cycle ecologists responding to mental health crises and more, in one sense we ask too much of them. i know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people, vast majority. but the risk [applause] and they risk their lives, every time they put that shield on. but what happened to ty remembers happens too often. we have to do better. give law enforcement the real training they need. hold them to higher standards. help them succeed in keeping a safe. we also need more first responders and professionals to adjust to the growing mental health and substance abuse challenge. more resources against violent crime and gun crime. more community intervention programs. more investment in education
soul. when something good will come of this. imagine how much courage and care that takes. to us, to all of us. we all want the same thing. neighborhoods free of violence. law enforcement who earns the community s trust. just as every to be going home at night, so does everybody else out there. our children have a right to come home safely. equal protection under the law is a covenant we have with each other in america. we know police officers put their lives on the line every single night and day and we know we asked them in many cases to do too much, counselors, social workers,
0 you don t but the chief justice has often said that he doesn t really like to come to these things because they re political. but he s come to many of them. i think he has one he has come to every one. one of the records. something like 18. even during the covid year when almost nobody came, he was the only supreme court justice who came. we see there the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, secretary of energy. you re joining us, you re one of the preeminent biographers of joe biden. what is going through his mind in this very unique landscape with a new republican-led house and this newly-heightened challenge from china, not a new challenge, but newly-heightened? you know, there are moments for a political speech. we heard some of thoiz recently from him during the midterms and may, in fact, be hearing more of that kind if he does run for re-election. that s not what tonight is about. tonight is about being president of the united states. and i heard from one of