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The president also addressed Republican criticism of the FBI in the wake of the search warrant executed at Donald Trump's Florida estate, including their calls to defund the bureau. Biden's comments on the search have been limited, besides stating he had no prior notice about the search and leaving questions of national security risk to the Justice Department.
\"Now it's sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the lives of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job,\" Biden said. \"There's no place in this country for endangering the lives of law enforcement.\"
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Biden on Tuesday also touted his \"Safer America Plan,\" unveiled in July, which calls on Congress to add $37 billion for the training of 100,000 additional police officers, to clear court backlogs and to establish new grants for communities to prevent violent crime and ease the burden on police officers in responding to non-violent situations
\"I've not met a cop who likes a bad cop,\" Biden said. \"There's bad in everything. There's lousy senators and lousy presidents and lousy doctors and lousy lawyers. No, I'm serious. But I don't know any police officer that feels good about the fact that there may be a lousy cop. I'm tired of not giving them the kind of help they need.\"
In addition to making the case for the additional funding, Biden discussed the need to build on the bipartisan gun safety legislation passed earlier this summer by enacting a ban on assault weapons. The gun safety law, while the first major piece of reform in decades, didn't go as far as Democrats and gun control advocates had hoped.
\"The NRA was against it which means a vast majority, the vast majority of Republicans in Congress couldn't even stand up and vote for it, because they're afraid of the NRA,\" he said.
Pres. Biden hails passage of bipartisan gun safety package: \"We beat the NRA.\"
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 30, 2022
\"But we're not stopping here. I'm determined to ban assault weapons in this country. Determined!\"https://t.co/QdT3AIZjJv pic.twitter.com/ifmPoOX2e0
Biden's speech in Wilkes-Barre was his first of three stops in the battleground state in a week.
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Meanwhile, Trump will also be in Pennsylvania this week for his first rally since the Aug. 8 search.
The former president will be campaigning for Republicans in two key Pennsylvania races: the gubernatorial election and the U.S. Senate contest.
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is running for governor, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is running for Senate, will be in attendance at Trump's rally in Wilkes-Barre. Trump has endorsed them both.
Biden on Tuesday gave a shout out to the two Democrats going up against Mastriano and Oz: Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman, respectively.
\"Josh Shapiro is a champion for the rule of law as your attorney general, and he's gonna make one hell of a governor,\" Biden said. \"I really mean it.\"
Fetterman, he said, will make \"a great United States senator.\"
The Republican National Committee hit back at both Biden and Fetterman in a statement responding to the speech.
\"There is nobody worse to appeal to blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania than 50-year career politician Joe Biden as evidenced by 50-year-old rich kid John Fetterman's absence,\" RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said. \"Biden Democrats want to destroy Pennsylvania jobs, release violent criminals back on the streets, and raise taxes on hardworking Pennsylvanians. The agenda of Biden Democrats has left Pennsylvania communities less safe, and this is why Pennsylvanians will be voting for a new direction in November.\"
ABC News' Justin Gomez and Sarah Kolinovsky contributed to this report.
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