at this point he s getting down to the wire of needing to make a decision particularly about staff, about raising money. theren is aelement of time pressure. you saw him talking over the weekend, jogging through crowds, listening to people chant run, joe, run very classic joe biden type of moment. it really is about his family and particularly about his wife, jill biden and whether she would be on board for something that is an emotionally exhausting activity for months on end, right after the death of his son, bo. as we look at the issue of money and staff the vice president is sure-footed to be able to accomplish that, but the calendar, that s the biggest issue. we re running out of time for him to get in and be competitive. he is running out of time and it s much more difficult as a sitting vice president to raise the kind of money you would need. you can t simply, you know, drive into iowa, for example,
someone stand on a hard floor for more than 15 minutes, you lose all their votes. i don t want to lose your i don t want to lose your friendship. you ve been my friends you ve been my friends my whole career and i really mean it. so let s talk about this more now. we ve got two of our best reporters from msnbc covering, alex seitwald and kasie hunton with a potential biden 02016. alex, we look at the new polling figures and compare them to what nbc news had put out there. hillary clinton is losing to jeb bush, and donald trump in iowa. as we look at new hampshire, she s barely beating bush there and losing to trump. what kind of state is her campaign in right now especially new york times is correct and they re trying to pivot to planned spontaneity? well, it s certainly not the state that they had hoped to be in right now. hillary clinton started the summer as the undisputed
you have to fly air force 2, that costs a lot of money. that s what people at draft biden, the superpack have been trying to do, lay the first round of groundwork, connect with some of the major doebors, and you ve had people in biden s inner circle reach out to people and say hey would you have room to give to the vice president if he said that he wanted to do this? but frankly, at this point he s really up against the clock and as we head toward even the first democratic debate is not that far away. kasie hunt reporting for us, great to see you, thank you. thanks, thomas. we turn our attention to capitol hill a major victory for president obama and the white house on the iran nuclear deal. three democratic senators said they re voting yes on the deal giving president obama the critical 41 votes needed to block republicans that are opposed to that agreement. not all democrats are on board. joe manchin told reporters today he must cast a vote against it. his no vote came on the h
frances, thank you. the pulse is live, reminder, pulse.msnbc.com. we move on to politics and the polling gets worse for hillary clinton. new one just out from monmouth university shows bernie sanders and vice president biden are gaining. the new york times is reporting that the clinton camp wants to shake up her image, they want her to show humor, heart, and they are planning to show her spontaneity. yes, they have decided to plan spontaneity. a new poll from nbc news and mar ist finds clinton less popular in iowa and new hampshire democrats. on monday the vice president joked about the possibility of a run. nobody to stand the biden for president! no, i you have to talk to my wife about that. i ve got to talk to my wife about that. but guys, i ve taken too much of your time. back in delaware, if you make
not only not deal but don t know how many cards are in the deck. we have more stories coming out like this again and again and puts a cloud over her entire campaign and makes it difficult for their message to get through. alex, thanks very much. we bring in kasie hunt, and let s show everybody this polling. according to our latest poll, donald trump beats clinton in iowa in a potential matchup but biden would beat trump. what is the mood among biden supporters? caveat in the poll that joe biden remains so attractive because he hasn t declared. it all changes the minute that he says he s running. that s entire true, and obviously hillary clinton has dealt with some of that over the course of the last couple months. one interesting thing that we learned from our poll, biden polls from hillary clinton and from bernie sanders, and so if he decided to get into the race you could see numbers on both of those sides change.