Joe Biden sits for interview with NBC’s Lester Holt: Live updates

Joe Biden admitted it was a “mistake” to use the word “bullseye” during a campaign call urging supporters to focus on Donald Trump’s agenda, prior to the attempted assassination of the former president on Saturday.

“It was a mistake to use the word. I didn’t say ‘crosshairs’. I said ‘bullseye.’ Focus on what he’s doing. Focus on his policies. Focus on the number of lies he told in the debate,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt during an interview at the White House on Monday.

Asked if the shocking incident had “changed the trajectory” of the presidential race, Biden replied: “I don’t know and you don’t know either.”

“I’ve thought less about the trajectory of the case [than] two things; one, what his health is and number two what happens from here on, in terms of the kind of coverage that the president and vice president and former president and new vice president get.”

During the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the newly confirmed Republican presidential candidate was clipped in the right ear by a sniper’s bullet.

The motive of gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks remains a mystery, with investigators saying they believe he acted alone. Secret Service agents fatally shot him.

In an interview with ABC News, Joe Biden was asked about comments he made in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, when he urged Americans to “lower the temperature” following the shocking incident.

Asked how exactly he would do that he replied: “Continue to talk about the things that matter to the American public. It matters whether or not you accept the outcome of the elections.”

“It matters,” Biden continued that Trump has previously used words like “vermin” and threatened to deport millions of people.

“Those things matter. That is the