THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THE WE CAN REVIEW.

I'M AMANDA KENNEY KEANE.

WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO?

I THINK I'M THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

EVEN ONCE.

AND I WILL BEAT HIM AGAIN.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN VOWS TO STAY IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IS A SMALL BUT GROWING CHORUS OF HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS PUBLICLY CALLING HIM TO CALL IT A CAREER.

JUST ASKED STEP DOWN.

AND BIDEN DEFENDER SAY THAT KIND OF TALK IS PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, MY TAKEAWAY IS GREAT SADNESS THAT WE ARE NOT HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT FACT THAT WE HAVE 2 PEOPLE, PRESIDENT, ONE OF THEM HAS A RECORD THAT ANYBODY WOULD PROUD TO AND THE OTHER ONE IS IN THE DECADE, RIGHT?

THAT'S PLACE AND CONVICTED FELON.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION HOST CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON AND ILLINOIS GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER ARE STICKING BY THE PRESIDENT IS ONLY ONE PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY WHO IS I'M ALL IN FOR JOE BIDEN.

JOE BIDEN IS GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY CAMPAIGN FOR HIM.

WHAT DOES PRITZKER BELIEVED TO HAVE HIS OWN PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS REALLY THINK HE WAS CAUGHT ON A HOT MIC?

WE'RE JUST GOING FIGHT YOU KNOW, I GOT IT.

MEANWHILE, WITH THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SET TO BEGIN MONDAY, REPUBLICANS WAIT FOR TRUMP'S VP PICK AND THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS A NEW LEADER, THE OUTGOING PARTY CHAIR WAS CHASED AWAY BY INFIGHTING, LEAVING A TOUGH JOB FOR THE NEW CHAIRWOMAN.

REPUBLICANS JUST CHOSE EARLIER TODAY.

AND NOW TO TALK ABOUT ALL THAT AND MORE OUR WEEK IN REVIEW PANEL.

JOINING US, OUR TAHMAN BRADLEY OF WGN NEWS, OUR VERY OWN HEATHER SHARON OF WT TW NEWS.

MARION, A TURN OF NBC 5, CHICAGO AND CRAIG TELL MORE OF WBBM NEWSRADIO NOW LET'S GET TO IT.

BIDEN NOT QUITTING THE RACE.

YET.

CRAIG WILL HEAT.

I THINK HE WANTS TO STAY MAY INDEED, UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENS WITH HIS HEALTH, THAT MORE SERIOUS ANYTHING.

NOW.

I THINK HE'S IN UNLESS I BUT BUT THE PROBLEM IS HOW MUCH CAN YOU CAMPAIGN WITH ALL OF THE TALK IS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT HE'S GOING TO STAY IN.

MARY, WHAT SAYING THAT HERE WE ARE IN JULY TALKING ABOUT THIS.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A YEAR AGO IF NOT MORE AND BECAUSE WE ARE STILL TALKING EVERY TIME HE COMES OUT.

SO LAST NIGHT, THE PRESS CONFERENCE NOT SO BAD.

KAMALA HARRIS AS TRUMP, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, YES, COMMAND OF THE LANGUAGE TOOK MULTIPLE QUESTIONS.

ALL OF VARIOUS ON FOREIGN POLICY.

ABSOLUTELY.

BUT I EVERY TIME IS THAT?

SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES.

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIMSELF AND I I DO THINK THAT LIKELY THAT HE'S STILL GOING GOING TO GO IS THE RACE.

YES, I YEAH.

I KIND OF AGREE WITH WITH WITH MARY YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT WHERE WE STARTED ON MONDAY.

THE PRESIDENT CALLING IN THE MORNING JOE SOUNDING CAFFEINATED VERY EXCITED ABOUT STAYING IN THE RACE.

DEFIANT DESPITE THE CAUSE.

BUT IT WAS JUST A MORNING.

WAS LIKE THAT SHOW.

APPARENTLY HE WATCHES RELIGIOUSLY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKED LIKE WE'D MAYBE TURN THE PAGE AND HE WAS GOING TO GET BACK ON OFFENSE.

BUT THEN YOU STARTED TO HAVE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERNS JEFFRIES.

THE HOUSE SPEAKER MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT AND THEN SENDING OUT A LETTER THAT HE HAD ADDRESSED HIS CONCERNS WITHOUT GETTING MEANS THE TO THE SPECIFICS ABOUT WHAT HE TALKED ABOUT IN THE NANCY PELOSI.

ALSO GOING ON MORNING JOE, SORT OF SAYING WE NEED TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT TIME TO MAKE UP HIS MIND.

EVEN THOUGH THE PRESIDENT SAID HE MADE UP HIS MIND, HE STAYING IN THE RACE, THEY APPARENTLY ARE GOING HAVE A PRIVATE CONVERSATION.

I JUST DON'T SEE HOW THIS GOES AWAY.

MARION'S RIGHT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS MUCH BETTER IN HIS NEWS CONFERENCE LAST NIGHT.

BUT THERE WERE GAPS.

THERE WERE MISTAKES, NOT JUST CALLING KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO CONFUSING VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN AND AGE REMAINS.

THE KEY ISSUE IN THE OTHER THING IS THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE SEES ANY DATA FROM HIS CAMPAIGN ADVISERS SAYING THAT HE CAN'T WIN.

HE'LL GET OUT.

WHERE IS THE DAY?

HE'S SAYING THAT HE CAN'T.

WHAT'S THE PATH THAT IS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED.

LAWMAKERS WANT TO SEE THAT.

AND UNTIL, YOU KNOW, THE POLL NUMBERS MOVE OR IT'S CLEAR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BUYING INTO WHAT HE'S ARGUING.

STILL THINK THERE'S A CHANCE YOU HEATHER A LITTLE BIT IS GOOD NEWS ON THE POLLING FRONT TODAY, NPR AND MARIST HAD A POLL SHOWING HIM WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR AGAINST TRUMP NATIONWIDE.

OF COURSE THE ISSUE IS THE SWING STATES BECAUSE WE DO NOT ELECT PRESIDENTS BY A NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE.

IT'S THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

SO THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT THERE IS NOW MORE EMPHASIS ON SO-CALLED BLUE WALL, WHICH IS AGAIN BY THE CONVENTIONS ARE IN MILWAUKEE NEXT WEEK WITH THE REPUBLICANS AND IN CHICAGO IN JUST ABOUT A MONTH OR BECAUSE THOSE SWING STATES OF MILL OF MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN AND PENNSYLVANIA ARE JUST GOING TO BE KEY AS IT LOOKS LIKE, PERHAPS THE SUNBELT STATES ARE MOVING FURTHER AWAY FROM IS ANYTHING THAT THE PRESIDENT CAN DO AT THIS POINT TO TO CLEAR THIS BAR TO CLEAR THESE QUESTIONS?

I THINK HE HAS TO KEEP DOING WHAT HE'S DOING.

THE PROBLEM FRANKLY, PART OF THE PROBLEM IS HOW WE ARE COVERING IT.

WE ARE COVERING THIS HAS A STORY AS OPPOSED TO A DECISION THAT THE VOTERS HAVE TO MAKE.

TAKE EVEN THE DISASTEROUS DEBATE.

ANYONE WHO DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE THAT DEBATE.

PROBABLY HAS NO IDEA.

EITHER MAN SAID ABOUT POLICY.

BECAUSE NONE OF THE COVERAGE FOCUSED ON FOREIGN POLICY OR DRUG, YOU KNOW, THE DRUG POLICY.

NO, ALL OF THE FOCUS WAS ON WHO WAS YOU COACH AND AND THAT'S A PROBLEM.

IF WE DON'T COVER IT AS A CHOICE THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING.

AND IT'S THE ONLY CHOICE WE'RE GIVING THEM IS BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING TROUBLE COGNITIVELY VERSUS SOMEONE LIKE DONALD TRUMP.

WELL, THEN I'M NOT SURE THAT HE CAN DO ANYTHING.

I DO THINK, THOUGH, THAT THAT THE BIDEN TEAM PLANNED SAID LET'S HAVE AN EARLY DEBATE.

THEY WANTED TO PUT OUT THERE.

YOU WOULD THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT HE'S UP FOR THIS.

HE CAN DO THIS.

HE'S STRONG.

AND YET YOU THINK, OK, YEA, IF YOU PREPPED HIM AND WHAT WAS GOING I MEAN THAT.

AND AND IF WE DO BELIEVE THAT GEORGE CLOONEY LETTER, WHICH HE WROTE AND SAID, YEAH, THAT'S THE SAME GUY I SAW AT THIS FUNDRAISER.

WHERE HAVE THESE PEOPLE FOR THE LAST 8, 9 MONTHS?

WHY IS GOING ON TODAY?

SO IS THIS TO SAY I WANT WANT TO STEP BOTH OF THESE THINGS.

FIRST OF ALL SAYS THIS SOMETHING THAT MAYBE THE DEMOCRATS ALMOST DESERVE THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD MORE CANDIDATES ENTERED THE PRIMARY.

THAT BIDEN SHOULD EVENT SORT OF THE HEIR APPARENT TO RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM AS THE CANDIDATE, HEATHER?

WELL, NOBODY STEPPED UP TO RUN, RIGHT?

GAVIN NEWSOM, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, JB PRITZKER.

HE COULD THEY COULD HAVE THROWN THEIR IN THE RING AND MADE THIS ARGUMENT 6 MONTHS OR A OF COURSE, IT'S NOT BECAUSE EVERY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WHERE YOU'VE HAD A SITTING INCUMBENT CHALLENGE BY A MEMBER OF THEIR OWN PARTY HAS SPELLED COMPLETE DO.

AND THAT IS OF A CLEAR PATTERN.

SO IS THIS ON BY?

FOR NOT SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S TURN AWAY.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT HE HIS THEORY OF THE CASE IS THAT HE IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS EVER BEATEN DONALD TRUMP SO THAT IT WOULD BE FULL WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FULL, HEARTY FOR HIM TO STEP AWAY AND SORT OF SAY, WELL, IT'S THE NEXT GUY OR GIRLS TERM.

BUT THE PROBLEM IS, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, SORT CULTURALLY NATIONWIDE, WE'RE ALSO TIRED OF BEING STUCK IN 2016 2020 AND THE PANDEMIC THAT THERE'S JUST THIS SORT OF SENSE OF.

OH, MY GOSH, I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS MOORE SHOW SEEING THIS RERUN OF THE SHOW.

AGAIN, I DID NOT LIKE IT THE FIRST TIME.

I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE AT THE SECOND TIME.

AND SO THERE'S JUST THIS SORT OF FEAR AND THE SURF, LIKE FRUSTRATION AND EXHAUSTION THAT THIS IS SORT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW.

I BELIEVE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SAYING THAT THEY WANT TO RUN AGAINST BIDEN.

THEY FEAR KAMALA HARRIS.

THEY FEAR ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

BUT THE FACT THE MATTER IS, IS THAT JOE BIDEN SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN.

QUESTION IS WHETHER THE COUNTRY WOULD REALLY WANTS TO DO IT TO TO TO HEATHER'S POINT, IS GREAT ANXIETY ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS BEFORE UNCERTAIN WHEN SHE RAN FOR PRESIDENT WAS NOT A GOOD CAMPAIGN AND SHE'S HAD A SHAKY START.

STAFF TURNOVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

SHE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE BORDER.

THAT DIDN'T GO WELL IN TERMS OF HOW THAT WAS COVERED.

AND SO THEY'RE IN THEIR THESE CLIPS, YOU KNOW, AS A REPUBLICAN EFFORT TIPPED UP A LITTLE CLIPS OF HER WITH HER FAMOUS LINE.

YOU KNOW WHAT CAN BE ONE UNBURDENED BY WHAT'S COME BEFORE, WHATEVER THE COCONUT TREE?

WELL, WHICH CERTAINLY IS A SKILLED POLITICIAN.

PEOPLE JUST AREN'T SURE BECAUSE THE STAKES ARE SO HIGH, BUT YOU KNOW, TO THE POINT OF THE DEBATE AND CRAIG WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH WITH THE FOCUS, THE FRAME COMING OUT OF IT, THE PRESIDENT AGE I'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID, OK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORST DEBATE PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY OF DEBATES.

PEOPLE SAY DONALD TRUMP GET THE SECOND WORST DEBATE PERFORMANCE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE TAKEAWAY WAS, OH, MY GOSH, ALL THESE LIES, OK?

JOE BIDEN IS OLD, BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF LIES.

AND WHY IS HE TALKING LIKE THAT?

AND THEN DEMOCRATS HAVE EFFECTIVELY STARTED TO TURN ATTENTION TO PROJECT 2020 5.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, BUT THE PROBLEM IS YOU DON'T WANT THIS TO BE IF YOU'RE BIDEN TO BE ABOUT HIS AGE AND WHETHER OR NOT HE'S UP TO THE JOB, GOT TO GET PAST THAT.

SO TOO COULD POINT IS SOME OF BEING FOMENTED BY BY JOURNALISTS THAT WE'RE FIXATING ON 100% CHANCE TO OUR OWN PHOTOS?

WELL, I'M A I'M SPEAKING FOR MYSELF.

HE RECENTLY SPOKE IN RACINE, AS I'M LOOKING THROUGH, TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS THAT'S COGENT.

IT TOOK A WHILE.

DID I SAY THAT IN MY STORY?

DID I SAY THAT DAY?

I HAD A HARD TIME FINDING SOMETHING REALLY CLEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT.

NO, I DIDN'T.

I PICKED WHATEVER WAS THE CLEAREST THAT I COULD FIND AND WENT WIN.

CERTAINLY BENEFITED FROM THAT DYNAMIC AS WELL BECAUSE HE HIS SPEECHES ARE SO DISCURSIVE AND YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL NOT REPEATING UNTRUTHS OR SORT OF SAME DEAL IT SO YOU SORT OF TRY THE THING THAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE.

AND THE QUESTION IS WHETHER WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THE PUBLIC INTO SERVICE BY BY DOING BUT CRITICS POINT IS REALLY, REALLY WELL TAKEN.

ARE WE COVERING THE STAKES OF THIS ELECTION?

DEMOCRACY ARE, ARE WE TOO FOCUSED ON THE ODDS?

WILL BIDEN STEP DOWN?

WILL HE WON'T STEP DOWN IF HE DOES, WHO WILL REPLACE HIM?

THAT SORT HORSE RACE COVERAGE?

I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH IT.

ARE WE HOLDING OF JOE BIDEN WITH DIFFERENT STEPPED RIGHT.

SO DONALD TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON AND THAT INDICATED RATE ANY GAPS IN HIS SPEECH.

YOU I'M GOING BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CLIP OF THAT.

I WANTED TO GET TO THAT BECAUSE BIDEN HIMSELF HAS ADMITTED THAT HE HAD A POOR PERFORMANCE AT THAT DEBATE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

BUT TRUMP, AFTER ALL, JUST A FEW YEARS YOUNGER THAN BIDEN AND HE HAS HIS OWN MOMENTS.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

WE ARE A NATION THAT JUST RECENTLY HAD THAT SAUDI ARABIA AND RUSSIA.

WE'LL READ YOU GREATEST MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, MAYBE IN THE HISTORY OF ANY COUNTRY, EVEN ARGENTINA.

THEY WENT MAGA, YOU KNOW, ARGENTINA, GREAT GUY.

HE'S A BIG TRUMP GUY LOVES TRUMP.

I LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE LOVES TO AS DID YOU JUST SEE MISSOURI?

THAT IS WHERE SENATE UNBELIEVABLE.

SO CREDIT TO YOU.

AN EXAMPLE.

I THINK OF WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO TRUMP MAKES HIS OWN GAFFES.

WHY IS THAT NOT BIGGER STORYLINE BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO REPORTERS KIND OF EXPECT THAT KIND OF THING FROM DONALD TRUMP, BUT SO DID HIS SUPPORTERS.

IF YOU GO TO THIS WAR SAY DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, SOMETIMES DON'T THAT'S HIM.

AND YOU WHAT HE TELLS LIES.

YOU.

YEAH, EXAGGERATE.

YEAH.

I MEAN.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT EXPECTATIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES.

SO FOR DONALD TRUMP, IT'S A MATTER OF HOW STRONG HE LOOKS AND CAN YOU KNOW, CAN YOU TAKE OFTEN DUE TO THE FACT CHECK JOE BIDEN?

HOW DOES HE LOOK HOWSIE WALKING?

DID HE MAKE A MISTAKE?

IT'S AND IT'S NOT AN INTENTION.

BUT IT IS KIND OF FALLING INTO A PATTERN SO THAT WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION.

HOW DO YOU APPROACH YOUR COVERAGE GOING FORWARD HERE AND I KNOW I DO THINK THAT HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK OURSELVES AND SAY, ALRIGHT, ARE WE COVERING THE ISSUES AS WELL AS THE PERSONALITIES TELEVISION?

UNFORTUNATELY DOES GET CAUGHT UP IN PERSONALITY COVERAGE.

AND AS WE HEAD TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION THIS WEEK, I THINK ISSUE SHOULD DOMINATE.

BUT WILL WE BE ABLE TO JUGGLE WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON?

AND I THINK THE BIDEN, DILEMMA IS GOING TO ALSO BE A RUNNING THEME THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN COMMUNITY.

AS YOU NOTED, GEORGE CLOONEY HAS WEIGHED IN AS NO DISRESPECT TO GEORGE CLOONEY, BUT I THINK WE OUGHT TO TALK TO REAL VOTERS.

WE HAVE TO TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND THE PEOPLE WILL BE AT THE CONVENTIONS.

FRANK, FRANKLY, THE GRASSROOTS, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ON ON THE PEOPLE WHO WHO WHO STILL SUPPORT JOE BIDEN.

YOU KNOW, JIM CLIBURN SAID A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT ITS LATEST POSITION IS, YOU KNOW, I'LL HAVE HIS BACK.

AND IF IT'S KAMALA HARRIS, ALL HAVE HER BACK, YOU KNOW, BLACK VOTERS.

AS THIS MORNING, THERE WERE BLACK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO ARE CALLING FOR THE PRESIDENT EXIT THE RACE.

AND SO.

HE STILL HAS SUPPORT IN MAYBE 2 TO TO CORRECT PART ABOUT TRUMP.

BIDEN VOTERS NEED TO GET USED TO SEEING THE SENIOR MOMENTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE SORT OF HIT FROM US.

AND I DO UNDERSTAND FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHY THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T JUST SAY OKAY, I'M OLD.

I I DON'T SAY, SIR, FOR GUY'S A LIAR.

HE DOESN'T SEEM I MEAN, IT'S PRIDE.

YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU TO DO A LOT GEORGE CLOONEY THAT I THAT WAS THAT WAS ALSO BARACK OBAMA.

TO ME.

I MEAN, THEY'RE VERY CLOSE.

THERE'S NO WAY THAT LETTER WAS NOT IN.

AND PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED THIS THAT AT LEAST HE WAS AWARE OF IT.

AND WHILE IT IS GEORGE CLOONEY, I WHERE IS BARACK OBAMA?

WHERE IS HE BENT EVER IF HE DID SPEAK AFTER THE DAY AFTER WASN'T RIGHT.

48 HOURS.

HE AND HAVEN'T HEARD A WORD SENSE.

SILENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF TO ME.

AND THIS IS CERTAINLY A TIME THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE LISTENING TO WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.

WHAT ABOUT, HOWEVER, WHAT SOME OF THE 3 ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN, WE'VE GOT A TRIO NOW OF U.S. HOUSE DEMOCRATS FROM ILLINOIS WHO SAY THAT BIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN TO THEIR POINT OF VIEW MATTER.

I HAVE IT MATTERS, BUT I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THAT THOSE 3 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE MEMBERS, THE MODERATE WING.

WE HAVE NOT HEARD THAT FROM DELIA RAMIREZ OR HIS GARCIA OR ANY OF THE PROGRESSIVE STALWART.

AND I THINK THAT IS TELLING BECAUSE TIME AND AGAIN, BIDEN SORT OF HAS THIS IMAGE IS BEING SORT OF A MODERATE BEING FROM LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, MORE CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

BUT TIME AND TIME AGAIN SINCE HE TOOK IT'S BEEN THE PROGRESSIVES WHO HAVE BACKED HIM BOTH ON HIS BIG INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN AND SORT OF HIS OTHER INITIATIVES.

AND THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN IN FALL STEP BEHIND WHILE THE THE MORE MODERATE WING SEEMS TO BE RUNNING A LITTLE PAINTING USING ERIK SORENSON WHO IS FROM THE QUAD CITIES AREA LOOKS TO HAVE A TIGHT RACE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

BUT QUICKLY, CONGRESSMAN QUICKLY DOES NOT PER SE WHAT'S GOING ON BUT QUICKLY IS IS ONE OF THE TACTICIANS AND THE PARTY AND THIS IS WHERE I CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM BECAUSE THESE ARE PEOPLE THERE WORRYING ABOUT PEOPLE DOWN THE BALLOT AND FRANKLY, THE PEOPLE DOWN THE BALLOT ARE WEARING, TOO.

AND YOU CAN KIND OF UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IF THEY'RE IN A TIGHT RACE AND THEY LOSE, YOU KNOW, A BIT OF THEIR BASE.

WELL, THAT'S THAT'S THE RACE FOR THEM.

BIDEN CAN LOSE SOME ALTITUDE AND STILL WIN, BUT THEY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO.

SO YEAH, I SEE THE FEAR THE POLITICAL CALCULUS BEHIND IT, MARY AND GOVERNOR PRINT.

I DID SPEAK TO CONGRESSMAN QUICKLY TODAY AND HE IS STILL CAN.

HE SAYS IT'S DONE.

IT'S IT'S MATTER OF TIME.

IT'S OVER.

WE SHALL SEE.

BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SAID ANYTHING TO MEAN THAT THEY'RE ALSO TO NOT SPEAK IS A DECISION AS WELL.

PRITZKER AND MAYOR JOHNSON, HALF HAVE BEEN ADAMANT AND HAVE SAID YES, EVEN THOUGH WE DID, YOU HAVE THE VIDEO OF THE OFF MIC IT WASN'T THAT OVERSTUFFED.

AWFULLY HOT HOT MIC NOT TO SAY MAYBE THEIR WAY TO.

YOU KNOW, I PRESIDENT OBAMA COMES OUT.

RIGHT.

WE'RE ALL GONNA LISTEN.

AND IT WILL MATTER.

THIS IS NOT THE TIME WHAT THE REPUBLICANS SAY, WHATEVER THEY'RE GOING TO SAY NEXT WEEK.

AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME PERHAPS THIS REALLY IS STILL BEING SORTED OUT.

YOU KNOW, I MADE BELIEVE IT WHEN THEY WE WANT TO SEE PRESIDENT PUTIN, IS HE UP TO THE TAFT?

MAYBE THEY ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE HOW HE'S DOING.

BUT WHAT COULD THE PLAN B POSSIBLY BE?

I MEAN, IS THIS A MOMENT FOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR GOVERNOR PRITZKER TO KAMALA HARRIS HAS TO BE THE FIRST ONE.

YES, YOU HAVE TO AS THE VICE PRESIDENT YOU HAVE ADVICE?

IT'S KAMALA HARRIS'S TURN BUT SHE DOESN'T NEED TO STEP UP BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY, ANYONE WHO WANTS KAMALA HARRIS TO PRESIDENT, THE UNITED STATES PROBABLY WANTS JOE BIDEN TO BE REELECTED.

AND IF HE DOESN'T SERVE ALL 4 YEARS, SHE BECOMES PRESIDENT WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ANYTHING.

SO WHY GET OUT THERE AND START BATTLING UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE TO TRUE.

BUT IF HE DOES STEP ASIDE, SHE'S THE FIRST CHOICE.

JUST SORT OF LOGISTICALLY IT WOULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR ANOTHER CANDIDATE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

THERE WILL BE ALL SORTS OF POTENTIAL BALLOT CHALLENGES.

WE KNOW THAT REPUBLICANS ARE NOT AFRAID OF LITIGATING THESE SORT OF ISSUES IN THE COURT.

THE PROBLEM IS EXACTLY WHAT CRAIG SAID, OK?

ALL RIGHT, NOT BUT IT SURE WHAT'S PLAN B AND NOBODY'S BEEN ABLE TO ARTICULATE THAT IN ANY CLEAR WAY, WHICH IS WHY YOU HEAR PEOPLE LIKE PRITZKER AND GAVIN NEWSOM AND GRETCHEN WHITMER AS MICHIGAN SAYING, NO, IT'S FINE UNTIL HE TELLS ME OTHER WAS UNTIL HE TELLS THEM OTHERWISE.

BUT WHAT ABOUT PRITZKER'S POLITICAL FUTURE?

HE CLEARLY HAS.

HIS AMBITION SAID ON THIS.

IS THIS A MOMENT FOR HIM TONIGHT?

SO IS HAVING A MOMENT, RIGHT?

BECAUSE WE'RE PAYING ATTENTION TO HIM.

HE'S ABLE TO GO ON CNN.

WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HE THINKS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER THE DEBATE, THAT WAS SORT OF WELL, I HAVE QUESTIONS.

YOU KNOW, JOE BIDEN HAS GOT TO GET OUT THERE MORE AND THEN HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND DIDN'T HAVE A LOT TO SAY.

AND WHEN HE FINALLY SUMMONED US A NEWS YOU KNOW, IS MORE LIKE, WELL, I'M I'M SUPPORTING JOE BIDEN.

HE'S OUR NOMINEE.

SOME COULD SAY HE COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN STRONGER IN THAT SUPPORT.

BUT HE IS OUT IS GOING TO INDIANA IS GOING 2, YOU DON'T LOOK, HE'S ANGLING IS THAT HE WOULD LOVE TO JUMP AND I'M SURE HE CAN MAKE THE ARGUMENT I CAN SELL FINANCE.

I JUST DON'T ENVISION THAT.

YOU KNOW THAT JAMES CARVILLE IS OF THE WORLD OF SAID WHEN WE HAVE A MINI PRIMARY, DON'T JUST ANOINT KAMALA HARRIS.

I THINK THAT'S UNREALISTIC SOME THINGS, IT'S WEST THERE'S ANY SUCH BUT YOU'RE RIGHT.

THERE'S A TV FOR ELECTION SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT 5 MINUTES LEFT.

LET'S MOVE DEMOCRATS BEHIND FOR WE PIT BECAUSE, OF COURSE, WE'VE GOT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION COMING UP WE'RE GOING TO BE HEADING LOT OF US.

SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE WATCHING FOR, HEATHER?

WELL, THE BIG QUESTION IS WHO IS GOING TO TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE?

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1988 THAT WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE FULL TICKET IS BEFORE BEGINNING THE CONVENTION.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THE BETTING MONEY HAS MOVED TO OHIO SENATOR JD VANCE, WHO IS THE SPORT OF DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR'S.

BUT WE WON'T KNOW FOR SURE UNTIL WEDNESDAY BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS CHANGED THE RULES ALLOWING TRUMP TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO SORT OF CREATE THAT MADE FOR TV SPECTACLE THAT WE ALL REMEMBER SO WELL FROM THE FIRST TERM TO SORT GIN UP THAT SORT OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHO IS IT GOING TO BE?

AND OF COURSE, THERE'S MARCO RUBIO MONTH NORTH NORTH DAKOTA.

I THINK IT'S UNLIKELY THAT IT WILL BE MARCO RUBIO BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO RESIGN FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND MOVE OUT OF FLORIDA TO AVOID ELECTORAL COLLEGE ISSUE.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?

WE DON'T MAKE ASKED AN ABORTION BAN TO SO UNLIKE DONALD TRUMP TO GO WITH AN OBVIOUS CHOICE TO MAYBE BEN CARSON ARE SOME WILD CARD LIKE THAT.

YOU KNOW, WE REALLY DON'T KNOW.

THIS IS, BY THE WAY, OF COURSE, THE CITY THAT FOR THE PRESIDENT CALLED HORRIBLE JUST LAST NIGHT AND FORMER PRESIDENT THAT IS DOES HE DOES WISCONSIN OAK IT.

HE DOES.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

REPUBLICANS IN WISCONSIN WILL COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT THIS IS THROUGH AT MILWAUKEE BECAUSE FRANKLY, SOME OF THEM PROBABLY DON'T LIKE MILWAUKEE THAT MUCH EITHER.

BUT FRANKLY, HE'S THERE.

HE WILL BE THEIR VOTERS HAVE SHORT MEMORIES.

MEANWHILE, THOUGH, THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS A TRANSFER OF LEADERSHIP, NEW CHAIR JUST ELECTED THIS AFTERNOON, KATHY, SALTY.

SHE'S GOING TO BE STARTING RIGHT AFTER THE RNC AND IS LITERALLY THE DAY WHO IS SHE AND WHAT DOES SHE BRING TO THE TABLE, MARION?

WELL, SHE'S AN ATTORNEY AND SHE RAN FOR OFFICE AS AGAINST TAMMY DUCKWORTH.

OBVIOUSLY DID NOT WIN AS WELL AS HER HUSBAND, AL SALLY, BOTH OF THEM QUITE SUCCESSFUL AND HE RAN FOR SENATE WELL.

AND SHE RAN FOR WAS YES.

SO INTERESTING THAT SHE REALLY WANTS TO BE A BIG PART OF THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

FIRST WOMAN TO HAVE HIS POSITION.

I BELIEVE, NOT YEAH.

AND THERE WAS 3, WAYS AND SO, YEAH, I THINK IT WILL BE INTERESTING BECAUSE SO FAR WHILE DOWN TREES, THE LOVELY FRIDAY MEMOS I'VE NEVER HEARD FROM OTHER THAN THAT.

SO MEDIA-FRIENDLY BUT DON TRACY IS THE ONE IS GOING TO BE LEADING THE DELEGATION UP SO THEY LEAVE IT IN PLACE AND THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE MODERATES AND IS IT IS AWKWARD.

BUT THEN AGAIN, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN WALKING THAT TIGHTROPE FOR TALKING WITH JIM EDGAR, YOU KNOW, FORMER GO OUT ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WHAT, 15 YEARS AGO AS IT REACHED A NEW LEVEL, THOUGH, CRAIG, IS THIS AT A POINT WHERE THERE IS ALWAYS SORT OF A PEACE AND THAT IS NO LONGER THERE, WHICH IS WHY YOU HAD SHARED TRACY LITERALLY SAY IT IS BECAUSE OF INFIGHTING THAT I AM STEPPING DOWN FROM THIS POSITION.

I DON'T THINK IT'S REACHED.

I THINK WHAT HAPPENED IS THE POWER HAS SHIFTED.

TIM SCHNEIDER CAME IN 8 YEARS AGO OR A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN 8 YEARS AGO.

AND SHEPHERD, THE PARTY THROUGH.

BUT IT'S BEEN THE SAME FIGHT FOR DECADES IN ILLINOIS.

AND NOW THE POWER HAS FINALLY SHIFTED TO GET A PRESIDENT ON THE CONSERVATIVE ON THE RIGHT WING SIDE.

WELL, THAT'S GOING TO MAKE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY'S GOING TO FALL IN LINE AND THEY ARE TO WHO WANTS THIS JOB.

GIVEN ALL OF THAT JUST ACRIMONY.

YEAH.

AND YOU'RE LOSING SORT OF SOLID MODERATES LIKE A GYM DURKAN AND DARREN BAILEY WHO, YOU KNOW, CAN'T WIN IT WHEN A PRIMARY.

SO THOSE EXTREMES ARE PLAYING.

I THINK ABOUT THEY BELONG TO THE SAME PARTY THAT'S GOT TO SORT ITSELF OUT.

AND HEATHER, WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THIS GOING FORWARD?

AGAIN, WE'RE COVERING THE RNC WILL WEAKEN IT.

SEE THIS OPEN.

DO YOU THEY CAN FIGHT?

YEAH, THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION.

WILL THESE DISPUTES SORT OF SPILL OUT DURING THE CONVENTION WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME TO SORT OF RALLY.

THE PARTY FELL FAITHFUL AND CELEBRATE AND RAISE MONEY.

DO YOU DO DO YEAH.

TRACY PUT OUT A STATEMENT BASICALLY SAYING THAT WE ARE SOLIDLY UNIFIED BEHIND DONALD TRUMP.

AND THERE'S NO WAY THERE'S NO WAY THAT YOU CROSS.

AND FOR EXAMPLE, THE PARTY TOOK OUT OF THE PLATFORM CALLING FOR A NATIONAL BAN ON ABORTION SANCTITY OF LIFE.

MIKE PENCE OBJECTED TO THAT.

ENTERS THE DELEGATES TO REVERSE IT.

BUT YOU KNOW, THE PLATFORM SORT OF READS LIKE THE PRESIDENT ON THE GOLF COURSE SORT OF, YOU KNOW, DICTATED TO THEM WHAT IT SHOULD BE AND THAT'S WHAT IT WILL PENCE DOESN'T HAVE SWAY ANYONE.

DONALD TRUMP DOES.

IT IS HIS PARTY AND WE'LL BE COVERING THAT ALL NEXT WEEK.

THANKS FOR TALKING ABOUT US WITH US THIS EVENING.

THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.

BE SURE TO JOIN US NEXT WEEK FOR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

WE WILL BE LIVE AT 5, 30 10 EACH CONVENTION NIGHT FOLLOWING PBS NEWS HOUR NOW WE'RE ENDING THIS PROGRAM ON A BITTERSWEET NOTE AFTER 27 YEARS AT W T TW, IT IS FAREWELL TO ALEX PHILLIPS.

SHE PRODUCED THIS EDITION OF WEEK IN REVIEW AND SHE HAS COUNTLESS OTHER FRIDAYS.

SHE IS A BULLDOG WITH A KIND HEART IN THE ENTIRE NEW STAFF IS GOING TO MISS HER TENACITY, HER INTEGRITY AND HER CUT TO THE CHASE APPROACH.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL OF THAT, ALEX.

AND WE WISH YOU THE BEST.

NOW FOR THAT WE CAN REVIEW.

I'M AMANDA VINDICATED.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.

I FORGOT, OF COURSE.

WAIT TO CHICAGO.

TONIGHT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WHY THE ALEXANDRA AND JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY.

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY.

SO NEWS TODAY THAT A THANKS BY THE WAY, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I THANK EACH OF YOU.

AND THAT IS TAHMAN BRADLEY OF WGN SHARON.

OF COURSE, THE W T TW MARION, A HERD NBC 5 STILL MORE WBBM.

YES, WE GOT NEWS BREAKING, HEATHER, JUST THIS AFTERNOON.

INCITEMENTS LORETTO HOSPITAL, FORMER CFO APPARENTLY LOOTED THE SAFETY HOSPITAL TO THE TUNE OF 15 MILLION DOLLARS.

THE REPORTS OUT OF THE TRIBUNE ARE THAT HE HAS FLED TO DUBAI TO ESCAPE JUSTICE.

THIS IS THE HOSPITAL.

MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT CHOSE TO RECEIVE THE FIRST COVID VACCINES A BLACK EYE FRIDAY NIGHT.

CHICAGO TEXT OR WOW.

I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SUCH AND CLOSED CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY ROBERT A CLIFF AND CLIFFORD CONGO PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH THAT IS PROUD TO RECOGNIZE ITS FOUNDER AND SENIOR PARTNER ROBERT CLIFFORD, WHO RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS