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Happening now breaking news. President Biden says he's not sure he'd be seeking

re-election if Donald Trump wasn't running for the White House. We're breaking down the stark revelation about

Biden's decision-making and what it says about the state of the 2024 presidential

race. Also breaking after Republican senator Tommy Tuberville finally backs down on his nearly year-long blockade of US military promotions,

hundreds of nominees have been confirmed tonight.

And the Israeli military is claiming new advances across Gaza,

new video showing the frantic search for survivors in the rubble

of an apparent Israeli strike as the UN chief warns

conditions in Gaza are apocalyptic.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Flitzer, you're in the situation

room. This is CNN Breaking News.

And we begin with the Breaking News on the 2024 race for the White House.

President Biden offering a very candid assessment of how Donald Trump influenced his decision to seek a second term.

CNN Senior White House reporter Kevin Liptack is in Boston for us, so that's where the president spoke to campaign donors just a little while ago

Kevin what did the president say and how revealing is this?

Yeah, these are some of the starkest comments we've heard from the president when he's

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