Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber and I'm joining you on this Friday June 28th.

A day that marks a major shift in this presidential race is something you can basically

feel and that many felt in their core the emotion hitting probably before

the logic or any intellectual observations even as President Biden first walked

out to the stage at this debate which his campaign pushed for earlier

than ever and then delivered a performance that has for now upended this race and done so so swiftly the criminations had begun

long before he and Trump walked off that very stage. This is a debate that is

certainly memorable but not in a very happy way.

It seems to be another in a series of shared American experiences and memories that feel more

infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathartic.

And so tonight, together with you right now,

as we're still within these first 24 hours of that face off,

we are going to take stock with the evidence trying to look at the

significance and the fallout and the actual real possibilities. We are not going

to devolve into or take too much time with the fantasy screenplay scenarios because while there is talk of screenplay style solutions, what matters more for what all of this says about what we're going to do is what's possible.

Indeed, the screenplay talk, the fantasy talk, may tell you more about reactions with the Democratic Party.

It may matter in that sense, but not in the screenplays coming true.

What is true and what we've seen in this short period between the debate and in these next few weeks of the two-party conventions is that we have a campaign going on and it is a campaign where the nominees have been chosen. And today you had a clear

indication that against this backdrop, Joe Biden knows that he fell down at this debate

because he referred to getting knocked down and how to get

back up while speaking in North Carolina.

When you get knocked down you get back up.

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