Vice President Biden Participates in a Conversation with Walter Isaacson on the Cancer Moonshot

There is perhaps nobody in politics more capable of thoroughly demolishing an opponent while holding a great big smile on his face than Vice President Joe Biden. Just ask Paul Ryan, who was systematically and painfully dismantled on national television during the 2012 Vice Presidential debate. And while Ryan stammered, Biden didn’t even break a sweat.

So it should come as no surprise that while in Aspen to promote his cancer research “moonshot,” Biden saw an opportunity to take Newt Gingrich down a few pegs and jumped on it.

Sitting down with host Walter Isaacson, Biden paused the opening remarks when he noticed Gingrich in the crowd. Stopping the event in its tracks, Biden turned to the former Republican politician and asked him flatly, “Are you gonna do it?” The audience burst into laughter.

Biden was, of course, referring to recent rumors that Gingrich is on the top of the short list to be Donald Trump’s pick for vice president. Speculation only intensified after Gingrich seemingly dumped all of his former criticisms of Trump and went on record as supporting a number of things Trump has said that he wouldn’t have been caught dead standing behind just months ago – including the dismantling of NAFTA, a trade agreement Gingrich helped create.