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The Brian Lehrer Show

Biden and 2024

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent, discusses Original Sin, his 2025 book with Alex Thompson on Biden’s decline which looks at the 2024 Democratic loss.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. CNN's Jake Tapper is with us. You probably heard some of the national

0:18.6

conversations since his book came out last month about President

0:22.5

Joe Biden's state of health and state of mind before the troubling debate performance in June of last year

0:27.8

that wound up driving him from his re-election campaign. We'll talk about how the response to the book

0:33.3

in these weeks might be affecting Democratic Party politics now. We'll also talk about news of today,

0:39.2

including the L.A. immigration raids and protests and Trump deployment of the National Guard and the U.S.

0:44.4

Marines and the response by Eric Adams, mayor of New York, of course, in anticipating how he would

0:50.9

handle a situation like that here. Jake Tapper is CNN's lead DC anchor and chief

0:56.8

Washington correspondent and host of the lead on CNN from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays. The book is called

1:04.5

Original Sin, co-authored with Alex Thompson from Axios. Jake, thanks for joining us. Welcome back to

1:10.4

WNYC. Thanks, Brian. Great to be back.

1:13.1

Can we start with some news of the day? Here's a clip. Here's a clip your colleague, Danabash,

1:18.5

used on CNN and her show yesterday of Donald Trump on the campaign trail last year,

1:23.3

seeming to announce in advance the kind of thing he did this week with little historical precedents,

1:29.7

call out a state's National Guard without the approval, even over the objection of the state's governor.

1:36.6

You look at these great cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, you look at what's happening to our country.

1:42.0

We cannot let it happen any longer. And one of the other things I'll do, because, you know, you's happening to our country, we cannot let it happen any longer.

1:48.8

And one of the other things I'll do, because, you know, you're supposed to not be involved in that. You just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in.

1:53.9

The next time, I'm not waiting.

1:56.4

The next time, I'm not waiting for the governor or the mayor.

2:00.3

Do you know that clip? Because this is the first time, I'm not waiting for the governor or the mayor. Do you know that clip? Because

2:01.4

this is the first time since 1965 under very different circumstances. That was to protect

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