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    U.S. President Joe Biden warned Sunday of the risks of political violence in the U.S. after Saturday鈥檚 attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, saying, 鈥淚t's time to cool it down.鈥

    In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Biden said political passions can run high but 鈥渨e must never descend into violence.鈥 The president acknowledged the passions of an election year, and that he and Republicans offer different policy visions, but implored Americans to 鈥渞ecommit鈥 to resolving their differences peacefully.

    鈥淭here is no place in America for this kind of violence 鈥 for any violence. Ever. Period. No exception. We can鈥檛 allow this violence to be normalized," Biden said.

    Biden spoke for six minutes in his third address to the nation since Saturday evening's attack by a shooter that killed one rallygoer and seriously injured two more. His warning came hours after FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said agents have seen increasingly violent rhetoric online since the attack at the Trump rally.

    The president noted that the Republican National Convention was opening in Milwaukee on Monday, while he himself would be returning to the reelection campaign trail after pausing his schedule to manage the immediate response to the shooting.

    鈥淲e can do this,鈥 Biden pleaded, saying the nation was founded on a democracy that gave reason and balance a chance to prevail over brute force. 鈥淎merican democracy 鈥 where arguments are made in good faith. American democracy 鈥 where the rule of law is respected. Where decency, dignity, fair play aren鈥檛 just quaint notions, they鈥檙e living, breathing realities.鈥

    Biden also warned that political tensions were being flamed by a balkanized media environment and exploited by American enemies.

    鈥淗ere in America we need to get out of our silos, where we only listen to those with whom we agree, where misinformation is rampant, where foreign actors fan the flames of our division to shape the outcomes consistent with their interests, not ours,鈥 Biden said.

    U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 14, 2024. Listening are Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland. (AP / Susan Walsh)

    Earlier Sunday he had been briefed in the White House Situation Room and condemned the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Trump, as 鈥渃ontrary to everything we stand for as a nation.鈥 He said he was ordering an independent security review of how such an attack could have happened.

    He called for the country to 鈥渦nite as one nation,鈥 promised a 鈥渢horough and swift" review and asked the public not to 鈥渕ake assumptions鈥 about the shooter's motives or affiliations.

    The president said he has also directed the U.S. Secret Service to review all security measures for the RNC. Hours later, Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the Secret Service鈥檚 coordinator for the convention, said the weekend attack against Trump did not prompt any changes to the agency's security plan for the event and officials 鈥渁re fully prepared.鈥

    In his remarks, Biden called the attack on Trump 鈥渘ot who we are as a nation.鈥

    "It鈥檚 not American. And we cannot allow this to happen," he said. 鈥淯nity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now."

    The president said he and first lady Jill Biden were praying for the family of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was shot and killed during the Trump rally Saturday night in Butler, Pennsylvania.

    鈥淗e was protecting his family from the bullets," Biden said. "God love him.鈥

    The president also said he'd had a 鈥渟hort but good conversation鈥 with Trump in the hours after the shootings and said he was 鈥渟incerely grateful鈥 that the former president is 鈥渄oing well and recovering.鈥

    Trump, who has called for national resilience since the shooting, posted on his social media account after Biden's remarks, 鈥淯NITE AMERICA!鈥

    Actually achieving unity will be far more challenging, especially in the midst of a bitter presidential campaign. Biden's team is grappling with how to calibrate the path forward after the weekend attack on the very person he is trying to defeat in November's election.

    Biden, who has set out to brand Trump as a dire threat to democracy and the nation鈥檚 very founding principles, put a temporary pause on such political messaging. Shortly after Saturday night's attack, Biden鈥檚 reelection campaign froze 鈥渁ll outbound communications鈥 and was working to pull down its television ads.

    The president also postponed a planned trip to Texas on Monday, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library. An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned.

    U.S. President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Del., Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Biden's campaign said that, after the NBC interview airs on Monday night, it and the Democratic National Committee 鈥渨ill continue drawing the contrast鈥 with Trump over the course of the GOP convention 鈥 even though it remains unclear when ads would resume.

    Biden also still plans to make a planned trip to Las Vegas, which will include a campaign event Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris postponed her planned campaign trip to Florida on Tuesday, where she had been set to meet with Republican women.

    Trump, meanwhile, arrived Sunday evening in Milwaukee for the Republican convention, where criticism of Biden and the Democrats is sure to be searing.

    The weekend developments were only the latest upheaval in a campaign that has been extraordinarily topsy-turvy in recent weeks.

    Biden鈥檚 shaky debate performance on June 27 so spooked his own party that some top surrogates and donors turned on him, and nearly 20 Democratic members of Congress called on the president to leave the race outright. Facing mounting questions about whether he was fit for a second term, Biden and his top advisers have been scrambling to salvage his campaign by adding events around the country and more aggressively criticizing Trump.

    Saturday's attack upended 鈥 at least for now 鈥 that counteroffensive on the cusp of the Republican convention.

    The campaign also hopes that Sunday's Oval Office address lets Biden further drive home his point about unity while demonstrating leadership that could assuage nervous critics within his own party.

    鈥淲e鈥檒l debate and we鈥檒l disagree, that鈥檚 not going to change,鈥 Biden said in his afternoon remarks. 鈥淏ut we鈥檒l not lose sight of who we are as Americans.鈥

    Although investigators are still in the early stages of determining what occurred and why, some Biden critics are calling out the president for telling donors in a private call Monday that 鈥渋t鈥檚 time to put Trump in the bullseye.鈥

    A person familiar with those remarks said the president was trying to make the point that Trump had gotten away with a light public schedule after last month's debate while the president himself faced intense scrutiny. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to more freely discuss private conversations.

    In the donor call, Biden said: 鈥淚 have one job and that鈥檚 to beat Donald Trump. ... I鈥檓 absolutely certain I鈥檓 the best person to be able to do that."

    He continued: 鈥淪o, we鈥檙e done talking about the debate. It鈥檚 time to put Trump in the bullseye. He鈥檚 gotten away with doing nothing for the last 10 days except ride around in his golf cart, bragging about scores he didn鈥檛 score. 鈥 Anyway I won鈥檛 get into his golf game.鈥 

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