Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 6/21/24

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Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We’re just days away from watching Joe Biden and Donald Trump, two men whose combined age is 159, debate in front of a television audience of millions. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times, Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Vivian Salama of The Wall Street Journal for a look at what to expect when the rivals take the stage.

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0:00.0	We're just days away from watching Joe Biden and Donald Trump, two men whose
0:05.1	combined age is 159, debate in front of a television audience of millions, and a live
0:10.5	studio audience of not one single person.
0:13.2	Tonight, a close look at what we should expect when these two superannuated rivals take the
0:17.8	stage. Next. This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.
0:27.0	Good evening and welcome to Washington Week and to our new studio here at WETA.
0:32.0	If you notice the table, I built it myself. studio here at W ETA.
0:32.9	If you notice the table, I built it myself.
0:36.4	This coming Thursday, President Joe Biden and the man he defeated in 2020, former President
0:41.0	Donald Trump, will make their respective cases to the American people.
0:44.6	Neither would want to hear this, but they actually have much in common.
0:47.8	Both are unpopular.
0:48.8	They are more or less tied in recent polls, and both are older than our previous oldest president Ronald Reagan.
0:55.2	Only one is a convicted felon, however, and yet the pressure is somehow on Joe Biden to prove
1:00.0	that he has what it takes to continue in office.
1:02.8	Donald Trump will obviously try to highlight what he and his supporters see as Biden's
1:06.2	frailty.
1:07.4	Biden will undoubtedly highlight the fact that Trump led an anti-constitutional insurrection.
1:12.4	Joining me to tonight to discuss this end more.
1:15.1	Ann Applebaum is my colleague and a staff writer at the Atlantic and author of the forthcoming
1:19.2	book Autocracy Inc. the dictators who want to run the world.
1:23.6	Zolan Keno Young's is a White House correspondent for the New York Times.
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