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To what lengths will family members and advisors go to protect a president? The lead starts right now.

Serious concerns about Joe Biden's cognitive health during his presidency, but you never would

have known listening to his family and top aides. Efforts to cover up his condition revealed

in my and Alex Thompson's upcoming book, Original Sin,

and we're sharing some excerpts now. Plus, the current president, Donald Trump, oversees,

posying up with the Saudi Crown Prince, announcing a jaw-dropping plan to lift sanctions on Syria

and explaining why.

And the star witness in the Sean Diddy Combs trial,

Passy Ventura, the music moguls ex-girlfriend seen in the explosive hotel surveillance video, first obtained by CNN.

The moment that made her breakdown in tears on the stand today, that's ahead.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with our politics lead and the damning new details that we're releasing today about former President Joe

Biden's physical and mental deterioration and how his family members and closest AIDS concealed it

from the public. This is all revealed in two excerpts

that we revealed today from my upcoming book with Axios is Alexe Thompson. The book is called

Original Sin. It's coming out being published one week from today. The book is based on more

than 200 interviews, mostly with Democratic insiders, almost all of which occurred after the

2024 election was over when suddenly they

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