in february of 1988, joe suffered a brain aneurysm. a brain aneurysm he believes he would have otherwise ignored on the campaign trail. a police escort raced him from delaware down to walter reed army medical center in washington. the family piled into the cars and beau would ride up front in the cops, jill would ride in the ambulance with joe. maryland cops were supposed to meet them but they never showed up. deep into maryland he turned to beau and said where are we going? beau had a wind breaker on and a ball cap. he must have looked like a federal s.w.a.t. guy. beau just turned 19 years old. the surgeon told them they had no time to waste. they had to cut open the skull and operate. they said the chances were no more than 50-50. a priest came in to give him his last rites and joe asked to see the bidens one more time. he didn t have to tell the boys that he loved them after all or
continues presiding over the bork hearing. ted kennedy slips him a note and says, i ve been there, there s life after this. i think that resonated with biden in that moment, because kennedy had been there. after an historic constitutional debate led by biden, the senate rejects bork s nomination. as biden presses forward in the senate his severe headaches continue. the headaches really got bad after he withdrew from the race. and in february of 1988 an aneurism ruptures in joe biden s brain. biden is rushed into emergency surgery. you were on the verge of dying, weren t you? yeah. what did you say to your children? in general terms i told them how much i believed in them and what i expected of them if i died. i think there s a reason for what happened, and i think that getting out of the race was, quite frankly, a god send. it was at that point that i made my peace with the campaign falling apart.
biden in that moment, because kennedy had been there. after an historic constitutional debate led by biden, the senate rejects bork s nomination. as biden presses forward in the senate his severe headaches continue. the headaches really got bad after he drew with drew from the race. and in february of 1988 an aneurism ruptures in joe biden s brain. biden is rushed into emergency surgery. you were on the verge of dying, weren t you? yeah. what did you say to your children? in general terms i told them how much i believed in them and what i expected of them if i died. i think there s a reason for what happened, and i think that getting out of the race was, quite frankly, a god send. it was at that point that i made my peace with the campaign falling apart. in the long-run if he wants to be president i think it will make him a better president.
been there. after an historic constitutional debate led by biden, the senate rejects bork s nomination. as biden presses forward in the senate his severe headaches continue. the headaches really got bad after when drew from the race. and in february of 1988 an aneurism ruptures in joe biden s brain. biden is rushed into emergency surgery. you were on the verge of dying, weren t you? yeah. what did you say to your children? in general terms i told them how much i believed in them and what i expected of them if i died. i think there s a reason for what happened, and i think that getting out of the race was, quite frankly, a god send. it was at that point that i made my peace with the campaign falling apart. in the long-run if he wants to be president i think it will make him a better president.
rick leventhal is on the ground in new york city and he joins us with an update. we know his name, sayfullo saipov. he s a uzbeki national, born in uzbekistan and made his way to the united states, he s 29 years old. born i m told in february of 1988. authorities apparently recovered a driver s license from florida, he apparently spent time in tampa, florida, may have also had some new jersey identification on him. beyond that the new york post is reporting that he was a uber driver, and friends that he was a nice guy. at what he did today has already been identified as an act of terrorism, and we were told early on in this investigation that the truck that he rented, a u-haul rental truck, he drove it onto that westside highway bike path and drove it down from houston street down to chambers before he ran into a school bus. you see the damage on the front end. he felt initially law enforcement will make the truck was rented in jersey city, apparently that s the corporate office, t