In an interview on Tuesday, journalist Katie Couric questioned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the lack of transparency regarding President Joe Biden's mental health as he seeks reelection in 2024.
Pelosi I have written Her new Book Couric argues that former President Donald Trump's family should have “intervened” to talk to Trump about how he handled his loss in the 2020 presidential election. YouTube Channelsuggested Biden's family should have intervened about the president's “fitness,” setting off a clash in which the reporter pressed the former House speaker to hide her concerns about his mental health from the public. (Related story: Biden's debate night was awful — and Tuesday could have been even worse)
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'That doesn't answer the question': Katie Couric presses Nancy Pelosi on lack of 'transparency' on Biden's health pic.twitter.com/aIrI5128or
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“With all due respect, Speaker Pelosi, when I read that, it made me think that the same thing could be said about President Biden, that people should have determined sooner that he may not have the wherewithal to withstand a reelection campaign and put the Democratic Party in a better position this election,” Couric asked.
“With all due respect, you're making an equivalence here that doesn't exist. Whether you think you're fit to be re-elected and serve four years is an entirely separate issue from whether you're undermining democracy in the office you're in,” Pelosi said. “That's exactly what Donald Trump was doing. This was about the harm he caused to the country and the instability he caused and the anti-patriotic attitudes he had. It wasn't a question of whether he was physically healthy enough to do this or that. It was a question of what was going on with the distortion of facts and the misinformed public. Two entirely different situations… If it's a question of whether someone is fit to serve four years, [serve] We've been working on it for four years now, and they're not working on it.”
Couric asked Pelosi if there “should have been more transparency” given the differences in the situations of the president and his family, to which she responded by repeating twice that “they are not equal.”
“But that doesn't answer the question of whether there should have been more transparency,” Couric said. “If President Biden was overly protected and hidden from the public for so long, wouldn't that hurt Democrats with less than 100 days until the election?”
Pelosi repeated twice that Biden was “not the nominee.”
“Shouldn't this have been addressed sooner?” Couric asked.
The former House Speaker then touted Biden's “successful NATO summit,” saying Biden made some serious gaffes at his post-summit press conference in July while easing concerns about his political future, and said Biden performed a “virtuoso performance” in the prisoner swap in which Russia released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan in exchange for a Russian assassin.
“It's been a great job. He's done an A+ job. Whether he'll continue to do that for another four years is another story,” Pelosi said. “But at this point, we haven't lost anything because of his work. On the other hand, our democracy has been curtailed, our freedoms have been curtailed because of this man. I don't think that's the same as somebody saying that because somebody didn't do well in a debate or whatever their family decision was.”
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