US
US NOW
US NOW WITH HIGHLIGHTS FROM THAT HEATERS DEBATE. AND HE'LL CLOSE. WELL, THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S
SAFE TO SAY THIS WAS A DEBATE
LIKE NONE OTHER AS MODERATOR
CHRIS WALLACE ATTEMPTED TO GET
ANSWERS ON EVERYTHING FROM
THE SUPREME COURT TO CORONA
VIRUS TO ELECTION INTEGRITY AT
TIMES THIS DEVOLVED INTO A FREE
FOR ALL. QUESTION HAD SAID THAT
BECAUSE THE QUESTION THE NEW
ANSWER IS YES IS THE RIGHT AND
THE LEFT WOULD YOU MEDICINE
MUCH OF THIS FIRST DEBATE
BETWEEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
AND FORMER VISE PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN DETERIORATED INTO A
CONTENTIOUS YELLING MATCH. IT'S
HARD TO GET ANY WORD IN WITH
THIS CLOWN PAST THE PERSONAL
ATTACKS TRUMP ATTEMPTED TO
LAUNCH AGAINST BIDEN'S FAMILY
AND HE DIDN'T HAVE A JOB UNTIL
YOU BECAME VISE PRESIDENT. WHAT
DO YOU MAKE OF THAT PRESIDENT?
THE MODERATOR ATTEMPTED TO
ELICIT CONCRETE RESPONSES FROM
THE CANDIDATES. YOU KNOW WHEN
YOU'RE AWAY NOT OFFERING YOU'RE
DOING YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
TRUE GENTLEMAN BEGINNING WITH
THE TIMING OF TRUMP'S SELECTION
OF AMY CONEY BARRET TO REPLACE
RUTH BADER GINSBURG ON
THE SUPREME COURT. WE WON
THE ELECTION AND THEREFORE WE
HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE HER.
WE SHOULD WAIT. WE SHOULD WAIT
AND SEE WHAT THE OUTCOME THIS
ELECTION IS BECAUSE THAT'S
THE ONLY WAY THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE GET TO EXPRESS THEIR
VIEW IS BY WHO THEY ELECT AS
PRESIDENT AND WHO THEY ELECT AS
VISE PRESIDENT IN THE HANDLING
OF THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC.
TRUMP SAID THAT EVEN HIS
CRITICS PRAISED HIM CLAIMING TO
QUOTE THEM PRESIDENT TRUMP DID
A PHENOMENAL JOB. WE DID. WE
GOT THE GOWNS. WE GOT
THE MASKS. WE MADE
THE VENTILATORS. YOU WOULDN'T
HAVE MADE VENTILATORS AND NOW
WE'RE WEEKS AWAY FROM A
VACCINE. THE PRESIDENT HAS NO
PLAN. HE HASN'T LAID OUT
ANYTHING. HE KNEW ALL THE WAY
BACK IN FEBRUARY HOW SERIOUS
THIS CRISIS WAS. PRESIDENT
TRUMP WAS ALSO DIRECTLY ASKED
ABOUT HOW MUCH FEDERAL TAX HE
IS PAID. WILL YOU TELL US HOW
MUCH YOU PAID IN FEDERAL INCOME
TAXES IN 2016 AND 2017?
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. YOU PAID
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DOLLARS.
I'M NOT SAVING HUNDREDS OF
DOLLARS AND YOU'LL GET TO SEE
IT. ALSO ADDRESS THIS EVENING
RACE AND POLICING. THIS IS A
PRESIDENT WHO HAS USED
EVERYTHING AS A DOG WHISTLE TO
TRY TO GENERATE RACIST HATRED
RACIST DIVISION WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMP DIRECTLY. WE ASKED IF HE
WOULD CONDEMN WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND RIGHT WING
MILITIAS. STAND BACK AND STAND
BY. BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL
TELL YOU WHAT SOMEBODY HAS GOT
TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT AND TFA
AND THE LEFT BECAUSE THIS IS
NOT A RIGHT WING PROBLEM IS
ALSO IS A LEVEE. THE NEXT
DEBATE, THE VISE PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR KAMALA
HARRIS AND VISE PRESIDENT MIKE
PENCE A WEEK FROM TOMORROW.
THANKS, RICHARD. THERE WAS A
LOT GOING ON TONIGHT. THE BEST
DESCRIPTION I'VE READ THAT I
CAN REPEAT ON BROADCAST TV IS
THAT IT WAS A TRAIN WRECK INTO
A DUMPSTER FIRE. JOINING TO
DISCUSS THIS SPECTACLE, NEWS 8
POLITICAL ANALYSTS LAURA FINK
AND WENDY PATRICK. THANK YOU SO
MUCH TO THE TWO OF YOU FOR
JOINING US. I WANT TO START OUT
RIGHT, WENDY. HOW IN THE WORLD
COULD A DEBATE LIKE THAT HELP
EITHER CANDIDATE? WELL, A
DEBATE LIKE THAT CANNOT HELP
EITHER CANDIDATES. IT WAS
THE PRESIDENT PLAYING TOO MUCH
OFFENSE AND JOE BIDEN PLAYED
TOO MUCH DEFENSE. THE RESULT
WAS MISS OPPORTUNITIES. YOU
KNOW, I'D LIKE TO. TO YOUR
POINT. YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE A
TRAIN WRECK. YOU WANT TO SEE
TRAINED PROFESSIONALS DEBATING
THE ISSUES AND BOTH OF THEM HAD
ISSUES THAT THEY BROUGHT TO
THE TABLE. THEY HAD TALKING
POINTS BUT IT DEVOLVED INTO A
TEMPER. I THINK PART OF
THE PRESIDENT'S HIS PROBLEM I
THINK WAS TOO MUCH INTERRUPTING
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET ENOUGH
AIRTIME ON SOME OF THE POINTS
HE EXPANDED ON LIKE JOBS LIKE
LAW AND ORDER. AND I WOULD MAKE
THE SAME CRITICISM OF THE VISE
PRESIDENT. HE TO BEGAN DOWN
ROADS THAT NO DOUBT WOULD HAVE
SCORED HIM POINTS LANDED
THE BLOWS. HE WAS SWINGING BUT
ACTUALLY NEVER ENDED UP DOING
THAT BECAUSE HE DID EXACTLY
WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO
TRY NOT TO DO BE BAITED INTO A
BRAWL. AND THAT'S WHAT IT ENDED
UP BEING LAUGHING SAME
QUESTION. I TURNED TO HOW COULD
THIS HELP EITHER CANDIDATE?
THIS PARTICULAR DEBATE? WELL, I
THINK THE STAKES WERE A LITTLE
BIT HIGHER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP
BECAUSE WE SEE THAT HE'S BEHIND
IN KEY SWING STATES TO TEMPER
HIM A DRAW OR IN THIS CASE JUST
NOISE AND SOUND AND FURY AND
NOBODY GETTING THEIR POINT
ACROSS. IT DIDN'T ALLOW HIM TO
TRY TO CLOSE THAT GAP. SO I
THINK THAT'S THE PROBLEM. THERE
WAS IT WAS AN UNEVEN PLAYING
FIELD GOING IN BECAUSE TRUMP IS
BEHIND. NOW THAT SAID, ONE OF
THE CHALLENGES TRUMP WAS REALLY
A TORNADO OF TALKING TONIGHT
AND HE WAS HE WAS JUST STARTING
TO TALK OVER EVERYONE. AND I
SAID EARLIER I SAID, YOU KNOW,
IN THE DEBATE BETWEEN CHRIS
WALLACE AND PRESIDENT TRUMP,
PRESIDENT TRUMP WON.
UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S NOT HELPED
HIM AGAIN WIN THE RACE AGAINST
JOE BIDEN. SO I THINK AT
THE END OF THE DAY, THOUGH,
AMERICA REALLY LOST BECAUSE WE
DIDN'T REALLY GET TO HEAR
CLEARLY FROM EITHER CANDIDATE.
AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO
SEE IF THE COMMISSION ON
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AND BOTH
SIDES COME TO THE TABLE AND CAN
AGREE ON SOME RULES OF THE GAME
THAT WOULD PREVENT THAT IN
WHERE WHICH REALLY FRANKLY WAS
EXHAUSTING TO WATCH FOR TWO
HOURS. SO SO NOT A LOT OF
POLICY, NOT A LOT OF VOTER
EDUCATION REALLY JUST A STREET
BRAWL. AND I HAVE TO SAY, YOU
KNOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ON
OFFENSE BUT HE ALSO THAT YOU
CAN'T STOP SOMEONE FROM
TALKING. AS WENDY AND I KNOW
FROM BEING ON TV, YOU CAN'T
STOP SOMEONE FROM TALKING AND
WHAT YOU GET IS TWO PEOPLE AND
NOBODY HEARD WHAT YOU SAID.
AMERICA LOST OUT ON THIS. I
THINK ALSO CHRIS WALLACE. IT
WAS REALLY A TOUGH POSITION.
ONE MINUTE LEFT I WANT TO GET
THIS FROM BOTH OF YOU WHO MADE
THE STRONGEST CASE FOR
THE PRESIDENCY FOR THEMSELVES
TONIGHT. LET'S START WITH LAURA
THIS TIME. WELL, I HAVE TO SAY
PROUD PROBABLY BECAUSE I COULD
HEAR HIM BETTER. IT WAS JOE
BIDEN. SO ONE OF THE TECHNIQUES
THAT HE USED WAS ADDRESSING
THE PUBLIC DIRECTLY. SO LOOKING
DIRECT TO CAMERA AND MAKING HIS
CASE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND
TRYING TO SHOW THAT HE SORT OF
FELT THEIR PAIN THAT HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT THE RECOVERY AND
JOBS, TALKING ABOUT IMPROVING
THE LIVES OF ORDINARY AMERICANS
AND HE MADE THAT THAT
DISTINCTION BETWEEN SCRANTON
AND AND PARK AVENUE. AND I
THINK YOU SAW HIM CARRY THAT
THROUGH IN THOSE FEW MOMENTS
WHERE WE HEARD HIM TONIGHT. BUT
I HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, ONE
COULD ALSO ARGUE THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP RALLIED HIS BASE. SO SO
IF THAT WAS HIS INTENT, HE
SUCCEEDED. BUT NOTHING REALLY
FOR SWING VOTERS TONIGHT ON
THE TRUMP SIDE. ALL RIGHT,
WENDY PATRICK WRAPPING THINGS
UP SAME QUESTION FOR YOU. WHO
MADE THE STRONGEST CASE FOR
THEMSELVES FOR THE PRESIDENCY
TONIGHT? I THINK THE PRESIDENT
MADE THE STRONGER CASE BECAUSE
HE EMPHASIZED KITCHEN TABLE
ISSUES THE VERY FIRST ONE HE
EMPHASIZED THAT HE CAME BACK
SEVERAL TIMES WAS JOBS. AND HIS
ALLEGATION WAS THAT
THE ALTERNATIVE JOE BIDEN WOULD
CLOSE THE COUNTRY BACK DOWN. SO
MANY VIEWERS ARE PROBABLY JUST
NOW GETTING BACK OUT INTO
THE WORKFORCE AND THAT WOULD BE
DEVASTATING. THE SECOND KITCHEN
TABLE ISSUE HE HIT WAS LAW AND
ORDER AND JOE BIDEN DIDN'T HAVE
A GOOD ANSWER FOR THAT. HE DOES
HAVE A GOOD ANSWER BUT HE
DIDN'T GET AROUND IT BECAUSE HE
BECAUSE HE GOT BAITED INTO A
BRAWL LIKE WHAT WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT. SO I THINK FRUSTRATION
WAS REALLY THE THEME OF
THE EVENING. BUT I DO THINK
THE PRESIDENT MADE A STRONG
CASE. I HAVE A FEELING WE'RE
GOING TO SEE AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT DEBATE WITH TWO
DIFFERENT CANDIDATES. THE NEXT
TIME THEY HAVE A CHANCE. LET'S
ALL HOPE THAT DEBATE WAS
EXHAUSTING. THE TWO OF YOU ARE