Thursday, July 11, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
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Thursday briefing: George Clooney calls on Biden to quit; NATO and Donald Trump; extreme heat forecast; Cypress Hill; and more
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| 0:00.0 | More prominent Democrats called for President Biden to end his bid for re-election. |
| 0:08.6 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Thursday, July 11th. |
| 0:15.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:18.0 | President Biden's quest to remain the Democratic nominee faced some new setbacks yesterday. |
| 0:27.0 | Peter Welch is a Democratic senator from Vermont. |
| 0:30.0 | In an op-ed for the post yesterday, he became the first senator to officially call on |
| 0:35.2 | Biden to quit the race. |
| 0:37.4 | He said Biden's faltering debate performance against Donald Trump last month raised questions |
| 0:42.4 | that could not be ignored. |
| 0:44.0 | Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also subtly changed her tune on the matter. |
| 0:49.0 | She didn't call on Biden to step aside, but she did say this on MS NBC yesterday morning. |
| 0:55.2 | 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. |
| 1:06.4 | Pelosi had previously been more clear that she thought Biden should stay in the race. |
| 1:11.2 | And to cap it off, George Clooney called on the president to quit. |
| 1:15.3 | He's not only a very famous Hollywood actor, he's also a key Democratic donor. He had hosted |
| 1:20.8 | a star-studded fundraiser for the president just three weeks ago. |
| 1:25.0 | He wrote in the New York Times yesterday that he loves Joe Biden, but, quote, we are not going |
| 1:29.9 | to win in November with this president. And Clooney's not alone in his doubts. A new poll |
| 1:35.4 | published this morning by the post ABC and Ipsos found that most Democrats want |
| 1:40.3 | Biden to drop out. Biden will face a big test today at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. |
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