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May 2025
24m 14s

#415 — The Cover-Up

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Jake Tapper about Jake's new book (with Alex Thompson), Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. They discuss how the mainstream media failed to cover the issue of Biden's health, how Biden shielded himself from criticism, the false notion that Biden was simply a bad speaker, the audio released from Biden's 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, Jake's experience moderating Biden's disastrous debate against Trump, Jill and Hunter Biden's influence on former President Biden's decision to run again, the Hunter Biden laptop story, anti-democratic processes in the Democratic Party, and other topics.

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