you've got ted kaufmann, former aide appointed senator in delaware, when he became vice president.ing out this letter which is basically saying don't run away yet, it's not over despite the debate, and so i talked to this long-time supporter who said you know, not only is it not over, the door is wide open. i said what do you mean, it's wide open? and this person said look, what ted kaufmann is telling all of us is don't run away because why would you, if you were the vice president, want to spend millions of dollars in the iowa and new hampshire when you know bernie sanders is likely going to win both of those, then you head south to south carolina, where joe biden has a base. >> well, and there's something else to the ted kaufmann letter, okay? there's sort of two sets of biden advisors. there are the people that he has surrounded himself with recently that do want to help him put together the campaign. then there are the people that have been with him through thick and thin. kaufmann is a thick and thin guy. it is no accident to me that that letter went out. i can tell you this.

former delaware senator ted kaufmann sent a letter to former biden staffers. he said if he runs "we will need each and every one of you yesterday." on the republican side, two front-runners have threatened to boycott the next debate. in a letter to cnbc, donald trump and ben carson said the they would not participate if it lasts more than three hours. >>> a house panel investigating a deadly attack. a long time clinton confidant and clinton staffer is scheduled to appear before the benghazi panel next thursday. the panel is under scrutiny itself after two house republicans described it as partisan and aimed at hurting clinton's presidential bid. >>> an incredibly sad and bizarre story is in anne arundel county. it is a bit confusing. police say a man and his live- in girlfriend are now dead. the suspect is the man's wife. police say she was also in a relationship with that girlfrnd who was owedded as jacqueline riggs. according to police, ann asked her 13-year-old daughter to get her 18-year-old boyfriend to kill the husband and the girlfriend. again, anastoci

then you saw the ted kaufmann e-mail to all their supporters saying give him room, basically back off, stop pushing him so hard. >> yeah. i saw some reporting this morning that that confidant of the vice president's had said that he's not going to react to -- i can't believe that comes from someone who really knows him very well. i can't believe the vice president would suggest that saying a decision sooner rather than later is in everyone's interest is really bullying. i'm sure -- he's a pretty tough guy. >> hillary clinton is preparing for a very big week. some say this is a bigger test, the benghazi hearing this week, than the debate was. >> i think the debate is more important in terms of her being able to have a big audience where she's talking about the problems that she sees people facing and the solutions that she has, people that she's met on the campaign trail that she would help. we think that was a bigger moment. she is looking forward to thursday. she wants, you have heard her saying for many months she wants to answer all of the questions and move on. we do have concerns

pressuring him to make a decision and that is one reason we believe that former delaware senator ted kaufmannmer biden advisor, sent out a letter today to biden's former staffers essentially saying if the vice president decides to get into the race, we are going to need 150% from all of you. i will read you a snippet of that letter now. it says quote, he believes we must win this election, everything he and the president have worked for and care about is at stake. if he decides to run, we will need each and every one of you yesterday. so this aimed i think at giving the vice president a little bit of space and also at sending a message to his supporters that he is taking a very serious look at this and that he's in his final stages of deliberations. as you said, he's reaching out to organizers in those early voting states. it comes, though, as we are getting some new polling information which the biden team will undoubtedly be looking at closely. this is from the suffolk university boston globe which shows secretary clinton has now overtaken bernie sanders in new hampshire, 37% to 35%. vice p

in the e-mail obtained by the ap, former delaware senator ted kaufmann lays out what a biden campaigne an optimistic campaign from the heart, focused on the middle class, and he added, it won't be scripted, saying after all, it is joe. a lot to keep up -- a lot to keep an eye on this next week. >> you're right about that. all right, garrett tenney down in the bureau covering a lot of territory this morning. >> thank you. >> the president wants him to run, don't you get the sense? he keeps complimenting him. >> because hillary looks like she got lost for biden and the white house to push him forward they must think she's in trouble. >> with the e-mail. >> it would be quite clear if the white house didn't want him to run. >> it would be. >> so if you look at the flip side of it. >> why waste all that time, all that effort. >> the discussion wouldn't be -- >> so anyways it is now 23 minutes before the top of the hour. and heather joins us with another fox news alert. >> that's right. and this involves isis right now. an alleged isis supporter is now under arrest this morning in malaysia,