presidenteth's hadn't and went public with same-sex marriage and accelerated the process in the white house so president obama had to say me, too. secretary clinton didn't say that until she left. she was at the state department and wasn't the place to do it. didn't announce it until she was after government and listen to joe biden saying, you know, i was out front here, folks. >> i've been hanging around enough to know the american people are usually way ahead of the leaders. the american people are usually way ahead of the leaders. >> is he trying to make a point there? >> oh, yeah. first all, he's right. he was ahead of the rest of the democratic party on this issue. he was on the right side of history before anybody else, and he did push barack obama out further than the president wanted to be. but what he's trying to do here tactically is have some distance between himself and the president just like hillary clinton yesterday also talked about how we haven't been selling our foreign policy and american's vision around the country. >> he can do that on gay