in honor of her and her decision I brought my big white blankie and I'm just going to do the show with my own big white blankie today is my emotional support I'm just going to hold on to it I'm and I'm going to hold my blankie and this is going to get me through the next 27 minutes of interviewing from Dana Bash and also for potential maybe even eight years as commanderin-chief and leader of the Free World I've got my this is absurd she did show up with her blankie her emotional support governor and uh he did if it's possible even more poorly than she did all right we're going to get to all of it I'm sorry Dana Bash I'm disappointed I actually like Dana Bash she's like she's tough to dislike she's a nice person and honestly she's a real journalist she really is she's not like some of these other hacks but she fell down on the job last night there's no question and my overall take can I tell you is that this is what happens when you have a Meek person interviewed by a Meek journalist that's what we saw I I don't wish to personally offend her but that's what I saw she didn't have the stones to really press comma Harris and I think that's because she knew kamla Harris couldn't take it so she went very gently with her and as a result we didn't get K Harris really pressed on any answers and we didn't see her in any uncomfortable position which is your job as a journalist in that kind of a setting when you are the only one to get an interview with a person who could be the next president of the United States and you go soft on her you've failed us you've failed the profession and the country and that's of course why she was selected K Harris knew very well she could not take a tough interviewer her team knew she could not take a tough interviewer and it's interesting to me again with all due respect to Dana Bash that they went with Dana instead of Jake Tapper because when you're thinking about which of those pair to take they did the presidential debate between Biden and Trump together why would you go with her oh is a female thing no because since that debate Tapper has actually obviously been trying to be more middle of the road we all know what happened during the Trump years let's not go back over it um and so I think he would have felt a greater obligation to try to press her but danab bash did not and while there were a couple instances where she push pushed for an answer to the question there was so much more that could have and should have been done that led us feeling completely empty that's that's the overall take I have it was empty calories um CNN promised us that this interview was going to quote present Harris with the first chance to elucidate her position on various domestic and foreign issues it did anything but it wasn't even 30 minutes long and she wasn't alone again she had her big white blankie there he was there just in case and he did try to actually help her out uh at least once at the top tried to claim he'd been saying something that was in defense of her we'll get to that but she struggled with the very first question which is the most obvious question ever they all ask what would you do on day one literally everyone asks that that is the most predictable question she's ever going to get and she flued it she I she I don't know what she said we'll get to it then she continued to Gaslight on her border policies the fracking answer that even earned her a very gentle Daniel Dale CNN fact check this guy is rabbit he's frothing at the mouth to go after Donald Trump on his little fact checks this one was like well some might think that she didn't quite answer honestly and then there's Governor Tim Walls the blankie who claimed his lies about his own military record and service amount to poor grammar it was poor grammar you see and just too much passion he's so passionate he must lie literally unbelievable it was literally unbelievable all right so let's go through it I've Got Her speech I've got my notes and I want to talk to you about it all I've got some sound bites cut for you um this is my old overall take she said nothing she rambled incoherently with a bunch of driil about a new way forward an opportunity economy and turning the page without saying anything and the whole time I watched her all I could think about was this scene do you guys remember this scene I'm sure you've seen When Harry Met Sally great film and at the end of that movie is toward the end they playing the game of Pictionary and Meg Ryan's character is up there drawing and you've got uh Bruno Kirby and Billy Crystal and the other cast members sitting on a couch trying to guess what she is trying to communicate watch it's a monkey it's a monkey a monkey see monkey do it's it's an ape going ape it's a baby planet of the apes Planet of the Apes she just said it's a baby how about planet of the dopes it doesn't look like a baby a big mouth MC Jagger is a baby baby ape baby ape stop with the Apes would you please baby's breath baby Rosemary's baby's mouth won't you come home build baby baby kiss the baby Melancholy baby MTH baby fish baby fish mouth baby fish mouth 15 seconds a big baby baby boom baby Draw Something resembling anything that was it say something resembling any anything this is how I felt what are you saying you're incomprehensible I mean she was perfectly on brand in that way but it also looked very much like she had been coached to try to keep her demeanor very flat very even killed I am a serious person I am not a giggler I have no cackle I have no personality I am a sober serious person not withstanding the many years you have seen me make an absolute ass out out of myself even when asked about my grand niece's moment of admiring me I will remain sober and serious I'll start with that one just to show you what I'm talking about let's play that one when she was asked about how wonderful it is that she's a role model when it comes to gender and race and the little grand niece who's who's photographed looking at her the photograph that has gone viral you were speaking one of your grand nieces that you were just talking about was watching you accept the nomination you didn't explicitly talk about gender or race in your speech but it obviously means a lot to a lot of people and that Viral picture really says it what does it mean to you you know I listen I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment um for all Americans regardless of race and gender um but I did see that photograph and I was deeply touched by it and you're right she's it's the back of her head her two little braids and um and then I'm in the front of the photograph obviously speaking and um it's very humbling it's very humbling in many ways it's very humbling it's very it's very humbling very humbling with no smile very humbling clearly somebody has coached her to try to act more stoic and it is just that it is an obvious act and it was painfully clear we've seen her she's not an unknown we've been watching her for years now right and even the way she answered that question it was indicative of how she answered almost all of them the forensic diagnosis of what we're looking at in that picture right it was like and and she is looking at me and I am on the stage speaking obviously speaking okay it's exactly what happened in front of the airplane the other day what's next v m Madam vice president I am going to go up these stairs like that's that's the way her mind works small ball there's no Grand thinking there's no deep thinking there may not be much thinking at all thanks so much for watching if you like what you just saw hit the Subscribe button for more clips and full episodes