As Republicans convene here to nominate their candidate, President Joe Biden is easing

back into campaign mode after cancelling events in the wake of Saturday's shooting.

Tonight, NBC News will air its sit-down interview with the president.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, has been covering the latest and joins us

now from Washington.

So Laura, last night in his address to the nation President Biden urged Americans

to lower the temperature that was the phrase that he used following the attempted

assassination of Donald Trump. How has all of this affected his approach and his campaign?

That's right, Jeff.

And the address last night, President Biden called on Americans to lower the temperature.

He also said that political violence is unacceptable across the board,

any kind of political violence. And when it comes to his campaign, Jeff, he's temporarily halted or

pause some of his campaigning.

The biggest changes ultimately were the fact that he canceled a scheduled event in Texas

to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act,

as well as a fundraiser that he had planned on holding in Texas that was set for today and also his campaign paused all political ads and they haven't said when they are going to resume those.

But with this NBC interview tonight

with Lester Holt, President Biden is going to be resuming campaigning. The

campaign said and we got a first look at some of this, we got a look at this interview and in it President Biden was asked about comments he made in a call with donors last week when he told them that the talk of the debate was over and that he wanted to put Donald Trump in the

bullseye.

Well I guess I was talking about at the time was there was very little focus on Trump's agenda.

He's focus on the number of lies he told in the debate.

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