Faulkner, who co-moderated a panel conversation with Trump on Wednesday, took a different stance than some have in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m watching that back and I\u2019m seeing that we were able to, at some points, the former president and I, have a conversation. So much of what America is focused on today and so much of what that started with, with all that emotion and the gotcha moments from the interviewer who was seated directly to his left has really overtaken the fact that we had a an opportunity to talk with a president who walked into a racial storm yesterday,\u201d Faulkner said during an appearance on Fox & Friends.<\/p>\n
The other interviewer Faulkner mentioned, Rachel Scott of ABC News, opened the session with a question that Trump described as \u201cvery nasty.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were journalists, activists, whatever you want to call people who let their politics show, who wanted the NABJ to rescind its offer to have the 45th president of the United States come and sit,\u201d added Faulkner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had also invited Joe Biden, and he had said yes, but he\u2019s not on the ticket anymore. They\u2019ve also invited Kamala Harris. Finally yesterday, after some reported back and forth about her schedule, so on and so forth, she\u2019ll do something via satellite. And I know she\u2019s attending Representative Sheila Jackson Lee\u2019s funeral today, but NABJ is several days, i\u2019s five days Wednesday through Sunday. So, that has been worked out,\u201d Faulkner added.<\/p>\n
She continued:<\/p>\n
But all of that I say because there were protesters who were forecast to come, and then the internal stuff that was going on, he walks out on stage and not a greeting to acknowledge it\u2019s been 18 days at that point since you survived an assassination attempt. We\u2019re going to ask you tough questions, but Mr. President, welcome and we\u2019re glad you\u2019re still here. I mean, it didn\u2019t take much to show humanity and in that moment, I was so disappointed that that didn\u2019t happen. I couldn\u2019t control it, but it got things off to an emotional start. And you and I both know that once that happens and you\u2019re interviewing someone, there is an agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n And I\u2019m glad you guys played a clip of that, because America and the journalists in the room who, by the way, sat and listened, some were laughing along with the president, little jokes and quips he was making, there were some critical in the audience, too. But it was expressed respectively or respectfully, rather. There was a way to have taken some of the energy out of that moment, though, with that reporter. And what I would say to anyone who\u2019s going to be discussing race while the Left is playing the race card mightily, take the air out of the balloon a little bit and let things cool down by saying, \u201cLook, I\u2019m willing to discuss anything with you, but if you show me disrespect, if we can\u2019t have mutual respect, then it\u2019s up to you if you want me to get up and leave, it\u2019s all on you. You\u2019ve got to control.\u201d And boom, take it down.<\/em><\/p>\n But what the president did say yesterday was he really made some points on the economy, he made points on the, on the border. But the race comments, they have been tough and I don\u2019t know Ainsley, I don\u2019t know, and Steve, that people are going to vote on the color of their skin and their hair texture this time around. This is about money, the color is green. And so when candidates are talked with, it\u2019s worth saying, let\u2019s concentrate no matter who\u2019s in the room. I mean, come on, black communities aren\u2019t aren\u2019t hit by the econo- of course they are! So let\u2019s focus in on that, I think, in terms of how do we empower the voters to know the information that they need to know when they go to vote as early as September 6 in a couple of the battleground states.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faulkner, who co-moderated a panel conversation with Trump on Wednesday, took a different stance than some have in the mainstream media. I\u2019m watching that back and I\u2019m seeing that we were able to, at some points, the former president and I, have a conversation. So much of what America is focused on today and so…<\/p>\n