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
putin knows z knows our allies ,that joe biden, america s commander in chief, is in serious mental decline. and everyone saw what that looks like last night. now, this is not a political debate. it is factual certainty. no amount of briefings by staff, his press office, his lawyers will convince voters here or leaders in other countries that biden himself is in charge. now, someone over at the white house is making the big and it ain t this guy. i mean, i m an old man and i know what i m doing. and the president put this country back on its feet and my memory is fine. now, 67% think we re on the wrong track. i m right back on track. all right. they sent him out last night to try to reassure the country . but it just confirmed what everyone knows initially. the president of mexico city did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get. i talked to i convinced him, open the gate. okay. mexico is not egypt. and egypt is not mexico. but we re al
also live in a world where former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things. so, for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you are also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process that. i talked about this a minute ago, and when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they are saying it s gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it s them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we a
republicans and independents across the entire country exodus to reproductive health care, existence medical decisions needs to remain in the hands of the people. needs to be in the hands of medical providers. not elected officials. not members of congress. certainly okay, nikki freed. thank you so much. keep on keeping on. a new warning from jack smith about witnesses in the mar-a- lago case. those details coming up. and we ve been doing a very good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we have breaking news on the war in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordering the israeli military to make plans for evacuating palestinians who are sheltering in the southern city of rafah. that is ahead of unexpected israeli ground assault in that city. here is a portion of their report today from partners at sky news. reporter: in rafah, in the south near egypt, a prelude of what is to come. airstrikes on what israel says are