Biden's NATO Presser Leaves Democrats Still Divided
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden on Thursday wrapped up this week’s NATO summit in Washington by giving his first solo press conference since November. Despite more defections from House Democrats earlier in the day, Biden gave no indication that he would drop out of the presidential race. Some also praised Biden for his command of foreign policy issues during the one-hour Q&A session with reporters, though he did stumble a few times. Political reporter Abigail Tracy breaks down the reaction to Biden’s performance. Also, Illinois Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley, one of the first House lawmakers to call on Biden to leave the race, explains why he still thinks it’s time for the party to move forward with a new nominee.
And in headlines: China denied NATO members’ claims that it’s a “decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine,” Donald Trump welcomed Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Mar-a-Lago, and inflation is coming down.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, July 12th. I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:04.5 | And I'm Prianka Aravindi and this is What A Day, the pod that's never rented a DVD for Red Box, |
| 0:09.2 | but we're still sad that it announced yesterday that it's shutting down. |
| 0:12.6 | Yes, you can still rent DVDs from your local library, |
| 0:16.2 | but how long until Republicans shut all of those dad, too? |
| 0:19.9 | I hear that's buried deep in Project 2025, page 900. |
| 0:24.0 | The fives are not good for the libraries. |
| 0:27.6 | On today's show, inflation's cooling to the point that the Federal Reserve might cut interest |
| 0:36.1 | rates this fall. Plus, there are several hot sports finals to catch this weekend. |
| 0:41.8 | But first, yesterday President Biden gave his first solo press |
| 0:45.6 | conference since November of last year. He gave no indication that he would consider |
| 0:49.8 | dropping out but let's talk about his performance since it was very closely watched. |
| 0:55.1 | He gave his remarks in D.C. |
| 0:56.7 | after the NATO summit, where he spoke at length |
| 0:59.0 | about policy and did give some very thorough answers. |
| 1:02.2 | But there were a few moments where he stumbled. |
| 1:04.7 | Take a listen to this brief excerpt where he mixed up the names of his own Vice President |
| 1:08.5 | Kamala Harris and his opponent, Donald Trump. |
| 1:11.6 | Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President |
| 1:14.6 | Trump to be Vice President, |
| 1:16.5 | until I think she was not qualified to be President. |
| 1:19.5 | I don't think anyone watching that in that moment was having a good time. That was not great. I |
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