Kirby Asked If Information Was Ever Kept From Biden Out of Concern He ‘Might Not Be Able to Process It’

White House National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby offered a blunt response on Monday after a reporter asked whether information was ever kept from President Joe Biden late at night because he might not be able to “process it.”

Fallout from Biden’s CNN debate against Donald Trump was a topic visited multiple times during a White House press briefing following the president vowing that very morning that he’s remaining in the race despite calls from some in his own party for him to be replaced.

CBS News correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked Kirby whether he’d ever seen Biden “appear similarly to the way he did on debate night.”

“The last thing I’m going to do is sit here and talk about every meeting I’ve had with the president,” Kirby said, adding that the debate performance of the “not reflective of the man and the leader” he’s worked with for more than two years.

O’Keefe pressed further, asking if information was ever kept from the president because it was too late at night, referencing a meeting between Biden and Democratic governors in which he said he wanted to curtail events after 8 p.m., as first reported by The New York Times.

“When he met with governors last week, he suggested he would like to curtail events that begin after 8 p.m. at night just because he’d rather focus on resting and he doesn’t want to have a long day. In your understanding of things, does the National Security Council ever withheld information from him that he should’ve known late at night out of concern he might not be able to process it?” O’Keefe asked.

“No,” Kirby replied.

The spokesman quickly moved on, but it didn’t take long for the topic to get back to concerns about Biden’s age and mental capacity.

Kirby said he’s “uncomfortable” speaking about such topics, but praised the president for being inquisitive in meetings and asking a question that morning that Kirby did not immediately have the answer to.

“In my experience, the last two and a half years, I have not seen any reason whatsoever to question or doubt his lucidity, his grasp of context, his probing nature, and the degree to which he is completely in charge of facts and figures,” he said.

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