| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| True ceasefire, which is what we wanted, a complete ceasefire. | ||
| Nothing should be blowing up. | ||
| But the Russians didn't agree to that. | ||
| They wanted a partial. | ||
| And then obviously when you get into these partials, it's one of the reasons why we push for a partial. | ||
| We'll take it because it's better than nothing. | ||
| But one of the reasons why we didn't push for a partial, because there's always disputes about what are you hitting and what you're not hitting. | ||
| But in the end, this is still a war. | ||
| And we want it to stop. | ||
| The fact that religious sites are being hit or energy sites are being hit or civilian sites are being hit, that's why war is a bad thing. | ||
| And that's why the president wants to end it. | ||
| As far as conducting another campaign, well, then that'll be a very clear sign. | ||
| If all of a sudden we wake up tomorrow and the Russians are launching a massive offensive, then I think that's a pretty clear sign they're not interested in peace. | ||
| That hasn't happened yet. | ||
| Let's hope it doesn't happen. | ||
| We want to know whether they want to do peace or not. | ||
| And if they do, then there's a way there. | ||
| And we're willing to help. | ||
| If they're not, then it's good to know early so we can adjust our policies accordingly. | ||
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All right, everybody. | |
| All right. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
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Ambassador, are you having fun yet? | |
| On Saturday, progressive and activist organizations will hold a rally to protest President Trump's policies and billionaire Elon Musk's influence on the administration. | ||
| Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin and Maxwell Frost are set to attend, along with activist leaders. | ||
| From the Sylvan Theater on the National Mall, watch live at 12 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN. | ||
| C-SPAN now, our free mobile app, or online at C-SPAN.org. | ||
| We want to welcome to the program this morning Amy Parnes. | ||
| She's senior political correspondent with The Hill and co-author of the book Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. | ||
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She's co-author with NBC News political reporter Jonathan Allen. | |
| Amy Parnes, thanks for being here. | ||
| Let's start with the opening scene of your book, a behind-the-scenes look at the June 27th, 2024 presidential debate. | ||
| What do you describe as the inner circle of the Democratic Party watches President Biden's performance? | ||
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Well, Greta, we open up, and good morning, thanks for having me. | |
| We open up with Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker, in her living room watching the debate. | ||
| And we did that intentionally, obviously, because Nancy Pelosi had such, played such a major part of this period of time with Joe Biden and getting him out of the race. | ||
| Her fingerprints are all over this. | ||
| And so we have her set inside her living room alone, watching the debate. | ||
| And we talk about her reaction. | ||
| At the same time, we take you inside Jim Clyburn's living room. | ||
| He's having a drink. | ||
| We take you to Al Sharpton. | ||
| He's alone. | ||
| And we did this intentionally to show that all these people, you know, normally during these sorts of events, they gather together. | ||
| It's a social kind of thing. | ||
| They're all sitting there watching the debate alone. | ||
| It's almost as if they knew what was about to unfold. | ||
| And what was their reaction in real time? | ||
| It was not good. | ||
| I mean, we show you Nancy Pelosi's cell phone and she's getting a lot of incoming from donors and from lawmakers. | ||
| Same across the board. | ||
| My phone was blowing up. | ||
| I think everyone who was watching the debate, who has a part in politics, was watching and couldn't believe what they were watching. | ||
| But this is the first time I think we really reveal, we take you really, we do a play-by-play and show you exactly what people were hearing. | ||
| There's a funny moment, an anecdote where Nancy Pelosi is hearing from one donor, John Morgan, and she's listening to what he has to say. | ||
| And he's essentially saying it's a disaster playing before everyone's eyes. | ||
| And she thinks she's responding, she thinks she's texting her husband. | ||
| But in reality, she's texting John Morgan back and saying, this is what John Morgan thinks. | ||
| He thinks it's a disaster. | ||
| So clearly she is watching and in a moment of panic as well. | ||
| And was the consensus that very night that they needed to make an effort as a group to convince the president to leave the race? | ||
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Or how did that come about? | |
| They knew something had to happen. | ||
| It wasn't clear at that moment what had to happen, but I think that was the moment where the wheels started to spin and everything was in motion after that. | ||
| And, you know, a lot of people thought, including Nancy Pelosi, they didn't want her, they didn't want Joe Biden pushed out very quickly because they sensed that Kamala Harris would come in and there was a weird reaction about that as well. | ||
| So they kind of wanted to take the temperature of lawmakers and other Democratic operatives and see what was going on. | ||
| And so you see how it sort of unravels from there. | ||
| And at the time, there were reports that the former speaker was playing a pivotal role in convincing the president to exit the race. | ||
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What did you find out about the role she was playing? | |
| And what roles did the former president Barack Obama play and George Clooney, et cetera? | ||
| The people that we heard about at the time. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, they played a lot of, they had very big roles. | ||
| I mean, I know that everyone thought that Barack Obama was involved. | ||
| He clearly was involved. | ||
| We have two calls, at least two calls, between himself and the former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| They were talking about what to do. | ||
| A lot of people thought that there was still time for a mini primary or an open convention, and so they were sort of testing the waters there and feeling out what some people were thinking. | ||
| And I think that a lot of people were kind of open to other options. | ||
| And we report for the first time in this book that, you know, Nancy Pelosi was listening. | ||
| She was on kind of a listening tour, listening to a lot of her colleagues. | ||
| Barack Obama was doing the same thing. | ||
| And they were trying to figure out what to do next. | ||
| But the money, you know, the money was being taken away from Biden. | ||
| It was a really bad, chaotic scene. | ||
| And what we do is we play out those 24 days. | ||
| We take you inside what was happening and how everything evolved in real time. | ||
| Let's talk about his opponent's reaction. | ||
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The candidate, President Trump, his thinking at the time, you write about in the book, how he- And you can watch the rest of this online at C-SPAN.org. | |
| We now go to remarks by DNC Visitors. | ||
| National Democratic Club. | ||
| Hosted by the Women's National Democratic Club. |