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Holt announced last week he would step down from the post after a decade.
The anchor has been with the program since 2015.
It’s done little to quell the growing chorus of voices calling for Harris to sit down with a legacy news outlet—any legacy news outlet.
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In an interview on NBC News, the president also refused to back away from harsh attacks on Donald Trump, insisting it was the GOP nominee who was stoking political divisiveness.
Biden acknowledged it was a “mistake” to use the word “bullseye” to donors when talking about Trump days before the assassination attempt.
The president’s second one-on-one interview in 10 days—with Lester Holt, set for Monday evening—could mark another make-or-break moment for his candidacy.
The veep attempted to wave off Holt’s question with a laugh, noting that she also hasn’t been to Europe lately.
The president infamously told on himself during a May 2017 televised interview. The Mueller report reveals he only did the sit-down because he didn’t trust his own team.
President spoke surprisingly candidly about firing FBI director to Lester Holt.
‘A ‘time out’ seems minor compared to the implications of someone suggesting a call to arms against a particular group, in this case the media,’ NBC’s Lester Holt pushed back.
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