need to hold a news conference for say within 24 hours of the benghazi hearings starting? what else could be so news w worthy that the vice president would hold an announcement in the rose garden? the fact that dr. jill bide zen at the white house, and we saw her arrive a while ago and one of the close friends senator ted kauffman is there over at the rose garden and he arrived a moment ago and this is the moment that he is going to be making the decision. i don t know what else he might well want to do with a are previously unscheduled announ announcemeannounc announcement at the rose garden. and wh he is going to run or not run. and that is the word of the hastily organized e sent. it is not something that he planned on doing for a long time like the appearance at george washington university where he was honoring the former vice president walter mdale at the event. it is something that has been announced literally moments ago and so presumably he has made up
and now, a new cnn poll shows that 21% of americans approve of what the republican leaders in congress have done this year, and 74% disapprove. that is some breaking news that i want to bring to you at 12:10 about eight minutes from now, we are now learning that the vice president joe biden plans to make an announcement. how is that that only 2 1/2 show, i opened up the show by saying he is not the only politician to keep a secret right now, but turns out in about 7 minutes that is no longer a secret, so we will get the details of the wheres and the whens and the no without question the whats as to what joe biden plans the do. i want to bring in our senior guy on all things joe biden and above and that is wolf blitzer who is going to be joining me live from washington. why is it that out of the blue, out of the blue within seconds we find out there is going to be an announcement, and isn t there more planning and rollout? well, a lot of speculation
for weeks if not months whether the vice president will decide to run for president of the united states, and there is a lot of speculation that he would do it within the next few days. so presumably, he is going to let us know whether he is going in or staying out. that s what all of us have been waiting for. there is a lot of speculation over the past several days, that it is as early as next week, and yesterday we were speculating that he might want to make the announcement in or out before hillary clinton testifies before the select committee on benghazi tomorrow. to tai is the day, and the next few minutes we will learn whether or not he decides to stay out of the race for now or to jump into the race. given the fact that he wants to make the statement inside of the rose garden, gives it a certain indication that he is not going to be getting into the race, because he wouldn t want to necessarily do a political statement inside of the white house, but that is all pure speculation
reasons and not the least of which is what you and jim were talking about. it is very unusual for a vice president to the announce in the rose garden and not the mention that all of those players and never mind the president, himself, the players from the administration who have split loyalties on the democratic primary policies would have be sitting here in the rose garden. and if so, you would know it is hard for all of the senior obama decisions to endorse him in a split decision like that. and it would be awkward to announce that he is running for president in the rose garden with the president there and all of the top security officials there, and normally when you make an announcement that you are going if be going out to some event or rally or do it in a different way, and so it would be awkward if he made an announcement there, and it could put the president in an awkward position, too, and the president is not going to necessarily endorse the vice president to succeed him or