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Ground in iowa calling me and saying, you know, is he getting in the race, he should get in the race. we would love to see him on the debate stage in las vegas in october. and so this is the right place for us right now, for me to be right now. >> and you are obviously getting out there as part of draft biden, getting grassroots support. >> our list has grown significantly since we started. >> i was going to say, how much support is there for biden versus maybe just the idea that they're not so thrilled about hillary clinton? >> this isn't about hillary clinton or martin o'malley or bernie san...

Now there's this draft biden we're talking about. i want to put it on the screen what the post said in its editori editorial. "run, joe biden, run." eric, i'm going to give this to you. you know what it's like to run as a front runner and can't get a foothold. you had a lot of people in the republican party who weren't thrilled with him all throughout 2012. is that whaes ooh going on around here? >> look. there's no ground swirl support for joe biden. it's a function of the front-runner's weakness. hillary clinton is not able to close the deal with democratic primary voters. that's why you hav...

Is draft biden started with a couple thousand names. over 200,000 people today. the reason is joe biden was the original authentic candidate and he can walk around and talk to people like you and me and people all over the country and connect with them on a visceral level. that's where the momentum is coming from. it's our job to remind people who joe biden is. his long career and his close relationship with the president. >> there is talk this weekend about whether the vice president if he runs should pledge to run as a one-term president to focus on policy and not worry about the politics of...

To do that when you're running for president. how much do you think he should think about that or maybe do you as a family friend? >> i think he has a deliberative process that he's going through with his family and inerr circle. i think more than everybody he understands the demands that are put on a person running for president or as president. ily are a lot of factors he's weighing but more importantly he needs to make the decision his own way. what draft biden is doing is giving him the space to make this decision. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. let us know when you get the goods. >>...

Conversation with dick, the former chairman of the state's democratic party who also wants him to get in. according to the paper, meanwhile, the "times" reporting the draft biden movement is entering a new phase. join meg now is william pierce, executive director of draft biden. william, thanks for your time on this friday. and i want to ask you, as you have this group here, would you categorize your organization essentially as acting as an exploratory for the vice president? >> francis, i just see there's been a lot of momentum not only in the past 24 to 48 hours, in the past few weeks as wel...