Mitch Landrieu Reminds Anderson Cooper About His Interview with Biden Without Any Notes

COOPER: “Do you expect to see president — I mean, look, President Biden came out tonight reading off a teleprompter. Clearly, he was on-point and it was as good an appearance as you could possibly have. Do you think that is what we are going to be seeing more of, less off-the-cuff remarks, I mean, more sort of organized appearances?”
LANDRIEU: “Well I want to make two points. One, Anderson, you interviewed the president yourself for 45 minutes. He didn‘t have any notes. Nobody was telling him what the answers to the questions — “
COOPER: “It was a great conversation. Yeah.”
LANDRIEU: “It was an unbelievable interview that you did.”
COOPER: “Correct.”
LANDRIEU: “So you yourself, who‘s a credible — I understand. I‘m just saying, you as a credible journalist can, in an objective way, say that you know, from personal experience, that Joe Biden is fine. Now, Joe Biden left the debate and went to North Carolina, and you saw him do an incredible job. And of course, tonight he did as well. So I can — you can continue to expect Joe Biden, as you have seen him in the last month, standing on the shores of Normandy with world leaders, traveling back and forth with world leaders, coming to the United States campaigning in all the battleground states, you will see him out there doing that, and I‘m sure that he‘s gonna be available as he has been, and he‘ll continue to make the case to the American people.”
COOPER: “I will say, my interview was, I think, in November or December, and it was a very intimate, personal interview, and I thought he was extraordinary in his ability to talk about things that no president has ever talked about, about the loss of family members and about grief. But again, the debate performance obviously has raised questions, which — you know, and that was many months ago. So I think the questions are totally valid and certainly, clearly, this is not the debate performance you guys wanted.”
LANDRIEU: “Anderson, let me be very clear about this. The president did not do a good job the other night during the debate. He actually acknowledged that himself. He talked about that the next day. Nobody is defending that performance. It was a bad performance. We‘ve seen this many times. I heard you guys talking about the Obama, the Reagan, and everybody wants to say that it‘s different, but a debate performance does not a great president make. And the president has four years of receipts. He has got a great team of people that have been with him from the beginning. One of the things that was mentioned during the debate that Donald Trump tried to put lipstick on a pig was the fact that 40 of his 44 cabinet members have now said they would not vote for him and are asking us not to vote for him, and that his vice president, who was in the midst of that insurrection, whose life was almost lost, also said, ‘I‘m not going to vote for him.’”
COOPER: “Yeah. Well, that is certainly true. Mitch Landrieu, I appreciate your time, as always. Thank you.”