I had a front row seat to a lot of this and at various times was basically told not to believe

what I was seeing or hearing.

The president misspoke.

The president has it called.

But now the dam appears to be breaking.

This Wall Street Journal item interviewed 50 people familiar with Biden's operation.

And it raises a lot of questions about who was making key decisions.

You mentioned the Afghanistan withdrawal.

If the president was as diminished as this story makes it sound, that would be a huge problem.

And it could explain why certain decisions were made that turned out to be catastrophic and why no apologies were ever made.

To your point, Brian, when the cabinet met all nine times, which is the least in the last several decades,

that a president has had their whole cabinet together in an entire term, there was a different item a few months ago where cabinet secretaries were being asked to

submit their questions for the president behind closed doors in advance.

And they were being told to keep it quick because the way that it worked was they would

ask a question that was pre-screened and then the president would have a card with the answer, even in a closed setting. And I hear a lot of the complaints

about, and there was a bite in the open, why wasn't there more coverage of the president's

age and acuity earlier? Well, a lot of the stories that you hear...

You kept asking.

I kept asking the whole time.

And a lot of the stories that we would hear

that we would try to report out are secondhand,

but it's a lot of stuff like,

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