NYT columnist urges Biden not to fight an 'old battle' after media tour

PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett also asked Brooks if there was any strategic value in saying that he would have beaten the sitting president following his former VP's failed attempt.

The New York Times columnist also suggested Biden should avoid the partisan mud.

"They are wrong," he said. "There's nothing to sustain that, number one. Number two, you know, think of what we left with. We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we - well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won't go into in the interest of time. And so we went to work, and we got it done and, you know, one of the things that - well, I'm-"

"And they didn't see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he'd get up. He'd put in a full day, and then at night he would - I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop," Jill Biden said.