Why is Fred getting his best interviews on CNN rather than Fox? Oh well. Fred was on CNN's Morning in America this morning and here is the video from that. A few thoughts on the interview:
It starts with the "campaign"--"Why aren't you in New Hampshire" (dumb question, but I guess it has to be asked). Fortunately they move to issues fairly quickly.
Economic concerns: Fred actually promotes a tax rollback "stimulus package" for the lowest tax bracket for one year--similar to 2001.
Social Security: The interviewer actually asks the question in a very ignorant way--she states Fred's private accounts as his solution to the Social Security problem. Fortunately Fred uses his short version of the stump speech to answer this to make sure that the indexing to inflation aspect gets into the discussion.
Immigration: Their bias really shows here. Reagan did amnesty--why not the Republicans? Fred points to confusion about why his competitors are pointing to Reagan on this and then states that he is NOT for amnesty. Then he goes through his immigration plan. Note that Fred is the only one that is talking about not giving citizenship (or a path thereto) to people who are already in the country. The only major candidate! Everyone else ends up using the statement, "well you can't send 12 million back" but Fred says, they will go back on their own if they can't get jobs.
The interviewer was not good, but at least she let Fred talk about issues!
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