 Long before his meltdown in last week's debate with the senior team's management of the president growing more strictly controlled as a term has gone on during meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings they'll deliver to Biden. Some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction. It's like you don't include that. That will set him off or put that in. He likes that, said one senior administration official. It's a Rorschach test.