Bob Woodward Calls Joe Biden's Debate Performance A 'Political Hydrogen Bomb'

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said the burgeoning calls for the president to step down were "inevitable" after his poor debate showing.

Bob Woodward, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and associate editor of the Washington Post, is calling on reporters to “very aggressively” seek “an explanation” for President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during Thursday’s debate against Donald Trump.

Woodward, who said so Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” told Ari Melber he was “shocked.”

“Biden’s performance was so bad, so awful, the way I look at it as a reporter, there must be some explanation,” Woodward told Melber. “What really happened? He was preparing for this a long time, he knew it was consequential, and then it was this bad.”

“The answer here is in reporting — in seeking, very aggressively, an explanation,” the Post editor added.

Woodward, known for uncovering the 1970s Watergate scandal involving then-President Richard Nixon, argued this explanation shouldn’t “come out in some book” in the future, but that the public needs it “now” — and likened Biden’s performance to a “political hydrogen bomb.”