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00:00Now, earlier today, not everyone on stage was out to get Donald Trump.
00:04Our friend and colleague, the anchor of the Faulkner Focus, Harris Faulkner, she raised
00:09several very fair, very important issues.
00:11Take a look.
00:12I want to talk about something that bursts, and this is the weight of the inflation on
00:18this country right now.
00:20Much of that falls on the shoulders of single moms, single black moms, when you look statistically.
00:27How do you turn it around?
00:28What's your plan for the black community when it comes to money?
00:31The inflation is absolutely destroying our middle class, our working class, virtually
00:37every class.
00:39Inflation is a disaster in our country.
00:42Inflation is a country buster.
00:44It breaks every country.
00:45We had, in my opinion, the worst inflation we've had.
00:49They say it's 58 years, but I think it's much more than that.
00:52People can't buy houses.
00:53They no longer have the American dream.
00:56Young people, young black people, they don't have the American dream anymore.
01:01They can't buy a house.
01:02They can't borrow the money because of the cost of the money.
01:05They can't buy it because of the cost of housing, because of the cost of building, because of
01:09inflation.
01:10Inflation is a disaster, and it's destroying our country.
01:14All right, joining us now with more, the anchor of the Faulkner Focus, our friend, Harris
01:20Faulkner, also the host of Outnumbered.
01:22Great to see you, Harris.
01:23It was great to see you up there, too.
01:25I was glad you had the opportunity.
01:29Tell us from your perspective, because it seemed hostile, but on the other hand, maybe
01:34I didn't hear the crowd right, and you can bring us in the room, I heard a lot of people
01:39cheering for Donald Trump.
01:40Am I wrong?
01:41No, you're not wrong.
01:44I mean, there were people who were, you know, he's funny.
01:48So there were people who were listening closely enough to catch some of his humor and to laugh
01:52at that.
01:53I think there were a couple of times when people didn't like what he said.
01:56But at one point when he was talking about inflation and how he would try to turn things
02:00around with drill baby drill and energy and really going after that sector and making
02:07things cheaper in that sector, we're in heat waves, we're in coal spills, we're in all
02:12those things, making living, you know, cheaper to do with quality reserved.
02:19When he was going into all of that, apparently somebody in the front row, I couldn't see
02:23this woman, but apparently she was smiling, waving, doing something.
02:25He said, oh, OK, so you know what I'm talking about.
02:28You like what I'm saying.
02:30So, you know, there are some universals out there that we as human beings go to when we
02:36talk about the economy.
02:37I thought two things about today.
02:39I don't like it particularly when you're driven solely by emotion.
02:43So by getting the conversation tipped off, by by making it so emotional and so personal
02:50with one journalist and one interviewee, ABC News reporter versus Donald Trump.
02:57What happens there is that you keep the issues out and people aren't going to vote on whether
03:01or not those two like each other on stage.
03:04What people are going to vote on is, well, did he say anything?
03:07Did he leave something out that I need in my life?
03:11Help me choose.
03:12I have now.
03:13Well, this day is over, Sean.
03:14So now we've got 96 days left.
03:16How do I make a choice this November, having the potential Democratic candidate just dumped
03:22in the lap of voters and compare them to the man who has now gone to a place that was pretty
03:28hostile?
03:29I mean, they were expecting a lot of protesters who had some hostility behind the scenes at
03:33the National Association of Black Journalists as there was pressure on the NABJ not to host
03:39Donald Trump.
03:40They wanted them to rescind some of those journalists, rescind the invitation to the
03:43president.
03:44There were things you saw one of the co-chairs of this huge annual event bow out yesterday,
03:50just quit saying, well, for several reasons, Axios reporting it was internal and external
03:55pressure on her for having been part of an apparatus that booked Donald Trump as the
04:01featured speaker today at this big conference of black journalists.
04:06But I saw some opportunities to really press in.
04:09I wanted to know about Senator J.D. Vance.
04:11Sean, you and I have both covered this.
04:13I watch your show.
04:14You've pressed the president.
04:15Why did you choose him?
04:16He's had some stumbles.
04:18Is he really ready for day one?
04:20And there were times when audio was really a problem.
04:23I mean, they had tech issues at NABJ that we could have even helped them with and would
04:28have been happy to.
04:30They chose a different route and it was pretty bad in there.
04:33Like we couldn't always hear each other.
04:35But I do think that that point got across.
04:38I repeated myself a couple of times.
04:40I think people do have that question.
04:42We've covered it enough to know.
04:43Why him?
04:44What's your plan moving forward with your VP pick?
04:47He told me, Sean, on the very day that he was shot four hours after I sat with him at
04:52Mar-a-Lago and an assassination attempt on his life.
04:55And I told I said this to the audience today.
04:57I said, you told me that picking a VP was important because now you realize bad things
05:03can happen.
05:04He said it twice.
05:06Four hours later, a bad thing, a really bad thing happened.
05:09So is this the guy that you have faith in?
05:12And if you do, talk about him.
05:14He did a bit, but I think it bears saying Kamala Harris is going to make her VP pick.
05:21Are you ready for that?
05:22Is this guy ready?
05:23So I had some substantive questions that I did get to.
05:28But when you go down an emotional road or a gotcha moment, it makes it difficult.
05:33And I worked my best as a journalist to get us back on track to having a real what we
05:38promised the audience, a real conversation.
05:41I love the fact that some of those very journalists, Sean, who criticized the situation with inviting
05:47Trump sat there and listened and participated.
05:53More than eleven hundred of them.
05:55And then you had rows and rows and rows of global American national local media taking
06:01it in.
06:02I mean, I think that's where we should be.
06:04I don't want to know journalists as activists.
06:07That was actually a real bright side of this.
06:11I think at the end of the day, I don't like identity politics.
06:15My Christian faith, I know we share the same faith.
06:19I don't like demographic breakdowns.
06:22The bottom line to me is, are you more safe and more secure in your town and in your city?
06:27Are the borders more secure?
06:30Is the economy, how's that working out for you and your family?
06:33How are you doing economically?
06:35How's your educational system, which is the ladder to success in this country?
06:39How are we on the world stage?
06:41What is our role in the world stage?
06:42But Harris, we are really proud of you.
06:44I thought you did an amazing job today.
06:46It was great to see you up there.
06:48Thank you.
06:49And you make us proud every day.
06:50Thank you.
06:51Thank you.