Biden Speaks To Reporters For First Time Since Revealing Cancer Diagnosis

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President Biden speaks to reporters after a Memorial Day event in New Castle, Delaware.

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00:00President Biden, how are you feeling?

00:14I'm feeling good.

00:16You look good.

00:17The process is good.

00:19We're working on everything.

00:21It's moving along.

00:22I feel good.

00:24Have you decided on your treatment options?

00:26Yeah, we have.

00:27And we're under way, and everybody's, all the folks are very optimistic.

00:33And so you've started treatment?

00:34Oh, yeah.

00:35Okay.

00:35Would you be willing to share what exactly that entails?

00:39Yeah, it's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill.

00:44And for the next six weeks, we'll be in another room.

00:47Our expectation is we're going to be able to eat this.

00:50There's no, it's not in any organ.

00:53My bones are strong.

00:54I'm benefiting, so I'm feeling good.

00:56Sir, why was it important, Tom?

00:58I feel like everybody expects you.

00:59I've done it all because I'm loyal.

01:01I do it every day in the air.

01:03I'm very beginning.

01:04I never forget my kids.

01:06I feel like everybody didn't know what to expect of you today.

01:09And then you get here, and you're speaking powerfully.

01:11You look good.

01:12You're confident.

01:13What do you say to all those people?

01:14Don't count you out.

01:15Well, I've seen lots of luck on the scene in the year.

01:22What has this been like for your family?

01:24Obviously, this is also an emotional time.

01:26This is the 10-year anniversary of your son, Beau's passing.

01:30You received this diagnosis just two weeks before that.

01:32Well, we're all optimistic about the diagnosis.

01:36Matter of fact, the leading surgeons in the world work with me.

01:41And he had a diagnosis the same exact thing 32 years ago.

01:45He's alive and well and doing very well.

01:47So we're optimistic.

01:48We're optimistic.

01:49And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities

01:55while you were in office.

01:56You can see that.

01:57I'm mentally incompetent.

01:59I can't walk.

02:00You might be beat the hell out of both of them.

02:02Do you want to reply to any of those reports?

02:05And also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning

02:08whether you should have run for re-election as a person?

02:11Why didn't you run against me then?

02:14I'm going to beat me.

02:16Do you have any regrets?

02:17No, I don't.

02:18Look, we have a lot going on.

02:23And I think we're in a really difficult moment, not only in America, but in the world.

02:31I think they're one of those reflection points in history.

02:34And the decisions we make in the next little body of the general things look like in the next 20 years.

02:39We're talking about the wrong thing.

02:42And I'm very proud.

02:44I put my record as president against any president at all.

02:48And you'll notice in 12 to 10, I believe because it's historians, they read pretty good on that list.

02:55And it's the guy I ran against, they read him last.

02:58So we'll see.

03:00So you had your grandson.

03:03What was it mean to have your family?

03:04Well, look.

03:05Well, I just put my son, Bo's son.

03:09And both started coming here with me about the same age.

03:16And so it's, you know, he wanted to be where his dad has been and what he's doing.

03:22He just graduated from high school and gone off to college in the fall.

03:25And I'm really proud of him.

03:27He was the son of his father.

03:31Do you have anything to say to the press secretary about who went after your wife yesterday at the briefing?

03:41I don't know who the press secretary is.

03:45Thank you, sir.

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