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PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 8/16/24

PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Democrats will gather in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris to replace President Biden on the ticket. Donald Trump may miss Biden the most, as he will now face a much younger Black woman in November. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times, Tarini Parti of The Wall Street Journal and Chuck Todd of NBC News to discuss this and more.

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Next week Democrats will gather in Chicago to formally nominate

0:04.9

Kamala Harris as their candidate to replace the person they thought they were

0:08.5

going to be nominating Joe Biden. Among those who miss Biden the most

0:12.8

Donald Trump who will now be facing a much younger black woman in the general

0:16.8

election and he doesn't seem to have a strategy for taking on his new opponent.

0:20.9

Next. This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

0:28.0

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

0:32.0

So we're heading into deepest August.

0:34.2

It's 80 days until the election,

0:35.8

and everything is so different than it was

0:37.8

at the beginning of the summer.

0:39.2

It's hard to remember, but way back on June 27th, the country was facing the prospect of two elderly white men facing off in November,

0:47.0

and only one of those white men was riding high at the time.

0:50.0

But now it's Kamala Harris, who has momentum and Donald Trump's campaign seems, at least to me and the other obsessives who track these kinds of things, heading for a shakeup.

1:00.0

I'll talk about this and a lot more with Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker.

1:06.0

Zolan Cano Young's is a White House correspondent for the New York Times.

1:10.0

Tarini Party is a national politics reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and Chuck Todd is

1:15.8

NBC News, chief political analyst. Thank you all for being here. I know you're all off to Chicago soon.

1:25.7

The unlucky, unlucky people have to go through O'Hare in the summer but I'm glad to have you here let me start with

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Susan because Monday night at the at the convention is going to be Joe Biden night right

1:37.0

and you know we

1:39.9

We really haven't thought about him a lot in the last few weeks, but you've been tracking this. I want you to just take a look at something that Biden just said. It's very interesting.

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