CNN’s Kasie Hunt to Chuck Schumer: Did You Really Not Have Any Idea that Biden Was ‘Not Fit to Serve a Second Term?’

HUNT: “I really do want to ask you about something that has been breaking out of CNN. Our Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have written a book called Original Sin and they call it a cover-up of Biden’s health and his cognition — and his fitness, quite frankly, to be president of the United States. You sat next to Biden in the Oval Office, February 27th, 2024, just a handful of months before the president took that debate stage. And it was later reported that you and other Democratic leaders were talking before the debate about having a plan, you and Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama. I understand you later denied that that ever happened, but I am curious, I’m interested to know whether the man that you saw sitting there on that couch on that day — you were in there, you saw him up close and personal — did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?”

Schumer: “Kasie, we’re looking forward. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us. We have the whole federal government at risk —“

HUNT: “But you’re facing all of this because you lost a presidential election. And is that not Joe Biden’s responsibility for deciding to run again?”

Schumer: “We’re looking forward.”

HUNT: “That’s it?”

Schumer: “That’s it.”

HUNT: “All right. Senator Chuck Schumer, I know you got to go. I appreciate your time today.”

Schumer: “Thank you.”

HUNT: “I’ll see you soon, I hope. Thank you.”

Schumer: “Take care.”

HUNT: “All right.”