to drop out of the 2024 race, plus, with president biden still commander in chief, what can he actually achieve on on the world stage? white house adviser john kirby will be here on the lead and new evidence. donald trump may know a lot more about the controversial project 2025, even after he said again today that he knows nothing about him welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our 2024 lead of course, with a high-stakes day for president biden in just a few hours, the president s going to hold a news conference and take reporters questions as the th