VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Like I- I- I’d get up in the morning a few mornings and I’d say, “You know, Jill, I think I-” Because I have to admit to you, it was driving us insane is you guys.
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“I’ll be very blunt”, he said.
“I don’t think President Obama gets the credit he deserves for rescuing our economy from falling into a Great Depression”, she said. “I won’t be silenced and I hope (the issue) won’t be, either”.
While sparring over gun control during the CNN event in Las Vegas, Sanders said, “As a Senator from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton, that all the shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us want, and that is keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns and end this awful violence that we are seeing”. “The only reason to run is because I – I still think I could do a better job than anybody else could do”.
Jim Webb dropped out of the race, Vice President Joe Biden declined to run and she withstood hours of testimony on Capitol Hill.
Baquet’s comments come the day after an interview aired on “60 Minutes” in which the vice president discussed the media hype surrounding his potential candidacy.
Suggesting that politics only played a secondary role in his decision, Biden laughed off rumors that he harbors tensions toward Hillary Clinton, denying he ever doubted her viability as the Democratic presidential front-runner. “That was a reference to Washington”. Beau Biden, a former attorney general of Delaware, died of brain cancer in May at age 46.
Biden said there was no such “Hollywood moment…”
“I’ve been with people who are taking selfies with me, and I thought they were interesting looking people, total strangers, but I thought it was an interesting setting”, he said of when he has requested his own copy.
“Some individuals have written that, you understand, Beau on his dying mattress stated, ‘Dad, you have to run, ‘ or there was this type of Hollywood second… nothing like that ever, ever occurred”, Biden stated. He has not endorsed a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley all tossed out plenty of red meat to the base.
On Donald Trump: “I’m disappointed in Donald Trump”.
“I’m not running for my husband’s third term and I’m not running for Barack Obama’s third term”.
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“Let us all remember that gay and lesbian rights were not popular then as they are today”, Sanders reminded the crowd. “And until you get there, you know, it’s not – not an appropriate thing to throw your – and by the way, you can’t run for president unless you throw your entire being into it”.
