A brush-back pitch to let them know that what he is hearing across the country-what Cory Booker is hearing is that this isn’t working. They could have taken that yesterday as some friendly advice. “In some ways, your friends give you the best advice. “Cory Booker is a friend of the White House,” Perino said. He said that Romney has made his tenure at Bain “the centerpiece of his campaign,” and therefor scrutiny of his time with the private equity firm is “reasonable.” Booker continued, saying “I encourage it for the Obama campaign to examine that record and to discuss it. Morris then played a clip of a YouTube video Booker made hours after his appearance in which he retracts some of his comments from Meet the Press. Let’s listen to more of what he has to say.” “Who is this guy Cory Booker? I kind of like him. “I think that most people across America that were watching yesterday said, ‘that’s exactly right,’” said Perino. “How many people passed out at the White House when they heard that,” asked co-host Gretchen Carlson. RELATED: Dana Perino Slams Democrats Fundraising Off Gay Marriage As ‘The Crass Politics Of The Left’įox & Friends fill-in host Clayton Morris introduced Perino and asked her to weigh in on a clip of Mayor Booker on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend where he called the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital and Romney backers attacks on Rev. Perino said that instead of taking this friendly advice, the Obama campaign decided to “basically trash two of their friends.”
Mayor Cory Booker and former CNN anchor Campbell Brown who chided the Obama campaign for their attacks on Bain Capital and their outreach to women voters respectively. Former Bush White House Press Secretary and host of The Five, Dana Perino, appeared on Fox & Friends on Monday to discuss what she described as “two broadsides” by Newark, N.J.