gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
highlighting his cognitive struggles, but as per usual, the mob, the media, they raced to his defense. take a look. i thought it was good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers, this is not pollsters, this was joe biden, you know, sort of letting everybody know where he is coming from and how he feels. i think that that makes him seem more youthful and more engaged, more human, more relatable. if you want to get to the age thing, let s call it what it is, it s ages some clearing of any wrongdoing, if some of you says you are too far left, you contacted the center. there s the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. sean: let me educate our friends from the mob and the media, according to the special counsel report, joe biden was presented as a sympathetic well-meaning man with a poor memory who cannot even remember when he served as vice president. that s what they said in the report and asking on day one of the interview with the special counsel if it was 2
partly because his memory is hazy, fuzzy, faulty and poor. there s an environment that we re in that generates a ton of pressure because you have congressional republicans, other republicans attacking prosecutors that they don t like. and it creates, you know, a need if you re going to determine that charges weren t filed, people are human. they re thinking through what do we need to do. you know, it leaves one to wonder exactly why he included a lot of the criticisms that were in there. president biden slamming the report and snapping back at reporters. i know what the hell i m doing. i m president. i put this country back on its feet. my memory is fine. while many americans are watching, they have expressed concerns about your age that is your judgment. that is your judgment. that is not the judgment of the press. he said his memory is fine but went up to mix up world leaders for the third time this week. as you know, initially the. of mexico, c.c., did not
caused mass power outages and mudslides. oh, my gosh. it was like thunder. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us here on this monday night. we ll have more in just a moment on that state of emergency in california and the powerful storm out west that has turned deadly. but we want to begin with the surprising news from the royal family. britain s king charles iii announcing he has cancer and is already starting treatment. just last week, the 75-year-old monarch underwent treatment for an enlarged prostate. that procedure led to this separate discovery. the palace s statement said the king is revealing his diagnosis to raise awareness for those impacted by cancer. but there are still so many big questions tonight about what type of cancer and how advanced it is. today the president of the united states, campaigning in las vgas, said he is concerned about king charles diagnosis and hopes to speak with him soon. cbs s ch