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

Look what's happening in the Pacific and particularly in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Well, guess what? We have a group now. Asia, excuse me, and India, Japan, Australia, United States, a quad that is bringing stability to that region of the world.

I hope so. I think so. But you never know.

We've got to stay involved. We've got to keep fighting. We've got to make clear we're not going away. We're not going away. I'm not going away. I'm going to be deeply involved in the environment. I'm going to be deeply involved in foreign policy, deeply involved in all the things I've been involved in before. There's a whole lot of people too that are doing that.

And this is not appropriate for me to be asking you questions, but think about what decisions you have to make to get the kind of listenership and followership you have. And how do other entities do that? And tell the truth like you do. It's about finding ways to communicate with people that are so different than existed even 10 years ago. And it's a moment of transition.

I know I drive my friends crazy. I keep talking about major inflection points in American history and world history. But every six or seven, every six or seven decades, something changes as a consequence that

generates a significant shift in the way people look at things and look look what just what global warming has done i had early on i met with putin when i first got elected and he talked about global warming wasn't a problem it's not you're you know russia is in eight time zones around the arctic circle guess what it's melting methane is coming out of the ground what are you going to do about that well not sure what to do but

That's why we have to work with countries, even though we have different views on many fundamental things. We can disagree with them, but we can still work on the things that affect all humanity, like global warming.

It's devastating. I think if Project 2025 came along and, you know, how many thousands of government employees they want to cut, how many changes they want to make in terms of what we can do and not do. I mean, it's an extreme policy written by an extreme group, and I don't think it can take hold.

Well, you know, it's been interesting. When I first got elected, I was 29 years old. You have to be 30 to be sworn in. I got elected when I was 29. I didn't turn 30 until 17 days later. And it took... It took time. I used to be stopped going to the Senate elevator when there was a vote. I said, no, no, I'm a senator too.

But what's happened is it's given me an enormous amount of experience in that ultimately all politics is personal. It's about building personal relationships. I'll tell you a real quick story. When I was vice president and things were really starting to fall apart in terms of the way the parties were talking to one another, I realized there were a lot of senators that I didn't know.

I think most people would say I was a fairly successful senator in bipartisan efforts we put together. So I went over to the Senate dining room. Not the one where I could take you as a senator and sit down and have lunch with you. But where just senators ate with one another. It's right across from the Senate Diamond. There's that elevator in the first floor. It's on the left side.

You walk in, there's a big buffet table, a big table that seats 18, 20 people. And then perpendicular to that, there's one in the back. Democrats and Republicans sit at different tables. Well, I was convinced by Teddy Kennedy to go over there and go to lunch on a regular basis.

You sit there and you learn that the man or woman you're talking to just had a big fight on the floor with has a daughter or son who's dying, or a wife has breast cancer, or he or she has a serious loss. It's hard to dislike someone when you know their problems. You can disagree like hell, but you can still work together. And we've lost that.

There was very little communication between Democrats and Republicans in the whole office before. And it's hard to get things done that way. I remember I went over, as I said, I was a vice president, and I was known for having good relationships in the Senate. So I show up for lunch. There's no dining room anymore, just easy chairs.

no place a group of democrats and republican senators in regular basis we just sit down and talk get things done so we have to things become too distant in my view and uh i think it's going to start changing

is that one of the things you're going to be working on after you leave here to try to fix that and you mentioned some of your plans after you leave well I've been talking with a lot of Republicans who are either no longer hold office like I will not but still are deeply engaged and those who are in office and uh

I think there's ways we can begin to accommodate the changes that have to take place that doesn't have to be so visceral, doesn't have to be so personal in terms of going after each other. What is it that the American people most want? They want to be able to turn, look, they want to be able to turn on the television and hear some good news. They want to, I mean, but does that sell anymore?

I've talked to a number of your colleagues who are with the major networks over the years, last six, seven years. And they talk about how they, it's hard. It's hard for them to be able to, communicate with one another. And they're worried about what they say. Will one party go after them or not? Will there be retribution? And look at all the threats.

Look at all the threats that we have made about getting back at people who crossed, who didn't support Trump or didn't support, I mean, I won't go into the name, but all the people these, I mean, what's going on here? That's not America. That's not who the hell we are. And I think that it's... I just kind of continue to fight against it.

continue to make the public case that you should be able to say what you believe without worrying about retribution because you didn't support a particular candidate in your party. And look, that old joke, I don't belong to any organized party, I'm a Democrat, but all kidding aside, the truth of the matter is I think that there's a lot of cohesion

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