biden plays well with those voters. maybe not as well, but well, so you wouldn't really get that much with a hillary on the ticket. >> well, the associated press reports that hillary clinton said this about her future plans, quote, i am looking forward to being out of public life, whether it's high level appointments like this or elected office. i have no interest in or no plans of any sort to pursue that any more than i am really looking forward to returning to private life. you don't have to give a shermanesque speech for the vice presidency because you can't run for it, joan, but i do wonder. >> right. >> here's my question, something you sort of got to. i always felt bad about jerry ford dumping nelson rockefeller because nelson rockefeller, whatever party you're in, is certainly a public servant and a good one all those years as governor of new york and accepting the vice presidency, and to have him dumped in '76 just to sort of lighten the burden of jerry ford certainly didn't help jerry ford much. >> no. >> he go

biden gave it to him. >> i didn't see anything particularly wrong with biden's response. he got a little testy. let's hear what jason mattera had to say, he was interviewed by john king. >> journalists can't take pictures with the vice president. >> i think it's unethical. >> i'm looking to get politicians who are used to spin and their messaging teams, i'm trying to get an honest reaction, frank answer, gut reaction, amen -- >> especially because so much of the media is made up of drones what gave biden a pass. >> so the explanation seems to be that anything goes when it comes to penetrating the bubble that does indeed surround high-ranking public officials. >> right. you want to get a face to face with somebody. he's thinking the media is not questioning the vice president enough. i think it's -- i think the vice president actually handled himself fine. i watched that clip and thought, well, that's typical joe biden. we're not seeing a different person than we see every day. >> and how did mattera handle himself? >> i don't find the sort of journalism sheds the greatest

this president really values joe biden. i do not believe he would ever dump him. >> whether you like or dislike the results he's also been important in recent negotiations. >> he won't do that because presidents don't like to question their original choice. but we've had many more vice presidents in american history than presidents. they did used to come off the ticket all the time. >> sure. >> and the habit of not rotating them out does raise a question. if you want to shape the party after you, this is the moment to do it. >> if the polls, if the polls are pitiful in three or four more months this question will come back up again. >> sure. >> all right. but if the president of the united states is looking, is looking maybe, if he's looking maybe or if people are thinking for the future of the democratic party you would look what, for a star of screen and stage, someone who gets politics, can do a great job in television maybe you'll look for donna brazill. >> i just don't want him to blow up in our face. >> how will he bl

biden plays well with those voters. maybe not as well, but well, so you wouldn't really get that much with a hillary on the ticket. >> well, the associated press reports that hillary clinton said this about her future plans, quote, i am looking forward to being out of public life, whether it's high level appointments like this or elected office. i have no interest in or no plans of any sort to pursue that any more than i am really looking forward to returning to private life. you don't have to give a shermanesque speech for the vice presidency because you can't run for it, joan, but i do wonder. >> right. >> here's my question, something you sort of got to. i always felt bad about jerry ford dumping nelson rockefeller because nelson rockefeller, whatever party you're in, is certainly a public servant and a good one all those years as governor of new york and accepting the vice presidency, and to have him dumped in '76 just to sort of lighten the burden of jerry ford certainly didn't help jerry ford much. >> no. he got b

biden plays well with those voters. maybe not as well, but well, so you wouldn't really get that much with a hillary on the ticket. >> well, the associated press reports that hillary clinton said this about her future plans, quote, i am looking forward to being out of public life, whether it's high level appointments like this or elected office. i have no interest in plans of any sort to pursue that any more than i am really looking forward to returning to private life. you don't have to give a shermanesque speech for the vice presidency because you can't run for it, joan, but i do wonder. >> right. >> here's my question, something you sort of got to. i always felt bad about jerry ford dumping nelson rockefeller because nelson rockefeller, whatever party you're in, is certainly a public servant and a good one all those years as governor of new york and accepting the vice presidency, and to have him dumped in '76 just to sort of lighten the burden of jerry ford certainly didn't help jerry ford much. >> no. >> he got beat

the moral disaprobation of joe biden. what are you going to do about that entrenched state and federal bu biden's home state of delaware officials had to suspend the mismanagement and potential fraudulent activity. (sighing) joe biden couldn't control fraudulent activity in his own a thing so small you could actually weather-ize it. but maur decades is simply immu joe biden's crankynes is billion-plus do >> the goal of 41-state program $20 million g into the three homes have had upgrades and 14 jobs crea >> jon: 14 jobs to weather-ize th you plugging the unemployed into the draft? come on, man. three homes have you been in afghanistanace of weeks we built city a barren desert and equipped it with water filtration, pizza huts we did it while shooting (beep) rockets at us. you're telling me we shouldn't be able to weather-ize seattles? we have nothing for $5 billion. >> the energy department s failed to y or qual standards. aces on verge of contractors not weatherization spewing asbestos throughout the home. >> jon: you kno

jill biden. she was in delaware today kicking off her campaign for awareness of women's breast cancer. [cheers and applause] she and the first lady have been at the point of the spear helping out families of those deployed to iraq and afghanistan. the boots on the ground. [applause] and listen to this. when joe's mom and dad were living with them, she was helping take care of the vice president's elderly parents at the same time of raising three boys and at the same time getting two master's degrees and a ph.d.. [cheers and applause] i'd say the vice president and i definitely have something in common, we married above ourselves. [laughter] all right. since jill cannot introduce her husband, all i have to say is one of the best senators to ever come out of the united states senate, one of the true, great american patriots. i think arguably the best vice president of the united states. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, joe biden, the vice president of the united states! [cheers and appla

biden: let me, listennto me. reportee: i'm listening. biden: i said rape was up three times in flintt they are phe numbers. go look at the numberr. murder is up, rape is up and bbrglary is up. that's exactly whaa i said. theereporter was jason mattera.he's the editor of the magazine, human events. true meaning of "til death do uu part." norma and gordon yeaggr were married sevvnty-two years..uut last week they were in a car accident... both were takkn to the hospital and kept in the pame intensiveecare room.aad pt was in that room ... that they held hands s first gordon passed.... followed by normaaone hour later. ((it was realll strange, they were holding hands, ann dad couldn't figure out what wass going on because the heart monitor was still going, but we were llke, "he isn't breathing, howwdoes he still have a heart beat?" and she &pchecked and everythhng and hooding hands and it's going - still getting hhr heartbeat through him.)) norma and ordon even hell hands in their casket. norma was 99, and gordon was 94. coming up on the earl

i had a discussion with senator joe biden. earlier in the week, and he had something to say about republicans i want you to listen to. >> this is not your normal republican party. good or bad, it's a different republican party in the house of representatives. it's different. with a very different view than mainstream republicans have had going into this. >> senator biden has nice things to say about you, about speaker boehner, about, majority leader cantor but talking about the tea party. has the tea party made your job more difficult? >> the signing of the trade agreements passed by an overwhelming bipartisan agreement that the signing of the bill basically in a room without any cameras. they're a shame to mention any of the things that they do with republicans because it steps on their storyline. their storyline is that there must be some villain out there keeping this administration from succeeding. look, the president's been in office now almost three years. we've had a chance to look at his performance. the vice president

jill biden. she was in delaware today, kicking off her campaign for awareness of women's rest cancer. [applause] sheehan the first lady have been at the point of this beer. >> are helping out families of those deployed to iraq and afghanistan. the boots on the ground. [applause] and listen to this. wind joe's mom and dad were living with them, she was taking care of the vice president elderly parents at the same time raising three boys and at the same time, getting two masters degrees and a ph.d.. [applause] i would say the vice president and i definitely have something in common. we married above ourselves. [laughter] alright, since jill cannot introduce her husband, all i have to say is one of the best senators to ever come out of the united states senate, one of the true great american patriots, i think arguably the best vice president of the united states. ladies and gentlemen, joe biden, the vice president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> bless you. bill thank you very much. th

then, jobs, jobs, and 2012, on the campaign trail with vice president joe biden. >> it's a different republican party in the house of representatives. it's different. >> and from louisville, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. >> the president is out there doing his best howard dean impersonation. he's completely out of touch. >> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the and this is "state of the union." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the remaining 39,000 u.s. troops in iraq will be out by december, the fulfillment of an obama campaign promise, the end of a war, the beginning of the unknown. >> i think that they deserve a great credit. at the same time, we are now leaving iraq completely which is the number-one priority of the iranians. >> another journey into the unknown is full throttle in libya now, after the brutal death of its brutal dictator, moammar gadhafi. only two days earlier, secretary of state hillary clinton was in libya, pledging support to the transitional government. her reaction to gadhafi's death caught on camera while in afghanistan went viral.

vice president biden about to go to york. he will speak about how the american jobs act would support education. that school district lost nearly 20% of its teaching staff because of budget cuts. of course, pennsylvania is an important state for the obama/biden ticket in 2012. we will bring you the vice president's remarks as soon as he gets started. >>> a major doctors group now says it is time to legalize marijuana. the california medical association is calling for pot to be regulated like alcohol or cigarettes. for the first time ever. m half of americans agreeing that marijuana should be legal. california collects $105 million in sales tax on medical marijuana. some say if you open it up, that would be a prescription for the ailing economy across the country. allen st. pierre is the director for the national organization of the reform of marijuana laws. david evans is a special adviser to the drug-free american foundation. david, let me start with you. do these numbers surprise you? >> with any kind of survey, it depends

the moral disaprobation of joe biden. what are you going to do about that entrenched state and federal bureaucracies? well, in biden's home state of delaware officials had to suspend the weatherization program in may 2010 due to gross mismanagement and potential fraudulent activity. (sighing) joe biden couldn't control fraudulent activity in his own state. a thing so small you could actually weather-ize it. but maybe after four decades delaware is simply immune to joe biden's crankyness so how is a $5 billion-plus dollars we spent on weatherization work out for us? >> the goal of the 41-state program is 170,000 retrofitsage 0,000 jobs created in seattle which got a $20 million grant one year into the program only three homes have had upgrades and 14 jobs created. >> jon: 14 jobs to weather-ize three homes? are you plugging the unemployed into the draft? come on, man. three homes in a year. have you been to afghanistan? in afghanistan in the face of weeks we built an entire city in a barren desert and equipped it with wate

>> sean, biden doesn't care. he makes up this stuff in his head. he's the king of gas. he doesn't care what he's saying. he's condemning republicans but he won't say anything about the people out on the occupy wall street. >> there's a sinister side to this because he's out there saying republicans, you don't support the president's plan for another stimulus, rapes and murders are going to go up. he was wrong in his statistics, that's number one. number two, the president is out there saying the republicans have a plan, they want dirtier water and dirtier air. >> just like harry reid said he didn't want women to get medical examinations and so forth. this is absolutely. >> women would be lying on the floor. >> absolutely. what is he doing other than drinking the obama administration's kool-aid? this is ridiculous. >> there's one other thing biden left out of his little description of crime rates on flint, michigan. they did have to playoff policeman in flint. the rain was when the city was having financial troubles and tried to get the union to reduce some of their bene

not -- we're not so shocked when it comes out of the mouth of vice president biden. but i honestly don't think -- i hear what you're saying, that it was calculated, absolutely. but i do think he was trying to tell the kids what kids need to know, which is hi, i'm the vice president. this is what we're doing in washington and this is why -- >> bill: but they're not doing it because the opposing party isn't going to okay it. so what they're really doing is telling the kids, look, we're the good guys and the other party is the bad guys and you're only nine years old and you should listen to me. it's not the way it should go down, doctor. you know it. it's not the way it should go down. >> i agree with you on that. but then again -- >> bill: consider this -- >> you know regardless of what he says and regardless of the polls showing the majority of americans in favor of this jobs bill, the republicans showed in the senate they wouldn't vote on it. >> bill: they voted on it and it got knocked down. this is a message, dr. meldman that i want to send to the vice president, i

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. >> vice-president biden spoke out this morning, calling the alleged attempt over the top and a vow that iran will be held accountable. there is one co-conspirator at large, and officials are ramping up efforts to get the international community on board with the sanctions likely to be imposed against iran. >> it is an outrageous act and the iranians are going to have to be held accountable. when you see the case presented, you will find there is compelling evidence with the assertion being made from multiple sources. >> vice president biden not holding back about the plans the united states plans to take hold in iran responsible for the file terror plot. sitting down with abc news this morning, he says that the united states is in the process of uniting world opinion against iran as it goes forward with likely sanctions. >> we will make sure the entire world and all the capitals understand exactly what the iranians had in mind. it is not rage, it violates one of the final promise -- it is an outrage and it violates one of it but no promises, safety of diplomats. >> the fbi said tha

here's vice president biden's somewhat surprising take on that question. let's listen. >> even though 50-some percent of the american people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant. what's relevant is, we're in charge. it's gotten better, but it hasn't gotten good enough. so i don't blame them for being mad. we're in charge. so they're angry. >> "we're in charge." the poll he's referring to is the new one from cnn. when asked who's responsible for the current economy, a majority of americans, 52%, say president bush and the republicans. hear that? 52% say bush and the republicans. just 32% say president obama and the democrats. that's an allocation of blame about the same as this time last year. it's holding. but bush isn't on the ballot, i would argue, next fall, and it looks like it might be a time to change the argument. alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst and nia-malika henderson covers politics for "the washington post." ladies, thank you for coming on tonight. it seems to me a most to the point question

. >> bill: vice president biden takes his case for more federal spending on jobs to fourth graders. is that ethical? >> watch it! >> bill: also tonight, geraldo on the demise of gadhafi. jesse watters going to a very strange place. >> you could have killed bin laden. >> yeah, i could have. >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. violence picks up in the occupy wall street protest. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as you may know, my pal, glenn beck, believes the protest movement is just the beginning of a world wide far left revolt. beck bases his assessment on what's happening in greece, italy ask other places. but trying to cut back on entitlement spending and protesters are going wild. with the economy bad pretty much everywhere, there is some sympathy for these kinds of protests around the globe. talking points is not quite as agitated as beck is, but we are watching the situation very closely here in the usa. and there is no question that t

less cops, more crime. >> so vice president biden is spot on on this? >> 33,000 members of the new jersey state pva stand squarely behind this. >>> and public polling is supporting this jobs bill and this american that you are would put 400,000 workers back to work in the classroom and also, in law enforcement. how does that make you fee as a public servant as yourself? >> anybody, certainly police officers in new jersey feel our government has turned their backs us on as well as the public. that they have a responsibility to take care of those who take care of others. that we're not the problem. their mismanagement of funds is what the problem is and they're blaming it on us. >> what do you say, another claim being made by opponents out there that you're pension and your health care costs are the reason they have to make all these cuts? >> preposterous. in new jersey we just accepted an 8% pay decrease. what i call a tax on public employees. to fund these things that have been squandered by the public officials. >> so what has to happen? it would seem

jill biden. she was in delaware today, kicking off her campaign for awareness of women's breast cancer. she and the first lady have been at the point of this be your -- of the spear helping those deployed in afghanistan, the bonds on the ground, and listen to that. mom and dad were with them, she was helping take care of his elderly parents at the same time while raising three boys and while at the same time getting two master's degrees and a phd. i would say the vice president and i have something in common. we married above ourselves. all right. since jill cannot introduce her husband, all i have to say is one of the best senators to ever come out of the united states senate, one of the true great american patriots, i think arguably the best vice president of the united states, ladies and gentlemen, joe biden, the vice president of the united states. >> bill, thank you very much. thank you all very, very much. folks, please, have a seat. you have no idea how disappointed i am jill did not intro

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>> joe biden is always walking the line. he's joe biden. joe biden is doing jobs president obama can't do. >> that's what your vice president does. >> this vice president for this president, this is somebody who grew up in scranton, pennsylvania, who is a populace democrat at his core who loves nothing better than standing in front of an audience of labor democrats. >> firefighters and cops. >> making the old school lunch pail case for firefighters and cops. that's not the president's strength. >> i got to play this clip. this is the confrontation that biden had with a conservative reporter that he wasn't very happy about. >> do you regret using a rape reference to describe republican opposition to the president's bill. >> no, no, no. let's get it straight. don't screw around with me. >> you didn't use a rape reference? >> listen to me. >> i'm list zblng i said rape was up three times in flint. they are the numbers. go look at the numbers. murder is up, rape is up and burglary is up. >> if the republicans don't pass this bill, rape will con

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hysteria from biden. this is political. he knew he wouldn't get it passed in the entirety collectively. he had to cut it up in little pieces to see if he could push that through. >> bob: you know what i think about the jobs bill. let's move on to where it's going. you are right. the democrats that voted against it. tough re-election. that is one of the problems. but you also have a unified republican all-no vote that sets up the argument about the republicans defending millionaires. now they have things that is harder for republicans to vote against. next week in the house, the question of the payroll tax cut. my guess is republicans will have a hard time turning that down because they hung their hat on tax cuts. >> andrea: i think -- >> eric: hold on. you think that the votes don't go partisanship? so you thought there would be republican -- >> bob: no. i'm repeating myself, i think the republicans, i think andrea had it right. this is now a gamemansship. >> eric: the story is ten democrats departments vote for it >> erici

hysteria from biden. this is political. he knew he wouldn't get it passed in the entirety collectively. he had to cut it up in little pieces to see if he could push that through. >> bob: you know what i think about the jobs bill. let's move on to where it's going. you are right. the democrats that voted against it. tough re-election. that is one of the problems. but you also have a unified republican all-no vote that sets up the argument about the republicans defending millionaires. now they have things that is harder for republicans to vote against. next week in the house, the question of the payroll tax cut. my guess is republicans will have a hard time turning that down because they hung their hat on tax cuts. >> andrea: i think -- >> eric: hold on. you think that the votes don't go partisanship? so you thought there would be republican -- >> bob: no. i'm repeating myself, i think the republicans, i think andrea had it right. this is now a gamemansship. >> eric: the story is ten democrats departments vote for it >> erici

. >> jon: joe biden goes too tar with a rant. and liberal mouth piece susan sarandon slanders the pope. did the media take issue with either? another week of antics by the occupy wall street protesters. another week of unbridled biased support by the mainstream press. on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. national review editor rich lawrie, jim pinkerton editor american conservative magazine and daily bees columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. president obama on his three-day campaign for jobs bus tour this week, making stops in north carolina and virginia. trying to build public support for his 447 billion dollar jobs bill. the president criticized for the taxpayer money he's spending on the trips which look and sound an awful lot like campaign stops. >> it is clearly campaigning and i must say, again, i've never seen an uglier bus than the canadian one he's travelling around on a canadian bus touting american jobs. >> jon: that's john mccain who knows something

biden would be secretary of state. is there any chance you would be vice president in the second term? >> no, there is not. >> is it in the realm of possibility. >> i do not think it's in the realm of possibility. and in large measure because i think vice president biden has done an amazingly good job. he has taken on the burden of selling the economic plan, of traveling the country, of answering people's questions. >> has anyone ever raised the possibility with you? >> no, i think it may be a subject for speculation on google, but it's not a serious issue in the administration. >> so there you have it. >>> as president obama has suggested in the past, being leader of the free world can be a pretty lonely job. >> you've got a friend now? >> i've ginlly got a friend. >> but has the president's loaner status become a political detriment? that was the suggestion in this "washington post" article last weekend, penned by none other than scott wilson who joins me now. all right, scott, obama the lonely. this, on one handled,