Vice President Joe Biden emerged from a meeting Wednesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence assured everything will be just fine when President-elect Donald Trump's administration takes over the White House in January. After a nearly two-hour meeting over lunch at the Naval Observatory — which was also attended by Pence's wife Karen and Biden's wife Jill — Biden told reporters he's "confident on day one everything will be in good hands." Further, Biden admitted that quite frankly, "no administration is ready for day one. We weren't really."
Though Biden has been a vocal critic of Trump's, he said he's told Pence he'd be "available to him 24/7." "I plan on being available to Mike as senior staff," Biden said, noting that he is not worried about the new administration undoing the Obama administration's work.
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