Well, I just watched the one-on-one Morning Joke set up between Biden and Mika. And you could have cut it in half by just editing out every time Mika circled back to the same question that he’d already given an answer to in order to make it appear as though he was avoiding giving a satisfactory answer.

It was a lesson in goal-post moving: He says the complaint would be in the NARA archives in the Senate, Mika asks why he won’t just allow a search of all his personal documents for any mention of Reade’s name.

He points out that he said women should be heard and their allegations investigated, but at the end of the day the truth matters, so Mika wants him to answer why he said women should “be believed” when Kavanaugh was being investigated.

And she tried to lead him to speculating on Reade’s motives, to which he (smartly) said he wasn’t going to question her, her motives, or in any way disparage her.

So the takeaway is likely going to be that Joe isn’t living up to the standard set during Kavanaugh, that he won’t accept that Reade is being truthful, and he’s got “something to hide” in his personal documents because he refuses to allow their release.