street journal white house correspondent. welcome, both. first to you, kristen welker. you saw joe biden went out with his family over the weekend. what are we expecting, when are we expecting or we really don t know? reporter: we really don t know. in fact, those closest to him say only one person knows, vice president joe biden, and he is still very much undecided. we know that he s likely been discussing this monumental decision with his family over this holiday weekend but we haven t seen him really come out with the exception of that video you played when he went out to watch his granddaughter s cross country meet. our producer shaquille brewster asked him are you thinking about running. he sort of brushed that question aside, laughed it off. he s certainly not ready to talk about it yet. there s a lot of pressure among democrats, though, for him to make a decision for a couple of reasons. one, they don t think this is particularly great for hillary clinton. as you pointed out,