Joe Biden: Well, first of all, it`s going to depend on how much worse this president makes it between now and January the 20th of 2021.

The fact is that it can get even worse than it is now. He has delayed, delayed, delayed from the very beginning his willingness to go out and deal with this crisis. He`s ignored it. He said it was going to go away, it was going to be a miracle. He wasted an awful lot of time. And I think, as a consequence, an awful lot of lives were lost in the meantime.

...one thing you`re going to have to do is, you`re going to have to have, by that time, between the time of being elected and the time of being sworn in, have put together a team of people that are going to deal with this in a way that hadn`t been dealt with up to that point, at least probably will not have been dealt with.

One, tell the American people the truth. Look at the science. Put together a board, a pandemic board, like we did in World War II, when President Roosevelt put together a board that related to dealing with how we`re going to deal with World War II. This is a requirement that we have the best people in the world sitting there advising me and the country as to what has to be done.

In the meantime, it`s going to matter, Lawrence, whether or not between now and then this president has used his powers and used the organizational ability that the White House has, that the president has to make sure we have enough PPP (sic), those protective gear for this second wave, if there is going to be the second wave, which is predictable, and to make sure we are going to have in place all the tests that we need, all the tests we need, and we are able to track and test, test and follow on when there is an outbreak, where it was, track and trace.

All that requires equipment and requires planning and requires time. If that`s been done, the task will be at least easier, it will cost fewer lives. If it has not been done, it will be an absolute, incredible disaster, beyond repair.

Biden responded:

By the way, number one, on day one, I'm sending, no matter what the state of this is, to the United States Congress a bill to provide for a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, number one, in the United States.

Number two, every DACA student will be able to stay. You realize there are 40,000 DACA students out there who are providing the kind of help we're talking about right now in hospitals, as nurses' aides, as firefighters, I mean, across the board.

They're doing incredible things for us now. And the idea that we treat -- that the president has pitted us against one another based on our race, religion, national origin.

We are a land of immigrants. That's what's made us who we are. That's what makes us so resilient. That's what makes us so special.

And I promise you, it's a gigantic objective of mine to see to it that we make a -- that we have an immigration system that's consistent with our values and who we say we are, and it does not now. Donald Trump is absolutely violating every basic value we have.

Congress should reverse expanded business loss tax benefits passed in the latest coronavirus relief legislation to pay for immediately canceling at least $10,000 of every student loan borrower's debt in its next bill, former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.

Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said in an op-ed on Medium that his student debt forgiveness proposal would be paid for by rolling back the "'excess business losses' tax cut" passed with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. It was the third coronavirus response bill that President Donald Trump has signed.

"That tax cut overwhelmingly benefits the richest Americans and is unnecessary for addressing the current COVID-19 economic relief efforts," Biden said.