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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Lessons of a Historic Week: Trump is Beatable (and Major Breaking News)

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In a two-hour show that concludes with the breaking news of President Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race, J en Psaki outlines the latest updates in the ever-changing campaign, explaining why Donald Trump winning in November is not inevitable. To discuss Biden's path forward amid growing calls from Democrats to drop out of the race, Jen is joined by Senator Gary Peters and Governor Jared Polis. And later, Biden-Harris Senior Campaign Adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms joins to discuss Republican messaging, and Representative Ro Khanna joins to talk about the latest calls for the President to step aside. Tim Miller reflects on the Republican Convention this past week and Trump's repeated lies that he "knows nothing" about Project 2025. Jen also talks to Hadley Duvall, a 22-year-old reproductive rights advocate, who recently shared her powerful story in a campaign ad. And finally, Jen concludes with the breaking news announced by President Biden that he will "stand down" from the 2024 race and not to seek re-election in November, with immediate reaction from Tim Miller and Claire McCaskill.

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0:00.0

Well, there's just too much happening to fit it all into just one hour.

0:04.3

So we are here with two hours of live special coverage.

0:08.2

And increasingly unhinged Donald Trump is back on the trail as President Biden plans

0:12.5

his own return while battling back new calls to step aside.

0:16.5

As chairman of the Senate's campaign arm, Senator Gary Peters is in charge of getting Democrats

0:20.7

and tough races elected. And he's coming up first. Plus, Colorado Governor Jared Polis is chair

0:26.5

of the National Governors Association, and I'm going to get his take on the debate over the president's

0:31.2

future. And later, as Trump's new running mate introduces himself to the country, I'm going to

0:36.4

talk to J.D. Vance's

0:37.6

law school roommate, who is sounding the alarm about the senator's rise.

0:50.3

Okay. One of the big things I've learned from working on three presidential campaigns is that a day sometimes feels like an entire lifetime in politics.

1:00.8

I mean, just take this week. It was just over a week ago when there was an assassination attempt on a former president and current Republican nominee just a week ago.

1:09.8

And since then, just in the last week,

1:12.0

President Biden was diagnosed with COVID. Judge Alien Cannon throughout Trump's classified

1:16.1

documents case. The dark and at times bizarre Republican convention was held in Milwaukee.

1:21.9

Trump picked honorary tech bro, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, and a growing number

1:27.1

of Democratic leaders in

1:28.3

Washington called for Joe Biden to step aside. So yeah, this week was kind of crazy by all accounts.

1:35.3

I mean, it's definitely unpredictable and probably fell to all of you, like at times it was

1:39.7

disorienting and even enraging. But if you cut through all of that anger and confusion, which I know

1:45.8

there is plenty of, you may be feeling it right now. This week also provided a level of clarity.

1:51.6

And stick with me here. Maybe even some confidence about this race. And here's why. When Donald

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