i said, you know, i didn t know we had so many economists around the table. i said we owe the man a direct answer. mr. president, my suggestion is don t go. we have to do two more things to see if he s there. all right. that s joe biden been in 2012, not today. today he basically said after that whole meeting one-on-one, i said go. so is the idea the path to the democratic primary nomination and we re getting a warning paul ryan may be addressing us any moment. but the idea of the democratic primary nomination path is relitigating whose advice on the bin laden raid is insane to me. joe biden has not been a good candidate in either of his two past presidential forays. we forget in 1998, he was drummed out not just for plagiarism charges 88 but fudging past details about his life. he s been getting this enormous credit. all politicians do that. hillary does that. he gets credit for being authentic. he s futzing with details told differently by different people
think? i said, you know, i didn t know we had so many economists around the table. i said we owe the man a direct answer. mr. president, my suggestion is don t go. we have to do two more things to see if he s there. all right. that s joe bide been in 2012, not today. today he basically said after that whole meeting one-on-one, i said go. so is the idea the path to the democratic primary nomination and we re getting a warning paul ryan may be addressing us any moment. but the idea of the democratic primary nomination path is relitigating whose advice on the bin 4r5den raid is insane to me. joe biden has not been a good candidate in either of his two past presidential for prapz we forget in 1998, he was drummed out not just for plagiarism charges, 8 8, but fudging past details about his life. he s been getting this enormous credit. all politicians do that. hillary does that. he gets credit for being authentic. he s futzing with details told
hedged their bet except leon panetta. leon said go. everyone else said, 49, 51, got to me and said joe, what do you think? i said, you know, i didn t know we had so many economists around the table. i said we owe the man a direct answer. mr. president, my suggestion is don t go. we have to do two more things to see if he s there. all right. that s joe biden been in 2012, not today. today he basically said after that whole meeting one-on-one, i said go. so is the idea the path to the democratic primary nomination and we re getting a warning paul ryan may be addressing us any moment. but the idea of the democratic primary nomination path is relitigating whose advice on the bin laden raid is insane to me. joe biden has not been a good candidate in either of his two past presidential forays. we forget in 1998, he was drummed out not just for plagiarism charges 88 but fudging past details about his
way that could really change the dynamics of the democratic race, this wouldn t be serious either. this is more than joe biden has been able to do for himself as a candidate the times he s run. remember in 1988 he backed out because of plagiarism charges. in 2008 he only won 1% of iowa and had to step down himself. so really he has not just president obama but hillary clinton herself and elizabeth warren to thank. sometimes, often times it is better to be lucky than good, at least in the news business. the blessing should not be read as an endorsement we re told, but he has said being the president that picking biden was the best political decision that he has made. of course, in that implicitly is he s not saying that his appointment of hillary clinton for secretary of state was the best decision he has made. should people are reading into that? i would not read too much into that. of course he s going to say that. of course he feels that way. the president is in sort of a double
work, but also the impact this has on his trustworthiness? well, martin, i met with senator paul at his office on capitol hill, and he was noticeably shaken, i think, by this episode. he knows that he has had such an assent in national politics since elected in 2010. and this was really his first fumble on the national stage and something i believe he doesn t think will haunt him in the same way plagiarism charges haunted joe biden in 1987, 1988, but still trying to acknowledge the charges. what s most interesting, he did fight back, fought back against the press and his relationship with the press, which i think was once warm, seems to have chilled. here s the problem, robert. you re suggesting that he was shaken, and yet in his own words, he described the experience as being in detention, which sounded like he didn t really grasp the magnitude of what he had done. i think he is shaken by the attention, he is shaken by this really becoming oh, well, that s a distinction, rob