will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there
their middle names is honor of alex s late mother, maria. congratulations to the entire family. we are thrilled for you, and to have another dolphins and heat fan in the world. shot out to alex. in the lead with jake tapper starts right now. anger and defiance and denial. the biden damage control strategy in the wake of that special counsel report. the lead starts right now. kamala harris is leading the charge to defend president biden. there is a report that makes serious allegations about biden s diminished faculties and faulty memory. he went before cameras yesterday to disprove the point and ended up calling the president of egypt the president of mexico. what is the plan to show that biden is on the ball? plus, paging nikki haley. it is not as a former president trump, three years younger than biden is avoiding criticism. he called the president of hungary the president of turkey. he confused nikki haley with nancy pelosi. does the governor have the point about the