Some members of former President Joe Biden’s Cabinet did not believe that he could be relied upon to perform at 2 a.m. during an emergency by the final year of his presidency, according to a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.

Former President Joe Biden was reportedly shielded from his Cabinet for much of his final two years in the White House, with secretaries claiming anonymously in a new book they were “kept at bay.” Anonymous Cabinet secretaries told Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their concerns regarding Biden for the journalists’ upcoming book,

Former President Biden iced out key members of his Cabinet during the second half of his term in the White House, according to a preview of a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson.

The CNN host described parts of his new book about Biden's reported health decline, including a behavior that the public "only got glimpses of."

The rollout of Jake Tapper's new book with co-author Alex Thompson has been going so well that they've hired a crisis management expert.The CNN anchor and Axios reporter co-authored "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline,

CNN's Jake Tapper is facing backlash from conservative critics, who are accusing the liberal news network of being part of a 'cover-up' to hide Joe Biden's 'decline'