Biden interviewer tells Tapper he's no different in person than on TV: Clearly 'older than when he started'

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A Time magazine journalist, who interviewed President Biden last week, attested that in person he is every bit as old as he appears on-screen.

"I mean, he appears very much as he appears on TV," Time's Washington bureau chief Massimo Calabresi told CNN host Jake Tapper when asked how Biden seemed. "He is older than when he started in office. It‘s visible if you just look side-by-side on the tape. The transcript is a good place for people to go to assess that. He was — we describe it in the piece as well, there’s some sort of colored description of how he appeared in there."

Biden sat down with Time magazine at the White House on May 28 for a lengthy interview published on Tuesday. At one point, Biden was asked if he could still do the job "as an 85-year old man" who will be considered "too old to lead" by many Americans if he wins a second term.

"I can do it better than anybody you know. You’re looking at me, I can take you, too," Biden told the Time reporters interviewing him, including Calabresi and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs.

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After joking about that comment earlier in the interview, Tapper asked Calabresi, "When it came up, did you get the sense that he takes