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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) join to discuss special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Biden's handling of classified materials that included negative representations of the president's mental acuity. Bill Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, talks about the crisis in Ukraine as the country seeks funds to keep their defenses going. Symone Sanders-Townsend, Idrees Kahloon and Doug Heye analyze the White House’s forceful pushback against the special counsel report.

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0:00.0	If it's Friday, Democrats in crisis, the White House forcefully pushing back on new questions
0:07.8	about President Biden's memory and mental acuity as the Special Council's report triggers anger and panic in the party.
0:16.4	Plus trumping the GOP, the former president marches closer toward clinching the
0:20.6	2024 nomination. With new wins in Nevada, the Virgin Islands,
0:25.0	and in Congress where he effectively torpedoed a bipartisan border security bill.
0:30.0	And Israeli forces prepared a move into a city in southern Gaza packed with civilians who
0:37.4	evacuated from the north just hours after President Biden called Israel's offensive,
0:42.6	quote, over the top, his sharpest criticism yet. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington where Democrats right
1:01.6	now are using words like nightmare and devastating to
1:05.2	describe the situation they find themselves in. After Special Counsel
1:09.3	Robert Herr decided not to charge the president with a crime over his handling of classified
1:14.3	documents but delivered a report with a blistering assessment of Mr Biden's quote
1:19.1	diminished faculties in advancing age. Today the White House rejected the details and the President's mental
1:26.1	acuity is untrue and in a hastily gathered press availability last night,
1:31.0	President Biden forcefully defended his memory.
1:33.7	I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing.
1:38.1	I've been president and I put this country back on his feet.
1:41.2	I don't need his recommendation. It's totally... How bad is your memory and... on his
1:45.0	feet.
1:46.0	president.
1:47.0	My memory is so bad I can let you speak.
1:50.0	That's the, that's what...
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