week. listen. >> reporter: president biden was telling allies he would run for reelection in 2024. can you confirm? >> that's his intention. >> sandra: "that's his intention." clearly the white house doesn't want anybody to believe he is not running for a second term. so even if he's not but they say he is, what would be the strategy area? >> look, no white house wants to be a lame duck, for the president to be a lame duck in the first year in office. they are obviously going to say that joe biden is running for reelection until they actually make a decision. buttigieg doesn't really fit the role of the type of candidate the democrats need for their future. he is certainly young and ran an impressive campaign last time around but he is sort of the candidate of the brainy democrats, the most intellectual democrats. that doesn't add up to a majority in the party, and buttigieg learned even though he ran on an impressive campaign for president that he did really badly with a lot of the more reliable democratic voters.