DAVID MUIR: Let's get right to Mary Bruce, our Chief White House correspondent. Mary, what’s the first reaction from your sources inside The White House, inside this campaign?
MARY BRUCE: Well, David, The White House, a source telling me they feel he knocked it out of the park. That he showed, certainly, his sophistication on a broad range of issues, including fielding all of those foreign policy questions. They feel that he had a good night here. The question is whether any of that is going to be enough, because the president certainly here is digging in. He doesn't seem to want to face that growing chorus of dissenters that we are hearing on Capitol Hill, that continues to grow. Insisting that, yes, he just needs to continue to show them that he can do this in these unscripted moments. But David, the president dismissing, still, much of their concern, and those answers have not yet been given to many Democrats.
MUIR: Rachel Scott live in Washington, you've been chasing down lawmakers. Any of them convinced tonight with this performance?
RACHEL SCOTT: One Democrat put it to me this way, David: that this is a complicated scenario, that this eases concerns, that it does not erase them. Yet another Democrat, Congressman Jim Himes, has called for the president to step aside tonight. Democrats tell me they groaned and cringed when the president said Vice President Trump instead of Vice President Harris. But every Democrat that I talked to tonight said they cannot believe they’re in this scenario where the president’s defending his age with four months to go.
MUIR: Jon Karl, I have just 20 seconds here. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying he needs to make this decision, time is running short. He seemed to indicate again tonight that the decision is made.
JON KARL: He sure did, David. And, look. He took a wide range of questions, complicated issues, did fairly well on all of that, but I think nothing changes the bottom line, and that is that many Democrats think he just can't win in November. And there needs to be a change.
