Biden's National Security Presidency So Far with Chris Whipple
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We have just ended Biden's first two years as president, and it's a great time to reflect back on the wild national security ride we’ve had. In fact, Chris Whipple has just done that by publishing his book, “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House,” a deeply reported book that contains many interviews with Biden's inner circle.
Lawfare publisher David Priess spoke with Chris about the transition from Trump to Biden, Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration's strategy of releasing intelligence before the invasion to try to both preempt the invasion and prepare European allies for what would come afterward, and much more.
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| 0:29.0 | I think on ballots, I like to think that I take a no-holds barred approach |
| 0:39.0 | to all of Biden's failures during these first two years. |
| 0:45.0 | But once again, at the end of the day, |
| 0:49.0 | or at least the midway point of this presidency, more accurately, |
| 0:53.0 | I do think that everything I think the turning point of this presidency |
| 0:58.0 | was February 24, 2022, when Putin invaded Ukraine |
| 1:03.0 | and Biden began to rally NATO to defend a democracy in the heart of Europe |
| 1:10.0 | and face down Putin. |
| 1:13.0 | And I've been from there a lot of successes followed. |
| 1:16.0 | Legislative victories that rivaled LBJs, |
| 1:20.0 | capped by the Inflation Reduction Act, defying the odds in the midterms. |
| 1:25.0 | So I think Joe Biden does go into the third year of his presidency |
| 1:30.0 | with the wind at his back. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm David Priests, publisher of LawFair, |
| 1:34.0 | and this is the LawFair podcast January 20, 2023. |
| 1:39.0 | We have just ended Biden's first two years as president, |
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