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
coverage continues now with t te swituation room. a scathing report describing the president as an elderly man with a poor memory. voters concerns about the president s age weigh on his re-election bid. donald trump is courting people in pennsylvania. we will get a read on his message a day after his ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court that seemed to go his way. fresh tense between the united states and israel after president biden calls the israeli military s operation in gaza over the top. this as israel is facing backlash over a planned evacuation and ground offensive in the refugee-packed city of rafah. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt and you are in the situation room. president biden lashed out at the special counsel for portraying him as a forgetful old man who can t remember when his own son died. arlette saens has more. we saw a full court press by team biden. repo