Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent ahead of Joe Biden's first extended interview following shaky debate performance

President Joe Biden has lined up his first full interview for ABC News following the fallout of last week's debate.

Biden will speak to veteran broadcaster and former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos on Friday, with the 'extended' version airing on Sunday.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says this interview won't alleviate the fears from prospective Democrat voters.

"You can't unsee what we saw during that debate, that's the problem. They're going to continue to show that over and over and over again, the Republicans are going to use that in every commercial, every possible opportunity." 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
More like leaves me behind. Because Sharon Corp of the
Courses had a dispute with budget airline Ryanair over her violin.
She's the violin player obviously in the band. She said
on social media that she wasn't let on the flight
from Madrid to Dublin because she had her violin with her.
Ryanair says, now, that's not what happened. The violin was
too big to go in the cabin and Sharon was
given the option to have it, you know, put in
the hold as check bag, and she just needed to

(00:27):
pay the extra fee for it, but she didn't want to,
so she didn't catch the flight. But she says, no, no,
that's not what happened. The violin is too fragile for
the hold, and she'd actually offered to buy it its
own seat, but they wouldn't let her. International correspondence with
Ends and Eye Insurance peace of mind for New Zealand business.
And as a result, what she then did was cried,

(00:48):
She said on social media. She cried and then she
went searching for her bags and that took her a
really long time, and all up she was in that
Madrid airport for seven hours. Happens to absolutely everyone Heather
had produce.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Laura says that she is definitely taken in a violin
and the Handley's four and it fit just fine.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
So I don't know what's going on here.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Why does that not surprise me that the nerdy producer
from Germany? Like could you be more German? She fluent
in multiple languages and also she plays the vilain obviously,
Dan Mitchinson, just what an overachiever? How annoying? Never talk
to me about your violin ever again, Laura, Thank you.
Dan Michinson us correspondence with me now, Hello Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
On the other end of the spectrum, Hello there, Heather.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Dan tell me you can only speak one language day?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yes, often, and I'm working on that every day.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
A normal person. I appreciate it. Yeah, me too, I'm
still working on English. Hey. So Joe Biden's interview with
George Stephanopolis. Now do we know whether he recorded this
during his optimal peak hours ten am to four pm?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Ah, no, we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But that actually you bring up a good point because
that's causing the uproar here. This is going to be
a taped interview, so it's going to be edited as
Stephanopoulos in all fairness is a great interviewer.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
He's also a former Clinton aide.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
So there's already been accusations that are the part and
stumbles and whatnot that we've seen with President Biden will
be edited out. So you can imagine what Republicans have
been saying about this already, that it's not going to
be you know, fair or or balanced, and this whole
thing should have been done live instead of spreading it
across you know, three or four days and a number
of news programs over here.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, fair enough. Now, So I'm struggling to understand how
this is going to play out the extended interview on Sunday,
what's coming out on Friday? Like just a business Well.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
They're going to do the interview on Friday, all right.
Then they're going to start airing bits and pieces of
it on the evening News and then on the Sunday
talk shows, and then on the Good Morning America program
on ABC on Monday. So I think we'll get our
first taste of what he has to say and how
he's looking and talking on on the evening News Friday night.
But they're going to sort of spread this out as

(02:47):
much as they can across the across the number of
news shows and then Biden's going to do a press
conference at the NATO summit in Washington, d C. Next week,
But you know he'll take questions from a number of reporters.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
But you know if those are going to be pre
screen screen questions or not.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Dan, can he undo the damage? I mean every time
he comes out and you know, is performing an energetic
I suppose it allays some of the fear, but will
it ever allay all of the fear?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
You can't unsee what we saw during that debate, you
know that's the problem. Yeah. I mean they're going to
continue to show that over and over and over again,
and the Republicans are going to use that in every
commercial and every possible opportunity they can. So, I mean,
he may have gotten a little boost in some polls
from that debate. People thought he was more trustworthy than
Donald Trump. But did he come across better than Trump

(03:35):
on that?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No? No, he didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, fair enough, Listen, you reckon that these rich Americans
who fled for New Zealand during the hour doing years
are coming back.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, it's interesting because what happened was that after
that that's debate, I mean, John Stewart equipped on The
Daily Show that he needed to call a real estate
agent in New Zealand. And this isn't something new because
when Trump came into office, of liberals said they were
going to move to Canada, and you know, they practically.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Swore on a Bible.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I can't tell you a single Democrat or Hollywood actor,
a musician who followed up on the threat. So when
your former PM Jasinda Ardern was in power, we saw
more Americans born over there in New Zealand. They say
a thirty percent more compared with five years earlier. But
as we know, times have changed in your country. You
have a more conservative government, the most that we've seen
in a while. And I think that's caught a lot

(04:25):
of people off guard who thought about moving over there
by surprise. And that's got people now rethinking, is this
the political utopia and this being New Zealand?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh, that's right. They should go back, They should go
back and experience the Trump He is two point zero.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well now they're going to Now a lot of them
are looking back again to Canada, or they're looking south.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
To Mexico right now.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
So let's keep our little secret of New Zealand, especially
dune Eden, that little jewel at the southern part of
your island.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Secret between us, love I Dan, Thank you so much
you always wonderful appreciated. Dan Butchinson now US correspondent. For
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