enough that first had you joe biden taping "meet the press." then had you the former vice president cheney live on "this week" on abc. then the current vice president come back and rebutting hip live on cbs's "face the nation." that's an interesting point. as to joe biden, that's the vice president's job, basically to be the bad cop to sometimes the president's good cop. we saw that here today. >> my next question, most people thought when barack obama, then candidate obama or nominee obama picked joe biden that joe biden would be the attack dog. right? because he was known for that. i'm wondering is this the old joe biden that we're used to seeing? is he now going to be the attack dog? is this a new strategy that they're putting in place here? >> yeah. i don't think that strategy ever went away actually. joe biden, as we all know, the vice president -- >> we didn't hear from him thatch. we didn't hear from him. for a while there they kind of stopped him from talking a little bit. but now we're appearing to here