 It's a Rorschach test, not a briefing, because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he's being briefed. It's very difficult and people are scared blank list of him. The official said he doesn't take advice from anyone other than those few top aides. And it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it. The debate, however, was so dismal for Biden that nobody could ignore it.