I'm Jonathan K. Parton. Welcome to K. Part. Susan Rice has been the U.S. Ambassador to the United

Nations and the National Security Advisor both to President Barack Obama. On Friday, May 26,

Susan Rice ends another impressive stint in public service this time as the Director of the Domestic

Policy Council under President Biden, the first person to ever have held both positions.

In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post live on May 24th,

Ambassador Rice talks about her accomplishments, how her work in national security helped her

on the domestic policy front and her biggest regret. I wish that we had been able to achieve

the enactment of voting rights legislation, for example, and pass the George Floyd Justice in

policing at. I think this is your third time on on my podcast. So thank you very much

for coming on so many times. Let's deal with something serious, and this is part of your portfolio

as a member of the as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council. May 24th is the one-year

anniversary of the mass shooting at Roblin Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. In response to that,

and the mass shooting 10 days earlier in Buffalo, New York at the grocery store, that by partisan

safer communities act past a month later. And it's the most significant piece of gun legislation

in 30 years. What is this law meant to accomplish? Well, Jonathan, as you said, it is the most

meaningful gun safety reform legislation that we've had in almost three decades. It does several

things. First of all, it provides unprecedented resources to communities, to schools, and support

for mental health. It imposes greater conditions on background checks for young people under the

age of 21 who may be seeking to purchase a weapon. It invests in community violence intervention

programs, which are very effective efforts to reduce violence on our streets and at the community

level by using a trusted messengers who can diffuse conflict and support community reconciliation.

It also provides a vehicle for an executive order that the president issued in the month of March

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