absolutely. ti i think ten years ago, it was probably the peak of this moment when people like me took the traditions of this very insider trady coverage of who raised how much money in each quarter on one hand? and also the great narrative story telling of people like richard cramer who was focused on the character of the candidates and broke it into these tiny, tiny little bloggy bite-sized nuggets and narrated the campaign in this way. for political junkies, which we are and were. but often without a sense. you try to give it a sense, but at its worst, without any sense that there were stakes in this beyond the game. don t you think, though, that because of the explosion of social media and all the people who have platforms, that that form of journalism is always going to be with us? and that it can run parallel with the kind of journalism you re talking about today, which is going after policy, high stakes conversations about the issues. there are more people talking about poli
is to know the story of the whole family told so well by the late richard cramer in his book what it takes, a book that led me to tears so many times and so many times those tears were from what happened in joe biden s life and how joe biden responded. cramer tells of how tragedy first struck by ten s young family weeks after he was elected to senate at the age of 29. his wife, two sops and that sons and an infant daughter were in the car going christmas shopping when a tractor trailer plowed into them and the car was so bad, they didn t know who she was until they saw the biden brochures fluttering above in the trees. that awful grace of god that kennedy s greek poet spoke of the night martin lutheroout eruther king was killed provided a moment of grace and empathy to joe biden
son. i had my aunt move this with me my grandmother helped raise me, i had a new mom five years later. so i ve been a very lucky man. that was beau biden on morning joe back in 120nin 2012. he passed away over the weekend. flags are flying at half-staff in delaware to mourn the loss of its former attorney general, eldest son of joe biden who followed his father into public service and is being mourned today as a dedicated prosecutor soldier, son, brother, husband and father. he put together a remarkable beautiful retrospective on his life that we ll have in just a bit. we ll be talking a lot more about beau today and about the biden family and about the challenges that joe biden and the family has faced through the years. says so much willie about we love joe biden we ve talked about that we have fun with him, but really it is such a measure of a man when you see a son so beautiful and dedicated to all the right things. you rook atlook at beau s life and incredible. j
0 nominee as openly, gay. one gay senator said she would like to hear more. i do want to speak with him, particularly about his comments 14 years ago to see if his apology is sincere and sufficient. former congressman barney frank who blasted his quote saying bigoted opposition to ambassador hormel. he dialed it back a bit yesterday in an interview with boston globe. with the attack coming out of the right, i hope now he gets confirmed. here s the bottom line. like any washington feeding frenzy, these charges will depend on new information to actually sink hagel s nomination. nothing new comes out and for everything we re dealing with we know on iran, israel on anything. white house is pretty confident that this will become much to do about nothing. the democrats who are on the fence will fall in line behind hagel and not be enthusiastic about it, but they will be there at the end of the day. like any of these things, it s about new information. one thing that puts them in a prec