Tapper and Thompson's book, "Original Sin," paints a damning portrait of Biden's team covering up his diminished state before the election.

Former President Joe Biden was reportedly shielded from his Cabinet for much of his final two years in the White House, with secretaries claiming anonymously in a new book they were “kept at bay.” Anonymous Cabinet secretaries told Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their concerns regarding Biden for the journalists’ upcoming book,

Jake Sullivan, who served as former President Biden’s national security adviser, said Thursday he does “not recall” the former president ever forgetting his name, as described in a forthcoming book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson.