Vice President Kamala Harris’ first-ever interview on Fox Information aired Wednesday. The pretaped section was anticipated to be an ambush on the Democratic presidential nominee—and host Brett Baier didn’t defy these expectations.
Baier instantly tried to bulldoze Harris on the difficulty of immigration and border safety, not even permitting her to answer his opening “question.” In spite of everything, permitting Harris to clarify how GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Republicans determined to use border safety as an election difficulty as an alternative of engaged on an answer wouldn’t make Fox Information’ favored candidate significantly interesting.
“I’m responding to the point you raised, and I’d like to finish,” Harris mentioned when Baier tried to bulldoze by way of a second “question.” She proceeded to element the entire Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to deal with border safety that have been in the end obstructed by Trump and his minions within the Republican Occasion.
“And Donald Trump found out about that bill and told them to kill it because he preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.” Harris mentioned, steamrolling proper by way of Baier’s interruptions. “And in this election, this is rightly a discussion that the American people want to have. And what they want are solutions, and they want a president of the United States who is not playing political games with the issue.”
Harris additionally set the report straight when Baier tried to downplay Trump’s indefensible threats to sic navy forces on Americans who he deems “radical left lunatics.” She objected when Baier as an alternative confirmed a clip of Trump joking about being persecuted and evaluating himself to notorious gangster Al Capone.
“I am sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about ‘the enemy within’ that he has repeated,” Harris insisted. “That’s not what you just showed.”
The vp then broke it down for Fox Information viewers.
“Here’s the bottom line. He has repeated it many times. And you and I both know that. And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people,” Harris informed Baier. “He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.”
“This is a democracy,” Harris continued. “And in a democracy, the president of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake”
