cnn contributor and author of joe biden, the life, the run and what matters now, evan osnos, cnn, legal commentators, ashley allison bakari, sellers, maria cardona, and former republican and this man, joe walsh a full panel gives a really, really big moment, evan, let me go to you first because we've heard a lot about what may have gone into this decision. certainly president biden is not immune to the conversations he knows what's been going on. we're told he'd been huddling with his two closest advisers early as yesterday they showed him that there was no path to victory. but knowing biden, as you do, how excruciating do you think the last three weeks alone 48 hours have been for him? >> yeah, you have to think about laura, what it takes to decide to run for president. you have to believe that you can. and not only that, but you must be the president, which is just a specialty grueling under the last three weeks in which in effect, his own party to party to which he's devoted his professional life was telling him this period is coming to an end in the last few days, you heard signs of him digging in, as p