Propublica: We're Releasing Our Full, Unedited Interview With Joe Biden From September

[littlemissmartypants]

President Joe Biden during last week’s presidential debate in Atlanta. Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times/Redux

We’re Releasing Our Full, Unedited Interview With Joe Biden From September
Following Biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump, we’re releasing the full and unedited 21-minute interview we conducted with President Joe Biden nine days before his interview with Special Counsel Robert K. Hur.

by ProPublica
July 2, 1:35 p.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-interview-unedited-september-2023
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In the wake of President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance, his opponents and most major media organizations have pointed out that he has done few interviews that give the public an opportunity to hear him speak without a script or teleprompters.

So much has been made of this limited access that the impressions from Special Counsel Robert K. Hur about his five hours of interviews with the president on Oct. 8 and 9 drove months of coverage. The prosecutor said Biden had “diminished faculties in advancing age” and called him a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden angrily dismissed these assertions, which Vice President Kamala Harris called “politically motivated.”

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ProPublica obtained a rare interview with Biden on Sept. 29, nine days before the Hur interviews began. We released the video, which was assembled from footage shot by five cameras, on Oct. 1. We edited out less than a minute of crosstalk and exchanges with the camera people, as is customary in such interviews.

Today, we are releasing the full, 21-minute interview, unedited as seen from the view of the single camera focused on Biden. We understand that this video captures a moment in time nine months ago and that it will not settle the ongoing arguments about the president’s acuity today. Still, we believe it is worth giving the public another chance to see one of Biden’s infrequent conversations with a reporter.
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The Interview With the Camera Focused on Biden

The Interview as Published
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[ancianita]

1. Good on Propublica. Thank you for this!

[littlemissmartypants]

7. YW, ancianita. They are truly a light in the darkness.

[ancianita]

9. Indeed, my friend. I spread this a few places on Facebook. I hope

we're witnessing journalism wars (similar to the past years of lawyer wars) because journalism is a calling, not an enterprise. Because in our democracy truth matters more than profit.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Thanks so much! ❤️

[valleyrogue]

2. Good old Hur. Remember him?

He helped start this crap about Biden's "memory" issues.

Biden has been stuttering and stammering and gaffing his whole life, continuing when he was 30 years old and took office in the Senate and eventually to the White House.

This is what pisses me off so much about too many comments here and elsewhere. I am old enough to remember Biden when he first came to the Senate and know about his demeanor.

Most of this criticism is rooted not in concern for his health but in good old ageism.

[mopinko]

15. they've been licking their chops for the least evidence that there's something wrong.

they tried to manufacture it w their stupid videos. that didnt fly, but the bullshit cannon has been loaded and waiting.

[somaticexperiencing]

3. I agree. Good on them. The more coverage of full capability President Biden, the better. Kamala Harris too. Why

are Republicans so much better, it seems, at selling utter inflated horrible bullshit than we are at selling the truth.

Speaking "truth to power"..

We should get everybody who is good at this out on the road and with coverage on all the media we can reach, particularly President Biden and Kamala Harris.

[texasfiddler]

4. Damn good interview. Biden represents the America I know.

[NBachers]

5. Maybe it will be time for another one sometime in the near future.

[emulatorloo]

11. Biden is doing an interview on ABC later this week.

[TomCADem]

6. This Helpful, But The Statement...

… that Biden has conducted few
Interviews for a Presidenrial candidate is also true. If there is no issue with Biden’s health, then it is political malpractice for him not to be conducting more interviews to promote his record and attacking Trump.

[W_HAMILTON]

10. So reward those so-called news organizations that have been promoting this ridiculous narrative to begin with?

People that want to believe that Biden has mental problems and/or promote that narrative will continue to do so regardless of who he sits down to an interview with and regardless of how many interviews he does. There are ample examples of Biden having no issues whatsoever in various forums like these -- this unedited from ProPublica is yet another example -- and yet the narrative remains because it is a political cudgel being used against him by all sorts of foes: his Republican opponents, his foreign adversaries and their bot/troll farms, so-called progressives/liberals on the left that want to see Biden step down so that they can promote their own candidate(s) in his place, journalists that feel they are entitled to his time and feel as though he has snubbed them personally, etc.

[TomCADem]

14. It is pretty much campaigning 101 to do...

…as many media appearances as possible. The way you describe Biden “rewarding” News organizations makes him sound petty, and I don’t think Biden is petty. Biden also used to be a regular on the news talk show circuit like McCain. Not making unscripted media appearances plays into the narrative. Biden was excellent, intelligent, and approachable in interviews:

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[markodochartaigh]

8. Thank you, ProPublica

If we defeat Trump this fall I will consider my Social Security to be safe and I will resume my donations.

[Cha]

12. Mahalo, pants!💙