Thursday, July 11, 2024

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Biden holds high-stakes news conference as he fights for his political life; More than 1 million still without power in Houston in sweltering heat; Inflation cools in June to lowest annual rate in more than 3 years; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0	Breaking news under pressure coming before the cameras this evening for a rare solo news conference
0:14.8	saying he's not in the race for his legacy but to complete the job he started and answering
0:19.4	questions about Russia, China and the war in Gaza.
0:22.8	But minutes in, Mr. Biden, stumbling,
0:24.8	mistakenly referring to his Vice President
0:27.3	Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump.
0:30.0	It comes as several of his closest allies tell NBC News, they now believe his chances of beating
0:35.8	Donald Trump are zero.
0:37.8	One Biden campaign official saying, quote, he needs to drop out, He will never recover from this.
0:43.3	All of it as the president prepares to sit down for our exclusive one-on-one interview Monday.
0:48.8	Also tonight deadly floods in the northeast, Burrells, remnants, slamming Vermont, washing out roads,
0:54.9	sweeping away an apartment building more than 100 rescued.
0:59.0	And extremely dangerous heat, more than 50 million on alert in Texas some 500,000 expected to be without power
1:06.4	into next week hospitals running on generators.
1:10.1	This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:15.0	Good evening from Washington.
1:17.0	Just moments ago, President Biden faced question after question from reporters
1:22.0	and what was without question one of the most
1:24.0	important press conferences of his presidency. His words, his demeanor, under
1:28.9	scrutiny as never before. Tonight he was asked again about his decision to stay in the race on a day when more
1:35.0	Democrats called in him to drop out.
1:37.4	Mr. Biden gave no indication that he's considering abandoning his campaign
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