Jake Tapper

So members of Congress who went to the White House Christmas party in December 2022 didn't see him again in the flesh, many of them, until December 2023. And they were shocked at what they saw. And then one person we talked to, a very high profile Democrat who would only go on background with us, said that throughout 2024, he would call and say to top aides,

So members of Congress who went to the White House Christmas party in December 2022 didn't see him again in the flesh, many of them, until December 2023. And they were shocked at what they saw. And then one person we talked to, a very high profile Democrat who would only go on background with us, said that throughout 2024, he would call and say to top aides,

Mike Donilon and others, like these press conferences don't look great or these spoken remarks don't look great. What's going on? And he was told he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Then obviously the debate came and that person felt betrayed.

Mike Donilon and others, like these press conferences don't look great or these spoken remarks don't look great. What's going on? And he was told he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Then obviously the debate came and that person felt betrayed.

Mike Donilon and others, like these press conferences don't look great or these spoken remarks don't look great. What's going on? And he was told he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. Then obviously the debate came and that person felt betrayed.

And then that person, this top Democrat, had a private meeting with President and First Lady Biden, just the three of them in a room in the White House after Biden had dropped out. And he was shocked. He said he wasn't effing fine. And he was just very alarmed.

And then that person, this top Democrat, had a private meeting with President and First Lady Biden, just the three of them in a room in the White House after Biden had dropped out. And he was shocked. He said he wasn't effing fine. And he was just very alarmed.

And then that person, this top Democrat, had a private meeting with President and First Lady Biden, just the three of them in a room in the White House after Biden had dropped out. And he was shocked. He said he wasn't effing fine. And he was just very alarmed.

I wasn't in the meeting, so I don't know definitively one way or the other. I know that we have people in the book on background and on the record saying their fears of what was going on. One person told us that the presidency was at best a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board.

I wasn't in the meeting, so I don't know definitively one way or the other. I know that we have people in the book on background and on the record saying their fears of what was going on. One person told us that the presidency was at best a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board.

I wasn't in the meeting, so I don't know definitively one way or the other. I know that we have people in the book on background and on the record saying their fears of what was going on. One person told us that the presidency was at best a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board.

So we talked to two Democratic senators who expressed deep concerns about what role Biden was actually playing. One of them Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, reached out to the White House in October 2023 because he was worried about reports that the Biden administration was going to release 11 Yemeni detainees from Gitmo and send them to Oman.

So we talked to two Democratic senators who expressed deep concerns about what role Biden was actually playing. One of them Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, reached out to the White House in October 2023 because he was worried about reports that the Biden administration was going to release 11 Yemeni detainees from Gitmo and send them to Oman.

So we talked to two Democratic senators who expressed deep concerns about what role Biden was actually playing. One of them Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, reached out to the White House in October 2023 because he was worried about reports that the Biden administration was going to release 11 Yemeni detainees from Gitmo and send them to Oman.

And there were a lot of Democrats and Republicans on the Intelligence Committee worried about that, worried that they were just going to rejoin the jihadi fight, whether with the Houthis or Hezbollah or Hamas or whatever. He had a conversation with President Biden about it, and he was shocked that Biden seemed so...

And there were a lot of Democrats and Republicans on the Intelligence Committee worried about that, worried that they were just going to rejoin the jihadi fight, whether with the Houthis or Hezbollah or Hamas or whatever. He had a conversation with President Biden about it, and he was shocked that Biden seemed so...

And there were a lot of Democrats and Republicans on the Intelligence Committee worried about that, worried that they were just going to rejoin the jihadi fight, whether with the Houthis or Hezbollah or Hamas or whatever. He had a conversation with President Biden about it, and he was shocked that Biden seemed so...

not up on the issue, not engaged in the way you would want a president to be, especially a president who calls the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss this incredibly important life or death issue. Another senator with whom we spoke, Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado, he went to a immigration event at the White House in June 2024, where Biden seemed really out of it, really

not up on the issue, not engaged in the way you would want a president to be, especially a president who calls the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss this incredibly important life or death issue. Another senator with whom we spoke, Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado, he went to a immigration event at the White House in June 2024, where Biden seemed really out of it, really

not up on the issue, not engaged in the way you would want a president to be, especially a president who calls the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss this incredibly important life or death issue. Another senator with whom we spoke, Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado, he went to a immigration event at the White House in June 2024, where Biden seemed really out of it, really