President Biden addresses winter meeting of Democratic National Committee

The president addressed the DNC here at the Sheraton in the city. The area was heavily secured with Secret Service and Philadelphia Police. America is back and we're leading the world again. President Biden addressed the Democratic National Committee in Philadelphia. He arrived to the Sheraton Friday night and spoke to a packed house. He said Iran to restore the soul of the nation, rebuild its backbone and unite the country. We are democracy.

You cannot govern without consensus. It's not possible. This is still the hardest thing to get done, but I refuse to give up. We can't give up. We need to come together as a nation. In the meantime, the DNC will take a deep dive into their presidential nominating calendar this weekend. For more than 50 years, the road to the nomination has started with the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire's first in the nation primary.

Now there could be a primary shake-up moving the South Carolina primary to the front, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada three days later. Battlegrounds Georgia and Michigan would move up and Iowa would be pushed back. Earlier in the day, President Biden and Vice President Harris spoke at the Belmont Water Treatment Plant in Winfield and announced a multi-million dollar investment to upgrade and repair the city's aging lead pipes and make sure there is clean drinking water. Every person in this country deserves to be able to turn on a faucet and have clean drinking water. 23 percent of the water that we produce goes out and water main breaks. So this kind of infrastructure money coming to Philadelphia is going to be huge. Philadelphia Water Department Commissioner said in part, this represents the biggest investment in drinking water infrastructure in a generation, and we would not be able to do this work without this level of federal investment.

Aside from a packed agenda in the city, the president also addressed what better than the Philadelphia Eagles. He said his wife Jill is a Philly girl. There is no way I can stand here today without saying, Go Eagles, Fly Eagles, Fly Eagles. The vote on the new calendar is on Saturday after speaking to the DNC, the president then made his way to his home in Delaware. Carrie Carrado, CBS News, Philadelphia.

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