Is the Biden Dam Breaking?
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The effort to remove President Biden from the ticket picks up momentum as more Democratic members of Congress speak out. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi reveals more about her position—and says "time is running short" to make the right decision. MSNBC's Jen Psaki joins Lovett to break down the latest, and to talk about openly about what Biden needs to do to hang on.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. Joining us today. I said John Favreau. Yeah. All right. Well, you know. Is this a love it bit? I that's in that's crazy. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, I got a I got it. I've been doing this for too long. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Love it. I'm Jen sake. Jen welcome back to the pod. Thank you. What a time to be alive. Thank you for inviting me on and during this easy moment in democratic politics. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, it's all it's all straightforward from here. Yes, a lot to discuss. |
| 0:37.0 | The effort to bounce Joe Biden from the ticket appears to either be stalling or picking up momentum |
| 0:42.0 | depending on who you ask and at what hour |
| 0:45.1 | Democratic senators are suggesting a reckoning maybe at hand. Donald Trump goes |
| 0:49.0 | after Kamala Harris and flirts with Marco Rubio at a rally in Florida and goes hard yet again on |
| 0:53.8 | Biden's golf game and despite all the chaos, Democrats are actually succeeding in |
| 0:58.3 | breaking through with a message or a message is breaking through despite what Democrats are doing about Project 2025. |
| 1:06.0 | I also want to note that in the Shameless Plugs Department, MSMBC just announced that |
| 1:10.5 | you General will be hosting a special in September in |
| 1:12.9 | Brooklyn called MS NBC Live colon Democracy 2024. Is that about whether we'll be |
| 1:18.8 | one? Well certainly that's part of the discussion it has to be but it's all it's me it's everybody's favorite |
| 1:25.2 | hosts other than me and we're all nerdy just as you guys are and we'll talk about where the state of our |
| 1:30.5 | democracy is with lots of panels it will be fun. |
| 1:33.7 | September feels like a lifetime away. |
| 1:35.9 | It is kind of. |
| 1:37.2 | And that's the beautiful thing about politics. |
| 1:39.0 | All right, so the House and Senate have been back in DC for a couple days. |
| 1:42.4 | As of this recording roughly |
| 1:43.9 | 10 House members have officially called for Biden to step aside depending on |
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