jessica? reporter: wolf, there are times when a president is more forgiving than his aides and this may be one of those times. some of the president s top aides are deeply annoyed. they acknowledge the president was going to come out and speak out in favor of same-sex marriage before the democratic convention, but boy, are they frustrated that vice president biden made it happen sooner than they wanted. he was planning to say this some time before the democratic convention. for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get marrie married. but vice president biden forced up the timing with his unscripted remarks on meet the press or as the president put it. she got a little bit overseas, but out of generosity of spirit would i have preferred to have done this in my own way, in my own terms without, i think there being a lot of notice. but all s well that ends well. reporter: some of the president s
captions by vitac www.vitac.com anyone cheering president obama s new stance on same-sex marriage has vice president joe biden to thank. the president himself is now confirming what many had suspected that the vice president forced the president s hand when biden announced his support for gay marriage over the weekend and now we re hearing that s a sore subject at least among some white house insiders. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is working the story for us. what are you hearing over there, jessica? reporter: wolf, there are times when a president is more forgiving than his aides and this may be one of those times. some of the president s top aides are deeply annoyed. they acknowledge the president was going to come out and speak out in favor of same-sex marriage before the democratic convention, but boy, are they frustrated that vice president biden made it happen sooner than they wanted. he was planning to say this some time before the democra