FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN REFLECTS ON HER ROLE THIS PAST YEAR IN A RARE INTERVIEW AT CAMP DAVID WITH RITA BRAVER FOR “CBS SUNDAY MORNING”

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First lady Jill Biden opens up about her life, her efforts to support her husband, and their first year in office, in a rare interview at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, with Rita Braver for CBS SUNDAY MORNING. The first lady and President Joe Biden also talk with Braver at the White House about their life together, issues facing the administration and Christmas traditions. The interview will be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 12 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network and streamed on Paramount+.

“I think it’s a little harder than I imagined,” Jill Biden tells Braver of adapting to being the first lady. “It’s not like a job that you do, it’s a lifestyle that you live,

and it’s not something you leave at 5:00 or at 3:00. And it’s 24 hours a day.”

Braver travels with the first couple to Ft. Bragg, N.C., where they served Thanksgiving dinner to military families. She also travels with the first lady to a pediatric vaccine event in Philadelphia and to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma to support schools working to preserve the native language.

Jill Biden talks with Braver about adapting to life in the spotlight; her thoughts on the polls questioning her husband’s mental fitness; working to unify the country; and the president having to cut a free community college provision from his Social Safety Net bill.

Here are some excerpts:

Jill Biden on whether it was hard to hear the president dropped free community college tuition from his proposed Social Safety Net bill: “No, I understand compromise. And I knew this was not the right moment for it. But that doesn’t mean it might not get passed somewhere down the future.”

Jill Biden on recent polls showing some Americans have questions about the President’s mental fitness: “I think that’s ridiculous.”

Jill Biden on trying to unify the country: “I don’t care if it’s a red state or a blue state, I think you know, Joe is the president for all Americans.” 

President Biden on having his wife beside him in the White House: “I’m a lucky man. Jill is the life of my love and the love of my life.”

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