Actor George Clooney told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday that it was his “civic duty” to call on former President Joe Biden to resign.

In a “teaser” for his interview with Clooney, which airs Wednesday, Tapper told the actor it was “brave” of him to write a July 10 opinion piece late in the presidential race for The New York Times calling for Biden to drop out and a new nominee to step in.

“Let’s hear from [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore and [then-Vice President] Kamala Harris and [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer and [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom and [Kentucky Gov.] Andy Beshear and [Illinois Gov.] J.B. Pritzker and others,” Clooney wrote at the time.

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