A reporter asked: "There's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office..."
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"You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them," Biden said. "I don't have any regrets."
JOE BIDEN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, the prognosis is good. And, you know, we're working on everything. It's moving along, so I feel good.
REPORTER: Have you decided on your treatment options?
BIDEN: Yeah, we have, and we're underway. And everybody's—all the folks—are very optimistic.
REPORTER: And so you've started treatment?
BIDEN: Oh, yeah.
REPORTER: Okay. Would you be willing to share what exactly that entails?
BIDEN: Well, yeah. It's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill, for the next six weeks, and then another one. And the expectation is we're going to be able to beat this. It's not in any organ. My bones are strong. It hasn't penetrated. So I'm feeling good.
REPORTER: I feel like everybody didn’t know what to expect with you today. And then you get here and you're speaking powerfully. You look good. You're confident. What do you say to all those people—don't count you out?
BIDEN: Well, I say, lots of luck in the senior year.
REPORTER: What has this been like for your family? Obviously, this is also an emotional time. This is the ten-year anniversary of your son Beau's passing. You received this diagnosis just two weeks before that.
BIDEN: Well, we're all optimistic about the diagnosis. Matter of fact, one of the leading surgeons in the world is working with me. And he had diagnosed the same exact thing 32 years ago. He's alive and well and doing very well. So we're optimistic. We're optimistic.
REPORTER: There's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.
BIDEN: You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them.
REPORTER: Do you want to reply to any of those reports, and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place?
BIDEN: Why didn't they run against me then? Because I'd have beaten them.
REPORTER: Do you have any regrets?
BIDEN: No, I don't have any regrets. Look, there's a lot going on, and I think we're in a really difficult moment—not only in American history but in world history. I think we're in one of those inflection points in history where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like for the next 20 years. I've been talking about that for a long time. And I'm very proud. I'd put my record as president against any president at all. You notice that 12 of the 10 leading presidential historians rated me pretty good up on that list—and the guy I ran against, I rated him last. So, we’ll see.
REPORTER: You have your grandson with you today. What does it mean to have your family be able to look out at him?
BIDEN: Well, it feels good. Look, that’s my son Beau’s son. And Beau started coming here with me at about the same age. He wanted to be where his dad had been and what he’s doing. He just graduated from high school. He’s going off to college in the fall, and I’m really proud of him. He is the son of his father.
REPORTER: Do you have anything to say to the press secretary about, who went after your wife yesterday at the briefing?
BIDEN: I don't know who the new press secretary is.
Biden spoke at a Memorial Day service on Friday in New Castle, Delaware.
This article was originally published by Real Clear Politics.
