"We've had is getting funding for law enforcement from [Donald Trump's] party," Joe Biden says. Biden laughs at Trump's 'law and order candidate' claim

Donald Trump's self-declared moniker of "the law and order candidate" elicited more than a chuckle from Joe Biden on Tuesday, as the vice president talked up the importance of funding community policing efforts and Hillary Clinton's credentials for the presidency.

"Donald Trump was out saying he is the law and order candidate. He's going to make America safe again," George Stephanopoulos, himself a former staffer for Bill Clinton, remarked to Biden during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."


As Stephanopoulos spoke, Biden flashed a grin and laughed.

"Is that your response? A laugh?" Stephanopoulos asked.

Biden responded, "Well, I'd rather not make this story about Donald Trump, so I'm going to restrain myself, but the truth of the matter is that one of the problems we've had is getting funding for law enforcement from his party, and maybe he'll come forward and be supportive of more support for community policing."

The vice president and President Barack Obama met with law enforcement leaders on Monday at the White House, following the massacre of police officers in Dallas last Thursday that came after the fatal police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

As far as voters' trust issues with Clinton and asked how she would fix it, Biden did not appear to be too concerned.

"She fixes it just by the campaign and for people to listen more closely to what Donald Trump is saying. And that will happen. This as you know, George, this is early in the campaign season," Biden said. "My grandpop used to say people didn't focus until after the World Series. He's wrong. Now I think they really begin to focus after Labor Day, but I don't think there's even a remote comparison between the competence—the question is, are the proposals that Hillary Clinton's put forward honest and real and going to fundamentally positively impact on the lives of the vast majority of the American people, and is Donald Trump—is what he's putting forward honest and straightforward and being able to do anything constructive for dealing with the problems America faces? On that score, I think it's going to be clear before the election day."