 And what they're reporting in Politico is before he published this New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside as the nominee, he reached out to Barack Obama, the report goes on to say, to give him a heads up. The two men were friendly. They're more than friendly. They both were at this fundraiser and that Clooney was bragging about in his op-ed piece where the actress said that he beheld a diminished Biden