They had called this a political disaster. It said, quote, in some ways Thursday's report was the worst of all worlds.

An official description of Mr. Biden behind the scenes, suggesting that with age, come stumbles.

How do you begin to measure Peter fallout from something like this?

Well, look, you know, it's, I don't know how you measure it obviously.

The polls have shown

consistently for a long time now that most voters including most Democrats

worry about President Biden's age. Quite a number of voters also worry about

President Trump's age although not in the same numbers

according to the polls.

So this simply furthers that conversation, a conversation this White House doesn't want to have,

although it knows it's inevitable.

And the idea that it's, you know, put in writing here that he is seen

as a well-meaning but a forgetful elderly old man is just not the conversation they want to be

having. They want to talk about

and they want to talk about Trump's indictments. They want to talk about a lot of

things. They don't want to talk about his capacity. And you can see in the

president's decision to come out last night, which he doesn't easily do, that he, you know, struck a nerve.

It struck a nerve in a personal way, and I think it struck a nerve in a political way, because obviously,

you know, they have to convince the country that not only is he capable of being present now at

81 but that he would be capable of being present until he's 86 which is the end of a second term.

And that's the reason why I asked that question and the reason why so many people seem confused because you hear willful retention of

national defense information related to Trump, willful retention of

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