all accounts, multiple campaign offense, the first planned press conference in a long while. is he still the democrats' best campaign asset or do democrats need somebody else out there who can throw sharper barbs than a sitting president is really allowed to? >> look, i love to see president obama out there. he loves giving the speeches. he is a great campaigner. we know that. but i have to say one of the reasons i was a big supporter of joe biden for the vice presidential position is because i alwaysรง thought that biden could provide a real asset in a moment like this. look, don't get me wrong but joe biden has a sort of a reputation for being crazy joe and one of the best things about your crazy uncle at a family reunion is that he says the one completely honest thing that everybody is thinking, that none of the people with that actual filter will, in fact, say. so i'm a big fan of kind of deploying the crazy uncle joe strategy. send vice president biden out there. let him kind of get tough. let him say things that are