CBS: “You never saw any cognitive decline?”

CLINTON: “No … I saw President Biden not very long ago and I thought he was in good shape.”

CBS: “Speaking of aging, there’s this book that came out that talks about Joe Biden and the people around him seeing that he had cognitive and physical decline. Did you ever have a moment with him where you thought maybe he was unfit to run for president?”

CLINTON: “No. No. I thought he was a good president. The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86? And we’d had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking he can’t do this anymore. He was always on top of his brief.”

CBS: “You never saw any cognitive decline?”

CLINTON: “No. I didn’t know anything about any of this and I haven’t read the book. I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape. But the book didn’t register with me because I never saw him that way.”

CBS: “Why didn’t you read the book?”

CLINTON: “I didn’t want to. Because he’s not president anymore and I think he did a good job. And I think we are facing challenges today without precedent in our history. And some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was reelected.”