Its important to point out the Vice President has still not decided. But this lunch today was far from one of their leg rarly scheduled lunches. They talked about 2016 campaign, but also about the messages and what is happening out there in the country now, economic messages, economic policy. So the president did not try and walk him back at all. He im told gave his blessing to run. Of course now its up to the Vice President if he decides to do it. Not an endorsement to be clear, not an endorsement, but a blessing to run, if joe biden decides to do it. If you can believe it, the meeting between the president and the Vice President , not the only meeting today that is stirring speculation. Jeff zeleny, i understand there is a meeting going on at the Vice President s residence right now, also of note, that includes two of the president s most trusted advisors . Thats right, john. Two of the president s top advisors, some of his longest serving politicaled a advice visors, bob bower, who has been his election lawyer for years and anita dun, who is a Communications Director in the white house to help sort of craft his president ial campaign. Those two are among a few others meeting right now with Vice President ed bien in the naval observatory, his official residence in washington. They have not yet signed on to any type of biden campaign. They are among the people that the Vice President is talking to as he decides to if he is going to run or not. And, again, everyone we speak to throughout the socalled biden world, they still say he has not yet made his decision. But, john, he is trying to get as much information as possible. He met with liz wet warren over theeck would. The same type of meeting this. Meeting tonight signifies if he were to decide to run there are people from the obama inner circle to be there to help him. These are obama people meeting with biden tonight talking about how to run, not whether to run. Jeff zeleny with big breaking news on two fronts involving joe biden. Wait. There is more. John king has the details. He joins us now along with cnn political commentator paddy solis doyle. Cnn political analyst carl bernstein, best selling author of a woman in charge, the life of Hillary Rodham clinton. John, i want to start with you. Weve been talking about joe biden meeting with the president , meeting with others right now talking politics. I understand you have meetings with fundraisers. The liz wet warren meeting was the first stroke. The blessing from the president , gold to joe biden is the second stroke. The meeting tonight part the next series of meetings. The Vice President meeting with people who put campaigns together, legal work, communications message. After labor day some fundraisers will come in. Other state Party Leaders and National Leaders will be consulted. Most of these in political meetings but he has a social events scheduled around things like rosh hash anna will political activists will be invited in for social events in custom the Vice President will have time to put his arm around them. In a series of social events and a series of officially designed political meetings, the president throughout the early weeks of september will continue these consultations. John, the goal is to decide by the end of the month. In again, everyone insists no final decision has been made, but what we are hearing from those in the meetings, he tells them he is for and more comfortable with the idea of running. Im told by his people he very much wants to run but wants to spend the next several weeks trying to get a sense of the terrain. Number one, can he beat Hillary Clinton. Number two, does he want to run, have something he wants to say. It is more than a trial balloon. It is a trial rocket ship. Pat east, the latest reporting on the lunch where president obama gave his blessing to joe biden. I dont think its surprising he would give his blessing, joe, if want to run, run. What we are seeing today with the leak of the meeting, the leak of the blessing, jorch hirsch saying what a great guy joe biden is, this is more than a blessing i think. The Vice President is a great guy. And clearly there is a lot of affection and a lot of love between the president and the Vice President. And of course the president was going to give him all the room he needs to make his decision. But there are ways to say that we had lunch, and there are ways to say we had lunch. This seems to go beyond that. Right. So, the next step is, will he decide the actually run . If he decides to actually run then the president and the white house are in a bit of a pickle, do they endorse . If so, who . Whats the timing of the endorsement . Early on, where they can make a difference, hem him or her raise money . Or do they let it play out a little bit. It will be interesting to see. The president will be in a pickle. So will Hillary Clinton. Which well talk about in just a second. Before we bring her up, carl, you have been hearing people close to joe biden saying if he decides to run he could say look i only want to do this for one term. I want to be a oneterm president because of his age. Do you think it is an advantage to make that statement going into the campaign . Weve heard of that in the past, candidates speculating they might do that. They never actually go ahead with it. I think he has until if he were to win the nomination to do it. There is no necessity to do it now. The time would be to do it when he had the nomination where in the minds of voters who were uneasy about his age, he could do it then. But i know he is thinking about it. The people i talked to a few weeks ago when i first reported it. But the real factor thats driving so much of this is the distrust within the party now about the viability of Hillary Clintons campaign, that she is on very shaky ground within her own party by people who are disappointed in the Democrat Party with how she has run this campaign, with her difficulty with being strayed forward and truthful about the matters of the server. And thats what has brought on so much of this, along with donald trump. So, john, if you are Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Campaign watching this, i mean, youve known that joe biden was thinking about it for a while. But over the last four days, this has just gone to a whole new level. It certainly has. Its gone to a whole new level at a key moment. Number one n an odd way, this could in the long run, if joe biden doesnt run or if he runs and cant beat Hillary Clinton will in an odd way help her. What were we talking before, the rise of bernie sanders. Now he is sort of on pause while we talk about joe biden. Hillary clinton, carl laid it out, there are serious vulnerability, and there is a conversation about potential vulnerability. Carl and patty have been through this. Some of this is probably not fair to Hillary Clinton but when an investigation and the Justice Department involved and you have the same lawyers coming out of the woodwork the same lawyers that came out during the prior clinton president ial days. Is that fair to hillary . Probably not. But it is a fact and it is history. When you see the David Kendall profile on the front page of the New York Times you get nervous. Ly has to keep campaigning, got out there and talk to voters. Probably going to have to keep talking to the media. She has a key date in october before the select committee on benghazi to give public testimony. Jerry browne the governor of california said it right this past weekend. She cant shoot and make this email story going away. Its like a vampire. Another aspect of this, john, is that people in the Democrat Party, including her really loyal supporters believe that she has played into the hands of the clintons enemies and the partys enemies. And that is what has shaken so many people. Because once again, it looks to these fundraisers, look to these Party Leaders as if the clintons have suck automaticed to their own worst instimpgs. Patty and thats why there is so much talk. And patty doyle knows an awful lot about what happens in these situations. Patty, let me show you a quinn pea act poll in florida. Last week. It shows that donald trump is beating Hillary Clinton in florida in the most recent polling. But that joe biden is beating trump. In other words, biden is doing better than Hillary Clinton is doing in hick. You are starting to see voters in polls showing that Hillary Clinton is not doing well here. I do not buy that joe biden is thinking about running because of hillarys email. I think look, the last sitting Vice President that did not run in an open election, i think was kidick complainy. Joe biden has done a great job as Vice President. He has an incredible relationship with congress on both sides of the aisle. He has a 20 net faifrl favorable right now, Hillary Clinton did, do you think he would be running . I think it has more to do with the health of his son and less thou to do about his emails. Its going to be an awkward cocktail party. John king, patty so lease, doyle bernstein, thank you all so much. Other big news today. The market meltdown. Why it might not be over yet. And what you can do about it. Richard quest thank goodness has all the answers. Also, donald trump has a 14 point plan for dealing with immigration. See what happens when he is grilled on the specifics. Union vision and fusion anchor jorge ramos weighs in. And the americans who took down a gunman on a train. The possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. 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But there was relief that it was only 600. The market began today by losing 1,000 points in about ten minutes. And for a while, even seasoned market watchers were at a loss to explain what was going on. Fortunately, cnns unflappable Richard Quest, never at a loss for words. He joins us right now. Richard, what on earth happened . Very simply, it was the moment when somebody called fire and everybody decided to head for the door. In the global interwoven markets that weve got what started in china and shanghai raced through india, up through france, frankfurt, london, and ended up on these shores. China is one of the things being focused on right now . That is the thing. That is the thing. That and the falling price of oil. But the question is dubious nature of chinese economist statistics and whether china is basically going to grow even at the limited rate of 5 to 7 that they might. You say the dubious name of the information coming out of china. Donald trump said Something Like that today. He talked about chinas slowing economy. He said this could get very messy. Its all caused by china and asian being able to dictate. You have to take with it a grain of salt. The man cant have it both ways. This is same man who has basically made a fortunate selling those expensive apartments to the chinese. Which does he want . Does he want a roaring chinese economy that enables china to buy his property . Or does he want a more realistic china economy, who is what is taking place at the moment . I mean im not going to get into the politics. Ill leave that to others better qualified. But on the economics of mr. Trumps argument, he is on thin ice. Lets move from donald trump to me for a second here because there are a lot of people out there concerned about their 401 k s by a lot of people, i mean me. What do you do . Nothing. Nothing . Not now. Its too late. What do you want to do . Do you want to sell into a market i would like for it not to have gone down 4 . You have made a mistake, live with it for moment, john, seriously, its the most foolish thing anybody can now do is to sell into a falling market chltsz its like trying to catch a knife thats falling. You are not going to win. You have to ride this one out. Safe in the knowledge that the u. S. Economic fundamentals are strong, as we heard from the white house today. Unemployment is low. Inflation is low. Growth is moderate. The fed probably wont raise rates. Almost certainly wont raise rates in september. And unfortunately you will have a bout of indigestion over the next few days. Because you yelled at me and called me an amateur, i want you to stick around for a moment and take part of this conversation. I want to bring in david gergen who sees a lot of 24 through a political lens. He identified the market plunge as one of three signs that the silly season in this campaign is over or ought to be. And says its time to get serious. By serious, david means focusing more than on Donald Trumps antics and hillarys emails and more on policy. Joining us is jeff relord. David. You say this market plunge should put pressure on president ial candidates to engage in a more meaningful way . Absolutely. Weve had a summer frolic and there has been more entertainment than politics. Donald trump is at the center of that. As americans face the fact that the world Financial Markets are in chaos that the economy may be more fragile than we thought, that your 401k could be in trouble, what americans want now is leadership that is strong as well as steady and a steadying force for us. Thats the kinds of person they look for. And they are going to start trying to size up the candidates. And donald trump exudes personal strength but he hasnt yet shown himself yet to be quote president ial in a way we normally think. In other words, he is not a up kaing force, a steadying force for this society, which is what people want in a president. Hillary clinton, on the other hand is a calm, steadying force but people are really worried about whether she is Strong Enough for the job. And the same thing, does jeb bush have the kind of fire. This is going to be a testing time for the candidates that goes beyond what we saw in the summer. The from jaility and the chaos in the markets. We have the pope coming here to talk about income and quality. Weve got the iran agreement. September is going to be a critical month for the campaign to turn from being a frolic to being serious. So, jeff lee, mr. Gergen says the time for fun is over. Let me play you a little bit of what donald trump posted inon sta gram having to do with china. Listen. Ive been telling everybody for a long time china is taking our jobs, they are take our money. Be careful. They will bring us down. You have to know what you are doing. We have nobody that has a clues. You have to know what you are doing. We have nobody that has a clue. That to me right now seems like his china policy, jeffrey. Is there more to it . Does he need explain more how he would deal directly with china . Im sure he will. He has been talking about china for a long time. I interviewed him over year ago