Biden Sets Second Post-Debate Interview, This Time With NBC’s Lester Holt

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President Biden has committed to his second major network interview since the debate debacle that has fueled questions about his continued candidacy. The president will tape an interview with the NBC News anchor Lester Holt on Monday in Austin, Texas, the network said on Wednesday. NBC plans to air the interview “in its entirety” that evening at 9 p.m. Eastern, a similar prime-time placement as ABC’s interview with Mr. Biden that aired last Friday. Mr. Holt, who last interviewed the president in February 2022, will speak with Mr. Biden for at least 15 minutes at the LBJ Presidential Library, NBC said. Excerpts from their conversation are expected to appear on that evening’s “NBC Nightly News,” with the unedited interview to follow in prime-time. Mr. Biden has been under pressure from allies to appear in more unscripted settings with journalists, to show that his poor performance at last month’s debate — where he at times struggled to deliver cogent statements — was, as he has argued, merely one “bad night.”