reporter: yeah, president biden acted really emotionally because of the things that we just heard boirs and sara really describe, all of that heartbreak. a lengthy statement 30 minutes after the video went live, i want to read a part because he wordrd this so strongly. he expressed outrage, painful he said it is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain and the exhaustion that black and brown americans experience every single day, really trying to call back to what sara said, a lot of folks in that community feel that excessive policing, over-policing, president biden tried to bring that upfront there. white house officials over the day told us that president biden hadn t seen the video in advance, but he was really staying with this topic at the top of his mind as he called the nichols family. a washington post reporter was in the room when the family got
sadly, because of over-policing, because of fear, because of stereotype, because of xeniphobia, he is now a victim for being really smart. and that is really rare. at the end, you take it to a far out place. mark, you ve got to feel bad for the kid. the kid not do anything wrong. but did the cops do anything wrong? did the school do anything wrong? to a person, everybody that i talked to said the thing looked like a bomb. it looked like a bomb. well, certainly, megyn, there s not very many people, except for the bomb squad, that knows what an explosive time device looked like. you re talking about police officers that are put in the position that they have to do something. now, i don t feel sorry for achmed. he offered no explanation to the police. he wouldn t cooperate. he was passive aggressive