On Friday's broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room," Harris Campaign Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu responded to a question on if 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris no longer stands by her past praise of defund the police by stating "I don't think so" and maintaining the clips of her doing so were "played out of context." He also stated that "what I think she was trying to say there, and I think that many criminal justice experts would say this is true, that you can both be tough and smart on crime, that police officers are critically important." And Her position has always been that you can both be tough and smart on crime and it requires funding police, but it also requires funding rehabilitation and things that make criminal justice system safer."