will he or won't he? when joe biden's political future came up in the oval office, the vice president was just a few feet away, listening with his lips sealed. president obama later prubrushe off the question. >> i'm not going to comment on what joe's doing or not doing. i think you can direct those questions to my very able vice president. >> reporter: but a decision appears to be coming soon, so says biden's chief of staff, ted kaufman. i am confident that the vice president is aware of the practical demands of making a final decision soon. kauffman also described what a biden campaign would be like. in other words -- >> going to put y'all back in chains. >> lots of biden being biden. i think it's fair to say that it won't be a scripted affair. after all, it's joe. but democrats are all but begging biden to hurry, as one