President Biden repeatedly scolded NBC anchor Lester Holt in an interview Monday - exclaiming at one point, "What's with you guys? Come on, man!" - as he defended his criticism of Donald Trump despite calling on Americans to "Lower the temperature" after the assassination attempt on the former president Saturday.
At one point in the interview, Holt challenged the president when he launched into an extended criticism of Trump - despite using a rare Oval Office address Sunday night to call on Americans to "Lower the temperature" following the Trump assassination attempt.
Biden grew flustered yet again when Holt pressed him on whether he would agree to an extra debate against Trump to prove his mental prowess - in addition to the second and final scheduled debate on Sept. 10.
Republicans have slammed Biden for his rhetoric in the runup to the Saturday assassination attempt - including Biden saying Friday at a Michigan event that Trump would regain power "Over my dead body" and tweeting Friday that Trump would be "a dictator."
"It's not unusual, He's going to surround himself with people who agree completely with him, whose voting record supported him," Biden said in the interview - before later dissing Vance to reporters as "a clone of Trump on the issues."
Biden referenced Vance's past criticisms of Trump, saying to Holt before trailing off, "If you go back and listen to the things that J.D. Vance said about Trump - heh, heh."
Biden said that it's an "Open question" whether the Secret Service failed in its duties to protect Trump before he was shot Saturday in an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, climbed a building about 130 yards from Trump and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle.
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