Vice President Mike Pence joins 'Fox & Friends' to share his reaction to the Democratic National Convention.
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Brian anxiously Steve
Ainsley Griff. Thank you so
much
lets bring in the vice
president of the United States,
MIKE Pence
good morning to you, Mr Vice
president,
good morning, Ainsley
Ainsley good morning.
What were your takeaways over
the last four days?
I think the whole of the
Democratic National Convention
was a very, very negative view
of America,
and there was no attention paid
too two of the most important
challenges that our nation
faces,
either during the convention or
during Joe Bidens acceptance
speech last night,
that is, the violence thats
be setting the families in major
cities across this country
and the economic and strategic
challenge that we face with
China,
not a word about that.
As far as I could tell from Joe
Biden last night and from any of
the speakers.
Instead, we heard that negative
view. The criticism, the ad
hominem attacks against the
President of the United States
and all of it, with the exception
of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie
Sanders, was bereft of any of the
policy descriptions that youre
going to hear next week.
We are going to talk about what
this president has done to
revive this economy. Rebuild our
military strengthen the
constitutional liberties with
conservatives to our courts at
every level, Joe Biden,
the Democratic Party has been
overtaken by the radical left
while they didnt talk about it
very much. Their agenda is
higher taxes,
socialized medicine, open
borders,
abortion on demanding
and efforts to cut and reduce
support to law enforcement. At a
time of rising violence in our
streets
and thats, a choice were going
to make clear to the american
people next week,
Steve. So, Mr Vice president,
we are through the Dnc and next
up the Rnc that starts in
earnest on Monday
and then, after that, the next big
political events will be the
debates.
There will be four
three with Donald Trump VS, Joe
Biden
and one you vs Kamala Harris.
You know she is going to bring
up how you guys blew the covid
response and everything else
that she feels. You have done
wrong.
What from her background and
what, from joes background, are
you going to bring up
well look? Joe Biden has
been in Washington for forty seven years,
and the speech he gave last
night was just more of the same
talk that we have heard from him
and other liberal democrat
politicians for the decades
and the contrast between what
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are
offering and President Donald
Trump is a difference between a
talker and a doer,
Joe Biden and Barack Obama, with
their effort to raise taxes,
regulate the economy, spend and
bail our way back, presided over
the slowest economic recovery
since the great depression.
By contrast, in three short
years, President Donald Trump
cut taxes rolled back
regulation fought for free and
fair trade, that put America
first unleashed american energy,
and we saw three million jobs
created and its remarkable to
think Steve that in the last
three months, while Joe Biden
last night said that the economy
wont come back in the
coronavirus is over
news flash to Joe Biden. The
economy is coming back, Thund,
presidents leadership.
This economy has added nine million
jobs back just in the last three
months,
and the only thing that stands
in the way of a full economic
recovery. In twenty twenty one and behind is
Joe Bidens agenda to raise
taxes, increase regulation pass
his green new deal and we are
going to take that case to the
american people.
Steve and the stock market is
right on the edge of their
record highs, so thats a good
sign,
but the unemployment is still
stag gerring.
Mr vice president, back to
Kamala Harris,
you know once upon a time she
was all about law enforcement.
She referred to herself as top
cop and now look where that
particular ticket is on
redistributing money for the
police and things like that
she has been. You know. The
mainstream media has tried to
portray her as a moderate.
When you look at her record, she
is far from it.
Look Senator Kamala Harris
is a California liberal who had
the most liberal voting record
in the United States Senate in
two thousand and nineteen
and her selection as Joe Bidens
running mate. Just confirmed
everything President Trump and I
have been saying all along that
Joe Biden and the Democratic
Party have been overtaken by the
radical left
and look. We will talk about
that im. Looking forward to that
debate, more than I can tell you,
you need look no further than
what Bernie Sanders said in his
address at the Democratic
national convention.
He conceded that many of the
ideas that that were considered
radical, his word radical just a
few short years ago, are now
mainstream in the Democratic
Party.
I can tell you they are not
mainstream in America.
The american people want a
president who will support our
military, reject socialism
oppose higher taxes, and they
dont want a presidential thats
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want
to abolish fossil fuels in this
country.
They are going to end fracking
in great states like
Pennsylvania.
They are going to destroy more
than ten thousand jobs right out of
the gate,
thats the choice we are going
to take, whether its debate
night
every day of the next seventy four days,
and I think its going to result
in four more years of President
Donald Trump in the White House,
Brian, Mr Vice President, in
these conditions, in a pandemic
with an economy, thats taken a
hit like this with civil unrest,
its going to be a tough, its
going to be a you will tough
haul to get four more years.
We know that. How do you handle
Republicans like Governor
Kasich,
Secretary of State Powell, and
now seventy other republican national
security officials are endorsing
Biden?
How do you explain that?
Well, look. President Trump
came to Washington D dot c.
He he came to up end the
status quo in the establishment
I mean. The fact is that Collin
Paul who served our nation in
uniform and he supported
Democrats in the last three
presidential elections,
no shock there
and I wont even mention some of
the others
I mean, but im happy to take.
This president wants record on
the foreign stage to the
american people in the next seventy four
days, because this is a president
who has put America first,
he has put american security
first, I mean where Joe Biden
actually criticized this
president for taking out the
most dangerous terrorist in the
worm. Kassem Soleimani President
Trump rebuilt our military. He
disseminated ISIS, he took their
leader out without one american
casualty.
I think most significant of all
Brian is that this president
stood strong against China,
half of our international
deficit,
Brian, Mr Vice President, why
dont? They see that you
are talking about William
Webster and Michael Hayden.
Michael, lighter
Donnelly
these people who served under
Reagan and bush-
I cant account for it.
When we came into office. Half
of our international trade
deficit,
five hundred dollars billion a year was with
China.
Chinas military was growing,
their aggression was growing.
We continued to see China
flexing its muscles throughout
the Asian Pacific.
President Trump announced that
the ear wrath economic surrender
was over.
We stood strong against China
imposed tariffs
and, as we rebuild our military
reaffirmed our commitment to
freedom of navigation. You know
China is getting the message
that America is going to
continue to stand strong
and the fact that Joe Biden in
his speech last night never
mentioned. China was truly
remarkable
and its also remarkable Brian,
that the Democrat nominee for
President of the United States
never mentioned the violence.
That is claiming lives and
destroying property in major
cities across this country,
and I want to tell you this
president. This administration
are going to stand with the men
and women of law enforcement
with programs like operation
legend, where we have seen the
arrest of more than one thousand
criminals in cities across the
country already
were going to bring law and
order to our cities.
You are going to hear about that
next week,
but the fact that Joe Biden
didnt talk about China didnt
talk about the violence in our
streeghts streets tells you all.
You need to know about the
liberal agenda that they are
going to try and advance on the
american people,
Ainsley funny that you bring
that up,
because the president also
addressed that.
Listen to this.
If you want a vision of your
life under Biden presidency.
Think of the smoldering ruins in
Minneapolis the violent anarchy
of Portland, the bloodstained
sidewalks of Chicago,
and imagine the mayhem coming to
your town and every single town
in America.
You are not going to have law
and order
Ainsley when you poll people
they are really worried.
They are fearful.
They are scared, a of another
shutdown because they need
their jobs.
They need to put food on the
table and pay their bills,
and they are also fearful
because crime is going up.
They are fearful of their
safety.
Where do you and the President
stand on these issues?
Well, you know Joe Biden
said last night anxiously that
democracy is on the ballot
character is on the ballot.
Well, let me be clear:
the economy is on the ballot
law and order is on the ballot
and the american people know it.
You know I have been traveling
all across this country
supporting law enforcement
talking about the growth in this
economy and this presidents
vision for bringing the economy
not only all the way back, but
building even a greater economy
than the world has ever known
over the next four years,
and the contrast with Joe Biden
and the Democrats are offering
are astonishing.
Think about that in the middle
of a global pandemic, Joe
Bidens First ACT will be to
raise taxes on the american
people by four dollars trillion
to advance a two trillion dollar
version of the green new deal
to stifle american energy and
take us back to the kind of
economic surrender to China and
other countries. That literally
saw more than sixty thousand factories
close over the last twenty years. In
this country
I mean thats the agenda we are
going to take and its also an
agenda of law and order and law
enforcement support.
I mean this president believes
that we dont have to make a
choice between supporting law
enforcement and supporting
african american families and
our cities and other minority
families in our cities.
We have done both from the
beginning of this
administration
were going to continue to do
both,
but the Democrats are offering
a vision for this country that
would crush our economy
and promote the kind of policies
that will resort in more violent
in our streets,
and I think the american people
know it
Steve. Mr vice president,
speaking of law enforcement a
couple of days ago, we did a
story that was broken by wibwtv
in Topeka, where at a diversity, training event at the Goode Year,
training event at the Goode Year
plant in Topeka,
whether a you can and cannot
wear to work,
couldnt support, blue lives
matter or maga hat, but could
wear something that talked about
black lives matter or Lgbtq.
Things like that.
Since then, the Goodyear shares
have tanked.
The president has called for a
boycott,
and the chair of Goodyear has
tried to clarify.
He says: Goodyear strongly
supports our law enforcement
partners and deeply appreciates
all they do to put their lives
on the line each and every day
for their communities.
We have clarified our policy to
make it clear
associates can express support
for law enforcement through
apparel after the Goodyear
facilities.
I know the president said that
it sounded like Goodyear was
playing politics.
What do you think?
Well, I just think the
american people really
appreciate a president had
speaks his mind and speaks out
against this cancel culture. The
way president Trump does, every
time we see it happen
and the very idea that employees
couldnt be expressing their support for this president for
o hat is
o hat is
breathtaking
again, its all support of the
cancel culture agenda of the
Democrats.
What we heard at the agenda this
week and I didnt watch much of
it
frankly- I couldnt watch much of
it,
but there was so much
negativity, nothing but ad
hominem attacks,
and but at the end of the day,
elections are about choices
and, as we convene, the Republican
National Convention were going
to make sure that the american
people see the choice here.
This is a choice between a
president who has rebuilt our
military made America more
secure,
revived our economy
stood by our rights. Our second
amendment rights
appointed conservatives to our
courts
built a wall on the southern
border,
made all the incredible
progress,
supported: law enforcement
and Joe Biden of the Democratic
Party, overtaken by the radical
left with an agenda that will
result in higher taxes,
socialized medicine,
open borders, abortion on
demand and continued calls to
cut defund dismantle or, what
did Kamala Harris, say, reimagine
law enforcement in a I think
that will simply invite more
violence and more mayhem in our
streets,
Brian. Mr vice president, I saw
Jill Biden on another network
and they asked is Joe Biden
getting out of the basement when
the doctors say or scientists
say it is safe, we will do it.
Is it safe to campaign? Is it
safe according to the Trump team,
to have crowds?
What are you doing going forward
in the final sprint towards
November? Third?
Well, what were going to
continue? We are going to
continue to respect the guidance
of state and local authorities.
The good news is
Brian. Is that an excuse he is
making up, because he doesnt
want to campaign.
You are out there.
President Trump is out there.
President Trump is around the
same age.
What else the truth about
campaigning
stuarting to get the
impression they dont want Joe
Biden out of the basement
Brian, why
the speech last night and
reading a speech on a tell promp
is one thing, but literally being
out with the american people. As
President Trump was yesterday,
and I was in Wisconsin the day
before
or sitting down with people and
doing interviews and answering
questions thats part of the
process.
Look, we are going through a
time of testing and the american
people have risen to the
challenge.
I hope everyone is as encouraged
as we are to see cases declining
in the sun belt.
We believe in the midwest
because of strong actions taken
the cooperation of the american
people. The positivity rates are
leveling as well
were every single day closer to
that day that we put the
coronavirus in the past
Brian you are going out.
We have an election.
I think it may be one of the
most important elections in the
life of this nation
because of the its a choice
between president trumps record
and agenda of freedom and
opportunity versus a democrat
agenda driven by the radical
left and Joe Bidens vision that
will result in socialism and
decline for America.
I know we are going to lay that
choice out.
We will travel all across this
country
and we are going to win four
more years for President Donald
Trump in the White House
Ainsley. What was your reaction
and the presidents reaction to
Steve Bannon pleading guilty
spending improperly the twenty five
billion dollar border wall?
Fundraiser money?
The president was actually
critical of that initiative
months ago in a tweet,
and I dont know any more about
the case than that
and what we have seen in the
newspapers.
But I will tell you, I think
one of the great accomplish
s of this president is that,
after years of open border
policies of a government looking
the other way as illegal
immigrants surged across our
borders, this president has kept
his word and built nearly
three hundred miles of border wall. On the
southern border
and we have seen an
extraordinary reduction in
illegal immigration,
Joe Biden last night didnt talk
much about their agenda, but we
know Joe Biden and the radical
left want open borders and
amnesty for eleven million illegal
immigrants,
Brian, Mr Vice President, they
are trying to say
going to build the wall and I
think every American should be
proud that we have done that.
This president used his
authority as president to secure
billions of dollars to build the
wall, and that was the right way
to do it.
Brian, Mr Vice President, what
they are saying and critics are
saying that Don Jr on the
website crediting them for their
entrepreneurship. This whole
twenty five dollars million mission. The
president told Kris Kobach of
Kansas that he supports it.
What do you say to both those
things?
All I know is what the President
said tweeted about it months ago.
He didnt think it was the right
thing to be done.
We will let that play itself
out.
The president is very clear, but the amazing thing is irish back.
The amazing thing is irish: back
in the day, the fought tongue and
claw toll fight funding to build
the wall that the american
people voted for in twenty. Sixteen
president Trump declared an
emergency on the southern
border
used his authority as president
as we stand here today, nearly
three hundred miles of border wall
constructed illegal immigration
down so dramatically, and this
president is going to continue
to go forward to fix this broken
immigration system once and for
all
Steve. The Joe show is over.
You guys are up next. Mr vice
president,
thank you for spending twenty five
minutes with us this morning
here on Fox AMP friends,
great to be with you.
Thank you
Steve all right.
Thank you very much
goodbye and good luck.
All right.
By the way, the invitation is
open for Kamala Harris and Joe
Biden to stop by Fox AMP friends.
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