“Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing?” - CNN’s Abby Phillip On Watching The Debate 

Exactly

So would literally any other Democratic candidate, time for a change.

even the one he'll never see

Are we gonna see the same democratic campaign posters of 2020 that said “ANY functioning adult” ???? Oh the irony

He only cares about himself. 😢

Got your wish!

I miss-read this and briefly thought Dwayne Johnson was running for president

@@lucylikesthebeatles52726This is like “Hillary’s emails.”

​@@TennesseeYaya 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hear, hear!! ✊

I don't think the American people do know what they're getting with Trump. The purpose of Trump's lies and the GOP's lies is to smear Democrats and gaslight the American people. And news outlets like CNN are helping them do it.

Yup! 🙄 the media needs to take a good long look at their role in Dumpster fire in the first instance

Exactly! Abby Phillip, explain whatever you want; do your projection; all you want for your network, but the reality is that your network, which is the normal thing in all corporate media, has shown the real color in that debate; it's just all about greed! It's worth that I unsubscribed from CNN long ago and unsubscribed from all the mainstream media that now keep pushing President Biden to drop out of the race instead of calling on the serial liar with a machine of lies every time he opens his mouth, convicted felon, to drop off the race, which seemed like doing as FoxNews does!

The moderators didn’t do that because it was part of the rules that both campaigns agreed to before the debate. The Biden campaign allowed the Trump campaign to negotiate that in.

@johnburroughs - NO !! IT aint the moderators effin job to be fact checking every lie - THAT is Biden's job !!! - to fact check Trump and challenge and correct. That is why it is called a DEBATE !!! Any strong mentally robust candidate would have hit back strong and wipe the floor with Trumps face as he (Biden) actually had an GREAT last 4 years to bank on .. instead he was WEAK AF , incoherent and downright weak & pathetic - thats the problem of having an aging feeble dementia patient on the dem ticket . So WAKE THE F*CK UP DEMS if you wanna win in November !!

Nailed it.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

Ooo 😯, SAY IT & NO APOLOGIES are coming afterwards!!! 👏👏💯💯

'nuff said!

They want the tax " cut" . Love of money Trumps love of country.

Yep, they rigged it openly in trump's favour when they refused to moderate (moderators are supposed to fact check). What we need at the next debate is a pair of the crankiest nuns anyone can find (any denomination, they just have to be mean af), and this time we don't mute the candidates, and we still don't moderate, but we have a team of fact checkers listen to the debate, and when a candidate starts to lie the nun next to that candidate is informed via the ear piece! Oh, did I mention the endless supply of wooden yard sticks? Because we've got some with speed holes too!

Why can't your candidate fact-check him himself?

😂😂 Blame CNN? didn't Biden set the date and the DNC the rules for the debate? The venue could not have been more conducive for the President. Fact is he failed miserably to bring his A game to the stage that night....Period!!

People who watched this felt Trump dominated it. People who only listened felt Biden ran away with it.

A good day for Trump is still a bad day for everybody else. Like debating an 8 year old.

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Just a primary. I live in NC. We didn't even have a choice aka no primary he was the only person on the ballad.

Boooooo

Trump has been a liar for ever. If you can't debate a liar, step aside and let someone take over who can

it's a hard job, but that's the job.

Correction: It's hard debating a liar when you're also a liar. "These are the things that you shall do: Speak the TRUTH to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace." Zechariah 8:16.

In Brandon's case, just staying awake is hard

The President should be able to handle it. It's not like he is inexperienced.

@@gregsanderson6545 I like how you think falsehood is like a softer version of the word lie meant to be deceptive.

Amen

exactly.

Yeah, so don't just tell 2 or 3 lies because then they'll fact check you... but tell 20 or 30 and they'll just shrug and move on.

Biden lied more.

If Joe Biden has to fact-check Trump, and list his accomplishments, and answer the question, he should get extra time! A 2-minute response from Trump, a 4-minute response from Biden.

And so are you. “Don’t believe your lying eyes”… something is up and we have to listen to you mfs tell us we didn’t see it. And I’m voting for Biden but I’m not ignorant to facts. Abby held Trump to the same scrutiny when he was president.

Abby is totally part of the problem. I have lost my respect for her and her huge ego.

She doesn't have Alzheimer's

Abby was great when she first joined CNN...brave, insightful - smart. What happened? It's like she's towing some kind of corporate line now...not genuine...maybe she's afraid she'd fall off the ladder to the top at CNN...? I don't know...but it seems she has a bit of an EGO problem, as well...baggy pants, and all...

"This story will go and down like a roller coaster" Abby says, but she left the rest of the sentence off, "because we will keep reporting on it as long as we get lots of click and ad revenue by doing so. BECAUSE RATINGS AND DOLLARS ARE ALL WE CARE ABOUT.

I'm so Done.

Seriously though, why do people still watch CNN? It's a right wing network now....

@@JulieLAgresta We all are.

Stopped watching both November 2020.

Kamal would never win a presidential race. Only way that airhead is getting the presidency is if geriatric joe can’t finish his term.

Most Americans don’t want her to be President.

@@californiaslastgasp6847 then they shouldn't vote for Joe because she's the fill-in should something happen to Joe. And I'd say since 'most' will vote for Joe then 'most' do want her!

@@californiaslastgasp6847 Speak for yourself - I really like her.

@danaaumend4341 They've been covering for dementia Joe for 3 and a 1/2 years.Telling people don't believe you're lying eyes.And now you think they're going been the dark side for america ,Trump 🇱🇷 2024 🏳️‍🌈 gays for TRUMP

Billionaires scratch each other's backs.

@@danaaumend4341 you are correct, they created a controversy to get ratings. They don’t hold Trump accountable or to the high standards they set for Biden

Fox-Lite. Ughhh

If tapper tried to get Trump on topic, Maga-ites would jump on him and say he's trying to silence Trump.

He should HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED AND FACT CHECKED by Biden !!!! Thats the problem of having an alzheimic dementia patient on the ticket. Wake the f*ck up Democrats if you wanna win in November !!!

The Biden and Trump campaign agreed to the rules of the debate. One rule was that the moderators would not fact check them, but that they would have to directly refute the lies their opposition says. So actually they did a good job

@@TheEvolver311 Yeah but it's hard to refute a comment that's a big lie and within 2 minutes.

Biden also let Trump say whatever. The debate was Biden's idea.

Well you have only two choices. Blue or red. Unless you want to vote independent.

Sounds like maga... red is bad no doubt. But blue can put up bad candidates too

Have fun with that lol

How’s that working out for you so far?

You have to tell the world, because you are insecure of your decision

me too

I'd suggest that you try to be PART OF THE SOLUTION - not the problem. There's time to learn from the debate debacle. Being done with the only major network that the Democrats have, is not a solution.

Waahhh...CNN let Biden speak and reveal his dementia and incoherence. LOL.

If you're going to freak out, what about the fact that both presidents are has-beens? In all of America, we can't find two younger, healthier, smarter people to face off for the presidency? Instead, we have two doddering morons. Go ahead, freak away. Or, are you just another mindless ideologue?

Yes we are. And that is exactly why your Emperor's new clothes horseshit - which absolutely no one outside your echo chamber is buying - is so so infuriating. People have eyes, and they know what they saw. It wasn't a man who had a cold, who was jetlagged, who had over prepared. It wasn't a man who was a bit older and slower. It was a man who CLEARLY has some form of dementia. All the gaslighting in the world won't change that. 74 percent in the latest yougov poll believe President Biden is too "cognitively impaired" too serve for 4 more years. Attacking your news anchors for telling you news you don't want to hear won't change that. We need a new candidate, someone who can actually defeat Trump. President Biden needs to put his own ambition and ego aside and do what is right. If she does not we are going to lose not just the presidency but the house and the senate.

yes, SO WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?

Yeah, and this responsibility was on Biden and he was incapable of doing this. I've watched more than 30 years of presidential debates and moderators do not jump in and fact check everything a candidate says in real time. Perhaps, you forgot the Obama-Romney debate in 2012 when moderator Candy Crowley fact checked Romney and it was controversial at the the time because it isn't the place for the moderators to do this.

Absolutely. Biden's lies went unchecked by moderators. Unemployment was at 6% not 20 when he took over. 13 soldiers were lost in the Afghanistan pull out not 0.

I'm with Biden no matter what!

He wants us to rollover and let him just steamroll project 2025

also Trump wants Biden to run cause he thinks it'll be an easy victory, Lets screw over Trump by out voting him and we need to spread the word on how absolutely horrible Trump is as a pick!

The fact that you will still vote for Biden no matter what does not have anything to do with those swing states and undecided voters who are turning away. Biden is down 6 points. Before the debate he was down by 2. 30 to 50% of democratic voters want him to step down. How is this a way to beat Trump. This is not about Biden. It’s about a candidate who doesn’t lose voters every time he speaks without a teleprompter. Are we seriously saying Biden is the best we have? Omigod. That’s pathetic.

@@pcrockett5967 there's better options, but they didn't give us any other options. Trump already did a poor job as President so he's out of the question.

@@ingrid3977 I agree with most of the things you said but did you watch the debate?

Can't help but wonder if corporate media is extra hard on Biden because of his vocal support for unions?

​@@tcookie Bingo!

​@@coldplayplayer15 The president was ill. Dumbo lied once every 90 sec

Me Too! They act like it is the end of the world that President Job Biden had a bad night. We ALL have bad days and nights! GET OVER IT!!!

Biden messes up at every event. Everytime.

It may well let Trump win.

It won't. Polls can't be trusted and The blue wave will appear on November to show Trump once again that he's not wanted in this country.

Yes it does

A million gaffes does. And this just cemented it.

Exactly!!!

The top bosses want more tax cuts for themselves.. Simple..

CNN is after ad revenue from the right.

Hmm because they’ve been doing that non stop 24/7 for the past 8 years? 😂

Audiance.

Yep, we have a problem in the news media. Unbiased, they are not.

Disgraceful..

The CEO's of ALL the mainstream media corporations did the same.

CEO'S from MSNBC, NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NEW YORK TIMES, CNBC, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL all donated to Trump. F all of them, I stopped watching them.

That panel she was a part of was a joke. They all sat here talking as if they know. Thank God they didn't.

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You do realize that it was Biden who called for this debate and its rules. Remember…”I heard you’re free on Wednesdays”?

@@jillfeatherman5523yes, and it was clearly a mistake to have done so. Also: CNN was not neutral. They let 45 talk over Biden rather than silencing 45’s mic when it wasn’t his turn, as they had promised to do. They failed to fact check either of them, even AFTER the debate when they should have spent an hour delineating and enumerating the lies, not just focusing on Biden’s slowness. They are not innocent in this debacle, and they may have cost us our democracy (at least in part.) Biden’s team was over confident, and didn’t take appropriate steps to ensure that the conditions would not handicap Biden. Definitely mistake, or several. But 45 is a lying liar who lies, and his plan is to be a dictator on day 1. I’ll vote for a potato over letting 45 become 47.

Trump is not stupid though

@@predatoryzzx Trump knows shit about the Constitution or the Bible, or how to tell the truth or how to run an honest business (without laundering Mob or Russian money). Mostly he's a sociopath.

​@@predatoryzzxTim Apple?

PREACH!!!!!💯%💙💙💙2024

Trump 2024!!!! ❤❤❤❤

@@Bonnah- Biden 2024 💯%💙💙💙💙!!!

It's communicate effectively and he failed 😊

Being capable and coherent is.

Yes, Stephen!

And the trashed him in his monologue. The old jokes are terrible and have no creative thought.

There is no defense of Biden still being the only guy who can beat Trump. He's most likely to be the only guy who can NOT beat Trump.

i am finding that Colbert is becoming more anti-Biden with every episode.

After trashing Biden for the entire monologue? Thank you, but no.

@dm-heart they all did. 😔 As bad as the debate was CNN should have just said it wasn't a good night for Biden and basically left it at that. We didn't need to hear about secret calls and meetings trying to get him out. I guess they saw what we saw and don't feel comfortable publicly supporting him like they did before the debate. Is it November 6th yet. 😫

Good, thats proof hes unfit for the job. Cry harder libs

Fantastic!

he has dementia

She has been saying what we all saw. If she did differently, we would suspect her as a journalist.

Also the Biden campaign agreed to no Fact checking, probably because it was the only way to get Trump to agree to come.

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I agree Kyle should have moderated the T and B debate!

Abby is right. Every word out of Trump's mouth is a lie, so the entire night would be focused on him as he told more lies to rebut the commentators. In retrospect what should have been done is thorough research on common lies, and have the commentators give a quick summary of those after each time period was up.

Yep CNN sucks especially Jack Tapper, such a douchebag

Abby is full of herself. That's part of the problem.

Maybe because he’s been talked about nonstop for the past 8 years.

Not too much on Abby Phillip

U clearly want everyone to be as miserable as you, not everyone wants or sees the need to take everything seriously.

Well, the mutiny is still strong here with me and as far as I can tell, pretty much every person I talk to on a daily basis. So...nope. Not over.

That’s your opinion I will never vote for geriatric joe and f Kamala she’s an airhead,

*For illegal immigrants.

I agree 100%! Biden/Harris 2024💙💙💙

@@eclectickimmer that’s your opinion I’ll vote for trump over biden

what lie?

You mean like Biden's super dangerous and divisive "Trump called Nazis very fine people" lie, that he told many times that night." Like that lie?

It was supposed to comfort the voters because they expected the state of the union 2.0 Biden.

I totally agree - it was beneath President Biden.

@@jkap34You can’t do that debating a gish-gallop of lies.

Haha Biden is the one that called for it.

100%. Why debate with a malignant narcissist? It’s like Bill Murray once said: ”It's hard to win an argument with a smart person. It's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.”

She was terrible!!!

Yes ..the billionaire corporate overlord was watching and we are all slaves in one way or another.

CNN could have went to a local high school and paid a High School junior to read the questions, and turn the mics on and off. But don't forget about the so-called Town Hall with Caitlyn Collins last year. Same thing.

Nope she is totally correct How can I miss you if you won't go away. Independents were sick of Trump and his constantly stirring shit while in office generating nothing but stress for the average voter.

she was rambling for a pathetic excuse... nobody here swallowed it

Most people have trump exhaustion syndrome

I think she’s more right than you do. First, Trump has saturated the airwaves with misrepresentations of his term in office. He’s got his own ecosystem where people think he was the best and most successful president ever. Second, all his bad behavior has been normalized because it just doesn’t end and the media have tired of pointing it out. Third, the Republicans are great at messaging and, frankly, this has always been a Democratic weak point. The Dems have tried to publicize the accomplishments of this presidency but they have trouble getting people to see how exceptional and amazing the legislation has been. I could go on, but the media allows (and sometimes facilitates) Trump to get away with all his malfeasance. There’s only so many times that the news can report that Trump is a criminal and convicted felon.

Nah, she just blabbed that out.

CNN is definitely complicit.

Biden messes up everywhere he goes. It is consistent.

Yes, and could anyone talk with a madman trying to talk over you???

Do you also think CNN poisoned the water carafe in his dressing room ?

Joe Biden is senile.

Trump reminds us everyday of who he is.

It sometimes seems like some people have indeed forgotten what we had with Trump. And it also seems like some people have forgotten what the Biden administration has accomplished. This is a campaign season of short-term memory.

​@markkness7990 what has Biden accomplished?....seriously I'd like to know

Pertaining to all those people who tell the pollsters that the economy was better, that he did his best on COVID, that the insurrection was just a bunch of people who were given bad directions by the capital police. These interviews are all over the place. Maybe people are in denial because it's a painful memory for sure. Maybe they lie to the pollsters just for fun. 🗽💙🌊💙🌊🗽

If they are voting for him and know what he is like, they have cognitive issues

Yep, trump was insane during debate is old news. Biden struggled and must step down was much more sensational and breaking. It's all they care about. They are not in journalism, they are in entertainment.

I follow Allan Lichtman. He has an incredible track record for predicting who will win the presidency. According to him, Biden will win. Polls are not the best predictors of who will win. His 13 keys are the best predictors.

​@@debraderoos5225I follow a lot of political pundits but never heard of him, will have to look him up 👍

100% Especially as he has addressed what is predicted to happen if we replace Biden. Trump wins.

Yes!!! I am so tired of these people all pushing this line of b.s.

@@debraderoos5225 Oh yeah, incredible, 9 out of 10... I'm sure you'd be fine playing Russian Roulette with those odds, or getting on a plane that lands safely 9 out of 10 times. Especially when the stakes are only the survival of democracy itself, not only in America, but probably globally as well. No, Lichtman's key's haven't been tested longitudinally under circumstances like this, and it is foolish of him as a scientist to claim otherwise. He's happy being a media star, I'm sure, but scientifically, being right only 9 out of 10 times isn't anywhere close to the kind of certainty I'd like to see with democracy on the line like this. For one thing, the very fact that the incumbent has such low favorability ratings as he has had FOR YEARS isn't a good sign, and with people pinning inflation on him, the border, his inability to stand up to Trump AND Netanyahu, and this apparent dementia... It's an entirely different set of calculations for the voter. And with Trump as the R nominee, there is little reason to believe that an alternative candidate selected through an open "mini-primary" wouldn't electrify the nation and result in a potential landslide in Nov, which Biden is simply not capable of pulling off. THere's no reason to believe that an alternative candidate would not end up getting EVERY SINGLE ONE of Biden's votes plus many many more. The Dems just need to not be so afraid of democacy. And disagreement, and diversity. They can hold a series of town halls, stir up interest, get people excited for the Dem convention. In the meantime, the R convention would be (even MORE of) a joke, because they wouldn't even know who they'd be running against. There are a WHOLE LOT of upsides to this situation, if we would only just have faith in democracy... That thing we're wanting to defend....

LOL…. Bed rest? He’s all over his golf course and entertaining people!

​@@TennesseeYayaso working as hard as he did when he was president huh

@@TennesseeYaya Actually it's his golf cart and caddy that are all over the golf course. As he can't get his "wife" to support him in any way, he dragged his youngest son along with him to give the impression that someone cares for him. From the look on the kid's face, you'd think he was taken hostage. What I would like to see, is Biden and Trump have a bicycle race. 🤣🤣🤣

@@leftypitchforker6952that would be great!

Is this a comping mechanism? The Democratic Party is imploding right now and Trump is laughing his ass off while playing golf.

Tell that to Biden, who challenged Trump to a debate.

His lying non-stop is what breaks all the rules of journalism. I refused to interview people who lied habitually. Sometimes I was overruled by editors.

The agreed upon rules of the debate stated the moderators were not going to fact check the candidates but that it would fall on them to call the other to task on lies.

They stop him when he lies. This format was created for unfettered lying.

Biden is a bigger narcissist than Trump

And when they stop him and fact check, what's Trump going to do? *Storm out of the debate like it was an interview?* .... That's why he's never been held to account before, because as the high-profile guest, he normally has the power. And CNN somehow didn't realise or more likely didn't care that this was a different scenario.

No…. The corporate media is doing all the talking and pushing

They went all in on this, with a frenzy of coverages. I have defended their partiality before and their pieces, but this made my stomach turn.

Me too. Haven't watched CNN since.

I'm in Holland and I was a keen CNN watcher but this whole episode has been sickening. They have let themselves down big time.

Well he was on ABC when he referred to himself as a black woman soooo…. CNN had a bad format but were honest about what happened… one man lied a lot and still said nothing, the other could barely speak and sounded like he was very unwell…. Not what you want for the oldest candidate in the history of our democracy

Biden sounded fantastic.

@@debraderoos5225 He did! 👍

Sure!!

He sounded beyond cogent. Sharp as a tack! He should definitely stay in the race and not listen to anyone wanting him to drop out. Trump will win easily.

@@californiaslastgasp6847 Really? Why does no one address Trumps incoherent rambling (sharks and electric boats, Hannibal Lecter) and mixing up people? 😂We beat Obama, said Nikki Haley 3 times instead of Nancy Pelosi. The list goes on.

You got too used to moderator help .

They are!!

It was Biden,s job to fact check and he couldn’t!

How can I miss you if you won't go away? People do forget

Yes, I find voters do have short memories.

Biden asked for the debate..maybe that part Is forgotten by everyone...

The public’s collective memory about such things is very short. A lot of people have forgotten a lot of the awful things Trump did and just remember cheap gas prices (due to lockdowns, no one driving, and reduced demand) but forget the shortages and problems caused in part by Trump’s tariffs and other policies, and they forget how badly he mishandled the entire pandemic. They forget he ordered that peaceful unarmed protestors be tear gassed so he could walk over for a photo op in front of a church (that didn’t even want him there) posing with a Bible.

@@linusfingesi2222and if he was sick, as has been backed up by multiple sources, there was no way he would know he would be, and if he had cancelled that would have looked just as bad to many people.

She and Wolf Blitzer and Brianna Keiller were my last hopes on CNN. Now, it's just two. But is it a last gasp? Abby has really been pushing back the last two or three weeks with guests on her show. Also to Trump's lies about knowing nothing about Project 2025, she said: "That's a bunch of BS, no matter which way you shovel it."

Moderators never call out lies. That’s the responsibility if the other debating party.

"This political process is like looking at a train wreck in real time." Yes, from inside the train we're on.

We, the WHOLE COUNTRY, are going down, if 45 is allowed to become 47.

@@DawnDavidson What was bad about 2017-2020?

@@predatoryzzxI could speak here for hours…

@@Visitkarte try 5 min

@@predatoryzzx Deficit has never been higher than under 45, he have gifts to his ultra rich friends and made everyone else’s taxes slowly hike up during the next 10 years, he released 5000 Taliban and went behind the Afghani government, withdraw so many soldiers that an orderly withdrawal was impossible, while throwing Afghani women under the bus, is the first POTUS in a century to actually LOSE jobs, he dismantled the pandemic response which was set by Bush W. and Obama and made the pandemic response to Covid chaotic and incompetent, he lied 30’000 times (official, fact checked lies, without his usual embellishments and bragging etc), embarrassed USA worldwide, almost damaged NATO beyond repair, strengthened IRAN’s regime, started an insurrection, refused to do orderly transfer of power…. I could talk for ages but you won’t believe me because you are in a cult.

...a LOT of tap (tapper?) dancing going on here. The 'talking heads' at CNN better climb down off their ego-ponies and DO SOMETHING USEFUL - instead of being part of the problem - or we'll have 4 more years of orange man.

*Like 32% of us.

The no fact checking was agreed upon rules of the debate. Biden and Trump campaigns agreed to it.

TheEvolver311 can't read 'next debate' and can't vote here

Nah, it should be moderated by republicans for once.

US Unemployment Rate is at 4.10%, compared to 4.00% last month and 3.60% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 5.69%.

​@@bluebanditjim8780 And? Cost of living is outpacing wages for most people in the country.

@@bluebanditjim8780 you all sound so utterly scripted and stupid when everyone knows all those numbers are just shining light to make the government numbers look good but people are absolutely SCREAMING on all their social media about fake job applications and EVERYONE IS STARVING!

@@TheEvolver311And cost of living is tied to two things: global inflation, which is lower in the U.S. than in any other G7 country, and unchecked corporate greed. Many companies raised prices during the worst of Covid and have never brought them back down, and are showing doubling and tripling of profits.

Facts: 1) Joe Biden is not a boomer 2) Barack Obama is a boomer 3) GenX, Millennials and Gen Z make up a larger potential voting block than boomers. So, participate in the political process. Study civics. Vote in EVERY election (even if it is dog catcher), if you lke a particular candidate, campaign for them. Support them financially.

You lost me at feminist bashing. Otherwise, I agree. EVERY CEO of every mainstream media outlet is donating to the former guy’s campaign, Bigly. Their bias is showing.

Same! Exactly what you said!