NBC host questions Adam Schiff on whether Biden officials misled the public about former president

NBC's Kristen Welker questioned Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday about whether former President Biden's aides misled the public about the former president's capacities. 

"Do you think that former President Biden's advisors misled the American people about the president's capacities?" she asked. 

"It's hard for me to gauge what the closest advisers of the president were seeing at the time. I can only speak to the interactions that I had with him, which were, you know, in the months leading up to his getting out of the race, largely ceremonial occasions," Schiff said.

"He made the decision to get out of the race, I think that was the right decision. The vice president, as the vice president, I think, ran a great campaign, but could not run away from being a representative of the status quo," he said. 

Schiff said the Democratic Party failed to address the economy in 2024 and, in turn, lost the White House.

"The catastrophic damage they're doing to the economy now is going to cause Trump and Republicans to lose Congress, but both parties going to have to tackle this global challenge to our economy," he added.

"The first was scheduled to last 90 minutes but Klain called it off after 45. The president's voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject. All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term," Whipple wrote. 

Klain, according to Whipple, said the president was irritable as he pushed back on the former chief of staff's suggestions. 

Whipple's book is one of several coming out this year about the 2024 campaign, one of the most chaotic and unpredictable election seasons in recent history.