Fox News contributor Karl Rove and Fox Nation host Lawrence Jones break down top takeaways from the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
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lets bring in Fox NEWS
contributor,
former senior advisor and chief
of staff for George W Bush
on top of his resume is Fox NEWS
analyst right now, and that is
Karl Rove
Lawrence Jones is also here,
Karl for you, its a first for
even a guy as experienced as
you.
What did you think of night, one,
the virtual dnc?
Well within its limitations?
It worked.
We are no longer participants,
even though we sat in our living
rooms and n past year and
Wachingsd Quengszs, the fact
there was a crowd and audience
and speeches- and you know the
back and forth between the
commentators about the latest
gossip on the floor of the
Democratic National Convention
felt like participants,
four just sedate observers.
I did. It was an effective
night though
they had two messages were a
United Party and Donald Trump is
the problem and were not Donald
Trump,
now their weaknesses on that
going forward,
but it was an effective first
night. It
had its moments of humor too.
I enjoyed being lectured about
coronavirus by the governor of
New York, since more people have
died in New York than in
California, Texas and Florida
combined, and I also liked Bernie
Sanders talking about Authorism
defended Fidel Castro and Honey
Miewnsd in the Soviet Union.
Now lecturing us about
authoritarianism
a little bit of humor there,
Steve Lawrence, I heard you
were in Wilmington
you crossed with one of our
correspondents on the ground
there, so you were able to watch
a bit of it.
What did you think
yeah?
It was interesting to me because
I agree with Karl and I disagree
with him. They presented
Anti Trump message
seemed like progressives the
night.
They are the only ones who laid
out for I think its, that that
wins, the elections right there
and so the progressives and the
moderates are going to have to
decide what message theyre
going to go with going forward.
On the other hand, I was
disappointed when John Kasich
gave his speech
okay to be anti Trump and
disagree with the president.
It seemed like he wanted to
blame just specifically on Trump.
Instead of Republicans like him
that set it up for Trump to be
the nominee,
obviously the leaders in the
Republican Party went somewhere
wrong thats. Why people sent a
Donald Trump in there disagree
with him, but there has to be
intellectual curiosity to say
what can we do differently to
readjust the party
he didnt present that
he acted like a child?
He got defeated by the
Democrats.
He got defeated by Donald Trump
and he took his toys and went to
the other side.
I think thats, very lazy.
Ainsley Democrats were there
attempting to unified
the president was out on the
campaign trail in the battle
ground states.
This is what he said in Oshkosh.
Wisconsin
Biden is just a trojan horse
for socialism.
He is just a trojan horse.
He has no clue, but the people
around him are tough and they
are smart, but we disagree with
them very, very strongly.
They are mean and theyre angry,
but these are people that are
seriously radical left. Joe Biden
is nothing but their puppet.
So, Karl you remember, the
Greeks hid inside the Trojan
horse that they built pushed it
inside Troy and then the men get
out and they win the war.
Is that what he is saying
is he saying they are going to
use Biden to use the Trojan
horse to get them to d dot c and
progressive, also jump out?
Biden has been very
accommodating to the left.
He won by being the traditional
Democrat
thats how he won the
nomination
im, not one of those people on
the left of the party,
then after winning the
nomination thinking that he had
to do so. In order to unify the
party he moved left and
endorsed a series of left wing
politicians.
I thought Bernie Sanders
remarks were clear effort stated
by Biden you promised with these
working groupings that produced
one hundred and fifty page paper. You promised to
support all of these left wing.
No Sir strips
im going to list them off for
you laying down a marker for
Biden, saying if you get elected,
expect my and the people
arranged to live up to each one
of these promises
that may be find at the
democratic convention
come to Texas and say we are
going to get rid of your right
to work law
go to Houston and say we are
going to get rid of your fossil
fuels and raise your utility
bills and erase power plants and
power plants and make you depend
on more expensive sources of
energy to power your homes.
There is lots of bad stuff in
there for a general election
lots of good stuff for a
democratic convention cant. Have
it both ways?
One agenda
cant be a moderate and say
Bernie. I will do everything you
want or some of what you want.
Big story is Joe Biden and he is
the person believe it or not.
Even though it took thirty minutes
for his name to come up last
night,
he is the person really being
interviewed to be president of
the United States.
I understand Lawrence that you
went out and about to talk to
people about Delaware to find
out what he actually
accomplished in their eyes.
If you can name one
accomplishment of Biden, what
would you say?
Is he a Democrat
thats? It
policy? Oh gosh,
there have been so many I cant.
Just one
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feel like he has accomplished
anything in the forty seven years of
politics.
Not really
do the gaffes concern you
maam
sure,
because it makes me think. Maybe
everything is not all right.
Do the gaffes concern you of
Joe Biden?
No
him not remembering certain
things.
No,
I have been around a long time,
joes gaffes and gaffes, but he
still gets the job done.
Hes, not a young man anymore
and as you grow older, you start
losing your faculties a little
bit
Brian Lawrence. We saw what you
came up with.
Did you find people wanted to
talk to you about Joe Biden?
They, like him
yeah,
I mean even some of those
people. That said they couldnt
describe what his one
accomplishment. They were
supporters of him.
I mean these are the people
that should know him best.
I mean he was elect to the
Senate at thirty.
He has been in policy for thirty seven
years
and they couldnt name one
signature piece of legislation
or anything that he has done for
them.
I think thats, where the message
is going to be very problematic
for Joe Biden.
Not only does he not understand
where hes at today- and I mean
when it comes to the policy
decisions, it seems like the
progressives, have taken over his
campaign choices and where he
stands on the issues, but they
really cannot name. What is that?
One thing that Joe Biden is
going to go out every single day
and fight for
thats going to be the problem
with the democratic party? It
cannot be just Anti Donald Trump
message,
yes be against Donald Trump.
That is your prerogative.
What roux going to do to move
the country forward?
They dont know what that is.
Progressives have a message
going around the country
I reported on that they know
what they stand for the
democratic party. Bernie Sanders
is not a Democrat,
he caucuses with them, but is he
not a democratic?
They dont know where they stand.
As a party
Steve, the reason we are having
this kind of a convention is
because of the coronavirus
not much we can do other than we
we are doing right now. Regarding
that there is something we can
do about law and order.
You see whats going on in
Americas cities, and we ran that
horrific video
guy being Draxdal dragged out of
that truck out in Portland.
There was no mention at the Dnc
last night talking about the violent protests across the
violent protests across the
country. Things like that. You
think we will hear it on day, two
or three or four, or is this a
subject? Donald Trump wins.
I dont think we will hear
it
its amaze ago, big majority in
this country and refer to you
see it in a lot of polling. I
refer to one of them reporter
up Sis poll, one of the first to
come out and in the immediate
aftermath of George Floyds
death, the poll found. Seventy three percent of the
people found that the peaceful
protest following his death were
justified and seventy nine percent said
that the violence connected with
some of those protests was not
justified under any reason, and I
couldnt know mined dishonored
George Floyds death.
We have between three out of
four or four out of five
Americans saying the protests
are justified, but violence is
not Joe Biden. Cant bring
himself to condemn the violence.
I seen one instance in which he
had like four words that
condemned the violence
other times in the midst of this
violence. He is either silent
most of the time or occasionally
talks about peaceful protesters.
I think he would have a lot to
gain if he would condemn the
violence we saw in Seattle and
places like Chicago. He just
wont. Do it and its
inexplicable to me
touch gain and little to lose.
Is he creating an opening for
the president
if the issue comes down to who,
as president of the United
States is going to stand with,
the blue line, stand behind the
men and women in police
departments and be in favor of
the rule of law?
The answer is going to be Donald
Trump
at this point, not anywhere close
to Joe Biden,
Steve all right Lawrence
Jones
comes down to safety.
The Democrats are making this
very unfair for the american
people.
They want alternative.
You have other people on the
other side of the aisle, forcing
people to choose their safety
over every single issue.
There are people who have
genuine critiques of the
president,
but when it comes down to it, a
lot of the Democrats are also
upset about whats happening in
America as well.
I have tons of liberal friends.
The majority of my friends are
liberal, even though im on the
right-
and they say they are sick of
it.
They are sick of the cuomos of
the world.
They are sing of the De Blasio I
donts of the world
sick of what is happening in
Chicago
its been going on for a long
time. It seems to me that the
progressives put gasoline on a
fire.
People will choose their safety
every time over every single
issue.
You cannot have liberty. If you
dont have life,
you cannot choose education and
what people talk about when it
comes to environment policy or
the economy. If you arent safe
and people again will choose
their safety every single time.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-18.