a few moments ago i did see some words flashing on the screen and the vice president is going to be using some tell prompter and prepared text that he has been preparing some comments to make out here and talking about the deliberative process. just to go back to what you are saying, that is right, presidents conduct rose garden campaigns not vice presidents. and so for the vice president to come out here to the rose garden to announce he is running for president would be very, very highly unusual. and hold on, because the president and the vice president are about to walk into the rose garden, and dana bash is getting news up there on capitol hill? that the vice president did make some calls to the key players on capitol hill here to today and those people are keeping the cards close to the vest, it is certainly does seem that he is leaning more toward not running. not running. that was sort of the vibe that the key players here on capitol hill were getting for lots of
run, but he finally made the decision to presumably today or last night that he had decided not to run. wolf, that is right. he was telling many of the long-time friends who served with him in the senate, and many of to ally tas he was leaning towards running and planning on running, and just a couple of hours ago, the head of the international firefighters union said they thought that he was run, because he is close to biden. but i am told that the decision came not today, but over a period of time, and he told some of the advisers this late monday that he was wonder ding about this, but what what he was doing yesterday was sending a message to some parting words if you will to hillary clinton directly about how he believes that this town should work, and that is, wolf, what is so struck here. and he is not running, but look, both sides have to come together, and when you are looking at what is happening in washington here, and we are on one side of pennsylvania avenue, and on the o
wife saying no, it is not going to happen, the window has closed in his estimation. he says that the family has supported him despite they have suffered the tremendous loss of the death of his son they would be ready, and that the window had closed and it was just not do-able. and other things that were announced in the rose garden and it is this. recent polling of cnn/orc releasing poll numbers suggesting that recently, with biden in the race, senator clinton would have this lead, 49 to 29 with biden and without the biden numbers, it would be 56 to 33% jump. those poll numbers don t necessarily lie, and a lot of people say they are power games, but poll iing matters and so do money. and when it it comes to money, hillary rodham clinton she has raised a lot of money, and in the third quarter her campaign
the warm reception here for the vice president, i should caution everybody that even here at the white house there were doubts if vice president could pull it off. i talked to one senior official just recently who said that there is nobody in the white house who has a box of joe biden signs behind the desk, and partly while there is deep affection here of joe biden, they didn t believe he would overcome what hillary clinton had put together in the months leading up to where we are right now. and having said that, others who would love the to see him run for president and be president? absoluteliment but they see hillary clinton as somebody who is going to protect and extend the legacy of president obama, and some fearful in the white house who thought that joe biden had the potential to ruin that if he were not successful in the general election campaign. that is the frank candid assessment of some here in the white house, and they were concerned for joe biden to get into the race, and
for weeks if not months whether the vice president will decide to run for president of the united states, and there is a lot of speculation that he would do it within the next few days. so presumably, he is going to let us know whether he is going in or staying out. that s what all of us have been waiting for. there is a lot of speculation over the past several days, that it is as early as next week, and yesterday we were speculating that he might want to make the announcement in or out before hillary clinton testifies before the select committee on benghazi tomorrow. to tai is the day, and the next few minutes we will learn whether or not he decides to stay out of the race for now or to jump into the race. given the fact that he wants to make the statement inside of the rose garden, gives it a certain indication that he is not going to be getting into the race, because he wouldn t want to necessarily do a political statement inside of the white house, but that is all pure speculation