between two people. the president and the vice president. josh barro, as a journalist, evaluating that particular statement, did we just learn anything? that statement is not a denial. the sourcing in the report was that a senior democrat said this is what happened in the meeting. there are two senior democrats in that meeting. one is president obama, the other is the vice president. for this to be properly sourced, as we have every reason to believe it is, it would have to be one of them. that would make sense. i don t know. the broader pattern and which one has an incentive to leak that s a good question. we were talking in the break, the deathbed conversation with his son. there are not that many people in the room. and then it ends up in the new york times op ed page. it s clear, i don t know whether joe biden will run for president. it s very clear from the context
it s clear, i don t know whether joe biden will run for president. it s very clear from the context clues that joe biden would like people to believe he will run for president. i think the attitude in the press was that joe biden wants people to think he s going to run, but he s not going to run. but it seems to be indicating that this is a thing that he s going to do. jared bernstein, this reminds me of other politicians where they are very actively consciously planning to run for president, and sometimes, as i believe in the case of mario cuomo that we saw a generation ago in new york, they never actually make it to announcement day, because the plan gets canceled before they get to announcement day. you worked for vice president biden in this administration as one of his economists, as one of his advisers, what is your reaction to the way their stor