Joe Biden has lived through it all — from overcoming multiple family tragedies to becoming President Obama's wing man. Now, he's looking to return to the White House in 2020 as President of the United States. Here is his story.
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00:00I remember to this day how stuttering felt, how dehumanizing, how embarrassing, how much
00:17it put into question, in my own mind as well, my capabilities.
00:47When I was in Washington hiring staff, I got a phone call.
01:04My wife and three children were Christmas shopping, tractor trailer broadsided and killed
01:10my wife and killed my daughter, and they weren't sure that my sons would live.
01:34I've made over, they actually calculated this, 8,200 round trips, over 2,100,000 miles
01:41on that trip.
01:42This is not a referendum on whether or not sexual harassment is a grave offense.
02:03I said from the beginning, this is about whether or not sexual harassment occurred.
02:17I haven't always been right.
02:18It was a big mistake when it was made.
02:20We thought we were told by the experts that crack, you never go back.
02:24It was somehow fundamentally different.
02:25It's not different, but it's trapped an entire generation.
02:47We can make an education system work, and it's not working now.
02:51We can, in fact, do something about the dread of nuclear war.
02:54We can deal with our trade problem and promote American jobs that pay real money, not poverty
03:01wages.
03:10Fact of the matter is, it's much more difficult to go out and convince a group of Republicans,
03:15I would argue, getting something done that is of a major consequence.
03:19I have experience of doing that.
03:21I did it on the crime bill.
03:22I did it on today.
03:24I'm not suggesting it's Hillary's fault.
03:26I think it's a reality that it's more difficult.
03:35This is an extraordinary election.
03:37The American people are ready.
03:39I am ready.
03:40Barack is ready.
03:42This is his time.
03:43This is our time.
03:44This is America's time.
03:52My name is Joe Biden, and I love ice cream.
03:56You all think I'm kidding.
03:57I'm not.
03:58The Taoiseach knows a lot about it.
03:59His mom lived in Long Island for 10 years or so.
04:04God rest her soul.
04:05And although she's, wait, your mom's still, your mom's still alive as your dad passed.
04:12God bless her soul.
04:17I gotta get this straight.
04:26The political world tonight is mourning the death of Beau Biden, the son of Vice President
04:30Joe Biden, who succumbed to brain cancer Saturday at the age of 46.
04:35Beau was my soul.
04:36Beau was my conscience.
04:38Beau was my, Beau was like, he was the little boy who, when he was six years old, he was
04:4530 years old.
04:46For the loved ones we've all lost, for the families that we can still save, let's make
05:04America the country that cures cancer once and for all.
05:14For the final time as president, I am pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honor,
05:21the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
05:27I can remember my mother, sweet lady, looking at me after we left the hospital and saying,
05:38Joey, out of everything terrible that happens to you, something good will come if you look
05:46hard enough for it.
05:50She was right.