Tapper and Thompson report that in 2020, so before he becomes president, members of Biden's inner circle gave the candidate a teleprompter with scripted questions for a local news interview. It was an apparent effort to work around his dwindling communicative and cognitive abilities. Aides lamented that even then, they couldn't rely on him to stay on message. And he often had a very short attention span. Let's go to the year here. I want to timestamp this so people understand 2020. This is at the beginning of. (04:44–04:52)
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Asserts that Biden's aides were concerned about his ability to stay on message.
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