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Unprecedented. has there been a public wishing and waiting? >> oh, absolutely. mario cuomo famously in 1991, the primary process that bill clinton finally won in the democratic party, mario cuomo kept on giving signals, i will, i won't did not declare-not going to run until the 20th of december, so that's later in the process that we're talking about. robert kennedy, when he was thinking about whether to run lbj over the vietnam war issue in late 1967, 1968 was agonized, finally only declared 16th of march of that election year, the spring of the year that election would have been held. mich...

Committing that he was going to run, but definitely talking it over. as recently as yesterday he talked at a public event in on in a way that convinced some that he was going to run. but today when he finally ended that long process, there was inevitably talk about whether this long public process hurt somehow, whether it was undermining to hillary clinton's front-runner campaign, whether it distracted from the project of the democratic nominating process, whiches to pick a candidate who beats a republican in november and brings along as many down ticket democrats as possible. if it were anybo...

We've experienced combat, and we've experienced differences of views, and some of those may be parent in these conversations, but our relationship has been characterized by affection, but most of all, by respect. i respect this man as much as anyone who i've ever known, because i don't know anyone who is more dedicated to serving his country. >> republican senator john making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attempt to undo the obama legacy. the american people have worked too hard, and we've come too far for that. democrats should not only defend this record and protect this record, they s...

>> within the week of those remarks, he was bounding through a campaign-style appearance on a labor day rally in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. he didn't just look fired up and energetic. it actually looked like he was running, if only because for much of the day he was literally running through that whole event, jogging around. he spoke about the process he was going through again on stephen colbert 'news show. he talked about his grief over his son's death and how that was competing in his heart and in his emotions with his real desire to run. last week it was a letter from his closest political ...