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The Final Biden Interview: His Biggest Regrets, What He Fears Most, His Most Accurate Prediction (with a Few Stumbles)

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President Joe Biden revealed his biggest regret, what he fears most, and boasted about his most accurate prediction in what is expected to be his final Oval Office interview

President Joe Biden revealed his biggest regret, the thing he fears most, and boasted about his most accurate prediction in what is expected to be his final Oval Office interview.

Biden spoke with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell for an interview on Thursday evening.

The 82-year-old will leave office on Monday with low approval ratings and having abandoned his re-election bid, leaving his successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, to lose to his former political rival, newly elected President Donald Trump.

“Ironically, I almost spent too much time on policy and not enough time on politics,” the Democrat admitted during the sit-down.

He reiterated his regret for not including his name on the stimulus checks sent to Americans during the first months of his term as the country continued to suffer economically from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump had put his name on the checks, but Biden had not.

“It crossed my mind,” he said.

“I’m not a very good peddler,” he continued. “I mean, and that wasn’t a stupid thing for him to do. It helped him a lot,” he said of Trump.

President Joe Biden revealed his biggest regret, what he fears most, and boasted about his most accurate prediction in what is expected to be his final Oval Office interview

“And it undermined our ability to convince people that we were the ones who brought this to them,” Biden added.

During the course of the interview, Biden also said he expected things to “change dramatically,” adding that this was not tied to any particular leader. “And it happens every five or six generations. And it’s usually generated by technology.”

On Wednesday night, the president sounded the alarm about the “tech-industrial complex” during his address to the nation, warning that America would have its own group of oligarchs.

He reiterated that point, saying he was concerned about “this concentration of enormous wealth and power in a circumstance where everything is changing.”

“Look, if the decision is made that the multi-billionaires, the super-rich, the super-rich and the richest people in the world start to control all the devices, from the media to the economy, who do I get to fight back for me? ‘ he asked.

On Thursday, he said he was concerned that the “guardrails” that prevented that concentration of power were loosening.

“The reason for all the precautions that are in place is, to put it very tritely, to prevent the bullies from taking advantage of everyone else, the basic guardrails,” he explained.

“So I think what I’m concerned about is that what keeps it on track is the guardrails, that there is a Supreme Court that is independent, but not – but accountable,” he said. “There is a Congress where you can express your opinions, but you are held accountable to basic standards.”

President Joe Biden (right) gave what is expected to be his final Oval Office television interview to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell (left). The back and forth aired Thursday night

President Joe Biden (right) gave what is expected to be his final Oval Office television interview to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell (left). The back and forth aired Thursday night

“There is a presidency that says you have very limited powers. I mean, you’re the best, but you’re not. You can’t dictate everything,” he continued.

‘And I don’t know. It seems like they’re just taking all those elements away,” Biden added.

He also told O’Donnell he was concerned about press freedom, revealing that four other MSNBC hosts had told him they were “concerned about whether or not they would be held accountable for telling the truth.”

“When has that ever happened in America, I mean, in a long time?” the president mused.

He also boasted that he had been right all along about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine.

“I knew he would be leaving in about three weeks before he would gather those additional troops along the border,” Biden said.

Biden said Putin broadcast his intentions to take Ukraine because “he talks about Kiev as the birthplace of Mother Russia.”

‘That is to say, all he wants is to restore the old Warsaw Pact. He wants to gain control over it. I can’t let that happen,” the Democrat said.

The Warsaw Pact was between the Soviet Union and a number of Eastern European countries – including some that are now members of NATO, such as Poland.

“This man is not a good man. He has – I mean at least,” Biden said, not getting too carried away.

The 82-year-old made several stumbles during the sit-down.

At one point, when he talked about North Koreans being sent to Ukraine to fight for Russia, he first called them Chinese.

At another point, he started saying Sweden, when he identified Switzerland as the place where he met Putin in June 2021, eight months before Russia invaded Ukraine.

When speaking about the October 7 Hamas terror attack, Biden at one point referred to it as September 11 – although he also compares those two bloody days.

When speaking about this week’s ceasefire, Biden was pressed when he first presented that concept to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Those on Biden’s political left criticized his administration for being too pro-Israel while dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed.

Biden said he warned Bibi about Palestinian civilian deaths almost immediately after the Israeli army began retaliating.

‘Put it like this. You know, I’ll just say it, when I went to Israel immediately after their attack on the Hamas attack on Israel, eight days later, whatever it was, and I told them we were going to help, I said, “But Bibi , I said, you can’t be a carpet bomber in these communities,” Biden said.

The president revealed what Netanyahu replied.

“And he said to me, ‘Well, you did that. You carpet bombed” – not his exact words: “But you carpet bombed Berlin. You dropped a nuclear weapon. You killed thousands of innocent people because that’s what you had to do. to win a war,” the president said.

Biden said he responded by saying: ‘but that’s why we invented the UN’

O’Donnell seemed miffed.

“So he was comparing 21st century war tactics, combat tactics, to World War II?” the MSNBC host asked.

Biden said Netanyahu was making a “legitimate argument” because the Hamas fighters killing Israelis were hiding in tunnels under buildings.

“The only way to reach them is to remove the areas they were under,” the president noted.

“And so that was the first time I did that – the first time I had the discussion about bombing civilian areas was when I went there after September 11 – after the massacre that took place,” he said, speaking on September 11 October 7 replaced.

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