Biden freezes, Trump rambles: Who's winning the cognitive war?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Biden's appearances at the G7 photo call and the Democrat fundraiser have raised eyebrows because of video circulating that appears to show him freezing at certain moments.
The White House says don't fall for the clips- they're edited videos or 'cheap fakes'.
What's going on? Why are Dems so defensive? And why is Trump mixing up his own doctor's name when he talks about his superior cognitive abilities.
It's all shaping up to be a bizarre first TV debate 9 days from now - and we may - may see one more candidate on the stage in the shape of Robert F Kennedy JR.
Later, what's going on at the Washington Post - that bastion of investigative reporting. Mutiny in the newsroom currently over their newish British publisher - and his past role working for Murdoch. We speak to writer for The Daily Beast, Harry Lambert.
And why is the Governor of Maryland pardoning hundreds of thousands of convicts?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | The issue is the American people should speak. |
| 0:15.6 | You should go out and vote. |
| 0:17.7 | You're in voting now. |
| 0:19.3 | Vote and let your senators know how strongly you feel let vote now |
| 0:23.6 | make sure you in fact let people know he doesn't want to answer the question i'm not going to answer |
| 0:28.9 | the question because the question is the question is radical left will you shut up man who is on your |
| 0:36.5 | list joe this is it is 1300 days since those Radical left. Would you shut up, man? Listen, who is on your list, Joe? This is... |
| 0:38.4 | It is 1,300 days since those two gents were last on stage together. |
| 0:45.1 | Neither one has been in a debate since that fateful night in 2020. |
| 0:50.9 | But next week, we're going to see the rematch, and boxing, it ain't. |
| 0:56.8 | You're going to see the 78-year-old pitted against the 81-year-old, one who claims he can |
| 1:03.9 | ace his cognitive tests, the other who apparently wanders off. But are we getting a fair |
| 1:10.7 | picture of either of them through that |
| 1:13.5 | lens? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:21.0 | It's John. It's Emily. And a little later in the episode, we're going to be talking about what's going on at the Washington Post, which now has a Brit in charge as their editor-in-chief. |
| 1:35.4 | And we're going to be speaking to Harry Lambert, who writes for The Daily Beast, and has done a long read into the clash of cultures between an investigative reporting team that actually wants to be |
| 1:48.2 | talking about their own boss and might not be able to. But we're going to start with Donald Trump, |
| 1:55.0 | Joe Biden, the rematch. It's not the rumble in the jungle. It's not Ali Frazier. It's not the rematch at Madison Square Garden. |
| 2:03.9 | It's going to be on a CNN debate stage where, interestingly, it's going to be run by very different rules from the brawl that we heard back in Cleveland in 2020, where everyone's mic is going to be cut, except when they're speaking, |
| 2:21.0 | which actually might work to Joe Biden's disadvantage, because that moment where he said, |
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