Mehdi Hasan, host of MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” blasted President Joe Biden after claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over.”
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley of CBS News on Sunday, Biden reportedly claimed the COVID-19 “pandemic is over.”
As Pelley and Biden were walking through the Detroit Auto Show, Pelley asked if the pandemic was over during their interview.
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it,” replied Biden. “If you notice, no one’s wearing a mask, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape and so I think it’s changing, and this is a perfect example of it.”
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In response, Hasan posted a tweet criticizing the president, writing: “One of the (many) reasons they’re not wearing masks is because people like Biden keep (falsely) telling them the pandemic is over.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Pelley asked if Biden would consider running for the 2024 Presidential Election.
Due to U.S. elections laws, Biden replies, “look, if I were to say to you, ‘I’m running again,’ all of a sudden, a whole range of things come into play that I have – requirements I have to change and move and do. It’s much too early to make that kind of decision. I’m a great respecter of fate. And so, what I’m doing is, I’m doing my job. I’m gonna do that job. And within the timeframe that makes sense after this next election cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment on what to do.”
After this statement, Pelley continued to ask the president whether he would be running for re-election. Biden responds that he intends to run again, “but it’s just an intention.”
The reporter also asked Biden if the United States government would defend Taiwan.
“Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack,” replied the President. “Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence. We are not moving – we’re not encouraging their being independent. We’re not – that – that’s their decision.”
The CBS interview was the President’s first on-air, sit-down interview in seven months with a journalist from the U.S.
Though Biden had an interview with Lester Holt of NBC last February, the interview with Scott Pelley was his first interview with a major media outlet in four months.
