When is Joe Biden's ABC interview? How to watch president's sitdown with George Stephanopoulos
When is Joe Biden's ABC interview? How to watch president's sitdown with George Stephanopoulos
President Joe Biden's first TV interview after his poor debate performance will air across ABC News platforms starting on Friday.
When is Biden's interview with ABC News? How to watch
Biden will sit down with Stephanopoulos for an interview will that air across ABC News platforms on Friday, July 5 at 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT, the news outlet confirmed.
"A transcript of the unedited interview will be made available the same day, Friday, July 5", a press release from ABC News states.
A first look of the interview is scheduled to air on the Friday edition of "World News Tonight with David Muir," which begins at 6:30 p.m. EDT/5:30 p.m. CDT.
Here's hoping they post the full interview, no edits, and that Biden hits it out of the park.
If it's the same stumbling, incoherent presentation from the debate, he's done. He has to pull this off.
I'll be honest, I don't think I'd be fully convinced even if he does well. Why? Because Biden ran on taking the fight to Trump. He campaigned on using his Irish fighting spirit to push the bully back and anything but that has happened.
Moreover this won't be seen by a fraction of the number of people who saw that debate. Little said here can detract from what people saw of Biden's "bad days" during that debate.
I wish him luck because I want to be convinced he's our best shot, but it's going to take more than one good interview, personally.
If it’s the same stumbling, incoherent presentation from the debate, he’s done.
If it is, I wonder what the excuses will be. The excuses for his debate performance were worse than his debate performance.
There is no reason to suspect they will. There is a reason it will be a prerecorded interview. What Biden needs to do is some town halls. If he knows he can't, he should know he needs to step aside.
It'll 100% be edited.
The question is can they edit in such a way that he looks competent.
It's good that they're putting the full transcript up, but these days there's no reason not to put the full interview online. Like Daily Show does when they don't have the airtime for the full interview
For the love of god get on whatever stimulant you need you walking corpse for a president.
We need you to perform well.
Maybe get Mayor Pete to ratatouille him?
Love this idea!
I hope Stephanopoulos asks Biden if he has watched his own performance in the debate
I still remember the debate he hosted between Obama and Clinton. I very much doubt that he will ask any difficult or potentially embarrassing questions.
This is a very, very different context. I expect him to fire some extremely pertinent and uncomfortable questions. And I consider that to be a good thing.
For the sake of the country, I hope he hits it out of the park
You can do it Joe!
He had a couple of vacant eyed, slack jawed moments like he wasn't 100% sure what was going on, but it wasn't as bad as the debate.
How did they compare to younger Biden moments? One of the things I've been thinking about is how his stutter manifests. In the past, when he encountered a word he had trouble with, he'd often try to switch to another word, and you could practically see the gears shifting in his head in specific stages. Stage 1 would be "oh shit, that's gonna be hard to say." Stage 2 was an obvious attempt to navigate the word. And Stage 3 would be "Nope, can't do it, let's try a different word." Sometimes the different word would fit. Sometimes it wouldn't.
How did his performance today compare? Were the pauses like that? Or did they seem materially different?
It was less when he spoke and more when he was listening to the question, same as during the debate, only less pronounced.