Mark Halperin

I'll talk about that with Joe, but I wanna set the table by talking again about some of my experiences and how I have thought about Joe Biden's mental decline over the course of covering him. I've known him for a long time. He was good friends with my father, colleagues with my father.

I covered his presidential campaign in 2008, spent a lot of time around him when he was a senator, and then some time around him when he was vice president, and had a pretty good relationship with his son Beau, spent some time with him. The Bidens are big liars.

I covered his presidential campaign in 2008, spent a lot of time around him when he was a senator, and then some time around him when he was vice president, and had a pretty good relationship with his son Beau, spent some time with him. The Bidens are big liars.

I covered his presidential campaign in 2008, spent a lot of time around him when he was a senator, and then some time around him when he was vice president, and had a pretty good relationship with his son Beau, spent some time with him. The Bidens are big liars.

You can deny it, you can say, oh, they're such good people, but the press has assumed for years that the Bidens were somehow different, that Joe Biden was a good man, in the words of George W. Bush. Again, you just look at the way they covered up Biden Inc., the way they dealt with the coverup of his mental decline.

You can deny it, you can say, oh, they're such good people, but the press has assumed for years that the Bidens were somehow different, that Joe Biden was a good man, in the words of George W. Bush. Again, you just look at the way they covered up Biden Inc., the way they dealt with the coverup of his mental decline.

You can deny it, you can say, oh, they're such good people, but the press has assumed for years that the Bidens were somehow different, that Joe Biden was a good man, in the words of George W. Bush. Again, you just look at the way they covered up Biden Inc., the way they dealt with the coverup of his mental decline.

I'm not saying they're worse than others, but I'm saying the press has made a mistake in covering them like they're the same. I've talked here and elsewhere before about how I saw Joe Biden at a book event in 2017 on the island of Nantucket where he spoke to several hundred people with a friendly interviewer and

I'm not saying they're worse than others, but I'm saying the press has made a mistake in covering them like they're the same. I've talked here and elsewhere before about how I saw Joe Biden at a book event in 2017 on the island of Nantucket where he spoke to several hundred people with a friendly interviewer and

I'm not saying they're worse than others, but I'm saying the press has made a mistake in covering them like they're the same. I've talked here and elsewhere before about how I saw Joe Biden at a book event in 2017 on the island of Nantucket where he spoke to several hundred people with a friendly interviewer and

He was exactly the way he was later in his presidency, glassy-eyed, trailing off thoughts, losing the train of thought of the conversation, speaking kind of too long and off topic. And I said after that event, again, I've told you this before, thank goodness he's out of public life. Thank goodness he'll never have to run for anything again. And yet, of course, he did.

He was exactly the way he was later in his presidency, glassy-eyed, trailing off thoughts, losing the train of thought of the conversation, speaking kind of too long and off topic. And I said after that event, again, I've told you this before, thank goodness he's out of public life. Thank goodness he'll never have to run for anything again. And yet, of course, he did.

He was exactly the way he was later in his presidency, glassy-eyed, trailing off thoughts, losing the train of thought of the conversation, speaking kind of too long and off topic. And I said after that event, again, I've told you this before, thank goodness he's out of public life. Thank goodness he'll never have to run for anything again. And yet, of course, he did.

He ran for president twice after that. In 2021, after he got elected president, early in his administration, he gave a press conference. And during the press conference, I had an email exchange with a prominent Democrat, someone who'd served in senior positions in the Democratic Party, about what was going on in the press conference.

He ran for president twice after that. In 2021, after he got elected president, early in his administration, he gave a press conference. And during the press conference, I had an email exchange with a prominent Democrat, someone who'd served in senior positions in the Democratic Party, about what was going on in the press conference.

He ran for president twice after that. In 2021, after he got elected president, early in his administration, he gave a press conference. And during the press conference, I had an email exchange with a prominent Democrat, someone who'd served in senior positions in the Democratic Party, about what was going on in the press conference.

and the other person initiated the email exchange and he said, isn't it great to have a president who's so on top of it, who can speak so fluidly after Donald Trump? And there's no doubt if you watch the whole press conference in 21 in the spring, there's no doubt that Joe Biden looks much more with it than he would look just a few years later in the presidency.

and the other person initiated the email exchange and he said, isn't it great to have a president who's so on top of it, who can speak so fluidly after Donald Trump? And there's no doubt if you watch the whole press conference in 21 in the spring, there's no doubt that Joe Biden looks much more with it than he would look just a few years later in the presidency.

and the other person initiated the email exchange and he said, isn't it great to have a president who's so on top of it, who can speak so fluidly after Donald Trump? And there's no doubt if you watch the whole press conference in 21 in the spring, there's no doubt that Joe Biden looks much more with it than he would look just a few years later in the presidency.

But I wanna show you a portion of this press conference, this is 102, watch Joe Biden reading