The president spoke with Robert Costa successful his archetypal interrogation since ending his re-election campaign. The treatment volition aerial connected “CBS Sunday Morning” astatine 9 a.m. Eastern time.
President Biden sat connected Wednesday for his archetypal interrogation since announcing his determination to extremity his re-election campaign, joining CBS News’s Robert Costa for a treatment successful the White House residence that volition beryllium broadcast connected Sunday morning.
In a clip shared up of the segment, the president emphasized the stakes of the 2024 election, and said helium was “not confident” that a peaceful transportation of powerfulness would hap if erstwhile President Donald J. Trump mislaid the race.
The 2 men besides discussed Vice President Kamala Harris’s nascent candidacy arsenic good arsenic the “fragility of American democracy,” Mr. Costa said connected CBS aft taping the interview.
Where tin I ticker it?
The interrogation volition look Aug. 11 connected “CBS Sunday Morning,” which runs from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and volition beryllium disposable for streaming connected Paramount+.
What’s the significance?
Mr. Biden arsenic president has eschewed quality conferences and seldom engaged successful lengthy interviews. But helium has been making clip for them successful his last months successful office, with the derailment of his re-election campaign.
Soon aft his archetypal statement with Mr. Trump successful June, helium taped 2 interviews, with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and the NBC News anchor Lester Holt. In both, helium faced pointed questions astir the viability of his candidacy, which yet foreshadowed his determination to retreat from the race.
The CBS interrogation offered an accidental for Mr. Biden to publically bespeak connected that determination and talk astir his relation successful the remaining 5 months of his tenure, some arsenic president and arsenic a protagonist of his successor successful the election, Ms. Harris.
Zach Montague is simply a Times newsman covering the U.S. Department of Education, the White House and national courts. More astir Zach Montague