Less than one week after sitting for an exclusive, hard-hitting interview with President Joe Biden, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos offered an unfiltered opinion about the president’s health after being cornered on the street by an individual who tipped off TMZ.

The anchor appeared to be on a stroll down a New York sidewalk, headphones on, fiddling with his phone when a cameraman approached him and asked for his thoughts about whether Biden should step down. On Friday Stephanopoulos scored an exclusive interview with the 81-year-old president where he challenged Biden to sit for an independent, third-party cognitive fitness test. Biden declined to do so.

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The refusal must have been a warning sign for Stephanopoulos, who told the TMZ flak that America will be in deep trouble if President Biden is reelected. “I don’t think he can serve four more years,” he said off-camera before quickly walking away.

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BREAKING: ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos caught on video saying he doesn’t think Biden can serve another 4 years after his interview.

Stephanopoulos was intercepted in midtown Manhattan in footage released by TMZ.

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In a statement, the former Clinton strategist sounded a remorseful tone for offering his unfiltered opinion on the embattled president. “Earlier today, I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have,” Stephanopoulos said in a statement to TMZ. An ABC spokesperson added, “George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News.”

Friday’s interview did little to quell the unrest in Democratic circles about whether President Biden remains the best candidate positioned to beat former President Donald Trump. A rash of polling since his debate has shown the Democratic incumbent losing ground in key swing states where he is often trailing outside the margin of error. On Tuesday AARP released a devastating poll showing Biden 9 points behind Trump in Wisconsin, a battleground state he won by less than 1% in 2020 and which Trump carried in 2016.

Still, Biden’s firewall has held as leading Democratic figures on Tuesday declined to join a push to force President Biden into stepping aside. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a private meeting where ranking members vented their frustrations, but later in the day, he joined former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), “Squad” member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and other notable Democrats in declaring that President Biden will remain the party’s nominee.

During the interview, Stephanopoulos asked the president, “Are you sure you’re being honest with yourself when you say you have the mental and physical capacity to serve another four years?” Biden asserted that he did, doubling down on Monday in a two-page public letter where he refused to step aside. He followed that up with an impromptu appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” where he sounded audibly agitated at the hosts and dared members of his own party to challenge him at the Democratic National Convention next month.

“The bottom line here is that we’re not going anywhere — I am not going anywhere,” he continued. “I had a bad night. But the fact of the matter is — if there was something that was wrong that night, it’s not like it’s one night and it goes away. That’s why I’ve been out, I’ve been testing myself.”

“Run against me. Announce for president. Challenge me at the convention,” Biden added.

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A furious and candid Parkinson’s specialist appeared on MSNBC to rip his own party for hiding President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and failing to find a better nominee until it appears too late.

Dr. Tom Pitts, who volunteered that he is a card-carrying Democrat, shocked host Tom Llamas when he pointed out the many ways in which even a medical student could diagnose that President Biden is suffering from a neurodegenerative disorder. The discussion came one day after the New York Times uncovered that a Parkinson’s specialist had quietly visited the White House on numerous occasions over the past eight months.

Comparing Biden to a regular patient of his, Dr. Pitts listed the “classic features of neurodegeneration” he’s seeing in the president.

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“Word-finding difficulties, and that’s not ‘Oh, I couldn’t find the word.’ That’s from degeneration of the word retrieval area” of the brain, he told Llamas who asked if his lifelong struggle with stuttering could be a culprit instead. “No. This is not a palatal issue or a speech discrepancy which is very different from a liminal dysfunction, actual word retrieval where you pick a similar question, or talk around the issue. Plus the rigidity, monotone voice” are all signs that President Biden’s mental acuity is in decline, Dr. Pitts said.

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Time after time, Llamas tried to pivot the conversation toward alternate theories for why the vast majority of Americans now view Biden, 81, as too old to run for reelection. He was repeatedly shut down as Dr. Pitts continued to provide scientific answers about why he sees Biden’s diagnosis as an obvious one. “Loss of arm swing, standing upward robotically. You notice when he turns it’s kind of en bloc turning, it’s not a quick turn. That’s one of the hallmarks of Parkinson’s is rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movement. And he has that hallmark, especially with the low voice” presented during the debate, Pitts cited.

“He said that was a cold. Hypophonia, small, monotone voice over time is a hallmark of Parkinson’s. I could have diagnosed him from across the mall,” he quipped.

When it became clear to Llamas that he wasn’t going to shift Dr. Pitts away from his opinion, he turned the conversation toward why the physician was so frustrated with Democrats for what he seems to believe is dishonesty about the president’s condition.

“I’m an American before everything, and I look at it and… when I used to see Russia, the Soviet Union, North Korea, when they just make outrageous things… When North Korea can’t keep the lights on and they say ‘Oh yeah, you know, it was some faulty power thing,’ I kind of hate that kind of stuff,” said the guest.

“My own party had four years to find – you know, this was a wreck in slow motion – and they had four years to find out of 350 million Americans one person that could take the place, and here we are the day before school trying to do the homework and replace a guy who’s got a neurodegenerative disease.”

A White House briefing on Monday devolved into shouting after spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre failed to answer questions about why a Parkinson’s specialist had repeatedly visited the White House.

Jean-Pierre cited “security reasons” and the need to maintain privacy as the primary reasons for withholding specific details, a move that did little to quell the rising concerns and questions from the media. “I am telling you right now that I am not sharing or confirming names from here,” Jean-Pierre said. “It is a security reason. It doesn’t matter how hard you push me. It doesn’t matter how angry you get with me. I’m not going to confirm a name.”

The scenario at the briefing room was also marked by a moment after where Jean-Pierre, visibly overwhelmed by the aggressive questioning, seemed to be on the verge of tears, RNC Research noted on X. “To say that I’m holding information or allude to anything else is not unfair,” she said. “It’s really, really unfair. I think people who are watching and have been watching this briefing for this past week could say that we are doing our best in this briefing to provide the information that we have.”

“I will admit, I will be the first one to admit, sometimes I get it wrong.” She finished, “But I do take offense to what was just happening at the beginning of this briefing. But I do take offense to what was just happening at the beginning of this briefing. It’s not okay.”

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During Monday’s intense press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced heated scrutiny from leading journalists over repeated visits by a renowned Parkinson’s disease specialist to the White House. Amidst escalating pressure and questions that dug deep into the reasons behind these visits, Jean-Pierre staunchly refused to disclose any detailed reasons or confirm who was consulted by the specialist, claiming that Joe Biden does not have Parkinson’s disease and is not under any related medication.

The press briefing saw Jean-Pierre repeatedly dodging questions from seasoned reporters such as CBS’s Ed O’Keefe, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, and the Associated Press’s Zeke Miller. The journalists pressed for clarity and transparency regarding the frequent visits documented in the White House logs from July 2023 through March of this year. Despite their efforts, Jean-Pierre maintained a tight-lipped stance, leading to an atmosphere charged with dissatisfaction among the press corps.

The White House Press Secretary claimed that the president’s routine physical examinations include consultations with various specialists, including neurologists, which are standard protocol. However, her repeated refusal to confirm the names of the specialists or provide specifics about the visits only fueled more speculation and distrust among the reporters present.

Jean-Pierre cited “security reasons” and the need to maintain privacy as the primary reasons for withholding specific details, a move that did little to quell the rising concerns and questions from the media. “I am telling you right now that I am not sharing confirming names from here,” Jean-Pierre said. “It is a security reason. It doesn’t matter how hard you push me. It doesn’t matter how angry you get with me. I’m not going to confirm a name.”

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The scenario at the briefing room was also marked by a moment after where Jean-Pierre, visibly overwhelmed by the aggressive questioning, seemed to be on the verge of tears, RNC Research noted on X. “To say that I’m holding information or allude to anything else is not unfair,” she said. “It’s really, really unfair. I think people who are watching and have been watching this briefing for this past week could say that we are doing our best in this briefing to provide the information that we have.”

“I will admit, I will be the first one to admit, sometimes I get it wrong.” She finished, “but I do take offense to what was just happening at the beginning of this briefing. But I do take offense to what was just happening at the beginning of this briefing. It’s not okay.”

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According to a report by The New York Times, Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease specialist from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center made eight trips to the White House over the last eight months. From last summer through this spring, the visits included at least one meeting with Biden’s physician, as shown by official visitor logs.

When asked about the visit, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates stated, “A wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat the thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds.”

It remains uncertain if the purpose of Dr. Cannard’s visits to the White House was to consult about the president specifically or for other unrelated reasons. Speculation about Biden’s health, particularly concerns about Parkinson’s disease, has increased following his challenging debate performance against former President Donald Trump in late June.

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