President Joe Biden tried again to make the case that he is the best candidate to take on Donald Trump in the November election during yesterday's press conference at the NATO Summit in Washington the summit aimed at showcasing the president's leadership on a world stage and the president insisting he has to quote finish the job he started but it wasn't his leadership that made headlines it was the multiple times he rambled and misspoke at one point even calling vice president Kamala Harris vice president Trump and saying he followed the advice of his commanderin-chief his own title about military aid to Ukraine the flubs are leaving some democratic lawmakers donors and even celebrities to call for him to step aside to discuss the continued fall out from the president's public appearances and the growing discourse on Capitol Hill I'm joined by Washington correspondent Ben hulac Ben thanks for joining me happy to be here so it was at many times tough to watch the president confuse important and obvious well-known people and their positions like the vice president and mistakenly referring to the Ukrainian president as President Putin how is his performance resonating on the hill today well Congress is out and they'll be out for about a week the Republican National Convention is next week in Milwaukee but it has really I would say uh entrenched the views for those Democrats who want him to step down and uh also further hardened the views of people of Democrats in his party who say Biden is our guy so it sort of it was a moment where you what you wanted to see you likely saw it very true uh Ben we know Mikey Cheryl has come out publicly against Biden running for reelection has anyone else in the NJ delegation changed their position after seeing him stumble again last night no is the short answer um really these These are uh foot soldiers in many ways of the democratic party and they are just holding their keeping their powder dry at this point I would underscore though that a non-endorsement is a very big shift from a full-throated endorsement so members like Andy Kim saying look we need to focus on defeating Donald Trump and winning the senate seat that I'm going for for that's a sea change from yes Biden's our guy more than a dozen now on the Hill are calling for him to step aside do we expect more now yes I think in the house the number is up to 18 um the sense is that uh privately Democrats are far more worried about Biden's Prospect than they're letting on uh of course they really are focused on one date and that's November 5th defeating Donald Trump at the ballot bu again uh yes when Congress returns in two weeks there between now and then there should be more people more Democrats who've called for Biden to step down but we're sort of in a in a holding pattern at this point you know ding the pressor he had said uh he insisted he was the right person for the job and that he is not stepping down in a case where he does what names have you heard there on the hill as possible replacements the obvious pick is the vice president KLA Harris h she could run on a lot of the successes of the four years of the bid Administration they've gotten a heck of a lot done on policy in a divided closely divided Senate and a pretty darn closely divided house and she of course wouldn't have the baggage of age that comes with with Joe Biden his candidacy beyond that it's uh the names that are floated nationally uh would be folks like Gretchen Whitmer the governor of Michigan maybe Josh Shapiro the governor of Pennsylvania Democrats who could bring home to the Democratic party swing States places like Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin Nevada Arizona a lot of great Insight Ben hulac Washington correspondent thank you for joining us my pleasure [Music]