understandably so, but presumably he has made up his mind and letting us know. and now a lot of people are saying, vice president biden, tell us, are you in or out, and a lot is at stake in the democratic party and the race for the democratic presidential nomination and the country as a whole. i don t want to suggest for a minute that a hastily organized news conference in the rose garden means he is going to announce that he is running, but for a candidate who has known for a while that he is going to run, hold as big conference to say, i am not running, and could it be that message? it could be in fact that e is is going to tell us that he is not run org could be thning or running. we have heard back and forth to associate, and people who have spoken to him over the past few days, and emerged from the conversations that he is going to run, and others saying that he is still on the fence.
run. while the vice president has decided not the run, we know that over the next year he is o going to be standing up for all americans and articulate a vision for the americans that will leave no one behind. that is the message that the vice president was delivering in the rose garden with the president and his wife behind him. if you missed it, it was only a short time ago andt let me replay a moment of the sound where the vice president made it crystal clear that he is onotis going to be running for president. as my family and i have worked through the grieving process. i have said all along what i have said time and again to others that it may very well be that the process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president. i have concluded that it has
briana, stand by, and i want to go over to capitol hill where dana bash is going to join us live. i was going to ask you about paul ryan and the possibility if he gets to run for speaker if he gets the demands that he wants, but i won t do that, because i want to know if you have reaction from capitol hill on this? not official reaction no, but hearing from the people here, and remember that joe biden spent a lot of time here, decades in the u.s. senate, so certainly, he has a lot of friends here. and even some of those who really like joe biden are relieved that he is not running. because of the concern that it would divide the party and i just got an e-mail from a democratic official who said that was concerned about the tone that biden repeated actually today about, you know, clearly aimed at hillary clinton saying that republicans are not our enemies and we have are to get together and work together many this official has said that it is stoking division within
position in the presidential race and certainly not running for the democratic presidential nomination, and as ron brownstein says paves the way for hillary rodham clinton and certainly when the polling does not include joe biden the numbers do soar. thank you for joining us, everyone. i will turn it over to my colleague wolf blitzer who will start right after this break.
reasons and not the least of which is what you and jim were talking about. it is very unusual for a vice president to the announce in the rose garden and not the mention that all of those players and never mind the president, himself, the players from the administration who have split loyalties on the democratic primary policies would have be sitting here in the rose garden. and if so, you would know it is hard for all of the senior obama decisions to endorse him in a split decision like that. and it would be awkward to announce that he is running for president in the rose garden with the president there and all of the top security officials there, and normally when you make an announcement that you are going if be going out to some event or rally or do it in a different way, and so it would be awkward if he made an announcement there, and it could put the president in an awkward position, too, and the president is not going to necessarily endorse the vice president to succeed him or