running. three sources. em a democratic congressman, i have a very good source close to joe who tells me vice president biden will run for president. that doesn t even include the innumerable writers and pundits and analyst who is said they heard or just knew that he was running or knew he would make a decision by the end of september or this weekend or in the nest 48 hours or next five minutes. honestly, what we did all know is if we waited long enough, joe biden would tell us, he would get in or not. so honestly, seriously there was no reason to make it up before then. and the point is not so much that all those people were wrong. they were. the point is that what they were talking about was unknowable unless your name was joe biden. you couldn t know what joe biden s decision was going to be, because it was his decision alone. yes, there were a lot of sources who wanted to talk, but for the most part they wanted to talk,
my daughter ellie. ellie, how are you? so good to see you. porter, how are you? my zonal tom. hello, tom. who is this guy? hi. how are you? are you doing okay? he said, grandpa, can i talk to a democrat? this is my sister-in-law lorraine. how are you? mother of ten. my mother would say no purgatory for you, straight to heaven. thank you, if you need somebody to negotiate a big prize, call me. he can do it. he ll make it oh, man, this is boring, boring, boring. how are you doing? can i borrow your hat? can i borrow your hat? good to see, you man.
republican in consequence at the time was still able to write about the democratic vice president to praise his decency and his honesty, and to call him his friend. this year when vice president biden was considering running for president, the abjectly fiercely partisan top republican in the united states senate said he wouldn t weigh in on whether or not mr. biden should make a run for the presidency, but he too called him his friend. i m not somebody would be seeks his advice about whether to run for president. i do like joe a lot. i think he s a good man. i hear that a lot about joe biden. what other democrat in politics not some conservative wannabe rep democrat, but what true-blue democrat, who else in politics is a democrat would ever be talked about this way, particularly by republicans? joe biden and i have been friends for 38 years. we ve shared some wonderful experiences together.
unprecedented. has there been a public wishing and waiting? oh, absolutely. mario cuomo famously in 1991, the primary process that bill clinton finally won in the democratic party, mario cuomo kept on giving signals, i will, i won t did not declare-not going to run until the 20th of december, so that s later in the process that we re talking about. robert kennedy, when he was thinking about whether to run lbj over the vietnam war issue in late 1967, 1968 was agonized, finally only declared 16th of march of that election year, the spring of the year that election would have been held. michael beschloss, thank you. great to have you here on these nights to give perspective. thank you, rachel. we have not had a vice president succeed the president
committing that he was going to run, but definitely talking it over. as recently as yesterday he talked at a public event in on in a way that convinced some that he was going to run. but today when he finally ended that long process, there was inevitably talk about whether this long public process hurt somehow, whether it was undermining to hillary clinton s front-runner campaign, whether it distracted from the project of the democratic nominating process, whiches to pick a candidate who beats a republican in november and brings along as many down ticket democrats as possible. if it were anybody else in democratic politics. anybody else just in politics who had just gone through this arduous project, honestly there might be some hard feelings. but this is joe biden, and nobody is capable of having hard feelings about joe biden.