Former VP Joe Biden Defends Himself In Exclusive CNN Interview; Reaction To Biden Interview; Loco For Coco!

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🗓️ 6 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Biden Defends His Record In Exclusive CNN Interview; Former VP Joe Biden Sits Down With CNN; Biden Defends His Record On Desegregation And Busing; Biden Defends Himself: "Look At My Record"; Biden: I Didn't Want To Get In That Scrum With Harris; Biden: I Wasn't Prepared For How Harris Came At Me; Joe Biden Insists "People Know Who I Am"; Biden: "I Don't Think I'm Having Trouble Sparring"; Biden On Debate Performance: I Know How To Spar; Biden: Pres. Trump Is A "Divider-In-Chief"; Biden: Pres. Trump Is "The Bully That I Knew My Whole Life"; Biden: "It's A Disaster" To Try To Do It Alone With No Alliances Overseas; Biden: "We Need Allies"; Biden: Pres. Trump Is Dissing Allies, Embracing Thugs; Biden: Pres. Trump Is "Stiff-Arming" Our Friends Abroad; Biden: There Will Be No Nato If Pres. Trump Is Re-Elected; Biden: Pres. Trump Gave Kim Jong Un Legitimacy, Got Nothing; Biden: Idea That Trade War Benefits Anyone Is "Ludicrous"; Biden: Trump Admin. Doing Nothing To Stop China From Stealing U.S. Intellectual Secrets; Biden: While Pres. Trump Is Tweeting China Will Own 5G Market; Biden To N. Korea: "Show Me Something" If You Want U.S. Sanctions Lifted; Biden On The "Center Left" Vs. The "Way Left"; Pres. Trump Says He May Issue An Executive Order To Put Citizenship Question On Census Form; Biden Expresses Skepticism Of The Democrats' Tilt to The Left And Ocasio-Cortez's Appeal; Biden: I'd Bring Back The Obamacare Individual Mandate; Biden: People Shouldn't Have To Give Up Private Health Care Plans; Biden: "The Middle Class Built This Country"; Biden: I Wouldn't Call "Medicare For All" An "Advanced" Idea; Biden Expresses Skepticism Of Ocasio-Cortez's Mass Appeal; Biden: "My North Star Is The Middle Class"; Biden: I Will Raise Tax Rate To 39.5%; Biden I would Raise The Corporate Tax To 28%; Biden: Undocumented Immigrants Should Have Access To Health Care; Biden: Everyone Should Have Health Care Coverage In An Emergency; Biden: I Don't Think Crossing Border Should Be Decriminalized; Biden: Vast Majority Of Dems Are Where I Am On The Issues; Biden On Being Labeled A Moderate: "I Am Center-Left": Biden: Would Be Great To Have Female VP Or Pres. If I Lose; Biden: "Presumptuous" To Discuss Potential VP Pick; Biden: Role Of President Is To Persuade, Not Just Fight; Joe & Jill Biden's Interview With Chris Cuomo Airs 9PM ET Monday; Reaction To Joe Biden's Rare One-On-One Interview; Biden Tells CNN Some Democrats Tilting Too Far Left; More On Biden Interview; Latest On Citizenship Question Battle; Biden Assails Some Policies Of Democratic Rivals; Pres. Trump Threatens Executive Order For Census Question On Citizenship; Pres. Trump: We Need Citizenship Question "For Congress For Districting"; "The Movies" Debuts Sunday At 9PM; Did She Win?; 15-Year-Old From U.S. Wins Again At WimbledonTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening and a very happy Fourth of July weekend to you and your family.
0:04.6	I'm Jim Shudot in Washington, filling in tonight for Anderson.
0:07.4	And tonight, excerpts from CNN's exclusive interview with Joe Biden, my colleague, Chris
0:11.6	Cuomo, sat across from the former Vice President in Iowa on July 4th and discussed a wide range
0:17.7	of topics and people.
0:19.7	Some of what Biden had to say included frank assessments of his fellow Democrats, several
0:24.2	of whom have responded since today.
0:27.1	They include Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocaso Cortez.
0:32.1	We'll talk more about that in a bit.
0:33.9	But first, we want to show you two excerpts from that interview.
0:36.7	The first part begins with Biden's assessment of busing, Kamala Harris, and that first democratic
0:42.9	debate that seemed to have shaken up the presidential race.
0:48.9	I was talking with you and Jill.
0:51.1	You said you were expecting to have a target on your back, but the intensity of some of
0:55.5	it.
0:56.7	But you see the questions about your past physicians from the perspective of race being
1:02.9	as relevant as they are.
1:04.7	No, and I don't think they're relevant because they're taken out of context.
1:07.4	What I didn't see is people who know me.
1:10.6	I mean, they know me well.
1:13.4	It's not like if somebody just came out of the blue, didn't know anything, but it's so
1:17.2	easy to go back and go back 30, 40, 50 years and take a context and take it completely
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