'He's only 3 years younger': Philippe Reines on Trump's age compared to Biden's

Intro FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY DID TO HILLARY CLINTON IN 2016. JOINING US NOW, FORMER DEPUTY Comey declination of charges ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, AND FORMER SPOKESPERSON FOR HILLARY CLINTON, PHILIPPE REINESS. YOU WERE IN THE WAR ROOM, LITERALLY, FOR THOSE DAYS AT THE END OF 2016 WHEN COMEY CAME BACK OUT WITH THE INVESTIGATION BEING BACK OPENED UP AND THE DECLINATION OF CHARGES. WHAT WAS IT LIKE? >> IT WAS HORRIBLE. WE THOUGHT WE HAD PUT BEHIND US WHAT HE HAD DONE AND SAID IN JULY, WHICH WAS IN ITSELF BAD ENOUGH, AND YOU KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP, SO IT'S REALLY JUST A DEGREE OF HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO HURT, AND WORSE, WHEN YOU KNOW THE FACT SET, AND YOU KNOW THERE'S NOTHING THERE, YOU What Biden did wrong GET ANGRY. YOU GET MORE THAN ANGRY. YOU GET LIVID, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU SAW LAST FRIGHT FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> IN THIS MOMENT, WHAT DID YOU DO RIGHT? WHAT DID YOU DO WRONG? >> UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S NOTHING TO DO AT ALL. BECAUSE WHEN THE FBI DIRECTOR SENDS A LETTER TO EIGHT COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS WHICH IS BASICALLY BEGGING TO BE LEAKED, YOU JUST HAVE TO GRIN AND BEAR IT. YOU CAN DO THE NORMAL AND SAY THIS WAS OPEN, THIS WAS CLOSED, AND AS WE JUST SAW IAN SAMS DO A GREAT JOB OF SAYING ON PAGE X, THERE IS NO EVERYDAY, BUT IT TAKES A TOLL. AND WHEN IT'S TEN DAYS OUT, IT'S A KILLER. YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY COMMON THAT IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT, THAT IT GOES AGAINST THE PERSON, SHE OBVIOUSLY WASN'T IN OFFICE BUT SHE WAS THE FAVORITE. SHE LOST BECAUSE OF WHAT JIM COMEY DID. >> THIS IS NOT TEN DAYS OUT. THIS IS TEN MONTHS OUT. THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF TIME BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WITH THE BIDEN TEAM? HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GO ABOUT THIS? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DOUBLE WHAMMY. THE FIRST THING IS THEY CAME OUT AND DID THIS AT ALL. THE SECOND THING IS WHAT THEY DID. THE GRATUITOUS LANGUAGE THAT I THINK IAN AND PHIL RUCKER REFERRED TO. IN THE SENSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING, AT LEAST IT'S ON THE TABLE, THE PRESIDENT'S AGE AND MEMORY AND OVERALL MENTAL ACUITY HAS BEEN SOMETHING WHISPERED ABOUT, AND ACTUALLY SPOKEN ABOUT PRETTY WIDELY ON THE RIGHT. SO LET'S GET TO IT. PEOPLE CAN VOTE WHATEVER THEY WANT. IF SOMEONE WANTS TO VOTE FOR ONE GUY OVER THE OTHER BECAUSE THEY'RE TALLER OR HEAVIER OR WENT TO THEIR COLLEGE, SO BE IT. JOE BIDEN IS NOT RUNNING AGAINST NOBODY. HE'S RUNNING AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. WE KNOW WHO THAT IS. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE BASED ON AGE, COME ON. DONALD TRUMP IS 77. HE'S ONLY THREE YEARS YOUNGER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN. IF YOUR FATHER IS 77 AND YOUR MOTHER IS 74, YOU DON'T SAY DAD IS DATING A YOUNGER WOMAN. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT HEALTH, FINE. PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY TRANSPARENT ABOUT HIS HEALTH GOING BACK SINCE HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT. HE HAS TOLD US WHY HE HAS A GAIT PROBLEM, WHY HE WALKS THE WAY HE DOES. HE FRACTURED HIS FOOT. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP LIED REPEATEDLY ABOUT HIS HEALTH APPROXIMATE. HE WENT TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE WHY FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND A HALF. HE CAME WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE WHEN IT CAME TO HAVING COVID. YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR HEALTH, FOR AGE, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR MEMORY, DONALD TRUMP ALSO REFERENCED THIS. DONALD TRUMP IS WALKING AROUND Philippe Reines on Biden age FOR MONTHS SAYING WE'RE LOOKING AT WORLD WAR II. I'M NOT A Ph.D. IN HISTORY, I'M PRETTY SURE WE'RE UP TO WORLD WAR III. >> WHY DO YOU THINK THE AGE IS A PROBLEM FOR BIDEN AND NOT FOR TRUMP, GIVEN EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID, AND I KNOW YOU SAID IT'S WHISPERED ABOUT, BUT IF YOU TALK TO VOTERS AND LOOK AT POLLING, IT'S NOT JUST WHISPERED. IT'S PEOPLE WIDELY CONCERNED ABOUT IT. IT'S VOTERS TELLING POLLSTERS. >> LIKE I SAID, IT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN BUT IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MEDIA AND THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN AND WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE SURE, THEY CAN'T MAKE PRESIDENT BIDEN ANY CLEARER. THEY CAN MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP IS OLD. IF THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, THEN THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. IF THEY'RE GOING TO ATTACK HIM ON HIS HEALTH. ATTACK RIGHT BACK. YOU CAN'T MAKE SOMEONE WHAT THEY'RE NOT. YOU CAN MAKE SURE THAT THE OPPONENT IS PORTRAYED ACCURATELY. I THINK IT'S COSMETIC STUFF, GOING BACK FOR A LONG TIME, SINCE THE ADVENT OF TV, WE ARE PEOPLE THAT LOOK AT PEOPLE AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. PRESIDENT BIDEN WALKS SLOWLY, AND HE SQUINTS FOR WHATEVER REASON. I THINK IT'S EASIER FOR US TO SAY WHY DOES HE DO THAT, AND IT'S A LOT HARDER TO ACTUALLY DO THAT JOB. I KNOW PEOPLE AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. I COUNT THEM AS FRIENDS, FORMER COLLEAGUES. THEY WISH THAT WE ALL, ONE AT A TIME, ALL 330 MILLION OF US COULD PARADE IN THERE. AND LOOK, WE CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S INCUMBENT UPON OTHERS, THE CAMPAIGN, THE WHITE HOUSE, THE MEDIA, BUT IT'S INCUMBENT ON PEOPLE LIKE JIM COMEY, AND ROBERT HUR TO NOT DISENFRANCHISE AN ENTIRE NATION BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SEE THEIR NAME IN THE PAPER. ROBERT HUR SAID JUST BY VIRTUE OF JOE BIDEN BEING ELDERLY THAT HE HAD A MEMORY PROBLEM. I'M SORRY, I DON'T THINK IT WORKS THAT WAY. I THINK WE HAVE A PRETTY LARGE ELDERLY SOCIETY THAT REMEMBERS THINGS A LOT