an investment. that adds up to the fuel for the plane for a trip to iowa. okay? it all does. but who cares. i don t want that. because i don t want to be controlled. last week, you ve heard me say this. i turned down $5 million by a big lobbyists, not a bad person. tough guy, not a bad person. but when he gives me five, he s not doing that because he thinks i have beautiful hair. it s not that bad. and it is my hair. ann, is it my hair? it is. it is. people don t know that. i proved that, you know, in alabama. it was really hot, it was raining and i took off my hat and everyone said it really is his hair. it s weird. i don t have to do that tonight. but, you know, so we we would go over and the lobbyists would say, no, no, we gave you millions of dollars, mr. president. so then you have the lobbyists and after about ten minutes he s going to say i don t that, they really helped me in my campaign. with me they re going to call me because i know all these guys but they neve
donald trump was his usual self in dubuque iowa. i proved i can t really do that. they really helped me in my campaign. with me, they will call me because i know all these guys. i turned the money down. i turned down so much money and feel like such a stupid person. first time in my life i feel stupid. guys that offer me millions. don, i would like to give you $5 million. i turned him down. do you think i m doing the right thing? i will just take a vote. how about if i take all this money and promise, i swear to you that i will do anything for these people. what about that? no? that s what i thought. i feel so stupid but you know what? that s the way it has to be because i think one of the things they like about me is nobody s going to buy me. nobody s going to buy me. [ cheers and applause ] and all right, so after about 10 minutes bush goes out and he says all right, you can build your plant. build it. how dare me? it was so terrible i even thought about doing that bec
big lobbyists, not a bad person. tough guy, not a bad person. but when he gives me five, he s not doing that because he thinks i have beautiful hair. it s not that bad. and it is my hair. ann, is it my hair? it is. it is. people don t know that. i proved that, you know, in alabama. it was really hot, it was raining and i took off my hat and everyone said it really is his hair. it s weird. i don t have to do that tonight. but, you know, so we we would go over and the lobbyists would say, no, no, we gave you millions of dollars, mr. president. so then you have the lobbyists and after about ten minutes he s going to say i don t that, they really helped me in my campaign. with me they re going to call me because i know all these guys but they never did anything because i don t want their money. i turned the money down. i turned down so much money. i feel like such a stupid person. no, it s true. first time in my life i feel stupid. guys are offering me millions, don, i d like
any other vice president, i would argue, that we ve ever had, he really worked very closely with president obama. he was just there at every meeting. i saw it with my own eyes. so here s a guy who could actually walk into that job kind of knowing how it works, better than almost anyone i could think of, and barack obama is one of the smartest people i ever met. i would argue it took him four or five years to really figure the job out because it s a really hard, complicated job. that s an interesting advantage that joe biden has. thank you to jared bernstein there in virginia beach. we also want to thank christina beltran and juan bonitas. still to come this morning, my letter of the week.
what do you think, christina, about a biden-warren 2016 ticket? that ticket could be very interesting. the minute he was going to meet with her, i thought, that would be but i don t know why warren would leave to be a vice presidential candidate, it seems like an odd choice for her. but the thing i think is interesting is when biden on the one hand biden shows he s carrying the obama legacy forward, right? i like him a lot, but he was used a lot to appeal to white working class voters in 2012 and 2008. that was one of his real appeals. hillary clinton has really tried to expand and build on the obama coalition and she s done a lot of work trying to appeal to latino voters, african-american voters, taking a stand on black lives matter. it s going to be really interesting. she s tried raising issues on lgbt issues. she s tried to put together a particular kind of coalition, so i m not sure if biden, even though he comes from the obama