have gotten their names out there early, perhaps needing to do more work to familiarize themselves with voters, not among that crowd would be joe biden, if we can switch to him. he s speaking at a munich security conference very soon here today. whether it s deliberate or not, it s a good reminder of his foreign policy credentials and his experience in the top levels of politics, of course. do you see this as being about all about building that biden brand before officially jumping into the race? i think he s still debating whether to join this race because i think a lot of people around him, they thought he should have gone against trump in 2016. they regret that decision. and they don t want to let that opportunity pass again. this is biden s last time to actually run for president. it seems because of his age, and he has the ability to be a consensus democratic candidate.
reporter: well, former vice president joe biden is a regular attendee at this security conference. today, he ll be talking about the role should play in the world, as well as the challenges that are coming up. he s also speaking on a panel about election integrity. and while a lot of 2020 democrats are out back home in early states like south carolina and encourage encourage this weekend, for biden, it s a little bit different. he ll be here in munich, showcasing his foreign policy credentials as he gets closer to decides whether or not leal run for president in 2020. as the democratic field in 2020 takes shape back home, joe biden returns to a familiar place in the world stage. i ve done more foreign policy i think than anybody who is actively around in politics. reporter: if he runs for president, biden would enter the race as a foreign policy heavyweight, with a resume spanning decades. in the senate, he chaired the foreign relations committee.
here i go again on my - you realize your vows are a whitesnake song? i do. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. former vice president joe biden has not said if he will seek the democratic presidential nomination, but today he showed off some of his foreign policy credentials. biden told a major global security conference in munich he does not have any hesitations when it comes to european security. i strongly support nato. i believe it is the single most significant military alliance in the history of the world and i think it has been the basis upon
and i think that we have a tendency especially in the states to start the whole election process much too early we should be focusing now on what needs to be done to alter some of the policies that are being promoted by the president. he didn t really offer any clue which way he s leaning there. a lot of his friends and allyie spoke to him earlier, she got the sense when she met with him that is he going to run for president. so we re still in the final stages of decision making for the former vice president. when he was here today, it gave him a chance to show off those foreign policy credentials that he has really honed in on, since his time in the senate as well as in the white house. so for now, we re just staying tuned, both back home and here in europe as to whether vice presidents can be running for
has not said if he will seek the democratic presidential nomination but today, he showed off some of his foreign policy credentials. biden told a global security conference in mun itch, he does not have any hesitations who enit comes to european security. i strongly support nato. i believe it is the single most significant military alliance in the history of the world. and i think it has been the basis upon which we have been able to keep peace and stability for the past 70 years. and it is the heart of our collective security. it s the basis upon which the united states is able to exercise its responsibilities in other parts of the world as well. current vice president mike pence was also at the conference, and he told u.s. allies that the strategy of pulling u.s. troops in syria out, was not giving up in the fight against isis. this is a change in tactics. not a change in mission.