Biden and Trump prepare for TV showdown
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare to go head to head in televised debates. We ask a former adviser to Biden and a Republican pollster about what’s to expect and what’s at stake. Also on the programme: more protests in Kenya even after the President U-Turns on his controversial tax policy; a BBC investigation tracks down a prolific people smuggler involved in trafficking people across the English Channel; and new research warns that AI-generated essays score higher grades than student-written scripts and are virtually impossible for universities to detect. (Picture: The press room in the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus ahead of the first 2024 presidential debate Credit: REUTERS/Marco Bello)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Rebecca Kessby. |
| 0:10.0 | As we keep mentioning on this program, 2024 is the year of elections. |
| 0:15.6 | At the moment, the UK and France are about to go to the polls tomorrow, Iran goes to the polls. |
| 0:20.7 | But there's one election this year that could have an impact everywhere, and that |
| 0:25.2 | is in the United States. |
| 0:27.1 | For so long the US and its foreign policy has been crucial to what's often called the world |
| 0:32.4 | order. The US economy has global impact |
| 0:35.6 | and its soft power, its institutions and legal systems, is watched carefully everywhere. |
| 0:41.1 | So tonight all eyes are on Atlanta, Georgia, where broadcasters |
| 0:45.4 | CNN will be hosting the first live TV debate by Democrat President Joe Biden who |
| 0:51.1 | wants to stay in power and Republican former President Donald Trump |
| 0:55.3 | who wants his old job back. These two are bitter political rivals as illustrated by |
| 1:01.2 | previous debates they've had. |
| 1:03.0 | Gentlemen, a lot of people have been waiting for this night, |
| 1:10.0 | so let's get going. |
| 1:11.0 | Nobody has done what I've done. |
| 1:13.0 | Come on, this guy has a dog whistle about as big as a foghorn. |
| 1:17.0 | Joe, I ran because of you. |
| 1:19.0 | I ran because of Barack Obama, because you did a poor job. |
| 1:22.0 | If I thought you did a good job if I thought you did a good job I would have never run |
| 1:24.7 | Mr. President let an answer he doesn't want to let me answer because he knows I have the |
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