beau biden is joining us now from north carolina where he will be campaigning later today on behalf of the obama/biden ticket. it is always a pleasure to see you on our air. >> thanks for having me on. >> so mr. biden, sharing the last name biden with a vice president named biden, you're familiar with the events of recent weeks, which is to say folks going off message. how do you think the administration has handled this? how would you grade the events of the last 24 hours in terms of managing the message? >> i let you and the great roundtable have you there assembled, great grade people. i'm here to talk about in north carolina, i was in virginia to the talk about a great grassroots organization called veterans for obama. we're laying this out. it's grace roots organization with 10,000 people strong. and talking about why veterans i being one among many think. obama should be re-elected to a second term. that's why i'm here in north carolina. >> we will be going back to the bain question in a second. but the last poll that we had shows between president obama and mitt romney on vetera

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