In the wake of President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance, his opponents and most major media organizations have pointed out that he has done few interviews that give the public an opportunity to hear him speak without a script or teleprompters.

So much has been made of this limited access that the impressions from Special Counsel Robert K. Hur about his five hours of interviews with the president on Oct. 8 and 9 drove months of coverage. The prosecutor said Biden had “diminished faculties in advancing age” and called him a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden angrily dismissed these assertions.

House Republicans have sued Attorney General Merrick B. Garland for audio recordings of the interview as the White House asserts executive privilege to deny their release.

ProPublica obtained a rare interview with Biden on Sept. 29, nine days before the Hur interviews began. We released the video, which was assembled from footage shot by five cameras, on Oct. 1. We edited out less than a minute of crosstalk and exchanges with the camera people, as is customary in such interviews. See that original video and the related clips here:    • ProPublica Interviews President Biden  

Now, we are releasing the full, 21-minute interview, unedited as seen from the view of the single camera focused on Biden.

For more details about the original interview, read our full story here: https://propub.li/4crUfnG

00:00 Start
0:55 Biden on Threats to Democracy
3:19 Biden on Congressional Gridlock
4:12 Biden on McCarthy, Impeachment and Government Shutdown
5:38 Biden on MAGA’s GOP Takeover
7:17 Biden on Supreme Court and Rule of Law
8:15 Biden on Ethics Rules for Supreme Court Justices
9:22 Biden on Trump Being Disqualified
9:51 Biden on Trump’s Federal Government Plans
11:07 Biden on His Age, Why He’s the Right Candidate
11:29 Biden on Bipartisanship
12:35 Biden on No Labels Third Party
13:07 Biden on People Fearing a Changing America
14:55 Biden on the Economy and Blue-Collar America
16:25 Biden on Preventing Another Jan. 6
17:10 Biden on Right-Wing Media and Threats to Democracy
18:02 Biden on Twitter Under Elon Musk
18:49 Biden on How Society Can Preserve Democracy

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