Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. So my guest today in a few minutes is Jonathan Martin.

He's of course a senior political columnist for

Politico and his latest column does what J Mart does best. He lays out all the

challenges for President Biden as he navigates the post-debate term oil to say it's been a crisis for this campaign I think is an

understatement before we totally get started here I do want to remind you stick

around for another listener question and to say we've got a ton to pick from is an understatement as well.

Please remember to submit more of your questions.

I'll keep answering them as best I can in the next couple of weeks since I'll be at the

convention.

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But look, Jaymart and I get into a lot of the, you know, I want to time stamp this a little bit here.

We spoke on Tuesday, July 9th, okay?

This is the start of this NATO summit, while we were talking, House Democrats were meeting behind closed

doors, you had Senate Democrats meeting behind closed doors, so there's still a lot in the

ether here, but I think the reality is and you'll hear this in the conversation

I think the reality is you know what Joe Biden has effectively done over the last 48

hours is sort of put a I think put a deadline on all of this

conversation if you will of when you know at what point does the hand

ringing have to come to an end right eventually there is going to be a Democratic convention.

It's in August, it's not next week, that's the Republicans.

But there is a bit of a deadline.

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