Biden to welcome more refugees: Politics Weekly Extra
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 1:04.0 | The Guardian |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to Politics Weekly Extra. I'm Jonathan Friedland. There is so much Joe Biden wants to do, |
| 1:19.4 | including resetting America's relations with the rest of the world, and restoring America's |
| 1:25.7 | reputation. I'm recording this, for example, on the day that Joe Biden is expected to announce |
| 1:31.5 | that he wants and intends to allow a whole lot more refugees into the United States than his |
| 1:37.0 | predecessor did. So his intentions are many and they're good, but I keep wondering whether he's |
| 1:44.2 | going to be able to do them to make good on them. It's a concept of bandwidth that is constantly |
| 1:52.2 | coming back to me, that word. And partly it's coming back to me because of the person who I think |
| 1:57.2 | may have used it first with me, which is going back a long time ago, more than two decades, when |
| 2:02.8 | a then rising star in the British and Labour government, he was head of the Downing Street |
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