Appearing on the debut show of The ReidOut on MSNBC, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called out President Trump for planning on implementing, through Executive Order, a new health care plan, and he outlined his plans to reform policing around the nation and ensuring the validity of the 2020 election.

After viewing video of Trump saying that he will implement “many plans” in the next two weeks with the power he claims–and which is challenged by many legal experts–the Supreme Court gave the president in the DACA ruling, Biden called it “unconscionable” that Trump would eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans.

“He’s got no empathy,” Biden said of Trump.

Following the release of his statement this afternoon about election security, Biden outlined what his campaign is doing to help ensure people can vote.

“The only thing we can do about it is be prepared.  We have a whole group of lawyers who are going out to every voter registration position in the state, the Secretaries of State, making sure that they, in fact, have a game plan as to how they’re going to allow the voting to take place,” Biden said. 

“We are continuing to push what Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did:  they passed more money to allow for voting in place, to have not only voting by mail but voting in place by providing the necessary equipment for social distancing and sanitation.”

Biden’s campaign is also undertaking efforts to find poll workers to head off problems in recent primaries and special elections where polling places had to be shut down because no one was available to work the stations.

“We have 10,000 people who volunteered; we’re going to try to get them plugged in as poll workers, not for us, but running the mechanisms for the state, that the work for the state operations,” Biden explained, “because I don’t want that excuse that the reason we closed down—I’m making a number up—here are 30 polling places in a predominantly minority neighborhood, but now there’s only five because we don’t have enough poll workers.”

Noting that as a private citizen, he doesn’t have any power to protect from foreign attacks on our election system, Biden made a strong statement to Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign actors who might try to interfere in US elections.

“I can’t do anything that we know is going on in Russia but respond, and Putin knows I mean what I say:  this is a violation of our sovereignty and if in fact it occurs, there will be response in kind.  It will not go unstated, unnoticed or unreported,” Biden said forcefully.

Asked by host Joy Reid how he would negotiate his “complicated relationship with justice reform,” Biden outlined steps he would implement to ensure police were being transparent and justly monitored.

“There will be national rules set.  For example, there will be a national requirement that there are no choke holds.  There will be a national requirement that we will be able to track and trace what in fact happens in police departments and it’s made public,” Biden advocated.  “Making sure that there is a national provision that says that there has to be transparency in reporting those cases [of police abuse] that occur.”

The Democratic hopeful also detailed a plan that would prevent prosecutors from having to take up cases of police abuse concerning the officers they work with on a day-in, day-out basis.

As Biden explained:  “Making sure, for example, that the prosecutors are not the prosecutors that work with that police department but another prosecutor’s department, so there is no nexus between ‘I’ve represent him most of the time or her most of the time’ but from a different agency, a different jurisdiction.

“There’s a lot of things we can do that in no way, no way damage the police in terms of their efficacy or fairness.”

Reid and Biden wrapped up the interview by detailing where the process stands for selecting a running mate.  Biden said that having been through the process himself, it’s like getting a “public physical.”

He said his campaign is vetting six women for the job, and that he’s received two-hour summaries of the background checks on three of them.  When those all get complete, he’ll winnow his list down, and personally interview the last candidates before announcing his selection.

He joked with Reid that she was on the short list of VP candidates, but that “now that you’ve taken this new job, you’re out of it.”

Reid laughed and said that “it was an honor being considered.”