house relied heavily on joe biden. do you think biden sees it that way? i think he has. look, part of the thanklessness of being vice president is you are completely at the mercy of the boss. if the president wants to put you in a box he can. as walter mondale said, every morning a vice president wakes up and thinks what is the president going to think of me today or a variation of that. if you look at the show veep on hbo, there s that independence. mondale said there s a shakespearean dependence on it. it s a four-year nondivorce million marriage. it is divorceable. if the president or voters want you gone, you are gone. look, it is always complicated. i think, it seems from the outside, at least to have reached an e quill ib ree um.
in a special ceremony, the come intertwined the rip chords of their parachutes as a symbol of their love. then the moment everyone had been waiting for. you are now husband and wife. kyle, you may kiss your bride. reporter: the couple partied the night away on level ground. money, money reporter: and the next morning a picture perfect day for a dive. the newlyweds jumped into their custom-made skydive suits. special occasion today? yeah, just got married yesterday. this is a great way to celebrate and jump into our new marriage. reporter: and from 15,000 feet in the air they jumped from the wings of love. every couple does it differently. wonder where they went on
african-american leaders who were critical. they were critical when i was running for president. joining me is elijah cummings, democrat from maryland, also a member of the congressional black caucus. thanks for coming on the show tonight. good to be with you. let me ask a question. i want to get into the jobs and real concerns, but all of this back and forward, the fact of the matter is i don t know people know that you hosted that morning a roundtable of leaders. i was one of them, where we debated that many of us have a different point of view. most people are not very supportive of the president, others have been critical, but at the end of the day, i think that we ve got to be consistent. what is something that bothers me, let me show you this graph. if i were to show and this is something on not only black leadership, but liberals that has been written about by a
this morning a press conference and said we are not miles apart. do you think democrats and republicans are getting closer? i think it reid plan and boehner plan are very close and i think ultimately they will pass some joints product will pass. the debt ceiling will go up. but i m not sure the country will be better off for it. i think our debt is going to be downgraded simply because no one believes that we have got our fiscal house in order. no one believes we are going to balance our budgets. it s interesting dish know what take the to balance your budget? if you cut 1% a year for 7 or 8 years. one penny on the dollar, your budget will balance. or if you freeze your spending you get close. but nobody is talking about even a freeze. we are all talking about increase can the debt, and increase the spending. i think it s the wrongs thing to do. alisyn: it sounds so simple when do you that math. will this amalgamation, a reid-boehner plan, do you think
board and then something might give in the senate, and maybe it would go for a vote. do you think it s possible that this would be up for a vote and we vote yes for it. i think what s going to happen. it s been defeated in the senate even though we haven t had the vote. all the democrats signed a letter saying they will vote no on it. so i think it gets vote down. the republicans in the house hope it becomes the template for the eventual. they will be a reid-boehner plan eventually. when that plan comes forward their hope is they will take more of the boehner plan and the reid plan. but eventually they come together and vote to raise the debt ceiling. what disappoints me is in the end neither of these plans will ad new debt and i don t think our country can with standing that new debt. alisyn: president obama came out this morning a press conference and said we are not miles apart. do you think democrats and