House Minority Whip Steve Scalise reacts to Joe Biden's DNC address on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Let me take this moment to
say something we dont say
nearly enough. Thank you,
Mr President, you were a great
president,
a president. Our children could
and did look up to.
No one is going to say that
about the current occupant of
the White House,
the president takes no
responsibility, refuses to lead,
blames others
cozies up to dictators and fans
the flames of hate and division.
I see a different America, one
thats generous and strong,
selfless and humble
Brian. I dont know if the
president refusing to lead, or is
he a dictator
its hard to imagine to get that
straight?
Congressman Steve Scalise joins
us now house, minority whip
congressman Joe Biden, is
getting high marks for pulling
off the speech last night.
What grade do you give him?
Well its good good
morning, its good to be with
you all of you.
First of all, I guess you could
give an m for misleading, because
there were so many points in
there where they just left out
the facts.
Joe Biden literally said that he
wont let Russia interfere with
the elections under his watch.
It was under the Obama Biden
Administration, where Russia
tried to interfere with the
election.
In fact, it was an FBI official
under the Obama, administration
and Biden Administration who
just pled guilty a few days ago
to trying to spy on the Trump
campaign.
All this happened under Joe
Bidens Watch
and by the way, its been Donald,
trumps leadership that did the
travel ban on China
stopping flights coming in from
China,
Joe Biden said he was against
that Joe Biden criticized
President Trump, who led and said
were going to ban flights
coming in from Europe to stop
the flow of Covid,
Dr Fauci, by the way testified
under oath that President
trumps decisions were the right
decision and president trumps
decisions saved american lives.
Joe Biden would not have saved
those american lives,
so lets fact check
this. Lets. Look at those
details
because the details really do
matter
when Joe Biden is embracing the
far left agenda that includes
defunding the police.
You had that segment earlier
about the violence in some of
these cities across America,
its coming because they are
trying to defund police,
Joe Biden sells. He wants to
reallocate money away from
police.
Does he not think that we
understand what that means?
Defunding and reallocating are
the same things.
He is going to take money away
from our police.
We need safe streets.
I know first hand how important
it is to have law enforcement
and the important job they do,
keeping us safe
Ainsley. So we had Lee Carter on
who was looking at the polls and
polling people as to what they
thought about what happened last
night in these speeches
and Brian interviewed her,
and she said you really have to
look at the independents. The
Republicans are going to vote.
The way they are going to vote.
Democrats are going to vote the
way they are.
What about these independents,
who are still not sure, yet
they like the policies of Trump,
they might not like the way that
he tweets and whatnot.
They like Joe Bidens story,
pulls at the heart strings, but
they are not sure about the
progressive agenda.
You know him.
You worked there in Washington
with him.
He has been a lifelong
politician. Forty seven years,
who is Joe Biden
Well, Joe Biden, is somebody
who has been on the wrong side
of a lot of issues.
You know and he might put his
arm around you and laugh and
chuckle and of course we have
seen thats gotten him into
trouble too.
Ultimately, have you got to look
at what he said and has he
delivered
for all of the list of things
that he said he would solve?
Every problem in the world is
going to be solved.
He hasnt solved any of them in
forty seven years in political office.
I do think that matters
results matter,
and so you look at President
trumps record in just three
years. He has delivered on all
the promises he has made.
Look if you didnt vote for him
four years ago, because you
didnt like the fact that he was
going to restore law and order
and going to bring back jobs
from China. President Trump was
doing all of those things.
He was getting regulations under
control, so we can actually build
America back up again.
Every income level was
benefiting by the way
lowest income workers were
benefiting the most. We need to
rebuild our economy now from
Covid
who, better than Donald Trump, to
do it.
Who already did it once not Joe
Biden who was part of so many
failures? We dont want to go
into
Usama Bin Laden might still be
around today. If he was the one
making the call
Steve yeah. He said he dngted
think it was a good idea to go.
Congressman apologies. It
sounds like you have to work
tomorrow, because Nancy Pelosi
dramatically last week called
the house back into session
sounds like there is going to be
a vote tomorrow on the postal
service
and its crazy that this is now
a political issue.
It all started with the
postmaster general sent out a
letter and said: hey attention
all states, because you in some
cases have crazy rules where
people can request a ballot on
the Thursday before elections
day. We dont know that we can
get the ballot out and get it
back in time to count,
and now its become a big thing,
and there is all sorts of money
being talkinged around, which is
unusual, because the Post office
in financial filings has made it
clear. We have enough money to
run right through two thousand and twenty one
yeah.
This is such a fabricated
crisis,
its a typical move by Nancy
Pelosi. To try to divert- because
you know in the middle of their
convention, you would think they
would be talking about their
agenda.
They didnt mention their agenda
at all.
In fact, in the Democrat Party
platform they mention Donald
Trump, almost twice more than
they mentioned jobs or
confronting China, because thats
not what their focus is. They
hate the president more than
they care about people or
rebuilding this country,
but look at the post office
I mean they have said they have
enough money to run through the
middle of next year. If we dont
give them another dime,
they just turned down a
ten dollars billion loan request and
Nancy Pelosi, saying give them
twenty five billion of your hard earned
dollars, or else the election
wont happen and, oh by the way
Nancy Pelosi wants to mail
ballots to everybody on the
rolls, including people not
legally, on the rolls
thats what they want to do.
I think people are going to see
through
this, but it shows you where
their priorities are and not
focusing on jobs right now,
thats, where we should be
focused
Brian, the president is mad at
you guys.
How can you let Nancy Pelosi to
do
this? Why didnt you shut her
down?
I know you are in the minority.
Does he have a point, no protest
about bringing this in and
foster and allowing the flames
to burn on this controversy?
Well, first of all, she is
speaker of the house
thats why we are working to
fire Nancy Pelosi as Speaker in
November,
when, when we get the house back,
we will be focused on creating
jobs again getting our economy
back on track.
Lowering healthcare cost
Brian. What about the president
being angry at Republicans for
not standing up for this whole
situation?
Look I talked to the
president two days ago about
this, and I agree with the
president that this is
ridiculous. That Nancy Pelosi is
wasting the houses time on
things like this
things that arent a problem
again, they have got enough
money to run through the middle.
You have next year without
another dime
and they should be focused on
jobs, helping reopen schoolings
safely,
but thats. Why we have got to
get rid of Nancy Pelosi as
speaker,
Brian, no skinny bill.
Look.
The post office has enough
money
again, they will create a crisis
and let the media run with it as
if you know as if the Post
office is going to shut down
thats, not the case and by the
way when they end their
convention, say: oh, they dont
want you to vote.
Who are they?
We are trying to make sure every
vote counts, but we dont want
millions of ballots fraud,
electricity out on the streets
rampant for voter fraud,.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-21.