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Ryan Bridge: The press conference that could mark the end of Biden's political career · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's just dropped the equivalent of a NATO bomb
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  Speaker 1: on her old buddy, Joe Biden. The former House Speaker,
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  Speaker 1: is well connected, she is respected within the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: She's always on cable television, and she had this to
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  Speaker 1: say when asked about Biden's critics attacking his mental capacity
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  Speaker 1: during the NATO summit.
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  Speaker 2: I want him to do whatever he decides to do.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just hold off whatever you're thinking. Either tell somebody privately,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't have to put that out on the
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  Speaker 2: table until we see how we go this week.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the problem with that? Well, remember Biden
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  Speaker 1: has already said this, I am running and gonna win again.
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  Speaker 1: So now you have the most influential, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most influential people in the Democratic Party saying he needs
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision about whether to run, and you
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  Speaker 1: have the candidate saying I've made the decision. I am running.
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  Speaker 1: It's very messy, it's huge, actually, and the White House
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  Speaker 1: is going to be and a tailspin this and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop there. Overnight, Michael Bennett became the first Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Senator to publicly say that Joe Biden can't win.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, Donald Trump is on track I think to
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  Speaker 3: win the selection and maybe win it by a landslide.
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  Speaker 1: In a political crisis, there are headlines like gunfire. Then
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  Speaker 1: there are bombs, which cause massive, often irreversible damage to
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  Speaker 1: a candidate. They can change the direction of a war,
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  Speaker 1: a turning point if you will, And make no mistake
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  Speaker 1: when this happens in politics, it's always actually worse when
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  Speaker 1: it's friendly fire. Remember just a couple of days to
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  Speaker 1: go at NATO and one solo press conference from the
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  Speaker 1: Commander in Chief on Thursday ending this seventy fifth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: NATO summit. The only question now is whether it could
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  Speaker 1: also become the platform for the eighty two year old
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  Speaker 1: president to also end his political career. For more from
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