Speaker 2: (22:28)
I’m still not sure if I heard you say specifically those, sir, what is your ask of the Congress? In just one month’s time, what is your ask of the Congress? After you have watched over these many months, when people in your party as well did not necessarily act as quickly as some Americans would have liked, what is your ask, sir?
Joe Biden: (22:49)
My ask will be laid out there in detail, but it relates to four things. Number one, making sure we have all the money we need to get the vaccine to 300 million Americans at a minimum over the next year, the next calendar year. Number one. Number two, making sure that all those people who are unemployed through no fault of their own because of the COVID crisis, small businesses and big businesses, et cetera, shutting down, that they continue to be able to live day to day. They don’t engage in food shortages. They’re not in a position where they get thrown out of their homes. I would also be asking for a moratorium on being evicted from your homes for failure to pay rent, moratoriums on relating to the issue of whether or not your mortgage would be paid.
(23:37)
Thirdly, I think it’s critically important. We provide all of the PPE as well as the direct payments to small bid businesses and others to be able to stay open, to be able to keep their people employed. That is something that’s going to increase as time moves. And lastly, we’re going to need to make sure that we’re in a position that we can provide for the opportunity or for people to begin to go back to work and get new jobs, developing infrastructure.
Speaker 2: (24:07)
Given the narrow majorities in the House and Senate, you’ve watched many administrations come and go. Do you believe that you will have a honeymoon to get things right?
Joe Biden: (24:16)
I don’t think it’s a honeymoon at all. I think it’s a nightmare that everybody’s going through and they all say it’s got to end. It’s not a honeymoon. They’re not doing me a favor. I’ll ask you a rhetorical question. I don’t expect you to answer. And that is, do you think that Republicans were losing their businesses? Do you think Republican constituents out there who can’t pay their mortgage, do you think they’re not letting their Republican representatives know they got a problem? Do you think the person who just lost a family member and is worried about losing another one who happens to be a Republican, a staunch Republican, isn’t telling his or her Republican Senator or state representative, “You’ve got to help. You’ve got to get something done”? Do you think all those people who are making judgements of whether or not my child will be able to go to school and I have to stay home and I can’t go to work therefore I have no income are all Democrats?
(25:07)
I think there’s just been a dawning here. And look, you have a different team in town. You have a different team in town. I’m not going to villainize the opposition, but I’m going to stand and say, “This is what we got to do.” Because they know it. They know it. It’s not like I’m saying what we want to do is we want to make sure that we are going to sign a new trade agreement with A, B or C. This is life and death. That’s why I believe we’ll get it done.
Speaker 2: (25:38)
Sir, can I ask a follow-up to the Attorney General decision? You and President Obama selected Eric Holder on December 1st. Every recent president has selected their Attorney General by this point. What is taking you so long to make this critical decision? And do you believe that this is a time in the post-Trump era where you need someone who is not steeped in politics, who may have a life’s work above or beyond politics?
Joe Biden: (26:05)The answer is, first of all, we’ve gone faster than everybody in the total cabinet. So we-
Speaker 2: (26:10) Not President Obama and yourself, sir.
Joe Biden: (26:12) The whole cabinet?
Speaker 2: (26:13) The whole cabinet.
Joe Biden: (26:14) Whole cabinet?
Speaker 2: (26:15) Well, there were a few missteps on commerce, as you remember, but …
Joe Biden: (26:17)
I do. I didn’t want to raise them though. But look, we’re looking for a team who will instill the greatest confidence in the professionals at DOJ to know once again that there is no politics, there’s no politics. As you know, there’s been a great debate about in every single appointment, whether or not people there are enough African-Americans, enough Hispanics, enough Asian Pacific Americans, enough people who are new and young. So we’re just working through it. It’s not by design. There’s not an obvious choice in my mind.
Speaker 2: (27:03) Thank you, sir-
Joe Biden: (27:03) There’s not an obvious choice in my mind.
Speaker 3: (27:03) Thank you, sir.
Joe Biden: (27:04) Thank you.
Speaker 3: (27:05) Merry Christmas.
Joe Biden: (27:05) Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4: (27:10) Hi, Mr. President-Elect.
Joe Biden: (27:12) Hey.
Speaker 4: (27:14)
You just spoke about your confidence that it’ll be possible to get things done once President Trump has left office.
Joe Biden: (27:22)
Excuse me. Not just because he’s left office, because it’s all becoming obvious exactly what’s at stake.
Speaker 4: (27:29)
Right. But even so, are you concerned about the effects long term that his presidency, and now in the transition his refusal to concede, his challenges to the election, will have on American politics, will have on the Republican party, especially if he does take the step of filing for reelection next month to run in 2024? Are you concerned about him lingering around? I see you smiling, but I still have to ask it. And kind of a corollary to that, would you consider filing for reelection early next year to show that you’re not going to be a lame duck?
Joe Biden: (28:07)
I’m like a real lame duck. Just watch me. Just watch me. I’ve been saying this from the very beginning. Look, let’s just get the work, from this point on for the next several years, there is one objective. And it’s not my political future, it’s bettering the circumstances for the average American. That’s what it’s all about. And I want to communicate to the American people what I hope they already understand about me. It’s about them, it’s not about me. It’s not about me.
Speaker 3: (28:36)
But still, do you think that the climate will be different after President Trump than it was before him?
Joe Biden: (28:42)
Well, we’ll see. I don’t know. I mean, I’m not a fortune teller, but I can tell you that the calls I’ve gotten from sitting Republicans in powerful positions, they know me. They know I level with them. They know I never mislead. They know I tell them the truth. And they know I don’t go out of my way to try to embarrass.
Speaker 4: (29:03)
And in terms of the transition, are there areas where the Trump team has not been cooperative that have not been made public? We’ve heard a bit about the issues at the Pentagon last week. Are there other areas that you think the public should be aware of?
Joe Biden: (29:18)
There are other areas. I’m not sure it’s relevant whether the public should be aware of. Look, what I’m trying to do is pull together the political parties that are in the Congress that know that we’re facing four serious crises. And we have to address all of them. None of us will get all we want, but we can make real progress. And so my focus is on uniting, not emphasizing the divisions. Thank you.
Speaker 4: (29:57) Thank you.
Speaker 5: (29:57)
Thank you, Mr. President-elect. Russia, as you said, is suspected of carrying out this massive cyber hack. You said it happened under President Donald Trump’s watch, but of course in January ’21, it will then, of course, land on your doorstep. My question is what are the-
Joe Biden: (30:14)
Let’s get something straight, will land on my doorstep. His failure will land on my doorstep.
Speaker 5: (30:17) es.
Joe Biden: (30:18) Okay.
Speaker 5: (30:19)
What are the practical implications of overseeing a government where experts say it could take years to know where the hackers went and years to remove them? How can you ensure that the systems will be safe given what experts are saying?
Joe Biden: (30:32)
I can’t ensure it, but I can demand, based on the experts both here and among our allies, what is needed to find that out. It may cost literally billions of dollars to secure our cyberspace. It may take a great deal to get it done. First and foremost, it takes people who are knowledgeable and vigilant about what is happening and how it’s happening. And so I’m just going to do all that need be done. All that need be done to determine, A, the extent of the damage. B, the nature of how it occurred. C, what I should be doing internally in terms of my administration to protect against it in the future. And number four, getting together with our allies to try to set up an international system of what constitutes appropriate behavior in cyberspace and get us all to get to the point where we all hold any other country liable for their breaking out of those basic roles.
Speaker 5: (31:34)
And just to be clear, at the top of that, did you say you couldn’t ensure that the systems would be safe when you came into office then?
Joe Biden: (31:39)
Of course I can’t. I don’t know what the state of them is. They’re clearly not safe right now. And then between now and January 20th, the likelihood of my being able to garner all the information, the extent and depth of the violations, exactly how the codes or how were breached, what was breached, what was done, is not within my power to do that. But it will be an overwhelming focus for my administration.
Speaker 5: (32:05)
And my other question is on immigration. I was just reading about the fact that officials in your transition, Jake Sullivan, Susan Rice, they say you won’t be immediately rolling back Trump immigration policies. And I expressed immediately. There are some immigration advocates who say, “Why not roll back the Remain in Mexico policy? Why not roll back the asylum restrictions?” What is your timeline for rolling back some of the specific Trump administration immigration policies?
Joe Biden: (32:33)
I already started discussing these issues with the president of Mexico and our friends in Latin America. And the timeline is to do it so that we, in fact, make it better, not worse. The last thing we need is to say we’re going to stop immediately the access to asylum the way it’s being run and end up with two million people on our border. It’s a matter of setting up the guardrails so we can move the direction. I will accomplish what I said I would do, a much more humane policy based on family unification. But it requires getting a lot in place and requires getting the funding to get it in place, including just asylum judges, for example. So it’s a matter of it will get done and it will get done quickly. But it’s not going to be able to be done on day one, lift every restriction that exists and find out that and go back to what it was 20 years ago and all of a sudden find out we have a crisis on our hand that complicates what we’re trying to do.
Speaker 5: (33:38)
What would you say to immigration advocates then who say maybe you’re possibly dragging your feet and it might take too long? It sounds like you’re saying you need to be patient.
Joe Biden: (33:46)
I say trust me. Look at me. I’ve never told them anything I haven’t done. I’m working with them now. We’re dealing with some of those very organizations as we speak. And I will do what I said. It’s going to take not day one, it’s going to take probably the next six months to put that in place.
Speaker 5: (34:03) Thank you so much.
Joe Biden: (34:04) Thank you. Merry Christmas, everybody. Thank you.
Speaker 6: (34:07)
Mr. President-elect, do you still think that the stories from the fall about your son Hunter were rightly disinformation and smear campaign, like you said?
Joe Biden: (34:20)
Yes, yes, yes. God love you, man. You’re a one horse pony. I tell you. Thank you. Thank you. I promise you, my Justice Department will be totally on its own in making its judgments about how they should proceed. Thank you.
I’m still not sure if I heard you say specifically those, sir, what is your ask of the Congress? In just one month’s time, what is your ask of the Congress? After you have watched over these many months, when people in your party as well did not necessarily act as quickly as some Americans would have liked, what is your ask, sir?
Joe Biden: (22:49)
My ask will be laid out there in detail, but it relates to four things. Number one, making sure we have all the money we need to get the vaccine to 300 million Americans at a minimum over the next year, the next calendar year. Number one. Number two, making sure that all those people who are unemployed through no fault of their own because of the COVID crisis, small businesses and big businesses, et cetera, shutting down, that they continue to be able to live day to day. They don’t engage in food shortages. They’re not in a position where they get thrown out of their homes. I would also be asking for a moratorium on being evicted from your homes for failure to pay rent, moratoriums on relating to the issue of whether or not your mortgage would be paid.
(23:37)
Thirdly, I think it’s critically important. We provide all of the PPE as well as the direct payments to small bid businesses and others to be able to stay open, to be able to keep their people employed. That is something that’s going to increase as time moves. And lastly, we’re going to need to make sure that we’re in a position that we can provide for the opportunity or for people to begin to go back to work and get new jobs, developing infrastructure.
Speaker 2: (24:07)
Given the narrow majorities in the House and Senate, you’ve watched many administrations come and go. Do you believe that you will have a honeymoon to get things right?
Joe Biden: (24:16)
I don’t think it’s a honeymoon at all. I think it’s a nightmare that everybody’s going through and they all say it’s got to end. It’s not a honeymoon. They’re not doing me a favor. I’ll ask you a rhetorical question. I don’t expect you to answer. And that is, do you think that Republicans were losing their businesses? Do you think Republican constituents out there who can’t pay their mortgage, do you think they’re not letting their Republican representatives know they got a problem? Do you think the person who just lost a family member and is worried about losing another one who happens to be a Republican, a staunch Republican, isn’t telling his or her Republican Senator or state representative, “You’ve got to help. You’ve got to get something done”? Do you think all those people who are making judgements of whether or not my child will be able to go to school and I have to stay home and I can’t go to work therefore I have no income are all Democrats?
(25:07)
I think there’s just been a dawning here. And look, you have a different team in town. You have a different team in town. I’m not going to villainize the opposition, but I’m going to stand and say, “This is what we got to do.” Because they know it. They know it. It’s not like I’m saying what we want to do is we want to make sure that we are going to sign a new trade agreement with A, B or C. This is life and death. That’s why I believe we’ll get it done.
Speaker 2: (25:38)
Sir, can I ask a follow-up to the Attorney General decision? You and President Obama selected Eric Holder on December 1st. Every recent president has selected their Attorney General by this point. What is taking you so long to make this critical decision? And do you believe that this is a time in the post-Trump era where you need someone who is not steeped in politics, who may have a life’s work above or beyond politics?
Joe Biden: (26:05)The answer is, first of all, we’ve gone faster than everybody in the total cabinet. So we-
Speaker 2: (26:10) Not President Obama and yourself, sir.
Joe Biden: (26:12) The whole cabinet?
Speaker 2: (26:13) The whole cabinet.
Joe Biden: (26:14) Whole cabinet?
Speaker 2: (26:15) Well, there were a few missteps on commerce, as you remember, but …
Joe Biden: (26:17)
I do. I didn’t want to raise them though. But look, we’re looking for a team who will instill the greatest confidence in the professionals at DOJ to know once again that there is no politics, there’s no politics. As you know, there’s been a great debate about in every single appointment, whether or not people there are enough African-Americans, enough Hispanics, enough Asian Pacific Americans, enough people who are new and young. So we’re just working through it. It’s not by design. There’s not an obvious choice in my mind.
Speaker 2: (27:03) Thank you, sir-
Joe Biden: (27:03) There’s not an obvious choice in my mind.
Speaker 3: (27:03) Thank you, sir.
Joe Biden: (27:04) Thank you.
Speaker 3: (27:05) Merry Christmas.
Joe Biden: (27:05) Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4: (27:10) Hi, Mr. President-Elect.
Joe Biden: (27:12) Hey.
Speaker 4: (27:14)
You just spoke about your confidence that it’ll be possible to get things done once President Trump has left office.
Joe Biden: (27:22)
Excuse me. Not just because he’s left office, because it’s all becoming obvious exactly what’s at stake.
Speaker 4: (27:29)
Right. But even so, are you concerned about the effects long term that his presidency, and now in the transition his refusal to concede, his challenges to the election, will have on American politics, will have on the Republican party, especially if he does take the step of filing for reelection next month to run in 2024? Are you concerned about him lingering around? I see you smiling, but I still have to ask it. And kind of a corollary to that, would you consider filing for reelection early next year to show that you’re not going to be a lame duck?
Joe Biden: (28:07)
I’m like a real lame duck. Just watch me. Just watch me. I’ve been saying this from the very beginning. Look, let’s just get the work, from this point on for the next several years, there is one objective. And it’s not my political future, it’s bettering the circumstances for the average American. That’s what it’s all about. And I want to communicate to the American people what I hope they already understand about me. It’s about them, it’s not about me. It’s not about me.
Speaker 3: (28:36)
But still, do you think that the climate will be different after President Trump than it was before him?
Joe Biden: (28:42)
Well, we’ll see. I don’t know. I mean, I’m not a fortune teller, but I can tell you that the calls I’ve gotten from sitting Republicans in powerful positions, they know me. They know I level with them. They know I never mislead. They know I tell them the truth. And they know I don’t go out of my way to try to embarrass.
Speaker 4: (29:03)
And in terms of the transition, are there areas where the Trump team has not been cooperative that have not been made public? We’ve heard a bit about the issues at the Pentagon last week. Are there other areas that you think the public should be aware of?
Joe Biden: (29:18)
There are other areas. I’m not sure it’s relevant whether the public should be aware of. Look, what I’m trying to do is pull together the political parties that are in the Congress that know that we’re facing four serious crises. And we have to address all of them. None of us will get all we want, but we can make real progress. And so my focus is on uniting, not emphasizing the divisions. Thank you.
Speaker 4: (29:57) Thank you.
Speaker 5: (29:57)
Thank you, Mr. President-elect. Russia, as you said, is suspected of carrying out this massive cyber hack. You said it happened under President Donald Trump’s watch, but of course in January ’21, it will then, of course, land on your doorstep. My question is what are the-
Joe Biden: (30:14)
Let’s get something straight, will land on my doorstep. His failure will land on my doorstep.
Speaker 5: (30:17) es.
Joe Biden: (30:18) Okay.
Speaker 5: (30:19)
What are the practical implications of overseeing a government where experts say it could take years to know where the hackers went and years to remove them? How can you ensure that the systems will be safe given what experts are saying?
Joe Biden: (30:32)
I can’t ensure it, but I can demand, based on the experts both here and among our allies, what is needed to find that out. It may cost literally billions of dollars to secure our cyberspace. It may take a great deal to get it done. First and foremost, it takes people who are knowledgeable and vigilant about what is happening and how it’s happening. And so I’m just going to do all that need be done. All that need be done to determine, A, the extent of the damage. B, the nature of how it occurred. C, what I should be doing internally in terms of my administration to protect against it in the future. And number four, getting together with our allies to try to set up an international system of what constitutes appropriate behavior in cyberspace and get us all to get to the point where we all hold any other country liable for their breaking out of those basic roles.
Speaker 5: (31:34)
And just to be clear, at the top of that, did you say you couldn’t ensure that the systems would be safe when you came into office then?
Joe Biden: (31:39)
Of course I can’t. I don’t know what the state of them is. They’re clearly not safe right now. And then between now and January 20th, the likelihood of my being able to garner all the information, the extent and depth of the violations, exactly how the codes or how were breached, what was breached, what was done, is not within my power to do that. But it will be an overwhelming focus for my administration.
Speaker 5: (32:05)
And my other question is on immigration. I was just reading about the fact that officials in your transition, Jake Sullivan, Susan Rice, they say you won’t be immediately rolling back Trump immigration policies. And I expressed immediately. There are some immigration advocates who say, “Why not roll back the Remain in Mexico policy? Why not roll back the asylum restrictions?” What is your timeline for rolling back some of the specific Trump administration immigration policies?
Joe Biden: (32:33)
I already started discussing these issues with the president of Mexico and our friends in Latin America. And the timeline is to do it so that we, in fact, make it better, not worse. The last thing we need is to say we’re going to stop immediately the access to asylum the way it’s being run and end up with two million people on our border. It’s a matter of setting up the guardrails so we can move the direction. I will accomplish what I said I would do, a much more humane policy based on family unification. But it requires getting a lot in place and requires getting the funding to get it in place, including just asylum judges, for example. So it’s a matter of it will get done and it will get done quickly. But it’s not going to be able to be done on day one, lift every restriction that exists and find out that and go back to what it was 20 years ago and all of a sudden find out we have a crisis on our hand that complicates what we’re trying to do.
Speaker 5: (33:38)
What would you say to immigration advocates then who say maybe you’re possibly dragging your feet and it might take too long? It sounds like you’re saying you need to be patient.
Joe Biden: (33:46)
I say trust me. Look at me. I’ve never told them anything I haven’t done. I’m working with them now. We’re dealing with some of those very organizations as we speak. And I will do what I said. It’s going to take not day one, it’s going to take probably the next six months to put that in place.
Speaker 5: (34:03) Thank you so much.
Joe Biden: (34:04) Thank you. Merry Christmas, everybody. Thank you.
Speaker 6: (34:07)
Mr. President-elect, do you still think that the stories from the fall about your son Hunter were rightly disinformation and smear campaign, like you said?
Joe Biden: (34:20)
Yes, yes, yes. God love you, man. You’re a one horse pony. I tell you. Thank you. Thank you. I promise you, my Justice Department will be totally on its own in making its judgments about how they should proceed. Thank you.
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