Van Jones: These People Aren’t Drunk, They’re Excited; I Haven’t Seen ‘Spirit’ Like This Since Obama in 2008

PHILLIP: “And open process means no Kamala Harris. So that’s why people are so mad about it.”
JENNINGS: “We are like minutes away, minutes away from Hulk Hogan, Dana White and Donald J. Trump.”
HUNT: “All right, so who do they want to run against? Let’s talk about that.”
JENNINGS: “[inaudible] so we can have an academic discussion about something that’s [inaudible].”
Jones: “I want to say something. This spirit that this guy has, you guys think that’s because he’s drunk. He’s not. They just like this. Hey, listen, the last time I was at a convention that felt like this was Obama in 2008. There’s something happening.”
HUNT: “You just wrote a headline, by the way.”
Jones: “What’s that?”
HUNT: “You just wrote a headline for that convention.”
JENNINGS: “And just like Obama — and just like Obama, Trump is showing in this convention he has the capacity to alter the composition of the electorate.”
AXELROD: “The difference between 2008 and now is that Obama was actually popular outside of his own party. And that’s not the case with Trump.”
PHILLIP: “I don’t think we should overstate it, enough of that.”