i don't think there will be a cooperative conversation. >> oh. >> i mean, joe biden, joe biden, look, each one of them watched the other lose a presidential primary. okay? they -- i don't know why either one of them would stand down in the face of -- hillary clinton obviously wouldn't. >> you have to ask yourself, running for president is like being hung by your fingernails. i mean it is really, really, a miserable task. >> which both of them have freely chosen in the past. >> they have, so the question is do you want to subject yourself to that again? i would make the prediction that whatever we predict won't happen. >> hillary clinton, that was her problem going into the last campaign. she had a negative rating higher than her approval rating. she has helped that thanks to being president obama's secretary of state. >> right, and we know that first lady and secretary of state are typically two that have the highest ratings, in administrations of both parties. you're seeing today, the wrong day for me to make the prediction, although today the secretary of state was pulled into that.

you have probably heard the phrase before "joe biden being joe biden." yesterday, in the swearing in before the senators of the 103rd congress, joe biden was being joe biden. this is something we know in tv very well. we rely on it. joe biden plus a camera equals amazing. >> i don't want to hand shake -- good to see you. you got a smile that lights up the room. >> they say the southern belle, you have done good. you have a smile that lights up the whole chamber. >> thank you. >> hey, mom, how are you? i'm joe biden, come on, mom, take a chance, ruin your reputation here. would you take a picture of this quickly. how are you guys? good to see you. guys other than my mother, the finest woman i have ever known. you are going to be frisked. >> that is a democrat, i know. >> need any help on your pecs -- anybody else want to be sworn in as a senator today? >> anybody else want to be sworn in as a senator today? that is kind of -- joe biden doesn't drink, but that loose style is an odd mixed opinion on the vice president. as of last month his approval rating s

vice president joe biden has been on the road and on line. in congress, democrats introduced a new effort to ban 158 specific assault-style weapons and prohibit other guns from using magazines containing more than ten rounds of ammunition. those are just two of the provisions of the bill put forward by the united states senator whose own hands were bloodied by one of the most famous shooting acts in california history. cnn's chief correspondent, dana bash, was at the emotional announcement on capitol hill. >> reporter: wolf, with all the gun control measures that president obama provided this one, this assault-style ban is one of the toughest to get through congress. her determination comes from a very public tragedy four decades ago. for diane feinstein, it is personal. >> well, i became mayor as a product of assassination. both mayor masconey and supervisor have been shot and killed. >> reporter: the death of her colleagues, including harvey milk, the first openly gay public official was so traumatic she rarely discussed it. >> we're somebo

joe biden may be back. >> what do you think? >> i think if it were up to joe biden, he'd be back. i think -- he's older than -- he would be older than ronald reagan when he ran for president the first time. he looks in great shape. nobody likes it better. >> he's doing a little rope line over there. you see some young kids. he decides that he's going to improvise a little bit. he's right down -- right below us over here in our area. >> just what the secret service do not want to hear, the vice president is improvising. >> yeah, this is -- you see, he's a natural born politician. >> this is joe biden in his element. he's a little different than all those parades in wilmington, delaware, july 4th parades. >> that was a member of the secret service saying, please, mr. president, don't go to the side again. >> he's having a good time. >> he's become so much more -- correct me if i'm wrong, jeffrey, the last few weeks, he seems to be everywhere, joe biden. >> i think that really is -- it's no coincidence that people are talking more about his run being for president. he closed the deal

i could not have a better partner than joe biden. and joe biden could not have a better partner than dr. jill biden. we love these folks. give them a round of applause. [applause] some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's inaugural reception.hearty goers got so rowdy -- partygoers got so rowdy, they broke several thousand dollars worth of white house china. so my first big thank you tonight is to the national building museum for hosting us. here. [applause] i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment. the u.s. navy sea chanters and the guy who has been known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [applause] i am delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i am going to be pretty brief. there are a limited amount of good lines, and i do not want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is to say thank you. as i look out on the room, we have people of all walks of life. every state, city, suburb. people who have invested so much heart, soul, time, money, energy, and one of th

and so is joe biden. josh said biden was so nice to everybody during the swearing in ceremony, he seemed like an overall great guy. >>> coming up, more of joe biden being joe biden and why he's the president's not-so-secret weapon. >>> but, first, we want to hear what you think? please head over to facebook and search politics nation and like us to join the conversation. it keeps going long after the show ends. wears off. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. the end of trial and error has arrived. try a free sample at eucerinus.com. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. if we took the already great sentra apart and completely reimagined it? ...with best-in-class combined mpg... and more interior room than corolla and civic? ...and a technology suite with blue

i could not have a better partner than joe biden. and joe biden could not have a better partner than dr. jill biden. we love these folks. give them a round of applause. [applause] some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's inaugural reception. partygoers got so rowdy, they broke expensive china. [laughter] i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment. the u.s. navy see chanters and the guy who has been known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [applause] i am delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i am going to be pretty brief. there are a limited amount of good lines, and i do not want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is to say thank you. as i look out on the room, we have people of all walks of life. every state, city, suburb. eagle who have invested so much heart, soul, time, money, energy, and one of the things that made this campaign unique was the degree of investment and ownership people had in this common object of hours. you understood this was not ju

you have probably heard the phrase before "joe biden being joe biden." yesterday, in the swearing in before the senators of the 103rd congress, joe biden was being joe biden. this is something we know in tv very well. we rely on it. joe biden plus a camera equals amazing. >> i don't want to hand shake -- good to see you. you got a smile that lights up the room. >> they say the southern belle, you have done good. you have a smile that lights up the whole chamber. >> thank you. >> hey, mom, how are you? i'm joe biden, come on, mom, take a chance, ruin your reputation here. would you take a picture of this quickly. how are you guys? good to see you. guys other than my mother, the finest woman i have ever known. you are going to be frisked. >> that is a democrat, i know. >> need any help on your pecs -- anybody else want to be sworn in as a senator today? >> anybody else want to be sworn in as a senator today? that is kind of -- joe biden doesn't drink, but that loose style is an odd mixed opinion on the vice president. as of last month his approval rating s

this is joe biden's official twitter account referring to the onions, joe biden, the onions joe biden has written an autobiography. this is the actual joe biden teasing them about the transam that the onion says he likes. but i do wonder, how much distance do you think? what are the things we get wrong about the vice president from the perspective of hthis caricature? >> i think we get a lot wrong. there's an inside and outside. fraeg, i was his chief economists. me insisted on knowing as much as anybody in the room for any meeting. we would have briefings where he would go so far down into the weeds i would be running for help eventually from research assistants. every time we went to a state which you do a lot with the state, he wanted to know about the economy in great detail. he does massive preparation and i think when he sits down at a table to say, do a fiscal deal one of the reasons he's able to close that deal is because, a, he has decades of experience in compromise which some of these kids today up there don't really know much about. and he understands the granularity of th

it was joe biden the president turned to. the president chose joe biden for a reason. a creature of the senate, he said at the lunch today, he will always be a senator. and joe biden is his brain trust, his institutional memory, there is the guy. >> and to get it done -- get it done there. i think he is the best vice president of my lifetime. because i don't think that dick cheney's effectiveness of torture is something -- >> for good or evil. >> and doesn't it also go to the kind of leader that barack obama has been, not only for the country, but for the democratic party. johnathan's point, joe biden was an early rival, who he said very inopportune statements about him. he is super excited if he is confirmed to take on this role. it is a different kind of democratic leadership. people who follow the democratic party on its ups and many downs remember how many other rivals and nominees have been left on the side of the road. and left, really to be seen as somehow an embarrassment, even if they stood for good things, al gore for many years, michael dukakis, and it goes

>> well, joe biden and mitch mcconnell are older school politicians. they remember a time when compromise was how you close deals like this. and there are a lot of, i guess, mostly younger members up there who don't remember that time. they view their job is to go to washington and create conflict and have grid lock. that doesn't mean that their caucuses will certainly be with them. that is no surprise to me that vice president joe biden is talking with them. it is not a slam dunk, i suspect it will, especially if it passes the senate with a significantly bipartisan vote. you have some real deal makers. >> what do you think that this really means in your opinion, to the average american taxpayer? whether, you know, with the threat we may go over the cliff, and now we may really not. what difference did this really, really mean and if you could put it in plain words for us who are not economists, just explain what it means for all of us? >> well, first of all it means that if you're someone who is a beneficiary of long-term unemployment benefits, you're

a recap of the station's hate >> well, it looks like joe biden is putting gun owners and guns rights advocates on notice. the president plans to move quick to eliminate second amendment rights. he recently received a guarantee that a sweeping firearms ban put into place by january and while team obama plans to limit your freedom, liberals are not letting the newtown tragedy go to waste and they're jumping on the crisis band wagon and spewing pretty, well, ridiculous comments. latest from former new york city public advocate mark greene. >> if we have a megan's law, i think almost everyone might agree if you're a convicted child molester, a neighbor might want to know that because they're in your home safe, but maybe they could hurt someone else. it's a spillover effect. same thing with guns. >> sean: if he stands by that, well, comparison, mark greene is here, the host of a national radio show, and with air anna and mary matalin. >> thank you for promotion. >> sean: you're not going to stand by that comparison. why don't we move on. you didn't mean that. i've known you a long time. y

over joe biden? >> i think it's a lift to say -- thank you for bill clinton for helping me get re-elected and i'm going to give you the best exit i can. chris: i am sensed the president has been giving joe biden help ever since the strong debate performance or maybe that was commonly gave him that job. he got it. and saying -- do you have a sense the president is tipping the scale a little bit to joe? >> well, i do think the president appreciates what biden has been able to do because he feels -- fills a void the president cannot fill himself. and loyalty there. and at this point, why not lift them both up and have them both working on his -- chris: and don king of this fight? get them both to fight? kathleen, you've been quiet. >> i'm just practicing noninterruption. i'm with chuck. i think -- i would not be surprised if hillary does not run. as we all noted she is going to be 69 years old. chris: let's start with that. 69. joe biden is 74. >> yes. i think women have a better sense of priorities in

one of joe biden's great strengths is his loyalty. he's respected, i think, on both sides of the aisle for one if he tells you something, he's going to do it. he keeps his word. two, the loyalty to the president. so, he gets all the benefits of the good things that obama's done, but he almost gets a pass on the negatives because while he's the vice president, he has to be loyal. so, if hillary clinton for health reasons or otherwise decides not to go, he's going to we, i think, by far the strongest contender. >> do you think he can take on hillary clinton? i want to cover that. i want to cover that, by the way. >> i don't think anybody can take on hillary clinton. right now she is a prezumpative favorite. democrats need joe biden. they need him now because he's the best politician in this town. he understands there are three branches of government and you have to sit down and you have to figure out a deal and he's good at it. we need him later because if hillary clinton does not run, there is no alternative. he is, he then becomes the

coming up now joe biden guaranteed a sweeping firearms ban will that take hold by the end of january? liberals ramping up against american gun owners including a new york city mayoral advocates now likening advocates to child molester autos if you're a convicted child molester, a neighbor might want to know that because you're in your home, but maybe they can hurt someone else, it's a spillover affect. same thing with guns. >> that man you heard from will be here in the studio coming up next. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. >> well, it looks like joe biden is putting gun owners and guns rights advocates on notice.

>> reporter: well, i can't get in the mind of joe biden. but i guess it will be likely some of the arguments he makes from talking to democrats. he will try to say they have made a deal that is a significant move from where republicans want it to be. and that is an advantage for democrats, meaning, some of the first agreements to do tax increases in a generation, a big win for the president. he will also say that things like maintaining the estate tax, while that will still protect a lot of people, the rate will go up. they will call that a win. he will certainly talk about the benefits to people who are on the lower end of the economic scale, like unemployment benefits. like some of the education credits and things that are in there. he will be making a pitch that the country needs a deal and the democrats will be responsible in both the senate and the house to deliver a deal. and that is how he will try to persuade his fellow democrats. melissa? >> thank you, kelly o'donnell, we'll be back with more on the fiscal cliff negotiations, when

biden was -- joe vice president joe biden was briefing. here is joe biden on expectations a moment ago. >> two things you shouldn't do, shouldn't predict how the senate will vote, and number two, shouldn't predict how the house will vote. i feel very, very good. i think we will get a good vote tonight. >> reporter: senate vote in a matter of moments. no idea what will happen. >> do you think this is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? >> reporter: absolutely. >> well said. thank you for watching. we are always on www.wusa9.com. letterman is next. have a great night and a very happy new years.

but it looks like joe biden and hillary are going to be in there. i don't know that i can bear to think about 2016. but anything is possible is what i would say at this point. here is the thing about joe biden, he has street credit. think about when he went to the naacp. he felt he was natural and he had credibility with the audience. he was able to talk about the things that mattered to the audience. that is part of what he has brought to the white house. he was also a part of the foreign policy team. maybe it will be hillary clinton and maybe they will all three get in the room and say okay you go. we'll see. >> we were showing video of the joy with which joe biden approaches one of his ceremonial functions of swearing in of new senators. let's hear what he had to say. >> hey mom. how are you? good to see you. i'm joe biden. come on mom. take a chaps. would you take a picture of this quickly. guys other than my mother this is the finest lady i have known. look, in my house there are mothers and then something else and something else and then there

just moments ago, the vice president, joe biden in, was officially sworn into a second term. you saw it live right here on cnn. and within the next couple of hours, the president will be sworn in to office for a second term as well. also in a private ceremony this one in the blue room over at the white house. it's all leading up to tomorrow's big inauguration day festivities, the public events. brianna keeler is our white house correspondent and standing by over at the white house. brianna, now that the vice president has been sworn in by sonia sotomayor, we are all getting ready for the presidential swearing-in ceremony. it will be very low key. just set the scene for us. >> reporter: it will be very low key t will take place in the blue room. as you just saw at the naval observatory, what was really an intimate ceremony with just 120 guests, friends and family, this, too, will be a small group of people, those very close to president obama watching him sworn in. and wolf, it's sort of fascinating, because this is the third time that he will have been sworn in. you have been

he's not the guy to do this deal, joe biden is. the governor is right, when you get specific about things like high-capacity magazines, people want them limited. there's no question. in general, if you state it generally, people are confused because they know it's a constitutional right. but if you're specific, then the equation changes, and that's what the vice president is going to try to do. >> ironically it's like pro-life and pro-gun. very ironic. it's a generalized statement. >> exactly. interestingly, originally joe biden was not going to report, was not going to make his case to the president until after the state of the union, until after -- excuse me, until after the inaugural address. i think they're moving up the schedule of this because i think the president is, in fact, going to feature it in -- he's going to mention it in the inaugural -- >> is this legacy material? >> this is legacy material. also, it's not money material. in other words, we're broke as a country. there's going to be a big fight over the debt. we're

wal-mart originally declined to join the talks with vice- president joe biden. now it will bring ideas to the table. the task force will submit recommendations to president obama by the end of january. >> virginia voters team to support ideas by joe biden and nra. over 92 percent support my aunt -- mandatory background checks. 62 percent saying people owning assault weapons make the nation at more dangerous. 66 percent support placing armed guards in school and have said they protect from crime. >> congressman from northern virginia met to discuss moving fbi headquarters out of the nation's capital. jim moran, gerry connolly, and robert whitman along with mark warner and tim kane. the proposed site is in springfield, virginia. the fairfax county board unanimously approved a resolution urging the congress and to lobby for the move. >> new numbers show gun -- unemployment claims rose slightly. 371,000 people filed first-time claims, up 4000 from the week before. this is still an improvement over last year. in the first week of 2012, 390,000 filed claims. today's n

joe biden delivers. i think he's been the most effective vice president in our lifetime. >> peter: larry in new briton, connecticut. welcome to the show. call us at 1-866-55-press. >> caller: good morning, guys. >> peter: good morning. >> caller: i would like to say that the nra before they held their press conference a few weeks back after sandy hook, that i mentioned to my republican friends at work and i'm sure you will understand this, is that the nra we know when they hold that press conference that they're going to blame everybody else but the guns. the guns have nothing to do with it. they're going to blame hollywood. video games. sure enough, they did that. and you know, they did have to change their attitude or else it will become irrelevant some day. >> bill: the sooner the better. >> peter: i think the some day has arrived. i don't think the nra is nearly as relevant as they used to be. they had a moment to come out and say we represent gun owners in this country. we want to see people who own

i could not have a better partner than joe biden. and joe biden could not have a better partner than dr. jill biden. we love these folks. give them a round of applause. [applause]some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson zenon girl reception. party goers -- andrew jackson's reception.r-olnaugural i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment. the u.s. navy see chanters and the guy who has been known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [applause]i am delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i am going to be pretty brief. there are a limited amount of good lines, and i do not want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is to say thank you. as i look out on the rim, -- room, we have people of all walks of life. every state, city, suburb. eagle who have invested so much heart, soul, time, money, energy, and one of the things that made this campaign unique was the degree of investment and ownership people had in this common object of hours. you understood this was not just a

i know joe biden well, i covered him for a long time. if he assesses the situation a couple years down the road and sees that the clinton machine is still out there, and by the way, hillary took the whole clinton machine to the state department. that was hillaryland over there. that wasn't obamaland. >> i understand that completely. >> that's still strong, i think joe biden will look at it and say i'm not sure i've got the organization. do it. and, also, he might not want to call the president out on it and take the gamble with the president because i'm not sure he would necessarily get the answer that he'd want to hear. >> steve kroft, by the way, tried to get at the political interviewist. this is rare. if you get an interview of this incredible quality, the president and the secretary of state, the president and two most important people with the democratic party, you don't ask why you got it. here he is. aparentally, again, trying to figure out why the two showed up together. here he is again, steve crawford. >> i have to ask you wha

joe biden reached the final deal with mr. mcconnell on how to do that. and by the way, as far as i can tell in that room today they didn't lose a day of momentum, emotional momentum on this case in the last month. >> right, if it is an incompetent man, he turned out to be pretty professional. there -- it is very easy to be cynical, everybody in the news media says people will forget about it. they are not forgetting about it. because the power at what happened at sandy hook, there are still families out there. ronald reagan is not just saying that because it makes sense political politically. right, he can embarrass republicans. he has long wanted to be the ronald reagan of the left. he has wanted to shift the political discussion. so he knows whether or not this legislation gets through he has changed the debate by simply sticking to his principles and saying this is not off limits. we're not going to be intimidated by the nra. it will happen. >> richard wolff and krystal ball, thank you for joining us. >>> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll go inside the

and joe biden. after that we will show you the president's swearing in and his speech and throughout the night you'll see all of today's inauguration festivities. all of our coverage today from today as a matter of fact. this is our independent line. anthony. good evening. >> how are you? host: doing fine, thanks. caller: first i would like to say in watching all the coverage, c-span, i watch you all the time. i have watched hours of coverage today because i work from home. in watching all the coverage, the first thing that i would have to say is that i am impacted as an american. i do believe that the message of unity that our president spoke is truly the essence of where we need to heal. looking at the candidates and how they come across and appear to the people, not just from the top up but from the top down to the bottom up. so tonight, i feel very blessed because here is something that also impacted me as i watched today. what also impacted me is our former president. i want to send a shoutout

in attendance will be vice president joe biden. is it going to be difficult to sell your party on this deal? >> well, i think that we're going to come together in about an hour as a democratic caucus and hear the vice president out. there are a lot of good things in this bill that make sense and that i think it will ultimately earn the overwhelming majority of house democratic votes. we made sure that as we committed throughout this last campaign that we would not allow taxes to increase on 98% of americans that's in this deal. we made sure that we pushed off a really significant slashing of defense spending as well as domestic spending and we'll make sure going forward that whatever deal we do reach on those spending cuts is balanced when it comes to both revenue and spending cuts. and that's the overall -- overriding commitment here is we have a balanced plan in front of us and we'll need to -- any further deals made in the future continue to have a balanced plan. >> there are some in your party who don't like this plan. senator

joe biden reached the final deal with mr. mcconnell on how to do that. and by the way, as far as i can tell in that room today they didn't lose a day of momentum, emotional momentum on this case in the last month. >> right, if it is an incompetent man, he turned out to be pretty professional. there -- it is very easy to be cynical, everybody in the news media says people will forget about it. they are not forgetting about it. because the power at what happened at sandy hook, there are still families out there. ronald reagan is not just saying that because it makes sense politically. right, he can embarrass republicans. he has long wanted to be the ronald reagan of the left. he has wanted to shift the political discussion. so he knows whether or not this legislation gets through he has changed the debate by simply sticking to his principles and saying this is not off limits. we're not going to be intimidated by the nra. it will happen. >> richard wolff and krystal ball, thank you for joining us. >>> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll go inside the nra with a

coming up, now that joe biden is guaranteed a sweeping air arms ban will that take hold by the end of january? liberals are ramping up against gun owners and this includes former new york city mayoral candidate, likening the second amendment to advocates, to child molester. >> if you're a convicted child molester, a neighbor might want to know that because you're in your home safe, but they could hurt someone else, it's a spillover effect. the same thing with guns. >> sean: man that you heard from, mark reed will be in studio coming up next. every year we pick a new city to explore. but thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip. because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. so we hit boston in the spring-- even caught a game. and with the money we saved, we took a trip to san francisco. you see, hotwire checks the competitions' rates every day so they can guarantee their low prices. so, where to next? how about there? ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e... ♪ hotwire.com >> well, it looks like joe biden is putting gun owners and guns rights advocate

this is not dancing with the stars or dancing with the politicians are joe biden and wife jill. they will be tracing the troop coming up and when it happens we'll bring it live. and a vote on hannity.com, who is the better dancer, the president or vice-president. i'm kidding. >> sean. >> sean: yeah, go ahead. >> david hit a good point. where was the discussion a healthy economy in this country so people don't have to work two jobs or three part-time jobs and moms don't have control of their schedule and their life and the climate change discussion and what's the price of the ghasen an electricity going forward? we have of to have a focus on creating a good strong american economy where people can get a job and it pays the bills and they don't have to work two or three or scramble around. and we can get there. and that's what we need to focus on, it's coming together to grow our economy and grow jobs and then you won't have quite the bloated government because it's the die manndemand government. >> sean: and this is a night of celebration, thank you both congressmen for being wit

will joe biden bow out if it's clear hillary is running? >> i think so. and i think so because hillary has a much deeper, broader base in the party. i know joe biden well, i have covered him for a long time. he's nothing if not a political realist. if he assesses the situation a couple years down the road and sees that the clinton machine is still out there, and by the way, hillary took the twol clinton man to the state department. that was hillary land over there, not obama land. >> i understand that completely. >> if that's still going on, i think joe biden will look at it and say i'm not sure i have the organization to do it, and also he might not want to call the president out on it and take the gamble with the president because i'm not sure he would necessarily get the answer that he'd want to hear. >> steve kroft tried to get at the political meaning of the interview. this is rare. usually in our business if you know joy and howard, if you get an interview of this incredible quality, the president and secretary of state, the two most important peopl

minutos antes el vicepresidente joe biden fue juramentado por sonia sotomayor, el poeta blanco hablÓ de la experiencia de ser hijo de inmigrantes cubanos. manos tan cortadas como las de mi padre para que mis hermanos tuviÉramos libros y zapatos. y el presidente obama comenzÓ el dÍa con un servicio religioso. fue un honor participar dijo el pastor que dio el servicio religioso. >>> es un honor, siento que soy un honor para el pueblo hispano. >>> apreciÓ la inclusion del tema migratorio. >>> habÍa que estar aqui para sentir que hay esperanza. >>> este dÍa es mÁs importante que hace 4 aÑos. porque estamos muy cerca a ganar el camino a la ciudadanÍa para los latinos en este paÍs. la ceremonia fue con mÚsica y estrellas como boyence, despuÉs el presidente participÓ en un evento donde incluso sus opositores le hicieron regalos. en su referencia mÁs directa al partidismo que seguirÁ enfrentando, el presidente obama dijo que no se puede confundir el absolutismo con los principios. >>> quÉ dÍa no? >>> sÍ, emocionante. >>> y menos frÍo que el aÑo pasado. >>> mÁs tranquilo,

we reported that joe biden, the environment, is in the building. our photographer just saw him go into harry reid's office. he's currently meeting, i don't know, one-on-one, or maybe with other members of the senate democratic leadership in the office of senator harry reid, which is just around the corner from where i'm standing right now. you see this crowd of people behind me. those are reporters waiting to see if the vice president is going to come through because he's eventually going to come through he and meet with all of the senate democrats for the meeting you were talking about with the senator. sounds as though they're doing a little talking about -- a little bit of a game plan about how they're going to present this to the caucus, and obviously, that's a very delicate issue for reasons we have been talking about. the democratic caucus, many of them are not happy. in fact, i have to tell you i was told by one democratic senator when they put up on a screen, they put up yesterday in a meeting that democrats were having, they put up almost

joe biden. mr. vice president, you have been an extraordinary leader of this nation and a true partner to our president these passed for years. you play many roles -- advisor, at the cat, implement your, persuader -- advisor, advocate, implementer, persuader, strategist, and most important of all, friend. we are confident that is unique partnership between you and our great president will grow stronger and more productive over the next four years. mr. vice president, on the surface, we don't share a common ancestry, but on a deeper level, we do share a common story. an american story, of achieving our dreams thanks to the sacrifice of our immigrant for ebears. as you embark on europe will deserve a second term, in the spirit of those who came before us -- your well-deserved the interim, in the spirit of those seeking before us and all americans, we offer our support and warmest wishes, and we say salud, andhaim, cheers to our great vice president. and all thoseent, at a in and assembled, i alway