president has said in the past. both during his campaign for president in 2008, and in answer to a question at the end of 2010. i don t have an update for you. bret: so if it was planned, charles, no one told jay carney. what it is was, what was is, i wasn t sure how it worked. biden owes carney a big dinner several times over. this is something that the administration didn t need. it was obama had done this with every other, anything that requires modicum of courage, making decision oncostein, missile defenses with the ritions as we know from that unfortunate statement he made on mic he becomes flexible after election. all this sufficient is supposed to happen after the election day. anything that could pose a risk to losing six vote in any one state. he won t touch until election day. by accident prone as he is, he goes ahead and makes it almost