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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and aaxios journalist Alex Thompson

are taking some heat for their new book, Original Sin, President Biden's decline, its cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again.

Some Democrats say the focus should not be on Biden and the past, with all the turmoil caused by the current administration's actions.

But Tapper and Thompson say a reckoning is needed for the future of the Democratic Party.

And they join us to explain why.

Listeners, what do you think?

Forum is next. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. It's been less than a year since many Democratic voters watched with concern, then shock, as a shuffling President Joe Biden appeared to lose his train of thought on a question about the national debt during his first debate with then-candidate Donald Trump.

We'd be able to wipe out his debt. We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare.

Thank you, President Biden, President Trump.

Jake Tapper moderated that CNN debate.

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