different level of candidate than those who have dropped out. if he is out next week after september 30th is that a tipping point and will it cause others to leave the field in a significant way? you have to look at cory booker specifically. his best fundraising days have been immediately after the debates. now the amount of money he is trying to raise now in the next ten days is essentially what he raised after the first two debates on the very next day. so while he is going to try and do it over ten days right now, the campaign felt it had to do something to try and boost its numbers. i was talking to a spokesperson for cory booker today and they said they didn t see that kind of boost after the last debate and so they really had to come to the realization that if they didn t do something quick he wouldn t be able to raise that kind of money he would need for the long stretch beyond iowa. we did see this dramatic moment with joe biden earlier at the steak fry when he went off
it s not a very large space so you can you run into, you know, the great thing about covering clig is you ruin into everybody all the time in the hallway and it s very accessible unlike the white house in which you have to get behind guards to get anywhere and i think mike pence is on familiar turf. there he goes. he will have the role biden had, i believe. it s been, these past few hours, extremely important to the country to see the president of the united states, the president-elect of the united states now the speaker of the house. the vice president-elect of the united states. mike pence will be meeting with joe biden the vice president. so a very, very important day. we ll continue cnn s special coverage non-stop. that s it for me. i ll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern
donald trump is about to see the majesty of the house speaker s it s not just an office, it s the whole suite, the whole part of the the whole wing of the capital which overlooks the mall. and let s not forget mike pence as vice president of the united states will be president of the u.s. senate like joebds. and he was a former member of the house republican leadership so he knows his way around there. mike pence will have an office right off of the senate floor. will be right there and, look, i expect he ll be spending a lot of time up there. in many ways mike pence might have the job that joe biden had which is being the emissary to capitol hill. makes sense. the picture we re looking at, mark preston and i when we were kids spent a lot of time in that hallway. so did i by the way. and to the left thereof is the senate floor and right around the corner is where the vice president s office is. and it s just you look at it and it looks so majestic.
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from the vice president, and what we have heard this afternoon is a man who very definitively thinks that he would be the best president of all of the people running for president, but he says that he sees no path for him to get to the white house as president. that is why, you heard him give what sounded like almost a campaign address today talking about the kind of america that he would like to be president of, and he said that he would like, if he could be anything, he would like to be the president that cures cancer, and that is responsible for ending cancer, but at the same time, he is a realist as gloria said, and one of the things that has been really making this so difficult to the vice president is that he would like to do it so much, and yet, it is just very difficult for anybody to conjure forth any way in which he would get the democratic presidential nomination. liberals and progressives are with bernie sanders right now, and the party establishment and a lot of the people