person is ted kauffman, a senator who is a trusted adviser to joe biden, all of this information coming from cnn s jeff zeleny. we re talking about the run-up, the long investigation of the choices of the vice president. joe biden arrived at the white house today with a lot on his mind. his weekly lunch with the president in the oval office taking on new meaning with speculation swirling about whether he will run. everybody is pretty interested to find out what decision the vice president is going to make. the president has indicated his view that the decision to add joe biden to the ticket as his running made was the smartest decision he made in politics. reporter: a democratic source in touch with biden s associates tell cnn the vice president is leaning toward running for president. the buzz about a possible biden candidacy intensified after he
we re seeing some pull back but this is not 2008 all over again. full coverage go to cnnmoney.com to see the latest. also want to get to some politics now. will he or won t he? that s the question on the minds of political pundits and voters as speculation continues to swirl around a possible 2016 bid for joe biden. with him scheduled to have his first face-to-face meeting today over their usual monday lunch, there s speculation swirling about whether the vice president will jump into the 2016 contest. michelle kosinski, cnn white house correspondent is live from washington. this started bubbling up, michelle, a few weeks ago, but it accelerated over the weekend because of a very key meeting that the vice president had. reporter: yeah, that was part of it. meeting with senator elizabeth warren, who, of course, is the hero of many liberal democrats and progressives out there. you remember this huge ground swell months ago wanting her to run for president. now that she said multiple
the united states. momentum appears to be building for him to challenge hillary clinton in the democratic primary. that s testing loyalties within the white house for biden and the president hit for lunch today. joe johns, how did it go? it is testing loyalties at the white house because on the one hand joe biden is a beloved figure at the white house. on the other hand there are a lot of questions about whether he could pull it off if he decides to get into the race. officially joe biden s office is saying no decision has been made as of yet. and any speculation to the contrary is false. biden did get a lot of praise in the white house briefing room today, but no endorsement. joe biden arrived at the white house today with a lot on his mind. his weekly lunch with the president in the oval office taking on new meaning with speculation swirling about whether he will run. everybody is pretty
we are following the desperate situation in california where almost two dozen wildfires are burning. many of them out of control. more than 13,000 people are under evacuation orders this hour as thousands of firefighters work in scorching temperatures to stop the flames. we re also following a major potential shakeup in the race for the white house. growing efforts to draft vice president joe biden to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. surprising new developments combined with concern about hillary clinton s unfavorable poll ratings has speculation swirling about biden s political future. we re covering the day s top news this hour with our correspondents, our expert analysts, and our guests. we begin with those wildfires burning out of control in california. cnn s stephanie elam is in colusa county, northwest of sacramento, where the largest blaze, the rocky fire, has
david mckenzie is outfront in nairobi. i know it is unclear who the woman attacker was. there is speculation it might have been the white widow whom you first told us about on this program and a special report over a aryear ago. what can you tell us tonight? reporter: that s true. that senior government official telling cnn, based on photographic evidence that they have evidence that a woman was in this attack. in this terrible attack that killed more than 60 here in nairobi, kenya. that photographic evidence doesn t suggest the ethnicity of the woman, according to that official. but they did say that she died early on in the siege that has caused so much havoc, destruction and loss of life in africa, in east africa s hub. earlier last year, we went and investigated the case of a white woman from britain who may be a very unusual terror suspect. and there s a lot of speculation swirling about her right now.