Biden Says He Recently Met with ‘Mitterand from Germany,’ French President Who Died in 1996

Biden: “You know, right — right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders. And it was in — it was in the south of England. And I sat down and I said, ‘America is back.’ And Mitterrand from Germany — I mean, from France looked at me and said — said, ‘You know, what — why — how long you back for?’ And I looked at him, and the — and the Chancellor of Germany said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times, and London Times said, “A thousand people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors, two Bobbies are killed in order to stop the election of the Prime Minister.” What would you say?’ And I never thought about it from that perspective. What would we say if that happened in another democracy around the world?”