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Events have been taking place all week. big one later today with president obama. let's get started with my first read of the morning, and we begin with just that. just over three hours from now, president obama will deliver the keynote address here to mark the 50th anniversary of lbj's 1964 civil rights act. it's the latest chapter, and in a sometimes complicated, tense relationship, apparently between the families of the 36th president and the 44th president. few things annoy this white house more than the kind of advice "washington post" columnist dolled out in 2012. he told the particular ...

Restless. and that's because often the vice presidency has been described as nothing but it could be everything. and he is trying to figure out how to make it everything. but so far he is looking at those poll numbers certainly. but also looking at clinton, who hasn't made up her mind. the folks i talked to in her circle say she is legitimately grappling with this decision. and i think for both of these folks, primarily hillary clinton, she's got to probably make up her mind at some point, because that would activate a broader plan from vice president biden, and then also any other democrats o...

>> definitely all eyes will be on that sight. so hillary clinton she has largely owned the media's attention when it comes to the 2016 presidential race. >> but what about joe biden. brian tod is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: alison and george, the vice president is going to need all the momentum he can get to overtake hillary clinton in the speculative race that we're running right now. joe biden has enough experience, gravitas and political experience to bear that we have to take his candidacy very seriously. he's a natural handshaker and back slapper, evidenced on inauguration...

President. a new cnn poll suggests democrats all but assume that hillary clinton will be the party's standard bearer in 2016. but with joe biden heading to asia sunday at a key moment in u.s./china relations and a quiet support raising campaign now under way for him, some are wondering if biden might have some presidential joe-mentum of his own. brian todd has been looking into that today. anybody who has met vice president biden knows he's not a guy who will rest on his laurels. you get the sense he's running already for 2016? >> he could be. as you mention, he will need momentum, anything he...

Kennedy. you look, nominations can go a lot of different ways. i would say judging from that treatment, it seems very unlikely to me. i think the most fascinating thing, i'm obviously a campaign guy and i do remember when she stepped forward when hillary clinton took the isn't of state job. she stepped forward and said i would like the then governor to appoint me. it seemed an odd fit at the time. she's always been someone reluctant to go in the public eye. she has admitted she's shy. that campaign did not go well. she eventually wound up taking herself out of it. this seems to me while it is ...