today. how about this, a pennsylvania avenue joe biden irish catholic guy, big decision. paul ryan, irish catholic guy, with big decisions. get excited, chuck. fair enough. thank you, luke. so what will ryan s demands mean for unity in the gop and what about a plan b if those demands can t be met? well, don t ask speaker boehner. what if he doesn t decide to get in? don t know. joined by republican strategist and an msnbc contributor, steve let s talk about this a minute. what if the freedom caucus sticks to their guns and says, we re not going to sign on to your demands on this, and he walks? then what? chaos. pure and simple. great damage to the republican party at a presidential level and dispositive of the fact that maybe the party can t govern, can t even accomplish the most
at yes. chuck? that s for sure. kristin welker, you re all over the story, and by the way, 48 hours, there you go. thank you, kristin. thanks, chuck. the big speech to say he won t run, gave us a pretty good idea of what his announcement speech would have sounded like. he gave us a taste. i believe that president obama has led this nation from crisis to recovery and we re now on the cusp of resurgence. i m proud to have played a part in that. this party, our nation, will be making a tragic mistake if he walk away or attempt to undo the obama legacy. i believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart. i think we can. it s mean-spirited. it s petty. and it s gone on for much too long. joining me now, the governor of delaware, jack markel, who was ready to support the vice president if he ran.
welcome to meet the press daily. thank you. how disappointed are you? you know, for us, everybody in delaware is with the biden family, we have so much respect for vice president biden. and we would have done everything we possibly could have had he decided to run. but this was a personal decision, and obviously we support whatsoever decision he made. but incredibly grateful for the contributions he has made, and he still has a lot of work to do. is this a way to unite does he end up uniting the democratic candidacy have dividd the party? it s hard to know. he s a uniter, he runs with a positive message, as you just reported. and i think that s how he s always run in delaware. i think that s how he ran as vice president, and that s i m sure what he would have done running for president. but i think you ll see a lot of coalescing behind secretary clinton for sure. speaking of co-alessing, do
about it. september 3, in a speech to atlanta synagog, biden cites the emotional energy of his family as the most relevant factor in his decision. four days after that, he attends a pittsburgh labor day president with richard trump ka by his side and sounded all the bit of a candidate. few days later, he throws cold water on a run with late show host stephen colbert, saying that his grief sometimes overwhelms him. on august 16th, he spoke with the president of the international association of firefighters, strongly suggesting that a possible white house run was on the horizon. and yet, that brings us today, at the white house, with his wife jill, and president obama at his side, the vice president announced his decision not to run. good morning, folks. please, please. as my family and i have worked through the grieving process, i ve said all along what i ve said time and again to others.
would this have been a yes if the timeline had been moved up three weeks? i think you would have seen it get to yes. i think at so many times he had gotten to yes, but the problem, he just couldn t stay there. i was told by multiple sources he was leaning toward getting into the race before the first democratic debate. those pushing him to run said let s take a look at the numbers, we believe there s a path to winning the nomination there. he did that. you saw a flurry of phone calls over the past weekend, including the vice president giving him the indication he was leaning toward running, and the vice president and his inner circle reached out to a number of his closest supporters, saying that he would have a final decision by monday. lot of folks thought he was going to announce. when that didn t happen, chuck, that was when a lot of his supporters started to realize, this might just not happen. that he was never going to stay