Welcome to the news hour. There is growing pressure today from Congressional

Democrats for President Biden to step aside as the party's nominee. That's

despite his repeated pledges to stay in the race. Earlier today, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a long-time Biden ally,

praised the president but stopped short of endorsing his candidacy.

Does he have your support to be the head of the Democratic second?

As long as the president had, the president, it's up to the president to decide if he is going to run.

We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.

He has said firmly this week he is going to run.

Do you want him to run?

I want him to do whatever he decides to do.

And George Clooney, the actor and Major Democratic Fundraiser, wrote an opinion column in the New York

Times calling for the president to end his

re-election campaign. Our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin and White House

correspondent Laura Broome Lopez are here to discuss more. So Lisa, walk us through here.

What exactly is Pelosi saying here?

And how much could it matter?

This was a fireball that hit Capitol Hill this morning

when this first came out.

I will tell you, first of all, from Pelosi World, what they say she was trying to do.

They say she wanted to send two messages. One to the president and his team to not dismiss concerns

that are real among Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Two, a message for Democrats on Capitol Hill, basically to hold their fire in that interview,

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