LIVE: Pres. Biden addresses the nation for the first time since dropping out of 2024 race

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. I'M STEPHANIE RAMOS. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT, BIDEN ADDRESSES THE NATION TONIE NATION. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PREPARES TO SPEAK TO THE CONTRARY DAYS AFTER ANNOUNCING HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE 2024 RACE GIVING HIS ENDORSEMENT TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN THE PRESENT TONIGHT AS HE LOOKS TO CEMENT HIS LEGACY FOR DECADES TO COME WHILE TOPPER PUBLIC AND LEADERS ARE HIS RESIGNATION NOW. WILL NOT HEAR FROM ONE OF THOSE LEADERS WHEN NUMBER 3 IN THE NATION CONGRESSMAN TOM EMMER JOINS US NOW. THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS AGAINST ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS. AND -- >> THE SHOOTER WAS FLYING THE DRONE AROUND THE AREA. >> THE TRUMP RALLY SHOOTING MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST FAILURES OF THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE IN DECADES, WE ARE NOW LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE ALLEGED SHOOTER BEHIND THE CARNAGE AS THE FBI DIRECTOR BRIEFS THE NATION'S LEADERS DRAWING A PICTURE OF A LONER WITH FEW CONTACTS. HOW HE WAS ABLE TO CONCEAL HIS WEAPON, THE ONLINE SEARCH IS NOW POINTING TO A POTENTIAL MOTIVE. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE I'M LINSEY DAVIS, THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BIDEN, THE DECISION. IN ONE HOUR HE WILL ADDRESS THE NATION. THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS AND INCUMBENT PRESIDENT HAS CHOSEN NOT TO RUN. WE'VE BEEN TOLD THE PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK FROM THE HEART TONIGHT IN ADDITION TO NAMING SOME OF HIS ADMINISTRATION'S SUCCESS AS HE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HE AIMS TO DO TO "FINISH THE JOB." IN THE FINAL SIX MONTHS OF HIS TERM. OF THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE IS DETERMINED TO GET AS MUCH DONE AS HE CAN AT HOME AND ABROAD INCLUDING NEGOTIATING A CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA AND HOSTAGE DEAL. THE SPEECH IS A CULMINATION OF HIS MORE THAN FIVE DECADES OF PUBLIC SERVICE. BACK IN 2020 HE SAID HE VIEWED HIMSELF AS A BRIDGE, NOT AS ANYTHING ELSE AND THERE'S AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF LEADERS THAT ARE THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY AND TO FINISH THE JOB HE'S ALSO DETERMINED TO CAMPAIGN TO GET VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ELECTED AS THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WE'LL CARRY THE PRESIDENT'S HISTORIC SPEECH LIVE AT 8:00 P.M. EASTERN. ARE CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AND MARY BRUCE LEADS US OFF TONIGHT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. >> TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE OVAL OFFICE COMING BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPLAIN FOR HIMSELF WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE, MAKING ONE THING CLEAR -- HIS PRESIDENCY IS NOT OVER YET. >> HE WANTS TO FINISH THE JOB HE STARTED. >> SOURCES TELL US THE PRESIDENT IS AWARE THIS IS A MOMENT FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS. HE STARTED WRITING HIS REMARKS WHEN HE WAS STILL AT HOME RECOVERING FROM COVID, STILL PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOU TOUCHES. AND EXCERPTS AT LEAST BY THE WHITE HOUSE, HE WILL SAY I HAVE DECIDED THE BEST WAY FORWARD IS TO PASS THE TORCH TO A NEW GENERATION. THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO UNITE OUR NATION. HIS MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- THE GREAT THING ABOUT AMERICA IS HERE, KINGS AND DICTATORS DO NOT RULE, THE PEOPLE DO. HISTORY IS IN YOUR HANDS, THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS. THE IDEA OF AMERICA LIES IN YOUR HANDS. WITH SIX MONTHS LEFT, BIDEN PLANS TO OUTLINE HIS AGENDA FOR THE REST OF HIS TERM. ONE TOP PRIORITY, DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO HELP KAMALA HARRIS BEAT DONALD TRUMP. WITH BIDEN PASSING THE TORCH, TONIGHT HARRIS GAVE A SALUTE. >> HE HAS EXTRAORDINARY DETERMINATION AND PROFOUND COMPASSION FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY. >> JUST THREE DAYS INTO HER CAMPAIGN, HARRIS TODAY ADDRESSING A LARGE GATHERING OF ONE OF THE NATION'S HISTORICALLY BLACK SORORITIES. KNOWING WELL THAT BLACK WOMEN COULD DETERMINE THIS RACE. >> NOW IN THIS MOMENT, OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR LEADERSHIP ONCE AGAIN. IN THIS MOMENT, I BELIEVE WE FACE A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO GO DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR OUR NATION. ONE FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE, THE OTHER FOCUSED ON THE PAST. WITH YOUR SUPPORT, I AM FIGHTING FOR OUR NATION'S FUTURE. SHE ONLY MENTIONED TRUMP BY NAME ONCE, WITH A CENTRAL THEME OF HER CAMPAIGN COMING INTO FOCUS. HARRIS ARGUING TRUMP REPRESENTS THE PAST AND SHE IS THE FUTURE. >> ACROSS OUR NATION, WE ARE WITNESSING A FULL ON ASSAULT ON HARD-FOUGHT, HARD WON FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS. THE FREEDOM TO VOTE, THE FREEDOM TO BE SAFE FROM GUN VIOLENCE. AND THE FREEDOM OF A WOMAN TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT HER OWN BODY AND NOT HAVE HER GOVERNMENT TELL HER WHAT TO DO. THESE EXTREMISTS WANT TO TAKE US BACK BUT WE ARE NOT GOING BACK. WE ARE NOT GOING BACK! >> Linsey: MARY BRUCE JOINS US NOW FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING IN TERMS OF POSSIBLE CONSIDERATIONS FOR HARRIS' RUNNING MATE? >> WE KNOW THE VETTING PROCESS IS ALREADY UNDERWAY. THE POOL OF POTENTIALS BEING VETTED IS ROUGHLY 12 PEOPLE UNDER CONSIDERATION TO BE KAMALA HARRIS' RUNNING MATE. WE KNOW THE NAMES OF IT THIS FOUR PEOPLE ON THAT LIST. BATTLEGROUND STATE CONTENDERS, ROY COOPER OF NORTH CAROLINA, ANDY BESHEAR OF KENTUCKY, THIS LIST COULD CHANGE AND LIKELY WILL. ONE OTHER THING WE NOW KNOW -- THE TIMING. KAMALA HARRIS IS EXPECTING AND PLANNING TO MAKE HER ANNOUNCEMENT AND ANNOUNCE HER RUNNING MATE BEFORE AUGUST THE 7TH, THAT'S THE DATE OF THE VIRTUAL ROLL CALL TO MAKE NOMINATION OFFICIAL. >> Linsey: MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THANKS SO MUCH. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE JOE BIDEN STEPPED ASIDE IN HIS REELECTION BID, VISITING NORTH CAROLINA HE'S NOW SHIFTING HIS ATTACKS TO HIS NEW OPPONENT, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. RACHEL SCOTT IS IN CHARLOTTE WITH MORE. >> IN BATTLEGROUND NORTH CAROLINA, DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS LINING UP PERIODS FIRST CAMPAIGN APPEARANCE SINCE SUNDAY'S POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE, PRESIDENT BIDEN OUT OF THE RACE, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS NOW HIS NEW OPPONENT. HE SPENT YEARS ATTACKING JOE BIDEN, NOW TRYING TO BE CALIBRATED TO FOCUS ON KAMALA HARRIS. ZEROING IN ON HER ROLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION, NOT ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF SOUTHERN MIGRATION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER. >> THE BORDERS OF THE MOST DEVASTATING THING TO HAVE IN HIS COUNTRY FOR SO LONG. >> Linsey: SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOW TAKING AIM AT HER IDENTITY IS THE FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR TO SERVE AS A PRESIDENT, LABELING HER A DEI HIGHER, SHORTHAND FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION. >> 100% SHE WAS A DEI HIGHER. >> SOURCES TELL MIKE JOHNSON IS PRIVATELY WARNED REPUBLICANS TO STOP. >> THIS IS NOT PERSONALLY REGARDING KAMALA HARRIS OR ETHNICITY OR GENDER, NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WHATSOEVER. SPEAK OF THE DAY "THE NEW YORK TIMES" HILLARY CLINTON RIDING "THIS IS A RACE OF DEMOCRATS AND MUST WIN I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS FOR WOMEN CANDIDATES FIGHTING SEXISM IN AMERICAN POLITICS." SHE FACES SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES THE FIRST BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN TO BE AT THE TOP OF HER PARTY'S TICKETS. THIS 2021 CLIP OF TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE DISPARAGING HARRIS FOR NOT HAVING CHILDREN. >> WE ARE EFFECTIVELY RUNNING THIS COUNTRY VIA OUR CORPORATE OLIGARCHS BY A BUNCH OF CHILDLESS CAT LADIES WERE MISERABLE IN THEIR OWN LIVES AND SO THEY WANT TO MAKE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY MISERABLE ALSO WHILE SO. IT'S A BASIC FACT YOU LOOK AT KAMALA HARRIS, PETE BUTTIGIEG, AOC, THE ENTIRE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS IS CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE WITHOUT CHILDREN. >> HILLARY CLINTON'S REACTION, WHAT A NORMAL, RELATABLE GUY WHO CERTAINLY DOESN'T HATE WOMEN HAVING FREEDOMS. HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA, TRUMP SUPPORTERS WE SPOKE TO SAY THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE NEW EXCITEMENT HARRIS CAN BRING TO THE RACE. >> DO YOU THINK IT COULD BE MORE OF A CHALLENGE FOR TRUMP ON THE TICKET? >> I DO. I THINK IT BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO THE PARTY FOR DEMOCRATS AND LOOKING AT THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, COUPLE MONTHS ESPECIALLY, WITH HOW EVERYTHING HAS GONE HAYWIRE, I THINK THAT WILL GIVE THEM THE LIFT. >> Linsey: ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM FOR BOTH PARTIES OF OTHER CANDIDATES, RACHEL SCOTT JOINS US NOW. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE ARE SEEING DONALD TRUMP SINCE KAMALA HARRIS BECAME HIS OPPONENT, HOW HIS HIS CAMPAIGN ADJUSTED? >> THIS IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR SHIFT FOR BOTH DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN BECAUSE HE WANTED TO RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN. HE HAS SPENT DAYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT EVEN THOUGH HE HAS ALREADY DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE. DONALD TRUMP ON THE STAGE BEHIND ME, HE'S NOW TRYING TO SWITCH GEARS AND FOCUS ON ATTACKING THE VICE PRESIDENT GOING AFTER HER ON IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER. HE HAS MENTIONED HER NAME MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES ALREADY TONIGHT, HE HAS MISSED PRONOUNCE SINGLE TIME. >> Linsey: INTERESTING, RACHEL SCOTT OUR THANKS TO YOU. JOINING US NOW IS THE MAJORITY WHIP OF THE HOUSE TOM EMMER, THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. IT'S CERTAINLY BEEN A BUSY DAY ON CAPITOL HILL WE WILL TRY TO GET TO IT ALL. WE SPOKE TO YOU LAST WEEK FROM THE RNC A LOT AS HAPPENED SINCE THEN. WE ARE SET TO HEAR FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN OF THE TOP OF THE HOUR, YOUR REACTION TO HIS DECISION TO NOT RUN FOR REELECTION. >> I THINK HE GOT KNIFED BY OBAMA AND WAS PUSHED OVER THE CLIFF BY NANCY PELOSI. I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR TONIGHT I DON'T EXPECT HIM TO VEER AWAY FROM HIS VICTORY ALL AND HIS DIVISIVE APPROACH THAT HE TOOK AT THE STATE OF THE UNION THAT I WOULD ARGUE GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO HIS INAUGURATION BUT WE'LL SEE. HE HAS MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT, IT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT YOU SEND IT OUT BY TWEET OR EMAIL, HOWEVER THEY DELIVER IT AND YOU WAIT 3-4 DAYS BEFORE YOU ADDRESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT SHOWS THE KIND OF CHAOS THEY HAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> Linsey: HE DID HAVE COATED DURING THAT TIME THAT HE SENT ABOUT -- WE'LL WILL BE ON THAT. YOU AND OTHER CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS HAVE CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT TO STEP DOWN FROM OFFICE ARGUING THAT IF HE CAN'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT HE SHOULD SERVE AS PRESIDENT, IS THERE ANYTHING PRESIDENT BIDEN COULD SAY THAT MIGHT DISSUADE YOU FROM CALLING FOR HIS RESIGNATION? >> LET'S KEEP IN MIND, WE ARE TOLD HE HAD COVID AND YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE THAT WE COULD CERTAINLY DO A PRESENTATION FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE AT AND BE MEANT INTO ALL THE TVs ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IT STILL IS QUITE BIZARRE WE ARE WAITING THREE OR FOUR DAYS FOR SOME TYPE OF PASSING THE TORCH CAMPAIGN SPEECH WHICH IS CONVENIENTLY PLACED ON THE SAME DAY THAT PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU IS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., TO DEFEND ISRAEL'S ACTIONS TO DEFEND ITSELF. >> Linsey: IS THERE ANYTHING HE COULD SAY THAT MIGHT CONVINCE YOU THAT HE SHOULD REMAIN PRESIDENT FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS? >> WHEN IT COMES TO WHERE JOE BIDEN IS IT'S REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE DEPENDING ON WHAT HE SAYS, IT PROBABLY DOESN'T MATTER -- THREE AND HALF YEARS, THIS HAS BEEN COVERED UP. AND WE GOT MS. HARRIS WHO IS NOW THE CANDIDATE, SHE GOT TO BE CONFIRMED BY A VIRTUAL CONVENTION ON AUGUST 7TH BUT SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR THE ENTIRE THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THERE IS NO LIGHT BETWEEN THESE TWO PEOPLE. NOW WE KNOW WITH HIS INCOMPETENCE IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT IT'S BEEN KAMALA HARRIS WHO'S BEEN RUN THE COUNTRY FOR THE LAST THREE AND HALF YEARS. >> Linsey: AS YOU JUST HEARD MOMENTS AGO WE'VE SEEN SOME MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE ALREADY MAKE REFERENCES TO HARRIS' RACE, CALLING HER THE DEI CANDIDATE. RACHEL STOTT HAS REPORTED HOUSE OR PUBLIC LEADERS HAVE PRIVATELY TOLD THEM TO FOCUS ON HER RECORD, NOT HER RACE OR GENDER. WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE TO ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO MAKES REFERENCE TO HER RACE AND GENDER? >> KAMALA HARRIS IS THE MOST LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE WHEN SHE WAS IN THE SENATE'S. SHE WAS THE DECIDING VOTE FOR THE $1.9 TRILLION SPENDING BILL THAT KICKED OFF THE INFLATION THAT AMERICANS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 20% INCREASE IN INFLATION AND THREE AND A HALF YEARS, A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH MORE THAN AMERICANS PAY ON A MONTHLY BASIS. IT'S ABOUT THE ECONOMY -- KAMALA, WHERE THE PRO-GROWTH POLICIES? DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE IT. KAMALA HARRIS I WOULD ARGUE HAS BEEN AT THE HELM OF ONE OF THE WORST ECONOMIES FOR MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS THAT ARE TRYING TO CLIMB THE ECONOMIC LADDER OR COLUMN SHE'S CAUSED THIS INFLATION AND SHE'S GOING TO OWN IT AND THE BORDERS WAS HERS TOO, IT'S WHAT SHE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT. >> Linsey: JUST TO BE CLEAR ONE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES AT THE FACT THAT SHE'S NOT A WHITE MAN IS NOT A WINNING STRATEGY, DO YOU AGREE THAT THE IDEA THAT HER RACE AND GENDER SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL? >> I WILL BE VERY CLEAR, KAMALA HARRIS AND JOE BIDEN COME OF THIS COUNTRY CANNOT LIVE WITH ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF THEIR FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES. THEY CANNOT LIVE WITH ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF A WIDE OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER THAT HAS LEFT TENS OF MILLIONS OF TERRORISTS TO COME ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER AND WE CAN'T LIVE WITH THIS FECKLESS FOREIGN POLICY THAT HAS CREATED ALL THESE FIRES AROUND THE WORLD AND CONFLICTS THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED QUICKLY SO PEOPLE CAN GET BACK TO LIVING IN PEACE. ARE YOU BETTER TODAY THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO? ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> Linsey: HER RACE AND GENDER SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT UP. >> AGAIN, SHE IS THE EPITOME OF A FAILED ECONOMIC AGENDA AND IT HAS CAUSED THE BORDER CRISIS WE HAVE COME OF THE INVASION WE HAVE ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. HER RECORD IS THE REASON SHE IS NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE NIGHT STATES. >> Linsey: WE KNOW DONALD TRUMP SAID HE WANTED IT BIDEN TO RUN HE'S THE CANDIDATE HE PREPARED TO RUN AGAINST. DO YOU THINK KAMALA HARRIS IS MORE DIFFICULT TO BEAT? SOME OF THE POLLS SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT'S THE CASE. >> YOU GUYS ALL HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS YOU WANT TO LOOK AT. BOTTOM LINE IS AMERICANS KNOW KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN AT THE HELM FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS. THIS ECONOMY DOESN'T WORK FOR EVERYONE. THERE'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY INFLATION IS AFFECTING IN A VERY PERSONAL WAY IN A DIFFICULT WAY. THEY'RE HAVING TO MAKE CHOICES ABOUT WHAT THEY FEED THEIR FAMILIES AND THAT IS ALL ON KAMALA HARRIS AND THIS FAILED ECONOMIC AGENDA. I DON'T THINK IT'S ANY DIFFERENT, CONTRARY TO WHAT YOUR PREVIOUS REPORT WAS -- THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS EXCEPT FOR AGE. >> Linsey: ON CAPITOL HILL WE SAW FBI DIRECTOR WRAY TESTIFY ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DONALD TRUMP, THE SHOOTER HAD HAD A DRONE 11 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTING, WHAT DISTURBS YOU THE MOST ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND HEARD? >> TOO MANY QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED. IF IT'S TRUE THE TIMELINE WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THAT THEY IDENTIFIED A POTENTIAL SHOOTER AT LEAST 10 TO IN 15 MINUTES BEFORE DONALD TRUMP TOOK THE STAGE, I THINK ALL OF US HAVE TO ASK, WHY WAS HE ON THAT STAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE? >> Linsey: FINALLY IS REALLY PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU WAS ON THE HILL TODAY ADDRESSING CONGRESS, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI DID NOT ATTEND THE SINK IT WAS THE WORST PRESENTATION OF ANY FOREIGN DIGNITARY INVITED, YOUR RESPONSE TO WHAT YOU HEARD TODAY? >> NANCY WASN'T LISTENING. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU DID AN AMAZING JOB OF COMING AT US SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE ARE RESPONDING TO -- BARB ARIANISM, RAPING ISRAELI WOMEN, KILLING PARENTS IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN, KILLING CHILDREN IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS, HE WENT BACK TO WHAT OCTOBER 7TH WAS ALL ABOUT TO. HE SAID WE ARE READY FOR PEACE IF HAMAS WILL PUT DOWN THEIR WEAPONS AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES. UNTIL THEN HE'S COMMITTED TO THE MISSION AND THEN HE TOLD US WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO US. QUITE FRANKLY THE FACT THAT KAMALA HARRIS THINKS SHE HAS SOME ABILITY TO BE THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD AND SHE CHOSE NOT TO BE THERE TODAY IS DISGUSTING AND WRONG NOT. AT SOME OF THE REASON WHY SHE IS NOT AT ALL PREPARED TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE NIGHT STATES OF AMERICA. >> Linsey: SHE IS PLANNING ON MEETING WITH HIM TOMORROW. >> THAT'S GREAT, YOU MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT BY NOT SHOWING UP FOR AN ADDRESS OF A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, IT'S DISGUSTING. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT LET HER OFF THE HOOK. SHE IS ANTI-ISRAEL AND MEETING WITH HIM AFTER THE FACT, THAT'S GREAT. >> Linsey: TOM EMMER WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. >> THANK YOU, LINSEY. >> Linsey: BIDEN'S SPEECH TONIGHT IS HER CHANCE TO WRITE THE FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY, WE WANT TO BRING IN TERRY , FORMER SPEECHWRITER FOR O PRESIDENT OBAMA. YOU WERE ON THE INSIDE, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SPEECH TONIGHT? >> IN SOME WAYS HE STARTED TELEGRAPH HIS SPEECH IN THE LETTER HE RELEASED WHEN HE MADE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT. AS SPEECHWRITERS WE ALWAYS TEND TO THINK OF A SPEECH AS A STORY AND IN THIS CASE THERE'S PROBABLY FOUR BIG PARTS OF THE STORY THAT WE HEARD TONIGHT'S. WE WILL PROBABLY HEAR PRESIDENT BIDEN RECOUNT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH ARE SIGNIFICANT. THE FIRST STEP OF REMINDING PEOPLE OF HIS LEGACY. SECONDLY, I THINK HE WILL EXPLAIN HIS DECISION AND I THINK HE CAN DO THAT IN PERSONAL TERMS. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS VERY EFFECTIVE AT HIS TYING HIS OWN PERSONAL STORY TO THE STORY OF HIS SERVICE. ONE OF THE THINGS I WRITE ABOUT IN THE BOOK IS OUR BEST SPEECHES, OUR BEST PRESENTATIONS WHETHER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR FAMILY MEMBERS, IS WHEN WE SPEAK FROM THE HEART. I WOULD EXPECT AND HOPE THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO SPEAK FROM THE HEART TONIGHT. THIRD I THINK HE WILL STILL BE PRESENT FOR SIX MONTHS HE WANTS TO OUTLINE WHAT HE WILL GET DONE AND FINALLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HE'S GOING TO FRAME THE SELECTION, FROM THIS MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY AS A DEFINING MOMENT FOR OUR DEMOCRACY AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY HE HAS ENDORSED KAMALA HARRIS. >> Linsey: I KNOW YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY SAID SPEECHWRITERS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING BACK TO PREVIOUS SPEECHES FOR GUIDANCE, IS THERE A COMPARABLE MOMENT FOR REFERENCE AND HISTORY? >> EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT WOULD HAVE A NEARLY 60 YEARS AGO BUT I WOULD SUSPECT THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISORS IN HIS SPEECHWRITERS PROBABLY WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAPPENED TO. THE FIRST ON THE PRESIDENT CHOSE NOT TO RUN FOR REELECTION WHICH IS GEORGE WASHINGTON. I HAVE BEEN WRITING SPEECHES FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, I VIRTUALLY NEVER READ THAT SPEECH. I DID GO BACK THE OTHER DAY AND READ IT, IT'S MORE THAN 6,000 WORDS LONG WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY DIDN'T READ IT. THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL PARTS TO IT AND THERE'S A LINE THAT STOOD OUT TO ME, HE SAID HE WAS CHOOSING NOT TO RUN AGAIN BECAUSE OF THE DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO WHICH HE OWED HIS BELOVED COUNTRY. WHAT A SPIRIT, WHAT THE SENTIMENTS. I IMAGINE WE ARE GOING TO SEE THAT SENTIMENT TONIGHT AND HEAR THAT TONIGHT FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN AS WELL. >> Linsey: IF YOU HAD WRITTEN PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SPEECH TONIGHT, WHICH THEMES WOULD YOU WANT TO UNDERSCORE? >> NO SPEECH EXISTS IN ISOLATION. IT'S RARE THAT A PRESIDENT GETS UP AND GIVES A SPEECH THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. GOOD SPEECHWRITER, GOOD RHETORIC, THE DASH PRESIDENTS DO THIS -- THEY ARE THE LATEST CHAPTER IN A BOOK. THE THEMES I WOULD ASSUME YOU WOULD HEAR FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN TONIGHT ARE THEMES YOU HAVE HEARD THROUGHOUT HIS PRESIDENCY, THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. HE HAS PRIDED HIMSELF AS SOMEONE WHO IS TRY TO BRING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER, WHO TRIED TO GET THROUGH TO PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE. WE LIVE IN AN INCREDIBLY DIVISIVE TIME BUT THE BASIC SPIRIT OF UNITY, THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE GEORGE WASHINGTON SPOKE ABOUT IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS, THE DANGERS OF EXCESSIVE PARTISANSHIP, THE DANGERS OF FACTIONALISM. THERE'S SO MUCH OF WHAT HE PREDICTED THAT WE ARE LIVING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. THIS IS A CHANCE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN I THINK TO GIVE A SPEECH FOR THE AGES. THIS COULD BE THE SPEECH PEOPLE LOOK BACK ON WHEN I LOOK BACK ON HIS PRESIDENCY. IT'S AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR HIM, AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE COUNTRY. IT'S AN IMPORTANT HUMAN MOMENT'S. PUT ASIDE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT FOR A MOMENT, THIS IS SOMEONE WHO HAS DEDICATED HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO SERVICE TO THE NATION AND HE MADE A PROFOUNDLY DIFFICULT DECISION TO WALK AWAY FROM IT. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HE STILL BELIEVES HE CAN WIN. HE BELIEVES HE CAN DO A GOOD JOB AND HE'S WILLING TO DO THIS FOR THE SAKE OF THE COUNTRY, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO BE APPLAUDED NO MATTER WHAT OUR POLITICS ARE, THIS COULD BE AN AMERICAN MOMENT AND IT COULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE GREAT SPEECHES. >> Linsey: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK SAY IT WELL DROPS ON SEPTEMBER 17TH. WITH JUST MINUTES UNTIL THE PRESENT DELIVERS THAT PRIME TIME ADDRESSED THE NATION SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS THE PRESIDENT IS WELL AWARE THIS IS A MOMENT FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS. HE STARTED WRITING THESE REMARKS WHEN HE WAS STILL AT HOME RECOVERING FROM COVID TO. STILL SAID TO BE PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES. JOINING US NOW'S ABCs SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT TERRY MORAN. TALK TO US ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. >> IT'S HISTORICAL BECAUSE THERE HAVEN'T BEEN MANY PRESIDENTS WHO DECLINED IT TO RUN FOR OFFICE FOR A SECOND TERM AND THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. HE STOOD IN THE BREACH, THE TRUMP MOVEMENT WHICH OBVIOUSLY IS IN CHARGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY AS WELL, HE DENIED PRESIDENT TRUMP HIS SECOND TERM AT THAT POINT AND I THINK DEMOCRATS WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN HOLD ONTO THAT ACHIEVEMENT AS TRUMP ONCE AGAIN AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS. LOOKING FOR A COUPLE THINGS OF THE SPEECH TONIGHT. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS CONVINCED MANY AMERICANS HE IS FIT FOR THE JOB FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. HE IS BEING ATTACKED BY REPUBLICANS WHO SAY IF YOU CAN'T CAMPAIGN YOU CAN'T SERVE BUT MORE DEEPLY THAN THE PARTISAN ATTACKS, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONCERNED FOR MONTHS ABOUT HIS AGE AND HIS CONDITION AS THEY HAVE SEEN HIM. HIM I THINK THAT'S ONE THING HE HAS TO DO THE OTHER THING HE HAS TO DO IS VOUCH FOR KAMALA HARRIS'. HE'S PASSING THE TORCH TONIGHT, HOW DOES HE DESCRIBE HER? SHE IS IN MANY WAYS AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY POLITICALLY TOO MANY PEOPLE. THIS WILL BE HER REAL INTRODUCTION BY SOMEONE WHO THEY DO KNOW AND MANY DO TRUST ESPECIALLY DEMOCRATS. THOSE OF THE TWO GO BIG PUN SIESTA HIT IN THE SPEECH. >> Linsey: I KNOW YOU SPOKE WITH NIKKI HALEY PRIMARY VOTERS IN WISCONSIN BEFORE IT WAS ANNOUNCED AT JILL BIDEN WAS GOING TO BE STEPPING ASIDE FROM THE RACE. WHAT ARE THEY TELL YOU ABOUT WHERE THEY? >> IT WAS INTERESTING, WE TALK TO PEOPLE IN WISCONSIN AND THEN WENT WE WENT ACROSS THE LAKE TO MICHIGAN AND ONTO PENNSYLVANIA THOSE THREE BIG SWING STATES TALKING TO PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD SEEN AND WHAT THEY HAD HOPED FOR. FOR NIKKI HALEY VOTERS WHEN YOU MENTION KAMALA HARRIS, THEY WERE WILLG TO GIVE HER A LOOK. NO ONE SAID I DON'T WANT ANY PART OF A KAMALA HARRIS PRESIDENCY. AMERICANS ARE FAIR-MINDED, THEY DON'T KNOW HER. THESE DAYS AND WEEKS BUT REALLY DAYS ARE ABSENTLY CRITICAL AS SHE BECOMES DEFINED IN THE PUBLIC MIND. THAT'S A HUGE PART OF THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AND SHE'S GOT A JOB LISTENING TO VOTERS, THEY ARE SAYING IF JILL BIDEN DOESN'T STEP ASIDE WE'LL TAKE A LOOK, EVEN THE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS THAT WE TALKED TO, PEOPLE WHO ARE STRONG ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ABORTION ISSUE FROM KAMALA HARRIS, THEY DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS PRO-LIFE. THEY ARE WILLING TO LISTEN BECAUSE I THINK NOBODY REALLY WANTED A RERUN OF TRUMP AND BIDEN. POLLS SHOWED AMERICANS WERE DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR CHOICES AND YOU HEARD IT FROM VOTERS ALL THE TIME. A FRESH FACE IN THE CAMPAIGN, SHE WILL GET A LONGER LOOK FROM REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS DEMOCRATS. >> Linsey: TERRY MORAN ARE THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR INSIGHT AS ALWAYS. NOW TO CHILLING DETAILS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DONALD TRUMP. THE FBI DIRECTOR REVEALED THE GUNMEN SIGNED UP TO ATTEND THE RALLY AND HE ALSO RESEARCH THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION ON THE VERY SAME DAY ASKING HOW FAR LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS FROM JFK. PIERRE THOMAS HAS THAT FOR US TONIGHT AND WE SHOULD WARN YOU SOME OF THE IMAGERY YOU SEE MAY BE GRAPHIC. >> TONIGHT, CHILLING NEW VIDEO OBTAINED BY "ABC NEWS" SHOWING THE FRANTIC MOMENTS AFTER THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. YOU SEE OFFICERS CLIMBING TO THE ROOF FINDING THE SHOOTER'S LIFELESS BODY ABOUT 400 FEET FROM THE STAGE. >> I THINK IT'S THREE VICTIMS. >> STUNNING THE DETAILS, FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY ON THE HILL TODAY REVEALING THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS' SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE JFK ASSASSINATION ONE WEEK BEFORE THE RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA, THE VERY SAME DAY HE SIGNED UP TO ATTEND THE RALLY. >> ON JULY 6TH, HE DID A GOOGLE SEARCH FOR "HOW FAR AWAY WAS OSWALD FROM KENNEDY." >> ON THE DAY OF THE RALLY HE FLEW A DRONE FOR 11 MINUTES APPARENTLY TO SURVEY THE SITE -- TWO HOURS BEFORE OPENING FIRE. >> THE SHOOTER WAS FLYING THE DRONE AROUND THE AREA, NOT OVER THE STAGE -- I WOULD SAY ABOUT 200 YARDS GIVE OR TAKE AWAY. >> QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER THE FAILURE TO SPOT THE SHOOTER'S ASSAULT-STYLE RIFLE, SOME OFFICIALS SAYING THAT DONE -- MAKING IT EASIER TO CONCEAL AND CARRY. >> Linsey: PIERRE THOMAS JOINS US NOW, WHAT DID THE FBI DIRECTOR SAY ABOUT A POSSIBLE MOTIVE IN THIS CASE? >> HE DIDN'T GIVE A MOTIVE BUT HE SAID HE'S WORRIED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND THE POTENTIAL FOR TERRORISM, DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL RIGHT HERE AT HOME ON. >> HAS HE SUGGESTED HE'S AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY FOR MORE POLITICAL VIOLENCE AS WE GET CLOSER TO NOVEMBER? >> INDEED HE DID, HE EVEN SAID HE'S WORRIED ISIS COULD CONDUCT THE SAME KIND OF ATTACK THEY CONDUCTED IN MOSCOW AT THE CONCERT HALL ONLY A FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS AGO. >> PIERRE THOMAS, THANKS SO MUCH. 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What will happen next 2020 Friday at 9/8 Central on ABC If you were coming of age in the 1980s, the brat pack was here the center of your cultural awareness, but for those of us experiencing it from the inside the brat pack was something very different the critics agree hated the breathitt. What a disaster. Why did we take it as an offense Beatles? Right? Well, we didn't fail Shea Stadium 1985. I think we could Betrayal is one of the hardest types of trauma to overcome. This is her knight in shining armor. Everything felt right all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry. It's shocking. My stomach just dropped. He just really didn't think I had it in me these something so I did betrayal of Father's secret the all new season on Hulu. All right, let the dogs out please. I don't think he's gonna give you a hard time. Even if he gives me a hard time the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. I'm confident come surrender everything that he's taught has become a reality. We are so grateful and impressed. I feel like crying and changed our world. It is a beautiful thing to see as you rehabilitate the dog. You also rehabilitate you >> Linsey: LOOKING AT LIFE PICTURES AND OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE WERE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN AN OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS JUST MINUTES FROM NOW. HIS FIRST NATIONAL REMARKS SINCE HE DECIDED TO DROP FROM THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE, WE WILL BRING YOU HIS REMARKS IN A SPECIAL REPORT SHORTLY. BEFORE WE RETURN TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, THE OTHER BIG STORY IN WASHINGTON TONIGHT. THE ADDRESS FROM ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU FOR CONGRESS, MAKING THE CASE FOR CONTINUED U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IN THE WAR AGAINST HAMAS. DOZENS OF LAWMAKERS WERE NO-SHOWS INCLUDING VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AND SENATOR J.D. VANCE, OUTSIDE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CLASHED WITH POLICE. WE BEGIN WITH CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANCHOR MARTHA RADDATZ. >> IT WAS A THUNDEROUS LARGELY REPUBLICAN WELCOME WITH PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ARGUING A FULL-THROATED DEFENSE OF ISRAEL'S WAR IN GAZA AND NO MENTION OF A CEASE-FIRE. >> OUR ENEMIES ARE YOUR ENEMIES. OUR FIGHT IS YOUR FIGHT AND OUR VICTORY WILL BE YOUR VICTORY. >> THERE WAS A SIZABLE CONTINGENT OF DEMOCRATS IN THE CHAMBER, BUT DOZENS OF HIGH-PROFILE LAWMAKERS INCLUDING NANCY PELOSI SKIPPED THE EVENT. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS WHO WOULD NORMALLY PRESIDE IN THE SENATOR J.D. VANCE NOT IN ATTENDANCE DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. NETANYAHU TRIED TO BRIDGE THE DIVIDE BY INTRODUCING RESCUED HOSTAGE WHO HAD BEEN SEIZED FOLLOWING THE MASSACRE. THE ISRAELI LEADER PRICING NOT ONLY PRESIDENT BIDEN WHO TRAVELED TO THE WAR ZONE AND DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK. >> I THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR HIS SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AFTER THE SAVAGE ATTACK, HE RIGHTLY CALLED HAMAS' SHEER EVIL. >> A FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AS WELL. >> I ALSO WANT TO THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR ALL THE THINGS HE DID FOR ISRAEL. >> YET IT IS CLEAR WHY NETANYAHU CAME. WITH MORE THAN 39,000 PALESTINIANS KILLED BY THE ISRAELIS IN GAZA ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS HEALTH MINISTRY AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FACING STARVATION, NETANYAHU IS APPEALING TO AMERICANS TO STAND FIRM IN WHAT HE FRAMES AS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. >> IS A FIGHT UNTIL WE DESTROY HAMAS' MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND ITS ROLE IN GAZA AND BRING ALL OF OUR HOSTAGES HOME. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Linsey: A VERY DEFIANT AND DEFIANT NETANYAHU TODAY, MARTHA RADDATZ JOINS US NOW. WE KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WERE NOT THERE TODAY. THEY ARE PLANNING TO MEET SEVERALLY TOMORROW, DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THOSE MEETINGS? SPEAK OF THE ONLY THING WE DO KNOW IS THEY ARE SEPARATE MEETINGS BETWEEN THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESIDENT BUT HE IS ALSO FLYING DOWN TO MAR-A-LAGO AFTER THAT WHERE HE WILL BE MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP. THIS ALL COMES WHILE A U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS THERE ARE SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS GOING ON THAT ARE GOING WELL TO FREE THE HOSTAGES. >> Linsey: MARTHA RADDATZ, OUR THANKS TO YOU. THOUSANDS GATHERED IN WASHINGTON TO PROTEST THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS AND DEMANDED END TO THE WAR IN GAZA. WHAT BEGAN AS A PEACEFUL MARCH FOR SOME TURNED VIOLENT. >> AS ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER WAS ADDRESSING CONGRESS JUST BLOCKS AWAY, CLASHES ERUPTING BETWEEN SOME PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS AND THE POLICE. >> RIGHT NOW THE PROTESTERS ARE TRYING TO BREAK THROUGH THIS LINE OF POLICE. >> THERE WAS SHELVING, PROJECTILES WERE THROWN IN CAPITOL POLICE DEPLOYED A PEPPER SPRAY SINK PROTESTERS AND FAILED TO OBEY POLICE ORDERS TO RETREAT. IT HAD STARTED PEACEFULLY, THOUSANDS IN THE CAPITOL HILL AREA DEMANDING AN END BACK TO THE WAR IN GAZA AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S ARREST. BLOCKING THE ROUTE TO THE CAPITAL WHERE NETANYAHU WAS SPEAKING WERE MILES OF BARRICADES BACKED BY THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS INCLUDING S.W.A.T. TEAMS. THE MARCH OF STALLING AT UNION STATION WHEN PROTESTERS BEGAN PULLING AMERICAN FLAGS DOWN FROM THE FLAGPOLES. OFFICERS MOVED IN AND WERE SWARMED BY THE CROWD TO. >> THE FLAG ON THE GROUND WAS ON THE FLAGPOLE HERE AT UNION STATION MOMENTS AGO. PROTESTERS HERE LIT IT ON FIRE AS WELL IS AS WELL AS THAT EFFIGY OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. >> POLICE EVENTUALLY REMOVING THE PALESTINIAN FLAGS RAISED ABOVE UNION STATION. >> Linsey: AT A MINIMUM IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF GRAFFITI WHERE YOU ARE. >> BEFORE THEY LEFT, THE PROTESTERS DEFACED THE MEMORIAL BEHIND ME. THERE ARE A FEW STRAGGLERS LEFT HERE FROM THE PROTESTS AND FOR THE MOST PART DURING THE DAY THEY MARCHED DEMANDING AND END TO THE WAR IN GAZA AND TO THE BLOCKADE AND THE ARREST OF ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. ORGANIZERS ARE TELLING ME THIS WAS A TRIAL RUN, THEY ARE CALLING THIS THE SUMMER OF RESISTANCE AND THEY SAY WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE OF THIS IN BIGGER NUMBERS AT THE DNC IN CHICAGO NEXT MONTH. >> Linsey: THE SUMMER OF RESISTANCE -- OUR THANKS TO YOU. HERE IN NEW YORK, CHAOS AT JFK AIRPORT AFTER AN ESCALATOR FIRE SENT SMOKE OF TERMINAL, SOME WERE EVEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. SPEAK OF THE NIGHT THAT ALARMING SCENE FOR TRAVELERS US SMOKE FILLED THE TERMINAL SMOKE FILLED THE AIRPORT AT JFK TERMINAL. THE FIRE SPARKED ON AN ESCALATOR AROUND 7:15 THIS MORNING. WITH ALARMS BLARING, RECORDING THIS VIDEO REVEALING SMOKE DOWN THE HALLWAY. PASSENGERS COVERING THEIR FACES AS THE SMOKE BILLOWED INTO THE TERMINAL, NINE TREATED FOR SMOKE INHALATION, AT LEAST FOUR HAD TO BE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. >> I WILL BE LATE GETTING TO CALIFORNIA, APPARENTLY THERE'S AN ESCALATOR THAT CAUGHT ON FIRE. >> HE IS NEARLY A THOUSAND OF THE PEOPLE FINALLY DOWN THE STAIRS AND MET BY FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES. IT HAPPENED AND TERMINAL 8, HOME TO AMERICAN AIRLINES BUT MULTIPLE AIRLINES WERE IMPACTED, IN TOTAL MORE THAN 200 FLIGHTS DELAYED. OF THE INCIDENT COMES AS AIRLINES FINALLY RECOVERED AFTER THOUSANDS OF FLIGHTS WERE SCRAPPED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS FROM FRIDAY'S TECH MELTDOWN. >> Linsey: I-95 REMAINS SHUT DOWN IN WILSON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA FOLLOWING A DEVASTATING CRASH, FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A COLLISION WHILE TWO TRACTOR-TRAILERS AND TO GO PASSENGER VEHICLES ONE OF THE TRUCKS WENT UP IN FLAMES AND TRAFFIC IS STILL BACKED UP FOR MILES. TILLAGE MEDICATIONS INTERNET SERVICES ARE STILL PARTIALLY DOWN IN BANGLADESH TODAY FOLLOWING MORAL THAN A WEEK OF CHAOS AND DEADLY VIOLENCE. NEARLY 200 DEATHS WERE REPORTED ALONG WITH NEARLY 2700 RESTS FOLLOWING PROTESTS OVER GOVERNMENT JOB QUOTAS THAT SPIRALED IN THE VIOLENT SPIRIT OF THE PROTESTS WERE TRIGGERED LARGELY BY STUDENTS WERE THEORIES ABOUT THE UNAPPOINTED CRISIS THEY ARE. OFFICES AND BANKS OPENED FOR A FEW HOURS TODAY BUT ALREADY SET UP CURFEW BEFORE THE CONTISITUATIONWORSENS. G.O.P. 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WITH NEARLY 26,000 WEEKLY DEATHS IN THE U.S. AT THE TIME, JOE BIDEN TAKING OFFICE COINCIDED WITH THE WORST PEAK OF COVID DEATHS OF THE PANDEMIC DRIVEN BY COVID-19 AND IT SNARLED SUPPLY CHAINS, CONSUMER PRICES AND INFLATION SURGED EARLY IN HIS TERM BUT SINCE 2021 THE ECONOMY HAS ADDED NEARLY 11 MILLION JOBS IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS COME DOWN TO THREE AND HALF PERCENT, THE LOWEST IN 50 YEARS. HE SIGNED 140 EXECUTIVE ORDERS INCLUDING A $1 TRILLION IN THE STRUCTURE PACKAGE THAT BROUGHT IN ACCESS TO THE INTERNET AND HIS INFLATION REDUCTION ACT CREATED 20 TAX INCENTIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING. HIS CHIPS IN THE SCIENCE ACT INVESTED $52 BILLION TO BUILD FACTORIES AND MAKE COMPUTER CHIPS DOMESTICALLY. SINCE JANUARY 2022 THE U.S. HAS PROVIDED $72 BILLION IN MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO UKRAINE. ANOTHER FOREIGN CONFLICT, THE WAR IN GAZA AND THE U.S. HAS SPENT 12 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS ON MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL SINCE OCTOBER 7TH LAST YEAR. 36%, BIDEN'S APPROVAL RATING FOR THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF JULY ACCORDING TO GALLUP AND THAT IS AN ALL-TIME LOW FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN THOUGH AMERICANS MAY ONE DAY LOOK BACK MORE KINDLY ON THE PRESIDENT'S NOW SOLE TERM IN OFFICE AS IT OFTEN HAPPENS. SO MUCH MORE TO GET TO HEAR ON PRIME TONIGHT. COMING UP A PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN WEIGHS IN ON HOW WE ARE WITNESSING SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE THE 1960s -- A PRESIDENT OPTING TO NOT SEEK A SECOND TERM OF. PLUS HOW HIS LEGACY COULD BE IMPACTED BY DONALD TRUMP'S TIME IN OFFICE. WE ARE NOW ROUGHLY AT THE 30 30 MINUTES MARK UNTIL AMERICANS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL HEAR FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE. KEEP IT RIGHT HERE FOR A SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE 8:00 P.M. 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She just one night vanished. Where is Susan July 29th, making sure that if something happens to me or assets are documented Josh. Did you kill your wife? I'll never forget the first time that I met him, but chill just like raced up through my spine. I just shook the hand of the killer stunning details. He ends up revealing the biggest bombshell. What will happen next 2020 Friday at 9/8 Central on ABC Betrayal is one of the hardest types of trauma to overcome. This is her knight in shining armor. Everything felt right all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry. It's shocking. My stomach just dropped. He just really didn't think I had it in me these something so I did betrayal of Father's secret the all new season on Hulu. All right, let the dogs out please. I don't think he's gonna give you a hard time. Even if he gives me a hard time the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. I'm confident come surrender everything that he's taught has become a reality. We are so grateful and impressed. I feel like crying and changed our world. It is a beautiful thing to see as you rehabilitate the dog. You also rehabilitate you When you hear that Bell, you know GMA surprising someone somewhere with real unclaimed money. They never knew was there this really is a big show Friday morning. We are at it again Good Morning America. GMA surprise people across the country helping find thousands and unclaimed money. This really is a big check. Yeah this summer we're at it. Again. That's incredible because nothing's better than hearing. You say show me the money. I'm Good Morning America. >> Linsey: WE ARE ABOUT 15 MINUTES AWAY FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN'S OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS -- YET ANOTHER MOMENTOUS EVENT AND WHAT HAS BEEN A SURREAL MONTH IN U.S. HISTORY. WE WANT TO BRING IN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS. WHAT TALKING POINTS CAN WE EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT? SPEAK OF THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING THIS IS A MOMENT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO TRY TO UNITE THE NATION. HE IS GOING TO EXPLAIN HE THINKS IT IS TIME TO PASS THE TORCH TO A NEW GENERATION AND THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO UNITE THE COUNTRY. SOURCES TELL US THE PRESIDENT IS VERY AWARE HE IS WRITING FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS, LIKE YOU SAID IT'S A REAL MOMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS IN U.S. HISTORY, THE PRESENT IS AWARE OF JUST HOW EXTRAORDINARY HIS DECISION IS AND HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN IT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE WHITE HOUSE GAVE US A FEW EXCERPTS FROM THE SPEECH, HE IS EXPECTED TO SAY THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY TITLE, I DRAW STRENGTH AND FIND JOY IN WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT THE SACRED TASK OF PERFECTING OUR UNION IS NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT YOU. I THINK AFTER THE DEBATE, THERE WERE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS A LOT OF VOTERS WHO WONDERED IF THIS WAS INEVITABLE, THEY WATCH THE DEBATE, THEY FELT LIKE THE PRESIDENT STRUGGLED. DIDN'T SEEM FIT ENOUGH, DIDN'T SEEM LIKE HE HAD THE STAMINA TO CONTINUE THE JOB UP BUT WE HEARD THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF INSISTS FOR DAYS AFTER, FOR WEEKS AFTER THAT HE WASN'T GOING ANYWHERE. I THINK PART OF TONIGHT IS HIM EXPLAINING THAT WHIPLASH AND EXPLAINING HOW HE CAME TO THIS DECISION. >> Linsey: YOU ATTENDED THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING EARLIER TODAY, WHAT A DEPRESSED SECRETARY JEAN-PIERRE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE PRESSURE HE FACED TO DROP OUT? >> I ASKED HER ABOUT THAT, SHE SAID IT WAS A REALLY HARD DECISION FOR HIM. A PERSONAL DECISION. SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW THE STAFF FELT IMMENSE PRIDE IN HIM, AND HIS DECISION AND WHAT SHE DESCRIBED AS A SELFLESS MOMENT TO. IT WAS INTERESTING SHE DODGED THE IDEA HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BULLIED OUT OF THE JOB AND DISMISSED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER HE WAS LEAVING THE JOB SOLELY BECAUSE OF HEALTH CONCERNS. I DO THINK THE PRESIDENT IS GOOD HAVE A TALK OPENLY TONIGHT ABOUT HIS HEALTH. REPUBLICANS HAVE CALLED ON HIM TO RESIGN, NOT JUST A STEP OUT OF THE RACE AND IF HE DOESN'T FEEL LIKE HE'S UP TO RUNNING HOW DO WE KNOW FOR SURE HE'S UP TO LEADING FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS? THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDING TO THAT BY BRUSHING IT OFF BUT I THINK THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO ADDRESS IT HIMSELF. HE WILL HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO STRIKE THAT BALANCE BETWEEN DISMISSING REPUBLICANS CONCERNS BUT NOT MAKING THE SPEECH POLITICAL. WE ARE TOLD IT'S NOT A POLITICAL ADDRESS TONIGHT BUT AN ADDRESS FROM THE OVAL OFFICE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> Linsey: MARYALICE PARKS OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY, 15 VICE PRESIDENTS HAVE ADVANCED TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE AND BECOME PRESIDENT BUT NEVER QUITE LIKE THIS. WE ARE MOMENTS AWAY FOR THE PRESIDENT ADDRESSING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND LAYING OUT A TRANSITION OF POWER, SPRING AND FORMER DNC CHAIR AND "ABC NEWS" CONTRIBUTOR DONNA BRAZILE. WE WANT TO START OFF WITH WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN TONIGHT? >> I'VE BEEN THINKING ALL DAY ABOUT A MAN I'VE GOTTEN TO KNOW WHEN I WAS 27 YEARS OLD TO. I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR CLOSE TO 37 YEARS. HE IS AN HONORABLE MAN, A PATRIOTS. HE'S SOMEONE WHO HAS A DEEP LOVE AND DEVOTION TO THIS COUNTRY. I WANT HIM TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE'S GOING TO CONTINUE HIS WORK BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IN FREEDOM, BECAUSE HE VALUES THE RULE OF LAW, I WANT HIM TO TELL US THAT HE IS NOT GOING TO STOP WORKING 24/7 ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ADDRESS, THIS IS A PATRIOT ADDRESS FOR A PRESIDENT WHO DEEPLY CARES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY. >> Linsey: LAST WEEK WHEN WE WERE AT THE RNC AND HAD A CHANE TO INTERVIEW SENATOR MARCO RUBIO, HE SAID AT THE TIME THEN AND THIS WAS BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN EVEN HAD DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO STEP ASIDE, HE SAID IF HE DOESN'T HAVE THE MENTAL ACUITY TO BE THE NOMINEE, DOESN'T HAVE THE MENTAL ACUITY TO BE THE PRESIDENT AND RUN THE COUNTRY NOW, WE FOR THE NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS SUGGEST THE SAME, THAT HE NEEDS TO RESIGN FROM OFFICE, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THOSE CRITICS? >> LET ME TELL THE CRITICS VERY NICELY -- JOE BIDEN DID NOT STEP ASIDE, HE HAD TO PLEDGED DELEGATES TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT TO. HE HAD MONEY IN THE BANK THAT HE AND AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS AND PATRIOTS WILLING TO FIGHT WITH HIM. HE DECIDED TO STEP BACK AND GIVE ANOTHER GENERATION THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE OUR COU COUNTRY. FOR THOSE REPUBLICANS END OF THE OTHER AMERICANS WHO DON'T BELIEVE JOE BIDEN HAS THE MENTAL, PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL STRENGTH TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT TONIGHT. HE'S NOT PERFECT, HE NEVER RAN AS A PERFECT PRESIDENT, HE RAN AS A PRESENT FOR THE PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO WANTED SOMEONE WHO WOULD FIGHT ON THEIR BEHALF. FROM LEADING US OUT A CULVERT, BRINGING THIS COUNTRY BACK ON ITS FEET IN TERMS OF JOBS, THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO IS PROUD OF HIS SERVICE AND TONIGHT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A MAN WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT HIS COUNTRY. THIS IS NOT SOMEONE WHO LOOKS IN A MIRROR AND SAYS THIS ABOUT ME, THIS IS A MAN WHO CARES ABOUT AMERICA. I'VE LOST MY VOICE BECAUSE I HAVE JUST BEEN TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE JOE BIDEN CONTINUE TO FIGHT. I WAS ONE OF THOSE AMERICANS WHO SAID IF JOE WANTS TO FIGHT, DONNA BRAZILE WILL FIGHT WITH HIM. JOE BIDEN DECIDED TO STEP BACK. HE WAS NOT PUSHED ASIDE, HE WAS NOT THROWN OFF THE BUS OR ROLLED OVER, HE IS GOING TO SHOW TONIGHT HE IS A PRESIDENT WILLING TO STAND AND FIGHT BUT HE'S STEPPING BACK SO A NEW GENERATION WILL FIGHT THIS BATTLE AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT IT WITH THE ENERGY THAT JOE HAS PUT IN US AND THE COMMITMENT TO AMERICAN VALUES -- TO FREEDOM, THE RULE OF LAW, THAT'S WHO JOE BIDEN IS. THAT'S THE MAN I RESPECT, THAT'S A PRESIDENT THAT HAS SERVED US WELL. WE OWE HIM A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO. SPEAK ALL OF THE EXPECTATION IS MUCH OF HIS SPEECH TONIGHT WILL BE ABOUT THE MEDIC'S LEGACY AND TALKING ABOUT THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION. HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT PASSING THE TORCH NOW TO KAMALA HARRIS? >> ABSOLUTELY. WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, PEOPLE IN RURAL AREAS OF THIS COUNTRY TODAY THAT HAVE WI-FI CONNECTED TO. WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE JOBS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED IN RED STATES AND BLUE STATES, MANUFACTURING SECTOR. WHEN I THINK INFLATION IS COMING DOWN SO PEOPLE CAN GO TO GROCERY STORES AND BUY THE FOOD THEY NEED TO. THIS IS A CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENT. YES, HE HAS ENDORSED KAMALA HARRIS AND LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN DOING. SHE'S BEEN EARNING THE SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WORKING WITH THE DELEGATES, WORKING WITH THE PROCESS. TODAY THE RULES COMMITTEE OF THE DNC PASSED A RESOLUTION. WE KNOW HOW WE ARE GOING TO PROCEED AND I THINK BY THE WEEKEND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS GOING TO BE UNIFIED AND WE ARE READY TO GO. LET ME JUST TELL YOU. JOE BIDEN DID NOT WANT TO SEE A DIVIDED DEMOCRATIC PARTY HE WANTED TO SEE A UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY BECAUSE WITHOUT A UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY WE CANNOT REACH OUT TO THE INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS TO BRING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOGETHER. HE'S NOT GOING TO PREACH UNITY IN ONE NIGHT, IS NOT GOING TO PREACH UNITY BECAUSE HE'S ACCEPTING A SPEECH COMING IS GOING TO PREACH UNITY BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IT IN HIS HEART. I HAVE BECOME MORE FIERCE AND MY DETERMINATION TO PROTECT JOE BIDEN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS BECAUSE I REMEMBER THE LITTLE KID FROM LOUISIANA THAT HE SAID TO COME WORK WITH ME AND I SAID I DON'T WANT TO WORK WITH YOU JUST YET AND WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS STEADFAST FRIENDS FOR 37 YEARS. I MISS MY TIME WITH THEM HAVING BREAKFAST. HE'S AN OATMEAL GUY I LIKE MY GREAT SON THE SOUTH. I TOLD MY THE PRESIDENT AS SOON AS I GET BACK TO WASHINGTON I'M GOING TO HAVE BREAKFAST WITH HIM, THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, THE WAY WE LIKE TO HAVE OUR BREAKFAST. >> Linsey: DONNA BRAZILE, GOOD IRISH WOMAN THAT YOU ARE. >> BLACK IRISH, PROUD OF IT. >> Linsey: JOINS US FROM CAPITOL HILL, WE HAVE HEARD REPUBLICAN AFTER REPUBLICAN INCLUDING AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SATAN PRESIDENT BIDEN STEPPING ASIDE IS NOT ENOUGH THAT HE MUST RESIGN FROM OFFICE AND NOW. CAN THIS OVAL OFFICE SPEECH DO ANYTHING TO PUT THAT TRAIN BACK IN THE STATION? >> WE EXPECT PRESIDENT BIDEN TO DELIVER THIS MESSAGE OF UNITY AND TALK ABOUT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND WHAT HE WANTS TO ACCOMPLISH OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING HE CAN SAY TO YOUR POINT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE THE CALCULUS AND WHAT WE WILL SEE INSTEAD ARE SOME POLITICAL DIVISIONS ON DISPLAY WITH THE WAY THAT HOUSE REPUBLICANS AND FRANKLY REPUBLICANS OF ALL STRIPES ARE EXPECTED TO REACT TO THIS. I CAN TELL YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF HIGH-PROFILE LAWMAKERS, REPUBLICANS HERE ON CAPITOL HILL WHO HAVE ALREADY CALLED ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE. ONE IS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON, ANOTHER IS SOMEONE WHO YOU HAD ON YOUR AIR NOT LONG AGO, TOM EMMER THE MAJORITY WHIP AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JOSH HAWLEY THE SENATOR IN THE LIST LIST GOES ON. THERE IS THIS SPLIT, THERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS WHO SAY HE IS STEPPING ASIDE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T THINK HE CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER, HE'S MAKING A SELFLESS CHOICE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY, THEN THERE'S THE REPUBLICAN ARGUMENT THAT HE STEPPING ASIDE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAS THE GAS IN THE TANK TO WIN IN NOVEMBER IN TERMS OF ABILITY. WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE DISPUTES THAT AND SAID LOOK AT HIS DOCTOR REPORTS, LOOK AT HIS HEALTH HISTORY -- THINGS OF THAT NATURE, THE REPUBLICANS ARE STILL PUSHING THAT NARRATIVE AND EVEN TOM EMMER EARLIER TONIGHT USE THE WORD COVER UP WITH YOU. THAT SCHISM IS VERY MUCH GOING TO BE ON DISPLAY AND WE DO NOT EXPECT THESE REPUBLICANS NO MATTER WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS TONIGHT TO STOP THOSE CALLS BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER. >> Linsey: OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. JOINING US NOW IS PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, THE COUNTRIES WITNESSING SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE LBJ DECIDED NOT TO RUN FOR A SECOND TERM BACK IN 1968'S, WHAT SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEN AND NOW? >> THERE ARE SIMILARITIES AND THERE ARE DIFFERENCES. THE SIMILARITIES THIS IS THE LAST TIME A SITTING PRESIDENT OPTED NOT TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION OF HIS PARTY FOR ANOTHER TERM BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS THIS -- THAT SPEECH THAT LBJ MADE IN 1968 WAS DONE ON MA MARCH 31ST AND NEITHER SAW NOR CHOSE TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION OF THIS PARTY FOR ANOTHER TERM, JOE BIDEN SOUGHT THE NOMINATION, HE GOT THE NOMINATION AND NOW HE'S DECLINING TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION AND HE'S DOING SO AT THE END OF JULY, NOT THE END OF MARCH. WELL INTO THE ELECTION CYCLE. THAT'S A MAJOR DIFFERENCE. I THINK THE OTHER SIMILARITY IS 1968, THERE ARE ECHOES OF 1968 IN 2024. A STREAM OF UNPRECEDENTED AND DRAMATIC EVENTS THAT SHAKE US TO OUR CORE AND WONDER WHAT'S HAPPENING NEXT. 1968 WAS WHAT LBJ CALLED THE NIGHTMARE YEAR BECAUSE THERE WAS ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER, WE ARE SEEING THAT ONCE AGAIN, CAUGHT UP IN THE CURRENT, THE RAPID CURRENT OF HISTORY IN 2024. >> Linsey: ONE THING THAT FASCINATES ME -- THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN JUNE WAS THE EARLIEST SUCH DEBATE EVER. DO YOU THINK HISTORIANS MIGHT LOOK BACK AND SAY IF NOT FOR SUCH AN EARLY DEBATE, PRESIDENT BIDEN MIGHT HAVE STAYED IN THE RACE? >> IT'S POSSIBLE. THE ONE THING ABOUT THAT DEBATE IS IT DETERMINED THE FATE OF ONE OF THE POLITICAL CANDIDATES. WE REALLY HAVEN'T SEEN THAT BEFORE TO THE POINT WHERE THE CANDIDATE REEVALUATES HIS CANDIDACY AND SAYS I'M NOT THE GUY TO STEER THIS PARTY FORWARD SO I'M GOING TO GET OUT OF THE RACE. THAT IS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. YOU POINT OUT IT HAPPENED EARLIER IN THE RACE -- THE DEMOCRATS MAY BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE HAD THAT PERFORMANCE HAPPENED AT A LATER POINT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO RECOVER FROM THAT POINT ON, SERVE UP A CANDIDATE WHOSE VIABLE AND WHO IS APPEALING TO THE ELECTORATES. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A TWIST OF FATE FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN THIS CASE, AN ADVANTAGE AS THEY GO FORWARD WITH A BRAND-NEW CANDIDATE FOR WHOM JOE BIDEN PASSES THE PORCH. >> Linsey: JUST ABOUT A MINUTE LEFT, HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN TORTURED OVER THIS DECISION FOR SEVERAL DAYS. HOW MIGHT HISTORY COME TO VIEW HIS EARLY DEPARTURE? >> I THINK HISTORY WILL SEE THE WISDOM AND IS OPTING NOT TO SEEK THE PRESIDENCY AGAIN FOR ANOTHER TERM, GIVEN WHAT WE SAW IN THAT PERFORMANCE EARLIER, THAT DEBATE PERFORMANCE YOU MENTIONED TO. ULTIMATELY, WE WILL SEE JOE BIDEN AS A PATRIOT WHO MADE THE DECISION TO PUT HIS COUNTRY ABOVE HIMSELF, ABOVE HIS OWN POLITICAL GAIN IN THE IN THIS CASE, THIS IS A GUY WHO WORKED HIS WHOLE LIFE FOR THE ACQUISITION AND EXERCISE OF POWER. 36 YEARS IN THE SENATE, EIGHT YEARS IN THE VICE PRESIDENCY, THREE PLUS YEARS IN THE PRESIDENCY AND NOW HE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ONE MORE TERM AND DECIDES IT'S BEST FOR THE COUNTRY TO STEP DOWN -- I THINK HISTORY WILL SMILE FAVORABLY ON JOE BIDEN FOR MAKING THAT DECISION. >> Linsey: DESPITE HIS LOW APPROVAL RATINGS NOW. >> IN PART BECAUSE OF HIS LOW APPROVAL RATINGS. HE SEES HE'S NOT THE GUY TO TAKE THE COUNTRY FORWARD. HE GOT INTO THE RACE IN ORDER TO SAVE DEMOCRACY AND HE HAS DONE AN ADMIRABLE JOB OF THAT BUT I THINK HE SEES HE'S NOT THE PERSON GOING FORWARD, IT'S KAMALA HARRIS. >> Linsey: WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THAT'S OUR SHOW TONIGHT OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS STARTS RIGHT NOW WITH DAVID MUIR. >> David: TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESSING THE NATION FROM THE OVAL OFFICE. THE PRESIDENT'S HISTORIC A DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. HIS GOAL FOR HIS REMAINING SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE AND HIS MESSAGE TONIGHT TO A DIVIDED AMERICA. >> THE "ABC NEWS" SPECIAL, PRESIDENT BIDEN THE DECISION ADDRESSED TO THE NATION. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE EXITING THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE -- FINISH THE JOB HE STARTED TO. NOW REPORTING, DAVID MUIR. >> David: GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS HISTORIC NIGHT. WE ARE MOMENTS AWAY FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN'S OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS TO THE NATION. FOR THE FIRST TIME HE WILL SPEAK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT HIS VERY PERSONABLE STOMACH PERSONAL AND LIKELY WRENCHING DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE REST FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. WE ARE TOLD HE WILL ARGUE IN HIS WORK THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY TITLE AND HE WILL OUTLINE HIS REMAINING SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE. THE PRESSURE TO DROP OUT HAD BEEN MOUNTING FOR WEEKS FOLLOWING HIS ALARMING DEBATE PERFORMANCE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. THE PRESIDENT REVEALING HIS DECISION SUNDAY IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO "MY FELLOW AMERICANS" ACKNOWLEDGING IN THIS AND THE BEST INTEREST OF MY PARTY IN THE COUNTRY FOR ME TO STAND DOWN. PASSING THE TORCH TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, NOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTIES WERE ASSUMPTIVE NOMINEE. THE PRESIDENT WILL SINGLE HE WILL FIGHT FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENT -- LET'S LISTEN TO PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> President Biden: MY FELLOW AMERICANS I'M SPEAKING YOU TONIGHT FOR BEHIND THE RESOLUTE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE OF THE SACRED SPACE SURROUNDED BY PORTRAITS OF EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS. THOMAS JEFFERSON WHO WROTE THE IMMORTAL WORDS THAT GUIDE THIS NATION. GEORGE WASHINGTON WHO SHOWED US PRESIDENTS ARE NOT KINGS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN WHO IMPLORED US TO REJECT MALICE. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WHO INSPIRED US TO REJECT FEAR. I REVIEWED THIS OFFICE BUT I LOVE MY COUNTRY MORE. IT'S BEEN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVE AS YOUR PRESIDENT. IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY WHICH IS AT STAKE, SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY TITLE -- I DRAW STRENGTH AND I FIND JOY IN WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT THIS SACRED TASK, PERFECTING OUR UNION IS NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT YOU, YOUR FAMILIES, YOUR FUTURES, IT'S ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE. WE CAN NEVER FORGET THAT AND I NEVER HAVE. I MADE IT CLEAR I BELIEVE AMERICA IS AT AN INFLECTION POINT. ONE OF THOSE RARE MOMENTS IN HISTORY WHEN THE DECISIONS WE MAKE NOW DETERMINE THE FATE OF OUR NATION AND THE WORLD FOR DECADES TO COME. AMERICA IS GOING TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD, BETWEEN HOPE AND HATE. BETWEEN UNITY AND DIVISION. WE HAVE TO DECIDE WE STILL BELIEVE IN HONESTY, DECENCY, RESPECT, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY? IN THIS MOMENT, WE CAN SEE THOSE WE DISAGREE THAT NOT AS ENEMIES BUT AS FELLOW AMERICANS? CAN WE DO THAT? THIS CHARACTER IN PUBLIC LIFE STILL MATTER? I BELIEVE WE KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTIONS BECAUSE I KNOW YOU THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND I KNOW THIS: WE ARE A GREAT NATION BECAUSE WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE. WHEN YOU ELECTED ME TO THIS OFFICE, I PROMISED TO ALWAYS LEVEL WITH YOU. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH, THE SACRED CAUSE OF THIS COUNTRY IS LARGER THAN ANYONE OF US. THOSE OF US WHO CHERISH THAT BECAUSE, CHERISH SO MUCH, THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ITSELF WANT TO UNITE TO PROTECT IT. IN RECENT WEEKS IT'S BECOME CLEAR TO ME I NEED TO UNITE MY PARTY IN THIS CRITICAL ENDEAVOR. I BELIEVE MY RECORD AS PRESIDENT, MY LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD, MY VISION FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE ALL MERITED A SECOND T TERM. NOTHING CAN COME IN THE WAY OF SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY, THAT INCLUDES PERSONAL AMBITION. I DECIDED THE BEST WAY FORWARD IS TO PASS THE TORCH TO A NEW GENERATION. WITH THE BEST WAY TO UNITE OUR NATION. THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR LONG YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC LIFE BUT THERE'S ALSO A TIME AND PLACE FOR NEW VOICES, FRESH VOICES, YES, YOUNGER VOICES. THAT TIME AND PLACE IS NOW. OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, I'LL BE FOCUSED ON DOING MY JOB AS PRESIDENT. THAT MEANS I WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER COSTS FOR HARDWORKING FAMILIES, GROW OUR ECONOMY. I WILL KEEP DEFENDING OUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND OUR CIVIL RIGHTS FROM THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE. I WILL KEEP CALLING OUT HATE AND EXTREMISM, MAKE IT CLEAR THERE IS NO PLACE, NO PLACE IN AMERICA FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE OR ANY VIOLENCE, PERIOD. I'M GOING TO KEEP SPEAKING OUT TO PROTECT OUR KIDS FROM GUN VIOLENCE, OUR PLANET FROM CLIMATE CRISIS, THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT. AND I WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR MY CANCER MOONSHOT SO WE CAN END CANCER AS WE KNOW IT BECAUSE WE CAN DO IT. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR SUPREME COURT REFORM BECAUSE THIS IS CRITICAL TO OUR DEMOCRACY, SUPREME COURT REFORM. YOU KNOW, I WILL KEEP WORKING TO ENSURE AMERICA REMAINS STRONG, SECURE AS A LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. ON THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THIS CENTURY TO REPORT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR WITH ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. WE WILL KEEP RALLYING A COALITION OF PROUD NATIONS TO STOP PUTIN FROM TAKING OVER UKRAINE AND DOING MORE DAMAGE. WE WILL KEEP NATO STRONGER AND MAKE IT MORE POWERFUL AND MORE UNITED. I'M GOING TO KEEP DOING THE SAME FOR OUR ALLIES IN THE PACIFIC. WHEN I CAME IN OFFICE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WAS CHINA WOULD INEVITABLY SURPASS THE UNITED STATES -- THAT'S NOT THE CASE ANYMORE. I'M GOING TO KEEP WORKING TO END THE WAR IN GAZA, BRING HOME ALL THE HOSTAGES AND BRING PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND END THIS WAR. WE ARE WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO BRING HOME AMERICANS BEING UNJUSTLY DETAINED ALL AROUND THE WORLD. YOU KNOW, WE'VE COME SO FAR SINCE MY INAUGURATION. ON THAT DAY I TOLD YOU WE WERE WITHSTANDING A WINTER OF PERIL BUT POSSIBILITIES. WE WERE IN THE GRIP OF THE WORST PANDEMIC IN THE CENTURY, THE WORST ECONOMIC CRISIS SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. OF THE WORST ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. BUT WE CAME TOGETHER AS AMERICANS WE GOT THROUGH IT. WE EMERGED STRONGER, MORE PROSPEROUS AND MORE SECURE. TODAY WE HAVE THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD CREATING NEARLY 60 MILLION NEW JOBS, RECORDS. WAGES ARE UP, INFLATION CONTINUES TO COME DOWN. THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IS THE LOWEST IT HAS BEEN IN 20 YEARS. WE ARE LITERALLY REBUILDING OUR ENTIRE NATION, URBAN, SUBURBAN, RURAL -- MANUFACTURING HAS COME BACK TO AMERICA. WE ARE LEADING THE WORLD AGAIN IN CHIPS AND A SCIENCE AND INNOVATION. WE FINALLY BEAT BIG PHARMA AFTER ALL THESE YEARS TO LOWER THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR SENIORS AND I'M GOING TO KEEP FIGHTING TO SEE THAT WE LOWER THE COST FOR EVERYONE. MORE PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH CARE TODAY IN AMERICA THAN EVER BEFORE. I SIGNED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LAWS HELPING MILLIONS OF VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO WERE EXPOSED TO TOXIC MATERIALS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CLIMATE LAW EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, THE FIRST MAJOR GUN SAFETY LAW AND 30 YEARS. TODAY, THE VIOLENT CRIME RATE IS AT A 15 YEAR LOW. WE ARE ALSO SECURING OUR BORDER. BORDER CROSSINGS ARE LOWER TODAY THAN WHEN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION LEFT OFFICE. I'VE KEPT MY COMMITMENT TO A POINT TO THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO THE SUPREME COURT IN THE NINE STATES OF AMERICA. I ALSO KEPT MY COMMITMENT TO HAVE ADMINISTRATION LOOKS LIKE AMERICA, AND BE A PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS. THAT'S WHAT I'VE DONE. I RAN FOR PRESIDENT FOUR YEARS AGO BECAUSE I BELIEVE AND STILL DO THAT THE SOUL OF AMERICA WAS AT STAKE. THE VERY NATURE OF WHO WE ARE WAS AT STAKE. THAT'S STILL THE CASE. AMERICA IS AN IDEA, AN IDEA STRONGER THAN ANY ARMY, BIGGER THAN THE OCEAN, MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY DICTATOR AND TYRANT. IT'S THE MOST POWERFUL IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, THAT IDEA IS THAT WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT: WE ARE ALL CREATED EQUAL. IN GOD, CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS. LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. WE HAVE NEVER FULLY LIVED UP TO IT, THIS SACRED IDEA BUT WE HAVE NEVER WALKED AWAY FROM IT EITHER. AND I DO NOT BELIEVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL WALK AWAY FROM IT NOW. IN JUST A FEW MONTHS, AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL CHOOSE THE COURSE OF AMERICA'S FUTURE. I MADE MY CHOICE. I'VE MADE MY VIEWS KNOWN. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR GREAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, SHE'S EXPERIENCED, SHE'S TOUGH, SHE'S CAPABLE. SHE'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLE PARTNER TO ME AND A LEADER FOR OUR COUNTRY. NUMBER CHOICE IS UP TO YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHEN YOU MAKE THAT CHOICE, MEMBER THE WORDS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HANGING ON THE WALL HERE IN THE OVAL OFFICE ALONGSIDE THE BUSTS OF DR. KING, ROSA PARKS AND CESAR CHAVEZ. WHEN BEN FRANKLIN WAS ASKED AS HE EMERGED FROM THE CONVENTION GOING ON, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS HAD GIVEN AMERICA A MONARCHY OR REPUBLIC, FRANKLIN RESPONSE WAS "A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT." OR REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT TO. WHETHER WE KEEP A REPUBLIC IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT'S BEEN THE PRIVILEGE OF MY LIFE TO SERVE THIS NATION FOR OVER 50 YEARS. NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH COULD A KID WITH A STARTER FROM MODEST BEGINNINGS IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, AND CLAYMONT, DELAWARE, ONE DAY SIT BEHIND THE RESOLUTE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BUT HERE I AM. THAT'S WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION OF PROMISE AND POSSIBILITIES. OF DREAMERS AND DOERS. OF ORDINARY AMERICANS DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. I GIVE MY HEART AND MY SOUL TO THE NATION LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. I HAVE BEEN BLESSED MILLION TIMES IN RETURN WITH THE LOVE AND SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I HOPE YOU HAVE SOME IDEA OF HOW GRATEFUL I AM TO ALL OF YOU. THE GREAT THING ABOUT AMERICA IS HERE. KINGS AND DICTATORS DO NOT WILL COME OF THE PEOPLE DO. HISTORY IS IN YOUR HANDS, THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS. THE IDEA OF AMERICA LIES IN YOUR HANDS. YOU JUST HAVE TO KEEP FAITH, KEEP THE FAITH. REMEMBER WHO WE ARE. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THERE'S SIMPLY NOTHING, NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY IF WE DO IT TOGETHER. SO LET'S ACT TOGETHER, PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY. GOD BLESS YOU ALL, MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TROOPS, THANK YOU. >> David: A MOMENT IN HISTORY TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE OVAL OFFICE, YOU HEARD HIM SAY THERE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I REVIEWED THIS OFFICE, I LOVE MY COUNTRY MORE. HE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEING NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT YOU, IT'S ABOUT TO BE THE PEOPLE. HE SAID WE CANNOT FORGET THAT, I NEVER HAVE. HE DID ASK THIS QUESTION: DOES CHARACTER IN PUBLIC LIFE STILL MATTER? AS WE HEAD TOWARD THE NOVEMBER ELECTION HE SAID NOTHING SHOULD COME IN THE WAY OF SAVING, PRESERVING DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY. WE DO HAVE OUR ENTIRE POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM TONIGHT, LET'S GET RIGHT TO CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE. YOU HAD REPORTED THIS IS A DEEPLY PERSONAL DECISION, A VERY SMALL GROUP WITH HIM INCLUDING HIS WIFE, FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN HE BEGAN TO COME TO THIS DECISION SATURDAY NIGHT. THEN ON SUNDAY HE MADE IT OFFICIAL CALLING THE VICE PRESIDENT INFORMING HER OF HIS PLAN TO STEP ASIDE IT IN THE RACE, THAN INFORMING HIS IMMEDIATE TEAM AND ONE A MINUTE SEND OUT THAT STATEMENT MY FELLOW AMERICANS -- IT STARTED TO. HE LAID OUT WHAT HE BELIEVES ARE THE STAKES IN THE SELECTION, HE ARGUED PRESIDENT BIDEN BELIEFS WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE IS ACTUALLY LARGER THAN ANY TITLE, LARGER THAN STAYING IN THE RACE HIMSELF THEIR COW SPEAK OF THE PRESIDENT SAYING HE HAS GIVEN HIS HEART AND HIS SOUL TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE IS DOING THAT AGAIN BY DECIDING TO STEP OUT OF THIS RACE. LISTENING THAT SPEECH IT FELT VERY MUCH LIKE A JILL BIDEN'S LOVE LETTER TO THE COUNTRY HE HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE AND HIS CAREER TO SERVING, PROTECTING AND DEFENDING. YOU HEARD HIM SAY NOTHING CAN GET IN THE WAY OF SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY INCLUDING PERSONAL AMBITION. WHEN HE DECIDED TO RUN BACK IN 2020 HE DID OF PROMISING TO BE A BRIDGE, A TRANSITIONAL CANDIDATE TO THE NEXT GENERATION BUT WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HIS REELECTION HE SAID HE HAD TO FINISH THE JOB. TONIGHT HE IS MAKING IT CLEAR FINISHING THE JOB MEANS HE NEEDS TO PASS ON THE PORCH, PASS ON THE BATON AND HELP KAMALA HARRIS NOW WIN THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. P IS ALSO MAKING IT CLEAR HIS WORK IS NOT DONE HERE. HE HAS SIX MORE MONTHS LEFT IN OFFICE HE WANTS TO USE THAT TIME TO HELP CEMENT HIS LEGACY. THE THING THAT JILL BIDEN WILL LIKELY BE MOST REMEMBERED FOR IS THIS VERY MOMENT, THE WAY IN WHICH HE IS EXITING THIS RACE. HE DID IT IN MANY WAYS TO PRESERVE HIS LEGACY BUT IT WILL LIKELY BE THE THING THAT ENDS UP DEFINING HIM. >> David: I WANTED TO REDO A STATEMENT MOMENTS AGO THAT CAME IN SOME COLOR FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. SOMEONE INSIDE THE CLOSE CIRCLE THAT HAS SPENT TIME WITH THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, TELLING "ABC NEWS" TONIGHT THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY IS CONTRARY TO THE REPORTS I HAVE HEARD THERE IS NO ANGER, NO REMORSE WITH A BITE AND FAMILY, THERE IS ONLY A DEEP SENSE OF PRIDE AND ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE OVERWHELMING RECOGNITION OF BIDEN AS A TRUE PATRIOT AND HISTORIC DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY. >> I THINK THAT IS A SENTIMENT SHARED NOT ONLY BY THE FAMILY BUT ALSO BY THE STAFF AT THE WHITE HOUSE. I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW THERE ARE ABOUT 500 MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT'S STAFF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DEVOTED SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY TO THIS ADMINISTRATION AND HIS FIGHT FOR WHAT THE COUNTRY CAN STAND FOR. THEY ARE NOW HUDDLED IN THE STATE DINING ROOM IN THE EAST ROOM WATCHING THESE REMARKS ALTOGETHER, WITNESSING THIS HISTORY TOGETHER. >> David: NO QUESTION A DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING NIGHT FOR THE TEAM THAT IS WORK CLOSELY WITH THE PRESIDENT AND EVEN THE BIDEN FAMILY THEMSELVES GETTING USED TO THIS DECISION, EARLY THIS WEEK. IT STILL MUST BE PROFOUND FOR JILL TO WATCH HER HUSBAND OF THE REST OF HER FAMILY WATCH THEIR FATHER, THEIR GRANDFATHER DELIVER THE NEWS. I RECOVERED IS GOING TO CONTINUE, MARY IS GOING TO BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT. I WANT TO BEGIN A CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JONATHAN KARL. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE HOW WRENCHING THIS DECISION MUST HAVE BEEN. THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO FOR WEEKS -- WE SOUGHT REPORTED HERE HE WAS DETERMINED TO STAY IN THIS RACE AMONG GROWING PRESSURE TO STEP DOWN OF THE CAMPAIGN FROM SOME OF THE VERY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WHO WERE HIS PARTNERS IN GETTING ELECTED IN 2020 OR WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT WHAT THE TURNING POINT WAS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN IN EVENTUALLY MAKING THIS DECISION? >> YOU COULD HEAR IT IN WHAT HE SAID TONIGHT. HE BELIEVED THAT HIS RECORD MERITED A SECOND TERM. HE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THIS DECISION, THIS IS A DECISION THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH FORCED TO MAKE. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THAT SPEECH THAT SUGGESTED HE DIDN'T BELIEVE HE COULD SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, NOTHING THAT SUGGESTED HIS HEALTH WOULD HAVE GOTTEN IN THE WAY. HE SAID HE DID IT BECAUSE OF PARTY UNITY, THE PARTY NEEDED TO BE UNIFIED TO. ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, A CRITICAL MOMENT IN ALL OF THIS -- THERE ARE MANY CRITICAL BUT PERHAPS MOST WAS A WEEK AGO SATURDAY WHEN CHUCK SCHUMER, THE SENATE LEADER -- YOU ARE A NUMBER JILL BIDEN IS A MAN OF THE SENATE, HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE SERVING IN THE SENATE. WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER OF THE SENATE WENT TO SEE HIM AT REHOBOTH BEACH AS WE FIRST REPORTED URGED HIM TO TAKE THIS STEP FOR HIS OWN GOOD, THE GOOD OF HIS PARTY, THE GOOD OF HIS COUNTRY. I'M TOLD OF THE END OF THAT MEETING, BIDEN SAID TO CHUCK SCHUMER I NEED ANOTHER WEEK AND THE TWO MEN HUGGED AND WENT ON. IT WAS EXACTLY A WEEK AFTER THAT MOMENT THAT BIDEN BEGAN THE PROCESS OF MAKING THE DECISION YOU HEARD MARY BRUCE DECIDED DECIDING TO GET OUT OF THIS RACE, A DECISION HE VERY MUCH DID NOT WANT TO MAKE. >> David: WAS DEEPLY PERSONAL WORDS NEAR THE TOP OF WHAT HE SAID TO. HE SAID THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY WHICH IS AT STAKE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY TITLE." >> HE MADE THE POINT, HE WAS THE PHRASE INFLECTION POINTS, IT'S AN INFLECTION POINT IN OUR COUNTRY. THE DECISIONS WE MAKE NOW, THE THINGS WE DO NOW WILL IMPACT THE COURSE OF HISTORY FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. I THINK THAT'S ALMOST CERTAINLY CORRECT. IN TERMS OF BIDEN'S LEGACY, THE QUESTION WILL BE "WHAT HAPPENS NOW?" DOES KAMALA HARRIS WIN IN NOVEMBER. IF SHE DOESN'T, PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK ON THIS MOMENT AND ASK WHY DID JOE BIDEN DO IT EARLIER? >> David: THAT WILL BE THE CASE CERTAINLY COME NOVEMBER IF THEY DO NOT WIN IN THE SELECTION. JON KARL I KNOW YOU'RE STAYING WITH US OVER THE COURSE OF THE HOUR. I WANT TO BRING IN ABCs RACHEL SCOTT FOR BOTH THE BUYING CAMPAIGN IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, IT'S GOING TO BE A LEGACY DEFINING MOMENT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. HE IS THROWN HIS FULL SUPPORT BEHIND HIS VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. HE SAID BACK IN 2020 HE WANTED TO BE A BRIDGE TO THE NEXT GENERATION. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE IS NOW TRYING TO DO HERE TONIGHT. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN IS THAT BRIDGE TO THE NEXT GENERATION, HE SAID IT'S TIME TO PASS THE TORCH. HE CALLED IT THE BEST WAY TO UNITE THE NATION. HE PUT IT BLUNTLY HE SAID THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR LONG CAREERS IN POLITICS AND THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE FOR FRESH VOICES, FRESH FACES AND HE SAID THAT TIME AND PLACE IS RIGHT NOW. AS THE PRESIDENT WAS SPEAKING I THOUGHT BACK TO HELP PRESIDENT BIDEN ONCE INTRODUCED ONCE INTRODUCED KAMALA HARRIS TO THE NATION SAYING HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE BROWN AND BLACK LITTLE GIRLS OUT THERE THAT WERE SEEING A BLACK AND THE SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN IN A NEW WAY, WHERE THEY MAY NOT HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE. TONIGHT KAMALA HARRIS THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE BECOMES THE FIRST BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN ON A MAJOR PARTY TICKETS. >> David: RACHEL SCOTT WITH COVERAGE TONIGHT AS WELL. WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN'S DECISION SUNDAY IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE. THE PRESIDENT -- THE CAMPAIGNS NIGHT 22 NEW NATIONAL POLLS SHOWING TIGHTENING ALREADY. A POLL SHOWING VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS LEADING DONALD TRUMP, ANOTHER NEW PULLOUT SHOWING HIS NATIONALLY SHRINKING, KAMALA HARRIS GETTING CLOSER AND NOT PULL. THIS IS HIS VERY EARLY AND WILL ALL COME DOWN TO THE BATTLEGROUND STATES. MARY BRUCE TONIGHT ON HOW THIS RACE HAS CHANGED AND QUICKLY. >> FOR KAMALA HARRIS, A WHIRLWIND TRANSITION FROM JOE BIDEN'S LOYAL NUMBER TWO TRAM TO THE NEW STANDARD BEARER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THEIR NEW HOPE FOR DEFEATING DONALD TRUMP. >> DO WE WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY OF FREEDOM, COMPASSION, AND RULE OF LAW? OR A COUNTRY OF CHAOS, FEAR, AND HATE YOUR GO >> IT WAS JUST MINUTES AFTER DROPPING ON THE RACE THAT HE ANOINTED HARRIS HIS SUCCESSOR GIVING HARRIS' FULL SUPPORT AND ENDORSEMENT TELLING DEMOCRATS IT'S TIME TO COME TOGETHER. HIS CAMPAIGN OFFICE BECOMING HERS, THE PRESIDENT PHONING IN THESE MARCHING ORDERS. >> I'M HOPING YOU WILL GIVE EVERY BIT OF YOUR HEART AND SOUL THAT YOU GAVE TO ME TO KAMALA. BIDEN STILL ON THE PHONE. >> WE LOVE JOE AND JILL, WE REALLY DO, THEY ARE LIKE FAMILY TO US. >> IT'S MUTUAL. >> I KNEW YOU WERE STILL THERE, YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE AGO >> I'M WATCHING YOU, I LOVE YOUR. >> THE TOP DEMOCRATS IN THE COUNTRY UNITED BEHIND HER CAMPAIGN, WITHIN 48 HOURS, SHE HAD COMMITMENTS FROM ENOUGH DELEGATES TO SECURE THE NOMINATION, MORE THAN $100 MILLION IN DONATIONS POURING IN. THEN SHE WAS OFF HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. >> THE PATH TO THE WHITE HOUSE GOES THROUGH WISCONSIN. >> HER HISTORIC CANDIDACY WELCOME TO BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN PIE OF THE BIGGEST CROWD A DEMOCRAT HAS SEEN THIS CYCLE. >> IT'S A HER-STORY MOMENT AND SHE WILL MAKE IT WITH OUR HELP. >> HARRIS WERE INTRODUCING HERSELF AS A FULLER PROSECUTOR READY TO MAKE THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP. >> I TOOK ON PERPETRATORS OF ALL KINDS. PREDATORS WHO ABUSED WOMEN, FRAUDSTERS WHO RIPPED OFF CONSUMERS. CHEATERS WHO BROKE THE RULES FOR THEIR OWN GAIN. SO HEAR ME WHEN I SAY I KNOW DONALD TRUMP'S TYPE GO >> HER EARLY MESSAGE AIMED SQUARELY AT THE MIDDLE CLASS. >> BUILDING UP THE MIDDLE CLASS WILL BE A DEFINING GOAL OF MY PRESIDENCY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BECAUSE HERE'S THE THING WE ALL KNOW. WHEN OUR MIDDLE CLASS IS STRONG, AMERICA IS STRONG. >> AS VICE PRESIDENT, HARRIS HAS BEEN THE ADMINISTRATION'S LEADING VOICE ON AN ISSUE DEMOCRATS ARE COUNTING ON TO ENERGIZE VOTERS IN NOVEMBER, ABORTION. SHE'S DOUBLING DOWN. >> DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT HANDPICKED THREE MEMBERS OF THE UNITES STATES SUPREME COURT BECAUSE HE INTENDED FOR THEM TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE TO. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. WHEN I AM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHEN CONGRESS PASSES A LAW TO RESTORE THOSE FREEDOMS, I WILL SIGN IT INTO LAW. WE ARE NOT PLAYING AROUND. >> David: LET'S GET BACK TO MARY BRUCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU WERE IN MILWAUKEE, YOU WERE INSIDE THAT RALLY, THE VICE PRESIDENT'S FIRST CAMPAIGN RALLY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET NOW THE PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE VERY DIFFERENT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND RUNNING AS THE RUNNING MATES. CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT WE WITNESSED IN THAT ROOM? ANY EVOLUTION YOU MIGHT HAVE WITNESSED IN THE VICE PRESIDENT? THE SECOND PART OF MY QUESTION IS KAMALA HARRIS MADE IT CLEAR SHE WAS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED AS A FORMER PROSECUTOR TO MAKE THE CASE FOR THE DEMOCRATS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. >> SHE IS IN MANY WAYS REINTRODUCING HERSELF TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THEY KNOW HER AS VICE PRESIDENT AS A RUNNING MATE BUT AT THE TOP OF THE TICKETS, THAT IS A VERY DIFFERENT ROLE AND TEAM FELT THAT IN THAT ROOM YESTERDAY. THE ENERGY, THE ENTHUSIASM WAS PALPABLE AND SHE SEEMED DIFFERENT TO. SHE WAS TRYING TO LEAN INTO THIS IN A DIFFERENT WAY. SHE IS LEANING INTO THAT HISTORY, REMINDING EVERYONE THAT SHE WAS THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA AND SHE BELIEVES SHE IS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO PROSECUTE THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP. SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO REINTRODUCE HERSELF PERSONALLY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I CAN TELL YOU SO MANY VOTERS I TALKED TO YESTERDAY ESPECIALLY WOMEN WERE EXTREMELY EXCITED AT THE PROSPECT OF HAVING A WOMAN FINALLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WATCH CLOSELY OVER THE COMING WEEKS AND DAYS TO SEE HOW SHE DISTINGUISHES HERSELF, HOW SHE MAY DISTANCE HERSELF FROM THE PRESIDENT. SHE HAS INHERITED HIS CAMPAIGN BUT THE ONLY BIG DIFFERENCE IS THE MESSENGER AND HOW THAT MESSAGE IS BEING DELIVERED TO. >> David: BEFORE I MOVE ON TO ALL THIS TALK ABOUT RUNNING MATES, EVERYONE IS READING THE TEA LEAVES OUT THERE. I WANT TO ASK ABOUT SOME OF YOU WERE TELLING US A MOMENT AGO WHILE THAT PIECE WAS PLAYING ON THE AIR. AT THE END OF THE OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD HURT APPLAUSE COMING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. >> YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAR RIGHT NOW, MASSIVE APPLAUSE AND CHEERING FOR WHAT I GATHER ALL THOSE HUNDREDS OF STAFFERS WHO ARE WATCHING THAT ADDRESS IN THE RESIDENCE RIGHT NOW. WE HEARD NOW THE PRESIDENT'S VOICE SAYING HELLO AS HE WALKED INTO THAT SPACE, HE IS NOW GREETING HIS STAFF WHO LOVE HIM VERY DEARLY AS YOU MAY BE ABLE TO HEAR BEHIND ME. >> David: WATCHING VERY CLOSELY. THE SPECULATION IS GROWING OVER VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS' SHORT LIST OF POTENTIAL RUNNING MATES. ARIZONA SENATOR MARK KELLY A RETIRED ASTRONAUT A VETERAN AND MARRIED TO FORMER CONGRESSMAN GABBY GIFFORDS AND THE PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO VERY POPULAR IN HIS HOME STATE OF KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA NEEDED TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE. BOTH ARE BELIEVED TO BE AMONG THE EARLY FAVORITES HERE. JONATHAN KARL IS BACK UP WHAT WE LEARNED SO FAR ABOUT POTENTIAL CONTENDERS FOR RUNNING MATE. >> NOW THAT SHE HAS THE SUPPORT OF ENOUGH DELEGATES TO LOCK UP THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, KAMALA HARRIS HAS HER FIRST BIG DECISION TO MAKE AND SHE HAS TO MAKE IT QUICKLY. CHOOSING A RUNNING MATES. VETTING POTENTIAL CANDIDATES HAS ALREADY BEGUN, SOURCES BRIEF IN THE PROCESS SAY THERE ARE AT LEAST FOUR ELECTED DEMOCRATS UNDER CONSIDERATION INCLUDING JOSH SHAPIRO, THE POPULAR GOVERNOR OF MUST WIN PENNSYLVANIA. ARIZONA SENATOR MARK KELLY AND ASTRONAUT AND HUSBAND OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN GABBY GIFFORDS WHO SURVIVED AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN 2011. KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, A MODERATE AND WHERE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR IN A RED STATE. AND NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR ROY COOPER, A MODERATE WHO HAS KNOWN HARRIS FOR 20 YEARS, GOING BACK TO WHEN SHE WAS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA AND HE WAS THE AG OF NORTH CAROLINA. >> NORTH CAROLINA IS IN PLAY, DONALD TRUMP IS WORRIED BECAUSE HE'S COMING TO CHARLOTTE TODAY BECAUSE HE WANTS TO TRY TO SHORE UP NORTH CAROLINA AND I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN THIS STATE FOR KAMALA HARRIS. >> GOVERNOR SHAPIRO MINDED VOTERS OF JUST HOW IMPORTANT HIS STATE WILL BE IN NOVEMBER. >> THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE LEADS TO PENNSYLVANIA AND IT DOESN'T TAKE AN EXPERT TO KNOW THE LAST TO GO PRESIDENTIAL RACES CAME DOWN TO A POINT OR LESS, I EXPECT THIS RACE WILL BE CLOSE AS WELL. >> AS HARRIS UNDOUBTEDLY KNOWS, HE HIMSELF WON PENNSYLVANIA TO GO YEARS AGO IN A 15-POINT LANDSLIDE. AS FOR KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR HE'S BEEN ELECTED TWICE IN A STATE DOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS, HE'S BEEN SHOWING HE'S READY TO TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE, OFFERING SOMETHING OF A PREVIEW OF A VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. >> J.D. VANCE IS A PHONY. HE'S FAKE. HE FIRST SAYS DONALD TRUMP IS LIKE HITLER AND NOW HE'S ACTING LIKE HE'S LINCOLN. THE PROBLEM WITH J.D. VANCE IS HE HAS NO CONVICTION. I GUESS HIS RUNNING MATE HAS 34. >> SENATOR MARK KELLY FROM BORDER STATE ARIZONA IS A MODERATE WITH A MORE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF SECURING THE BORDER, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST ISSUE FOR REPUBLICANS. ABC ASKED IF HE WANTED TO BE HARRIS' RUNNING MATE, HE DIDN'T DIRECTLY ANSWER. >> IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, WHAT IS IMPORTANT HERE IS WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY IN NOVEMBER TO MAKE A REALLY IMPORTANT CHOICE. THE CHOICE CANNOT BE MORE CLEAR. WE SHOULD TAKE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD TO. I DON'T WANT TO SEE US GO BACK TO THE PAST. THIS IS A CHOICE BETWEEN A PROSECUTOR, VERY EXPERIENCED WHO'S DONE A GREAT JOB AND A CONVICTED FELON. >> David: INTERESTING TO WATCH THESE POTENTIAL CONTENDERS BE INTERVIEWED ALMOST HOURLY WITH EACH DAY THAT PASSED S JONATHAN KARL IS BACK WITH US. HOW SOON COULD BE SEE KAMALA HARRIS CHOOSE A RUNNING MATE? >> REALLY SOON. THE VIRTUAL ROLL CALL WHERE THE PARTY IS TO AT LEAST UNDER THE CURRENT SCHEDULE FORMALLY PICK THEIR NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT, BEGINS IN A WEEK, ONE WEEK AND IT ENDS ON AUGUST THE 7TH. WHAT I AM TOLD IS THE GOAL IS TO HAVE IT DONE, HAVE THE CHOICE DONE BY AUGUST 7TH. THAT WOULD GIVE THEM TO GO WEEKS TO COMPLETE A PROCESS IN ANY OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CYCLE IT USUALLY TAKES A MATTER OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS. >> David: AT THIS POINT WE THINK KAMALA HARRIS AND THE COUNTRY WILL KNOW BY AUGUST 7TH? >> THAT THE PLAN RIGHT NOW BUT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN A RUNNING MATE CHOSEN ON SUCH A SHORT TIMELINE. >> David: I DON'T WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT YOU LISTED A NUMBER OF POTENTIAL CONTENDERS THEY ARE, WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES TELLING YOU ABOUT WHO THEY MIGHT BE LEANING TOWARD ON THAT LIST? >> I THINK THOSE FOUR ARE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, THERE ARE OTHER NAMES CERTAINLY BEING LOOKED AT. JOSH SHAPIRO THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA GIVES KAMALA HARRIS THE POSSIBILITY IF THE RESEARCH WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW -- TO WIN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, THEY THINK THEY CAN WIN PENNSYLVANIA WITH JOSH SHAPIRO, I THINK THAT PUTS HIM NEAR THE TOP OF THAT LIST. YOU COULD SAY THE SAME ABOUT ROY COOPER IN NORTH CAROLINA, ANOTHER KEY STATES. I THINK ALL FOUR OF THOSE NAMES MENTIONED ARE VERY MUCH, VERY ACTIVELY UNDER CONSIDERATION. >> JON KARL WITH US TONIGHT, YOU KNOW WE WILL LIKELY ASK THE SAME QUESTION. I WANT TO BRING IN A FORMER HEAD OF THE DMC, DONNA BRAZILE. WE ALL KNOW, WE ARE ALL STUDENTS OF HISTORY. LBJ MARCH 1968 TELLING THE NATION HE WOULD NOT SEEK REELECTION. THIS WAS DIFFERENT, OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS MUCH CLOSER TO ELECTION DAY HEARING THIS MESSAGE FROM THE OVAL OFFICE AND PRESIDENT BIDEN. DEEPLY PERSONAL TERMS TONIGHT, IN MODERN AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE T THIS? >> NO I HAVEN'T AND I BEEN A STUDENT OF AMERICAN POLITICS SINCE I WAS NINE YEARS OLD WHEN I WORKED ON MY FIRST CAMPAIGN TO GET A PLAYGROUND IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD BACK IN LOUISIANA. IT'S AN EMOTIONAL NIGHT FOR ME FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN ONE OF THOSE LEADERS WHO HAVE TAKEN SO MANY PEOPLE OVER THE BRIDGE PERIODS ENTIRE HISTORY AND PUBLIC SERVICE HAS BEEN ONE OF COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE. FOR MANY OF US AND THOSE OF US WHO HAVE KNOWN JOE BIDEN FOR YEARS I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR 37 YEARS, THIS SACRIFICE, ITS ULTIMATE SACRIFICE GIVING UP POWER -- I ASKED ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MAN GIVE HIS POWER -- GIVE THE TORCH TO A WOMAN? AND HIS BANK CHEST. THAT'S UNUSUAL. THIS IS BECAUSE JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN AN UNUSUAL TYPE OF PRESIDENTS. YOU TALK ABOUT LYNDON JOHNSON, TALK ABOUT SIDE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, THE HEAD START PROGRAM. THEN YOU TALK ABOUT JOE BIDEN WITH BUILDING BACK A COUNTRY THAT WAS ON THE BRINK. THIS IS AN AMAZING MOMENTS. I KNOW WE HAVE A TIGHT TIMELINE FOR THE THING THE PRESIDENT SAID TONIGHT, HE TALKED ABOUT THE JOY HE HAS IN PUBLIC SERVICE. I AM SO GRATEFUL I KNOW SUCH A HUMAN BEING WHO PUTS HIS COUNTRY AHEAD OF HIS PARTY AND WILL PASS THIS PORCH TO A TREMENDOUS PROVEN LEADER. KAMALA HARRIS IS READY, SHE WAS READY ON DAY ONE TO ROUND AND JOE BIDEN WHEN HE SELECTED HER ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO IN AUGUST, HE KNEW HE WANTED SOMEBODY TO BE PREPARED FOR THIS MOMENT. SHE WILL MEET AT THE MOMENT AND I AM SO PROUD TO HAVE KNOWN JOE BIDEN AS A LEADER, AS A FIGHTER, AND I'M GOING TO HELP THEM OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. >> David: AND WATCHING THIS OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS CLOSELY I TOOK NOTE IT DIDN'T SEEM TO BE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH TONIGHT TO. THIS WAS NOT A VALLEY, THIS SEEMED A MOMENT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO DEFINE THE DECISION IN HIS OWN TERMS. TO EXPLAIN WHY HE BELIEVES THE STAKES ARE SO GREAT THIS MOMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. HE ARGUED THAT'S WHAT HE STEPPED ASIDE IN THIS RACE, THIS WAS LARGER THAN ANY TITLE, THEN HIMSELF. WHAT DO YOU MAKE AT THIS "ABC NEWS" REPORTING AT THIS HOUR OF THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BIDEN FAMILY THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, A SOURCE SAYING IT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUE REFLECTION OF HOW THEY FEEL TONIGHT -- THAT TONIGHT, GRATITUDE IS THE WORD FOR SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY POINTING TO JOE BIDEN NOW AND CALLING HIM A PATRIOT WHO STEPPED IN WHEN DEMOCRACY NEEDED HIM. >> WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY. I TALKED TO HIS SISTER, I STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE FAMILY, I STAY IN TOUCH WITH DR. BIDEN. THEY ARE A REMARKABLE RESOURCE OF JOY. THEY ARE FIGHTERS TOO, I LOVE THEIR SPIRIT. WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS GETTING THIS HIT AND THAT HAVE COME OF THE FAMILY STAYED CLOSE. THEY JUST KEPT THE FAITH. THIS IS A WONDERFUL, PHENOMENAL HUMAN BEING AND I'M SO GLAD THAT I KNOW HIM AND I'M GOING TO HELP HIM BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT YOU SAW TONIGHT AND I HOPE EVERY AMERICAN ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY, I HOPE THEY CAN FIND JOY AND SEE WHAT A TRUE PUBLIC SERVANT IS ALL ABOUT. HE PUT HIS COUNTRY FIRST, HE SAID I WANT TO DO THIS FOR THE COUNTRY. >> David: DONNA BRAZILE WITH US TONIGHT GO WE ARE GETTING REPUBLICAN REACTION TONIGHT AS WELL, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TONIGHT HOLDING A RALLY IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. HE HAS BEEN ATTACKING PRESIDENT BIDEN OVER HIS DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE AND HE HAS NOW TURNED HIS ATTACKS TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. HERE AGAIN ON THAT RACHEL SCOTT. >> WITH THE EYES OF THE WORLD OF THE WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA DONALD TRUMP PLOWING AHEAD WITH HIS CAMPAIGN TAKING THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SUNDAY'S POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE. PRESIDENT BIDEN OUT OF THE RACE, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS NOW TRUMP'S NEW OPPONENTS. >> KAMALA HARRIS IS UNFIT TO LEAD, SHE'S UNFIT TO LEAD TO. SHE WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY IN A YEAR. >> TRUMP WHO SPENT YEARS ATTACKING BIDEN NOW QUICKLY TRYING TO RECALIBRATE TO FOCUS ON THE HARRIS, ZEROING IN ON HER ROLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION. TEST WITH ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER. >> WITH ALL OF THE THINGS THEY HAVE DONE WRONG, EVERYTHING FROM THE BORDER, THE BORDER -- YOU SAY I LIKE TRUMP, NO I REALLY LIKED TRUMP WE DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO. >> SEVERAL OF THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOW TAKING AIM AT HER IDENTITY IS THE FIRST WOMAN OF COLOR TO SERVICE VICE PRESIDENT LABELING HER AS A DEI HIGHER. >> I THINK SHE WAS A DEI HIGHER. >> 100% SHE WAS A DEI HIGHER. >> SOURCES TELLING "ABC NEWS" MIKE JOHNSON HAS PRIVATELY WON FOR REPUBLICANS TO STOP. SPEAK OF THIS NOT PERSONAL REGARDING KAMALA HARRIS AND HER ETHNICITY, OR GENDER, THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WHATSOEVER. SPEAK OF THE DAY IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES" HILLARY CLINTON RIDING OF HARRIS, I KNOW SHE CAN TO BE DONALD TRUMP BUT ADDING "I KNOW A THING OR TWO AGO ABOUT HOW HARD IT CAN BE FOR A STRONG WOMAN CANDIDATES WHO FIGHT TO THE SEXISM AND DOUBLE STANDARDS OF AMERICAN POLITICS." NOTING THAT HARRIS WILL FACE ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES AS A FIRST BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE MAJOR PARTIES TICKETS. ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHOWING THIS 2021 CLIP OF TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE DISPARAGING HARRIS FOR NOT HAVING CHILDREN. >> WE ARE RUN IN THIS COUNTRY BY A BUNCH OF CHILDLESS CAT LADIES WHO ARE MISERABLE AT THEIR OWN LIVES AND THE CHOICES THEY HAVE MADE SO THEY WANT TO MAKE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY MISERABLE TOO. IT'S A BASIC FACT. LOOK AT KAMALA HARRIS, PETE BUTTIGIEG, AOC, THE ENTIRE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS IS CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE WITHOUT CHILDREN. >> HILLARY CLINTON'S REACTION "WHAT A NORMAL RELATABLE GUY WHO CERTAINLY DOESN'T HATE WOMEN HAVING FREEDOMS. HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA TRUMP SUPPORTER'S WE SPOKE TO SAY THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE NEW EXCITEMENT HARRIS CAN BRING TO THE RACE. >> DO YOU THINK IT COULD BE MORE OF A CHALLENGE THAT HARASSES ON THE TICKETS? >> I DO, I THINK HE COULD BRING NEW LIFE IN THE PARTY FOR THE DEMOCRATS. LOOKING AT THE COUPLE MONTHS ESPECIALLY WITH HOW EVERYTHING HAS GONE HAYWIRE, THEY WILL FIND UNITY IN IT AND I THINK SHE WILL GIVE THEM THAT LIFT. >> David: INTERESTING TO HEAR FROM DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS THEY BELIEVE KAMALA HARRIS IS INJECTING NEW ENERGY INTO THIS RACE. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT CAME UP MOMENTS AGO. I KNOW YOU ARE READY AND ON THIS. APPARENTLY DONALD TRUMP WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE OVAL OFFICE A SHORT TIME AGO AND WHAT ARE YOU LEARNING? SPEAK OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT WRAPPED UP HIS RALLY IN NORTH CAROLINA MINUTES BEFORE PRESIDENT BIDEN GAVE THE OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS IN THE FORMER PRESIDENT GOT ON HIS PLANE IN THESE PICTURES FLOATING ABOVE HIM HIS OWN CAMPAIGN ADVISORS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT WATCHING PRESIDENT BIDEN GIVE THIS SPEECH FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH PRESIDENT BIDEN IS NOT EVEN IN THE RACE ANYMORE, IT IS CLEAR THAT HE HAS BEEN TOP OF MIND FOR DONALD TRUMP. FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS EVEN THOUGH HE HAS BEEN OUT OF THE RACE, TRUMP HAS BEEN RAILING ATTACKING PRESIDENT BIDEN. HE HAS SPENT THE LAST 600 DAYS FOCUSED ON THIS REMATCH WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AND NOW OF COURSE HE IS TRYING TO READJUST AND FOCUS ON VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. THAT IS PROVING TO BE A BIT OF A CHALLENGE. >> David: TALK TO US ABOUT THAT, TODAY WAS THE FIRST TIME WE ACTUALLY SAW DONALD TRUMP SINCE KAMALA HARRIS BECAME HIS TRUE OPPONENT HERE. NOW AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, HE HAD SAID EARLIER THIS WEEK ON A CALL WITH REPORTERS, NOW WE HAVE TO START ALL OVER ESSENTIALLY, VISIBLY FRUSTRATED THAT JOE BIDEN HAD STEPPED DOWN FROM THE RACE. >> VISIBLY FRUSTRATED, HE HAS BEEN AIRING OUT HIS GRIEVANCES ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN STEPPING OUT OF THIS RACE, SINGING HIS OLD WORDS HE HAS TO START OVER AGAIN NOW WITH THE NEW RIFLE HE HAS TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ATTACK. DONALD TRUMP WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT BIDEN ESPECIALLY GIVEN ALL THE QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS MENTAL FITNESS AND HIS AGE COMING UP THAT DEBATE WHERE THEY BELIEVE THE PRESENT PERFORMED VERY POORLY IN THAT DEBATE. NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO SWITCH GEARS AND TEST OUT NEW ALLIANCE AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. WE KNOW THIS IS SOME OF THE CAMPAIGN HAD BEEN BRACING FOR FOR A NUMBER OF WEEKS NOW CLEARLY PICKING UP ON THE CUES AND THE GROWING PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE BUT THIS IS NOW THE REALITY AND THEY ARE DRILLING AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT THEIR NEW ATTACK ON VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. >> David: RACHEL SCOTT WITH ESTIMATES. THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL FACE A NUMBER OF WORLD CONFLICTS INCLUDING THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR. THE PRESIDENT URGING A CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA AND A RETURN OF ALL HOSTAGES. PRESIDENT BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT TERRACE AND DONALD TRUMP, ALL THREE OF THEM EXPECTED TO HAVE MEETINGS WITH THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WHILE HE IS HERE IN THE U.S. HE ADDRESSED THAT JOINT MEETING OF CONGRESS TODAY IN WASHINGTON, PROTESTS ON THE OUTSIDE IN WASHINGTON -- A WARM WELCOME INSIDE THE PERGOLA SPRING AND CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT MARTHA RADDATZ CHEMICAL ANCHOR OF THIS WEEK. THE NEXT PRESIDENT ALSO INHERITS NOT ONLY THE ISSUES HERE AT HOME, THE ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, ABORTION RIGHTS -- ISRAEL, GAZA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND RISING CONCERN OVER CHINA. >> EXACTLY, TODAY FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IS THE FIRST TIME, U.S. JETS INTERCEPTED CHINESE BOMBERS AND TWO RUSSIAN BOMBERS OFF THE COAST OF ALASKA. AS FAR AS WE KNOW THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED IN RECENT TIMES. THAT WAS OFF THE COAST OF ALASKA ABOUT 150-MILE AREA ON THAT COASTLINE. THAT IS SOMETHING PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS CERTAINLY BEEN BRIEFED ON. WHAT HE HAS TO DO IN THESE COMING MONTHS IS CONCENTRATE SOLELY ON BEING PRESIDENT BECAUSE IT CAN BE A VERY VULNERABLE TIME IF YOU ARE IN FACT A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT. THE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING, OUR ADVERSARIES WILL BE WATCHING, HE ALSO WANTS A BADLY FOR THAT GAZA WAR TO END AND HOSTAGES TO RETURN HOME. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU DID NOT MENTION A CEASE-FIRE TODAY. WE KNOW NEGOTIATIONS ARE DOING FAIRLY WELL. WE BELIEVE THEY MAY BE IN THE CLOSING STAGES OF DATA ACCORDING TO A U.S. OFFICIAL. SADLY WE HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE AND IT HASN'T HAPPENED BUT WE HAVE HAD MANY HOSTAGES RELEASED. >> David: MARTHA RADDATZ WITH US TONIGHT AS WELL, THANK YOU AS ALWAYS. WHEN WE COME BACK ON THIS "ABC NEWS" SPECIAL REPORT TONIGHT, TERRY MORAN IS STANDING BY ON THE STATE OF THE RACE TONIGHT TO PICK OUT THE NEW NATIONAL POLLS JUST OUT IN THE LAST 24 HOURS, WHERE DOES THIS RACE NOW STAND BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS? THE NUMBERS HAVE BEEN EYE-OPENING. 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Hey, good morning. America. Good Morning. America Good Morning America covering the biggest events in the country right now. You don't just see it. You feel it. I'm in I'm in to Michael towards where. >> David: WELCOME BACK TO OUR LIVE COVERAGE NIGHT, REMARKABLE NIGHT IN OUR RACE FOR PRESIDENT. WANTED TO BRING YOU UP TO SPEED ON SOMETHING JUST RELEASED, HANDWRITTEN NOTE FROM FIRST LADY DR. JILL BIDEN, SHE POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SHE WRITES "THOSE WHO NEVER WAVERED, TO THOSE WHO REFUSED TO DOUBT, TO THOSE WHO ALWAYS BELIEVED MY HEART IS FULL OF GRATITUDE TO. THANK YOU FOR THE TRUST YOU PUT IN JAIL, NOW IT'S TIME TO PUT THAT TRUST IN KAMALA. LOVE JILL." THAT'S THE FIRST PUBLIC REACTION FROM JILL BIDEN AND COMES MOMENTS AFTER HER HUSBAND ADDRESSED THE NATION FROM THE OVAL OFFICE OFFERING HIS OWN WORDS, ON ITS FORMATION AS TO WHY HE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION. I WANT TO GET RIGHT TO TERRY MORAN ON THE STATE OF THIS RACE, WE GOT SOME NEW POLLS OUT, BUT LOOKING AT ARE THE NUMBERS. THESE ARE POLLS AT AN BEEN TAKEN AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE ON SUNDAY AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE DO HAVE A RACE ON HER HANDS. >> NO SURPRISE WE ARE STILL A 50-50 COUNTRY BUT IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THESE FIRST POLLS, TAKEN AMONG REGISTERED VOTERS SINCE JILL BIDEN WITHDREW. THAT POLL RELEASED YESTERDAY SHOWS HARRIS, KAMALA HARRIS WITH A SMALL LEAD AND TODAY CNN RELEASING A POLL SHOWING DONALD TRUMP WITH THE EDGE OVER KAMALA HARRIS. IN THAT POLL IT'S WORTH NOTING THE PREVIOUS CNN POLL WAS BETWEEN JOE BIDEN AND TRUMP, REALLY YOU'RE LOOKING AT WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR BOTH OF THOSE PULLS A DEAD HEAT. >> David: TERRY MORAN WITH US TONIGHT, THANK YOU. I WANT THE TURN NOW TO FORMER HEAD OF THE RNC "ABC NEWS" CONTRIBUTOR REINCE PRIEBUS ALSO WITH US TONIGHT. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WOULD'VE PREFERRED TO CONTINUE TO RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN, IS THAT THE CASE? >> I THINK THEY WILL TAKE IT EITHER WAY BUT CERTAINLY JOE BIDEN WAS HEMORRHAGING AND IT'S OBVIOUS. TONIGHT ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT THIS SPEECH WAS JOE BIDEN DIDN'T ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. HE DIDN'T EXPLAIN TO ANYONE LISTENING WHY IN FACT HE DECIDED TO STEP DOWN. A MONTH AGO WE SAW A DISASTROUS DEBATE AND A WEEK AFTER THAT ALL OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP WAS SAYING JOE BIDEN WAS SHARP AS A TACK. HE DIDN'T ADDRESS WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND, WHY DID HE DECIDE TO STEP DOWN? IT'S VERY CLEAR, WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER HE DECIDED TO STEP DOWN, THIS IS A POLITICAL DECISION. HE DECIDED HE DIDN'T THINK HE COULD WIN AND HE HANDPICKED HIS VICE PRESIDENT. SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T RECEIVE A SINGLE VOTE IN THE PRIMARY, NEVER RECEIVED THE DELICATE. CERTAINLY SHE IS ACCOMPLISHED, SHE'S A FORMER D.A., ATTORNEY GENERAL SENATOR, I DON'T HAVE A BEEF WITH FAT. CLEARLY THIS WAS A POLITICAL DECISION AND IT'S VERY BIZARRE TO ME THAT HE DIDN'T ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM WHICH IS HIS HEALTH. IF HE IS NOT HEALTHY TO RUN, IS HE HEALTHY TO BE PRESIDENT'S? I'M NOT MAKING AN ACCUSATION, I'M JUST SAYING HE SHOULD HAVE ADDRESSED THAT ISSUE TONIGHT AND HE DID NOT. >> David: I'M CURIOUS ON THE ISSUE OF AGE AND MENTAL FITNESS, DO THINK THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED THE SWITCH HERE NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS THE OLDER CANDIDATE IN THE RACE AT 7879 YEARS OLD? >> JUST SAW DONALD TRUMP PLAY 18 HOLES WITH BRYSON YESTERDAY AND HE LOOKED GOOD TO ME. IN THE END IT WILL COME TO END OF THE ISSUES, IT WILL COME DOWN TO THE BORDER, COME DOWN TO THE ECONOMY, KAMALA HARRIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER FOR WHERE WE ARE AS A COUNTRY AND WHAT WAS REALLY DRIVING THE BAD NUMBERS FOR JOE BIDEN IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH WAS GAS AND GROCERIES, THE BORDER, AND THE ECONOMY. THOSE ISSUES WILL EVENTUALLY BUCKLE UP. IT WILL BE A CLOSE RACE, 40,000 VOTES IN THREE STATES NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, IT WILL BE NIP AND TUCK FROM HERE ON OUT TO PERIODS THOSE ARE MODERN-DAY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTES WILL MAKE THIS DECISION IN KEY BATTLEGROUNDS. LET ME ASK YOU, YOU WERE JUST LOOKING AT THOSE NUMBERS TOO I'M SURE TERRY MORAN REPORTING ON THE STATE OF THE RACE. KAMALA HARRIS NATIONALLY AT ALL THE PENS IN THE BATTLEGROUNDS. WE HAVEN'T SEEN BATTLEGROUND POLLING YET -- KAMALA HARRIS LEADING BY TWO POINTS NOW NATIONALLY. THE CNN POLL, DONALD TRUMP LEADING BY THREE POINTS THOUGH THAT IS SHRINKING SIGNIFICANTLY FROM WHEN IT WAS JOE BIDEN VERSUS DONALD TRUMP IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. WHAT HAS CHANGED HERE NOW WITH KAMALA HARRIS OF THE TOP OF THE TICKET FOR YOU? >> SHE'S THE SHINY NEW OBJECT. SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A HONEYMOON PERIOD HERE. WE'LL AND SEE HOW LONG IT LASTS, SHE GOT A BUMP IN THE POLLS, NOT ENOUGH TO OVERTAKE PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHO KNOWS WHO'S AHEAD OR BEHIND? IT WILL COME DOWN TO A FEW VOTES. ULTIMATELY I REALLY DO THINK THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED ONE SET OF BAGGAGE OFF AND PICKED UP ANOTHER BECAUSE IN THE END, THIS IS GOING TO COME DOWN HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY. THEY ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO MAKE IT ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO MAKE IT ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND THE FACT THAT HARRIS IS PRETTY LIBERAL, FAR MORE LIBERAL THAN JOE BIDEN AND WE'LL TO SEE WHERE IT GOES. >> David: REINCE PRIEBUS TONIGHT AS ALWAYS, WE APPRECIATE YOUR ANALYSIS. THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE MAY HAVE CHANGED WITH THE KEY ISSUES WILL REMAIN THE SAME. IT'S GOING TO BE A CLOSE RACE. ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, ABORTION RIGHTS, VIOLENT CRIME HAS BEEN DROPPING FOR MONTHS ACROSS THE U.S. LET'S BRING IN PIERRE THOMAS, YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING POLITICS AND JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME. EVEN OF THE NUMBERS COME DOWN THE RHETORIC DOESN'T ALWAYS MATCH THE NUMBERS. IT TRULY COMES DOWN TO HOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FEEL WHEN THEY GO TO THE POLLS. >> WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE OF CRIME, THE ISSUE THAT IS OF MOST CONCERN TO AMERICANS IS GUN VIOLENCE. DONALD TRUMP HAD A HUGE SURGE IN THE FINAL YEAR OF HIS ADMINISTRATION INCLUDING A STUNNING SPIKE IN MASS SHOOTINGS. THAT SEARCH CONTINUED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY. HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TO OWN THAT BUT IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THE CRIME AND VIOLENCE HAS BEEN DROPPING AND IS NOW DOUBLE DIGITS SO FAR THIS YEAR WITH MASS SHOOTINGS DOWN DRAMATICALLY. IN THAT ELECTION YEAR COME PERCEPTION IS WHAT MATTERS AND ACCORDING TO GALLUP, THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS WHO WORRY A GREAT DEAL ABOUT CRIME AND VIOLENCE HAS GROWN FROM 42% IN 2020 TO 53% IN 2024. >> David: PIERRE THOMAS WITH FACT-CHECK THEY ARE WHEN IT COMES TO CRIME, THE CURRENT FEDERAL NUMBERS IN THIS COUNTRY AGAIN, NUMBERS ARE ONE THING THE ARGUMENTS IN THESE FINAL MONTHS ARE ANOTHER. REPUBLICANS WASTING NO TIME GOING AFTER VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS ON THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION. POLLS THAT SHOW THAT IMMIGRATION IS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS, REALLY ACROSS THE BOARD IN THIS COUNTRY AMERICANS WANT THIS ADDRESSED. >> THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. A NEW ABC POLLS SHOW IMMIGRATION IS THE TOP OF THE PRIORITY LIST FOR AMERICANS AROUND THE COUNTRY. WHEN WE TALK TO PEOPLE THEY SAY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THEM BECAUSE THEY SEE APPREHENSIONS HIGH AND RESOURCES IT MAKES THEM FEEL LIKE THE CHAOS IS CREATING A VULNERABILITY FOR THE COUNTRY. AS YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TALKED ABOUT COMING TO A COMPROMISE ON A BORDER SECURITY DEAL MONTHS AGO AND THAT WAS SHOT DOWN AND FIZZLED OUT WHEN TRUMP GOT INVOLVED AND SAID THIS IS MY ISSUE, I WANT TO RUN ON IMMIGRATION. SAW THAT AFTER THE JUNE DEBATES, WE ALSO SAW THAT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION JUST LAST WEEK. WE SAW A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS ON THE RNC, TRYING TO CAPITALIZE ON THOSE IMMIGRATION FEARS TALKING ABOUT THE BORDER CHAOS COLLIDING WITH CRIME IN OUR COUNTRY. FENTANYL DEATHS, THE FACTS DO NOT SUPPORT THAT KIND OF NARRATIVE. THERE IS NO INFORMATION, NO DATA THAT SAYS THERE IS A CRIME SURGE BECAUSE OF MIGRANTS OR IT CONTRIBUTES TO FENTANYL DEATHS IN OUR COUNTRY. >> David: A LIKELY DEBATE WE WILL HEAR IN THE COMING MONTHS WILL INVOLVE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION. SHOULD SHE BE ASKED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ACTION WHICH CAME NOT SO LONG AGO AND PEOPLE WILL SAY WHY DID YOU LATE UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION -- THE DEMOCRATS WILL LIKELY SAY THEY BELIEVE PRESIDENT TRUMP STOP THAT BIPARTISAN DEAL. >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. THIS ADMINISTRATION HASN'T REALLY TAKEN ON IMMIGRATION AS A TOPIC HEAD ON I DON'T WE WILL SEE THAT MOVING FORWARD TO. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT VP KAMALA HARRIS BEING A FORMER PROSECUTOR. SHE LIVES AND DIES BY STATISTICS AND FACTS. I CAN IMAGINE WHILE SHE MAY NOT TAKE IMMIGRATION ON SOLELY SHE WILL USE A LETTER THAT IMMIGRATION STATISTICAL INFORMATION SHE IS PRIVY TO AS A WAY TO FACT-CHECK THE FORMER PRESIDENT. >> David: THANKS SO MUCH. WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE STATE OF THIS RACE AND NEW NATIONAL POLLS, THE RACE TIGHTENING ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. I WANT TO BRING BACK RACHEL SCOTT INTO THE CONVERSATION TONIGHT TO. IN THIS NEW CNN POLL TONIGHT WHICH SHOWED DONALD TRUMP AHEAD BY THREE POINTS AND THE CNN POLL NOT SO LONG AGO SHOWED HIM A HEAD BY MUCH MORE THAN THAT UP AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN -- THIS ALSO TOOK AT KEY VOTING GROUPS AND IT SHOWED IN THOSE AREAS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND KAMALA HARRIS IS NOW SHRINKING WHEN IT COMES TO YOUNG VOTERS, WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK VOTERS, HISPANIC, LATINO VOTERS AND WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN, TAKE US TO THE NUMBERS. >> ANYONE OF THESE KEY DEMOGRAPHICS CAN PROPEL EITHER CANDIDATE TO THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU SAID IT YOURSELF, WE DO HAVE A RACE IN HER HANDS. I WANT TO TAKE YOU THROUGH SOME OF THESE NUMBERS. IN APRIL INTO JUNE DONALD TRUMP WAS UP SEVEN POINTS AMONG YOUNG VOTERS. KNOW HARRIS IS UP A FOCAL POINTS. AMONG BLACK VOTERS PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS UP 47, HARRIS 63. HARRIS -- HISPANIC VOTERS WAS UP NINE POINTS IN APRIL AND JUNE, NOW HE'S UP TWO. CLEARLY THEY ARE TIGHTENING THAT LEAD A LITTLE BIT. FEMALE VOTERS, APRIL AND JUNE IT WAS EVEN BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, NOW YOU HAVE HARRIS UP FIVE POINTS. THIS IS A RACE THAT IS TIGHT. IT'S CLOSE BEFORE IT'S GETTING EVEN TIGHTER NOW. >> David: RACHEL SCOTT WITH US, DEEPER DIVE TONIGHT. WHEN WE COME BACK A SPECIAL MEMBER OF OUR OWN TEAM WAS IN THE OVAL OFFICE TONIGHT WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN DELIVERING THAT HISTORIC ADDRESS. WE WILL GET HIS REACTION AND WHAT HE WITNESSED IN THE OVAL OFFICE WATCHING THE PRESIDENT RIGHT AFTER THE BREAK. all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry. It's shocking. My stomach just dropped. 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Where is Susan July 29th, making sure that if something happens to me or assets are documented Josh. Did you kill your wife? I'll never forget the first time that I met him, but chill just like raced up through my spine. I just shook the hand of the killer stunning details. He ends up revealing the biggest bombshell. What will happen next 2020 Friday at 9/8 Central on ABC >> David: BEFORE WE GO TONIGHT I WANT TO BRING IN OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF AND POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN. AS YOU KNOW THE NETWORKS THAT COVER THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER A SPLINT FOR FOLKS AT HOME WAS ALWAYS ONE NETWORK THAT IS THE POOL NETWORK FOR THESE BIG MOMENTS COME IN TONIGHT ABC WAS THE POOL WHICH PUT YOU RIGHT IN THE ROOM. RIGHT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. A WITNESS TO HISTORY TONIGHT, WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF ITS? >> IT WAS REMARKABLY EMOTIONAL AND INTIMATE SPIRIT OF THE OVAL OFFICE IS NOT A BIG PLACE THERE ARE ABOUT 40 PEOPLE IN THERE, TEN OR 12 MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY WATCHING INTENTLY TO SEE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER ASHLEY BIDEN WATCHING WITH HER EYES CLOSED. JILL BIDEN, HUNTER BIDEN, THE GRANDCHILDREN ALL WATCHING, NODDING INTENTLY AS THEY TOOK IN THE GRAVITY OF THE MOMENT TO. THE PRESIDENT WRAPPED UP HIS REMARKS AND THEY BROKE INTO SPONTANEOUS APPLAUSE. MANY OF HIS AIDES FELT OVERCOME BY THAT MOMENT IN THE PRESIDENT STOOD NEXT TO HIS WIFE AND CAME OVER NEXT TO THE RESOLUTE DESK AND SAY THIS WAS THE OWNER OF A LIFETIME. >> David: RICK KLEIN OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF IN THE OVAL OFFICE TONIGHT. EXTRAORDINARY TO HAVE WITNESSED THAT. JILL BIDEN SIG. MOMENTS AGO THANK YOU FOR THE TRUST YOU PUT IN JOEL. I'M DAVID MUIR IN NEW YORK, I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW FROM WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. GOOD NIGHT. [ ♪♪ ] >> TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESSES THE NATION. >> President Biden: THIS IS BEEN THE PRIVILEGE OF MY LIFE. TO SERVE THIS NATION FOR OVER 50 YEARS. NOTHING, NOTHING COULD COME IN THE WAY OF SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY. THAT INCLUDES PERSONAL AMBITION. SO I DECIDED THE BEST WAY FORWARD IS TO PASS THE TORCH TO A NEW GENERATION. >> PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SPEAKS TO THE COUNTRY JUST DAYS AFTER ANNOUNCING HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE 2024 RACE, ULTIMATELY GIVING HIS ENDORSEMENT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. THE MESSAGE THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED TONIGHT AS HE WORKS TO CEMENT HIS LEGACY FOR DECADES TO COME. >> President Biden: THERE IS A TIME AND PLACE FOR LONG YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC LIFE. THERE IS ALSO A TIME INTO PLACE FOR FOR NEW VOICES. FRESH VOICES. YES, YOUNGER VOICES. AND THAT TIME AND PLACE IS NOW. >> AND WHILE DEMOCRATS MAY BE CELEBRATING THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION TO STEP ASIDE, TO HELP CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ARE USING IT TO CALL FOR HIS RESIGNATION. WE HAVE FRESH REACTION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF "ABC NEWS" LIVE PRIME. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH US. THIS IS OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE. PRESIDENT BIDEN PACK THE DECISION. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR 11 MINUTES FROM THE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE. 'S MOVE TO STEP ASIDE MID CAMPAIGN IS UNPRECEDENTED. BUT HE SAYS THAT HE IS DOING SO BECAUSE THIS IS A RARE MOMENT IN HISTORY, CALLING IT ON INFLECTION POINT SAYING, QUOTE, THE DECISIONS WE MAKE NOW WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF OUR NATION AND THE WORLD FOR DECADES TO COME. >> President Biden: AMERICA WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD. BETWEEN HOPE AND HATE. BETWEEN UNITY AND DIVISION. WE HAVE TO DECIDE, DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN HONESTY, DECENCY, RESPECT, FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY? >> THE PRESIDENT THEN TIPPED HIS HAND A BIT SAYING HOW HE WANTS TO SEE THE COUNTRY MOVE FORWARD. >> President Biden: THERE IS A TIME AND THE PLACE FOR LONG YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC LIFE. THERE'S ALSO A TIME AND A PLACE FOR NEW VOICES, FRESH VOICES. YES, YOUNGER VOICES. AND THAT TIME AND PLACE IS NOW. >> BIDEN THEN WENT FURTHER MAKING NO SECRET WHO HE BELIEVES SHOULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES. >> President Biden: I WILL KEEP FIGHTING SO WE CAN END CANCER AS WE KNOW IT BECAUSE WE CAN DO IT. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR SUPREME COURT REFORM, BECAUSE THIS IS CRITICAL TO OUR DEMOCRACY. SUPREME COURT REFORM. >> Linsey: THE PRESIDENT ALSO MADE IT CLEAR THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HE INTENDS ON ACCOMPLISHING DURING HIS FINAL SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE. WE WILL HAVE FRESH REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT HIS PLANS FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS TERM, THE PRAISE HE KEEPS ONTO HIS VISE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS AND HOW LAWMAKERS AND DONALD TRUMP ARE REACTING TONIGHT. WE ARE JOINED NOW -- AND FIRST, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN WHO WROTE A HEARTFELT MESSAGE, WRITING, QUOTE, TO THOSE WHO NEVER WAVERED OR REFUSED TO DOUBT, TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE, MY HEART IS FULL OF GRATITUDE. THANK YOU FOR THE TRUSTEE PUT IN JOE, NOW IT IS TIME TO PUT THAT TRUST INCOME A LOT, LOVE JILL. EMOTIONAL FOR NOT ONLY THE PRESIDENT BUT HIS FAMILY, STAFF AND THE ENTIRE WHITE HOUSE. AND FOR THAT WE WILL GO TOWARD CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT WHO JOINS US LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. AND MARY, AT ONE POINT YOU DESCRIBED THE 11 MINUTE SPEECH AS A LOVE LETTER THAT HE HAD WRITTEN TO HIS COUNTRY. >> IT CERTAINLY FELT LIKE THAT. DESCRIBING NOT JUST WHAT IS AT STAKE AT THIS MOMENT IN OUR COUNTRY BUT WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT AND WHY HE MADE THIS DECISION, THIS SELFLESS AND AS MANY HAVE DESCRIBED IT, PATRIOTIC, TO PUT ASIDE HIS INTEREST FOR WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY. SAYING NOTHING CAN GET IN THE WAY OF SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY, INCLUDING PERSONAL AMBITION. AND THE PRESIDENT DID MAKE CLEAR THAT HE STILL HAS WORK TO DO AND PART OF FINISHING THE JOB, YOU MADE VERY CLEAR, IS NOW MAKING SURE THAT KAMALA HARRIS IS FINISHING HIS WORK. THAT SHE WILL BE THE ONE WHO INHERITS AND WINS THE WHITE HOUSE AND GOES ON TO CONTINUE THE WORK THAT HE HAS BEEN DOING. THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT REALLY STRIKING AN INTERESTING TONE. IT WAS VERY MUCH NOT SO MUCH EXPLAINING THE DETAILS OF THIS DECISION, NOT EXPLAINING IN DETAIL EVERYTHING HE WANTS TO GET DONE OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS THOUGH HE DIDN'T DO THAT, THIS IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO APPEAL DIRECTLY TO AMERICANS AND VOTERS AND I KEEP THINKING ABOUT WHAT HE SAID AT THE END. HE SAID THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU, THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. >> Linsey: AND TALK TO US ABOUT THE CHEERS YOU COULD HEAR FROM THE FRONT LINE OF THE WHITE HOUSE. >> WE KNOW INSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE AT THE PRESIDENT GAVE THE ADDRESS, THERE WERE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY SITTING THERE, WATCHING, TAKING IN ALL OF THIS REMARKABLE MOMENT OF HISTORY. BUT SO TOO, WE ARE HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH HUNDREDS OF STAFFERS, ABOUT 500 STAFFERS GATHERING HERE EARLIER IN THE DAY GATHERING FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING TO THE ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE RESIDENTS AND THEY WATCHED THE HISTORIC ADDRESS FROM IN THERE. THEN MOMENTS AFTER IT WRAPPED, AS WE WERE ON THE AIR WE HEARD THIS HUGE UPROAR, THIS APPLAUSE AND CHEERING, IT WAS VERY CLEAR WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THEN THAT VOICE THAT I HAVE HEARD MANY TIMES. THE PRESIDENT CLEARLY SAYING HELLO, AND OUR PRODUCER RAN OVER , LISTENED AND UNDER THE WINDOW AND HEARD THE PRESIDENT VERY CLEARLY THANKING HIS TEAM WHO HAVE SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY AND WHO LOVE HIM DEARLY. AS HE MAKES THIS REMARKABLE TURN AND REALLY CEMENTS HIS LEGACY, NOT ONLY WAS THIS A CHANCE FOR THE PRESIDENT TO PRESERVE HIS LEGACY, BY STEPPING OUT OF THIS RACE IN THE WAY HE DID BUT IT WILL TRULY DEFINE IT. >> Linsey: AND WE WERE TOGETHER AND MILWAUKEE FOR THE RNC AND THEN YOU WENT BACK TO MILWAUKEE FOR KAMALA HARRIS' FIRST CAMPAIGN RALLY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. HAVE YOU SEEN ANY SHIFT IN HER DEMEANOR SINCE GOING FROM NUMBEL CANDIDATE? >> I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF MILWAUKEE. BUT THE VICE PRESIDENT NOW IS TOP OF THE TICKET. THERE'S A REAL CHANGE HERE, SHE IS HAVING TO REDEFINE HERSELF AND REINTRODUCE HERSELF TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. YOU KNOW HER AS THE VICE PRESIDENT AND A RUNNING MATE AND THEY KNOW HER AS A PREVIOUS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT BUT NOT IN THIS WAY. IN THREE DAYS SHE HAS BECOME THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, THAT IS AN ASTOUNDING SPRINT. AND IT HAS CHANGED. THE FEELING IN THAT ROOM WAS PALPABLE. THE ENERGY WAS PALPABLE. THE CROWD WAS ENTHUSIASTIC AND FIRED UP, THERE WAS A LOT OF WOMEN, NO SURPRISE HERE, A LOT OF BLACK WOMEN EXCITED AT THE POSSIBILITY THAT NOW A WOMAN CONNECTION HAVE A SHOT AT BEING PRESIDENT AGAIN. AND HER TONE WAS DIFFERENT. THE FEELINGS ARE DIFFERENT, IT WAS CLEAR FROM THE MOMENT SHE TOOK THE STAGE IT WAS A WHOLE NEW RACE. WHAT IS NOT DIFFERENT ARE THE ISSUES SHE IS RUNNING ON. THE ISSUES AND THE POLICIES AND SUBSTANCE OF THIS CAMPAIGN. WHAT IS DIFFERENT THOUGH IS THE MESSENGER AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT WAS BEING CONVEYED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> Linsey: THAT IS MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU. >>> OUR CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JOINS US NOW. AND JOHN, WHILE MUCH OF THIS WAS CERTAINLY POLITICAL AND ABOUT CEMENTING HIS LEGACY AS PRESIDENT, IT ALSO SEEMED VERY PERSONAL. TALKED ABOUT HOW HE WAS A KID WITH A STUTTER FROM SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA, ASCENDING TO THE OVAL OFFICE. >> AND IT WAS WISTFUL. WE TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH HE REVERES THAT OFFICE. THINK ABOUT IT. THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO SPENT MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE AND PERHAPS AS A KID, TO, DREAMING OF BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WORKING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. AND TO GIVE IT ALL UP. HE IS NOT RESIGNING AS PRESIDENT BUT HE IS GIVING UP HIS OPPORTUNITY TO RUN FOR REELECTION. HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT, IN HIS VIEW, THAT HIS RECORD MERITS ANOTHER FOUR YEARS AND THAT HE WAS MAKING THIS MOVE BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE NAME OF PARTY UNITY. YOU COULD HEAR THE -- ALMOST THE PAIN AND ANGUISH AND HIS VOICE FOR HAVING DONE THAT AND PUTTING IT IN THE CONTEXT OF PORTRAYING IT AS THE ULTIMATE SELFLESS ACT, MAKING THE CASE THAT THE COUNTRY IS MUCH GREATER THAN ANY ONE MAN'S AMBITION. WHICH, OF COURSE,, IT IS. >> Linsey: AND CERTAINLY TALKED ABOUT HOW THIS IS ON INFLECTION POINT AND HOW THIS MOMENT WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF OUR NATION. I'M CURIOUS IF YOU FEEL THAT THE CHATTER, PARTICULARLY FROM A NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS AS FAR AS HIM, IF HE DOESN'T HAVE THE MENTAL ACUITY TO BE THE NOMINEE, DOESN'T HAVE THE MENTAL ACUITY TO RUN THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME, DO YOU THINK -- IS THERE ANYTHING HE COULD HAVE SAID TONIGHT WHICH MIGHT PUT THAT TO REST? >> I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANYTHING HE COULD HAVE SAID WHICH WOULD PUT IT TO REST. BUT THERE IS A REALITY THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE SOMETHING MORE IMMEDIATE THEY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WITCHES RUNNING AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS. YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR THAT CHATTER, YOU WILL ACTUALLY -- ABSOLUTELY HEAR THE CALLS FOR HIM TO RESIGN AS PRESIDENT BUT GUESS WHAT? THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAVE SOME BOATS TONIGHT AND THEN THEY ARE GONE UNTIL SEPTEMBER. SO WE WILL HAVE REPUBLICAN HOUSE MEMBERS MAKING ANY EFFORTS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT, AT LEAST NOT FOR THE NEXT MONTH AND A HALF WHILE THEY ARE ON RECESS. BUT YOU MENTIONED THE INFLECTION POINT AND I THINK THAT IS TO ME, THE LINE THAT STOOD OUT. MAYBE ABOVE ALL LINES AND THAT WE ARE AT AN INFLECTION POINT AND THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE NOW WILL AFFECT THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND WORLD HISTORY FOR DECADES TO COME. SOMETHING THAT IS ALMOST CERTAINLY TRUE, GIVEN HOW DEEP THE DIVIDE IS IN THIS ELECTION. AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BIDEN'S LEGACY, THIS WILL EITHER BE SEEN AS AN ULTIMATE -- THE ULTIMATE SELFLESS ACT OR IT WILL BE LOOKED AT AS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED MUCH EARLIER. IT WILL DEPEND ON WEATHER OR NOT KAMALA HARRIS WINS IN NOVEMBER. IF SHE WINS IN NOVEMBER, JOE BIDEN WILL BE REMEMBERED TO SOME DEGREE AS THE STATESMAN THAT GAVE IT ALL UP IN THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY, IN THE NAME OF THE UNITY OF HIS PARTY. IF THEY LOSE, THE QUESTION WILL BE ASKED, WHY DID HE RUN AGAIN AND WHY DID HE TAKE SO LONG TO MAKE THIS DECISION TO GET OUT OF THE RACE? >> Linsey: AND LASTLY, WE ALSO HEARD FROM HIM WITH REGARD TO THE SIX MONTHS AHEAD, THE THINGS HE IS STILL COMMITTED TO, AMONG THEM REVAMPING THE SUPREME COURT, THE CANCER MOONSHOT, STRENGTHENING NATO. HOW DOES HE ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING ELSE THAT REMAINS ON HIS AGENDA AS FAR AS HE HAS TALKED ABOUT FINISHING THE JOB, WHEN HE HAS A HOUSE THAT IS REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED AND MANY WILL LARGELY VIEW HIM NOW AS A LAME-DUCK PRESIDENT. >> IN THE MIDDLE EAST HE WANTS TO GET TO A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT, RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HE HAS A VERY BUSY AGENDA FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. SOME OF THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CONGRESS. HE CAN PLAY HIS ROLE AS A WORLD LEADER. BUT HE IS A WORLD LEADER WHO HAS NOW TOLD THE WORLD THAT HE WAS ESSENTIALLY UNABLE TO CONTINUE A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND HE WILL BE LOOKED AT AS A DIMINISHED PRESIDENT AS A RESULT. SO IT IS A GOOD QUESTION AND KAMALA HARRIS IS GOING TO BE OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. THIS IS GOING TO BE HIS DECISION, NOT HERS. >> Linsey: THANKS AS ALWAYS. >> THANK YOU. >> Linsey: JOINING US NOW FOR MORE IS THE MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC SENATOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. YOU HAVE KNOWN PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN FOR SOME TIME, BRIEFLY SERVING WITH HIM IN THE SENATE AS WELL. ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE JUST HOW DIFFICULT THIS DECISION MUST HAVE BEEN FOR HIM. JOE BIDEN SAYING TONIGHT THAT THE BEST WAY FORWARD IS TO PASS THE TORCH TO A NEW GENERATION. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF HIS SPEECH? >> I THOUGHT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. TO MET REMINDED ME OF WHEN HE CAME INTO THE OFFICE. HE CAME INTO THE OFFICE AS SOMEONE WHO SAID HE WAS GOING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY AND HE DID. HE BEAT DONALD TRUMP, HE WAS THERE ON THE INAUGURAL STAGE AND TALKING ABOUT THE SOUL OF AMERICA AND BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. HE DID NOT ACCOMPLISH THAT INCREDIBLY BUT HE REALLY SAVED OUR DEMOCRACY AND HE PUT THAT OUT AS A CHALLENGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TONIGHT WHEN HE QUOTED VENTURE IN FRANKLIN AND SAID IT WAS A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT. I AM ALSO SOMEONE THAT LOVES THAT HE TALKS ABOUT PATCHING THE TORCH. AS A YOUNG SENATOR, I REMEMBER ONE OF MY FIRST SPEECHES ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, I WAS IN THE CHAMBER LATE AT NIGHT AND NO ONE WAS IN THERE. I THINK THE PAGES WERE FALLING ASLEEP AND I WALKED OUT AND MY PHONE RANG AND I THOUGHT,'S AT MY MOM? AND MY MOM DIDN'T EVEN STEP TO WATCH THIS. AND IT WAS JOE BIDEN. AT THE TIME, HE HAD JUST GOTTEN OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND HE TOOK THE TIME AS A SENATOR TO CALL ME AND HE SAID, HEY, KID, THAT WAS A GREAT SPEECH. AND WHEN KAMALA WENT TO DELAWARE HE SAID THE SAME THING, YOU SAID YOU'VE GOT THIS, KID. THAT WAS HIM. THAT WAS IN TONIGHT AND I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY MORE PROUD OF HIS DECISION. HE TOOK THE HONORABLE PATH. >> Linsey: WERE YOU SURPRISED BY HIS DECISION? >> I WAS NOT. I THINK THIS WAS MOUNTING AS JEFF AND I TALKED, HE WAS WELL AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS AND HE ULTIMATELY DECIDED THAT THIS WAS BEST FOR OUR DEMOCRACY. AND I JUST THINK HE DID IT WITH GRACE AND HE DID NOT WASTE ANY TIME. HE ENDORSED KAMALA HARRIS RIGHT AWAY. MEETING WITH MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES TODAY AND TALKING TO A NUMBER OF THEM THAT RUN THE GAMUT IDEOLOGICALLY, I THINK THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY SHOCKED AT HOW QUICKLY SHE CONSOLIDATED HER SUPPORT AND HOW QUICKLY PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER AND/OR STIR. THE JOY THAT IS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW OF YOUNG PEOPLE THAT SAY, HEY,, NOW GENERATIONAL CHANGE, I'M READY FOR THIS. THAT WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE HANGING OUT ON THE SIDELINES NOT YET READY TO ACCEPT THIS CANDIDACY, UNDERSTANDABLY HAVING GONE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. SHE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THE CASE FOR THEM SO WELL THIS IS ABOUT BEATING DONALD TRUMP AND THE NEGATIVITY THAT HE BRINGS, THE DIVISIVENESS THAT HE BRINGS, THE PREACHING OF OUR FREEDOMS AND WHAT HAPPENED WITH ROE V. WADE, IT IS ALSO ABOUT WHAT SHE IS GOING TO BRING TO THE TABLE. AND THAT IS WHAT I'M EXCITED TO SEE UNFOLD IN THESE NEXT FEW WEEKS. >> Linsey: AND TONIGHT BIDEN CALLED KAMALA HARRIS EXPERIENCE, TOUGH AND CAPABLE. YOU SERVED WITH HER IN THE SENATE AS WELL, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HER? >> SHE IS SOMEONE THAT, I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT HER POSTURE. SHE IS VERY STAND STRAIGHT AND KEEPS HER SHOULDERS HIGH. SHE IS SOMEONE THAT DOES NOT LET THE CRITICISM GET TO HER. SHE HAS A MISSION AND SHE COMPLETES IT. I WATCHED HER DISMANTLE THOSE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NOMINEES TO SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS WHICH ENDED UP BEING EXACTLY RIGHT. SO YOU WILL SEE ON ONE SIDE OF THE DEBATE STAGE IF HE IS WILLING TO DEBATE HER, YOU WERE GOING TO SEE HER MAKING THE CASE ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE JUSTICES AND YOU WILL SEE HIM, WHO JUST DID A VIDEO THIS YEAR THAT SAID HE WAS PROUD TO BE THE PERSON WHO OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE. THOSE ARE HIS WORDS, NOT MY WORDS. YOU WILL SEE HER AS A FORMER PROSECUTOR, MAKE THE CASE FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STAGE WILL BE SOMEONE WHO HAS RACKED UP OVER 100 FELONY INDICTMENTS AND A NUMBER OF CONVICTIONS AS WELL. SO I THINK YOU WILL SEE A VERY STRONG CONTRAST. BUT SOMETIMES WHAT GETS MISSED HERE IS THE JOY ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS. I RAN AGAINST HER, WE BECAME BETTER FRIENDS AS THE ELECTION WENT ON. I HAVE SEEN HER AND DUG TOGETHER, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE HUNG OUT WITH THEM. AND I THINK YOU WILL SEE SOMEONE WHO ALSO HAS A JOY ABOUT HER THAT I THINK WE NEED IN OUR POLITICS RIGHT NOW. >> Linsey: WHAT TYPES OF QUALITIES DO YOU THINK SHE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR AS SHE TRIES TO CHOOSE A VISE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? ESPECIALLY ON AN EXPEDITED TIMELINE. >> SURE. I THINK NUMBER 1, SOMEONE SHE CAN TRUST. NUMBER 2, SOMEONE WHO CAN STEP IN AND GOVERN. AND NUMBER 3, SOMEONE WHO AUGMENTS HER SKILLS. IT IS DATING, THAT IS TRUE. SHE WILL NOT BE ON THE TIMELINE OF OTHER PEOPLE. BUT ALL OF THE CANDIDATES THAT I HAVE SEEN ON THE LIST OF THE TOP ONES HAVE BEEN VETTED BY VOTERS, VETTED IN TOUGH RACES. I AM NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE OF WHO SHE IS LOOKING AT. THE QUALITY SHE IS LOOKING AT AND THEN FINALLY, SHE KNOWS THEM. SHE KNOWS EVERYONE OF THEM. SO IT'S NOT LIKE A, I'VE NEVER MET YOU BEFORE, WILL YOU BE MY RUNNING MATE? THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS WILL BE LIKE. >> Linsey: COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE BY FORMER PRESIDENT FORD IN 1989 HAVE RECENTLY RESURFACED AND FORD WAS ASKED BY YOUNG SCHOOLGIRL, WHAT ADVICE HE WOULD GIVE TO A YOUNG LADY WHO WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT AND HE SAID, IT WON'T HAPPEN IN THE NORMAL COURSE OF EVENTS. HE THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE AN EVENT LIKE A PRESIDENT DYING FOR WOMEN TO BECOME PRESIDENT. I'M JUST CURIOUS, 35 YEARS LATER, WHAT YOU MAKE OF THAT RESPONSE? >> I THINK I WAS ON THE DEBATE STAGE AT ONE POINT WHO SAID, IF IT WAS EASY FOR A WOMAN TO BECOME PRESIDENT, WE COULD PLAY A GAME CALLED NAME YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN PRESIDENT. AND NOT ONLY COULD WE NOT PLAY THAT GAME UNTIL SHE CAME IN, WE COULDN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME OF NAME YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT. WE KNOW THIS HAVE BEEN TOUGH, WOMEN HAVE BEEN HELD TO DIFFERENT STANDARDS. AFTER THAT RACE WAS OVER THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE LOOKING AT SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEEING THE KIND OF CRITICISMS THAT WERE LODGED AT THE WOMEN CANDIDATES COMPARED TO THE MALE CANDIDATES. REALLY GETTING OUTLOOKS, REALLY GETTING AT, IN A WAY THAT NONE OF THE MEN HAD TO DEAL WITH. GETTING AT SOMEONE -- THEY LOVED IT WHEN THEY COULD SAY YOU WERE DONE, THEY LOVE WHEN THEY COULD SAY YOU WERE TOO TOUGH. THOSE WERE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WENT VIRAL. ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS FOR KAMALA HARRIS RIGHT NOW AS WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE. WITH TRUMP AND WHAT HE SAID ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON. EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT WENT ON THERE. WHAT HAPPENED TO HER AND HER PAST RACES WAS PRETTY ATTUNED TO THIS. AND I THINK IT IS NOT JUST KAMALA HARRIS THAT WILL BE DEFENDING HERSELF, THERE WILL BE ENTIRE BRIGADES OF PEOPLE THAT ARE READY TO EITHER CALL IT OUT, LAUGH AT IT, EMBRY SET OR, MOST IMPORTANTLY, IGNORE IT. BECAUSE AS THE PRESIDENT LAID OUT AS HIS WORDS TODAY, THE CAUSE OF DEFENDING DEMOCRACY IS LARGER THAN YOURSELF. THAT IS THE DEAL. LARGER THAN ANY PERSONAL AMBITION, IS HE BEAUTIFULLY POINTED OUT. AND CERTAINLY LARGER THAN ANY ONE PERSON. >> Linsey: SENATOR AMY FROM MINNESOTA, THINK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. >> IT'S GREAT TO BE ON, THANK YOU. >> Linsey: TONIGHT WAS CERTAINLY A PERSONAL MOMENT FOR THE PRESIDENT AS HE LAID OUT HIS REMARKS JUST AFTER A COVID DIAGNOSIS JUST DAYS FROM DECIDING TO STEP ASIDE FROM THE 2024 RACE. HERE'S A BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. >> I LOVE THIS OFFICE BUT I LOVE MY COUNTRY MORE. IT HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVICE WERE PRESIDENT. BUT IN THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY, WHICH IS AT STAKE, IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY TITLE, I DRAW STRENGTH AND FIND JOY IN WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BUT THIS SACRED TASK, OF PERFECTING OUR UNION, IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, IT IS ABOUT YOU. >> Linsey: OUR CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANCHOR JOINS US NOW. MARTHA, THE PRESIDENT PUT TIME AND IS THIS SPEECH TO SAY WHICH ACCOMPLISHMENTS ABROAD MADE HIM PROUD, TELL US ABOUT THAT. >> I THINK HE CERTAINLY TALKED A LOT ABOUT UKRAINE. AND WE GO BACK AND WE REMEMBER THOSE EARLY DAYS AND THE ADMINISTRATION TALKED SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT WAS ABOUT TO COME. AND THAT WAS A BIG DECISION WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION WITHIN THE NATIONAL SECURITY APPARATUS. THEY HAD INTELLIGENCE SHOWING RUSSIA WAS GOING TO BORDERS, GOING TO THE BORDERS AND THEY WANTED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND THAT HELPED, AND THE PRESIDENT CERTAINLY TALKED ABOUT THAT TONIGHT, TO BRING NATO TOGETHER. AND THE PRESIDENT HAS REALLY HELPED REUNITE NATO IN WAYS THAT IT STARTED TO KIND OF FALL APART IN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE THEY WERE CLEAR THAT IF YOU WANT TO BE PROTECTED, YOU HAVE TO PAY MORE. IT DIDN'T REALLY FALL APART BUT IT REALLY STARTED TO MISTRUST, IN MANY WAYS, WHETHER THIS ALLIANCE COULD SURVIVE. WEATHER THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO GET THE SUPPORT, AND I THINK THEY ARE IN THAT WAY NOW AND VERY MUCH WATCHING THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. BUT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS VERY PROUD OF HELPING TO REUNITE NATO AND FACE UP TO THE THREAT FROM RUSSIA AND BE TOUGH ON RUSSIA. AND SIDE WITH THE UKRAINIANS AND NOT BACKING DOWN. NOW WHERE GOES IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, LINSEY, IS ANOTHER QUESTION ALTOGETHER. DOES AND BECOME BOLDER BECAUSE PRESIDENT BIDEN NOW IS ESSENTIALLY A LAME-DUCK PRESIDENT? AND AWAY, I THINK THAT IS A VERY VULNERABLE TIME FOR THE NATION. HE CLEARLY DOUBLED DOWN ON THAT TONIGHT, THAT HIS ATTENTION WOULD BE FOCUSED ON HIS TIME AS PRESIDENT. BUT IT IS A TIME WHEN THE ADVERSARIES CAN LOOK AT THE UNITED STATES IN A WAY THEY WEREN'T A WEEK AGO. >> Linsey: MARTHA, OUR THANKS TO YOU. AND I NOW WANT TO BRING IN THE FORMER DNC CHAIR AND "ABC NEWS" TRIBUTE OR, DONNA BRAZIL. SHE KNOWS JOE BIDEN VERY WELL. YOUR REACTION TO THE ADDRESS TO THE NATION? >> I THOUGHT WAS VERY HEARTFELT. 11 MINUTES WAS SHORT BUT IT WAS SO IMPACTFUL. WHAT HE TOLD THE NATION WAS HIS LOVE OF THIS COUNTRY, HIS DESIRE TO COMPLETE HIS JOB, HIS DETERMINATION TO SEE A NEW GENERATION WITH NEW VOICES AND NEW FACES TO RISE. HE STEPPED BACK SO THAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CAN STEP FORWARD. HE STEPPED BACK SO WE CAN SEE THE BRIDGE WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CROSS OVER. HE STEPPED BACK SO THAT THE 21 MILLION AMERICANS WHO GOT HEALTH INSURANCE, 15.7 MILLION AMERICANS WHO FOUND JOBS AFTER COVID, HE STEPPED BACK SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE PROGRESS. I KNOW THERE WILL BE PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE COUNTRY THAT WILL JUST NEVER UNDERSTAND JOE BIDEN. WHY HE RAN IN THE FIRST PLACE AND WHY HE DECIDED TO STEP DOWN AFTER THREE WEEKS AND THREE DAYS OF TAKING ON CRITICISM FROM HIS FRIENDS, FROM PEOPLE INSIDE HIS TENT,'S PARTY. IT HAS BEEN A VERY DEEP AND VERY TROUBLING TIME. BUT YOU KNOW, THE FATE THAT HE HAS, NOT JUST IN A HIGHER BEING BUT THE FAITH HE HAS AN US AS AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT CAME THROUGH IN THOSE 11 MINUTES. I HAVE ALREADY SCENT MY CONGRATULATIONS TO MR PRESIDENT. WE STILL LOVE YOU, WE STILL HAVE YOUR BACK. GO GET SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM, GO GET A PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICH, MR PRESIDENT. MR PRESIDENT, CONTINUE TO FIGHT. YOU ARE NOT FINISHED THE WORK. THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT PASSING THE TORCH, FROM THE GREEK LITERATURE, IT IS THE RUNNERS. BUT MOSES HAD 40 YEARS AND HE HAD TO PASS THE TORCH. I'M SO PROUD OF JOE BIDEN. BECAUSE NOT MANY MEN AND MY LIFE HAVE GIVEN UP POWER, LET ALONE GIVE UP THEIR POWER AND THEIR WARCHEST TO A WOMAN. BUT OVER THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THIS MUCH I KNOW AND I WILL TELL EVERYBODY, KAMALA HARRIS IS A PROVEN LEADER, SHE IS READY. SHE IS NOT READY JUST BECAUSE OF HER EDUCATION OR BECAUSE SHE WAS A DA IN CALIFORNIA AND UNITED STATES SENATOR, BUT SHE HAS BEEN A GOVERNMENT PARTNER WITH JOE BIDEN FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS. SHE HAS TRAVELED TO OVER 20 COUNTRIES, SHE KNOWS OVER 150 LITERS. YOU CANNOT GET THAT EXPERIENCE WHILE JUST RUNNING YOUR MOUTH. YOU GET IT BY PUTTING IN THE WORK. SHE HAS RECEIPTS AND I AM PROUD. VERY PROUD OF THE BIDEN FAMILY. THEY TOOK THIS WITH GRACE. THEY NEVER ONCE IT EXPRESSED HORROR, GRIEVANCE. THEY ARE LIKE, WE WILL KEEP FIGHTING AND I'M SO GRATEFUL. I'M SO GRATEFUL TO JOE BIDEN AND HIS LEADERSHIP. >> Linsey: THERE WAS A MOMENT TONIGHT WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN ASKED THE CRITICAL QUESTION, DOES CHARACTER IN PUBLIC LIFE STILL MATTER? ALSO REFERRING TO HIS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, LET'S TAKE A LISTEN. >> President Biden: MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT HAS BEEN THE PRIVILEGE OF MY LIFE TO SERVE THIS NATION FOR OVER 50 YEARS. NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH COULD A KID WITH A STUTTER FROM MODEST BEGINNINGS IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ONE DAY SIT BEHIND THE RESOLUTE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BUT HERE I AM. >> Linsey: I WILL ASK YOU IN PARTICULAR WHAT YOU MADE OF THAT QUESTION OF, DOES CHARACTER AND PUBLIC LIFE STILL MATTER? >> IT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL. REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN ENTERED THE NATIONAL PUBLIC LIFE. HE LOST HIS WIFE AND CHILD, TWO OF HIS SONS HAD TO DEEP INJURIES. HE HAD TO PUT HIS LIFE BACK. HE SUFFERED AN ANEURYSM, HE HAD TO PUT HIS LIFE BACK. HE HAS HAD SO MANY SETBACKS BUT IT NEVER STOPPED HIM. FROM MAKING THE AMERICAN DREAM AVAILABLE TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US. WHEN JOE BIDEN TALKS ABOUT HIS STRUGGLE WITH STUTTERING, I THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE KIDS IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OF THE ADULTS THAT HAVE TO OVERCOME THEIR DISABILITIES, OVERCOME THEIR SHORTCOMINGS AND CAN YET FACED TOMORROW WITH JOY, WITH THE BELIEF THAT YOU CAN STILL WALK, YOU CAN STILL CONTRIBUTE. I AM NOT CLOSE TO ANYONE YET, LINDSAY, BUT I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING, IF THE GOOD LORD GIVES ME AS MANY YEARS AS THE LORD HAS GIVEN JOE BIDEN, I HOPE I HAVE HIS CHARACTER, HIS DECENCY, HIS KINDNESS AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE TO LET A NEW GENERATION GO OVER THAT BRIDGE. JOE BIDEN HAS BROUGHT US SO CLOSE TO WHAT WE WANT IN AMERICA. ON AMERICA THAT SEES EVERYBODY, THE STUTTERING LITTLE BOY FROM SCRANTON, THE LITTLE GIRL FROM LOUISIANA THAT WAS TOO DARK TO GO SOMEPLACE. AND YET THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT SEES ALL OF US, THE GUY FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, MR VANCE, THE LITTLE GIRL WITH PIGTAILS IN OAKLAND RIDING HER BIKE, THIS IS WHO WE ARE. AND IF WE CAN CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT WE COME FROM EVERYWHERE AND WE ARE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, NONE OF US ARE PERFECT. IF WE CAN TAKE THE EXAMPLE HE HAS SET AND START TALKING TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND TALKING TO OUR FRIENDS AND COWORKERS WITH LOVE, THEN UNITY WILL NOT JUST BE WORDS ANY SPEECH, BUT UNITY WILL BE PART OF THE AMERICAN FABRIC THAT WE LOVE. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I LOVE POLITICIANS LIKE JOE BIDEN. I'M SO GLAD HE IS MY FRIEND, I LOVE DR BIDEN, I'M SO GLAD SHE IS MY FRIEND. THESE ARE GOOD, HONOURABLE, DECENT PEOPLE. I HAVE TO GET ON WITH MY WORK BUT I TELL YOU ONE THING, JOE BIDEN KEPT THE FAITH AND I WILL KEEP THE FAITH FOR HIM AS WELL. >> Linsey: YOUR PASSION COMES THROUGH, IT IS QUITE EVIDENT. AND BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE TORCH BEING PASSED. YOU'VE EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE AND DEMOCRATS NOW RALLYING BEHIND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS BUT JUST WALK US THROUGH WHAT HAPPENS FROM THIS POINT UP UNTIL THE ROLL CALL AND THE DNC AND WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE. >> WE HAD THAT MEETING TODAY. AND BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE INSIDERS, THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, JOE BIDEN HAS NEVER LOST MORE THAN THREE VOTES ON THE PLATFORM, ON THE RULES, CREDENTIALS, ZERO. HE WAS NOT HEMORRHAGING DELEGATES. HE WAS HEMORRHAGING -- OR I GUESS THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT, SOME PEOPLE SAID I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO LEAD THE TEAM ANYMORE. THAT'S FINE. THEY MADE THEIR CHOICE, IT IS THEIR CONSCIENCE. BUT HE'S LEAVING THIS PARTY IN GOOD HANDS AND GOOD SHAPE AND THE VICE PRESIDENT KNOWS HOW TO NOT JUST ROW THE BOAT, SHE KNOWS HOW TO INCLUDE MORE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO SAIL FORWARD IN THE FUTURE. WE ARE NOT GOING BACKWARDS, AS THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYS, WE ARE NOT GOING BACK. SHE WILL SUBMIT HER PAPERS, 300 SIGNATURES, NAME AND NOMINATION. I WILL ASK HER IF I CAN SIGN MY NAME. I WANT MY NAME IN THE HISTORY BOOKS. I WANT THIS KID FROM LOUISIANA -- I WANT HER TO HAVE HER NAME, I WANT TO HELP NOMINATE HER. I WANT TO BE ONE OF 300. AND THEN OF COURSE THE PROCESS WILL GO TO THE FULL BODY OF THE DNC AND THE DNC SEE WHICH IS THE CONVENTION DELEGATES. WE HAVE UNTIL AUGUST 1st AND IF NO ONE STEPS UP, THEN IT WILL MOVE JUST A LITTLE BIT QUICKER BUT WE ALL KNOW BY AUGUST 7th, WE WANT BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND THE VISE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN ALL 50 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WE HAVE A FAST TIMELINE BUT WE HAVE A OPEN, FAIR, TRANSPARENT PROCESS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING THE NOMINEE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, GET YOUR SIGNATURES. AND GUESS WHAT? LET THE PARTY BEGIN. >> Linsey: ALL HAPPENING IN SHORT ORDER, DONNA BRAZIL, OUR THANKS TO YOU IS ALWAYS. MUCH MORE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ADDRESS STRAIGHTAHEAD, STAY WITH US. 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This is her knight in shining armor. Everything felt right all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry. It's shocking. My stomach just dropped. He just really didn't think I had it in me these something so I did betrayal of Father's secret the all new season on Hulu. All right, let the dogs out please. I don't think he's gonna give you a hard time. Even if he gives me a hard time the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. I'm confident come surrender everything that he's taught has become a reality. We are so grateful and impressed. I feel like crying and changed our world. It is a beautiful thing to see as you rehabilitate the dog. You also rehabilitate you >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK EVERYONE. TAKING A LIVE LOOK NOW AT THE WHITE HOUSE WERE NOT LONG AGO, A PRESIDENT MADE HIS ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I WANT TO BEING BACK OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF RICK KLEIN WHO JOINS US NOW. AND RICK, THERE IS OFTEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT BEING IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS. YOU WERE THERE TONIGHT IN THE ROOM FOR THAT OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS. GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT THAT MOMENT WAS LIKE. >> LINDSAY WAS POWERFUL, INTIMATE AND EVEN EMOTIONAL AT TIMES. I WAS THERE IN MY CAPACITY AS BUREAU CHIEF REPRESENTING THE NETWORK AS PART OF A ROUTE ROTATION. YOU GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH THIS AND PRODUCE THESE EVENTS ON A SMALLER SCALE BASIS. AND JUST BEFORE THE PRESIDENT SPOKE, MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY, ABOUT 10 OR 12 BIDEN'S WALKED INTO THE ROOM. FIRST LADY JILL, SON AND DAUGHTER, HIS SON HUNTER, DAUGHTER ASHLEY. AND SEVERAL OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN. AND IT WAS REALLY REMARKABLE TO SEE THE ANTICIPATION ON THEIR FACES. AND THE EMOTION THAT THEY SEEMED TO DIGEST,'S DAUGHTER WATCHED MOST OF THE SPEECH, SHE WATCH IT WITH HER EYES CLOSED, NODDING VERY SLOWLY AND APPEARING TO DAB HER EYES AT TIMES. GRABBED FOR HER MOM'S HAND TOWARDS THE END OF THE SPEECH TO SEE HIS SON HUNTER SO MUCH IN THE PUBLIC EYE, JUST A FEW FEET OFF CAMERA, JUST TO THE PRESIDENTS LEFT OUT OF HIS SIGHT LINE. THERE TO EMOTIONALLY SUPPORT HIM, IT WAS TRULY REMARKABLE. AND WHEN THE PRESIDENT WRAPPED UP IN THE TV CAMERAS WENT OFF, TO SEE THE RUMOR WRAPPED IN APPLAUSE, MANY OF HIS AIDES WHO CAME IN, I SAW THEM MAKING EYE CONTACT AND NODDING AT EACH OTHER, THEY RECOGNIZE WHAT AN IMPORTANT MOMENT THIS WAS AN TO THEIR MIND, THEIR BOSS OR THEIR FATHER OR THEIR GRANDFATHER OR HUSBAND, JUST DID SOMETHING TRULY SELFLESS IN POLITICS AND HISTORIC IN POLITICS AND BEYOND. >> Linsey: AND MARY BRUCE WHO WAS ON THE FRONT LAWN THERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, AT ONE POINT HEARD LOUD CHEERS ERUPTING. YOU WERE INSIDE SO GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING INSIDE. >> YEAH,, I DON'T THINK SHE HEARD THE LOUD ONE BECAUSE THIS WAS A SMALLER GROUP INSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE. AND THE OVAL OFFICE ISN'T THAT BIG AND THEY HAD TO MOVE OUT A LOT OF FURNITURE TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE TV EQUIPMENT. THERE WAS ABOUT 39 OR 40 PEOPLE WE COUNTED IN THE ROOM. AND INCLUDING A LOT OF ABC PERSONNEL, SOME WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS AT ALL LEVELS AND PART OF THE PRODUCTION AS WELL AS THE SPEECHWRITING TEAM AND PEOPLE THAT ARE CLOSE TO HIM PERSONALLY. SOME OF THOSE AIDS THAT ARE RECOGNIZED WORK WITH HIM FOR DECADES BACK TO HIS DATES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. AND THEY WERE THERE TO WITNESS HIM AND WITNESS FIRSTHAND AND A WAY THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO. THAT CREW DID APPLAUD AND THEN THE PRESIDENT WELTON -- WENT INTO A HOLDING AREA WITH HIS FAMILY AND THEN HE WALKED OUT ONTO THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN AND I DON'T KNOW THAT HE KNEW THIS WAS HAPPENING, BUT THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF STAFFERS WHO WERE GATHERED. THAT'S WHERE THE LOUD APPLAUSE HAPPENED THAT THE PRESIDENT TOOK THE MIC AND THANKED PEOPLE FOR BEING THERE. YOU CAN TELL THAT WAS A MOMENT FOR ANYONE, WHETHER THE BIDEN FAMILY OR WHITE HOUSE STAFF OR OF ANY LEVEL, THIS WAS A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY. SO MANY HEAVY GENUINE AFFECTION FOR HIM AS WELL, HE'S A POLITICIAN THAT AT HIS HEART HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LOYAL TO HIM AND THAT TRULY LOVE HIM. PEOPLE THAT WORK WITH HIM SINCE THE 1970s. TO SEE THEM AND THE WAY THEY REACTED, I THINK WAS POWERFUL ON ITS OWN. >> Linsey: A HISTORIC NIGHT TO BE SURE. RICK KLEIN, THANKS TO YOU. DESPITE THE CLAIMS BY THE GOP THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS LIKELY NOT FIT TO CONTINUE HIS ROLE, HE IS ADAMANT HE WILL FINISH THE JOB. LET'S BRING IN OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPOND OR, MARYANNE. FROM HIS INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS WHERE HE INSISTED IT WOULD TAKE AN ACT OF THE LORD TO COME DOWN AND HAVE HIM DECIDE HE WAS GOING TO DROP OUT, UNTIL TODAY, WHY SUCH A DRASTIC CHANGE IN THE PRESIDENT? >> LINDSAY -- LINSEY, I THINK THAT IS UNANSWERED. THE PRESIDENT DID NOT DIRECTLY EXPLAIN THAT WHIPLASH. THIS WAS A POWERFUL SPEECH, UNEMOTIONAL SPEECH. WAS CLEARLY A DECISION THAT HE WAS FORCED INTO, THAT HE HAD HOPED HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO STEP DOWN. BUT IT IS REMARKABLE TO THINK ABOUT JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO. HE SAID IT WOULD TAKE AN ACT OF GOD, IT WOULD TAKE A MESSAGE FROM THE LORD ALMIGHTY TO STEP OUT OF THIS RACE AND TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THAT OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS, HE DID NOT TALK ABOUT THE CHANGE OF HEART, HE DID NOT TALK ABOUT HIS HEALTH. HE NOTABLY DID NOT TAKE ON THE QUESTIONS FROM REPUBLICANS ABOUT WHETHER HE IS STILL FIT TO SERVE OUT THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. THOUGH HE INSISTED THAT HE IS AND THAT HE HAS A LOT TO STILL DO. AND I'M THINKING ABOUT THE PRESS BRIEFING TODAY WHERE WE WERE ASKING THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ABOUT WHETHER HE MADE THIS DECISION BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH AND SHE REPEATEDLY SAID THAT WAS NOT IT. BUT I THINK HE WILL STILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT WHIPLASH AND WHAT ULTIMATELY LED HIM TO THIS DECISION. >> Linsey: MARYALICE PARKS, THANKS TO YOU LET'S GO TO OUR SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT. SELENA, YOU WERE THERE AND TEXAS WHERE VP KAMALA HARRIS -- HOW HAS SHE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING? >> SHE HAS WASTED NO TIME. SHE HAS VERY RAPIDLY UNITED THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEHIND HER, HER CAMPAIGN HAS ALREADY RAISED RECORD SHATTERING AMOUNTS AND SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN TOURING THE COUNTRY. SHE WAS IN WISCONSIN FOR A RALLY AND THEN IN INDIANAPOLIS TODAY. SPEAKING TO A HISTORICALLY BLACK SORORITY AND THEN TOMORROW SHE WILL BE HERE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE NATIONAL TEACHERS UNION. SHE IS ALREADY HERE RIGHT NOW AS WE ARE SPEAKING. AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IS ABLE TO REDEFINE HERSELF TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ON HER OWN TERMS. AND WE HAVE SEEN HER REALLY LEAN INTO HER BACKGROUND AS A PROSECUTOR AND MAKE THE CASE THAT SHE CAN ATTACK DONALD TRUMP WHERE IT HURTS THE MOST. SHE IS FRAMING THE SELECTION AS ONE BETWEEN A PROSECUTOR VERSUS A CONVICTED FELON. ALTHOUGH HER CAMPAIGN KNOWS THAT, THIS WILL BE A VERY TIGHT RACE. BUT THEY BELIEVE THEY DO HAVE A UNIQUE ADVANTAGE, THEY ARE SAYING THAT A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF UNDECIDED VOTERS ARE BLACK, LATINO AND YOUNG VOTERS, ALL OF THESE DEMOGRAPHICS ARE WHERE THEY BELIEVE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS CAN GENERATE THE MOST ENTHUSIASM. >> Linsey: AND SOME ARE REFERRING TO THIS VICE PRESIDENT AS A DEI HIGHER. HAS ANYONE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COME OUT IN HER DEFENSE? >> LINSEY, WE HAVE SEEN MANY DEMOCRATS RUSHED TO THE VISE PRESIDENTS DEFENSE, INCLUDING ALEXANDRIA CORTEZ, SHE SAYS IT IS UNFOUNDED AND THAT SHE HAS WORKED FOR THIS, SHE SAYS SHE RIGHTLY DESERVES THIS ROLE BUT SHE SAYS THEY NEED TO BRACE THEMSELVES FOR THE SEXIST AND RACIST COMMENTS AND ATTACKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE HURLED AT THE VICE PRESIDENT. WE ALSO HEARD FROM HILLARY CLINTON, SHE WROTE AN OP-ED SAYING SHE KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A WOMAN AND AMERICAN POLITICS AND TO FACE THE DOUBLE STANDARDS AND THE SEXISM. SHE SAYS THAT VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IS GOOD TO FACE EVEN ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES BECAUSE SHE IS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN, THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN TO BE AT THE TOP OF HER PARTY'S TICKET. BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IS THAT HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON TOLD REPUBLICANS, WE ARE LEARNING, TO STOP THESE ATTACKS. AND THAT INSTEAD THEY SHOULD FOCUS ON HER RECORD AND HER POLICIES, LYNN -- LINSEY? >> Linsey: THINK YOU SO MUCH SELENA. SO MUCH MORE HEAD ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ADDRESS, STAY WITH US. [ ♪♪ ] The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn't get any more Cutting Edge and this All right, let the dogs out please. I don't think he's gonna give you a hard time. Even if he gives me a hard time the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. I'm confident come surrender everything that he's taught has become a reality. We are so grateful and impressed. I feel like crying and changed our world. It is a beautiful thing to see as you rehabilitate the dog. You also rehabilitate you Hey, good morning. America. Good Morning. America Good Morning America covering the biggest events in the country right now. You don't just see it. You feel it. I'm in I'm in to Michael towards where. Betrayal is one of the hardest types of trauma to overcome. This is her knight in shining armor. Everything felt right all the sudden. I found this hidden folder. I opened it. I don't think I can say I'm sorry. It's shocking. My stomach just dropped. He just really didn't think I had it in me these something so I did betrayal of Father's secret the all new season on Hulu. >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK. CONTINUING OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. TONIGHT WE GET A REACTION FROM THE NUMBER 3 IN THE HOUSE, TOM EMMER WHO SAID IN A STATEMENT, QUOTE, IT IS A TOUGH SELL BUT THIS DECISION WAS ABOUT DEMOCRACY WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TRAMPLED ON THE WILL OF 14 MILLION PRIMARY VOTERS WHO SELECTED JOE BIDEN TO BE THE NOMINEE. FOR MORE REACTION ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SPEECH TONIGHT, LET'S BRING IN JAY O'BRIEN WHO WAS ON CAPITOL HILL FOR US. JAY, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID HE IS READY TO FOCUS ON HIS JOB AS PRESIDENT AND HE WILL CONTINUE GIVING HIS HEART AND SOUL TO THE NATION. YOU THINK HE WAS ABLE TO SAY ENOUGH TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN THOSE WHO HAVE EXPRESSED DOUBT? >> IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKELY IT WILL CHANGE ANY OF THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN MINES WHO CALLED FOR HIM TO RESIGN, SAYING IF HE CAN'T RUN FOR REELECTION, YOU SHOULD NOT CONTINUE ON AS PRESIDENT. TOM EMMER WAS ONE OF THOSE, HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON IS ANOTHER. WE CUT UP JUST MOMENTS AGO FROM TWO MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE, A REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT. WE RAN INTO THEM JUST MOMENTS AGO, RIGHT AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS WERE FINISHED. AND BEGOT THEIR REACTION REACTION, PARTICULARLY ON THE IDEA OF SHOULD PRESIDENT BIDEN RESIGN. HERE'S WHAT THEY TOLD US. >>> DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOING TO CALL HIM AND HE CALLS FOR HIM TO RESIGN? BECAUSE KAMALA HARRIS IS NOW IN. >> I DON'T THINK SO, I DON'T THINK IT WILL MATTER. >> YOU DON'T REALLY CARE IF HE RESIGNS OR NOT? >> I THINK WE ARE IN TROUBLE. >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION AT BIDEN'S ADDRESS, DID YOU WATCH IT? >> I WATCHED IT. HE DOESN'T LOOK OR SOUND AS GOOD AS HE USED TO, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS, I THINK IT WAS ONE OF HIS BEST SPEECHES. I THINK IT WILL BE ONE OF HIS MOST MEMORABLE SPEECHES. AND IT WAS EXTREMELY MOVING. >> MOSCOW IT'S WENT ON TO SAY SOMETHING WE HEARD FROM A LOT OF DEMOCRATS WHICH IS FRAMING PRESIDENT BIDEN'S DECISION NOT AS ONE ABOUT FITNESS FOR OFFICE BUT AS ONE ABOUT ABILITY TO WIN IN NOVEMBER, SAYING THAT BIDEN MADE THE CALCULATION THAT IT -- IF HE CANNOT WIN IN NOVEMBER, HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CAMPAIGN THE WAY HE NEEDS TO CAMPAIGN AND THAT'S WHY HE MADE THIS CALL. WE ALSO HEARD TONIGHT FROM FORMER SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE TOP DEMOCRATS WHO WERE TRYING TO PUSH PRESIDENT BIDEN TO RECOGNIZE, IN THEIR VIEW, HE COULD NOT WIN IN NOVEMBER, SHE SAID IN A STATEMENT TONIGHT, QUOTE, TONIGHT WE SAW PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTS, SHOW HE IS NOT ONLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, BUT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FUTURE. LET LINSEY? >> Linsey: THAT IS JAY FROM THE ROTUNDA THEY ARE THANK YOU SO MUCH. IMMIGRATION OBVIOUSLY A MAJOR ISSUE FOR VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY WITH BORDER SECURITY. I WANT TO BRING IN MARIA AT THE BORDER, WHAT EXACTLY DOES POLLING SHOW ABOUT THE TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION? >> LINSEY THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT. NEW POLLING DOES SHOW THAT IMMIGRATION IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR AMERICANS IN OUR COUNTRY. PEOPLE WE SPEAK WITH TELL US THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THEM BECAUSE WHEN THEY SEE APPREHENSION NUMBERS UP AND RESOURCES STRAINED AT THE BORDER, IT MAKES THEM FEEL LIKE THIS BORDER CHAOS IS ACTUALLY CREATING VULNERABILITY IN OUR COUNTRY. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AS YOU KNOW HAS TALKED ABOUT COMING TO A COMPROMISE ON A BORDER SECURITY DEAL. THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN MONTHS AGO BUT IT WAS TORPEDOED WHEN TRUMP SAID, LISTEN, TAKE THIS OFF THE TABLE. I WANT TO RUN ON THIS ISSUE AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE SEEN HIM DO. AFTER AND DURING THE JUNE DEBATE BUT ALSO AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AS WELL, JUST LAST WEEK. AS YOU HEARD HIM TALK ABOUT. WE ALSO HEARD A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE THAT WERE SPEAKING AT THE RNC TRYING TO CAPITALIZE ON IMMIGRATION FEARS, TALKING ABOUT HOW THE CHAOS ALONG THE BORDER LED TO A RISE IN CRIME AND OUR COUNTRY AND ALSO TO FENTANYL DEATHS. BUT LET'S BE VERY CLEAR. THE FACTS DO NOT SUPPORT THAT NARRATIVE. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT POINTS TO A MAJOR SURGE IN CRIME CAUSED BY RECENT ARRIVAL. AND ADDITIONALLY, WHILE WE DO HAVE ISSUES WITH FENTANYL IN OUR COUNTRY AND FENTANYL DEATHS, RIGHT NOW WE KNOW THAT CARTELS BRING THIS DRUG INTO OUR COUNTRY THROUGH BIG RIGS AND VEHICLES, NOT ON THE BACKS OF MIGRANTS. WE ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT RIGHT NOW, APPREHENSION NUMBERS CONTINUE TO DECREASE IN OUR COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS. I SPOKE TO ONE AGENT OUT OF THE EAGLE PASS AREA THIS MORNING WHO SAID WE ARE DOING OUR JOBS, IT IS MANAGEABLE. BUT TO BE QUITE HONEST, RIGHT NOW, IT IS ACTUALLY PRETTY QUIET. THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS NOT OUTWARDLY COME OUT TO TRY TO TAKE ON THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION. I DOUBT THAT IS WHAT VP HARRIS WILL DO BUT WE DO KNOW THAT SHE IS PRIVY TO STATISTICS AND INFORMATION ON THE BORDER. MORE THAN LIKELY WHAT WE WILL SEE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AS WELL AS WHEN SHE TAKES ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN A DEBATE STYLE. SHE WILL USE THAT INFORMATION TO FACT CHECK HIM. NOT NECESSARILY MAKE IMMIGRATION HER TOP PRIORITY WHEN SHE IS CAMPAIGNING. LINSEY? >> Linsey: THANKS TO YOU. AND NOW WILL BRING IN OUR NEXT COMMENTATOR. SHE IS FOLLOWED KAMALA HARRIS FOR YEARS. SPEAKING IN INDIANAPOLIS TODAY, A DAY AFTER SHE HELD HER DEBUT CAMPAIGN RALLY, GIVE US A SENSE OF HER TONE AND ALSO THE REACTION TO HER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL NOW AS A PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER. >> I THINK YOU FEEL A SENSE OF CONFIDENCE. WHEN YOU ARE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU BELIEVE YOU SHOULD BE, THERE IS A FREEDOM THERE. AND YOU FELT THAT WITH HER. YOU FELT THE SHIFT OF TONE. BUT I HAVE TO ASK THIS QUESTION. WE KNOW SHE HAS GROWN, WE ASK HOW MUCH SHE HAS GROWN, WE AS A COUNTRY HAVE GROWN AS WELL AND SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW MUCH SHE HAS CHANGED VERSUS HOW MUCH WE HAVE CHANGED WHEN WE LOOK AT HER. THESE CROWDS ARE LOOKING AT HER IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY, SEEING HER REALLY AS SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP, VERSUS THE PERSON WHO WILL TAKE ON 20 DIFFERENT CANDIDATES IN A DEMOCRATIFIELD >> Linsey: WHAT WAS THE REACTION FROM THE CROWD? >> THEY WERE JUST SO ENTHUSIASTIC. THE LAST TIME I RUMOR CROWDS THIS EXCITED ABOUT HER, IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE END OF SUMMER. I REMEMBER THIS ONE EVENT IN NEVADA WHERE CROWDS WERE SO EXCITED THEY KEPT CHANTING THE WORDS, DUDE HAS TO GO. THEY WERE SO PUMPED AN ENERGETIC AND THERE IS A FEELING AND A SENSE THAT SHE COULD MAYBE CROSS THAT FINISH LINE AND ACTUALLY BECOME THE NOMINEE IN THAT MOMENT. >> Linsey: THANKS TO YOU IS ALWAYS. JOINING US NOW IS PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN MARK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. YOU HAVE NO DOUBT SEEN AND READ ABOUT PRESIDENTS GIVING SIMILAR ADDRESSES MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF THEIR TERMS. HOW DOES THIS ONE MEASURE UP? >> I THINK IT IS A GOOD SPEECH, A VERY GOOD SPEECH AND NO SURPRISE. JOE BIDEN CAME BACK TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO THE ISSUE OF DEMOCRACY. THAT IS WHY HE WENT INTO THIS RACE TO BEGIN WITH. AND ONE THING STUCK OUT TO ME AT THE END OF THE SPEECH, LINSEY, WHEN HE SAID HISTORY IS IN YOUR HANDS R LET'S ACT TOGETHER TO PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY. AND I THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN, BY GETTING INTO THE RACE IN 2020, WAS INTENT ON BENDING THE CURRENT OF HISTORY, TAKING BACK THE WHITE HOUSE IN ORDER TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY FROM DONALD TRUMP, WHO HE -- HE CONSIDERED AND MANY AMERICANS CONSIDER TO BE IN EXCESS DENTAL THREAT THAT WAS A DEFINING MOMENT. RESTING THE WHITE HOUSE FROM DONALD TRUMP. THE OTHER WILL BE STEPPING ASIDE AND PASSING THE TORCH TO KAMALA HARRIS WHO STANDS A BETTER CHANCE OF STAVING OFF ANOTHER THREAT FROM DONALD TRUMP, AGAINST ALL ODDS, A RESURGENT DONALD TRUMP TO ONCE AGAIN WIN THE WHITE HOUSE. TWO DEFINING MOMENTS BOOK ENDING THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY. LINSEY? >> Linsey: AND HE WAS OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO CEMENT HOW HISTORIANS WILL VIEW HIS PRESIDENCY. DO YOU THINK HE WAS ABLE TO SUCCEED IN SELLING IT? >> I THINK IN SOME WAYS, YES. BECAUSE HE FULFILLED THE PROMISE OF RESTORING OUR DEMOCRACY BY PRESERVING AND PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY. BY BRINGING US BACK TO DEMOCRATIC NORMALS AND VALUES AND TRADITIONS. YOU ALSO MENTIONED MARTHA EARLIER IN THE BROADCAST THAT HE REVIVED A VERY WEEKEND NATO AROUND THE DEFENSE OF UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIAN AGGRESSION. VERY SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RESTORING AND PRESERVING OUR DEMOCRACY. BUT AGAIN, I THINK HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS NOT THE ONE TO CONTINUE THIS FIGHT. SO HIS LEGACY, LINSEY, IS VERY MUCH IN THE BALANCE AS AGAIN KHAKI HANDS OFF THE TORCH TO KAMALA HARRIS TO STAVE OFF ANOTHER POTENTIAL THREAT FROM DONALD TRUMP. >> Linsey: AND THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT HAS SIX MONTHS STILL REMAINING IN HIS TERM, IS THAT MUCH TIME FOR HIM TO AFFECT HIS LEGACY AND FOR IT TO CHANGE? >> I THINK HE HAS TO DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO ROUND OUT THE ADMINISTRATION AND A NOBLE AND ADMIRABLE WAY. LAME-DUCK PRESIDENTS CAN ACCOMPLISH A GREAT DEAL, AS YOU KNOW HAVING WATCHED LAME-DUCK PRESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. BUT I THINK HE HAS TO DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO HELP HIS HEIR APPARENT, KAMALA HARRIS, TO WIN THE OFFICE IN THE FALL. BUT THE OTHER THING HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO DO IS SHOW AMERICA THAT HE IS ABLE TO CONTINUE TO LEAD, GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE SAID STAMINA IS AN ISSUE, THAT'S WHY HE IS NOT RUNNING AGAIN. THAT'S WHY HIS PARTY HAS ASKED HIM TO STEP ASIDE. HE HAS TO CONTINUE TO SHOW THE VIGOR, THE ENERGY, THE VISION TO CONTINUE IN THE ROLE OF OUR PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. >> Linsey: MARKET, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH, AS ALWAYS. AND AS MARK JUST LAID OUT FOR US, DEMOCRACY IN THE FIGHT OVER THE REPUBLIC WAS A KEY PART OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SPEECH TONIGHT. WE ARE NOW JOINED IN STUDIO BY A BIDEN BIOGRAPHER, AUTHOR OF THE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. >> Linsey: WE SAW THERE, JUST A SHORT TIME AGO, WHEN JOE BIDEN SAT DOWN WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS AND SAID ESSENTIALLY WAS GOING TO TAKE AN ACT OF GOD FOR HIM TO GET REMOVED FROM THE RACE AND THEN WE SAW LESS THAN ROUGHLY THREE WEEKS LATER WHERE HE DID HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART. YOU KNOW HIM BETTER THAN MOST, WHAT DO YOU THINK ACTUALLY DID CAUSE THAT CHANGE? >> IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY DRAMA THAT WE WATCHED UNFOLD OVER THE LAST 72 HOURS. AND PRIOR TO THAT, REALLY WE HAVE SEEN NOTHING LIKE IT IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. WHAT STRUCK ME TONIGHT, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IS THAT THIS WAS JUST THE EXTRAORDINARY GRACE THAT BIDEN BROUGHT -- JOE BIDEN BROUGHT TO THIS MOMENT. THE MOST DIFFICULT DECISION HE HAS MADE IN HIS CAREER, MAY BE THE MOST DIFFICULT SINCE LBJ IN 1968. BUT WHAT FASCINATED ME WAS THE WAY HE FRAMED HIS DECISION. HE SAID HE WAS PASSING THE TORCH BECAUSE HE WANTED TO UNITE THE PARTY. NOW IF YOU GAVE JOE BIDEN A TRUTH SERUM, HE WOULD PROBABLY SAY IN AMERICA, THE PEOPLE RULE BUT SO DOES NANCY PELOSI. AND I'M BEING SLIGHTLY FACETIOUS BUT THE FACT IS, THE TRUTH IS THAT JOE BIDEN HAD TO MAKE A COLD, HARD DECISION LAST SUNDAY IN REHOBOTH BEACH AND THE DECISION HE MADE WAS THERE WAS NO PATH FORWARD WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS ABANDONING HIM AND THE PARTY FRACTURING AROUND HIM. THAT IS A DECISION THAT JOE BIDEN DID NOT WANT TO MAKE BUT HE MADE IT AND DELIVERED IT TONIGHT WITH EXTRAORDINARY GRACE. NOT A TRACE OF BITTERNESS. >> Linsey: DO YOU THINK IT WAS ULTIMATELY ABOUT SELF-SACRIFICE? THAT HE WAS PUTTING COUNTRY OVER SELF? >> YES, AND HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THAT FOR SURE. I THINK JUST AS LBJ HAD A TREMENDOUS SURGE AND POPULARITY WHEN HE MADE THAT TOUGH DECISION IN 1968, JOE BIDEN WILL AS WELL. AND ONE OF THE PARALLELS PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT AS MUCH BETWEEN LBJ AND BIDEN, IS THAT ONE OF LYNDON JOHNSON'S PRIMARY REASONS FOR STEPPING AWAY WAS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THAT IF HE DIVORCED HIMSELF FROM POLITICS HE COULD GET A PEACE SETTLEMENT IN VIETNAM. I THINK JOE BIDEN IS DESPERATE TO GET A PEACE SETTLEMENT IN GAZA. AND IMAGINE IF HE IS ABLE TO DO THAT. HE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT THAT WOULD SURPASS LBJ WHO NEVER GOT A PEACE SETTLEMENT IN VIETNAM. >> Linsey: THERE IS A SUBSEQUENT INTERVIEW RECENTLY WHERE HE WAS ASKED WHO HE RELIES ON WITH ADVISORS TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS CATCH AND HE SAID ME, I RELY ON ME FOR THAT. DO YOU THINK, IN THIS CASE, IT WAS JUST A CASE AS YOUNG PEOPLE SAY, THE MATH WAS NOT WORKING OUT? THAT ULTIMATELY IT JUST CAME DOWN TO THE NUMBERS, OR DO YOU THINK IT WAS LISTENING TO THE COUNCIL OF FRIENDS OR FAMILY? >> I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT TO THIS MOMENT, I WOULD BET YOU THAT JOE BIDEN BELIEVES THAT HE COULD WIN THIS ELECTION. I DON'T THINK HE STEPPED AWAY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE COULDN'T DO THAT, OR EVEN BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE COULDN'T SERVE FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. I THINK WHAT HAPPENED IS THE COLD, HARD REALITY SET IN OF A PARTY THAT HAD ABANDONED HIM, PARTY LEADERS WHO HAD ABANDONED HIM. RIGHT DOWN TO THE BITTER END, HE BELIEVED, I THINK, AND SOME OF HIS INNER CIRCLE BELIEVE, THAT WE'VE DONE THIS, TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE HAVE PROVEN EVERYBODY WRONG, ALL OF OUR CRITICS. HE WON THE BATTLES BEFORE AND 2020 WHEN EVERYBODY SAID HE WAS DEAD AFTER IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE KHAKI DID IT IN 2022 WHEN HE DEFIED THE ODDS IN THE MIDTERMS AND HE LOST THIS LAST BATTLE. AND THIS ONE WAS SOMETHING HE COULD NOT OVERCOME BECAUSE THE PARTY LEADERS HAD ABANDONED HIM. >> Linsey: CHRIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSIGHT, REALLY APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US. AND THAT IS IT FOR A SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS. I'M LINSEY DAVIS, STAY TUNED FOR MORE ANALYSIS OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US, HAVE A GREAT WEEK. [ ♪♪ ] [ ♪♪ ]