Multiple crises at home and abroad provide a reality check for Biden's White House
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President Joe Biden was at the wooded Camp David retreat in Maryland when he first heard Colonial Pipeline had been hacked.
Briefed in one of the mountainside lodges by senior advisers and aides from the National Security Council, Biden quickly realized the incident -- and subsequent shutdown of the company's pipeline supplying fuel to the Eastern Seaboard -- could easily devolve into a major problem. Long lines of cars at pumps and handwritten "no fuel" signs make for potent political imagery, a fact Biden experienced firsthand when as a young senator he saw an oil crisis help deprive President Jimmy Carter of a second term.More Related News