Jake Tapper Starts Primetime Gig With Joe Biden Interview; POTUS Talks Of Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling And Addresses Son Hunter Biden’s Legal Trouble
deadline.comJoe Biden, in an interview with Jake Tapper, said that he doesn’t think that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon but that it was “irresponsible” for him to talk about it.
Tapper was following up on comments that Biden made last week at a fundraiser at the home of James Murdoch. The president warned that it was the “first time since the Cuban missile crisis we have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if in fact things continue down the path they are going.” “The idea that a world leader of one of the largest nuclear powers in the world says he may use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine — and the point I was making was that it could lead to just a horrible outcome,” Biden told Tapper. “And not because anybody intends to turn it into a world war.
Once you use a nuclear weapon, the mistakes that can be made, the miscalculations, who knows what could happen?” The interview, his first sit down with CNN since becoming president, came after an extended opener in which Tapper, sans tie, posed the question of whether Putin was still a rational actor, while going through the succession of past presidents who have misread the Russian president.
Tapper also asked Biden about a report in The Washington Post, which reported that federal agents believe they have enough evidence to charge his son with tax crimes and a false statement about a gun purchase.
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