everyone running and two, he has no path to that job. so it sounded like a presidential announcement speech today, but a wistful one. biden closed his speech by pounding the podium and insisting we can do so much more. he rolled out what very well could have been this news cycle s version of osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. america won t just win the future. we will own the finish line. vice president saying today the window to a credible campaign had closed, but the truth is it isn t clear that that window was ever open. cnn senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joins us now. jeff, family saying he was ready, personally ready, but the path and math didn t add up. jake, that s right. the math and path were always going to be a huge challenge no question about it. in the end joe biden followed his head, not his heart. it s a decision many democrats including some friends of his hoped he would ultimately reach to keep the party from ubeing
historically, you have the nomination locked up. is it just a matter the right guy at the right time or been a brilliant politician? a mix of both, no question. he s tapping into the resentment of washington, he s a different brand, flavor of politician. people like his brag, you know, his just his ora, sense of himself. he s a bragging guy. people like that at this moment. we still do not know, though, if there will be a consolidated al te alternative. if you add up everyone else, we ll have to see how he does. he ll need more than 40 paid organizers. he has the money so he should go and organize in a real way in these 99 counties. so if he takes the next step, he s a very, very, very serious potential nominee. all of you stand by and let s stand by for donald trump, as well and see what he has to say. there is othering news we re following including the surprise
to win obviously. right. and so this is the mystery. and we ll see what happens when people actually go to vote. i think a lot of those trump supporters are no votes. they re voting no against politics in washington and what s going on. and it s a protest. and is that going to bring people to the polls? we ll see. so i think there s still a question mark over all of it. but the big question is do we understand who trump really is. and is he in touch with reality? this i m going to deport 11 million people out of this country. do you have any idea the logistics of doing that? it s impossible. well, i agree a lot of questions about his policies. looking ahead to tomorrow s benghazi hearing there are a lot of republicans saying benghazi is worse than watergate. you obviously know a little thing about watergate, know a
torn apart. others say if it was serious they say absolutely yes. he became so engaged in the last week even they thought he would do it. joe biden walked into the rose garden to extinguish a dream. unfortunately i believe we re out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. with those words today the vice president closed the door to weeks of self-induced speculation about joining the 2016 presidential race. it turns out he wasn t firing a warning shot this week at hillary clinton over her suggestion that republicans are the enemy. i don t believe like some do that it s naive to talk to republicans. he was offering an optimistic lesson to fix a broken washington. i believe we have to end the di visive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart. of all the places to make his announcement. mr. president, thank you for
meeting until it actually happened, apparently. reporter: well, you can t really underestimate the security risk that bashar al assad must have been. he probably flew out with russian assistance to get him out of moscow. vladimir putin stamped his mark on the battlefield with jets frankly many saying hitting civilian targets as well as mod ral rebels only limited times isis as well. stamping his mark yes statement to washington i can get the syrian leader out of this country towards me, he s confident enough to leave. but it also is part of what i think seems to be an increasingly choreographed set of moves. we have this onslaught towards aleppo, 50,000 people on the move and southern countryside as we reported yesterday now video which we ve received from the front line in fact some of the moderate syrian groups which have in fact been equipped with the antitank missiles often some suggest applies by the united states and its allies them