CNN’s Smerconish: Somebody ‘Poorly’ Advised the Bidens To Go on The View and It Backfired

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>> George Clooney and broadway‘s good night and good luck live June 7th on CNN.
>> Consistency. It‘s in short supply. I‘m Michael Smerconish today in Washington. The city is abuzz over new reporting alleging cognitive decline by former President Joe Biden during his term in office, as audio was just released of Biden‘s interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the now closed probe over Biden‘s handling of classified documents. While transcripts of Biden‘s interview with her became public last year, these excerpts are the first audio recording of the interview to surface.
>> Trump gets elected in November of 2017. 16 2016. All right, so. I have 2017.
>> That‘s when we.
>> Left office.
>> In January.
>> Of 2017. Okay. After Trump is sworn in, right? Correct. Yeah. Correct.
>> The audio comes as questions about Biden‘s physical and mental capabilities have returned to the spotlight. A forthcoming book, original sin President Biden‘s decline, its cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again, by CNN‘s Jake Tapper and Axios Alex Thompson detail signs of Biden‘s decline while in office. No doubt, concern over this book caused somebody to advise the bidens poorly. I would argue that they should make their first joint appearance since leaving the White House on the view as a preemptive showing of stability and cogency, but it backfired when the former president was asked about reports of his decline. He didn‘t address the question directly trailed off after about 60s leaving the former First Lady to have to jump in.
>> You know, one of the things that that. Well, well.
>> And alyssa, you know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books