Fox News contributors and former White House press secretaries Sarah Sanders and Ari Fleischer weigh in on first general election showdown on 'Fox & Friends'
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You are president screwing.
You are president screwing
things up
youre the worst President
America has ever had come on
with. Let me just say Joe
ive done in forty seven months, ive
done more than youve done in forty seven
years, Joe
weve done things you never even
thought of including fixing the
broken military that you
Steve President Trump and Joe
Biden, trying to make their case
to America. In the first debate.
They did talk a lot at the same
time,
Ainsley and here, with their top
Takeaways Fox news contributors
and former White House Press
secretaries, Sarah Sanders and
ARI Fleischer
good Morning
good morning.
Ainsley Sarah well start with
you.
What are your major takeaways
from last night in?
Well? I think the biggest
takeaways of the night were the
fact that Joe Biden reminded all
of America that hes willing to
shut down the economy again and
raise taxes.
I think that should scare every
american business every
american worker
that to me was one of the most
important takeaways that we
cannot ignore. Despite all of the
cross talk
that has real impact.
Forget all of the back and forth
and the fighting between the two
candidates.
This hurts every single
American, something that
everyone should be paying very
close attention to, and he
wasnt ashamed of it.
He was of proud to say he would
shut down the economy again.
He was proud to say that he
would raise taxes on every
American.
That is not a good thing.
He also showed he has no ability
to restore law and order in this
country
he couldnt name a single law
enforcement agency or individual.
That is endorsing him and
supporting him
to me. Those are the two biggest
issues driving voters in this
election and hes weak and
vulnerable on both of them.
The voters try to get through
the noise, try to get through
the chaos and realize those two
big things, and that should give
everybody pause and reason to
vote for Donald Trump in
November,
Brian yeah,
and also when it comes to the
virus. I couldnt think of one
thing that Joe Biden said that
hasnt been done and, of course
the rest of the world is dealing
with the same thing
before you react. I want you to
hear what the media reaction was
on other channels,
the most chaotic presidential
debate ive ever seen,
that was a hot mess inside a
dumpster fire inside a train
wreck.
That was the worst debate I have
ever seen.
That was a bleep show.
It just felt like an assault.
It felt like an assault on our
senses on our presidential
campaign promise.
I think this was about Trump
saying this process is EL
legitimate
weve got two minutes
forget that
im talking over you,
a friend of mines, daughter
burst into tears, has to run to
bed because she was so appalled.
This sixth grade girl at a what
she saw from the President,
Brian AR irk you didnt, run
ARI. You didnt run from the
stage from the set, but you
were not happy with what you
saw.
I saw that last night
yeah, I agree with the train
wreck.
I think there was I way too much
interrupting by both candidates.
The president started it. The
vice president returned the
fire and the vice president
saying shut up man. I mean who
talks like that
and as for these other networks,
you dont elevate yourself by
engaging in swears on the air,
like that.
You dont say that something is
that bad and then you about that
bad,
so Everybodys lowering
themselves and that just
doesnt serve the country. Well,
a debate should be a really good
airing of differences. It could
not be a food fight
so yeah. I did not like all the
interrupting that both
candidates engaged in
Steve real quickly before we
get to Sarah ARI. Do you have a
White board with changes for
next time
laughter?
I have no idea how you knew
that
you are clairvoyant
laughter.
I happen to have one
Steve Looky. There
heres my advice on the next
debate.
One interrupt less
its perfectly fine at key
moments to jump in
dont. Do it all the time
two? Let Biden flail around
the president actually saved
Biden on several instances
when he said to Joe Biden, you
wont take a stand on packing.
The court. You wont, take a
stand on the filibuster. He
should have gone silent and
shown America Biden isnt. Taking
a stand. Trump is right,
but instead he interrupted again
and said: wheres your list.
He didnt, let Biden flail,
let the man flail itll happen
and three sum it up.
Let Biden go through two or
three of these episodes where he
doesnt answer anything and
then say: heres whats, going on
America,
Joe Biden wont tell you where
he is on the electoral college
on packing the court. He wont
tell you where he is on
fracking.
Why?
Because he is so dominated by
the left
sum it all up. After letting
Biden, flail interrupt a whole
lot, less
thats the clean technique to
drive through the points the
president wants to get home
Ainsley the only thing
Steve ive got Karl Rove.
I know he has it patented
sorry, Karl
Ainsley. It actually helped the
president when the president
pushed him on packing the court,
because he was just saying im
not going to tell you my ideas:
thatll be the topic, the
headline, the idea and the
president said: youre, not
answering the question and that
led Biden to say I am not going
to answer the question
that was a sound bite. Thats
been played a lot,
certainly,
and I think the president was
right to push Joe Biden on a
couple of places.
He knows he has to in most of
these debates. There is not going
to be a moderator that holds
bidens feet to the fire.
The president felt he a had to
do that himself.
One thing I dont have a White
board, but one thing I would add
to that list and one of the
things the president very
effectively in twenty sixteen is he used
his sense of humor.
He has a great laugh out loud
sense of humor.
I would like to see him inject
some of that into these debates.
I think it served him well in
two thousand and sixteen.
I think it could lighten the
moment a little bit and
certainly remind people who this
president is and give a moment
of levity in a very intense
situation.
To certainly dont need a
stand up comedy show, but it
could go a long way.
He also should make a direct
appeal to women.
One of the standout lines that
he had last night was that hes
done more in forty seven months than Joe
Biden has done in forty seven years.
Ari made that point last night.
It was a key moment.
He should be making that appeal
to women on issues they care
about. The successes hes had in
those forty seven months, all of the
things that he has done that
make the community safer their
schools, better their economies
stronger.
I think thats, where he should
spend a lot of his focus in the
next debate,
Brian and at forty seven minutes after
the hour were going to have to
end it there
three 47S in a row
ARI and Sarah thanks so much
laughter.
You bet
thank you,
Brian Straight, the ahead. What
did viewers at home think of the
debate next.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.