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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

President-Elect Joe Biden & Dr. Jill Biden

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Stephen took a rare trip away from his Ed Sullivan Theater office building Covid studio to interview President-elect Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden in person. Dr. Biden said her husband was elected because of his empathy, and that she was surprised by the tone of the attack on her doctorate degree but was overcome with gratitude for all the people who came out in support of her (Original Air Date: December 17th, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the Rachel Pancho with Stephen Colberg.

0:06.0

Tonight, it is my honor to sit down with a man from Scranton who made good.

0:15.7

Please welcome the next president of the United States, Joseph R. Biden.

0:19.9

Sir, thanks so much for sitting down with me today.

0:21.9

Thanks for having me with you.

0:22.9

Thank you for making a trip down to Wilmington, Delaware.

0:26.4

It's always nice talking to you, too.

0:28.0

I've had the opportunity, and I've enjoyed talking to you on camera and off several times

0:33.2

over the last 10 years now, first time I interviewed you.

0:37.1

But now you have a new job, you are about to be the most powerful person in the world.

0:45.0

And my job to talk about what's going on in the world.

0:48.5

What is President Biden going to put into the world?

0:53.2

Hopefully we're going to, when I ran, I said, Stephen, really early on that the next president

0:59.0

is going to inherit two things, a nation divided in a world in disarray.

1:03.8

And in the world at large, we've got to say America's back.

1:07.4

America's back.

1:08.4

We keep our commitments to our allies.

1:10.4

We know the difference between our adversaries and our friends.

1:14.5

And the American, so I've been already, I've spoken to, I've called from 25-26 world leaders

1:22.2

and we're America's back, number one.

1:26.2

Number two, I think the nation, and I don't think I'm kidding myself, I got criticized

1:32.2

in the beginning for saying this, I think the nation is looking for us to be united.

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