Latest / Pod Save America / "We got Joe!"

Transcript

"We got Joe!" · Pod Save America

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Lovett.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Dan and I just had a chance to talk to
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Vice President Joe Biden. We asked him about the debate
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: and We asked him about Donald Trump's lack of a
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: second term agenda and the stakes in this election. It
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: was a great conversation. So, you know, listen to it.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Returning to Pod Save America, he's the first person to
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: ever win three presidential debates in only two attempts. Please
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: welcome Vice President Joe Biden, thanks for being here.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: It's great to be with you. Thank you.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: As Leslie Stahl said to Donald Trump before he walked
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: out on the interview, are you ready for some tough questions?
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: You guys, I know it wouldn't be easy. I'd rather
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: be on Fox. They make it easier for me.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Wait till you see these fastballs coming at you.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: I know. I'm happy to be with you. Thanks for
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: having me.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: I want to start with last night's debate. On that
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: debate stage, and actually throughout this campaign, President Trump has
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: lobbed false accusation after a false accusation about your son, Hunter,
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: for doing things that we know for a fact that
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's children have been doing, profiting from the presidency. Yet,
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: both last night and throughout this campaign, you have not
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: brought up his children's activities. And I assume that that's
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: a specific decision. I'm curious why you've made it.
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: It's a specific decision, and I just think it's crass.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just, I've never thought it was... Look,
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: I'm running against Donald Trump, not his children. And the
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: American people want to hear about their families, not about
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: Trump's family or my family. Although I'm very proud of
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: my family. But I just think it's just not how
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: I was raised. It's that basic. It's Donald Trump.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: So also in the debate, Trump seemed to think he
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: had a kind of gotcha moment there at the end
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: when you talked about transitioning away from oil and fossil fuels,
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: even though ending subsidies for those industries is very popular.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: And he really wishes you'd say you'd ban fracking, even
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: though you haven't. At the same time, you've set these
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: ambitious climate goals as part of your plan. And a
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: lot of polling shows that climate change is the number
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: one issue among young people, particularly among young people deciding
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: whether or not to vote. What is your message to
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: those young people who are passionate about this issue and
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: but skeptical that they can count on you or really
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: any politician to actually deliver and take this issue with
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: the urgency it demands?
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: It's the number one issue facing humanity. And it's the
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: number one issue for me. And all the way back
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: in the 80s, I'm the first person ever, ever to
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: lay out the need to deal with global warming. And
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: PolitiFact said, check it out, it was a game changer.
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: But it's just the way in which this campaign had
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: been run from the beginning about me in the primaries
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: that it just never got traction. Look, climate change is
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: the existential threat to humanity, the existential threat to humanity. Unchecked,
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: it is going to actually bake this planet. This is
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: not hyperbole. It's real. And we have a moral obligation.
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: There's not many things. Dan and I worked together a
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: long time. You don't hear me often invoke a moral obligation.
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: We have a moral obligation, not just to young people.
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: We have a moral obligation to everyone. Look what's happening
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: right now. You just look around the United States of America.
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: Forests are burning at a rate larger than Connecticut and
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: Rhode Island combined being lost. People are losing their homes,
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: their lives. In the middle of the country, we're in
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: a situation where you have 100-year floods occurring every several years.
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: wiping out entire counties and doing great damage. And by
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: the way, as Dan, you may remember, the first thing
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: that Barack and I were told about when we went
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: over to the Defense Department, they said the greatest security
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: threat America faces is climate change because what's going to
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: happen is you're going to see massive movements of populations
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: fighting over land, fighting over the ability to live, and
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: it is an existential threat. And so I just think,
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: but also presents an enormous opportunity. It's a bizarre, you know,
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: we're one of the few countries in the world that's
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: always been able to take things that are serious problems
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: and turn them into opportunities. It's also the vehicle by
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: which we can not only save the planet, but we
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: can generate such economic growth and lead the world. But
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: we have two problems. One, we have an internal problem
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: in the United States. What are we going to do?
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: We make up 15% of the problem, but we're in
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: a position where the rest of the 85% of the
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: world is responsible for the rest. We can go net
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: neutral in terms of carbon tomorrow, and we're still going
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: to have our shores flooded. We're still going to have
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: these terrific hurricanes. The polar caps are going to continue
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: to melt. We're going to have hurricanes and storms, and
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: they're going to increase. And so we have to do
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: two things. We need a president who can lead the world.
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: That's why I was so deeply involved in setting up
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: the existence of the Paris Climate Accord, as well as
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: do the things we have to do and can do.
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: And the last point I'll make, I'll pay up any
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: detail you'd like me to. But the last point I'd
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: make is that, you know, the way we have to
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: do this is we, you know, we cannot discount the
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: concerns of people, what it means to their well-being not
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: only in the future and now, but what about how
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: they make a living? That's why I'm the first person
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: I'm aware of that went to every major labor union
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: in the country and got them to sign on to
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: my climate change plan, which is extensive. We're going to
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: get to zero net emissions for the production of electricity
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: by 2035, and it's going to create millions of jobs.
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: But we got to let people, we can't be cavalier
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: about the impact it's going to have and how we're
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: going to transition to do all this. But I just
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: think it's a gigantic opportunity, a gigantic opportunity to create
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: really good jobs.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: What do you see as the relationship you're going to have?
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: So a lot of climate activists, you have said, basically,
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: we have to do everything we can to get Joe
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: Biden in office. It's an existential threat. And then their
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: plan is they're going to put a ton of pressure
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: on you to make sure that you really deliver well.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: on solutions around climate change. What do you expect to
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: be a working relationship between these groups? I'm going to
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: put pressure on them.
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: To live up to what this cause they talk about.
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: And it starts off with voting. It starts off with volunteering.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: It starts off with making sure that they're organizing and
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: they're taking care to make sure that people on the
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: fence line communities get taken care of, make sure the
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: priorities are set. So we're in a situation where people
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: who are hurt the most could help the quickest. You know,
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: this is, you know, I understand the sense, but the
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: fact is that, look, the first thing we're going to
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: do is make sure that we use the ability we
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: have now, and I will as president, to do away
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: with 100 changes in executive orders he's put forward to
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: do everything from allow more methane to seep into the atmosphere,
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: allow to pollute rivers, a whole range of things. We
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: can do that very, very quickly. But it's also going
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: to require us to make sure that we deal with
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: what we have to do now. For example, we should,
• 8:14
  Speaker 3: you know, as you guys know, because you both worked
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: in administrations, that the President of the United States has
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: control over $ 600 billion in signing federal contracts, everything from
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: one of the largest auto fleets and trucking fleets in
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: the world to infrastructure. As Dan will remember, when the
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: president asked me to handle, make sure we got the
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: Recovery Act and $ 800 billion was going to be distributed
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: to keep us from going into a depression, he gave
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: me the authority to run that from beginning to end.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: And what we did was we were able to invest
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: in bringing down the cost of renewable energy to compete
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: with coal, gas and oil. And so now you see
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: what's happening. It's becoming a fait accompli. No one's going
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: to build another oil or gas fired electric plant. They're
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: going to build one that is fired by renewable energy.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: We have to invest billions of dollars in making sure
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: that we're able to transmit over our lines. You may remember, Dan,
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: when we sat in those office buildings in the interregnum
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: period there, And we thought we could just make sure
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: we could transfer this, this renewable energy across the country
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: at all. Remember we had that big map up and
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: we showed all the, all the high tension wires were
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: going to go.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: The smart grid. That's right.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: Exactly right. But what happened, what happened was not in
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: my neighborhood. People didn't want to have a high tension
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: wires in their neighborhood. So what we're going to do
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: and what's happening now, and we've been working on this
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: for three years, You have a lot of folks in
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: Silicon Valley and other places doing research on battery technology.
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: So now we're going to be able to store, for example,
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: they can have a battery about the width of my
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: arms and about this thick that if you have solar
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: power in your home and the sun doesn't shine for
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: a week, that battery will store it. You're going to
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: be able to have all the energy you need in
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: the meantime. We're going to provide 550,000 charging stations for real.
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: on the new infrastructure, green infrastructure we're going to be building.
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: We're going to own the electric automobile market. We're going
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: to create a million jobs in doing that. This is
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: not hyperbole. These are things that have been run through
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: by economists in Wall Street and also by people who
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: are in the thought community, the people who are running
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: these major institutions. And so there's so much we can
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: do and we can create a clean environment. We can
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: also grow the economy and get people good wages. The
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: fastest growing industries are solar and wind, solar and wind.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: And they're not paying 15 bucks an hour. They're paying
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: prevailing wage. Every single contract the president gave me the
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: authority to let when we were running the Recovery Act,
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: every single one paid prevailing wage. That's 45 to 50
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: bucks an hour plus benefits. And so that's how we're
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: going to grow this economy.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: You know, in the debate stage, and frankly, throughout this
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: whole campaign, there's been sort of a mystery. Every time
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's been asked about a second term agenda, he
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: has failed to answer that question with any detail. But
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: in just the last hour here, the Republican Party tweeted
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: out his second term agenda. So I'm going to read
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: that to you.
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: I'd be happy to hear it.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: Yes. Item number one, establish a permanent man presence on
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: the moon. Item number two, send the first man mission
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: to Mars. Item number three, build the world's greatest infrastructure system.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: And item number four, establish national high-speed wireless internet network. Now,
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: I will not ask you to respond to that absurdity
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: if you do not want to, but what would sort
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: of be your version of that tweet? What are the
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: three or four things that are at the top of
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden's first term agenda?
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: Get control of the virus. Get control of coronavirus. Without that,
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: nothing else is going to work very well. Number one.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: Number two, invest in the community in real infrastructure. He's
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: been promising to invest in infrastructure in 17, 18, 19, 20.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: He hasn't done a single solitary thing. So we're going
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: to invest in generating economic growth in the United States
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: by making it and buying it from buying an American
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: made in America. He is exporting jobs overseas. The first
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: thing we're going to have to do is to in
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: order to compete internationally, is we're going to have to compete.
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: We used to invest a little over 2.6% of our
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: GDP in research and science. It's now down to 0.6%.
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: We're going to invest in science and technology. We're going
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: to make sure that we can compete with the rest
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: of the world and lead the rest of the world.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: We have the greatest institute. Look, everybody, we have more
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: great research universities in the United States of America than
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: every other university. research university in the entire rest of
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: the world combined. And the good news is the people
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: own them. There are not private institutions. Los Alamos is
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: owned by a university. It is a university. The people
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: own these systems. And we so underestimate. That's where every
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: major breakthrough has come out in the last 25 years.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: And we're going to invest in those. We're going to
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: continue to invest in the research and development of And
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: it's going to go from making sure we have access
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: to know how we're going to generate economic growth through
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: infrastructure that's green, as well as we're going to invest
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: $ 5 billion a year in cancer research. We're going to
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: cure cancer. Mark my words. We're in a situation where,
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: as you know, I ran the moonshot for the president.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: And what happened was We found significant breakthroughs. Everybody in
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: the past walked by the mirror and looked in the
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: mirror and saw a Nobel Prize about to be won.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Great scientists, but they didn't share much information. They virtually
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: didn't share any information. Well, that's all changing now. It's
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: changing drastically. And we're going to have to invest in
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: dealing with the things that affect the mental, physical and emotional.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: and environmental health of the country. And we can do that.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: For example, if we don't do something about dealing with Alzheimer's,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: every single hospital bed in America within the next 20
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: years will be occupied by an Alzheimer's patient. And no
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: insurance company is going to invest the kind of money
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: needed to deal with it. We can do that. We
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: can do the same thing with other diseases like diabetes.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: We can do it with regard to a whole range
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: of issues. So it's not just making sure we deal
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: with the physical environment, which is critical, and investing in
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: the technologies. For example, one of the things I laid out,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: and I know it's boring as hell, but it's consequential.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I laid out a farm policy, a farm, F-A-R-M, that
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: allows us to drastically increase the amount of acreage able
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: to set aside. So we pay farmers for putting their
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: land in a land bank and planting deep-rooted plants. You say,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: what's that about? It's about carbon capture. Put this in perspective.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Right now, they're burning the Amazon. The Amazon absorbs more
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: carbon from the air into the ground, into the roots
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: of trees and vegetation than is put into the air
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: by the entire United States of America every single day.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: And what are we doing? We're letting it burn. We're
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: not doing much at all organizing the rest of the
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: world to go to the Brazilians and say, we're going
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: to pay you collectively the following multi-billion dollars to go
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: in a different direction. If you don't, you're going to
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: pay an economic price for doing it. Well, right now,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: we can have the first net zero industry in America,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: carbon emission, can be agriculture. For example, I know this
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: is boring stuff, but you think about what it can do. Look,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: all of the methane that is going into the air
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: because of cow manure and because of pig manure and
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: because of chickens. You know, we have a $ 4 billion
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: industry on the east coast of the state of Delaware.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, the east coast of the United States and
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the Delmarva Peninsula. Well, guess what? The chicken manure has
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: been polluting the estuaries in the Chesapeake Bay. We know
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: now how to take the methane out of the manure,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: turn it into pellets and make it reusable fertilizer. and
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: take the methane and store it in other ways. And
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: it creates jobs in the process of doing it. But
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: when you try to talk about things, other than the
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: kids who are really deeply into the environmental stuff, it
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: kind of glazes over. So there's so many things we
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: can do in the process. We can generate economic growth
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: in rural America, let alone what we're going to be
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: able to do relative to the other changes we can
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: make with regard to the environment. For example, well, I
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: won't go on. I'm sorry, but I get a little
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: excited about it because it's such an opportunity. And by
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the way, that's why we have to. The first thing
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do is rejoin the Paris Climate Accord,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: because without us, nobody runs it. Nobody steps up. No
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: one has the moral authority to do it. And I'll
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: conclude by saying the thing that bothers me most about
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is he has so fundamentally damaged the moral
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: authority we have. We are the most powerful military in
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the history.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Of the world.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: We not only lead by the example of our power,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: but the power of our example. And our example we're
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: setting around the world is devastatingly negative to our own
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: security interest and the world's overall interest. More than you
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: ever want to know. I apologize. You didn't give me- No, no, no.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: No, I'm interested. I'm very interested. Look, Trump thinks we
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: should go to the moon. You want to solve climate change.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I think that that's a good distinction.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: What can they do over the last 10 days to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: help make sure that you're the next president of the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: United States?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you know, what really rankles my
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: opponent is I say that the thing that bothers him
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: most is he's not a patch on Barack's jeans. I mean,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Barack was one hell of a president. And I tell
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: you what, man, what an honor it was. I think
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: you guys believe it, too, to serve with him. I mean,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: an incredible honor. And I'm not being solicitous. I really
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: mean that. He had more integrity his little finger than
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: most people have in their whole body and he had
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a backbone like a ramrod has one but one of
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the things that I think is most important is Those
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: who haven't voted yet. First of all go to IWillVote.com
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to make a plan exactly how you're going to vote,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: where you're going to vote, when you're going to vote.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Because it can get complicated. Because the Republicans are doing
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: everything they can to make it harder for people to vote,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: particularly people of color to vote. So go to IWillVote.com. Secondly,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: We're in a situation where we have put together, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: you guys did it for our administration, the President Obama's
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: administration before this. We have put together, I think, the
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of American politics. What the President is trying to do
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: is discourage people from voting by implying that their vote
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: won't be counted, It can't be counted. We're going to
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: challenge it and all these things. If enough people vote,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: it's going to overwhelm the system. You see what's happening now.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: You guys know it as well as I do. You
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: see the long, long lines in early voting. You see
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the millions of people have already cast a ballot. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: so don't be intimidated. If, in fact, you have any,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: any problem, go to, and I don't have the number,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: but it's 833-DEM-VOTE. The letters D-E-M-V-O-T-E. Call that number. We
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: will answer the phone. If you think there's any challenge
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: to your voting, go to 833-DEM-VOTE. Dial those letters on
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: your phone. That will get you the assistance that we
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: have already put in place. Thirdly, for those who've already voted,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: it's not enough with God love you. It's not enough
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that you voted. You've got to go out and get
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: your friends. You've got to go out and get your family.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: You've got to go out and get people. There's so
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: many people like the old days when it used to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: be a lot easier. There's so many people when you
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: were able to knock on doors and know Mrs. Smith
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: didn't have a vehicle that you'd drive her to the polls.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: You'd make sure that you'd get your friends, your family.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Because look, you know, as John Lewis said before he
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: passed away, it's really you have a sacred right and
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: it's a sacred obligation to vote. particularly young people. You're
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: the ones who, if 18 to 24 year old, 25
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: years old vote in the same percentage that the rest
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: of the population voted in in 2016, we know what happened.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: We would have had 5.2 million more people voting. You
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: can own the election. You can own the outcome. It really, really, really, really,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: really matters. And make the case to your friends. Make
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: your case to your friends that they can't complain if
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: they don't vote. And it's going to be counted. It's
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: going to be counted. And because I think the American
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: people are going to show up, Dan, in such large numbers,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: there's going to be no way to avoid the outcome.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And look what he's done from the beginning. Done everything
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: to try to discourage you. Saying he's not sure he'll
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: accept the results. He's not sure what he'll do. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: guarantee you he'll accept the results. And he'll be out in...
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: There's no one going to stick with him. You know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: he's the only president I know that six of his
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: generals who worked directly for him said he's unfit to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: be president, commander in chief. So I'm not worried about
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: any coup here. You know, I'm not saying there's going
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: to be a coup. But think about everything that's been said.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: When I said about three months ago, I think he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: going to suggest he may not step down. He may
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: not accept the outcome of the vote. People said, oh,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: there goes Biden. What did he do two weeks later?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: It's all designed to try to keep people from voting.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: So those who have voted, you know how long it
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: took you, how you did it, what you did. Go
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: to particularly if you have, you know, grandparents or older
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: folks in your neighborhood, you know, and they have a
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: they have an absentee ballot. Show them it matters how
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: they fill it out. It's complicated. Some of it. They
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: haven't made it easier for people in many states. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: by the way, That's why we challenged it may not
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: hold up in Pennsylvania if the Supreme Court were to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: change it, but now they've allowed the county, if it's postmarked,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: it can be counted for all the way for the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: next several days, which it should be. Well, you have
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: in Texas, the governor having these drop boxes, one in
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a county. Some of the counties are as big as
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: my state almost, literally. And the idea there's one drop box?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And so we're going to have enough people out there
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: policing it. watching it, making sure. Do not be intimidated,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: but go out and help those who you know are
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: going to have physical difficulty getting a polling place or
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: may need help on how to get done what they
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: need to get done to vote. Iwillvote.com will tell you
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: exactly where you can vote, where you live, what circumstances
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: are available to you, and vote early. Vote early. But
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I and I, by the way, I particularly at one
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: of the things we did, you know, you guys generation
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: has stepped up. One of the things you may recall
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: that I started arguing for is the need for significantly
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: more young poll workers. Well, thousands of you have showed up.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Thousands of you have showed up because of COVID. Older
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: people who traditionally are the poll watchers and make sure
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: everything's squared away. They're afraid to show up because they're dying.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Or they're getting COVID, many of them. They're worried about it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: They're seeing what's happening to their friends. And so what's
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: happening is this election is a generational election. This is
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: this generation's opportunity, not a joke, to take back our democracy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: It literally, literally, my word as a Biden is at stake.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Our democracy is at stake. And, you know, we all,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: and I have to admit to you, you know, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: always heard that I was a, history and political science
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: major in college. I've been involved in public life my
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: whole adult life. But I never really believed it, that
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it was really, you know, every generation has to earn it. Well,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: guess what? It's in jeopardy, man. It's in jeopardy. Do
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: not be intimidated. Do not be intimidated. And whether you
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: vote for me or against me, vote, vote, vote. There's
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: not a single thing we can't do when the American
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: people stand together. And that's not hyperbole. I mean it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: There's nothing, nothing beyond our capability.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: On that note, Vice President Joe Biden, thank you so
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: much for your time. Good luck in the last 10 days.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Let's go win this thing.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give it hell. Let's win it. Thank
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: you very much. By the way, you guys have such
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: an enormous following, not only with my children, my grown children,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: but my five grandchildren who range in age from 27
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: to 14. No, that's not true, 16. She'd be very
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: upset I said 14. But all kidding aside, you're really
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: reaching out and you touch people because you talk, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: you talk plainly to people and it matters. It really matters. Anyway, thanks.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Looking forward to seeing you guys in person.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, sir.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Pod Save America is a Crooked Media production. The executive
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: producer is Michael Martinez. Our associate producer is Jordan Waller.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It's mixed and edited by Andrew Chadwick. Kyle Seglin is
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: our sound engineer. Thanks to Tanya Sominator, Katie Long, Roman Papadimitriou,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Quinn Lewis, Brian Semel, Caroline Rustin, and Elisa Gutierrez for
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: production support. And to our digital team, Elijah Cohn, Nar Melkonian,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Yale Freed, and Milo Kim, who film and upload these
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: episodes as videos every week.