Van Jones, Bedingfield Clash with Jennings: ‘Unity in Obedience’ for Trump ‘Scares Me,’ ‘Don’t Put Words in My Mouth’

‘He displays unity and you had that DeSantis speech, couldn‘t have been farther from an attempt to do that’

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JONES: "No, the unity for Trump, unity in service of Trump, unity and surrender to Trump, unity in servile obedience to Trump, but not unity for the people in the country who felt insulted and left out by a lot of this stuff. Listen, this — if this is the unity you‘re talking about, it's a unity that scares me."

BEDINGFIELD: "But I just — can I just say quickly, the test I think you were laying out earlier in our conversation was, you know, Trump can put this race away if he reaches out to the country and he displays unity. And you had — I mean, that DeSantis speech couldn‘t have been farther from an attempt to do that. I mean, that was like red meat, the most divisive kind of language. So by your own standards — "

JENNINGS: "Last night you were saying that we've got to start calling Trump Hitler again because J.D. Vance is on the ticket, now it's Ron DeSantis."

BEDINGFIELD: "I said no such thing. Don't put words in my mouth. I absolutely did not."

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