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Lets go to pennsylvania, president biden is addressing gun violence, public safety, and policing in america. >> by the way, please sit down. im sorry. please sit downment i keep forgetting. thank you. look, when i ran for president, i said i looked at the world the way i looked at a grown-up in scranton, and that wasnt hyperbole, i meant that. what families wanted in scranton when i was growing up with my mom and dad and grandpop was as basic as it is today, a decent job, the opportunity to be t...

The ar-15 just rips the body apart. could not identify, could not identify the body. a 20-year-old kid can walk in and buy one? dna to say thats my baby. what the hell is the matter with us? im not joking. thinking about it. what are we doing? and by the way, how many -- my dad used to love to hunt in the poconos when we lived in scranton. how many deer or bear are wearing kevlar vests, huh? not a joke. do you realize the bullet out of

Appreciate until you need them, is the firefighters. the firefighters have been with me my whole career and let me tell you something, an old expression, god made man and then he made a few firefighters because you got to be crazy to be a firefighter. by the way, please sit down. im sorry. please sit down. i keep forgetting. thank you. but look, when i ran for president i said i looked at the world the way i looked at it growing up in scranton. that wasnt hyperbole. i meant that. what families w...

Parents had to do? supply dna, supply dna because the ar-15 just rips the body apart. could not identify, could not identify the body. a 20-year-old kid can walk in and buy one? dna to say thats my baby. what the hell is the matter with us? im not joking. think about it. what are we doing? and by the way, how many -- my dad used to love to hunt in the poconos when we lived in scranton. how many deer or bear are wearing kevlar vests? huh? not a joke. do you realize the bullet out of an ar-15 trav...

Moment he identified that trump had a chance to win, he said when he saw donald trump in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, and he saw the crowd and said those should be our voters, democratic voters. we are close to scranton. these are neighbors, people like the ones joe biden grew up with. so this is an opportunity and a designed by the white house for biden to have the opportunity to try to flip the script on republicans ahead of the midterm elections on a key issue, and that is law and order. now, ...

The fact that there may be a lousy cop. im tired of not giving the kind of help them need. folks, look, were in a situation in this country where we have to give additional resources they need to get their job done. matt gets it, matt cartwright. this is not hyperbole. matt is the chair of the subcommittee that controls the funding for public safety. he knows what it means investing in effective and accountable community policing that builds and strengthens public safety. im old enough to rememb...

There. theyre, of course, very hotly contested races for both the senate seat and the governors mansion here in pennsylvania, and this is also a state that has personal significance to biden. he was born just a short ways from here in scranton, pennsylvania, and its also been the center of so much of his campaigning for president and his work over the past years. >> arlette saenz there, and of course well bring the presidents remarks to you live. thank you very much. there is a crisis in missi...

If Mastriano, who got about 44% of the vote in the crowded GOP primary, wants to expand his reach beyond dedicated supporters, it might take some money.

Conservative voters might benefit from this too, but that ad speaks to a certain group of voters who might be very amenable to this idea that like spoiled rich liberals and big cities are taking what is mine. >> thats something biden was very aware of as he tried to sort of grapple over how much to give in student loan forgiveness. hes the president who said he came from scranton and he represents the firefighters and the blue collar workers. so he was a little bit uneasy about the idea that col...

You know, if fetterman is too sick to debate, we want to hear that. fettermans campaign has said he will make a full recovery. there are some minor lingering speech issues, and you know, i think thats all kind of coming into play as we see that were in the final, you know, final 80 some days to election day. >> you also have some new reporting, julia, that former president trump is going to campaign with oz next week in pennsylvania. he is behind, as youve talked about in fund-raising but also i...