Im more than willing to work with him. A senator, a Vice President , and finally President Elect on his third try. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Tonight, do you see yourself as the Polar Opposite of donald trump . I hope so. A cnn special report. Fight for the white house joe bidens long journey. Its a good night its a good night and it seems to be getting even better. More than 30 years after his first run for the presidency joe biden with a lead tonight and a lead overall in the del inaugurate race. On his third try for the white house. We are very much alive it was the Sweet Super Tuesday that joe biden had always dreamed of, setting a clear path to the nomination finally at age 77. It was like, okay, lets buckle up. Were going to go. It was a really good feeling. It was glorious. Glorious and unusual to say the least. Fact no one has ever come in fourth in iowa and fifth in New Hampshire and gone on to become the democratic president ial nominee. To do as poorly as he did in the first two contests where i come from that the opening bell. To have the day he had on super tuesday was highly, highly unusual, defied the laws of politics. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Its a day joseph rob net biden jr. Has been waiting for for decades. How long has joe biden wanted to be president of the United States . I first met him in 1972 and clearly he was not ruling out the possibility. He was 29 years old. Theres a story of the non nun holding up a paper that little joey wrote when he was 12 years old saying he wanted to be president. If a nun said it it has to be true. And still is. But the brass ring has some big strings attached. A country facing the Worsten Feshs disease crisis we have seen since 1919. The worst economic crisis we have seen since the great depression. The worst Racism Crisis we have seen since 1968. Revolution its a Triple Threat of crises. All at once all combined. Biden has described himself as a transitional candidate but a Triple Threat could require drastic, urgent action. The economy cannot survive if we dont get control of covid. Thats going to be the thing thats going to affect every single thing that gets done. From the beginning, when he was just joey from scranton,p. A. Biden wanted to be the one to get things done. Joe biden was always the lead dog. He had to be number one, he was in the number one position. A natural leader his friends say. He always followed joe. And a natural talker. An old joke about joe that if joe biden were standing knicks to an Electric Light Pole hed strike up a conversation. Big, boisterous family. Constantly playing pranks on each other. With at least nine of them in this modest home. Joey was the eldest of four then came valerie, jimmy and frankie. The childrens maternal grandparents lived there, too along with an aunt, sometimes an uncle and their parents. Joseph r. Biden sr. And Katherine Finnegan biden. My mom was fierce in her commitment to family. She told us growing up that theres family and theres family and theres family. I remember going to my mother once, i guess i was in fifth grade saying, mom, i love you more than anything. She said, joey, i know how much you love me but youre closer to your brother and sister than you are to me. I said how . She said, you are the same blood. You are closer to them. Theyre with you all the time. Never forget that. Mom said that we were a gift to one another and we believed her. Let me ask you about your sister whos been incredibly supportive to you. What role has val played in your life . Shes been my best friend my whole life. Shes been on the handlebars of my bicycle i guess since excuse me. Since she was 3 years old. I never went a place i didnt take her. Taught her how to play ball. To this day . To this day. All the way through. Theres sayings. Dad said to us its not how many times you get knocked down. Its how quickly you get up and dad was all about resilience. Especially after losing his job when biden was young. They were forced to move away from that you are childhood home to find opportunity in wilmington. They had to reinvent themselves there. I made him very close to his family as families often become much closer during adversity. Faith helped, too. Family and faith were the bookends and we were an Irish Catholic middle class household. Our Family Values taking care of one another, treating people with respect, being resilient, those values coincided with the catholic social doctrine we learned every single dayality school. There but by The Grace Of God go i. You are your brothers keeper. It was a seamless way of life. A seamless way of life for a determined Young Joe Biden. Richard ben cramer writes about your brother as a child and said joey was always quick with a grace born of cocky self possession. He didnt like some kids his age double think himself. Once joey set his mind it wasnt like he thought at all. He just did. The more serious he set his mind to do is he stuttered terribly and he really couldnt string more than three or four words together at a time and he determined that he was not going to be defined by stutter. Teenage boys can be pretty harsh, even cruel, and he used to get teased a lot. They called him stutterhead. For short they called him substitute. So the summer before joe bidens junior year poetry helped him lose his stutter. I would do poetry to try to say meek young man grow up in libraries. Thats emerson. Yes. And the reason i did it was to try to get a cadence to how you speak. When youre able to change the cadence of what you do and say it seems you can overcome it somehow. I think all of us were surprised in late august and september when we went back to school that he wasnt stuttering anymore. The high school was an academy, an elite Catholic School he worked hard to attend because he viewed it as a gateway to success. He was on the football team. He was a half back. He made some key plays in some of those games. Off the field friends remember a time he stood up for a buddy. It happened when he went to a diner with some classmates including the only black kid in the class. The restaurants policy that we dont serve, they didnt use word at the time. He must have said negros. Frank said, i leave. Joe said, sit down. This is 1961. This is before the civil rights act. And before the Voting Rights act. And before there was much sensitivity i would say at least for teenage boys, white boys, about civil rights issues. Biden says he learned about the reality of Race Relations here while lifeguarding in a black neighborhood in the early 1960s when delaware was very divided, racially and culturally. The polish neighborhood, irish neighborhood, the black neighborhood. He stood out but worked hard to fit in. Once you come in the neighborhood and somebody like you, you become like brothers. You become the friends. Thats how joe and i came. I was about probably 9 when i first met him. I was one of the onry kids in the pool. He would be dennis the mayor of wilmington. Joe saw an opportunity, the door was open and he was going to get in. Hes going to make friends and he was going to talk to people and he was going to know this community and have the Community Trust him because i know joe had aspirations of going places. He was already politicking and planning his surprising next moves. Up next, success. I will never, ever think anything is impossible again in my entire life. Followed by tragedy. I remember looking up and saying, god. I was so angry. So angry. You know you can shorten your cold with coldeeze® lozenges. Coldeeze® can shorten your cold by 42 . It releases zinc ions that some scientists believe inhibit cold viruses from replicating. 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By early 1964 joe biden was a student at the university of delaware. Still full of confidence but low on cash. When he and two buddies decided to head to ft. Lauderdale for spring break. The first day we went on the beach, it was like 10,000 guys and 20 girls. The odds just did not look good for us. Lo and behold a plane goes by with a sign saying round trips to nassau 28. Joe, what do you think . Got to go. Lets go. They arrive to discover the College Women on private hotel beaches, which they couldnt afford. We found some of the hotel towels on the fence. We grabbed them and put them around our shoulders and waist and walked in like we stayed there all along. They were there just a few minutes when they spotted a young woman they all wanted to meet. Melia hunter. A 21yearold senior at syracuse university. Im saying lets flip a coin or one potato, two potato. And while im trying to figure it out, im looking at my hands, he takes off. Hes got a 50yard dash on both of us and by the time we get over there, hes sitting there chatting her up. When i met nelia, gods truth, i knew i was going to marry her. I really did. Second night as i left i said i think ill marry you. She said, i think so. He said frank, im in love and going to Syracuse Law School. Just as planned biden made it to Syracuse Law School and married Neilia Hunter a year later in the summer of 1966. After graduation he returned home with his wife to work at a law firm. National guardsmen were still patrolling the streets of wilmington in the wake of rioting that followed Martin Luther kings murder. Wasnt good at all. We looked like a City Under Siege by the military. He saw a country torn apart by race. A city that was wlit rally on fire. The National Guard occupied wilmington, delaware, longer than any city in america after the riots following kings assassination. And in that moment a Young Joe Biden said i can help. Biden was a believer in his own ability to convince anyone of anything but no amount of selfconfidence or ambition was big enough to deliver a senate seat at age 27. So, he ran for the county council. As usual, he enlisted his sister. So how did you get involved in the politics of it . He always picked me first. It was just a natural thing to do. He was going to go in the politics. I was going with him. He ask everybody we knew to help us and we asked them to ask ten people to help us. This is where we delivered. We knocked on every door. He won and a year later, biden found his real opening while attending a Political Convention in delaware. I went back to the motel to shave for the evening and i got a knock in my door and in walks four people. They said we got to talk to you, joe. I had a towel around me, just shaven. They said we think you should run for the senate. I said, whoa, im not old enough. A judge in the group set him straight. Said joe, you obviously didnt do very well on constitutional law. It says you have to be 30 to be sworn in, not 30 to be elected. It was awe delicious if not arrogant for biden to run as a 29yearold underdog candidate of change against a wellliked republican senator named kale boggs. What is your last name . Miller. I know the miller family. He had been governor and member of congress for two terms and running for a third term in the United States senate. Kale boggs was loved. I mean, he was loved. Once again, biden asked valerie to run the show. I remember saying to him, joey, i cant run a statewide campaign. I dont know how to do that. Remember, hes 28, 27, im 25, 26. He said dont worry about it, valerie, well figure it out. She reached out to a local Democratic Party activist, ted kaufman. Youre running On Civil Rights and environment. Youre running on tax reform. And those are really good issues. Silence. I said, but i dont think you have a chance at winning. You said what . I dont think you have a chance of winning. You dont have a chance. Kale boggs is incredible. Youve been in this for two years. You look like youre 25 years old. This is a race to run in order to make these issues you care about, i say you can do that but there is no chance you can win. And his reaction to that was . Well, just come and help me. Just come and help me. Well see. Well see. Biden was confident he could talk his way into voters hearts but what kaufman saw was bleak. On labor day, we did a big time polling. You know what the number was . 47 for boggs, 19 for biden. But it was also the first year 18yearolds could vote and young voters saw a candidate who was promising that he understands whats happening today. 50 years later, this time as a political elder trying to connect with young voters, its still his mantra. They have a funny feeling that kale boggs just his heart wasnt in it. Hed been talked into running One More Time by richard nixon. Joe wants to talk to you for a few minutes and vote that democratic ticket november. And then. We snuck up on him. Boggs, this is a nixon landslide year. Nobody expected a democrat to win and that was the truth. We won by 3,100 votes. On election night, i remember as if it was yesterday. I said, i will never, ever think anything is impossible again in my entire life. Happy birthday he turned 30, the eligible age to serve three weeks later. He and neilia already had a picture perfect young family. A baby named naomi and two joseph biden iii or beau and hunter. The young family was moving to the nations capitol. For six weeks we were on top of the world. I mean, he was the dragon slayer. We were the bright young hope of the Democratic Party and it was completely joyful. On december 18th, neilia was supposed to go with her husband to washington but decided to stay behind to buy a tree and christmas gifts. I went with joe to washington to interview staff. Senator bird offered joe to use his office, which we did. And then came the phone call. It was jimmy biden and i picked up the phone and jimmy biden said, come home now. Theres a terrible accident. With neilia and the boys and the baby, all three. You flew back . We didnt say a word. We just it was a bumpy ride. I remember that. It was a tiny plane. I remember he was on my right and i just had my hand on his leg, and we just i mean, we you know, you know. Smooth driving pays off with allstate, the safer you drive the more you save you never been in better hands allstate click or call for a quote today now, braava jet mops right where you need it with an adjustable Precision Jet spray and an advanced pad system. And offers personalized Cleaning Suggestions unique to your home. Braava jet m6 and the irobot home app. Only from irobot. Inflammation in your eye might be to blame. 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His wife neilia stayed in delaware with their three children to buy a tree. The memory that i have thats most vivid is walking in the russell building with the echo of just our shoes. I remember looking up in the rotunda saying, god. I was so angry. I got a call from a first responder, and i said, what happened . He said, well, there was a Tractor Trailer and your wife and daughter are dead. Neilia and the bidens baby naomi were killed when a truck hit their station wagon. The boys were very badly injured. They were hospitalized. Hunter with a fractured skull and beau was in a body cast with both arms, both legs, you had to pick him up and carry him this way. Biden thought their bedside, not the senate, was where he ought to be. Your brother is clearly considering not being sworn in. He doesnt want to be senator. He spoke to the governor to replace him. But the Senate Majority leader Mike Mansfield changed bidens mind. He said, your wife worked really hard for you to get elected, cared a great deal about it. Get sworn in and just stay six months. If in six months or so there is a conflict between my being a good father and being a good senator, i promise you that i will contact the governorelect as i had earlier and tell him we can always get a another senator but they cant get another father. They sent the secretary of the senate to the Hospital Room to swear me in so i couldnt change my mind. So help you god. I do. Congratulations, senator. Thank you. The family and a few Close Friends there. Hunter holding on to beaus hand. It was heartbreaking. The biden family was devastated, but they had to move on. So valerie moved in. They were such a gift to me. The whole family was brokenhearted. And we just, you know the big thing, take care of one another, not because its the responsibility but because it was a gift. And while Valerie Subbed in for mom, her brother also changed his plans. The reason that joe started to commute, he said theyve lost their mom and they lost their baby sister. I cannot take them away and lose mom and dad and uncle jimmy and frankie and aunt val so he will commute. After the accident, i mean, the bond was like steel rods among the three of them. Steel bonds with his boys and molten anger over the loss of his wife and baby. You said you went around kind of looking for fights. I did. And wrote you understand why people consider committing suicide. I thought about what it ought to be like to do to the Memorial Bridge and jump off and end it all but i didnt ever get in a car and do it or even close. What saved me was really my boys. On capitol hill he found support he didnt expect from senate elders of both parties. These old bulls all took him in and helped buffer him from that grief. Helped him carve a path towards real meaning and value and that experience. He saw their humanity before he saw their politics in many respects. Bidens senate was a much less polarized place, and in a 1974 interview, he recoiled at being pigeonholed by special Interest Groups as either liberal or conservative. His political connections were always personal. Hell talk about a republican opponent in private with a great deal of empathy and compassion. Those relationships were built by a series of just quiet moments sitting down next to someone without any particular point to it. Just to see how youre doing, whats going on. He kept the personal close and became the unofficial eulogizer to the senate and a tribute for a republican segregationist. I tried to understand him. I learned from him. And i watched him change oh so suddenly. Subtly. He delivered Strom Thurmonds eulogy. Yes, he did. At Strom Thurmonds request. I think when you can hold on to your own political believes and have the respect of people whose political belief is totally different, that says something. Over time, biden developed an almost pastoral habit of consoling others in public on the campaign trail. Someone who has been through it and says i know how you feel. You kind of look and you say i guess i can make it. They made it. He did it privately, too. In the middle of his campaign for the presidency, my dad had passed away. Joe was the first one to call. Hes running for office. You can leave a voicemail. Right. Yeah. Hes a good man. One evening i heard some crying, and i went out to see what was going on. I heard the Vice President s voice and i heard him consoling somebody. He was still in the west wing working and had bumped into a staffer who was giving a tour to a widow who had recently lost her husband. He was walking down the hall, and that was his instant reaction. People talk about your empathy and your pastoral nature when people are suffering. Did that begin after the accident . I think it really began in an earnest way with my stutter because it is the most humiliating thing in the world for someone. How do you walk up to the girl to go to the Eighth Grade Dance Saying would you got to the, the, the, the, the and there are always a bunch of chumps that make fun. Thats how i learned to fight. He found himself in the middle of a political struggle in the 1970s and early 80s when he took a controversial stand against Court Ordered bussing. I happened to be one of those socalled people labeled liberal On Civil Rights but oppose bussing. If youre a biden, thats going to be a tough issue for you because of that big empathy, that big heart. Is this good for kids . You know, is this the right way to get kids to get along, to get parents to get along . Is there another way . Im going to direct this to Vice President biden. That decades old decision became in the democratic debates raised by his now running mate. You also worked with them to oppose bussing. And you know, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day, and that little girl was me. If you go back and look at the polls back then, the vast majority of black people were against bussing. I was against bussing. You were . Yes. The First Real Serious Discussion i ever had with my wife was over bussing. Because i thought Court Ordered bussing put too much of a burden on the students. I believed in neighborhood concept schools, rather than being bussed, and when i express that publicly, my wife took me to the woodshed in such a way that i would never forget it. While bidens political life was tumultuous, back at home he was trying to get his personal life in order. Everybody had somebody for me, you know. They were very nice about it. By 1977, he had found someone he wanted to marry, jill jacobs. I had to ask her five times to marry me, five. Five times. She would say no every time i asked her. I knew what the boys had been through. They lost their mother and they lost their sister. I had to be 100 sure that this marriage would last until death do us part because i loved the boys so much that i thought, they cant lose another mother through a divorce. Two years later, they have ashley. She not only married joe, she married the boys, she married the biden family and married the state of delaware. And she may have saved his life. I said, what do you mean giving him last rights . Hes not going to die. Did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins . Prilosec otc uses a unique delayedrelease formula that works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. With just one pill a day, you get 24hour heartburn protection. Take the prilosec otc twoweek challenge. And see the difference for yourself. Prilosec otc, 1 pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. Oh my gosh you made it did you put some ah, kale in the greens . We didnt forget about you welcome to the family. Thank you. Wooooow. The greatest senator from delaware, joseph r. Biden. By the mid80s joe biden was a senator going places. How are you, pal . He was young. He was dynamic. And people said this is the next kennedy. This is a guy who will be president of the United States some day. But was biden really ready . You know, its the funny thing about 88. Ive never said this to anybody. I wasnt sure how much he wanted to run. Was he conflicted . I think he was conflicted. It was a fulltime commitment and joe really was, you know, joe who took the train home at night to be with his kids and you cant do that when youre running for president. But what senator can resist the president ial lure . He didnt get up in 88 and say. Im running for president. It was so many people came and said you got to think about this. You got to do it. And so amtrak joe moved onto the president ial track in a wide open and competitive race announcing his candidacy at the wilmington train station. Today i announced my candidacy for president of the United States of america. Just a few weeks after his announcement, some unexpected news took him on a detour. It is a surprise retirement this summer of swing vote Justice Lewis powell. Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee and would lead the Confirmation Hearings to replace Justice Lewis powell. The crucial swing vote on the court key to major major decisions roe versus wade. Abortion along with other womens and civil rights issues are what many say president reagans appointment will have a strong opportunity to influence. President regan took the opportunity to nominate an icon of the right. I today announce my intention to nominate judge robert h. Bourque. Reaction from the left was swift. Civil Rights Groups promise allout efforts to block borks confirmation. The campaign was pushing us to come out against bork early. We knew if we did that, all we would end up is the 45 liberals in the senate and we wouldnt win. So biden found himself running two campaigns, one against robert bork, another for president and they were pulling him in different directions. My name is joe biden. Id like to be the democratic nominee for president of the United States of america. In iowa, an early caucus state that mattered most, biden was bunched with others but his attention was split. There was a mismatch between the expectation of joe and what was going on in the campaign. The sort of basic stuff wasnt getting done. But that was nothing compared to what unfolded next. Live from the Iowa State Fairgrounds in des moines. Election 88. At the end of a key debate at the iowa state fair, biden used some of his stump speech which included quotes from british politician neil kinic, A Pop List Life Story politically compelling but it wasnt bidens life and it was delivered without any attribution. Why is it joe biden what am i . The first kinic in 1,000 generations. The first in his family. To be able to get to university. Ever to go to a university. I mean, he had given that speech 25, 30 times and in every case he had attributed to kinic. He didnt plagiarize. I dont think anybody in the Campaign Saw It as a major thing when it happened. But it was, especially after a staffer from the Michael Dukakis campaign leaked the story on the eve of the Bork Hearings. Biden finding himself on trial charged with political plagiarism. How did it feel to have your integrity challenged . In such a other than losing my family it was the worst thing to ever happen to me. The controversy fed the narrative biden was more show than substance all as the Bork Hearings began. I believe, judge, i think i Read Everything that you have written. Biden zeroed in on the bork controversial opinions like his critique of the Supreme Courts decision to strike down a state law banning contraceptives. Does a state legislative body or any legislative body have a right to pass a law telling a married couple or anyone else, telling them they can or cannot use Birth Control . I dont know what rationale the state would offer or what challenge the married couple would make. The problem with bork is he would never admit there is a right to privacy under the constitution. Biden may have been swaying Public Opinion on bork but his own president ial campaign was imploding with more charges. First there came reports he lifted the phrases of other speakers without identifying them. Then new charges that as a student of law at syracuse university, he used five pages from a published Law Review Article without quotation or attribution. I knew i had one of two choices, leave the bork hearing and go out and save my campaign if i could by going out and making my case and i thought that what i dont want to go down in history as the guy that saved his political life, let bork get in the court. So he was out. All of my energy and skill is required to deal with president reagans effort to reshape the Supreme Court. Ive concluded that i will stop being a candidate for president of the United States. I can remember how devastated i felt and how devastated joe felt. I mean, no one had ever assailed his character before. It was a big blow to him. Some people, they never would come back from that sort of ending of a campaign. And lest i Say Something that might be somewhat sarcastic, i should go to the bork hearing. He was about to go into the media room and i said, joe, you have to go in and win. You have to win this one. If you look at the next paragraph of that talk bork was pummeled by biden and others and left to fight largely on his own by president reagan. He thought he was smarter than biden and he thought he could beat biden and he was wrong. Yay 42, nay 58. The nomination is not confirmed. In a 2008 interview four years before his death, bork told cnn that, quote, as a whole biden wasnt fair. The democrats including biden spent the time making the most scour louse charges about me. Democrats praised biden but others blamed him for permanently politicizing judicial confirmations. Well, he really presided over the inauguration of the politics of personal destruction in the judicial confirmation process. And now the ideology of the judge is front and center. Its about how are you going to vote on these things. For some, bork became a new verb, a shorthand for getting railroads and rehmans to this day. A good Old Fashioned attempt to borking. What do you say when they say it was about his ideology . It was about his constitutional philosophy which is totally legitimate. Nothing i did went after borks character or anything in his background. So biden won one family and left another. And his family now sees it as a lifesaver. Maybe this is rationalization but his pulling out probably saved his life. He never would have stopped. Right as the campaign would have been in full gear, biden collapsed after an event in new york. He made it home and jill rushed him to the hospital. He looked so gray, and i thought, oh my god. My brother had an aneurysm and an aneurysm didnt have any calculation whether joe was running or not running. The aneurysm was in his brain and it erupted. There were two aneurysms, both extremely dangerous. There was a better than even chance i was not likely to make it through the first operation. The situation was so dire, a priest came to give the 45yearold biden his last rights but was interrupted. I ran into the room. The priest was at the bedside and i said, get out. Because he is not going to die. And the priest, i think i just shocked the priest, and he just and i think i shocked the priest, and he just ran out of the room. Biden had two surgeries and a tough recovery. Seven months later he returned to the senate and more controversy. Do you swear to tell the whole truth . Coming up would you be willing to work with him . Youre all, youre all i need youre all, youre all i need as long as i got you then baby you know that youve got me, oh yea. [yawn] you. Look. Stunning. Want the truth to why i wake up feeling. [growls softly]. So darn awesome . [makes playful sound] i take care of my skin. Not this skin. That skin. And when youve got incontinence, you sure need to. 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Almost 30 years later, thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Biden is President Elect. And even before the election, anita hill had made a decision. I think joe biden is the person who should be elected in november. So youre going to vote for joe biden . Yes. Would you be willing to work with him . My commitment is to finding solutions. I am more than willing to work with him. Is it just about the fact that hes running against donald trump . Or is it more about joe biden . Actually, its more about the survivors of gender violence. Thats really what its about. Hill, an attorney, is a professor of gender politics. She was 35 when she testified before bidens committee. Accusing thomas of sexually harassing her when she worked for him at the equal Employment Opportunity commission. Her testimony was graphic. He referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal. Her motives dissected. Do you have a model complex . No, i dont. And additional witnesses who may have corroborated her story were never called to publicly testify. The idea that anyone who was saying what i had to say was going to be heard, was just sort of out the window, because the republicans were in control, and joe biden lost control. Some say you let the republicans take over. I dont think i did. But the point was, i wish i could have done it differently under the rules. There are certain rules you cannot call people out of order. If theyre asking questions related to the issue. I wish i could have done better for her. The truth is, i believed her, and i believed he should not be on the court. Sexual harassment is a serious matter, and in my view, any person guilty of this offense is unsuited to serve not only biden led the floor fight against thomas and lost. As a black american, as far as im concerned, it is a hightech lynching. Thomas denied the allegations and his supporters still seethe about the hearings. With the hill allegations, he said if these come out in public, i will be your biggest defender. Quite the opposite. He repeatedly was saying one thing, talking out of one side of his mouth to one group and out of the other side to the other. What does this tell you about joe biden . Hes someone who, i think, wants to try to please everyone. And even when hill received a call from biden earlier last year, she remained unsatisfied. What i heard on the phone call was an apology that went something like, im very sorry if she felt she wasnt treated fairly. And, you know, an apology, to be real and sincere, has to take responsibility for harm. That was what i wanted to hear. That if i had done better and this is joe biden speaking if i had done better, maybe there would be less harassment in the workplace today. But hill has watched the Vice President talk more about the hearings on tv, and she says its encouraging. She did not get a fair hearing. She did not get treated well. Thats my responsibility. What it says to me is that maybe the next step is these are the things that im going to do to make it good. But the story of biden and womens issues is not just about hill. When the Thomas Hearings ended i was determined to do two things. One, make sure never again that there not be women on the committee. So that year i went out and campaigned for two women. Dianne feinstein and Carol Moseleybraun on condition they join the Judiciary Committee if they got elected, and they did. And i was determined to continue and finish writing and passing the violence against women act. It was an idea born one year before the Thomas Hearings, to beef up protections for women, including a provision allowing them to sue their attackers in federal court. Some in the Legal Academy who decided that women in the 1950s were basically making up rape, there were fancy lawyers, liberal and conservative, who would say, Domestic Violence is, you know, as american as apple pie. Prominent, liberal lawyers. Overall, the toll on Womens Health and lives are devastating. In 1983, my husband stabbed me 13 times and broke my neck while the police were on the scene. I nearly died, and i am permanently paralyzed. They all have the same story. And what was the story . I dont believe you. This doesnt happen. And they said they did not believe it was a crime. Biden believed it was and spent four years pushing the bill. But it would ultimately take more than violence against women to get enough senators on board. So biden and president bill clinton, looking for a win, combined the issue with a comprehensive crime bill. At that time, there was a large amount of concern about growing Violent Crime in the country. Violent crime rates had been steadily rising for a decade, and there was political pressure to do something. Democrats felt like they needed to show they were tough on crime. No, as a matter of fact, Violent Crime had risen exponentially, mainly because of the crack epidemic. Was it a good political issue . No, it was more than that, it was a danger. His solution was a big bill. It was 30 billion. It had the assault on women in it, the drug courts in it. The bill passed with bipartisan support in 1994. But times have changed. While biden worked with the Police Unions to write that bill, hes now promising to reform policing, and he wants to fix other parts of the measure that democrats charge led to further mass incarcerations harming communities of color. That tough on crime, phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected, but destroyed communities like mine. Tough on crime meant tough on people who look like me. The core of the bill was to criminalize behavior that really should have been addressed through addiction services, through employment services. I will accept responsibility for what went right, but ill also accept responsibility for what went wrong. Biden says the Obama Administration worked to reduce the Prison Population and reverse p mandatory minimum sentences. And he wants to do more. We have to change the Prison System from one of punishment to rehabilitation. So is this political expediency or a true Change Of Heart . We can have this debate, is this a true evolution or is this Flip Flopping . We have this weird kind of thing where we really want the person to be believing in what theyre doing. Thats not what politicians do. The politics on this have changed. Hes political enough to read the country at this moment and deliver on the changes that we want at this moment. With a career that spans more than five decades, biden has found himself apologizing and rethinking not only on the crime bill and not only to anita hill, but to a group of women who say he made them uncomfortable by being too handsy. And the boundaries of protect the personal space have been reset, and i get it. I get it. I hear what theyre saying. I understand it. And ill be much more mindful. Anita hill, for one, has decided to believe biden has changed. Do you find some irony here that im going to vote for joe biden and that i might want to work with him. Do i think its ironic . Yes. But this is not just about me. Its not just about joe biden. Its about millions of people in this country and around the world that we can be a model for. And i would love to be a part of that. And if it means voting for joe biden, so be it. Ill vote for this. Up next, joe biden changes his mind. The iraq vote was a mistake. Upbeat Holiday Music narrator upgrade your protectin this holiday season. By the early 2000s, joe biden had one of the prime political perches In Washington. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is one of the best jobs you can have. Even before he was chairman he spent decades traveling the globe, becoming a student of arms control and personally connecting. Focus he brings to it is always how do i put myself in the other persons shoes . Because if im asking for something that they cant possibly give, were not going to get anywhere. He also delivered blunt talk. One example, he says, is what he told Milosevic In Serbia in 1993. I pointed out that genocide was happening, genocide. I had a come to youknowwhat meeting with milosevic in his office. I told him im going to spend the rest of my career seeing that youre tried as a war criminal. And in 2008, to president karzai in afghanistan. We had a private dinner, karzai hosted it at the palace. During the dinner, karzai really kind of lit into the United States. Biden looked at him and came down on the table with his hand like that. And he said this dinners over. Thats it . That was it. And he walked out. And, and so everybodys, well, i guess the dinners over. That was 2008. And bidens clear signal to karzai was shape up. Back in 2001, after 9 11, biden had backed karzai in building a new government and supported george w. Bushs invasion into afghanist afghanistan. And a year later, biden also supported the Bush Administration when it turned toward a new target, iraq, looking to stomp out terrorism there. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. These weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power. Why did joe biden vote for the resolution . Voting for the resolution is one thing. Voting for war is another. He didnt vote for war. He voted for tough diplomacy. He thought the best way was to get Weapons Inspectors back into iraq, they were doing their job, and bush went to war anyway. Its hard when youre giving an authorization of force. Thats hard power, not soft power. Diplomacy is soft power. So i dont buy that. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Good to see you. Joe biden and dick lugar and i were the first senators into baghdad, and after a couple years, it became clear to him that this was going nowhere. The iraq vote was a mistake. Its a vote that has dogged him for years from both sides. I did everything i could to prevent that war. Joe saw it differently. Why do you think he changed his mind on that vote . The same reason that Hillary Clinton changed her mind, the same reason that others did. If it had been a huge success, then nobody would be regretting their vote. Can you explain to people when you would use force . Yes, when theres a vital u. S. Interest at stake or when we have a Treaty Obligation that weve committed that we would keep. Now conversely, im not going to send my kids or anybody elses child to a place where our interests are not essential and where we cannot get it done. So the man who voted against the first iraq war in 1991 and then changed his mind about the second iraq war, deciding it was a disaster, ran for president in 2008 to end it. I wanted him to run. And the kids said, you know, dad has to run. And i felt that joe would be the only one who could end that war. Are you running for president . I am running for president. Im going to be joe biden. Im going to try to be the best biden i can be. It wasnt enough. We made a giant miscalculation, and that is, once obama caught on, there wasnt room on the track for anybody except hillary and obama. They locked up a lot of money, a lot of support, and it wasnt just joe biden. We were doing so well. [ laughter ] collectively, i think we had 2 . But it wasnt just the competition that sidelined biden, although the competition was formidable. It was biden himself, even on day one, talking about barack obama. Hes the first, sort of, mainstream africanamerican who is articulate and bright and clean and a nicelooking guy. I mean, thats a storybook, man. Yeah, it was unfortunate, because it was his announcement day, and he was simply trying to compliment senator obama. It didnt come off that way and was classic, careless biden, putting him into full damagecontrol mode right out of the gate. Let me tell you something, i spoke to barak today. I bet you did. To this day, his words can be cringeworthy and sometimes problematic. If you have a problem deciding whether youre for me or trump, you arent black. He apologized for that offthecuff mistake. Critics say when you talk a lot, thats bound to happen. Does he talk all the time . Yeah. Yes, constantly. All the time. There is no ability to affect that. So you have to go with the flow. Certainly, on the floor of the senate, he would go on for long, long periods of time. Why is that such a steady critique of you . Because probably i talk too much sometimes. After bidens shortlived president ial campaign collapsed, longwindedness took a back seat as obama considered him as a running mate. Obama was coming with relatively Little Washington experience. Here was joe biden with 36 years in the United States senate. And 36 years of being his own boss. He was a senate man. He loved everything about the senate. When he asked me if i would do it, i said no, i didnt want to be Vice President. My view was i was a fairly powerful senator i thought i could help him more as chairman of the Foreign Relations committee. And he called me, and i said oh, my gosh, thats so good. He said, i dont know, jill. I dont know. I said ill call the kids, and well talk about it. My mom said let me get this straight, the first black man in history has a chance to be president of the United States. He wants you to run with him, and you told him no, honey . Game, set, match. It was like the hand of god. Ladies and gentlemen, my friend, barack obama, the next president of the United States of america from that moment on, biden was all in, as long as he could have weekly meetings with the president and serve as his Chief Adviser on all matters. Biden said, i dont want a portfolio. All i want to know is that when you make the Big Decisions that im going to be in the room, and obama joked, i want your advice, joe, and i just want it in tenminute increments, not 60minute increments. For decades, hes brought change to washington, but washington hasnt changed him. So the man of senate, the twotime president ial alsoran finally became a winner, alongside a partner who was at the top of the ticket. This is a moment so many people have been waiting for. I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, the Vice President elect of the United States, joe biden. Lets see what youve got, oculus. [sighs] [whistling] this is the life. Rated everyone. Risotto. Buffalo. 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Bidens job, corral the Senate Republicans needed to get it done. The recovery act passed the house on a straight partyline vote. But in the senate it faced a filibuster. That meant it needed three republican votes to get it passed, and it fell to joe bidens lap to go on capitol hill and persuade the three republicans to get to 60 votes right on the nose. On behalf of the country and its people, mr. President , let me presume to say, thank you, we owe you a great deal. So just four weeks after the inauguration, the administration pumped 787 billion into a teetering economy. It was risky business. With some democrats complaining it wasnt enough and republicans arguing it was too large. We have no assurance that it will create jobs or revive the economy. In short, were taking an enormous risk. An enormous risk with other peoples money. The president of the United States [cheers and applause] rooif asked Vice President biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort, because nobody messes with joe. To implement the stimulus, it had to be free of any problem. Scandal. And it had to be fast and furious. So you had to move unbelievably fast but no problems and no slipups. Over the next seven years, the economy grew, though relatively slowly. Unemployment dropped by half, and millions of jobs were added. Good morning, folks, how are you . The following year, biden was on the hill again, this time to help find the votes for the Affordable Care act. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care act is passed. His role in obamacare was principally as an arm twister. But in the end, biden may be remembered as much for what he whispered to his boss when the legislation passed. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of america, barack obama. [cheers and applause] this is a big [ bleep ] deal. Thank you. And then there was the time biden jumped the gun on the president , announcing his own support for gay marriage on a sunday show. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexuals are entitled to the same, exact rights. But bidens utility went beyond domestic policy, as obama tasked him to handle assignments in afghanistan and also iraq, where the administration had promised to end the war. During the transition, President Elect obama said why dont you go to iraq and afghanistan in january to get the freshest possible information to inform our review. So, thats what they did. Biden returned from the trip, believing afghanistan was a complete mess and told the president. There was not unity of mission, unity of purpose, and he said, mr. President , the first thing we need to do is make sure that we have a clear set of objectives and a Clear Strategy and that everyone agrees on it. One point of agreement was that the first order of business was sending 25,000 additional troops to afghanistan, to ensure the countrys Upcoming Elections would be fair. But then came a request for even more troops. Based on an assessment by the new commander in afghanistan, stan mcchrystal, he came back to washington and asked for an additional 40,000 u. S. Troops. The Military Brass were on board, but not biden, who never stopped raising questions and clearly got on their nerves. You had gates, mullen, petrachlt eus, mcchrystal, Hillary Clinton. And you had the Vice President saying, stop, we have to rethink this. I think he was saying slow down. Theres no rush to judgment here. So the Vice President would lay, as he would like to say, the skunk at the picnic. He would be the bad cop. He would be the one pressing the military, why do you need that many resources . I dont believe that. Explain that. I would be the one taking them on. The president was new, they knew he didnt have any Foreign Policy experience, and if they went after him and it was a mistake, it would be a very costly mistake. And it became total complicity with president obama. They would confer before the meetings. And the president would say, joe, be great if you pushed on this or focussed on this or prodded on that. That allowed the president to kind of not show his cards, to sit back, to hear everyone out. The debates inside the Situation Room grew more and more tense, especially with the Military Brass. Theres always an attitude that, you know, were the ones who put our lives on the line. We are the military experts. We expect that, you know, when we make a recommendation that youll, youll give deference to those that have military experience. And the Vice President is not one to do that. Thats why some have been critical of joe biden. One source of the tension was bidens notion of a much smaller presence aimed directly at the terrorists. Fundamentally, the reason were in afghanistan in 2009 and frankly today, ten years later, has to do with al qaeda and terrorists who can reach out of afghanistan to strike us or our allies. So he was laser focussed on the terrorism problem. And how many boots on the ground would that have required . I think it was more along the lines 10,000 or 15,000 in that range. Biden lost the fight, unable to convince obama, who opted instead for the pentagon plan. The president committed 30,000 troops and told the brass to get the additional 10,000 from allies. Former defense secretary robert gates, who declined to be interviewed for this profile, wrote this about biden in his memoir. Quote, i think he has been wrong on nearly every major Foreign Policy and National Security issue over the past four decades. But when asked about that quote this summer, gates chose to steer the conversation to his assessment of bidens character over their policy disputes. I have a lot of policy disagreements, frankly, with the former Vice President. But i think one of the things that people will be weighing this fall is probably the character of the two contestants. Good afternoon, folks. In 2010, biden was still looking for a way to end the iraq war. Barak and i, who did he turn to, to end the war . Me. We are committed to building an Enduring Partnership between iraq and the United States. Bidens goal . Convince iraqi Prime Minister malakai that the u. S. Be allowed to leave a small military presence behind, but al maliki refused. Did he not push hard enough on that . He didnt push at all. They say they did, that they pushed and pushed and pushed. No. They did not push with any conviction. President obama ran on ending wars. They didnt push hard. Because what they wanted to do was skedaddle. And skedaddle they did. Your dream of an independent and sovereign iraq is now a reality. In december 2011, the Obama Administration stuck to a schedule agreed to by president bush and withdrew. Ultimately, we did leave a vacuum there, and ultimately, we paid a price for that. In iraq right now, militant isis fighters are less than 40 miles away from the capital of baghdad. And that ultimately forced the United States to go back in to iraq in order to make sure that they didnt take over the entire country. So u. S. Troops returned to fill the vacuum, temporarily. But the controversy over the growth of isis still remains. Up next, the biden who returned from iraq to face another battle. They say 1 of, of people survive, and we kept thinking why, why cant he be the 1 . At dell technologies, we started by making the cloud easier to manage. But we didnt stop there. We made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. No matter what it does, or how it changes. And we kept going. So you only pay for what you use. Because at dell technologies, we stop. At nothing. 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Somethings happened. Bos down . Bos down. Were like what . The motorcade bolted behind us and took off. The Vice President rushed to the hospital where his eldest son, 41yearold bo, had been taken. Nobody knew at that point whether he was alive, what happened . As the day progressed, the diagnosis was a stroke. I remember a moment in the hospital waiting room looking at the Vice President and jill biden sitting together, holding hands, with just unbelievable anxiety and grief on their face and thinking, this is so unfair that this would be happening to him, after what hes been through. Gradually, the news got better that day, and the stroke, what they thought was a stroke resolved itself. It appeared resolved a week later when bo left the hospital. But it wasnt. The real problem would be hidden for three more years. Can you describe bidens relationship with bo . Incredibly close. It was more than just father son. They were almost alter egos. You could just see the love and the pride. All quiet and unspoken between them. He was such a humble, decent person, bo was. The natural person to introduce his father to the nation in 2008. Please join me in welcoming my friend, my father, my hero, the next Vice President of the United States. Joe biden. [cheers and applause] bo served in iraq with the National Guard. The Attorney General of the state of delaware bo biden. And was the Attorney General of delaware, contemplating a run for governor. He was bound for bigger things, and not just because of his last name. And i thank you from the bottom of my heart for being there for me. He was the heir apparent, but there was no question he could earn it himself. He was an incredible natural, right . Who you just had to get out of the way and let him shine. I knew he would follow in his fathers footsteps. I mean, he loved politics, even as a little boy. Did you think he was going to run for president some day . Oh, absolutely, absolutely, yeah. By 2013, bo biden was married with two young children. And then he had this incident while he was traveling with his family. And ends up at the doctors office, and it was after that initial visit with the doctor that we heard from the Vice President that he needed to see a specialist at md anderson in houston. Md anderson, a top cancer hospital. Do you remember when biden called you . Yes. I do. You could tell from his voice that they have had a very challenging conversation with the doctor. The diagnosis was deadly. Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. The chances for longterm survival near zero. It was hard. I mean, it was hard. We just kept hope that he was going to make it. You know, they say 1 of people survive. And we kept thinking, why cant he be the 1 . After the work day, i would head to walter reed hospital, joe would head to walter reed. He would be there till 2 00 or 3 00 in the morning. And then he would come home, you know, grab a couple hours of sleep, or fall asleep, you know, at bos bedside and then shower and start the next day. I said to him, i find it remarkable how youre able to deal with this. He said, you know, the reality is ive dealt with this before. I know how this story unfolds. Friends and family say during this time he leaned heavily on his faith. Id see him in meetings fingering his rosary beads. I knew he was praying for him. Joe, on occasion, would come in to st. Anns or st. Patricks. Hed come in after mass had started and just slip in the back with his detail. And be there. And then hed leave before it ended so he didnt, you know, disrupt everything, but i remember looking back and sort of stealing a glance at one point. And he was praying hard. Biden also got support from his boss. The only person i told about how bad off bo was, and he kept the confidence, was barak. For years, the president and Vice President had a weekly lunch appointment, and when bo got sick, the struggle became their shared conversation. Did they become closer . They absolutely became closer. As people do, right, when they experience great life events together. So close that when the Vice President mentioned he might sell his home to help his son, the president made a stunning offer. I said, if bo resigns, theres nothing to fall back on, his salary, but i said i worked it out. Jill and i will sell the house, well be in good shape. When he got up, he said dont sell that house. Promise me you wont sell that house. Hes going to be mad at me for saying this, he said, ill give you the money. While the Vice President tried to help the son, the son tried to help his father. I absolutely believe and will believe did until the day i die, that the thing bo was most afraid of was not dying. What he was most afraid of was the impact it would have on his dad. That would really take his dad out. Did he tell you that . Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All the time. Its something the Vice President wrote about in 2017 in his book promise me, dad. Bo just made me promise. This was just before he died. He said, dad, you got to promise me youre going to be okay. I said, bo, ill be okay. He said dad, look at me, look me in the eye, dad, give me your word as a biden, dad, youll be okay. Are you okay . I am, because it is still i am, because it is still emotional, but i knew what he meant. He was worried id walk away from everything id worked my whole life, the things i cared about. He knew id take care of the family. He never worried about that, but he didnt want me walking away. Forward. March. Bo biden died on may 30, 2015. He was 46 years old. Bo biden was an original. He was a good man. A man of character. A man who loved deeply and was loved in return. Is it true you keep bos rosary with you . Got it in my pocket. All the time . I keep it all the time. He had it when he passed away. It was more gold. You can see its worn. Uhhuh. That was the spring of 2015. And, as ever in joe bidens life, another political deadline loomed. Would he run for president again in 2016 . We had a talk. He just kind of wanted, you know, do you think i should run for president . It inevitably turned into a talk about bo, you know, how would he get through it and how would he do it and how would it happen without him . So, when you left that meeting, did you think he was going to run . I thought he was going to really, really wrestle with it, but i thought that he was not yet in a place where there was a floor. There was a moment where we started talking, and you could just see there was no bottom. There was just this hole. The decision wasnt just about bo. It was getting late in the race for the democratic nomination. Hillary clinton had already captured key support and big money. Thank you all very much. Have you made your decision yet . Cant hear you. Have you made your decision yet and, as biden wrote in his 2017 memoir, obamas Political Team thought the race wasnt winnable, and obama himself was not encouraging. And so as my family and i have worked through the grieving process, ive said all along that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a Realistic Campaign for president. Ive concluded it has closed. Thank you all very much. Joe biden was 73 years old, and it seemed that the presidency was out of reach for good. Did he think it was over then . The notion of running for president . Yeah, oh, yeah. 2016 . Yeah. Then the president gave biden another job. Last year, Vice President biden said that when the new moon shot, america can cure cancer. Obama gave biden his moon shot. So, tonight im announcing a new National Effort to get it done. And because hes gone to the mat for all of us on so many issues over the past 40 years, im putting joe in charge of mission control. And then, this. I am pleased to award our nations highest civilian medal, the president ial medal of freedom. With nearly 50 year of Public Service under his belt and the nations highest civilian honor around his neck, joe biden thought his time In Washington was over. Up next. Beat trump. Beat trump. Rom unitedhealthcare. Lift it. Press it. Downward dog it. With medicares biggest gym network, including these premium locations renew active gives you so many ways to be healthy. Get medicare with more. Inflammation in your eye smight be to blame. Ck,lthy. Looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. 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He gets down to brass tacks and keeps inside the stakes. Biden style these people coming out of a field of torches and contorted faces spewing hate. But you also had fine people on both sides. He said there were fine people on both sides. I thought god thats why today im announcing my candidacy for president of the United States. Joe biden had come full circle, from one of the youngest men ever elected to the senate to seeking to be the oldest ever to be elected president. Article two is adopted a phone call he had with the ukrainian president asking them to investigate biden and his son hunter. What he did was a disgrace. He was on an Energy Company which began while his father was Vice President. Biden and his son are stone cold crooked. President trump claimed President Biden used his influence to force out a ukrainian prosecutor who he says was investigating hunter. He said he wouldnt give billions of dollars to ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor looking at his son. There is zero evidence this is true. Biden did want the prosecutor fired, but thats because he was corrupt and biden was leading an anticorruption campaign. There was an on going relationship between joe biden and the board in the country of ukraine. There are those who would say that is a conflict of interest. Last year hunter biden said he made a mistake. In The Grand Scheme of things yeah. But did i make a mistake based on unethical lapse, not . Did you ever think about telling your son hunter to get off the board even if it was just optics . We both wish it hadnt happened that way. All of the people who testified under oath in the Impeachment Hearings acknowledged there wasnt a single thing either biden did that was illegal or inappropriate, but it would have been easier, a lot easier. The attacks clearly got under bidens skin. You are a damn liar, man, thats not true. And ethical questions continued to be raised by republicans. There is no way i would let my son do that. I would make sure i didnt let it happen because i think its wrong. By february democrats were heading to the polls and bidens fate was up to the voters. Fourth in iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, soon came South Carolina. Did you think it was looking pretty bleak . Yeah, i thought that. And so just days before the primary influential congressman jim clyburn, hoping to give biden a boost, endorsed him. I want the public to know that im voting for joe biden. South carolinans should be voting for joe biden. It worked big time. Sweeping blowout for former Vice President joe biden. 46 county victories. My buddy jim clyburn, you brought me back. He won by 29 points and wouldnt have done it without you. There is no doubt about that. Well, some people said that. The decisive results in South Carolina quickly collapsed the democratic field. They dont call it super  tuesday for nothing so biden was back at the Top Of The Heap and the world. But the next week covid forced him and everyone else back Down To Earth and inside their homes for month. Shuttered schools, death toll mounts. Black lives matter. Then came racial tensions after the death of george floyd at the hands of minneapolis police. I know what it means to have that black hole in your chest where your grief is being sucked into it. Empathy is joe bidens super power. He applies it to everything. I think he fully intends to apply it to the country and challenges we are facing right now. As biden continued to rise in the polls, trumps attack dug deeper, taking on his acuity and age. They will put him into a home. Biden is less than four years older than trump. Both were born in the 40s. Look, he is approaching 80 years of age. I dont know anybody who hasnt lost a step when you are approaching 80. He has. I think its ridiculous. If you followed joe he is usually the last one to leave a rally or rope line and when he comes home he is on the phone, doing briefings. What do you say to people who watch you on tv and say he is not the old biden i knew and he has lost a step after all of these years and it worries me. What do you say to those folks . I say watch me. Good evening. More than 20 Million People watched joe biden accept the democratic nomination. I accept this nomination for president of the United States of america. With his historic running mate Kamala Harris by his side, it was a ticket that looked like the future. Drawing a caricature of biden as an empty vessel of radicals. Pelosi, aoc at the Convention Biden saw himself as the man to lead the country out of the pandemic. I know how unfair and cruel life can be sometimes. He made a case for America Moored by hope and decency. Hope for our future. Light to see our way forward and love to one another. There were two conventions, two alternate universes, two very different men. Are joe biden and donald trump Polar Opposites . 100 . Joe biden in character and policies is the Polar Opposite of donald trump. Is that a good thing . 120 yes and i think im shaving 10 or 15 off. Joe doesnt read his compassion off a teleprompter. Do you see yourself as a Polar Opposite of donald trump . I hope so. Cnn projects that joseph r. Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States. So the man who will be 46 began the evening as the Polar Opposite of 45, taking on the pandemic and not down playing it. I will spare no effort, none, nor any commitment to turn around this pandemic. Trying to unite this country, not divide it. I will work as hard for those who didnt vote for me as those who did. And charting the nation on a very different course. May this grim time in america begin to end here and now its a time of enormous turmoil. The 60s are over, dad. We intend to cover all of the news all of the time. We wont be signing off until the world ends. Isnt that special. Any tool forward Human Expression that bring out both the best and worst in us and television has been there. People are no longer