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The Playbook Podcast

January 13, 2025: The final word on the Biden doctrine

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This afternoon, President Joe Biden will deliver an address on foreign policy from the State Department—his first of two farewell speeches during the final week of his political career. Senior foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi joins Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to explore how Biden’s foreign policy legacy might be remembered. Plus, the Senate will consider the Laken Riley Act, and a look ahead to a week filled with Senate confirmation hearings. All that, plus the rest of the news you need to know today.

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0:00.0

Presented by BP.

0:05.4

Good morning, everyone.

0:07.1

It's playbook co-author Eugene Daniels.

0:09.3

It is Monday, January 13th.

0:11.5

We are one week from inauguration day.

0:15.2

And here is what's driving the day.

0:17.7

In his final week in office, President Joe Biden is in legacy mode. This week will see him

0:23.2

deliver two major addresses, starting with a big sweeping look at his foreign policy record today at

0:29.0

2 p.m. in the State Department. Here to chat with me more about this is political senior

0:33.8

foreign affairs correspondent and author of the Compass column., Nahal Tusi. Good morning. Hello.

0:40.1

Hi. Good to be here. Thanks for coming on. So we have this big speech for Biden. This is his final week as president,

0:48.4

which also means he's going to be trying to figure out what he wants to say to the American people for the last time.

0:54.5

He has this speech later on at the State Department.

0:57.1

What do we know?

0:58.3

What do we think he's trying to say here to folks?

1:01.4

Well, I think this is going to be what he and a number of people around him have been doing lately,

1:08.1

which is trying to shape the narrative around their legacy as much as possible.

1:13.6

And on foreign policy in particular, this has been very noticeable, like Secretary of State Anthony

1:18.4

Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, they've all been out there giving these interviews,

1:24.1

doing these Q&As, not with me, I should add.

1:31.0

But they're just out there.

1:36.0

And so I think this is Biden's shot at basically saying, here is what I accomplished.

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