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🗓️ 25 May 2023
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0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan K. Parton. Welcome to K. Part. Susan Rice has been the U.S. Ambassador to the United |
0:05.6 | Nations and the National Security Advisor both to President Barack Obama. On Friday, May 26, |
0:13.2 | Susan Rice ends another impressive stint in public service this time as the Director of the Domestic |
0:19.5 | Policy Council under President Biden, the first person to ever have held both positions. |
0:25.7 | In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post live on May 24th, |
0:30.3 | Ambassador Rice talks about her accomplishments, how her work in national security helped her |
0:35.7 | on the domestic policy front and her biggest regret. I wish that we had been able to achieve |
0:43.7 | the enactment of voting rights legislation, for example, and pass the George Floyd Justice in |
0:48.6 | policing at. I think this is your third time on on my podcast. So thank you very much |
1:00.0 | for coming on so many times. Let's deal with something serious, and this is part of your portfolio |
1:06.9 | as a member of the as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council. May 24th is the one-year |
1:13.2 | anniversary of the mass shooting at Roblin Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. In response to that, |
1:19.9 | and the mass shooting 10 days earlier in Buffalo, New York at the grocery store, that by partisan |
1:26.1 | safer communities act past a month later. And it's the most significant piece of gun legislation |
1:31.9 | in 30 years. What is this law meant to accomplish? Well, Jonathan, as you said, it is the most |
1:39.7 | meaningful gun safety reform legislation that we've had in almost three decades. It does several |
1:45.6 | things. First of all, it provides unprecedented resources to communities, to schools, and support |
1:54.6 | for mental health. It imposes greater conditions on background checks for young people under the |
2:05.6 | age of 21 who may be seeking to purchase a weapon. It invests in community violence intervention |
2:14.0 | programs, which are very effective efforts to reduce violence on our streets and at the community |
2:20.6 | level by using a trusted messengers who can diffuse conflict and support community reconciliation. |
2:28.0 | It also provides a vehicle for an executive order that the president issued in the month of March |
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