Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest.

I’m Abby Livingston, filling in for Tina Nguyen. In today’s dispatch, an inside look at how Nancy Pelosi’s masterfully equivocal Morning Joe appearance is ricocheting across Capitol Hill, and whether it opened the floodgates for more Democrats to begin openly calling for Biden’s withdrawal. Then, my partner Dylan Byers has the latest on the Biden media circus, from Karine Jean-Pierre’s credibility crisis to the latest on the George Stephanopoulos-TMZ brouhaha.

🎧 From the Puck podcast network: On the latest episode of John Heilemann’s Impolitic, Guardian columnist and BBC radio host Jonathan Freedland offered a tour d’horizon of political news in Europe—and the U.S. as seen from across the pond. On Tara Palmeri’s Somebody’s Gotta Win, she chatted with CBS News’s Weijia Jiang about Biden’s disastrous media week and attempts at damage control, and on The Powers That Be, Tara joined Peter Hamby to discuss the anguished chatter circulating among Capitol Hill Democrats. You can check out all those episodes, and more, right here.