opening sal vovo of the campaig. >> there's this report in "the washington post" that former president obama is expressing concern about biden's re-election campaign. what are more are you learning? >> well, president obama and president biden speak frequently. a source told me they had met at the white house back in december and you've seen the white house and the campaign really try to utilize obama in some of their campaign messaging. whether it's fund raising videos. whether it's a video trying to talk about healthcare. but i think that certainly obama's giving biden advice. it's unclear what exactly that might be, but the campaign is trying to ramp up a lot of their operations heading into this next year. they are based here in wilmington, delaware, but they are still working closely with some of those top political advisers over in the white house. they have said that they expect that the campaign will be operating at full steam by early this summer but acknowledge they still have a lot of work to do to get that ramped up and to get