FORMIDABLE THIS TIME AROUND. >> GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD WITH THE
ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT >> TALK AKE A LOOK.
>> CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA IS
HOME TO ONE OF THE GREATEST
DOCUMENTS IN HISTORY, "WE HOLD
THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT
THAT ALL MONEY ARE CREATED
EEQUAL, ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR
WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
WE’VE HEARD IT SO OFTEN, IT
ALMOST A CLICHE BUT IT’S WHO WE
ARE.
ARE. WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE WALKED AWAY
FROM THEM.
FROM THEM. CHARLOTTESVILLE IS ALSO HOME TO
A DEFINING MOMENT FOR THIS
NATION IN THE LAST FEW YEARS
IT WAS THERE ON AUGUST OF 2017
WE SAW KLANSMEN AND WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND NEONAZIS COME
OUT IN THE OPEN, THEIR CRAZED
FACES ILLUMINATED BY TORTURES,
VEINS BULGING, CHANTING THE SAME
ANTI-SEMITIC BILE HEARD ACROSS
EUROPE IN THE 30s.
THEY WERE MET BY A COURAGEOUS
GROUP OF AMERICANS AND A VIOLENT
CLASH ENSUED AND A BRAVE YOUNG
WOMAN LOST HER LIFE.
AND THAT’S WHEN WE HEARD THE
WORDS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES THAT STUNNED THE
WORLD AND SHOCKED THE CONSCIENCE
OF THIS NATION
HE SAID THERE WERE, QUOTE, SOME
VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES
VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES
ARE THOSE WORDS THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES A SIGNED A
MORAL EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN THOSE
SPREADING HATE AND TO THOSE
STANDING AGAINST IT.
AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW THE THREAT
TO THIS NATION WAS UNLIKE ANY
I’D SEEN IN MY LIFETIME.
I WROTE AT THE TIME THAT WE’RE
IN THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF
THIS NATION.
THIS NATION. WELL, THAT’S EVEN MORE TRUE
TODAY.
TODAY. THAT’S EVEN MORE TRUE TODAY.
WE ARE IN THE BATTLE FOR THE
SOUL OF THIS NATION.
I BELIEVE THE NATION LOOK BACK
AS AN ABERRATION IN TIME AND IF
WE GIVE HIM ANOTHER FOUR YEARS,
IT WILL CHANGE THIS NATION
EVERYTHING THAT HAS MADE AMERICA
AMERICA IS AT STAKE.
THAT’S WHY I’M ANNOUNCING MY
CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
UNITED STATES. FOLKS, AMERICA IS AN IDEA, AN
IDEA STRONGER THAN ANY ARMER,
BIGGER THAN ANY OCEAN, MORE
POWERFUL THAN ANY DICTATOR OR
TYRANT
TYRANT IT GUARANTEES THAT EVERYBODY IS
TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND GIVES
HATE NO SAFE HARBOR AND INSTILLS
THE BELIEF THAT NO MATTER WHERE
YOU START IN LIFE, THERE’S
NOTHING YOU CAN’T ACHIEVE IF YOU
WORK AT IT
THAT’S WHAT WE BELIEVE
AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, THAT’S
WHAT’S AT STAKE IN THIS
ELECTION
ELECTION WE CAN’T FORGET WHAT HAPPENED IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, WE HAVE TO
REMEMBER WHO WE ARE.
THIS IS AMERICA.
>> ALL RIGHT
SO JOE BIDEN IS OFFICIALLY IN
THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
HE IS THE 20th DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE TO JOIN THE FIELD.
JOE, I LIKED IT.
WHAT DID YOU THINK
>> IT WAS DONE VERY WELL
HE DELIVERED IT VERY WELL.
WE TALKED ABOUT POLITICAL
ATHLETES THERE
ATHLETES THERE I THOUGHT ALSO SOMETHING AGAIN,
HE’S SUCH A NICE, LIKABLE GUY,
AT LEAST FOR ALL THE PEOPLE I
KNOW THAT KNOW JOE BIDEN AND I
KNOW HOW WE FEEL ABOUT HIM, THAT
I SMILED WITHOUT THINKING I WAS
GOING TO AND HE SAID "THAT’S WHY
I’M RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
UNITED STATES. IT WAS LIKE AN OLD FRIEND
RUNNING.
RUNNING. MIKE, HE’S DONE IT BEFORE AND HE
HASN’T FARED VERY WELL WHEN HE’S
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
THAT’S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION EXPRESSING
ADMINISTRATION EXPRESSING CONCERN HAVE SAID IN THE PAST
BUT I WILL SAY THIS ABOUT
POLITICS, SHOW ME MIKE, I’M
TALKING TO MIKE, THANK YOU
I WILL SAY THIS ABOUT TALKING
POLITICS, IT’S A FUNNY THING
THAT ACTUALLY WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT
FROM YOU, YOUR EXPECTATIONS, THE
EXPECTATIONS GAME IS ALMOST AS
IMPORTANT AS ANYTHING AND I’M
NOT SO SURE THAT IT’S NOT BAD
FOR JOE BIDEN FRONT-RUNNER,
PRESUMED NOMINEE, THAT SO MANY
PEOPLE ARE DOUBTING HIM RIGHT
NOW.
NOW. FIRST OF ALL, IT PUTS EVEN MORE
FIRE IN THE BELLY FOR HIM TO
PROVE THEM WRONG
SECONDLY, IT LOWERS THE MASSIVE
EXPECTATIONS A LITTLE BIT.
SO HE GOES OUT AND DOES A PRETTY
GOOD JOB AND PEOPLE GO, WAIT,
MAYBE WE WERE WRONG.
>> YOU KNOW, JOE, YOU COULD NOT
BE MORE CORRECT ON THAT.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN
THEY THINK OF JOE BIDEN BECAUSE
OF EVERYTHING THAT’S BEEN SAID
NEGATIVELY ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE
OF THE LEDGER FOR THE FIRST
FOUR, FIVE MONTHS, OH, HE WAS
AWFUL IN 2008 AND COLLAPSED IN
2008 AND HE’S A GAFFE MASTER AND
SAYS SOME RIDICULOUSLY STUPID
THINGS AT TYPE, WHICH WE ALL DO
AND NOW HE’S HOPPING BACK INTO
THE RING AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS
RETIREMENT
RETIREMENT IF HE GETS OUT THERE AND HE
PERFORMS THE WAY YOU JUST SAW
HIM PERFORM, WHICH I THINK HE
CAN, THINK PI PEOPLE ARE GOING
TO SAY WAIT A MINUTE NOW, THOO
TH GUY LIKES PRETTY GOOD TO ME
THAT’S WHERE HE’S GOING IN THIS
CAMPAIGN AND WE’RE GOING TO FIND
OUT VERY QUICKLY, I THINK,
WITHIN THE NEXT TWO OR THREE
MONTHS, WHETHER HIS EFFORT
HAS -- CAN BE SUCCESSFUL
I DON’T THINK IT GOING TO BE A
LONG, DRAWN-OUT AFFAIR
WE’RE GOING TO SEE HOW HE
PERFORMS
PERFORMS AND WHETHER OR NOT THE 2018/’19
VERSION OF JOE BIDEN IS UP FOR
THE TASK
THE TASK >> YOU LOOK, WILLIE, 1987, THEN
AGAIN IN 2007 AND I MEAN, IT’S A
LONG TIME.
LONG TIME. >> YEAH.
>> YEAH. >> 30, 40 -- KP.
>> ISH, YES.
>> I DON’T KNOW.
COME ON.
COME ON. MATH
MATH I SAW ON VEEP THAT MUSLIMS
CREATED MATH
CREATED MATH SO CON P COME ON, REALLY
HAVE YOU SEEN VEEP THIS YEAR, BY
THE WAY?
THE WAY? OH MY LORD, IT IS WONDERFUL.
ANYWAY, IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN
"VEEP.
"VEEP. JOE’S BEEN RUNNING FOR A VERY
LONG TIME BUTCH MAYBE FOR PEOPLE
THAT RAN FOR THE FIRST TIME SIX
OR SEVEN YEARS AGO, THERE IS A
STRANGE NEW WORLD, 2019.
WE’RE MOVING AT THE SPEED OF
SOUND POLITICALLY AND WHO KNOWS,
MAYBE THAT BENEFITS JOE BIDEN,
MAYBE IT DOESN’T, MAYBE
SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID IN 1987
THAT HUNG OUT THERE FOR DeTHREE
WEEKS AND DESTROYED A CAMPAIGN
MAYBE IT’S GONE AT THE END OF
THE DAY AFTER A DONALD TRUMP
INSULT
INSULT >> AND HE’S TALKED ABOUT THOSE
THINGS
THINGS BUT I THINK WHAT HE CAN’T DO IS
HE CAN’T GO THROUGH AND
APOLOGIZE FOR OF STEP OF HIS
POLITICAL LIFE
POLITICAL LIFE WE’VE SOON YOUNG ARE CANDIDATES
DOING IN 1978 I WISH I VOTED