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If you take a step back, big picture, Donald Trump, the president, Republicans controlling the House and the Senate, top Democrats with whom we spoke, and Alex and I interviewed more than 200 after the election of 2024, feel like that was a real disservice to the party, to the country, and paved the way for Donald Trump.
If you take a step back, big picture, Donald Trump, the president, Republicans controlling the House and the Senate, top Democrats with whom we spoke, and Alex and I interviewed more than 200 after the election of 2024, feel like that was a real disservice to the party, to the country, and paved the way for Donald Trump.
If you take a step back, big picture, Donald Trump, the president, Republicans controlling the House and the Senate, top Democrats with whom we spoke, and Alex and I interviewed more than 200 after the election of 2024, feel like that was a real disservice to the party, to the country, and paved the way for Donald Trump.
I do. But more important, what we uncovered in our reporting was that far more important people than me were misled and lied to. I mean, I'm just a journalist. White House has lied to reporters all the time, every White House. But they were keeping Biden's condition. And by that, I mean, We uncovered in our reporting that as far back as 2015, there was the emergence of a second Joe Biden.
I do. But more important, what we uncovered in our reporting was that far more important people than me were misled and lied to. I mean, I'm just a journalist. White House has lied to reporters all the time, every White House. But they were keeping Biden's condition. And by that, I mean, We uncovered in our reporting that as far back as 2015, there was the emergence of a second Joe Biden.
I do. But more important, what we uncovered in our reporting was that far more important people than me were misled and lied to. I mean, I'm just a journalist. White House has lied to reporters all the time, every White House. But they were keeping Biden's condition. And by that, I mean, We uncovered in our reporting that as far back as 2015, there was the emergence of a second Joe Biden.
The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency. And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden, the one you alluded to hearing in the Her Report audio. Losing his train of thought when it's an important conversation. not really understanding things, not knowing dates of very significant events, including the death of his son, Beau.
The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency. And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden, the one you alluded to hearing in the Her Report audio. Losing his train of thought when it's an important conversation. not really understanding things, not knowing dates of very significant events, including the death of his son, Beau.
The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency. And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden, the one you alluded to hearing in the Her Report audio. Losing his train of thought when it's an important conversation. not really understanding things, not knowing dates of very significant events, including the death of his son, Beau.
And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in like 2019, 2020. And then as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes. And, you know, we in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras or he trips or whatever, but we had no idea how bad it was.
And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in like 2019, 2020. And then as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes. And, you know, we in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras or he trips or whatever, but we had no idea how bad it was.
And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in like 2019, 2020. And then as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes. And, you know, we in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras or he trips or whatever, but we had no idea how bad it was.
Well, I don't think James Comer's read the book. And we don't have anything in there on the autopen.
Well, I don't think James Comer's read the book. And we don't have anything in there on the autopen.
Well, I don't think James Comer's read the book. And we don't have anything in there on the autopen.
Yeah. I think there are serious questions about his capacity to be president. And that's not questions raised by me. They're questions raised by people in his administration talking to us. One cabinet secretary, more than one cabinet secretary, told us that that proverbial 2 a.m.
Yeah. I think there are serious questions about his capacity to be president. And that's not questions raised by me. They're questions raised by people in his administration talking to us. One cabinet secretary, more than one cabinet secretary, told us that that proverbial 2 a.m.
Yeah. I think there are serious questions about his capacity to be president. And that's not questions raised by me. They're questions raised by people in his administration talking to us. One cabinet secretary, more than one cabinet secretary, told us that that proverbial 2 a.m.
phone call that comes in the middle of the night, a national security emergency that we expect our president to be able to handle, cabinet secretaries told us that they did not think he was up to that task by 2024. And that's concerning. Now, what James Comer is able to find in his committee. I don't know.
phone call that comes in the middle of the night, a national security emergency that we expect our president to be able to handle, cabinet secretaries told us that they did not think he was up to that task by 2024. And that's concerning. Now, what James Comer is able to find in his committee. I don't know.