“Occupants of the White House have grumbled over news coverage practically since the place was built. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn: With a reelection campaign underway, there are signs that those behind the president are starting to more aggressively and publicly challenge how he is portrayed,” the AP

“The FBI confidential source charged last week for allegedly providing false information about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden implicated Russian intervention,”Axios reports. “Alexander Smirnov admitted that ‘officials associated with Russian intelligence’ were involved in passing a story

Axios: “Biden officials see next month’s State of the Union address as a big, public reset moment — a chance to overcome or at least neutralize concerns about President Biden’s age and vitality.” “Biden’s SOTU address played well last year — he seemed agile and riffed about the GOP and Social

“That’s not the case with Jill Biden. She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge.” — Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, on Face the Nation, on previous first ladies being ready to leave the White House.

Lawrence Altman: “There is no direct correlation between a leader’s health and performance in office. Many historians give a healthy President Carter (who is now age 99) low marks for performance. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed by polio at age 39 in 1921 and died of a stroke at age