vacation a couple of days ago because you had the latest and greatest reporting all things joe biden and now to many's surprise, not running. what happened? >> right. brooke, this is part of a process, and this is where a lot of his friends hoped that this would end up. so some people are wondering, how, did the meneed area get th wrong? this has been a series of joe biden unplugged in realtime. he made so many telephone calls to see if there was still time to run. but he end of the day he concluded there simply wasn't time. in that statement, so interesting, he said his family had signed on. in facts one of his daughters-in-law was very much looking forward to a campaign. she's been doing media interviews. he was reaching out to people. he wanted so much to run. beat the end of the the day, i'm told he didn't see a path to this. he zpieded last night i'm told but didn't tell the president until today, this morning. the president said that he would be be with him at his side to make this announcement in the rose garden.