Ex-CNN pundit Chris Cillizza offers confession after explosive report on Bidens mental decline from Day 1

A former top journalist at CNN offered up a “confession” and an “apology” on Thursday by admitting that he should have “pushed harder” on covering President Biden’s mental decline.Chris Cillizza, the former Washington Post political reporter who later joined CNN as editor-at-large before leaving the network in 2022, posted a video on his YouTube page Thursday acknowledging that he failed to adequately cover signs of Biden’s slippage even though Republicans prodded him to do so.“As a reporter, I have a confession to make,” Cillizza said in the video clip on Thursday.“I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline.”According to Cillizza, Republicans would “regularly ping me” during his tenure at CNN to quiz him as to why he didn’t address obvious signs of the 82-year-old president’s deterioration.Cillizza recalled how he would “brush them off” because he had not seen “evidence” that Biden was faltering — despite numerous verbal gaffes, physical stumbles and instances when the president appeared to lose his train of thought while speaking in public.A bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday detailed how Biden’s aides carefully stage-managed his presidency in order to conceal the extent of his age-related decline.According to the Journal, meetings that were scheduled between Biden and top national security officials as early as the spring of 2021 would either be rescheduled or could be scrapped altogether because the president “has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day.”Lawmakers told the Journal that they had limited contact with the president, who was largely insulated by his fiercely loyal staff.The former CNN pundit, who read excerpts from the Journal report in his video, said that he accepted the White House’s position that Biden was fine and that he was deterred from pursuing the matter due to the guilt he...