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The MeidasTouch Podcast · President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch · 19 Dec 2024 podcast

But we've got to demonstrate that we're prepared to continue to do our part. And I think that the vast majority of the members of the Congress, even among Republicans, think that. So I doubt whether the president's going to be able to walk away from those commitments.

Of course I am. Only president ever to avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated.

Well, because it's who we are as a nation. It's how we're supposed to be. The fact that he doesn't abide by the rules of the democracy we've established is not my concern. My job is to make a transition workable and available and make sure he's beginning to adjust to it. He's beginning now to say to go background checks for his people and so on and so forth.

The bottom line is that we can't keep this up. We can't keep up this childish game of walking away when you don't agree. They're not cooperating. Depending who you talk to, and I talk to a lot of Republicans, somewhere between, well, most people say 30% of the Republican Party is the mega Republicans now. And they are the Republican Party now.

It's going to be interesting to watch what happens to the Republican Party if he tries to implement some of the things he said he was going to do. But it's important. The democratic institutions are consequential. We're the most unique nation in the world. Every other nation has come about as a consequence of ethnicity, religion, geography. We're the only one building an idea.

The idea is we hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are critical, et cetera. We've never fully lived up to it. We've never walked away from it. And we have to keep keeping faith with that notion, even if the guy that's about to take office has a different view.

Well, I think it's, you and your crew here would know much better than I would, but I think the media's changed drastically. Not bad or good, just changed in a fundamental way. When you read that only, what is it, something like, six, seven percent of people under the age of 25 read a newspaper to get their news, so on and so forth. Technology is changing everything.

And I think your guys are extremely successful because you speak to what is a truth. You say, this is what I think the facts are. You lay it out. You speak to it. But it's hard to, there are very few editors anymore. Very few editors saying you can't write that. Or you have billionaires buying standard newspapers that are well known and saying we're not going to do that anymore.

We're not because I don't want to do it. So I think it's going to take a while for this to sort out.

Well, there's a couple of things I want to get done and For example, we're in a situation right now where we should be providing for the funding to make a transition to deal with some of the issues that relate to women's issues. For example, women's health, dealing with issues relating to whether or not we're going to We should be passing an ERA, there's a consensus for it.

There's a lot of things we should be doing, but we just gotta keep talking about them. I don't know that it'll get done before I leave, but I got a lot done in terms of dealing with issues relating to the urgent needs of the moment. For example, the idea that all those folks who were sent to jail for drug charges that have subsequently been fundamentally changed and are lower,

Why should they still be in jail for the same charge? So there's a whole lot of things we're changing in the near term that will provide for greater equity and fairness. I want people to look at my government and say, my government's fair. My government's being fair. They're being decent. They're working in a way that benefits everybody.

And so there's a lot of things we, and look, I'm not going away. I'm no longer going to be president. My next question. I'm going to be deeply involved in matters, for example, you know, when I got elected, we weren't even part of the deal trying to deal with international concern about the environment.

So we joined, again, the group that said, in the world, we were one of the few major nations out of that group that said that if you let the temperature go above 1.5 degrees Celsius, it's over. It's over. It's the only existential threat to humanity. Well, I'm going to continue to work very hard on environmental issues.

For example, when I was deciding to run for president, I hadn't formally announced my plan on the environment because I wanted to sit down, even though I had a long record on the environment. I wanted to sit down with the union guys. When I think environment, I think jobs. I don't think restrictions on jobs, it's jobs. Creating thousands of good-paying jobs, dealing with environmental concerns.

And so once the IBEW notice came along and said, oh, okay, we're changing our view. Because remember, four years, five years ago, six years ago, unions thought environment, let's cross this job. The exact opposite is happening.

So what we try to do is focus on the things that are going to have a longest-term impact on the security and stability of my country, my children, my grandchildren, and not mine, all children and grandchildren. And I think we're doing that. And it's starting to take hold.

Well, I guess if I thought a lot about it, it would be something I've done specifically, but not generically. I set out to do two things. Restore America's leadership in the world. I think we've done that. And two, to generate opportunity for ordinary people to have a shot in the economy. And I think we've done that as well. And so we've changed the sort of

measure for how to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up rather than top down. And we've worked in a situation where we've once again reestablished our leadership in the world. I always ask people rhetorical questions. If America is not leading the world, who's going to lead it? Who? What country? Is it capacity?

And so we have an obligation and an opportunity to make a world better for everybody. But without being, and by the way, look what we've done. We've changed the dynamic in Europe. We're in the process, God willing, if my effort goes through with what's going on in Gaza and the Middle East, we may have an agreement there.

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