administration have raced out here to the rose garden as well as the news media here to establish the live shots in a moment s notice, because we know what ever is going to be taking place, it is a big deal, and that is after weeks and weeks and weeks of hearing from joe biden what his intentions are. as you have noted this is a difficult and painful process for vice president biden and his family and grieving the loss of his son beau biden and all throughout the process, we have heard that this is going to be taking time. and the vice president, it was thought going to be decided by the end of the summer and now october, and now with the looming dates on the calendar, very, very important to presidential candidates, with refinally going to be hearing a final answer from the vice president, wolf. the fact that the president of the united states going to be walking into the rose garden with the vice president, it
run short, and some of the people he had reached out to in the last couple of days or ten days or so who would have worked for him in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, they had not heard back from him over the last several days, so they were wondering if he was serious about this, and he wanted to run for president, wolf. he wanted to do it, but he simply could not actually pull it together in the end, and he did not believe there was a winning path. and he specifically said that he was out of time to effectively run for the democratic presidential nomination even though the family was now on board, they had gone through several months of mourning obviously for the sudden loss of their son beau bid biden. and michelle, i want to get the you in a moment, but david axelrod is joining us on the phone, a former top adviser to president obama, and were you surprised, david? no. wolf, i wasn t. i said from the beginning that i thought that at the end of the day, he wouldn t run, be
the mind, and he is going to let us know. and the best kept secret, when you are planning these think kinds of thing, and ooet her se incredible of keeping flus the dark about it or what you said just rings true, it was hastily organized, although i hardly see it easy at a place like the white house. it was not necessarily hastily organized, but quick ly announced and now all of the sudden, reare porters have gathered the media there, and the cameras are there and he is going to walk out the make the statement. i assume a statement on whether or not he is going to run, but we will see. i mean, he has been under enormous pressure, ashleigh, to let the american people know what he is going to do. it has been a lot of stress on him, on his family, and they have gone through a lot over to the last several months, and mourning the loss of their son beau biden, the attorney general of delaware, and great son and servant and iraq war veteran and the family has suffered through the entire
i know from previous experience that there s no timetable for this process. the process doesn t respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses. but i also know that i couldn t do this if the family wasn t ready. the good news is that the family has reached that the point, but as i have said many times, my family has suffered loss, and i hope there is going to p come a time and i have said it to many families that sooner rather than later when you think of your loved one, it brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. well, that is where the bidens are today. thank god. beau is our inspiration. unfortunately, i believe we re
vice president has decided, you know, i took a close look at it, and i looked at all of the considerations, the family considerations, and all of the political considerations, and would i have a chance. remember, he has run for president of the united states twice already, and he didn t do so well either time including eight years ago when he was running for the democratic presidential nomination, and spent more than 30 years in the united states senate, and now seven years as the the vice president of the united states. i know from my conversations, brianna, and you know from your conversations, he always felt that maybe it was the last chance. he is 72 years old, and maybe this is the last chance the seek the presidency, and if he didn t do it now sh, he might always regret that moment where he had that shot, and there s also all of the reports, briana, that over the past few months just before his son beau biden passed away that his son suggested to him to run for the president of t