ALEXANDER: The diagnosis as Democrats were in the midst of a reckoning following new accounts Biden's aides and allies may have concealed his mental decline as president. Biden recently dismissing those accounts.
JOE BIDEN: They're wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that.
ALEXANDER: Leaked audio clips from his 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur were released Friday, showing the president at times struggling to recall names and dates.
BIDEN: Well, it was 2013. When did I stop being vice president?
ALEXANDER: Now, some allies are questioning why the cancer was not detected sooner.
ZEKE EMANUEL: It’s a little surprising to many of us oncologists that he wasn't diagnosed earlier. He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president.
