Is Biden Too Old?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at whether Joe Biden is too old to run for President again?
Biden’s competency is under scrutiny after an investigation into the handling of classified documents found him to be ‘a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’. In fiery exchanges with reporters last night the President said “My memory is fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I’ve become President”. James is joined by the editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal Emma Tucker and North American Correspondent John Sudworth. Emma also brings us an update on jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
And comedian and podcast host Matt Forde talks to Chris and James about being diagnosed with cancer and facing up to his treatment with laughter and optimism. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Joe Wilkinson, Natasaha Mayo, and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So if you were listening to yesterday's episode of newscast or watching us |
| 0:09.4 | because we're on the tele on a Thursday, |
| 0:11.8 | you might have heard some slightly unusual words and Rob has been in touch on email. |
| 0:17.0 | And Rob says, Chuffin' Hell! |
| 0:21.0 | See that's Chris, isn't it? And I can't really do the accent. |
| 0:24.0 | Truff and L. |
| 0:25.0 | Sefological. |
| 0:27.0 | I had to look it up, says Rob. |
| 0:29.0 | I told you I couldn't do the accent. |
| 0:31.0 | Now that's newscaster stuff. |
| 0:32.0 | Aren't we the clever clogs |
| 0:33.6 | listeners? Right, okay, sceological, sorry, maybe that's a word we should have |
| 0:38.6 | explained, probably it is. If you're wondering, maybe you know newscasters, maybe you don't, |
| 0:44.3 | scipology is the statistical study of elections and trends in voting. |
| 0:49.4 | So there we have it. |
| 0:50.2 | And in fact, and as Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader who was on had his own word as well didn't he |
| 0:54.9 | cognizant although Chris and I had a very long discussion about whether it's cognizant or cognizant |
| 1:00.2 | and basically concluded that we think this might be a Scottish English pronunciation thing. |
| 1:04.6 | Anyway, cognizant, understanding or realizing something. |
| 1:08.1 | So this all got us thinking, what is your favorite political word or phrase? |
| 1:12.4 | Let us know. But today we're going to be talking about some really, honestly, |
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