Biden’s first news conference

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🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Biden gives his first news conference as president. The NCAA’s problem with women’s basketball. And how a movie studio gave new life to a box office flop.

On Thursday, President Biden fielded questions from the press about the immigration surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, whether he wants to kill the filibuster and what he plans to do about the war in Afghanistan. Power Up newsletter author Jacqueline Alemany reports on the president’s first formal grilling from reporters.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association says that women’s college basketball does not turn a profit. If that’s true, it’s a result of either incompetence or indifference on the part of the NCAA, says sports columnist Sally Jenkins.

Four years ago, DC Comics’ “Justice League” tanked at the box office. So when fans clamored, years later, for the version initially imagined by its original director, Zack Snyder — a darker, grittier epic of a superhero movie — the studio released it. Comics reporter David Betancourt explains the movement behind the new four-hour “Snyder cut” of “Justice League.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu O'Roureniko with the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me the post.
0:12.0	This is Peter Jameson from the Washington Post.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Lina Muhammad.
0:18.0	It's Thursday, March 25th.
0:21.0	Today, Biden's first press conference.
0:26.0	The NCAA's Women's Basketball Problem and giving new life to a box office flop.
0:35.0	Biden finally gave his first formal press conference today.
0:41.0	Jackie Alamini rates the power up newsletter.
0:46.0	And it was notable because this is the longest a president has gone without giving a press conference into the start of the year.
0:55.0	And it was a little more notable also because this is a president who has in the past face some criticisms for his lack of discipline.
1:07.0	He's called himself a gaff machine from what we've seen so far.
1:11.0	He's been pretty on message, but we were anticipating that he would get a lot of tough questions.
1:18.0	Yeah, and briefly, can you just walk me through the topics that Biden ended up talking about?
1:24.0	The surge of influx and immigrants arriving at the US border along with questions about the filibuster, his administration's policy towards unaccompanied minors.
1:34.0	How he's going to protect voting rights, but he's also faced a number of questions about foreign policy.
1:41.0	North Korea just fired two ballistic missiles.
1:43.0	How he would handle that, the war in Afghanistan.
1:46.0	And then gun legislation infrastructure, other pending legislative pushes at the White House is planning on going forward.
1:53.0	Going for us soon as the stimulus package is sort of fully implemented.
1:58.0	He wasn't notably asked about the coronavirus all that much, although I think we should note that it is still a crisis and an ongoing one of that.
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