Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera with reaction to Trump, Biden dueling town halls on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Brian Ainsley, Steve
Brian thanks so much
meanwhile Geraldo Rivera Fox
NEWS, correspondent at large. As
you know,
I dont know who had the clicker
in your house. Hopefully you
laughter.
What did you think about the
fact
we were struggling,
Steve wait a minute you dont
have have two tvs at your
mansion.
We have two tvs, but we
wanted to like feed off each
other,
its a yin and a Yang situation.
We needed the passion of the
opposite
Ainsley. I am curious because I
know Erica put the sign out
shes, a Biden supporter and you
put a sign with an arrow saying,
thats, my wife,
wife, only yeah,
Ainsley, im curious to know
what she thought.
I want to hear your opinion, but
I do want to hear what a
Democrat thought about it.
Well, thats an excellent
way. Ainsley to back into my
point,
Erica was filled with admiration
for Savannah Guthrie for
interrogating the president with
such ruthless abandon. You know
starting off. Why dont you wear,
masks youre, killing tens of
thousands of people youre a
white supremacist who
believes you know Erica was
cheering that on. You know
right on right. On
and then the Biden isnt he
nice isnt, he sweet, oh isnt,
he awe adorable hes suffered
so much in his life,
so Erica went with on and on
you know.
They say in Yiddish.
Speaking in native tongue,
over Joe Biden, couldnt be more
filled with admiration and
affection for hum.
Meantime, im saying: are you
kidding me?
They didnt ask hum about the
Hunter Biden, E mails
thats, the story of the day.
George Stephanopoulos should
have been briefed on that, my
goodness
this guy did he lie.
Are these mails real?
Is this computer really Hunter
Bidens?
I was a little us from Rah
Traited.
I got up and stormed around the
house sat back down and you
know the only good thing was.
There was one nice black lady
sitting behind the president, who
was nodding and giving thumbs
up, and I said well theres
one person in the room who
agrees with me
Steve. I think a lot of people
were clicking around
eventually, even though they
were on different channels. It
became the same show,
call it it grilling and
chilling, because on NBC the
president was getting the
grilling on ABC George was just
chilling with Joe.
If people missed it just
walking up Heres a highlight,
you have said repeatedly. The
only way we lose this election
is if it is rigged.
Now that is simply not true.
Will you accept the results of
the election?
The answer is yes. I will, but
I want it to be an honest
election.
There is in fact, no
evidence of widespread fraud,
and you are so
how about that question of
expanding the court.
Is the nomination of Judge
Barrett reason enough to rethink
your position?
If I had answered the
question directly, then all the
focus would be on whatS Biden
going to do if he wins
youre still not a fan
im, not a fan,
it depends how this turns out.
Your administration is about
to go to the Supreme Court to
throw out the rest of Obamacare,
which includes protections for
pre existing conditions
in order to replace it with a
much better health care at a
much lower price.
Well, you havent replaced
it
youve been in office.
If its effective will you
mandate its use?
The answer is depending on
how clear theres vaccines
they say, have a very positive
impact.
You were asked point to
denounce white supremacy
in the moment you didnt
youve done this to me,
everybody. I denounce white
supremacy. Okay,
you didnt ask Joe Biden whether
or not he denounces Antifa.
This is a little bit of a
dodge.
Are you listening?
I denounce white supremacy.
What do you have to say to
young black voters who see
voting for you as further
participation in a system that
continually fails to protect
them?
Well, I say first of all, as
my buddy John Lewis, said its a
sacred opportunity to make a
difference.
If young, black women and men
vote, you can determine the
outcome of this election.
Did you hear what you needed
to hear?
I think so
Brian thats not really
Steve. You could really tell the
temperature in the two different
rooms was quite different.
Geraldo. Do you think you know
yesterday NBC was taking so much
flak for having both the
president on their air opposite
Joe Biden on ABC.
Do you think that she went after
him was instructed Hey go
after him, so that people will
realize you are trying to
actually hurt him,
get some answers that we havent
gotten in the past
im not im, not privy to any
special inside information other
than the fact that I am an
alumni of the today show having
served there for several years
before I came to fox
its a great show, but theres.
No doubt that. Excuse me
sorry,
theres! No doubt that Savannah
Guthrie was told by her bosses
and her colleagues or if she
wasnt told directly she got
the vibe
NBC was so aping arely. I mean
the angry. I mean the staff
Rachel, Maddow and so forth. The
real trump haters were so angry
that the network had provided
this air time to the president
and, moreover, had given him the
same time slot as Joe Biden. So
people could compare this
morning. I havent seen the
ratings yet whether the
President prevailed or Joe Biden
prevailed,
but there was no doubt that
Savannah Guthrie came there with
an agenda
NBC had by far the most lovely
setting
the bridge was illuminated. They
had, you know a social distance,
but they had real people and the
very elaborate outdoor setting.
I thought it was lovely, but
man she came to prosecute.
She was wham, wham wham. You
know
question after question or why
dont you wear a mask.
When you denouncedded white
supremacy, you seemed to have a
hitch in your voice, you didnt,
quite so he had to denounce
white supremacy four times
it was very, very different.
She seemed to be marching to the
beat of a whole different
drummer than George
Stephanopoulos, who did not
mention. For example, when Joe
Biden was asked by the black
youngster and the question came
up about the criminal justice
system and what happened with
the Super predator law of nineteen, ninety four
and so forth. I think there
should have been a mention that
George Stephanopoulos worked for
the Clinton the administration.
During that very debate. In the
1990s
I mean it would have been nice
if we knew who these folks
really were and what their m dot o
and what their ambition really
was.
I think
Brian you Meanal DOE that the
chief of Staff, Savannah
Guthries husband, who was the
chief of staff for Al Gore that
might have also played out
every day, were getting other
ballot problems.
Twenty nine thousand western Pennsylvania
voters received incorrect
voters double ballots, sent out
to thousands of new Yorkers when
they requested absentee voters.
People are getting military
absentee ballots in New York,
no ones ever gotten to the
bottom of that.
The prime minister has every
the president has every reason
to be suspicious with this
massive change to mail in
ballots.
The only thing that weve shown
is that we cant do it.
Well, I have a slightly
different. Take the Brian
ive been around for so many
elections, and it always seems
despite the controversies or the
problems, that the count is
fairly legit.
I am I go to bed if the
election is not too close, go to
bed, pretty confident that I know
who won the election in
Pennsylvania and then the
Wisconsin and Michigan, and in
Florida
I remember Florida recount
my God. If we were going to
throw out the system, then you
know at all at I any time it
would have been. Then, with the
votes deciding who was president
of the United States, then Al
Gore graciously decided to
concede after the Supreme Court
in Bush, V Gore made its
decision to stop the recount.
I think the people have faith in
elections.
I think that when the president
is challenging the process, he
is making sure that everybody is
on their toes
its very difficult to cheat on
any kind of massive scale,
im pretty confident
but im telling you. The big
story of history will come to
regard this presidency as the
president, whose every word was
construed in the most evil way
possible by people hostile to
him, whose track record
Brian one more story:
Ainsley Geraldo
its President Trump against
the world
Ainsley the problem. A lot of
conservatives feel and the
president brought this up last
night were going to talk about
censorship, but the president
said he spied on my campaign. He
tried to take down a
duhy elected sitting president
and when they ask, if theres
going to be a peaceful transfer
of power. Yes, but I want an
honest election are
George is not even asking about
Hunter Biden, which is a big
story right now, and twitter and
Facebook are not even allowing
the story to be posted,
ABC Nbc and CBS. Nightly news
never even mentioned the story.
Are they Democrats
Republicans have got to fight
because Democrats are feeling
like they want to change the
narrative
they dont want the public to
know about these things.
Steve and twitter changed their
policy
Ainsley, yes,
Steve, because they took so
much crap,
Ainsley and now theyre being
subpoenaed.
The ceos being subpoenaed
lawmakers are furious.
Ainsleys point is a
brilliant one.
History will come to regard or
the 45th presidency as the one
that existed in the most hostile
environment. You could possibly
imagine
from the day he took office.
There has been this attempt to
undo the election of twenty. Sixteen
theyve done everything they
possibly can to undermine him.
It is not an overstatement. You
know, ive been accused of
overstatement in my long career.
This is not an overstatement to
say this was a de facto coup, a
continuing coup attempt to undo
the election of twenty sixteen
and it continues to this very
day.
The media is so enormously
stacked against this man.
Even if I dont agree with his
policies, the reason im so
sympathetic to Donald Trump is, I
feel he really gets. The short
end of the stick on a daily
basis.
Hes judged by a far harsher
standard than the Democrat is,
it is than Joe Biden is in
this case than the Democrats
generally. Are.
I think what happened with the
guy from Steve and his
connections and bench dealing
and everything else really is an
indication that these people are
awe Rayed against the
President arrayed against the
president, and they try to
overdo one another in who can
con denial him most effectively.
Brian right
and good luck with that, because.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-16.