of 2015, barack obama announced in, i think, february of 2007. does the orthodoxy or i guess this accepted idea that biden has some time to get in, does that hold in this environment? i think it is going to be harder. there is less time to wait to really get in and biden, himself, has often waited, so he has a history of that. i think the field is going to get crowded very quickly. although many people, obviously, know who biden is. i m not convinced he really is the front-runner. i think it s just name familiarity and i think the democrats are actually going to have a pretty large, but also very talented field of people to run against a very unpopular president. so this won t be easy for biden to somehow claim he is front-runner because he was vice president. julian, let me stay for you for this. you talk about this talented
make a little noise? i think that s everything. i think joe is also right if you look back at past announcements they are about where we are now. bill richardson, for instance, was in january of 2007. obama was like in february of 2007. so it s not that anything is happening super early this time. if you re elizabeth warren, clearly you re looking at a lot of these polls that haven t been good news for her. biden leading in iowa, for instance. that should be elizabeth warren country, in many ways. she s the populist. she s the fire brand. she s certainly well known. she probably has really high name i.d., had more name incht i.d. than beto o rourke did. people want someone new. six in ten democrats, independent sort of leaning democrats want someone new. that poll also showed that
time. and they wanted to keep soldiers in in the military to do great things. so they entice you with that $15,000, and i accepted that in february of 2007. okay, and you used that $15,000 of course, yes. and then when did you figure out that they said they had never offered you $15,000? well, they did offer $15,000. and i received a letter in the fall of 2012 that said i should pay it back, plus another student loan repayment, and an officer bonus in 2009 for a total of about $46,000. and why? why did they say i mean a bonus is a bonus. you know you don t pay back that s not a loan. it s a bonus. so why did they say that you had to pay back what you believed was a bonus? sure. yeah, this was it s a really complex story. i received a student loan repayment in the time frame from 2001 to 2004, and they deployed me twice after during that contract time and they said i
didn t go back to the job i was supposed to go back to. you have to understand that bonuses, and student loan repayments are given to high demand positions. i was in a high demand position at that time, and their arguments was is after two deployments, or because they deployed me i didn t go back to the job i was supposed to, and they had every right to take that student loan repayment back. the re-enlistment bonus i signed in february of 2007, i accepted a direct commission as an officer in march of 2008, giving me about a year and a month time frame. yeah. and they said because i accepted the direct commission as an officer i was no longer eligible for the re-enlistment bonus. oh, my gosh, even though you accepted the commission as an officer after the fact and after you and served another six years, yes i did, yeah. so when you got that letter where this totals up to $46,000, what that s correct. what did you think? well, it was heart wrenching. you read this, an
what do you make of the quiet rollout on twitter? it s interesting there s been a lot of talk. this will be more informal. she won t be imperial. the interesting thing i look at the video she released. it came out. her announcement exactly the same way in february of 2007 she was sitting with a soft light in her home here in washington. she said let s chat. let s have a conversation. and couldn t have been more kind of homespun. it s actually exactly what she did in 2007. in the end i think it means absolutely nothing. it s going to come down to calm of issues. do people think she has an agenda, a program that will make their lives better or do they think she s running because it s her turn and she s somehow entitled to it. and secondly, i think the e-mail scandal brought this out concerns that people have about the clinton school dans, sense