Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones engaged in a heated discussion on Tuesday morning at the on-location studio at the United Arena, where the Democratic National Convention is being held.
Buttigieg is highly esteemed among Democrats for his adeptness in countering conservative arguments during his appearances on Fox News. Jones was ready to interrupt the Biden cabinet member when he sensed that the guest was excessively dependent on pre-prepared statements tailored for a morning show audience that is used to hearing criticisms of President Joe Biden, rather than hearing a strong defense of the Transportation Secretary.
The conversation commenced with Jones presenting a highly negative perspective on the Biden administration and the circumstances that prompted the incumbent president to withdraw from seeking reelection under the influence of numerous influential Democratic figures.
“It was a big showing for the president yesterday,” Jones noted. “Put him at 11:00, though, last night, and a lot of people were saying, we loved you, Joe. We loved you, Joe. But he’s no longer the nominee. A lot of questions, though, about it, because The New York Times writes that, all the cabinet meetings that the president has been having, have been scripted. They said nine months since the latest cabinet meeting. Axios writes that he’s only available for work between the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then the Wall Street Journal says, when it came down to the debt ceiling, negotiations back in 23, Nancy Pelosi had to take over it. Is this the reason why he’s no longer the nominee for your party?”
“That’s funny,” Buttigieg fired back. “Sometimes I feel like conservative media and the Republican Party still think they’re running against Joe Biden.”
Jones interjected to assert that the sources he referenced were not from conservative media. However, Buttigieg continued to pursue the discussion.
‘He had an opportunity last night to demonstrate his achievements,’ he said of Biden’s DNC speech. “The fact that he is responsible, for example, for the biggest run of job growth in the history of the American presidency, I think in any job, but especially the presidency, you want to be judged by your results. People want to nitpick the show flow of a cabinet meeting when we have had a country that when he inherited it, it was in a condition where you couldn’t even approach the Capitol because of the violent assaults on the Capitol by Trump supporters. Not just getting our country moving on from that, not just getting our country back on its feet from the Covid collapse.”
The conversation encompassed various subjects that are well-known to Fox & Friends viewers, such as crime rates (which Buttigieg claimed were higher during former President Donald Trump’s tenure), inflation rates, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s absence of readily accessible policies or political platforms on her campaign website.
The interview became fraught with tension, marked by frequent interjections of “let me finish” and “can I finish my questions.” However, the outcome of the interview is expected to satisfy both Democrats and Fox News viewers, since it produced information that appeals to both parties.
