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00:00:00.000Vice President Mike Pence destroys Senator Kamala Harris in the sole vice presidential debate, and we examine every detail.
00:00:06.000The Commission on Public Debate says the second presidential debate will be virtual and Trump box, and Bill de Blasio gets even weirder than usual.
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00:01:50.000It may in fact be the last debate, as it turns out, because right now, President Trump is claiming he's not going to do a second debate if the second debate is virtual, and the Commission on Public Debate is now saying that they want it to be virtual only.
00:02:02.000According to the Associated Press, the second debate between Trump and Biden will take place virtually amid the fallout from the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.
00:02:09.000The nonpartisan commission on presidential debates cited a need to quote protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate. The candidates will quote participate from separate remote locations while the participants and moderator remain in Miami. That of course would radically shape the dynamic of the second debate. Number one there's always a little bit of delay when you're doing things remotely.
00:02:31.000And that means it's very difficult for Trump to jump in if Biden is lying or for Biden to fend off attacks from Trump.
00:02:37.000It could turn into even more of a mess.
00:02:38.000If you've ever been on a Zoom call with a delay, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:02:42.000Also, there are severe concerns and there should be severe concerns about what sort of information Joe Biden is going to get.
00:02:48.000Remember, when he's actually in the room, he can't be fed information, but his own people have routinely and repeatedly refused to answer on camera whether Joe Biden uses teleprompter during interviews.
00:02:58.000Like whether they're feeding him information during the interviews by throwing it up on his teleprompter.
00:03:01.000You could easily see them doing something like that in the middle of the debate, especially because they've not actually disowned that tactic in the past.
00:03:30.000But I'm not going to do a virtual debate.
00:03:34.000So you're not—so, Mr. President, you're not going to do it because the CPD, the Commission on Presidential Debates, announcing this morning that the second presidential debate will be virtual.
00:03:43.000Are you saying you're not going to participate?
00:03:45.000No, I'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate.
00:03:48.000That's not what debating is all about.
00:03:49.000You sit behind a computer and do a debate.
00:03:52.000And then they cut you off whenever they want.
00:03:56.000Now, the Commission on Presidential Debate, of course, says that they have to do this for reasons of public safety.
00:04:02.000Of course, right now, it is only October 8th.
00:04:05.000The president will be free and clear of this thing by the time the next debate rolls around, presumably.
00:04:12.000It is unclear how long the virus is shed, but he will be immune if he continues to recover.
00:04:18.000He apparently is symptom-free and has been symptom-free for some 48 or 72 hours at this point.
00:04:24.000So it seems unlikely at best that he's going to transmit the virus a week from now to somebody.
00:04:30.000And it seems like he could take some precautions to the extent that you need to take precautions in order to make sure that they can have an in-person debate.
00:04:51.000I think Trump will end up debating because frankly, he needs it more than Biden does.
00:04:54.000If you look at the polls right now, he's trailing Biden very, very heavily nationally, and he's trailing Biden more and more in the States.
00:04:59.000There was a new Quinnipiac poll out today.
00:05:01.000Quinnipiac is generally Somewhat favorable to Biden, but these polls are devastating for Trump.
00:05:05.000They haven't done 11 in Florida, which of course is an outlier poll so far, and 13 in Pennsylvania, also an outlier poll so far.
00:05:12.000Bottom line is this, there has not been a good poll for Trump in quite a long while in the various swing states.
00:05:20.000In Pennsylvania, the RealClearPolitics poll average now puts Biden up 7 points.
00:05:25.000In Florida, the RealClearPolitics poll average now puts Biden up nearly 5 points.
00:05:30.000In Arizona, he's still leading by about 3.
00:05:34.000And nationally, he is leading by about 10.
00:05:36.000Trump, in order to win this election, really needs to be within 3 to 5 points of Biden nationally.
00:05:41.000He doesn't need to win the popular vote, but he does need to be in spitting distance of Biden in the popular vote.
00:05:45.000So that means that Trump has ground to make up.
00:05:47.000And if he's going to make up that ground, then he needs that debate.
00:05:49.000So him walking away from the debate is very, very unlikely, I think.
00:05:53.000Okay, with that said, if he does walk away from the debate, that means that the last debate that we'll probably see before the election is the one that we saw last night.
00:06:01.000Now, in the lead up to the debate, it was perfectly obvious where the line was going to be.
00:06:03.000The New York Times said openly in their reporting that Kamala Harris was a historic, wonderful human being, because of course she is black and she's a woman, and this means she's a historic, wonderful human being no matter what she does or what she says, and that the only sort of attacks that have come from the right are Crazed attacks that are racist and sexist in nature, calling her a radical leftist.
00:06:23.000Well, they'd already preset the narrative.
00:06:24.000That means that if you criticize Kamala Harris, you're racist and you're sexist.
00:06:28.000And we knew going in that this was the way this debate was going to be played.
00:06:31.000Literally 10 seconds after the debate started, I tweeted, breaking, CNN calls debate for Kamala Harris.
00:06:36.000And that's exactly what happened last night.
00:06:38.000It turns out that Mike Pence absolutely thoroughly debunked Kamala Harris.
00:07:16.000And what's even more incredible is that the attacks that she used against Trump, Very few of them actually seem to stick because number one, we've heard it all before.
00:07:24.000And number two, a lot of that is drawn from like Bob Woodward's book.
00:07:28.000And it's not from stuff that we have seen from Trump publicly, per se.
00:07:32.000It doesn't mean that the public perception of Trump is really good.
00:07:34.000It means that Pence did the best he could with a bad situation, namely COVID.
00:07:37.000And it means that Kamala Harris is actually really, really incompetent.
00:07:56.000There was a lot of that last night with Mike Pence.
00:07:59.000She really did not land a blow against Pence, and Pence landed quite a few blows against Biden and Harris.
00:08:04.000Now, is it going to make a big difference?
00:08:05.000It's a vice presidential debate, so theoretically it could, because obviously we all know that Kamala Harris is likely to be president if Biden is elected, given the fact that he is 78 years old and not in the world's best health.
00:08:16.000But is it going to make a big difference?
00:08:19.000As long as Trump is in center stage, the answer is probably not.
00:08:22.000But this debate is what the Trump administration agenda looks like without Trump's crazy.
00:08:28.000Seriously, that's what this debate looked like.
00:08:38.000Let me just point out that debate last night was fantastic.
00:08:41.000The debate was fantastic because Mike Pence was the Trump agenda just as an agenda.
00:08:47.000It was the Trump agenda without any of the ancillary wild commentary.
00:08:52.000And I understand maybe you need the wild commentary in order to draw attention.
00:08:55.000I understand that we all on the right enjoy when Trump punches at the media and sometimes it is well deserved.
00:09:00.000As I've been saying for literally five years at this point, Donald Trump is a hammer.
00:09:03.000I mean, sometimes he hits a nail, which is great and satisfying, and sometimes he hits a baby, which is significantly less satisfying and significantly less great.
00:09:12.000The Trump agenda, stripped of all the sort of Trumpian overtones, is actually excellent.
00:09:18.000And when it is defended properly, as Mike Pence did, not like Trump in the first debate, as Mike Pence did in the vice presidential debate, that agenda is worthy of re-election.
00:09:25.000That agenda is worthy of another four years.
00:09:37.000And not only that, he contrasted that agenda and the accomplishments of the Trump administration with what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden would do.
00:09:44.000And Kamala Harris had no answers because the entire Biden-Harris campaign is Trump is an orange man who is bad.
00:09:52.000She refused to answer questions about abortion policy.
00:09:55.000She refused to answer questions About her COVID policy.
00:09:59.000She refused to answer questions on court packing.
00:10:01.000She refused to answer questions on foreign policy.
00:10:03.000Kamala Harris did not answer a single question straight last night.
00:10:07.000Not from the moderator and not from Pence.
00:10:09.000And so she was relegated to falling back on, he's being mean to me because I'm a girl.
00:10:13.000Which by the way, is playing directly into sexist stereotypes.
00:10:16.000You gotta pick one if you're a member of the media.
00:10:18.000Either women are the full equal of men in the political sphere and should be treated exactly the same, or women are delicate lilies of the field who must be protected from the gentle predations of Mike Pence, one of the most polite people in American politics.
00:10:30.000If Mike Pence is too much for you in American politics, you need to get out of the venue entirely.
00:10:45.000If the media are relegated to talking about how Mike Pence was mean to Kamala Harris, oh, poor Kamala Harris, then don't give me the, she's a tough prosecuting lady, she is woman, hear her roar, these boots are made for walking.
00:11:29.000I've got Ring devices on my home, makes me feel a lot more secure, and again, I can keep an eye on my crazy children who are running around the house doing dangerous things at all hours of the day.
00:11:38.000Whatever your reason for needing Ring, you do need it.
00:13:00.000Susan Page, you know, people were like, why didn't she hold them to the questions?
00:13:04.000Why didn't she press them on the questions?
00:13:06.000You know, these are professional politicians who answer what they want to answer.
00:13:10.000And Page basically, you know, she stepped out of it, which was good.
00:13:14.000She didn't put herself at the center of the story in the same way that Chris Wallace did.
00:13:17.000Okay, she started this thing off and she made clear that she was not going to be okay with the sort of Trumpian interruptions that happened in the last debate.
00:13:26.000We want a debate that is lively, but Americans also deserve a discussion that is civil.
00:13:33.000Okay, then the debate actually begins.
00:13:37.000And as you'll see, Kamala Harris did not answer a single question.
00:13:44.000I mean, she is a very dishonest human being.
00:13:46.000She's chameleonic in her own politics.
00:13:48.000She's willing to literally say anything.
00:13:51.000I cannot emphasize too much that Kamala Harris is a person who literally implied that the person who is now her running mate was a sexual harasser and a racist.
00:14:03.000And now when she's asked about it, she says it was a debate.
00:14:47.000And our plan is about what we need to do around a national strategy for contact tracing, for testing, for administration of the vaccine, and making sure that it will be free for all.
00:15:52.000She's so bad, she dropped out of the primaries before she was even put up for a vote in her home state of California because she was going to win zero delegates.
00:15:59.000But even in that particular clip, she lies.
00:16:01.000The president never said coronavirus is a hoax.
00:16:02.000That is a for Pinocchio claim, according to the Washington Post.
00:16:15.000And you are a kind of liar a little bit.
00:16:19.000I want the American people to know that from the very first day, President Donald Trump has put the health of America first.
00:16:28.000Before there were more than five cases in the United States, all people who had returned from China, President Donald Trump did what no other American president had ever done, and that was he suspended all travel from China, the second largest economy in the world.
00:16:44.000Now, Senator Joe Biden opposed that decision.
00:16:49.000He said it was xenophobic and hysterical.
00:16:52.000The reality is, when you look at the Biden plan, it reads an awful lot, like what President Trump and I and our task force have been doing every step of the way.
00:17:01.000I mean, quite frankly, when I look at their plan that talks about advancing testing, creating new PPE, developing a vaccine, Um, it looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about.
00:17:33.000Your entire plan is Trump is an orange man who is very bad.
00:17:36.000And Harris knows immediately that she's in trouble.
00:17:39.000And she tries to bring out the big guns.
00:17:40.000The big guns for Kamala Harris are not All of the Trumpian policy mistakes or the terrible things that Trump has said over the years or his bad tweets.
00:17:48.000The big gun for Harris is, I am woman.
00:17:51.000Please, please, please leave me alone.
00:17:53.000Which is the most anti-feminist thing you can say.
00:21:06.000It is wonderful that we have female VP candidates.
00:21:08.000They should be treated just the same as everyone else.
00:21:11.000Or, women must be treated as though they are weak creatures, incapable of handling a mild-mannered vice president saying to them, I'd like to answer that, please.
00:21:22.000I mean, that's literally what Mike Pence says.
00:21:50.000Donald Trump is down in the basement cooking up the serum?
00:21:53.000You think Donald Trump is like taking antibodies out of his own body and then he's making a virus, an antivirus, like Will Smith in I Am Legend?
00:21:59.000Like that's how this is all going here at Kamala Harris?
00:22:02.000Or is it true that under the Trump administration, Operation Warp Speed is developing a vaccine faster than any vaccine has been developed in human history?
00:22:10.000And that he deserves some credit for that?
00:22:12.000This is such a nonsensical and silly line.
00:22:13.000Here is Harris talking about vaccines.
00:22:17.000You respect the American people when you tell them the truth.
00:22:19.000If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it.
00:22:28.000But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
00:22:40.000Mike Pence properly calls her up, well, calls her out on this, and comes with smirks throughout.
00:22:45.000Again, her performance last night was abysmal.
00:22:47.000The media are trying to save her from herself.
00:22:48.000They've been trying to do it for literally years at this point.
00:22:50.000When she dropped out of the race, we got a bevy of articles.
00:22:53.000The reality is that we're going to have a vaccine, Senator, in record time, in unheard of time, in less than a year.
00:22:57.000We have five companies in phase three clinical trials, and we're right now producing tens of millions of doses.
00:23:00.000the point, which is that she is actively dissuading people from taking a vaccine that we will need people to take. The reality is that we're going to have a vaccine, Senator, in record time, in unheard of time, in less than a year. We have five companies in phase three clinical trials, and we're right now producing tens of millions of doses. So the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine, if the vaccine emerges
00:23:29.000during the Trump administration, I think is unconscionable.
00:23:34.000And, Senator, I just ask you, stop playing politics with people's lives.
00:24:00.000Kamala Harris was all of those things last night.
00:24:03.000Okay, then they got to the issue of taxation.
00:24:04.000So, recognize the first, like, third of the debate was all about COVID.
00:24:08.000And Harris, basically her line was that Trump knew in late January, early February, this thing was airborne, it was dangerous.
00:24:14.000Even Bob Woodward, who revealed that in his book, right, that Trump had said that sort of stuff.
00:24:18.000Even Bob Woodward said publicly in interviews, we talked about it at the time, He said, I didn't believe that Trump knew all that.
00:24:23.000I thought Trump was just bloviating because, again, nobody knew that.
00:24:26.000There was not a single doctor, including Fauci, who was saying in early February the thing was airborne and that it was really dangerous for young people.
00:24:32.000As it turns out, it is not particularly dangerous to young people.
00:24:35.000And even now, there is controversy about just how airborne the virus is, right?
00:24:38.000The CDC literally this week, this week, came out with information suggesting there might be an airborne component to this.
00:24:48.000OK, so she relied a lot I'm Bob Woodward's book for various items of information.
00:24:53.000But then they moved beyond COVID, and they got into taxes.
00:24:55.000And here is where the debate really started to go sideways for Harris.
00:24:59.000To this point, you could say that Harris sort of held her own, because on COVID, the fact is that the Trump administration's rhetoric has been bad, and the Trump administration's performance has been pretty good.
00:25:07.000Because Pence is rhetorically much better than Trump, especially at this kind of stuff, he made the record look as good as you can make it when you have a president who is doing all the things that President Trump is doing.
00:25:17.000Then they got to the economy, and this is where it all starts to fall apart for Kamala Harris.
00:25:23.000So she starts talking about the issue of the economy.
00:25:40.000This was a smart car against a big rig.
00:25:42.000It just did not go well for Kamala Harris here.
00:25:44.000Here was Harris trying to go off on Pence's economy, the Pence-Trump economy, the Trump-Pence economy.
00:25:49.000And as you will see, Pence just was not having it.
00:25:53.000On the issue of the economy, I think there couldn't be a more fundamental difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:26:00.000Joe Biden believes you measure the health and the strength of America's economy based on the health and the strength of the American worker and the American family.
00:26:10.000On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, who measures the strength of the economy based on how rich people are doing.
00:26:17.000On day one, Joe Biden will repeal that tax bill.
00:26:31.000So she says, again, again, for the 90th time, that the first day Biden is going to repeal Trump's tax cuts, There's only one problem with that.
00:26:40.000When you say he's going to repeal the tax cuts, as it turns out, you're raising everybody's taxes.
00:26:44.000This is a point that Mike Pence made with alacrity.
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00:28:04.000Okay, so Kamala Harris suggests that the Trump economy is bad and that Trump only cares about the wealthy, and Pence just destroys her on it.
00:28:15.000Despite what Senator Harris says, the average American family of four had $2,000 in savings and taxes.
00:28:22.000The average household income for a family of four increased by $4,000 following President Trump's tax cuts.
00:28:28.000But America, you just heard Senator Harris tell you, on day one, Joe Biden's gonna raise your taxes.
00:28:35.000Okay, and then she starts smirking, and you get the Kamala Harris giggle, the weird, strange joker giggle.
00:28:42.000Okay, and then she, again, she knows she's caught.
00:28:46.000Every time she was caught last night, she played the I'm a woman, stop interrupting me card.
00:28:50.000She woman-splained to Mike Pence about how debate is not supposed to be debate as long as a woman is there.
00:28:56.000I do find, by the way, all this man-splaining, women are victims stuff pretty amusing from a party that suggests that men can be women, that gender is completely a social construct, and that women do not exist.
00:29:04.000In fact, men and women are arbitrary categories decided by society rather than by biology, which means that I suppose that Kamala Harris could man-splain to Mike Pence anytime she pleases simply by identifying as a man.
00:29:14.000But in any case, here was Kamala Harris Trying to walk back the simple fact, which is, if you repeal Trump's tax cuts, then you end up repealing tax cuts for 82% of Americans who received a tax cut.
00:29:25.000Here was Kamala Harris trying to walk it back, and then Pence tries to interject, and once again, she does the, you're interrupting me.
00:30:39.000And she's like, uh, but I was basically like, I mean, can we all just acknowledge that what I was really doing here was just trying to call you a sexist?
00:30:49.000Pence continued to hammer home this point.
00:30:51.000I mean, on the economy, he just, he had his editor rights on the economy.
00:30:54.000So he continued to hammer home this point.
00:30:56.000She was saying, again, that she was not going to raise taxes, that she and Biden will not raise taxes on people, which, of course, is a lie.
00:31:04.000Also, she was saying that she's not going to ban fracking.
00:31:06.000Joe Biden has said it repeatedly, that he looks to get rid of fracking.
00:31:09.000She herself has said repeatedly that she is looking to get rid of fracking.
00:31:13.000Even the fact-checkers who somehow suggest that the Biden-Harris campaign is only looking to get rid of new leases on public land are failing to recognize that all that Harris and Biden have been saying the whole time is that that is a transitional plan toward getting rid of fossil fuels entirely.
00:31:29.000I mean, they've been very consistent on this point.
00:31:31.000Here was Mike Pence hammering this home.
00:31:35.000You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
00:31:38.000You yourself said on multiple occasions when you were running for president that you would ban fracking.
00:31:45.000Joe Biden looked at a supporter in the eye and pointed and said, I guarantee, I guarantee that we will abolish fossil fuels.
00:31:54.000They have a $2 trillion version of the Green New Deal, Susan, that your newspaper, USA Today, said really wasn't that very different from the original Green New Deal.
00:32:03.000Again, Kamala Harris looked terrible on the split screen because she kept breaking out the smirk and the laughter.
00:32:09.000shape recovery that's underway right now will continue with four more years of President Donald Trump. Again Kamala Harris looked terrible on the split screen because she kept breaking out the smirk and the laughter. That is every interview she has ever done when she breaks that out she's losing and she was losing last night and losing badly.
00:32:27.000He kept also hammering home on the Green New Deal.
00:32:30.000So, so Page, Susan Page, asked, asked Kamala Harris about Joe Biden and the Green New Deal.
00:32:36.000This was actually a very good question from Susan Page, the first time I've seen them called on it, in which she says, you know, Joe Biden denied that he's in favor of the Green New Deal.
00:32:42.000His website literally describes the Green New Deal.
00:34:11.000So both candidates were asked about China.
00:34:12.000Kamala Harris had no answer other than to say, and she really said this, she said that Xi Jinping was more popular internationally than Donald Trump.
00:34:18.000First of all, the image of China around the world has been in steady decline, as it should be, because it's a tyrannical hellhole.
00:35:06.000And he correctly kept pointing out that the Biden campaign, the Biden administration was very, very soft on China.
00:35:12.000How do you know, by the way, that Pence is right?
00:35:14.000We could fact check this in real time, as it turns out.
00:35:16.000It turns out that the debate was broadcast on Chinese television.
00:35:20.000Every time Pence talked about China and the predations of China and the corruption of China and how China was responsible for the spread of coronavirus, China blocked the feed.
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00:39:13.000The Biden foreign policy case is that Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy issue of the last 30 years.
00:39:18.000Seriously, it is difficult to imagine anyone who has ever been more wrong on foreign policy.
00:39:22.000This is a guy who did not want to kill Osama Bin Laden.
00:39:24.000This is a guy who's very much in favor of the Iran deal.
00:39:26.000This is a person whose great suggestion, repeatedly, is that whenever there's a problem, we should just split countries apart.
00:39:32.000Here is Kamala Harris, though, trying to pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of foreign policy genius, when in fact, the guy is as much of a... He's the Ralph Wiggum of foreign policy.
00:39:39.000Here is Kamala Harris trying to spin Ralph Wiggum into Mr. Burns.
00:39:44.000I love talking with Joe about a lot of these issues.
00:39:47.000And, you know, Joe, I think he said it quite well.
00:39:49.000He says, you know, foreign policy, it might sound complicated, but really it's relationships.
00:40:46.000And when she says you got to keep your word to your friends, the Obama-Biden administration was the most anti-Israel administration in American history.
00:40:52.000They literally tried to withdraw defense equipment from Israel in the middle of a war with Hamas.
00:41:20.000President Trump kept his word when we moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
00:41:24.000We've stood strong with our allies, but we've been demanding.
00:41:27.000NATO is now contributing more to our common defense than ever before thanks to President Trump's leadership.
00:41:34.000We've strengthened our alliances across the Asia-Pacific.
00:41:37.000President Trump Unleash the American military, and our armed forces destroy the ISIS caliphate and took down their leader al-Baghdadi without one American casualty.
00:41:47.000The last administration transferred $1.8 billion to the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
00:42:50.000Baghdadi had held her for 18 months, abused her mercilessly before they killed her.
00:42:56.000But when Joe Biden was vice president, they hesitated for a month.
00:43:00.000And when armed forces finally went in, it was clear she'd been moved two days earlier.
00:43:05.000And her family says with a heart that broke the heart of every American that if President Donald Trump had been president, they believed Kayla would be alive today.
00:44:19.000This is about a pattern of Donald Trump's, where he has referred to our men who are serving in our military as suckers and losers.
00:44:29.000Donald Trump, who went to Arlington Cemetery and stood above the graves of our fallen heroes and said, what's in it for them?
00:44:44.000Because, of course, you know, he only thinks about what's in it for him.
00:44:48.000Let's take what he said about John McCain, a great American hero, public reporting that Russia had bounties on the heads of American soldiers.
00:45:02.000One, I'm not going to hear about criticisms of John McCain from Democrats, who literally suggested that he was a racist back in 2008, and also that he was a decrepit person who couldn't use a keyboard when he had war injuries.
00:45:14.000Also, that public reporting about Russian bounties is completely unverified.
00:45:17.000In fact, that story basically fell apart.
00:45:19.000Pence then knocked the Biden-Harris campaign on the fact that Joe Biden was against the killing of Osama bin Laden.
00:45:26.000Trump made the call to kill Soleimani, correct call, and Biden held up when it came time to kill Osama bin Laden.
00:45:31.000Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general, was responsible for the death of hundreds of American service members.
00:45:41.000When the opportunity came, we saw him headed to Baghdad to kill more Americans.
00:45:45.000President Trump didn't hesitate, and Qasem Soleimani is gone.
00:45:50.000But you deserve to know that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris actually criticized the decision to take out Qasem Soleimani.
00:46:15.000Okay, then they moved to the Supreme Court.
00:46:17.000And on the Supreme Court, once again, it was a giant fail for Kamala Harris.
00:46:23.000So Pence began by pointing out that it was Kamala Harris who savaged Justice Kavanaugh.
00:46:28.000and was brutal and vicious and lying about Justice Kavanaugh.
00:46:31.000And he said, I hope that you don't treat Amy Coney Barrett with the same sort of disdain, especially people like you who have been ripping on people for their religion because you have actually ripped on federal judicial appointees who are members of things like the Knights of Columbus, calling them bigoted groups.
00:46:46.000President Trump and I could not be more enthusiastic about the opportunity to see Judge Amy Coney Barrett become Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
00:46:56.000And she will bring a lifetime of experience and a sizable American family to the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:47:04.000And our hope is in the hearing next week, unlike Justice Kavanaugh received with treatment from you and others, we hope she gets a fair hearing.
00:47:13.000And we particularly hope that we don't see the kind of attacks on her Christian faith that we saw before.
00:47:20.000Senator, I know one of our judicial nominees you actually attacked because they were a member of the Catholic Knights of Columbus.
00:47:27.000Okay, what's hilarious about this is that her response was, I'm a person of faith.
00:47:31.000How dare you suggest that I would attack a person of faith?
00:47:34.000You literally attacked somebody for being a member of the Knights of Columbus.
00:47:37.000This does not hold water here from Kamala Harris.
00:47:39.000Joe Biden and I are both people of faith, and it's insulting to suggest that we would knock anyone for their faith.
00:47:49.000On the issue of this nomination, Joe and I are very clear, as are the majority of the American people, We are 27 days before the decision about who will be the next president of the United States.
00:48:03.000And, you know, before when this conversation has come up, you know, it's been about election year or election time.
00:48:46.000Yes, we know we're voting and we should know what we are voting for.
00:48:48.000It makes a difference whether you and Joe Biden are going to change the number of people on the Supreme Court out of a pure revenge move because you don't like the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and Trump was in office.
00:49:16.000The shotgun was, you're a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Okay, I have a question.
00:50:12.000The American people deserve a straight answer.
00:50:14.000And if you haven't figured it out yet, the straight answer is they are going to pack the Supreme Court if they somehow win this election.
00:50:21.000Men and women, I've got to tell you, people across this country, if you cherish our Supreme Court, if you cherish the separation of powers, you need to reject the Biden-Harris ticket.
00:50:30.000Yeah, let's talk about packing the court then.
00:51:12.000So, the moderator brought up the case of Breonna Taylor and said, was Breonna Taylor's, you know, the acquittal of the officers, was that justified?
00:51:19.000And Kamala Harris, great legal mind, Her life was taken.
00:51:36.000It's like packing all of the dense matter of the universe into a single point before the big bang, except all of the matter is lies and the single point is this clip.
00:51:42.000Here's Kamala Harris saying a bunch of untrue things in a row.
00:51:45.000Her life was taken, unjustifiably and tragically and violently.
00:51:50.000And it just, it brings me to, you know, the eight minutes and 46 seconds that America witnessed, during which an American man was tortured and killed under the knee of an armed, uniformed police officer.
00:52:14.000And people around our country of every race, Of every age, of every gender, perfect strangers to each other, marched shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, fighting for us to finally achieve that ideal of equal justice under law.
00:52:35.000And I was a part of those peaceful protests.
00:52:38.000We need reform of our policing in America and our criminal justice system, which is why Joe and I will immediately ban chokeholds and carotid holes.
00:52:47.000She said that George Floyd would be alive if that legislation had passed.
00:52:50.000George Floyd, in all likelihood, would not be alive if that legislation had passed because he was not put in either a carotid or a chokehold.
00:52:56.000And he died because he was on a dose of fentanyl that would kill a horse.
00:53:00.000The autopsy found that he had fentanyl and meth in his system.
00:53:02.000He was obviously experiencing excited delirium in the middle of that encounter.
00:53:06.000When it comes to Breonna Taylor, it is tragic that she was killed.
00:53:09.000She was killed because her boyfriend was firing a gun at the cops when they broke in the door in a legally performed search warrant.
00:53:16.000And it is amazing to me that Democrats will simultaneously claim that outdoor open air events at the White House are very, very, very bad and very, very dangerous.
00:53:24.000And you don't get to talk about how you were marching shoulder to shoulder in the middle of a pandemic with millions of other people in a fight for, quote unquote, racial justice and completely overlooked the violence in the streets.
00:53:33.000Here's Mike Pence pointing out many of these things.
00:53:35.000It really is remarkable that as a former prosecutor, you would assume that an impaneled grand jury looking at all the evidence got it wrong.
00:53:43.000But you're entitled to your opinion, Senator.
00:53:47.000I think with regard to George Floyd, there's no excuse for what happened to George Floyd, and justice will be served.
00:53:56.000But there's also no excuse for the rioting and looting that followed.
00:54:18.000And Flora is still trying to put her life back together.
00:54:23.000And I must tell you, this presumption that you hear consistently from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that America is systemically racist, and that, as Joe Biden said, that he believes that law enforcement has an implicit bias against minorities, is a great insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement.
00:54:50.000And I want everyone to know who puts on the uniform of law enforcement every day that President Trump and I stand with you.
00:54:57.000And it is remarkable that when Senator Tim Scott tried to pass a police reform bill, brought together a group of Republicans and Democrats, Senator Harris, you got up and walked out of the room.
00:55:10.000And then you filibustered Senator Tim Scott's bill.
00:55:14.000Okay, and that prompted her to bring up the great Trump loves white supremacists lie.
00:55:19.000Again, so this was the pattern last night.
00:55:21.000Everybody's a sexist for being mean to me, and then everybody's a racist for being mean to me.
00:55:25.000So Harris immediately went to, well, Trump was never, he didn't condemn white supremacists.
00:56:09.000Here was Harris trotting out the Trump loves white supremacists lie.
00:56:13.000I will not sit here and be lectured by the vice president on what it means to enforce the laws of our country.
00:56:19.000I am the only one on this stage Who has personally prosecuted everything from child sexual assault to homicide.
00:56:26.000The President of the United States took a debate stage in front of 70 million Americans and refused to condemn white supremacists.
00:56:34.000He called Mexicans rapists and criminals.
00:56:38.000He instituted as his first act a Muslim ban.
00:56:42.000He, on the issue of Charlottesville, where people were peacefully protesting, The need for racial justice, where a young woman was killed, and on the other side there were neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches, shouting racial epithets, antisemitic slurs, and Donald Trump, when asked about it, said, They were fine people on both sides.
00:57:09.000Okay, here is Mike Pence completely debunking this ridiculous talking point.
00:57:14.000Also, listening to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party talk about anti-Semitic slurs while they maintain Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and they continue to promote these anti-Semitic dullards is pretty impressive.
00:57:27.000You know, I think this is one of the things that makes people dislike the media so much in this country, Susan, is that you selectively edit, just like Senator Harris did, comments that President Trump and I and others on our side of the aisle make.
00:57:41.000I mean, Senator Harris conveniently omitted after the president made comments about people on either side of the debate over monuments.
00:57:49.000He condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and has done so repeatedly.
00:57:56.000You're concerned that he doesn't condemn neo-Nazis.
00:58:00.000President Trump has Jewish grandchildren.
00:58:02.000I'm glad you brought up your record, Senator.
00:58:07.000When you were DA in San Francisco, when you left office, African Americans were 19 times more likely to be prosecuted for minor drug offenses than whites and Hispanics.
00:58:20.000When you were Attorney General of California, you increased the disproportionate incarceration of blacks in California.
00:58:28.000You did nothing on criminal justice reform in California.
00:58:31.000You didn't lift a finger to pass the First Step Act on Capitol Hill.
00:58:35.000I mean, the reality is your record speaks for itself.
00:58:55.000So the media coverage was completely about how Kamala Harris was the victim of a racist attack.
00:59:00.000So CNN did a post-debate snap poll where it said that 6 in 10 said Harris won, 38% said Mike Pence had a better night.
00:59:08.000Well, going in, 61% said they thought Harris would win and 36% thought Pence would win.
00:59:12.000So basically nobody changed their mind.
00:59:14.000Big shocker there because everybody is really sort of ensconced in their particular corner.
00:59:19.000Which just shows how much this whole campaign has been dominated by the personality of President Trump.
00:59:24.000But you can tell by how the media are covering this who they think won.
00:59:27.000New York Times headline, a fly landed on Mike Pence's head during the VP debate for two minutes.
00:59:31.000The Hill, Biden fund raises off a fly on Pence's head.
00:59:34.000CNN, fly lands on Mike Pence's head during debate.
00:59:37.000Vox, the fly on Mike Pence's head was the real winner of the 2020 vice presidential debate.
00:59:41.000Washington Post, an exclusive interview with the fly from the debate.
00:59:46.000Joe Biden tweeted out a picture of himself with a fly swatter saying he wanted to fundraise.
00:59:50.000First of all, Joe Biden is more likely to smack himself in the face with a fly swatter than properly swat a fly at this point in his geriatric life.
00:59:57.000How ridiculous was the media coverage of this?
01:00:00.000The media coverage was ridiculous through and through.
01:00:02.000They had only a couple narratives coming out of this.
01:00:27.000I mean, I don't think it's ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes.
01:00:32.000You know, that's a sign all through history of sin, and historically, biblically, maybe you wouldn't normally say this after, you wouldn't, it's only safe to say this, sorry, after midnight, but, you know, a fly, he who commands the fly has always been seen historically as the mark of the devil.
01:03:13.000And then she suggested that perhaps, she actually went on to suggest, Nicole Wallace, that perhaps Mike Pence was feeling under the weather, right?
01:03:21.000She started talking about the fact that his eyes looked a little pink.
01:03:34.000A man with fewer than 10 brain cells to rub together.
01:03:37.000He tweeted out, just going over it all in my head, I have a question.
01:03:40.000Pence constantly interrupted and spoke over Kamala Harris was the prime example of white male supremacy and its common dismissal and disrespect for black women.
01:03:50.000Let's say that the sexes had been reversed.
01:03:53.000And let's say that Kamala Harris had been the one who mildly interrupted Mike Pence and Pence had said, you're interrupting me, you're interrupting me, stop interrupting Then they would claim that he was being defensive and aggressive with Kamala Harris.
01:04:06.000There is in fact a double standard, but the double standard is applied against men and not against women in these circumstances.
01:04:27.000I know Mike Pence, I've met Mike Pence, I've interviewed Mike Pence, and at one time I found him very impressive.
01:04:33.000Tonight, he made my skin crawl, and I think showed that you can be insulting without using insults.
01:04:43.000You know, the constant interruptions, the mansplaining, the condescending, to both of the women on that stage tonight, and the not answering questions, the gaslighting, I found infuriating.
01:04:57.000Okay, this is just, I'm sorry, it's very silly.
01:05:07.000And the answer is maybe, but Trump has to get out of his own way.
01:05:11.000Once again, this campaign is not about Mike Pence.
01:05:13.000If Pence were the presidential candidate, I think the Republican ticket would now be ahead in the polls.
01:05:17.000Donald Trump needs to get out of his own way.
01:05:19.000He needs to do the same defense of his policies that Pence did.
01:05:23.000He can do it in Trumpian fashion, he can.
01:05:25.000But he needs to actively defend his own policies rather than fulminating over whatever he saw on the TVs today.
01:05:31.000And if that happens, maybe this thing turns around.
01:05:32.000If it doesn't, then the problems will continue for the Trump campaign.
01:05:36.000But, again, I think the takeaway last night is that Trump's policies are excellent, how do you know?
01:05:41.000Because Mike Pence was able to win going away, win in a walk, against Kamala Harris simply by saying the policies out loud and pointing out that Democrats have never had to answer a single difficult question about their own policies and, in fact, refuse to answer their own policies right now.
01:05:56.000If you listened to Kamala Harris last night, Democrats are the parties of anti-Green New Deal, low taxes, and pro-fracking.
01:06:03.000As Elizabeth Brooding, an actual socialist writing for the Washington Post said, it seems like if this is the new Democratic Party, they've left the left completely behind.
01:06:50.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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