Puck's Julia Ioffe Unpacks Biden's Explosive Call With House Democrats

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Tara is joined by Puck’s own Julia Ioffe to talk about her recent article about a particularly fiery Zoom call between Joe Biden and House Democrats last week concerning the future of his candidacy. They survey the morale of the Democrats, discuss Congressman Adam Schiff’s recent calls for Biden to resign, and speculate how much longer Biden can go on in his campaign. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Julia Ioffe Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
0:06.0	The Press Box is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture and wants to understand how that
0:16.0	news really gets made. We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have long
0:20.7	interviews with everyone from John Crackower to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck's senior political correspondent, and this is Somebody's Gotta
0:56.4	win. I am so pleased to have Julia Yaffey on the show. She's a star at Puck News, one of the founding partners.
1:06.3	She has been covering foreign policy, the Washington waterfront, everything.
1:10.2	And last night she had one of those earth-shattering scoops where I was up all night on the phone with House
1:16.7	Democrats, members of Congress, and also weirdly some Trump aides who read her piece and called me and said that sounds a lot like
1:24.4	Trump the way that Joe Biden was acting in this phone call with House
1:29.9	Democrats, moderate House Democrats, he was extremely indignant.
1:32.7	I don't want to get ahead of the story.
1:34.2	Please tell the listeners exactly what you got.
1:37.7	I mean, you were literally inside a Zoom call
1:40.9	between Joe Biden and House Democrats.
1:42.4	You got the video footage so
1:43.5	please explain exactly what you have. Yeah so I a source of one of the
1:48.1	participants of the Zoom call sent me a fragment of video of the call I think the Zoom call, sent me a fragment of video of the call.
1:53.8	I think the Zoom call was about probably an hour.
1:57.8	And it was the phone call that the president had
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