CNN, The Atlantic journalists among Biden guests for private White House meetings: Report

President Biden has held private White House meetings with groups that have included journalists at The Atlantic and CNN to receive advice and insight.

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The latter amounted to what the Post called a "two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad," and "the Aug. 4 gathering was distinguished by its relatively small size and the focus of the participants on the rise of totalitarianism around the world and the threat to democracy at home."

"Comparisons were made to the years before the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a ‘house divided against itself cannot stand’ and the lead-up to the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the United States joining World War II," the Post wrote.