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com through okay hi everyone well
welcome to Mika oh thank you hi hello
again M how are you good to see you very
well thank you very well hi everyone Hi
what a crew what a crew okay big day
please please
yes we got some beautiful artwork here I
would love you haven't been here for the
Christmas except the right I have to
I've you know I've um so little known
maybe part of my background is i i
attended a fine art school for a period
of time and um and even just growing up
we would go to the California Academy of
Arts on weekends anyway I love art and
um so when I came in as vice president I
partnered with fape which is a nonprofit
that helps Supply art around the the
world for
embassies and I sat down with the
curator and gave them an idea and
including with the Baltimore Museum gave
them an idea of what I'd
like and so you know normally in this
house it's a lot of art which is like
scenes of pastures with
sheep instead I brought like Carrie May
weams are you familiar with her and
then do you know Fred Wilson I don't
know Fred Wilson okay so that chandelier
that
chandelier I begged him he does big
installations and I've had many a a
world leader in this dining room and
they'll walk by it and they'll say oh is
that
Phoenician and I tell them accurately no
it's
Harlem so Fred
Wilson who is a black man who lives in
New York did that piece it's all onone
then that's Ed Clark you know who Ed
Clark is that's Ed Clark I've got some
Sam Gillum and he you know I'm so sorry
that he knew it was here he was he was
alive when I first came in but it was
the height of Co and then he passed but
his family has come to see it but he was
so happy that his art was in this house
so anyway it's all on rotation like that
one I'll show you is a young black woman
from North Carolina um she is so Carmen
Neely is her name that's stun yes she's
really and so you know all the people
like you who come in the house who are
such um you know opinion leaders to be
able to Showcase all of this for people
to see and then you know these world
leaders they'll say that's American art
yes it is how about that yes it is you
know anyway okay yes yeah do whatever
you want you know I have no Pride about
this
everybody and then you know that um mold
is at an all-time high today which is
the one thing I am allergic to
yeah okay pollen is down mold is up mold
is
up you know I know that as a matter of
fact because I was watching CBS This
Morning there you
go now that I think about it learn
indeed
around yeah got it on both to clear the
backgr
good
happy good I'm good all
right well Madame vice president um one
thank you for doing this thank you for
inviting us into your home of course
um we're going to be running this on the
anniversary of
the Hamas attack on yeah on Israel
Israel okay whoever's in the dining
room
okay so yeah just to start with Israel
the events of the past few weeks have
pushed us to the brink if if not
into an allout Regional war in the
Middle
East what can the US do at this point to
stop this from spinning out of
control well let's start with October 7
um because obviously what we do now must
be in the context of what has happened
and as I reflect on a year ago and that
1,200 people were massacred young people
at a festival at a music festival 250
hostages were taken including
Americans women were brutally
raped and as I said then I maintain
Israel has a right to defend itself we
would and how it does so
matters and as we fast forward into what
we have seen in the onsu weeks and
months far too many innocent
Palestinians have been killed and we
know that and I think most agree this
war has to end and that has to be our
number one imperative and that has been
our number one imperative how can we get
this war to end well critical elements
of that are we have got to get a hostage
deal and a ceasefire deal
done we have to we have to get Aid in we
have to lay the the path toward a
two-state solution um I do believe that
we must maintain that as an objective no
matter how Out Of Reach it seems at the
moment and the work that we have to do
is also pay attention to what is
happening every day in the region and
put us resources into everything we can
do diplomatically and otherwise to
deescalate what is happening in the
region we Supply Israel with billions of
dollars in military aid
and yet prime minister met Netanyahu
seems to be charting his own course the
Biden Administration the Biden Harris
Administration has pressed him to agree
to cease fire he's resisted you urged
him not to go into Lebanon he went in
anyway he has promised to make Iran pay
for the missile attack and that has the
potential of expanding the
war does the us have no sway over prime
minister
Netanyahu well let's start with this um
on this
subject the aid that we have given
Israel allowed Israel to defend itself
against 200 ballistic
missiles that were
just meant to attack the Israelis and
the people of
Israel and I think that is the most
recent example example of why what we do
to assist in their defense around
military aid is
important and when we think about the
threat that Hamas Hezbollah presents um
Iran um I think that it is without any
question our imperative to do what we
can to allow Israel to defend itself
against those kinds of attacks now the
work that we do diplomatically with the
leadership of Israel is an ongoing
Pursuit around making clear our
principles which include the need for
humanitarian Aid the need for this war
to end the need for a deal to be done
which would release the hostages and and
and create a ceasefire and we're not
going to stop in terms of putting that
pressure on Israel and and in the region
including with other um leaders in the
region including Arab leaders but it
seems that prime minister Netanyahu is
not
listening um The Wall Street Journal
said that he um that your Administration
has repeatedly been blindsided by
Netanyahu and in fact he has rebuffed
just about all of your administration's
in
treaties well
Bill the work that we have done has
resulted in a number
of movements in that region by Israel
that were very much prompted by or a
result of U many things including our
advocacy for what needs to happen in the
region and we're not going to stop doing
that we are not going to stop pursuing
what is necessary for the United States
to be clear about where we stand on the
need for this war to
end Just One Last do
you do we have a
um a a real close
Ally in prime minister
Netanyahu I think with all due respect
the better question is do we have an
important alliance
between the American people and the
Israeli people and the answer to that
question is
yes and we are going to do what is
important to support whatever leadership
is in Israel that is defending the
right let's let's shift gears here um
most basic of
questions why do you want to be
States there are many reasons but
probably um first and
foremost I truly believe in the promise
of America I
do and I love the American people you
know we are people who who
have ambition and aspirations and
dreams and optimism and hope if you look
at the character of who we are and how
we have achieved the strength that we
have
achieved I believe in large part it is
because of our character and our belief
in the promise of America and I'm
running for president because I want to
do everything that is possible to create
an opportunity for people to achieve
those goals those Ambitions and those
dreams and that is why you will hear me
talk about my plan for an opportunity
economy to invest in what we can do not
only to bring the cost of living and
prices down for folks because even
though we've achieved a lot of success
prices are still too high you know what
I know it but what we can do to invest
in The Innovation that is happening in
in startups and our small businesses
what we can do to invest in the
industries of the future what we can do
to maintain America's strength in the
global context but that that's that's
why you want to run that's why you want
to be that's why I'm president that that
that and and and some other reasons but
you're you're asking the American people
to make you the most powerful person on
the
planet why why do you deserve the
American people's
votes well first of all I have a
career and a history of being very clear
that I think of my role of leadership
and in particular now for the last four
years as vice president and moving
forward as president if the voters will
have me as being a leader on behalf of
all Americans as you know I spent the
majority of my career as a prosecutor
and I'm going to tell you I never
a victim of crime a witness whether they
were a Democrat are you Republican are
you an independent the only thing I ever
asked folks is are you okay and I
believe that America deserves a leader
who works on behalf of all Americans and
understands the
importance of of knowing that the vast
majority of us have so much more in
common than what separates us and my
career and my work has has always been
about being grounded in common sense
approaches to getting things done and
when it comes to what we need to do as
it relates to National Security we just
had that conversation that includes
understanding and
respecting the power and the strength of
the United States of America and are
then
responsibility to be a global leader to
nurture and strengthen our alliances
around the world to respect the US
Military and its most noble
mission to do the work of appreciating
alliances be it NATO or
others to do the work of of pursuing
diplomacy when it is in the best
interest of our national security and
prosperity and my experien has telling
me not only
that those must be priorities of the
United States of America and the
president of the United States of
America and the commanderin-chief of the
United States of America but also all of
those experiences tell me that the
American people in this election have a
clear choice because on the other side
of the equation we are looking at the
former president Donald
Trump who has shown himself to be when
he was a commander and chief Chief
someone who gave away America's standing
in terms of our principles of standing
up to dictators and autocrats you see
how he compliments Putin even
today someone who was prepared to walk
away from our alliances NATO is the
strongest military Alliance the world
has ever
known we have seen someone in Donald
Trump who openly criticizes the United
States military men and women who are
prepared to at Great
sacrifice serve our country and defend
the principles upon which we were
founded he calls them suckers and losers
but but Madam vice president
um a quarter of registered voters still
say they don't know you they don't know
what makes you tick and and why do you
think that is I mean you have been vice
president for almost four years you've
been on the national scene for longer
what's the
disconnect it's an election
bill and I take um it seriously that I
have to earn everyone's vote and that's
why I'm traveling our country um I've
seen you in a few states in the last
couple of days uh I'm I am talking with
folks where they live I am listening to
folks and working to earn the vote of
very every American this is an election
for President of the United States no
one should be able to take for granted
that they can just declare themselves a
candidate and automatically receive
support you have to earn it and that's
what I intend to do let me tell you what
your critics and the colonist say okay
they say the reason so many voters don't
know you is that you have changed your
position on so many things you were
against fracking now you're for it you
supported looser immigration policies
now you're tightening them up you were
for Medicare for all now you're not so
many that
people don't truly know what you believe
or what you stand for and I know you've
heard that so let's be clear first of
all a lot of the positions that you were
talking about have been discussed and
and dispensed with in 2020 four years
ago um
but but let me be clear on something in
the last four years I have been vice
president of United States not a senator
from a particular State not coming from
a particular state but Vice President of
the United States of America and I have
been traveling our country and I have
been listening to folks and seeking what
is possible in terms of Common
Ground Common Sense Solutions building
consensus and that is why I have taken
the positions that I take not not
dispensing with my values but
understanding we have to a real leader
has to find consensus so for example on
the issue of
fracking I've been very clear since 2020
I will not end fracking I did not as
vice president in fact as Vice President
of the United States I cast the decisive
vote I broke the tie in Congress that
now allows more leases for fracking on
the issue of Health Care in America my
value has always been that access to
health care should be a right and not
just a privilege of those who can afford
it which is why I cast the tiebreaking
vote in the United States Congress that
has now allowed us to cap the cost of
insulin for seniors at $35 a month the
work that I have been a part of and
helped lead about capping the cost of
prescription medication for our seniors
at $2,000 a year all born out of my
belief that we need to bring the price
of medication down because it has been
too expensive for too many people to the
point that they couldn't even afford to
fill their prescription that's why I've
been a huge advocate for what we have
accomplished finally to allow Medicare
to negotiate drug prices on behalf of
the American
people you have said that your values
haven't changed but your your positions
have and I think people want to know is
this Evolution or as your critic
say
opportunism I think that we should um
understand the importance of a leader
building
consensus I believe in building
consensus and I believe in finding a way
that the American people and we are a
diverse people
geographically regionally based on
whether it be Urban rural
agricultural we are a diverse people in
terms of where we are and our
backgrounds and what the American people
do want is that we have leaders who can
build
consensus where we can figure out
compromise and understand it's not a bad
thing as long as you don't compromise
your
values to find Common Sense Solutions
and that has been my
approach let's move on to the economy as
you were saying well first of all the
economy and inflation those are the
primary concerns of the American voters
this election
year you just got some Blockbuster jobs
report a blockbuster job report the
other day and there are lots of signs
that the American economy is doing very
well better than most countries I think
but the American Amer people don't seem
to be feeling it groceries are 25%
higher than when you took office and
people are blaming you and Joe Biden for
that are they
wrong so you are correct that under our
leadership the United States of America
has recovered and is stronger than any
other so-called developed nation in the
world
in particular after the crisis that was
the pandemic and understand we came into
office facing a disaster in large part
because of the mismanagement of the
former president Donald Trump where the
economy was in a slump people were dying
by the hundreds it was a real crisis but
because of our approach and our work we
now have historic low unemployment in
America among all groups of people we
now have an economy that is thriving by
all macroeconomic measures we have
recovered in a way that we have created
almost 800,000 new manufacturing jobs we
have created over 16 million new jobs as
a whole and to your point prices are
still too
high and I know that and we need to deal
with it which is why part of my plan you
mentioned groceries part of my plan is
what we must do to bring down the price
of groceries I'm taking on an issue I've
taken on before as attorney general the
issue of price gouging which is not all
but some corporations and businesses
that take advantage of a crisis and Jack
prices up making the cost of groceries
and other everyday essentials too
expensive for the American people I'm
taking on the issue of housing it's a
big issue in our country it's too
expensive there was there were
Generations before us that believed they
could achieve the American dream which
included home ownership now I I travel
our country I talk to young people every
day and they are so concerned they'll
never be able to afford to buy a home or
even start a family because of the cost
of housing so part of my plan is to put
the resources into partnering with
Builders and developers to create
incentives for them to build 3 million
new homes by the end of my first term
and my plan includes giving firsttime
home buyers a
$25,000 down payment assistance so they
can just get their foot in the door well
let's talk about that you want to expand
uh the child tax credit yes I do you
want to give tax breaks to firsttime
home buyers yes uh and people starting
small businesses right but it is
estimated by the nonpartisan committee
for responsible federal budget that your
economic plan would add3 trillion dollar
to the federal deficit over the next
decade how are you going to pay for that
okay so the other econ economists that
have reviewed my plan versus my opponent
because this is an election and there
are two
choices everyone from Goldman Sachs to
Moody to 16 Nobel laurates so on the
first point comparing my economic plan
to Donald Trump's economic
plan they have reviewed it and
determined that my economic plan would
strengthen America's economy his would
weaken it 16 Nobel laurates Moody others
have determined after reviewing what
Donald Trump is proposing that he would
induce
inflation increase inflation and bring
about a recession by the middle of next
year my plan Bill if you don't mind my
plan is about saying that when you
invest in small businesses you invest in
the middle class and you strengthen
America's economy small businesses are
part of the backbone of America's
economy but but pardon me Madam vice
president the question was how are you
going to pay for it well one of the
things is I'm going to make sure that
the richest Among Us who can afford it
pay their fair share in
taxes listen again my opponent when he
was President issued a a tax cut for
people like himself billionaires and the
biggest
corporations my perspective
is everybody needs to pay their fair
share it is not right that teachers and
nurses and firefighters are paying a
higher tax rate than billionaires and
the biggest corporations and I plan on
making that fair but we're dealing with
the real world here but the real world
includes how are you going to get this
through
Congress you know when you talk quietly
with a lot of folks in Congress they
know exactly what I'm talking about
because their constituents know exactly
what I'm talking about they Conti are
those firefighters and teachers and
nurses their constituents are middle
class hardworking folk who know that it
is not right that hardworking people are
paying a higher tax rate than the
richest people who can afford to pay
their fair share so that's how we deal
with it but understand also that this is
yes it is about how we pay for what
we're doing but understand it it's it's
not it doesn't end there my plan is
actually about strengthening America's
economy not just netting zero my plan is
about doing what we can do for small
businesses and startups right now the
tax deduction bill for a startup $5,000
in
20124 Nar a person going to be able to
start a small business with
$5,000 so I'm going to extend it to
$50,000 my plan is about what we need to
do yes expand the child tax credit
because for young families for the first
year of their child's life
$6,000 allows them to buy a crib a car
seat and just be able to to not just get
by but get ahead for that most critical
stage of their child's development we
all benefit from that we all benefit
from that I understand but that that
sounds great it does it all sounds good
but the reality is these these tax cuts
have
been in place for years they're about to
expire yes and Congress has shown
no inclination to move in your direction
I I disagree with you there are plenty
of leaders in Congress who understand
and know that the Trump tax cuts blew up
our federal
deficit and care about the deficit in a
way that they know we must address it by
making sure that our tax policy reflects
fairness and again understand none of us
and certainly I cannot afford to be
myopic in terms of how I think about
strengthening America's
economy and that has to include where
are we investing our resources in a way
that we maximize the return on the
investment let me tell you something I
am a devout public servant you know that
I am also a
capitalist and I know the limitations of
government part of the work I've always
done and the work I will do as president
includes engaging the private sector to
join in what we can do whether it be
again tax incentives or Builders or
developers or what we need to do to
increase the work I've already done to
get some of our biggest Finance houses
and corporations to invest in Community
Banks to increase access to capital for
small businesses
all of this work must be done but we
have to have a holistic approach that is
comprehensive I guess what I was asking
if if all of this makes so much sense
why has this not been
done you are dealing with you're dealing
with a a Congress that is divided that
many are in opposition to not only you
but your policies so how are you going
to make this bill come true if I
approached my life as though well it's
never been done before therefore it
cannot be done I wouldn't be sitting
here in this interview with
you that's the
believe that we have to have leadership
in our country as we turn the page on
all of
these sadly powerful forces that have
been trying to divide us we have to turn
the page on that and chart a new way
forward that is driven by building
consensus and building Common Ground
listen you look at my
campaign I am supported by over 200
former members of mitt Romy Romney John
McCain both President Bush and even
former president Trump's
teams I have the support of people who
un Republicans who understand what is at
stake in this election be it as it
relates to our democracy and our most
fundamental
principles and I do believe based on a a
collective understanding we have that
America's politics has to get back to
the place of encouraging healthy debate
but not division for the sake of
division just a couple more um economic
story uh questions here sure um Donald
Trump says that tariffs on Imports uh
well that would be the solution to all
of our economic woses
you criticize his plan for tariffs yet
the Biden Harris Administration has left
many of the Trump era tariffs in place
especially when it regards China and uh
President Biden has in fact expanded
some of those tariffs would you continue
the Trump era tariffs if you're
elected so part of the real problem that
economists and others have pointed out
about Trump's approach in this election
he is advocating what is at least a 20%
tariff across the board on everyday
necessities and goods which economists
have estimated will cost the average
American family more than almost $4,000
a year more than what they're already
paying for every day you've got tariffs
Goods but let me get to my point on
everyday good is in so a a a across
theboard blanket policy on tariffs for
everyday goods and Necessities tariff
policy we cannot afford to have that is
just a blind policy without looking at
what we are talking about and what will
it induce what will it incentivize on
the point about China look America has
to win the competition for the 21st
century as it relates to China and we
need to have policy that includes
investing in America investing in
America American workers investing in
American manufacturing investing in
American supply chain and that is I
believe smart and important policy not
only for the sake of our security but
also our prosperity so let's move on to
uh
immigration you recently visited the
southern border and embraced President
Biden's recent Crackdown on Asylum
Seekers and that Crackdown produced an
almost immediate and dramatic decrease
in the number of border crossings and
you said you would take it even
further if that's the right answer
now why didn't your Administration take
those steps in
2021 so we came into office
and almost hours bill after our
inauguration the first bill we proposed
to Congress was to fix our broken
immigration system knowing that if you
want to actually fix it we need Congress
to act it was not taken up fast forward
to a moment when a bipartisan group of
members of the United States Senate
including one of the most conservative
members of the United States Senate got
together came up with a border security
bill which I
support well guess what happened Donald
Trump got word that this bill was a foot
and could be passed knowing that it
could fix part of the problem
and he wants to run on a problem instead
of fixing a problem so he told his
buddies in Congress kill the bill don't
let it move forward but but Madame vice
president I I've been covering the
border for for years and so I know this
is not a problem that started with your
Administration right but there was an
historic flood of undocumented
immigrants coming across the border the
first three years of your Administration
as a matter fact arrivals
quadrupled from the last year of
President
Trump was it a
mistake to loosen the immigration
policies as much as you did in
2021 so regionally and actually globally
we have seen this as an issue and
America's obviously not immune from this
issue but the focus has to be to to your
point you've been covering it for years
it's a longstanding problem and
solutions are at hand and from day one
literally we have been offering
Solutions which have not been picked up
and then when there was a border
security Bill my opponent decided to run
on the problem instead of fixing the
problem and understand what that bill
would have done that border security
bill would have put 1,500 more agents at
the border which is why the Border
control Union supported it it would have
put more resources into stemming the
flow of fentanyl but that was just this
year that was just this past year what I
was asking was was it a mistake to kind
of allow that flood to happen in the
first place I
think the policies that we have been
proposing are about fixing a problem not
promoting a problem okay but the numbers
did quadruple
today because of what we have done we
have cut the flow of illegal immigration
by half we have cut the flow of fenol by
half but we need Congress to be able to
act to actually fix the problem I was
just at the
border I'm talking with these incredible
men and women who are working around the
clock because again they don't have the
resources they need we need an act of
Congress who carries the purse to do it
Donald Trump told them don't act I
talked with the board of Patrol agents
some of the leaders part of the issue
that they
identified is we need more Asylum judges
we need more processing of people who
are coming to our border and the
resources aren't there you know how
those Resources commensurate with the
need get dedicated Congress has to act
but I I I guess my my question is it's a
pretty simple
one if this is the right answer now what
you tried to do with the bipartisan Bill
and what we tried to do on day one bill
and what we tried to do on day one when
we came in first order of business
before before we did the inflation
reduction act before we did successfully
by the way without one Republican vote
before we did the the infrastruct the
bipartisan infrastructure bill before we
passed the first meaningful piece of
legislation to deal with gun violence in
America in 30 years the first first
thing we did was to offer a
comprehensive solution to create a
pathway for citizenship and for people
to earn it and to deal with what we need
to do to put more resources to ensure
that we are able to heighten our level
of security at the border so I you know
we do need to move on because our time
is short but I'm trying to understand
how it is that with this emphasis on the
border the numbers of Crossings
quadrupled under the first three years
of the Biden Harris Administration what
how did that
happen there are a variety of factors
that relate to what we have seen
globally and what we are not immune from
at our own Border in terms of what we
have seen in terms of surge of
immigration and irregular migration and
there are solutions at hand but we've
got to have leaders who are solution
oriented which we've been and are and I
am going forward instead of leaders who
want to make it a problem they can run
on it's talking about that person you're
mentioning right now you have accused
Donald Trump of using racist tropes when
it comes to
Haitian uh immigrants in Springfield
Ohio when it comes to birtherism when it
comes to Charlottesville in fact you
have called him a racist and
divisive yet Donald Trump has the
support of millions and millions of
that
so let's just break down what you just
talked talked about and talk about it in
the
context of the
words that Donald Trump has spoken and
the actions he has taken and whether
that is reflective of who we are as
Americans knowing we have so much more
in common than what separates
us we have a former president who wants
to be president
again who has a bouquet of microphones
in front of him
vile
lies about a group of legal immigrants
in Springfield
Ohio and if I may Bill let me just say
something you know from the time I was a
prosecutor to attorney general to now
Vice President I learned very early in
my
career when you are when the voters
bestow on you the authority to have
these
positions you must be very thoughtful
about how you use that microphone in
front of
you and you know when I was attorney
general the words I spoke could move
markets so the idea that the former
president who again is running to be
president would use that microphone in a
way that is about vilifying and
demeaning a whole population of people
you know what has happened because of
that
what one day day when this happened was
a school day Picture Day for an
elementary school picture day you know
what picture day is for our children
they get excited the night before we put
out the clothes they're going to wear
they go to school making sure their
faces are clean and their hair is done
and they go to school for picture day
and you know what happened to these
children they had to evacuate that
day because of the fear of the threats
that were being issued in Springfield
because of the words of Donald Trump so
so I say that I glad you are pointing
these these these comments out that he
has made that have have resulted in a
response by most reasonable people to
say it's just wrong it's just wrong so
you have said you want to be the
president of all the people yes with so
many people supporting Donald Trump man
you've called a racist how do you bridge
that seemingly unbridgeable
Gap I believe that the people of America
want a
leader who's not trying to divide us and
demean I believe that the American
people recognize that the true measure
of the strength of a leader is not based
on who you beat down it's based on who
you lift up and I have traveled around
our country and I've met with people of
every background and Walk of Life
including people who have supported
Donald Trump in the past who say to me
they're ready to turn the page they're
exhausted with what he has been doing
and that
approach and they want to chart a new
so was democracy best
served by president Biden stepping down
and basically handing you a
nomination you didn't have to go through
a primary process you didn't have to
fight off other contenders that's that's
not really the way our system was
intended to
work so President Biden made a decision
that I think history is going to
show is rare among
leaders which was is to put
country before self excuse me and I am
proud to have
earned the support of the vast majority
of delegates and to have been elected
the Democratic
nominee to be Vice President of the
United States I am honored to have
received the support and endorsement of
over 200 Republicans who served in the
last three Republican Presidential
administrations I am proud to have
earned the the support of leaders of our
national
security Community I am proud to have
received the endorsement of leaders
around this country from every
background and Walk of Life to fight in
this election over the next
month for our
democracy and the and the principles
upon which it stands what is at stake in
this
election you mention our
democracy is whether we are a nation
that abides by and respects the rule of
law and that we have a president who is
the champion of of following and
respecting and upholding rule of law not
someone who has been convicted of 34
felonies who tried to overturn the free
and fair election which was the will of
the people on January 6th not someone
who has said he would be a dictator on
day one not someone who has said and
these are his words he would terminate
the Constitution of the United States of
America but I think this truncated
process is why people think or say they
don't really know who you are well Bill
you're there's no question look I've
been in this race for 70
days and there is work to be done it is
without any question a short period of
time there's no question about that
which is why I'm traveling around our
country as I said earlier I mean you've
seen me I'm I'm from one state to the
next to the next I don't know how many
states I've been in this last week alone
literally I've lost count so it is my
responsibility to earn the vote and I'm
going to work to do that three4 of the
American voters or likely voters say
that they are concerned about the
possibility of election related violence
and we with two assassination attempts
against former president Trump the
country seems near a boiling point what
can you do what should you do to lower
the
temperature well first let's start with
those attempts um assassination attempts
on the former president
um I was
deeply Disturbed
shocked um and shaken
frankly when they happened I call the
former president to check on him
but it is really important that all of
us speak loudly regardless of who we're
voting for to say our differences have
to be settled at The Ballot Box and not
through
violence we we cannot
lose our soul in terms of who we are as
Americans
by resorting to violence to settle our
differences much less to make a decision
about who's going to be the next
president of United States let's hit on
some more foreign policy plug here
um which foreign country do you consider
to be our greatest
adversary well there are different
reasons that we should um be thoughtful
about each most recently I think there's
an obvious um one in mind which is
Iran and look I mean Iran has American
blood on their hands okay and what we
saw in terms of just uh the this attack
on Israel 200 ballistic missiles um what
we need to do to ensure that um Iran
never achieves the ability to be a
nuclear power that is one of my highest
priorities so if you have proof that
Iran is building a nuclear weapon would
you take military
action I'm not going to talk about
hypotheticals at this
moment what about China China is
strongly asserting its dominance its
control of the South CH China SE
especially around the Philippines what
is the US
responsibility for keeping China from
Simply taking over the South China Sea
well I have actually wored worked very
closely with um the leaders in the
Philippines on just this very issue and
including the work that we are doing in
terms of coordination between our
military and training and um what needs
to happen in terms of protecting um the
freedom of the South China St China
first of all we must win the competition
for the 21st century with China we must
be able to compete and win we should not
seek conflict
but we have to understand that there are
parameters in which we must operate that
include insuring for example that we
protect American business interest so
say if China attacks Taiwan would uh we
use military force to to support Bill
I'm not going to get into hypotheticals
but listen we need to make sure that we
maintain a a one China policy and but
that includes supporting taiwan's
ability to defend itself including what
we need to do to to ensure um the
freedom of the Taiwan straight but on
the issue of China we also again these
are not we cannot afford to have foreign
policy that is myopic we must be able to
also as it relates to China continue to
do the work that we have begun to deal
with the flow of fentanyl coming into
the United States that's a real issue
again you talk to families around our
country who h i i I've just I on a
constant sadly regular basis meet
parents and family members of people who
have died from fentol young people have
died from
fentanyl are we going to stop trying to
stem the flow of fentol and we have to
deal with that and understand China's
role in that and our ability to work
with China to stop that flow which we
have begun to do and I'm going to
continue to do we need to make sure we
have open lines of communication with
China in particular milit to military so
these issues are all they're
multifaceted so what about Russia and
Ukraine what what does the end of the
war what what what does success look
like in ending the war in Ukraine there
will be no success in ending that war
without Ukraine and the UN Charter
participating in what that success looks
like that being said America must stand
firm in being a leader in defending
International rules and Norms that
include one of the most important which
is the critical nature and importance of
sovereignty and territorial Integrity
would you meet with President Vladimir
Putin to negotiate a solution to the war
in Ukraine not bilaterally without
Ukraine no Ukraine must have a say in
Ukraine how about um
as president would you support the
effort to expand NATO to include
Ukraine those are all issues that we
will deal with if and when it arrives at
that point right now we are supporting
Ukraine's ability to defend itself
against Russia's unprovoked
aggression and doing what we can to
continue to build and strengthen the
alliance around the support for Ukraine
right to be an independent nation free
from having its borders forcefully taken
by Russia and we are going to continue
to work closely with our NATO allies to
continue to reinforce America's Alliance
in the context of NATO again in this
election there's a real difference
between me and the former president I
believe in
reinforcing the strength of NATO
understanding again it is the greatest
military Alliance the world has ever
known Donald Trump would pull us out of
NATO Donald Trump if he were
President Putin would be sitting in ke
right now let's be clear about that he
talks about oh he can end it on day one
you know what that is it's about
surrender achieving peace and an end to
this war is not synonymous with
surrender those two things are not the
same it's a a hard left turn here but um
you recently surprised people when you
said that you are a gun owner and then
if someone came into your house not the
first time i' about it that's not the
first time I've talked about it but it's
I mean I don't talk about it a lot but
so what what kind of gun do you own and
when and why did you get it I have a
Glock and um I've had it for quite some
time and um I mean look Bill my
background is in law
enforcement and um so there you go have
you uh ever fired it
yes of course I have at a shooting range
yes of course I
have um and and and and to just give you
more detail and I store it in a lock box
and it is safely stored and as any
responsible gun owner
does I'm getting the countdown here but
uh one last thing you are sitting here
with us
the Trump
campaign cancelled an interview that
they had agreed to to participate in
this
that listen I think that
um look I think that your viewers um
have options in terms of how they're
going to hear from him and I invite them
to watch what he says at his
rallies if they if if he is not going to
give your viewers the ability to have a
meaningful thoughtful conversation
question and answer with you then watch
his rallies and what you're going to
hear are comments about fictional
characters like Hannibal Lecter you're
going to hear conversations suggesting
that human beings are eating their
pets you're going to hear conversations
that are about himself and all of his
personal
grievances words that are intended to
divide our country as what you will hear
and what you will not hear is anything
about you the
listener you will not hear a plan about
how he's going to make your life better
you will not hear a plan about how he's
going to strengthen the middle class you
will not hear about how he is going to
strengthen small businesses you will not
hear about how he's going to try to
bring the country
together find common ground and Bill
that is why I believe in my soul and
heart the American people are ready to
turn the
page you have said that
um the country is exhausted yes with the
rhetoric and the finger
pointing how about you are you
exhausted I'll be exhausted and November
6th not now not now too much to do too
much to
do Madam vice president thank you very
much thank you thank you Bill good agre
with
you can we just get just a little bit of
a question please so I can get over
theer
yeah okay thank
you you need me talking yes
sir oh we were talking
about how you're going to pay for it and
I mean I truly do mean it I you know
plans are logical make logical
sense The Way Washington works is not
logical so how are you going to convince
a divided
Congress that what you say your
plans are something that they should all
agree to and and provide to the American
people when they they've shown no
inclination to do that to this
point is that what you needed yes sir um
yes ma'am uh 30 seconds of Silence Space
Room
time C are off how will
you it's going to be taxes it's going to
be literally if the economist
I mean they're from
each but I hear what you're saying about
the economist this is true but Congress