Jake Tapper

This was a disaster and it was going to keep getting worse and worse until election day.

um tell us more about why you call it a cover-up as opposed to these are people who really believed that that biden was up to it they did and some of the ways in which they helped hide his deterioration started off innocently enough i mean any staffer wants to make a a president or a senator or a governor look as good as possible and if he wants uh

um tell us more about why you call it a cover-up as opposed to these are people who really believed that that biden was up to it they did and some of the ways in which they helped hide his deterioration started off innocently enough i mean any staffer wants to make a a president or a senator or a governor look as good as possible and if he wants uh

um tell us more about why you call it a cover-up as opposed to these are people who really believed that that biden was up to it they did and some of the ways in which they helped hide his deterioration started off innocently enough i mean any staffer wants to make a a president or a senator or a governor look as good as possible and if he wants uh

Note cards, if he wants a teleprompter, if he wants to do events, you know, in the middle of the day instead of early in the morning or late at night, that's all perfectly understandable. But then all of those things became crutches and started really infiltrating his presidency in a serious way to the point that even cabinet meetings, even after the cameras left, were highly scripted.

Note cards, if he wants a teleprompter, if he wants to do events, you know, in the middle of the day instead of early in the morning or late at night, that's all perfectly understandable. But then all of those things became crutches and started really infiltrating his presidency in a serious way to the point that even cabinet meetings, even after the cameras left, were highly scripted.

Note cards, if he wants a teleprompter, if he wants to do events, you know, in the middle of the day instead of early in the morning or late at night, that's all perfectly understandable. But then all of those things became crutches and started really infiltrating his presidency in a serious way to the point that even cabinet meetings, even after the cameras left, were highly scripted.

And cabinet secretaries thought they were weird that way. Then I think the real part of the cover up comes with not just the fact that he's at, you know, 40 or 50 person fundraisers using a teleprompter, which is bizarre and unprecedented for a president who should be able to speak extemporaneously for 10 minutes. There's the fact that they started cordoning him off. from people in 2023.

And cabinet secretaries thought they were weird that way. Then I think the real part of the cover up comes with not just the fact that he's at, you know, 40 or 50 person fundraisers using a teleprompter, which is bizarre and unprecedented for a president who should be able to speak extemporaneously for 10 minutes. There's the fact that they started cordoning him off. from people in 2023.

And cabinet secretaries thought they were weird that way. Then I think the real part of the cover up comes with not just the fact that he's at, you know, 40 or 50 person fundraisers using a teleprompter, which is bizarre and unprecedented for a president who should be able to speak extemporaneously for 10 minutes. There's the fact that they started cordoning him off. from people in 2023.

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,

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.