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Have the vice president playing a more central role. >> the first challenge of the obama administration is addressing what is called the greatest global financial crisis of our time. >> instantly the new obama administration is confronted with something that no president since fdr had been confronted with. the economy was melting down. >> we were losing 750,000 jobs a month, we had the banks on verge of collapse. >> biden gets involved, putting his years of experience in the senate to use. >> i have asked vice president biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort because nobody messe...

Those relationships count when you're passing legislation. >> joe understood sort of what you could and couldn't do, and he was able to work with senator mcconnell in a way i don't think anybody else in the white house could have done it. as a result, we avoided a fiscal calamity. >> obama also leans on biden's relationships on issues such as health care, and iraq. >> president obama knew that biden brought a kind of rolodex that could be drawn upon to try to help navigate iraqi politics and our relationship. >> biden helps orchestrate a handover of power to the iraqis in 2010, a move celebrat...

Administration and some were wrong and some were right but they are working and trying to figure out what you could and couldn't do, to reduce harm. and it seems to me that we've got this sort of backwards thing happening now where after this period of time the president is really acting out of peak and frustration in the actions he's choosing to take. >> i think there is no question that that is true. when you look at the comments he's made with regard to puerto rico and the hurricane, it is clear from his comments that he views himself as the pin ultimate victim of the hurricane, because he ...

Figure out what you could and couldn't do, to reduce harm. and it seems to me that we've got this sort of backwards thing happening now where after this period of time the president is really acting out of peak and frustration in the actions he's choosing to take. >> i think there is no question that that is true. when you look at the comments he's made with regard to puerto rico and the hurricane, it is clear from his comments that he views himself as the pin ultimate victim of the hurricane, because he was criticized by the mayor of san juan. and so when he's criticized or provoked he lashes...

Look what he did at department of homeland security, runs like militia presighings every senior staff at meeting on monday general likely going to lay out what structure is going to look like new procedures policies are things will change inside the building from potentially what was free wielding way to much more structured system the whoep a guy in kelly who he really doesn't make bs a guy gets in there, he is obviously been in the military comes from that structure, and seems at least the hope is he is going to get in there do the stuff that reince priebus couldn't do, in terms of structure...