Bidens. As yeatts put it, because i had to quote an irish poet and Seamus Heaney was taken. Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was i had such friends. Away from the camera, jill and michelle have each others backs, just as much as when theyre out championing our troops. Our girls are close, best friends at school, inviting each other for vacations and sleepovers. Even though our terms are nearly over, one of the greatest gifts of these past eight years is that were forever bonded as a family. But, of course, i know that the obamas are not the only ones who feel like theyre part of the biden clan because joes heart has radiated around this room. You see it in the enduring friendships he has forged with folks of every stripe and background up on capitol hill. You see it in the way that his eyes light up when he finds somebody in a rope line from scranton or just the tiniest towns in delaware. You see it in the incredible loyalty of his staff, the team who knows
the first time since then, since january 2017, joe biden, age 74, will no longer be holding public office. you can see, obviously, many thoughts he was having there about his career, his legacy and obviously his role with this administration. quite a scene there in the white house. obviously they will be talking about that one for some time, i am sure. as that played out, though, in the white house. washington, the entire country absorbing big news this afternoon. the justice department s inspector general saying he ll review how the fub and fbi director james comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation during the presidential campaign. this coming two days after this exchange between james comey and director king. on allegations of russian hacking during the campaign. well, i thought we had that clip. obviously, this has been a
undermine america s influence and to try to undermine the unity that exists in europe. he has done everything he can to splinter consensus in europe, to weaken the e.u. as well as nato. i can t believe, after being immersed for several months in this as president, that that s not a consensus that i m confident it s a consensus that the experts in his administration understand and that will be communicated to him. but i i can t divine what president-elect trump is likely to do. joe biden earlier today with andrea mitchell. nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely is in russian. he s spon with a kremlin spokesperson about the charges.
accident, in the same accident both of his sons were badly injured. he came very close to saying, i don t want to be a senator at all. i should stay in delaware and take care of them. it was actually some of his democratic colleagues and actually some republicans too, colleagues to be, would said to him, this is too important, you really have to join the senate. nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. thank you for taking a few minutes. we mentioned before the ceremony at the white house, joe biden sat down with andrea mitchell. she asked about donald trump. she asked about, as well, his relationship with russia s vladimir putin. take a listen. is it an asset for vladimir putin to like the president of the united states, or is he playing us? it s important that the next president, mr. trump, all that vladimir putin has done and continues to do to try to
the other thing, as you were suggesting, i think a second ago, is that oftentimes you ll see this relationship began and the two seemed to be close and then competition between the staffs or different political aims or even the vice president wants to run for president at the expense of the president. usually these relationships fray. what makes it even more remarkable is the fact that these two guys are so obviously much closer than they were at the beginning. obviously hanging over this it wasn t mentioned in the ceremony today, but i think it s something a lot of democrats have been asking themselves since the election, it s something joe biden talked about with andrea mitchell in an interview here earlier today. this question of what if joe biden had been the democratic candidate for president this year, what if he had been the nominee instead of hillary clinton, would there have been a different result? would obama and biden not be set to give up the white house right now to d