I know that. I know that regardless of someones background, race, gender, geographic location, i know that people are deeply troubled. By what is happening to that community in springfield, ohio. And its got to stop. Youve got to say that you cannot be entrusted with standing behind the seal of the president of the united states of america engaging in that hateful rhetoric that as usual is designed to divide us as a country. Is designed to have people pointing fingers at Each Other. Its designed to do that. I think most people in this country regardless of their race are starting to see through this nonsense. And to say you know what, lets turn the page on this. This is exhausting and harmful and its hateful. And grounded in some age old stuff that we should not have the tolerance for so lets turn the Page And Chart a new way forward and say you cant have that microphone again. Im switching gears again. I want to talk to you about gun control. So you said you support an assault Weapons Ban and universal Background Checks and we learned during the debate youre a Gun Owner. But in cities like philadelphia, handguns are responsible for most homicides and violent crime. The most recent fbi data shows handguns were involved in 59 of murders in our country. How will you address the issue of the use of handguns because a push for an assault Weapons Ban only addresses a significant but small part of the problem. So, first of all, yes, i am a Gun Owner and Tim Walz is a Gun Owner and were not trying to take anybodys guns away from them, but we do need an assault Weapons Ban. Assault weapons are designed to kill a lot of Human Beings quickly. Assault Weapons Ban and have no place. Im going to get to it. Yes. And have no place on the streets of a civil society. We need universal Background Checks. Which to your point about handguns, is about saying that it is just reasonable to want reasonable Gun Safety laws that say we should do Background Checks that we ought to know. Its just reasonable. You might want to know before someone can buy a lethal weapon if theyve been found by a court to be a danger to themselves or others. Respectfully, we do understand that. Youre asking about specifically about handguns. Because many of those handguns arent purchased in places universal Background Checks apply to handguns. But in many instances, they are not even bought lawfully. Yes. Which is why ive been adamant for years. In fact, i protested at a Gun Show probably ten, 15 years about the Gun Show loophole and why we need to close that. Because what ends up happening is that Gun Shows at flee markets, gun dealers, are not under existing law in the past, required to register their sales. And so you are exactly right. That a lot of homicides, for example, a good number of them. I dont have the statistic in front of my mind, are committed with illegally purchased guns. Thats why we need to address each Entry Point in the issue, including universal Background Checks, closing the Gun Show loophole, and what we need to do as a general matter to focus not only on reaction to crime, but prevention of crime. So youre raising a very important issue that has many facets including what we need to do in terms of reasonable Gun Safety laws and what we need to do around crime prevention. What we need to do around crime deterrence. But listen. I have personally prosecuted homicide cases. I have held the hands of mothers who have come to me crying who have said i only want to talk to kamala because they knew when they sat down i would treat them with the Dignity And Respect that they were entitled and due, about the loss of their child. Often their son, to Gun Violence and the need to take it seriously and we must take it seriously. In every way understanding its not just about a sound bite. Its about a comprehensive approach that deals with the tragedy of, to your point, every day Gun Violence in america. Its real. It has had a profound impact in terms of trauma that for the most part has gone undiagnosed and untreated. The trauma that exists in communities around the violence of losing their children, losing a brother, a father, an uncle. We have to have a holistic response to it. Are there things we havent thought about yet because every time we bring up this issue of Gun Violence, universal Background Checks comes up and ban on assault weapons. Are there other solutions that youre also thinking about that will get at this issue . Absolutely. For example, part of what we did with, so we, as Vice President with the president , we were able to pass the first meaningful Gun Safety legislation in 30 years. And part of what that involved was millions and millions of dollars to put more Mental Health counselors in public schools. Right. Because we know that there is an aspect of this that is about treating the trauma. And dealing with it at its source before it ends up manifesting itself in a problem. There is the work that we need to do that is about putting resources into communities around violence prevention. Ive been a big advocate for that for years which includes what we need to do around putting resources into community based intervention that is not just requiring on the good people in the community to volunteer to do the intervention, but actually paying people to do it because its a fulltime job. Its about understanding what we need to do to again understand that to your point, we have to have a holistic response to this issue and prioritize it. Instead of reacting to the tragedy that sadly they are too predictable. Lets all agree. Enough of that. There are very few solutions that we havent thought of. We need put the resources into them. We want to move to the top of the reproductive access. Something that you have worked and leading on for the administration, democrats and now the top of the ticket. You said as president , you would want to codify roe if it came to your desk, you would sign a bill that did that. Roe protected access until fetal viability, which also says is quote about seven months but may occur earlier even at 24 weeks. So do you similarly support also codifying roes restrictions which allowed states to Ban Abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy unless necessary to save the Mothers Life . We need to put the protections of roe v. Wade back into law and when that bill gets passed by congress, i will proudly sign it into law. Understand what is happening in our country. Over 20 states have passed what i call Trump Abortion bans because to understand how we got here, the former President Hand picked three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention they would undo the protections of roe v. Wade. They did as he intended and in state after state, laws have been passed criminalizing Healthcare Providers. I dont know if anyone here has heard the stories out of georgia. Tragic story. About a young woman who died because it appears the people who should have given her healthcare were afraid they would be criminalized after the Dobbs Decision came down. Laws that make no exception for Rape Or Incest which is youre telling a survivor of a crime of a violation to their body that they have no right to make a decision about what happens to their body next. Which is immoral. An approach that doesnt take into account that most people i think agree you dont have to abandon your faith or deeply held believes to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body. If she chooses, she will talk with her pastor, priest, rabbi, or imam, but it should not be the government of Donald Trump telling her what to do about her body and life. Thats where i stand. We need to put back into place the protection of roe v. Wade. End those restrictions that are also we need to put back into place the protections of roe v. Wade and let an individual in consultation with her doctor make the decision based on what she can determine because shes smart enough to know. Whats in her best interest instead of having her government tell her what to do. Especially a bunch of people in these State Capitals who think theyre in a better position to tell her what to do. Before we conclude, Joyful Warrior has been used to describe didnt see that a minute ago. Your opponent and republicans have at times weaponized you laughing in Campaign Ads for example. Why is joy important to you to insert into this election and what do you make of republicans using that as a way to suggest youre not a Series Candidate . Well, sometimes i think and ill say to whoever the young people are who are watching this. Theres sometimes when your adversaries will try to turn your strength into a weakness. Dont you let them. I find joy in The American people. I find joy and optimism in what i see to be our future and our ability to invest in it. I find joy in the ambitious of the people. I find joy in the dreams of the people. I find joy in building community. I find joy in building coalitions. I find joy in believing that the true measure of the strength of a leader is not based on who you beat down, but who you lift up. I think we should all find joy and have a sense of optimism about who we are as americans and what we mean to Each Other an what we can do to lift Each Other up. Did you, President Biden spoke to President Trump after the attempt on his life this weekend. Have you spoken to him . I have. And earlier today, i assume. Yes. How did that go . Sure. I checked on him to see if he was okay. And i told him what i have said publicly. Theres no place for political violence in our country. I am in this election in this race for many reasons including to fight for our democracy. And in a democracy, there is no place for political violence. We can and should have healthy debates. And discussion and disagreements. But not resort to violence to resolve those issues. On january 6th, your vehicle was allowed to kind of pass a viable pipe bomb. I was in the building. Weve seen whats happened from former President Trump. Do you have full confidence in the Secret Service to protect you . Do you feel feel safe, you and your family . I do. You can go back to ohio. Not everybody has Secret Service. And there are far too many people in our country right now who are not feeling safe. I look at project 2025 and i look at you know, the dont say gay laws coming out of florida. Members of the Lgbtq Community dont feel safe right now. Immigrants, people with an immigrant background dont feel safe right now. Women dont feel safe right now. So yes, i feel safe. I have secret Service Protection. But that doesnt change my perspective on the importance of fighting for the safety of everybody in our country. And doing everything we can to again lift people up and not beat people down so they feel alone and are made to feel small and made to feel like theyre somehow not a part of it or us. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Ive appreciated this. Thank you. Pleasure. Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur here in New York. It is 3 14. Joining us now, Aaron Gillcrist to talk about what we saw there. Vice president harris speaking to the national association of black journalists. This is in philadelphia where you are. It comes a few weeks after Donald Trump spoke to the same organization. This is where he questioned Kamala Harris racial identity. Its also where he said immigrants are stealing black jobs. What did she say today . Was there any, did she make any distinguishing points between what she wants to do if shes elected president and what the current administration has done in regards to any major policy . Reporter i think we heard the Vice President say many of the things she has said on the campaign trail. We heard in interviews shes done in the past as well as on the debate stage, this was an interview that lasted just under 45 minutes by my count with these three journalists. Two of whom are White House correspondents. One a long time npr journalists. They talked about Gun Violence and gun control. Gaza. The situation unfolding in springfield over the last week or so. Springfield, ohio. She talked about secret Service Protection and reproductive freedom. Again, many of these are topics weve heard her speak on before and she rearticulated some of her Policy Ideas around those things as well as her Opportunity Economy that she has said she would put in place were she to win the election. So i think we got a setting where there wasnt a written script, or this wasnt a campaign rally. This was a point when the Vice President was questioned about these things. On some of those topics, particularly on gaza, she was pressed several times by the journalist on that panel about her policies that she would want to see in place as a president , saying that she was asked whether there would be a Policy Change under a Harris Administration and she said that she believes the best way to create change in the Middle East is to get a Hostage And CeaseFire Deal done as soon as possible and then all other things that could happen in terms of a Twostate Solution with israel and the palestinian territory, those things are conversations that could happen, but only, she suggested only if a deal is done for the Hostage Release and Cease Fire in the Middle East. So i think again, a lot of the topics we heard addressed today were topics that people have been asking about and many of the answers we got from the Vice President were answers we had heard before for the most part. I was reading our Nbc News reporting from inside the room and one of our reporters said there was a frustration among the journalists there when she was asked specifically on reparations and the answer that she gave on that. Reporter yeah. She was asked whether she thought a reparations commission, a commission to study the experience of Black Americans in this country and whether there should be reparations for some of the inequities over the course of our time in this country. There are states around the country that have set up Task Forces to look at reparations and her answer essentially was that she didnt believe it would be necessary for Executive Action on that. That she believed congress would ultimately be able to set up a commission as an effort has come up over the years to do that. She believes that ultimately its something that congress would be able to do and start addressing these issues. She also noted there was a necessity to speak truth about history in this country. That there are people, and she did not name Donald Trump i dont think one time in the course of this interview, but she referenced things that she has said about him in the past. This being one of them. That instead of denying history, there should be an effort to speak truth to history. All right. Thank you very much. Joining us now, Staff Writer at the New Yorker, Susan Glasser and mark. Lets talk about guns. She says she spoke with Donald Trump after this most recent apparent attempted assassination, mark. Donald Trump And Jd vance a