The president spoke with Robert Costa in his first interview since ending his re-election campaign. The discussion will air on “CBS Sunday Morning” at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
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The interview with Robert Costa was taped on Wednesday. During the discussion, President Biden emphasized the stakes of the 2024 election.
President Biden sat on Wednesday for his first interview since announcing his decision to end his re-election campaign, joining CBS News’s Robert Costa for a discussion in the White House residence that will be broadcast on Sunday morning.
In a clip shared ahead of the segment, the president emphasized the stakes of the 2024 election, and said he was “not confident” that a peaceful transfer of power would occur if former President Donald J. Trump lost the race.
The two men also discussed Vice President Kamala Harris’s nascent candidacy as well as the “fragility of American democracy,” Mr. Costa said on CBS after taping the interview.
Where can I watch it?
The interview will appear Aug. 11 on “CBS Sunday Morning,” which runs from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and will be available for streaming on Paramount+.
What’s the significance?
Mr. Biden as president has eschewed news conferences and rarely engaged in lengthy interviews. But he has been making time for them in his final months in office, with the derailment of his re-election campaign.
Soon after his first debate with Mr. Trump in June, he taped two interviews, with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and the NBC News anchor Lester Holt. In both, he faced pointed questions about the viability of his candidacy, which ultimately foreshadowed his decision to withdraw from the race.
The CBS interview offered an opportunity for Mr. Biden to publicly reflect on that decision and speak about his role in the remaining five months of his tenure, both as president and as a supporter of his successor in the election, Ms. Harris.
Zach Montague is a Times reporter covering the U.S. Department of Education, the White House and federal courts. More about Zach Montague
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