Biden To Hold Critical Solo News Conference
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Perhaps the most critical press conference in President Biden's 54 year long |
| 0:07.6 | political career. The lead starts right now. All eyes on President Joseph Biden with an immensely consequential news conference |
| 0:15.4 | set to start soon ahead an avalanche of new reporting revealing anger and |
| 0:20.0 | shock over efforts to hide President Biden's decline. |
| 0:23.0 | In this hour, I'll speak with one of the latest House Democrats calling on the |
| 0:26.3 | President to drop out of the 2024 race. |
| 0:28.7 | Plus, with President Biden still Commander-in-Chief, what can he actually achieve on the world stage |
| 0:34.4 | White House advisor John Kirby will be here on the lead and new evidence Donald |
| 0:39.0 | Trump may know a lot more about the controversial Project 2025 even after he said again today that he |
| 0:45.3 | knows nothing about it. |
| 0:48.8 | 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. |
| 0:58.0 | The President's going to hold a news conference and take reporters questions as the three-day NATO summit ends. |
| 1:03.4 | The world will see how President Biden fields and answers questions live without a teleprompter |
| 1:09.6 | after his disastrous debate performance two weeks ago today and a tape TV interview and a |
| 1:14.4 | handful of call-in interviews that certainly did nothing to quell concerns. |
| 1:18.3 | Biden's big moment today overshadowed by new bombshell reporting for multiple outlets, reporting |
| 1:22.2 | that the president may be losing |
| 1:23.8 | the support of even his closest aides. |
| 1:26.0 | From the New York Times, quote, |
| 1:27.2 | some Biden advisors are discussing |
| 1:28.8 | how to convince him to step aside. |
| 1:30.8 | From NBC News, no one involved in the effort thinks he has a path. |
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