Joe Biden vows to stay on as US presidential candidate
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden has promised to stay on as Democratic presidential candidate despite making several faux pas at the recent NATO summit, including introducing President Zelensky as Putin.
Also on the programme: the president of Colombia has called on the UN to make cocaine legal. He believes it will help bring peace to his country, which has battled an armed conflict for 60 years. And, do narcissists become more agreeable as they get older?
(Photo: Joe Biden has faced accusations of being too old to run for US President. Credit: Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the program. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, this is News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:08.3 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:11.5 | First today, President Biden has again insisted he is the best person to defeat |
| 0:16.7 | Donald Trump in November's US presidential elections. There's been growing concern within |
| 0:22.0 | the Democratic Party about whether he's too old to run for re-election. |
| 0:26.4 | These concerns were heightened at a news conference last night |
| 0:30.4 | when he referred to his deputy Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump. |
| 0:35.0 | Look I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President |
| 0:40.0 | until I think she was not qualified to be president. |
| 0:43.0 | So let's start there. |
| 0:44.0 | Earlier at the NATO summit, Mr. Biden mistakenly introduced the Ukrainian leader |
| 0:49.0 | Volodimir Zelensky before correcting himself. |
| 0:52.0 | And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination. |
| 1:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin. |
| 1:02.0 | President Putin, he's going to beat President Putin. |
| 1:06.0 | President Alinsky. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm so focused on beating Putin. |
| 1:10.0 | We've got to worry about it. |
| 1:11.0 | Anyway. |
| 1:12.0 | He also vowed to continue and to defeat his Republican rival |
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