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Jake Tapper

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Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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...

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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...

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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...

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

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

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He seemed during remarks to even have some sort of odd event that neurologists told us looked neurological in nature. He just started whispering and nobody could understand what he was saying. And it was very awkward. And Michael Bennett left the White House that day thinking, well, this is why our immigration policy is so messed up, because this guy can't handle the portfolio.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He seemed during remarks to even have some sort of odd event that neurologists told us looked neurological in nature. He just started whispering and nobody could understand what he was saying. And it was very awkward. And Michael Bennett left the White House that day thinking, well, this is why our immigration policy is so messed up, because this guy can't handle the portfolio.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He seemed during remarks to even have some sort of odd event that neurologists told us looked neurological in nature. He just started whispering and nobody could understand what he was saying. And it was very awkward. And Michael Bennett left the White House that day thinking, well, this is why our immigration policy is so messed up, because this guy can't handle the portfolio.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He can't tell people what to do. And that's why you have all these competing factions just coming you know, going back and forth and the immigration policy during the Biden administration is so bad. So those were their conclusions, those three individuals. I wasn't in the room.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He can't tell people what to do. And that's why you have all these competing factions just coming you know, going back and forth and the immigration policy during the Biden administration is so bad. So those were their conclusions, those three individuals. I wasn't in the room.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

He can't tell people what to do. And that's why you have all these competing factions just coming you know, going back and forth and the immigration policy during the Biden administration is so bad. So those were their conclusions, those three individuals. I wasn't in the room.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

I don't know how bad it got, but it does seem as though he certainly wasn't the Joe Biden of 2016 when he was vice president.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

I don't know how bad it got, but it does seem as though he certainly wasn't the Joe Biden of 2016 when he was vice president.

Fresh Air
Inside The "Cover-Up" Of President Biden's Decline

I don't know how bad it got, but it does seem as though he certainly wasn't the Joe Biden of 2016 when he was vice president.