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Interview: Reshad Hudson Interviews Joe Biden for Nexstar TV in Scranton - April 16, 2024
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Joe Biden Person
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Reshad Hudson Person
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Reshad Hudson
Very Positive
00:00:00-00:00:16 (17 sec)
"Well, thank you so much for your time, sir. Today your message was on tax fairness, and making sure that the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share in taxes. But right now, for many Americans, life is too expensive. Are you concerned that stubborn inflation will hurt your reelection bid?"
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:00:16-00:00:52 (35 sec)
"Well, look, we've brought down inflation considerably by over two-thirds, and it is being stubborn and not going down to 2% we need, but it's significantly different, number one. Number two, the thing that really affects people's lives are all the small things that are add up to big numbers for people. All these junk fees that, for example, you -- for a family like mine growing up, if you bounced a credit card, if you were late to a credit card payment, they charge you 35 bucks instead of three, four, five, eight bucks. The same way with a whole range of things."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:00:52-00:01:29 (38 sec)
"But the biggest thing -- the difference between Trump and me is the value set we bring to this. I'm all about making sure that we make sure that the middle class continues to have a fighting chance. I mean this sincerely now -- to grow the middle class, and that way you have the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do well, but they got to pay their fair share. For example, if those thousand billionaires just paid 25% in tax instead of 8.3%, we've raised $500 million -- I mean, billion dollars. That would change over ten years."
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Reshad Hudson
Somewhat Positive
00:01:29-00:01:33 (4 sec)
"Do you think a plan like that could get through this divided Congress though?"
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:01:33-00:01:41 (8 sec)
"Not this one. But we're going to win the House back, I think, and I think we'll win the Senate, and God willing, and the creek not rising, I'll be president again."
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Reshad Hudson
Very Positive
00:01:41-00:01:55 (15 sec)
"You often talk about growing up. Your dad often said that a job is much more than just a paycheck. It's about dignity and respect. But for many Americans, those paychecks aren't going far when you look at the price of things like eggs are still expensive, how do you work to get those prices down?"
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:01:55-00:02:24 (28 sec)
"Well, we work to get those prices down by making sure corporate profits are brought in under control. But beyond that, look, the fact is we have the strongest economy of any country in the world. We've got more to do. We've got more to do. We've created a -- 15 million new jobs and the salaries are outpacing the cost of inflation. So there's a lot of good happening. But still, it's those small things that matter in a big way to ordinary people, and that's what we got to work on."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
00:02:24-00:02:29 (5 sec)
"You're spending the next three days here in Pennsylvania. You're from this area. You know the people well."
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Neutral
00:02:29-00:02:29 ( sec)
"[Note: Edit in video released by Nexstar]"
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Reshad Hudson
Neutral
00:02:29-00:02:30 (2 sec)
"Do you feel like you're in trouble here?"
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Joe Biden
Slightly Positive
00:02:30-00:02:56 (26 sec)
"Well, you haven't been driving in the right places, pal. We have more volunteers. We have more headquarters open. We have more people working for us. Look, we've raised -- we have over a million, 600,000 people contributed to us. Many here in Pennsylvania, tens of thousands of them. And guess what the average contribution is? Less than $200. Less than 200 bucks because seven -- almost 97% of all our contributions from small donors."
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Joe Biden
Slightly Negative
00:02:56-00:03:02 (6 sec)
"He hasn't opened a single headquarters. We've opened multiple headquarters here. He has no presence here."
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Reshad Hudson
Leans Negative
00:03:02-00:03:13 (11 sec)
"Former President Trump has spent a lot of his time this year in a courtroom. He directly blames you, President Biden, as being responsible behind those prosecutions. How do you respond to that?"
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Joe Biden
Neutral
00:03:13-00:03:42 (29 sec)
"His lack of ethics has nothing to do with me. I have nothing to -- I've not once talked to anyone in my administration about Trump's legal problems. A lot of them occurred well before I became president, and so I have nothing to do with that. Trump has a value set fundamentally different than most Americans. I mean, whether or not --anyway, I don't want to get into it. But he is -- his conduct is that -- he's acknowledged -- has been beneath what most Americans think."
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Reshad Hudson
Leans Negative
00:03:42-00:03:50 (8 sec)
"I want to turn to the Middle East really quick. A lot of pro-Palestinian protesters, these are people who put you in The White House --"
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Joe Biden
Neutral
00:03:50-00:03:51 ( sec)
"Among many others."
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Reshad Hudson
Neutral
00:03:51-00:04:03 (12 sec)
"-- they're angry with you right now. They're angry with you right now, though, saying that they -- they're shutting down airports, highways. They're concerned. They want their voices heard when it comes to the situation in Gaza, how do you win their support back?"
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:04:03-00:04:41 (39 sec)
"Well, I've had a -- meeting with them, number one. Number two, I made it clear that we have to vastly increase the amount of -- of food, water, health care going into Gaza. And I made it clear to Israelis, don't move on Haifa. It's just not -- I mean -- anyway, I just -- look what we did recently when Israel was attacked. We -- we protected Israel. We put together a coalition that included Arab states as well as the United States and European countries."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:04:41-00:04:54 (13 sec)
"But we also made clear that we expect these -- all these new avenues into Gaza to be opened up to provide means, and they're beginning to happen. A thousand trucks moving in. So we've got to do more of that. And we're -- I'm committed to doing it."
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Reshad Hudson
Positive
00:04:54-00:05:08 (13 sec)
"I want to turn to the supplemental that you sent to -- the Senate passed it. It's still in the House. I understand you spoke to Speaker Johnson yesterday. Do you support the idea of breaking those pieces up into pieces and putting it on the House floor?"
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Joe Biden
Neutral
00:05:08-00:05:32 (24 sec)
"No, that's not the best way to do it. The best way to do it is just send it over, because they have overwhelming number of votes to pass it. But, this is -- if there's the only thing he can get done. Look, this is one of the least functional House leaderships that we've had in a long time. Not because of his fault. It's the nature of the way -- Trump has changed the nature of how the House works."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:05:32-00:06:00 (28 sec)
"But one of the things that I think is -- I've agreed with him that passing each of these individually and separately, we would support as -- as an alternative, the better alternative is just to pass it all right away, and the idea that we're going to let -- we're going to walk away and let -- let Putin just continue to annihilate and murder so many innocent Ukrainians. We have an interest in this."
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Joe Biden
Leans Negative
00:06:00-00:06:19 (19 sec)
"NATO is a -- a critical element of American security, and what makes us think, if we don't support the attack by Putin on Ukraine and stop, help, stop it, that NATO is going to stay together. So there's so much at stake here, and I believe we can get it all done."
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Reshad Hudson
Very Positive
00:06:19-00:06:22 (3 sec)
"All right. They're giving me the wrap up sign. Thank you so much, sir."
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Joe Biden
Very Positive
00:06:22-00:06:22 ( sec)
"Thank you. Thank you."
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