If it's Monday an increasingly frustrated and defiant President Biden

insists he is staying in the 2024 race, dismissing the growing

number of Democrats calling for him to step aside

and blasting what he calls the elites within his own party.

Plus, ahead of next week's convention, the Trump campaign

unveils the new Republican Party platform softening its

stance on the issue of abortion while doubling down on the former

president's most aggressive policy proposals like mass deportations. And voters in France blocked the far right from power

in a surprise upset victory for Centress and the left

as the country enters a new phase of political uncertainty

with no clear majority to form a government. And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Erin Gilchrist in Washington where a

defiant President Biden is pledging to stay in the race no matter what, even as more Democrats call on him to reconsider running or step aside.

Today, in an animated and occasionally testy phone interview on MS NBC,

the president was adamant that he will not withdraw as he

lashed out at political elites within his own party.

The bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. I wouldn't be running if I

didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in

2024. I'm not going to explain anymore about what I should or shouldn't do. I am running.

I'm getting so frustrated by the elites. Now I'm not talking about you guys, but about the elite in the party who they know so much more

But any of these guys don't think I should run against me

Go announce through an answer president challenge me at the convention.

Now this comes after the president sent a letter to congressional Democrats with a similarly defiant tone suggesting that those calling for him to step aside are defying the will of

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