Rahm Emanuel: I warned White House Biden can't run

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Rahm Emanuel is back from Japan and he doesn’t mince words: the Democratic party needs “to get clean with people, own what we did wrong.” The brash former mayor of Chicago was willing to call out his party’s failures in rural America and in managing the COVID crisis on The Daily Show recently, but when I asked him the party’s biggest failure—electing a viable president—he was more careful, as you’d expect from a well-trained politician. So of course, I asked former President Joe Biden’s Ambassador to Japan what he knew and when he knew about Biden’s condition. He refused to give me the exact timeline but he said he spoke to White House officials and others in the party about his concerns.

“I let people know that could have an influence on that decision,” he said.

“I’ve myself, expressed my view, and I’ve been clear, I was clear,” he told me. “From Tokyo, I expressed myself to the people that were in important places about the importance. And I told them in no uncertain