pouring into our politics is a fundamental threat to our democracy. and i really mean that. i think it s a fundamental threat. because the middle class will never have a fighting chance in this country as long as several hundred families, the wealthiest families, control the process. it s just that simple. and i believe we have to level the playing field for the american people. and that s going to take access to education and opportunity to work. we need to commit. we are fighting for 14 years, we need to commit to 16 years of free public education for all our children. we all know that 12 years of public education is not enough. as a nation, let s make the same commitment to a college education today that we made to a high school education 100 years ago. children and childcare is the one biggest barrier for working
it would be unlikely. so it is only joe biden who would win the endorsement of the firefighters before the primary process. well, andrea, we do a very precise and deep process. focus groups, we poll our members nationally, we overlay that with polling from ten battleground states. we poll our leadership and our district vice presidents are out in the field. we have done all that work and know where our members are. and if the vice president announces his candidacy, then that s where we are going to be, we are going to be supporting his candidacy for president. and with us now in the breaking news desk in new york, brian williams. well, andrea, as you ve been covering, we have just learned in the last few moments that as camera crews are rushing to set up in the rose garden at the white house, we are going to hear from the sitting vice president. we are going to hear from, or at least see the president of the
that there is no timetable for this process. the process doesn t respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses. but i also know that i could do this, i couldn t do this if the family wasn t ready. the good news is the family has reached that point, but as i ve said many times, my family has suffered loss. and i i hope there would come a time, and i ve said this to many other families, that sooner rather than later, when you think of your loved one, it brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. well, that s where the bidens are today. thank god. beau beau is our inspiration. unfortunately, i believe we re out of time.
hurrah last night before today s announcement, making it final. and there are people, passionate people, i m here with brian schaitberger. he s the labor leader strongest urging him to run and talking to him for the last few days. that was my next question. what changed, because it was the firefighters union boss who said, who gave us the last kind of positive indication that this was coming. if i may, brian, harold, he didn t declare to you, but he was certainly and i was very consistent over all the many, many days when asked. and that is, that he was going through the process. he was checking all the boxes. he would ultimately get to the point where he had to make that final personal gut check. we certainly were planning, and i made that clear for his candidacy, but he made that
dark. i don t know if you have gotten a chance to see them. but they are pretty dark. have you been able to take a read to some of the things that he was writing about in that journal? i have seen yeah, i have seen a couple news reports over the last 4 hours that have come out about this, yeah. any thoughts on that? you know, everybody experiences afghanistan differently. everybody experiences going through the withdrawal process of being away from everything that you are familiar with obviously bowe bergdahl copied with that with dark heavy writing and heavy dark thoughts. i don t spend time reading every single person s personal notes, you know, i have other stuff, other responsibilities that i have to do whatever he wrote he kept to himself. he was a private guy. is he not going to share these super dark secrets with anybody but himself. you have waited to come out and tell your story on