Joe Biden faces a tough reelection battle this November, but for one day at least The Force was with him, after legendary "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill made a surprise visit to the White House to meet the US president. Hamill, 72, who played the powerful Jedi knight Luke Skywalker in the film series and is a vocal Democratic Party supporter, jokes that he asked Biden if he could call him "Joe-bi Wan Kenobi".
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00:00Oh my goodness. I wonder why. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday.
00:11To Mr. Hamill. Here we go.
00:13How many of you had Mark Hamill lead the press briefing on your bingo card? Hands.
00:19Yeah, me either.
00:21Well, you know, I called him, Mr. President. He said, you can call me Joe.
00:25And I said, can I call you Joe B1 Kenobi?
00:30He liked that. I just wanted to say I was honored to be asked to come to the White House to meet the president.
00:41The most legislative successful president in my lifetime.
00:46And I just got to meet the president. He gave me these aviator glasses.
00:52I love the merch. Thank you all so much.
00:55All right. Thank you.
00:57Thank you. OK.
00:59Thank you so much for being here. I got to get those shades.
01:22Thank you.