 group of advisors and chief of staff and all who are paring the decisions down so at the end of the day joe biden makes the decision but it is a very close tight-knit group of advisors who weed all of the decisions down to one or two that make it easy for joe biden to make the decision and they can say he made the decision but the weeding out of all the options down to two is from this close-knit group of advisors that includes his wife and his convicted felon son