 um and he had a long meeting and then uh decided more or less on sunday but they write it wasn't that the president had grown tired of the drips of defections with from within his own party although he had and it made him very very angry he uh rather was that biden himself was finally convinced of what so many other democrats had come to believe since the poor debate performance last month he couldn't win i need to pause here and we'll be getting to this in a second but the idea