why would joe biden help here?den's second home state, that is, he served the -- in the senate from delaware for decades. but there's a huge overlap between the media markets in pennsylvania and in delaware. he's very well-known, not to mention the fact that scranton's his hometown. and ultimately, joe biden is a connection to the kind of white working class voters that president obama has a hard time connecting with and that's one of the things that the administration and the obama re-election campaign is hoping to use him for. >> is that the thought in ohio, he'll be able to connect to white working class voters? >> reporter: absolutely. we all remember the difficulties that president obama had against hillary clinton in the 2008 primaries. ohio is a tougher state than pennsylvania. pennsylvania's gone more consistently for the democrats. ohio, the president carried it four years ago, but it's a hard lift for him. it might be one of those that fall off. i should say, chris, i don't think anybody in the obama camp

is an interesting question and i guess it would be maybe a good time to pivot to talk about the joe bidenama's problem connecting with non-college educated white voters. >> it means that he will have a lot of work to do and biden? why not? he has got those roots. he is very good at the coffee table conversation. he is very relatable. he has got the common touch. in addition, you have got watch out if you are the white house because he is, as many people warn, gaffe prone. it may be that -- >> that is what maybes watching him so fun. >> i want to know who thinks he is the secret weapon. he is the gift that keeps on giving. sends hum out off his leash. probably mildly controversial. >> like the entire republican presidential field. >> hilarious. so funny. >> there is no secret here. if you went back and looked at joe biden's schedule in the fall of 2008, 80% of those trips would have been to pennsylvania, ohio, and florida. they will send him again now he is seen as a huge friend of israel. obama's weak with that vote. joe biden is as close to beating him. >> are you on record saying that?

it's joe biden's hometown, but joe bides en in baghdad.ee years of his presidency is carefully calibrated. he almost never goes to a non-swing state. this will be his 56th event in swing states since coming into the presidency. frankly it's to raise money. scranton, this is a place in north eastern pennsylvania where president obama needs to be able to win or at least come close. this is white and working class voters where he struggled back to the primary against hillary clinton. ohio and pennsylvania. he struggled to win over the voters. this is the reagan democrats. he got plenty of them in 2008 and he is going to need a eeeee. trips like this are meant to build up the credibility and show he is fighting on the economy and fighting for the middle and the working class while republicans are not. expect to hear plenty of that from him tomorrow. scranton pa that hillary won the state. thank you very much. we will watch that tomorrow. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tamron hall has a look at what's next. >

i would like to say this about joe biden. in a world where politicians danced around the issues and avoid confrontation or even eye contact, this man does not back away. teresa senate, tracy candidate, he lets you know where he stands and he tells you why he will not shy away from arguments they need past have your a game if you're going to engage with them. he's been a tireless ally confidant in world way troubleshooter for president obama and it's done so in a period in our history that has brought with it unprecedented challenge. he joins on this event and we are grateful for his service to the nation and i am honored to introduce you to vice president of the united states, the honorable joseph eyton. [applause] >> folks, how are you? thank you. thank you very much. please, thank you. you're very kind and joe is very kind in his introduction. when we were backstage -- by the way, i understand my friend rick santorum is here at last year. if he is here, good luck buddy, hope you did better than i did. rick and i worked tog

because staffing joe biden would be like staffing me and my language. ong and painful process. i think if joe knew in retrospect, topic of conversation, he probably would have used different words. yes. that's the best i can do. all i got. >> brian: hold your fire for a second. >> kimberly: hold your fire. >> brian: i hold myself in contempt. i have no choice. the former vice president knows talent. >> obama and i were sitting at a desk at a high-rise in chicago. beginning to plan how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch. literally. the first guy i called was jon corzine. not a joke. not a joke. first, he is the smartest guy i know in terms of the economy, and on finance. i really mean this. >> my goodness. >> not a joke. >> remember when jon corzine were at goldman sachs and republicans had nice things to say about him. i suspect that joe said this before corzine's company went under water. if you have been around as long as joe has, you say things that almost come back. the horror of video. back then most people would say he's a smart - -- >

and would president obama consider dumping joe biden for hillary clinton if things looked really bad. what about a third-party run? it would throw the election to one side or the other, but which one? this is no fantasy, we'll be joined by somebody who is making sure that a third candidate will be on the ballot in all 50 states. >>> finally, amateur hour, we'll go to the videotape for the campaign low lights, if you will, in the gop race so far. we start with january madness. politico columnist cynthia tucker who is a visiting prof s professor at the university of georgia. and john heilemann an msnbc political analyst. first of all, the iowa caucuses january 3rd. mitt romney's making a push in the hawkeye state. romney is now playing to win the iowa caucuses, television commercials are on the way, volunteers are arriving, and a stealth operation is ready to burst into view in the weeks leading up to the caucuses. let's go to david on that. is this going to happen out there? is he entering? >> well, yeah, he's entering, taking out ads. he's opening the campaign office. they didn't have

we do hear rumors about joe biden not being on the ticket but hillary clinton being on the ticket. the president look like a leader or a refugee? we'll get to that and everybody has an attitude about that one. david corn, i just think marco rubio was on this program a week ago and he struck me as a young guy who is bright, positive and despite all those questions about when his family came from cuba, i was impressed with him. >> he doesn't talk like a senator, he talks like a real person who is thoughtful, trying to reach out to the other side and come out with policies. >> brutal question. is he too young? he looks very young. >> i don't think his relative youth is disqualifying. i think conservatives are very excited because they think he could help bring along the latina vote. rubio is cuban. >> you're in new mexico and you hear a guy speaking in perfect spanish with a cube and accent, do you like it or not? >> el workyou like it just fine but i would be more excited about the new governor of new mexico, martinez. >> what's her first name? >> can't remember her first name. >> sh

and right now vice president joe biden is in baghdad on what was an unannounced visit to iraq. meeting with president nuri al-mali al-maliki. vice president biden reaffirmed the promise to withdraw the troops from iraq by the end of this year, a month from right now. still, he left open the door for iraq to request additional u.s. assistance if it is needed. s & p is knocking down the credit rating of 15 of the world's largest lenders including goldman sachs's citigroup and bank of america, stepping up pressure on those big banks. let's take an early look at the markets as we get all up in your business this morning. krns's jeff cutmore live in london. good morning. >> hey, good morning to you. yeah, 15 banks get their credit ratings cut by one notch. and it's a glittering power play of united states banks. goldman sachs, j.p. morgan, citigroup, wells fargo adding insult to injury perhaps. two chinese banks were upgraded. one of the other stories that we're focused on, of course, is the american airlines filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. i guess if you owe $30 billion in debt an

yesterday vice president joe biden arrived unannounced in iraq. secretary of state hillary clinton's historic arrival in myanmar this morning, she expressed hope that recent flickers of progress will lead to improvements in human rights. >>> let's get back to new york where we are counting down to one of the biggest moments of the year here at rockefeller center, the annual tree lighting ceremony. nbc's michelle franzen is live out there, it is quieter at 30 rock. good morning. >> good morning. little bit of organized chaos behind me. take a look at the tree all dark for tonight it will be shining and all its glory wrapped about five miles, wires and lights and adorned on top with the swarovski crystal. the tree comes to us by way of pennsylvania. family donating that tree after nearly a yearlong search. it arrived here in new york on veterans day. since then crews have been working around the clock to make sure this tree is ready. that treetoper is not the only star turning out tonight. performances by justin bieber, tony bennett. this is a holid

we trusted his judgment. >> that is president joe biden. talking about jon corzine. former senator from new jersey now atop the wreckage of m.f. global. they are saying they are missing $600,000 of customer money. back with the panel. >> i can hear corzine on the phone call saying joe, buy italian bonds. buy heavy. look, if this guy were a republican exsenator, exgor, as you say, the ninth largest -- >> bret: eighth largest bankruptcy. >> eighth largest bankruptcy in american history. all kind of inquiries. the reason it isn't the main street narrative is the wall street, greed, republican, conservatives. scandal it has been buried as much as it has. >> bret: the president said glowing things about corzine and now there are questions about the legality of what is happening here. what about the coverage of this? >> first, if corzine has been closer to the previous job as governor it might be getting more attention. the taxpayers is not on the hook. it failed, as it should. no awe huge investigation. who knows, there might be criminality. it is embarrassing. many, many

tonight vice president joe biden is wining and dining none other than republican majority leader ericeen trying to get together for sometime and really enjoy hangin'. the last time we saw these two back in june, kantor was walking out of the biden budget talks in a huff. apparently that's all water under the bridge, but if things are still a bit tense, the vice president could set kantor at ease with a little mood music. i know just the thing. ♪ imagine there's no pizza ♪ i couldn't if i tried ♪ ♪ eaten only tacos -- >> i feel calmer already. of course, before anyone takes a bite. they may want to have their food tasters nearby. when it comes to the menu, i'm sure kantor will say everything is on the table aside from raising taxes. he should be eating crow when it comes to the stimulus. earlier this week we showed you this letter from 2009 revealing that kantor was privately begging for stimulus money for his home state while criticizing the stimulus in public. well, mr. biden, many progressives say why do you guys keep trying

to get through twitter fight punch hard punch higher there you there you have it you heard from joe biden and all his best twitter war and by senos from the trenches of the twitter wars which he follows engages in every day that was joe biden all in the studio here he's got to be editor for business insider. and still ahead here on capitol hill don't go away black friday shoppers may have done their part but will consumer spending really fuel a u.s. economy that is running on empty and what other western economies the first the clothes in stock number. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i want to tell the truth. i'm a contestant and i am a total get of i love crab because he is a pretty. but he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the with his plate. oh. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's you some other part of it and realized everything is ok you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions

months ago by vice president of the united states as a possible threat or secretary nomination of joe biden was a big mistake there and not prosecuting a bank stores and letting them because they want to come back and still more greenberg now what he was a prosecutor throw in jail for his lying cheating and stealing i want to come back and sue the government for billions more i mean max are going to think this is a big mistake because it feeds the perception and the real perception the actual reality of the lack of economic justice that somebody who gets arrested for stealing a coca-cola from a grocery store is prosecuted somebody who actually engaged in any looting of their own companies in there and their own bags through giant only schemes and compensation and the like these people are not even considered subjects of criminal investigations so we have a precedent in this country back in the s. and l. crisis where over a thousand i think seventeen hundred banks toure's went to jail there were criminal referrals that were put forward by regulators in this case there have been virtually non

i would like to say this about joe biden.cians danced around the issues and avoid confrontation or even eye contact, this man does not back away. teresa senate, tracy candidate, he lets you know where he stands and he tells you why he will not shy away from arguments they need past have your a game if you're going to engage with them. he's been a tireless ally confidant in world way troubleshooter for president obama and it's done so in a period in our history that has brought with it unprecedented challenge. he joins on this event and we are grateful for his service to the nation and i am honored to introduce you to vice president of the united states, the honorable joseph eyton. [applause] >> folks, how are you? thank you. thank you very much. please, thank you. you're very kind and joe is very kind in his introduction. when we were backstage -- by the way, i understand my friend rick santorum is here at last year. if he is here, good luck buddy, hope you did better than i did. rick and i worked together in the delaware va

company named brookfield properties who ordered the mayor's girlfriend sits as well as i'm told joe biden's son is an attorney for this company so you know the fact that wall street is doing a better job of actually collapsing then the occupy movement is doing and forcing them to collapse is interesting in itself it's their own you know karma basically that's been gotten in their practices have been you know not just the question legal but you know in effect they're going to do you know whole financial collapse so you know the occupy movement isn't gloating about this they're still looking for regulators to try to do their job and prosecutors to do their job the school pursuing justice to try to get money big money out of politics and this movement i believe is really inspiring the whole world i mean they've been a thousand cities have had protests in support of occupy wall street and the objectives even though anyone spell them out people get it you know occupy wall street it's about time is the reaction of a lot of people in new york and so that the popularity of the movement has grown ev

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. >> vice president joe biden hosting an early holiday dinner ny great pioneers before me, guided onlya dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion. i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, ani won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. >>> checking on our top stories, the serelief is on the way for maryland commuters. the next stage of the icc has open this morning. drivers will be able to use the total of four free until december 4. it will eventually end that route 1. >>> dozens of teenagers are responsible for a mass of data silver spring 711 on -- at a 7- eleven silver spring store. they left behind a big mess after stealing many items. >>> 8 republican presidential candidates will gather in d.c. tonight for their 11th debate this year at constitution hall in northwest. it will focus primarily on foreign-policy and national- security. >>> a suspect attacked a jogger in

the real winners are real americans. >> joe biden was not there. >> i thought he was there with the first lady. >> dr. jill biden. >> are we talking about a trans sexual? i don't support that either. >> going off what you -- just wondering if dash dosh why are you on the show? >> what else does biden have to do? why wasn't he there? >> does anybody think they were booing the military? >> no. >> but here is the thing for me. we get to hear all of the time about how the people that occupy wall street deaf pho indicating on cop cars and doing stuff like that are not representative of the movement and of their infiltrators, but the minute something like this happens, i see liberals saying nothing but oh all nascar fans are racist and all nascar fans are there, and it pisses me off. >> if the tea party did half of the things that occupy wall street did, maybe they would deserve the condemnation that was spouted. >> i agree. >> from a perm place, my opinion -- from a personal place, my opinion of nascar is just as broad as wall street. when people get into large groups like that, they start act

sending joe biden to save the president is a crazy idea. if the president can't stand alone on the record, 75 percent of the people regardless of party affiliation believe that the count is heading down the wrong track. they will blame the president for that. he promised in his inaugural address he would address it as top priority. he has yet to address it and yet to secure the bord ares and he's been a totalure. he has none at all. >>> and biden is stronger for working class and the jewish community. you think that biden is weak in those areas? >> i don't believe he's weak. he has a pay roll tax engstension and jobs bill that the republicans obstructed and even this they tried to do so on immigration. and this is a team effort. there is a president and vice-president . both of them are going to be out there, and i might add we'll not see george bush hustling but we'll see bill clinton and grov gov randle supporting the democratic ticket. >> david got the last word. david and brad, it is it a pleasure, back to pakistan. the government is ac

first lady michelle obama and vice- president joe biden to dignitaries at today's service stopping to talk to us about a touching tribute to a special woman. >> testament to her life and to the wonderful work she did for the entire city family was first, she always made sure that was the priority. expanded that to the entire city >> source of in for inspiration the idea of being available high place and yet humble. always available made us feel >> somebody a hero of mine going to miss her greatly my thoughts and prayers are with the family >> paying tribute to maggie daley today not just political elite paying respects to that of the chicagoans line up early helping to get a seat inside wanting to say goodbye to a woman who provided inspiration and hope to so many robert jordan outside of the church talking to everyday citizens who loved maggie daley >> just a citizen and a lover of maggie and mayor daley >> inseparable pair like hot dogs and buns butter and toast richard and maggie became extensions of each other after nearly 40 years to get their public figures when you saw one of t

president obama, joe biden, and vincent gray will participate in a ceremony at arlington national cemetery. >> legislation to help unemployed veterans now goes to the house. the senate passed a bill yesterday 95-0. it would award tax credit to companies that hire disabled veterans have been hunting for jobs for six months. >>> the government house agency is at risk for taxpayer bailout. quite a big win for members of the military. we are joined my from a member headquarters in new york. hello. good morning. >> you are right. this impact about 160 service members. it is a big settlement. this is all part of a settlement of the home loan servicing. it'll give each service member a minimum of $117,000 for compensation for any equity loss. that is to make up for the alleged violation of the service member civil release act. there are concerns the federal housing administration could run out of money if the economy is not recover soon. about 1/3 of all new mortgages the estimate the agency faces around $50 billion in losses. the wall street journal says this raises the risk that the agency coul

. >>> a surprise visit to iraq by joe biden today. the vice-president landed in afghanistan -- landed in baghdad under the cover of darkness. he will hold meetings about the future of american-iraqi relations. >>> still to come, the new accusations of misconduct by freddie mac and fannie mae. see how they are blamed for billions of wasted dollars. >> a guy wearing some baggy pants cannot board a plane. >> a trial gets under way in a maryland robo-call case. ♪ ♪ [ jerry ] attention shoppers. your groceries are the size of idaho but the interest rate on your checking is small potatoes. earn more at capital one bank. get new high yield free checking. your interest rate will be 5 times the national average. that's huge. and free atms at any bank. free is good. sign up at capital one bank. what's in your wallet? what is he, a cdesdale. >>> you are watching abc7 news at 6 on your side. >>> a baltimore judge dismissed one count of conspiracy against a longtime aide to the former governor is accused of using robo-call to suppress voter turnou

joe biden gets a little more cash from you. that's next in the grapevine. herman cain loses the mustache vote? >> bret: now fresh picks from the political grapevine. at a time when international markets are watching europe extremely closely, the rating agency standard & poor's mistakenly announced that it had downgraded france's top triple-a credit rating. the embarrassing blooper has the french government and the european commission demanding a full investigation. joe biden has been vocal about cutting waste but not the $26,000 he stands to collect from the secret service over the next year in respect. we told you over the summer the vice president rents a cottage to the agency on his lake front property in delaware. they both say it helps them better protect the vice president. wim"washington report times" rea new agreement. we have found no other similar agreement between the agency and people it protects. while herman cain may not be losing significant ground in polls after recent allegation of inappropriate behavior toward women, politico reports he is

. >> bob: is this beaten up joe biden one? we have run six hits.s classic. >> bob: he was campaigning for corzine. >> dana: he didn't figuratively call him. he literally called him. >> bob: i make the point over and over, if we haven't been for stimulus we'd be in a depression. what was wrong with the stimulus? >> andrea: wow! >> eric: unemployment went up. >> bob: it would have gone up to 13%. >> dana: corzine's approach to governing helped lead to governor chris christie win in new jersey. but i do think that the company that corzine lost control of, and now the question of did they use customer money when they knew it was failing in an inappropriate way, so there could be criminal problems going forward. it doesn't fit the narrative of the media of the greedy wall street banker on the republican side of things. if it had, i think a lot more of the mainstream media would have covered it. >> bob: y'all wouldn't be jumping on this guy, be before he became governor. he used $200 million of his own money he made in your capitalist system. when he was

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. >>> joe biden and his wife will host an early thanksgiving dinner today with wounded warriors observatoryhis morning, 55. look at the 60s to the south including charlotte 62. 64 in hatteras. there is the boundary, the focal appointment for the rain. one batch pushed through overnight. next next waive should stay -- wave should stay to the north. we surging milder air. we will have a brief cool down with the boundary. as the rain returns, cool tomorrow we will bring in warm air behind it and just you wait, thanksgiving, a brief cool down, warm up over the weekend. rainfall tomorrow, a wet day. repeat of the one day last week. this could bring us rain from start to finish. watch that through central maryland. this is the boundary trying to lift to the knot. southern pa, towards new jersey and towards new york and new england. cold front, wednesday morning. a rumble of thunder nearby. improving in the afternoon. this is what with are expecting the computer models saying, 2-3 inches of rainfall leading to flooding and the leaves clogging up the storm drains. 55 now. that's the high for the da