Van Jones: The Word Salad Stuff Gets on My Nerves

Jones: “But there were flashes of it. And I think the question, if you‘re at home trying to trying to figure this out, you can ask, well, could she have done this, could she have done this better? Your job isn‘t to do town halls. Your job is to fight for people. Does she seem like somebody who is going to take seriously the problems of ordinary people and try to get an answer? And I think that she — I think she passed that test. I think that the word salad stuff gets on my nerves. I think that some of the evasions are not necessary. But when she‘s talking about trying to get you a house, I believe her. When she‘s talking about, ‘I‘m trying to get you help for your mama who’s sick,’ I believe her. When she‘s talking about, ‘I‘m going to do what I can to bring prices down,’ I may not agree with those tools, but I believe she‘s going to try to apply them. And so I believe that this is somebody who actually cares about people and I think that she passed that test tonight. On how she did it and some of that stuff, some of the stuff got on my nerves. But I believe that she is going to fight for the American people.”
BURNETT: “But you described it as flashes. But then your follow up seemed like a much more of a brighter endorsement.”
Jones: “Yeah, yeah. I’m saying there’s flashes of a person — I didn’t get a chance to say it because I got interrupted — there were flashes of a person that I know.”