Kamala Harris-Tim Walz CNN Interview: Dana Bash Pesters With Right-Wing Talking Points/Questions

Michael yeah Roland you know I watched the uh interview twice and um Harrison walls did a uh excellent job of handling themselves answering the questions uh they were not deep insightful questions I thought they may be more hard-hitting questions than what Dana Bash asked um yeah a lot of the questions dealt with um attacks from Republicans things of this nature but you know what you would do on day one yeah I agree that really is a dumb question because the cabinet the the cabinet is her cabinet will be approved by the Senate okay she has to nominate her cabinet it has to be approved by the Senate uh number one number two um she she can do executive orders on day one we know uh Biden's first day in office January 20th 2021 he signed 10 executive orders one of those was uh executive order 13985 that dealt with uh analyzing how policies from the federal government have perpetuated racism and and and coming up with solutions to address that so you know um this there was six million people who watched the interview um I I'm not I wasn't sitting back waiting for mainstream media to interview vice president KLA Harris and uh uh uh Tim Walls uh she speaks to thousands of people on a weekly basis at campaign rallies she's been putting out policy platforms that are going to change people's lives what this was about you have mainstream media who really want to capitalize on an interview dissect every word that she says you have mediocre white men for the Wall Street Journal Wasington post things like this writing op beds could criticizing her for not doing interviews things of this nature so um it's done I'm looking forward to the September 10th debate and I'm looking for the prosecutor to prosecute the criminal all right all these media people whin and complain and vice president Harris needs to sit down for an interview why won't she talk why won't she talk okay fine yesterday she sat down for an interview with CNN's Dana Bash who asked her a lot of questions a lot of them were just Republicans say this the right says this really wasn't a lot of policy questions but they got it out of the way and so here's some of that interview you have less time to make your case to voters than any candidate in modern American history the voters are really eager to hear what your plans are if you are elected what would you do on day one in the white house well there a number of things I will tell you first and foremost one of my highest priorities is to to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class um when I look at the aspirations the goals the Ambitions of the American people I think that um people are ready for a new way forward um in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by by hope and by optimism I think sadly in the last decade um we have had in the former president someone who has really been pushing an agenda and an environment that is about diminishing um the character and the strength of who we are as Americans uh really dividing our nation and I think people are ready to turn the page on that so what would you do day one day one it's going to be about one implementing my plan for what I call an opportunity economy I've already laid out a number of um proposals in that regard which include what we're going to do to bring down um the cost of everyday Goods what we're going to do to invest in America's small businesses what we're going to do to invest in families for example extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year of their child's life to help them buy a car seat to help them buy baby clothes a crib um there's the work that we're going to do that is about investing in the American family around affordable housing a big issue in our country right now so there are a number of things on day one what about you well I'm excited about this agenda too as I said the idea of uh inspiring America to what can be and I think many of these things that the vice president's proposing are are uh are things that we share in values and the child tax credit is one we know that red okay all right y'all I had to stop that okay so let let me just say this here all right I hate stupid questions and I believe a stupid question is what are you going to do day one let me help y'all out the only thing a president can do day one they can do executive orders Congress ain't passing a bill it's day one I also can't stand what are you going to do in the first 100 days I hate that question that goes back to president uh Franken Delon Roosevelt and ever since then 100 days first 100 days first 100 days first 100 days I remember we when I was at CNN we had this stupid thing we did where we held up these cards and it was sort of like red blue green or I don't know it was just dumb I remember David bornman got arested his soul I told I was like I literally on the air this is stupid and it was so it always happens remember somebody who's elected they're elected for 4 years so this whole what are you going to do on day one it is maddening to listen to so I just had I just had to respond that so y'all go ahead and press play this is childhood poverty by a third we did it in Minnesota to have a federal partner in this um unbelievable I think in the impact that we can make you talked about you call it the opportunity uh economy you are well aware that right now many Americans are struggling there's a crisis of affordability one of your campaign themes is we're not going back but I wonder what you say to voters who do want to go back when it comes to the economy specifically because their groceries were less expensive housing was more affordable When Donald Trump was President well let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden and I came in office during the height of a pandemic we saw over 10 million jobs were lost uh people by I mean literally we were all tracking the numbers hundreds of people a day were dying because of covid um the economy had crashed in large part all of that because of mismanagement by Donald Trump of that crisis when we came in our highest priority was to do what we could to rescue America and today we know that we have inflation at under 3% a lot of our policies have led to the reality that America recovered faster than any wealthy Nation around the world but you are right prices in particular for groceries are still too high the American people know it I know it which is why my agenda includes what we need to do to bring down the price of groceries for example dealing with an issue like price gouging what we need to do to extend the child tax credit to help young families be able to take care of their children in their most formative years what we need to do to bring down the cost of housing my proposal includes what would be a tax credit of $225,000 for firsttime home buyers so they can just have enough to put a down payment on a home which is part of the American dream and their aspiration but do it in a way that allows them to actually get on the path to achieving that goal and that dream so you have been vice president for three and a half years the steps that you're talking about now why haven't you done them already well first of all we had to recover as an economy and we have done that I'm very proud of the work that we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3% the work that we have done to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors Donald Trump said he was going to do a number of things including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices never happened we did it so now and I as I travel in the state of Georgia and around our country the number of seniors that have benefited I've met I was in Nevada recently a a a grandmother who showed me her receipts and before we C the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month she was playing hundreds of dollars up to thousands of dollars a month for her insulin she's not doing that any long maintain biomics is a success I maintain that when we do the work of bringing down prescription medication for the American people including capping the cost of the annual cost of prescription medication for seniors at $2,000 when we do what we did in the first year of being in office to extend the child tax credit so that we cut child poverty in America by over 50% when we do what we have done to invest in the American people and bringing manufacturing back to the United States so that we created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs bringing business back to America what we have done to improve the supply chain so we're not relying on foreign governments to supply American families with their basic needs I'll say that that's good work there's more to do but that's good work I want to get some clarity on where you stand on some key policy issues uh energy is a big one when you were in Congress you supported the green New Deal and in 2019 you said quote there is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking fracking as you know is a pretty big issue particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania do you still want to ban fracking no and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking as vice president I did not ban fracking as president I will not ban fracking in 2019 I believe uh in a town hall you said you were asked would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office and you said there's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking so yes so it changed in the in that campaign in 2020 I made very clear where I stand we are in 2024 and I've not changed that position nor will I going forward I kept my word and I will keep my word what made you change that position at the time well let's be clear my values have not changed I believe it is very important that we take seriously what we must do to guard against what is a clear crisis in terms of the climate and to do that we can do what we have accomplished thus far the inflation reduction act what we have done to invest by my calculation over 10 probably a trillion dollars of the next 10 years investing in a clean energy economy what we've already done creating over 300,000 new clean energy jobs that tells me from my experience as Vice President we can do it without Banning fracking in fact Dana Dana excuse me um I cast the tiebreaking vote that actually increased leases for fracking as vice president so I'm very clear about where I stand and was there some policy uh or scientific data that you saw that you said oh okay I get it now what I have seen is that we can we can grow and we can increase a thriving clean energy economy without Banning fracking okay all right y'all so okay enough of that so there was a um there was a question in there where she um literally asked her about Trump's attack on her Blackness right anyway let's deal with this our panel uh Michael OT host African history Network show coming to us out of Detroit uh Michael glad to have you here Kelly Bea communication strategist Jo us out of DC uh folks go to my iPad here um Zelena Maxwell Zelena Maxwell actually posted this tweet she said I took notes to keep track of the questions in the comma interview only four questions weren't a GOP attack or talking point in the form of a question how does this type of interview help voters understand her policies at all damn good question Kelly it's a great question and unfortunately we don't have an answer for it and as soon as I found out that danab bash was going to be conducting this interview my heart sank right because I was just so disappointed and it was reflective of what we saw with the debate between Biden and Trump and how she moderated that debate if you want to call it moderating if anything it was just you know pushing propaganda and it is it is disheartening to see somebody who has a storied history of grow of good solid journalism um denigrating herself like this just for viewership purposes only um this was a bad interview not because of the interview we but because of the interview were you have an obligation to get at the hard-hitting questions that Americans actually want to know Americans don't know about the first 100 days Americans don't know about the process for the first day of the presidency you need actual policy questions and frankly it looked like Harris and walls were ready for those questions um if I were a body language expert or anything along those lines just looking at their posture looking at how they were looking at bash they were annoyed and I would be too Michael yeah Roland know I watched the uh interview twice and um Harrison walls did a uh excellent job of handling themselves answering the questions uh they were not deep insightful questions I thought they may be more hard-hitting questions than what Dana Bash asked um yeah a lot of the questions dealt with um attacks from Republicans things of this nature but you know what you would do on day one yeah I agree that really is a dumb question because the cabinet the the cabinet is her cabinet will be approved by the Senate okay she has to nominate her cabinet it has to be approved by the Senate uh number one number two um she she can do executive orders on day one we know uh Biden's first day in office January 20th 2021 he signed 10 executive orders one of those was uh executive order 13985 that dealt with uh analyzing how policies from the federal government have perpetuated racism and and and coming up with solutions to address that so you know um this there was 6 million people who watched the interview um I I'm not I wasn't sitting back waiting for mainstream media to interview vice president KLA Harris and uh uh uh Tim Walls uh she speaks to thousands of people on a weekly basis at campaign rallies she's been putting out policy platforms that are going to change people's lives what this was about you have mainst Street Media who really want to capitalize on an interview dissect every word that she says you have mediocre white men for the Wall Street Journal watching the post things like this writing op-eds could criticizing her for not doing interviews things of this nature so um it's done I'm looking forward to the September 10th debate and I'm looking for the prosecutor to prosecute the criminal so the um the question that Dana asked again this is just just just me here uh I loved her answer to it because she basically was like I entertaining this BS uh let me go ahead and play this one for y'all check this out uh about your opponent Donald Trump um I was a little bit surprised people might be surprised to hear that you have never interacted with him met him face to face that's going to change soon but what I want to ask you about is what he said last month he suggested that you happened to turned black recently for political purposes questioning a core part of your identity yeah any same old tired Playbook next question please that's it that's it about your opponent Donald Trump um I was a little bit surprised people might be surprised to hear that never interacted with him met him this next question that's going to change soon but what I want was an answer of a question is what he said last month let me say it again it was an answer of a question right and why doesn't answer a question because so can you please comment on him questioning your Blackness why was it an Ask of a question Kelly can you please comment on him questioning your maless Governor walls hey um could you please comment vice president Harris on the questioning of your womanness could you please comment on questioning your hair color Choice vice president Harris could you comment on why you wear more pants suits than you wear skirts or dresses no and and and that's why it's an ass of a question and I'm I I I I I'm telling you right now it drives me crazy it absolutely drives me crazy when you could ask cuz y'all let me know cuz I I didn't watch it and there nothing personal against Dana but I don't watch CNN but maybe y'all can help me out maybe y'all can help me out did Tyree Nichols and Criminal Justice Reform come up during that interview no no okay um so okay all right so so let me ask so the George Floyd Justice act didn't come up in that interview huh no um did the Supreme Court ruling regarding affirmative action come up in that come up in that interview no okay um did the Congo or South Sudan or Somalia or Ethiopia did did that come up in that interview Africa did not come up in the interview at all Hai did not come up in the intervie at all that's that that that's uh that's interesting I mean did was there even a question about saying hey Madam vice president um your uh father is Jamaican uh how do you see Jamaican American relationships with you as president did did did did that did that come up in the interview no but but Palestine and Gaza came up in the interview I mean palestin and Israel came up in the well of course it did of course it did of course it did I'm just hold on I'm of course not I'm just curious um did let's say oh um America be a nation majority of people of color by 20 2043 um how do you see advancing the economic interest uh of African-Americans other minorities did did that up in the interview there there were no hard no no it did not and these were not hard-hitting questions wait no but see but no here's no no no no follow me follow me here see I'm not here's why I I even don't get up I don't even get caught up in the hard-hitting questions because I believe I believe that you can ask important questions that are policy oriented that are not spe that that that other folk wouldn't call hard-hitting see part of part of this media charade and I'm going to go to you Kelly then go to Michael part of this media charade Kelly is she needs to be asked the tough questions she needs to be asked the difficult questions no she actually needs to be asked questions um that are actually happening uh out there every single day in the world such as uh Madam vice president can I ask you a question uh a you you had gotten a lot of criticism with regards to your call to deal with price gouging a a Kroger executive admitted on the stand that they jacked up prices last year Madame vice president there was a settle that that was an actual uh case where egg manufacturers admitt it admitt it to collusion when it comes to pricing that that was an actual uh that was an actual verdict uh in fact um just going to show yall this here um H egg prices y'all egg Prices rose let me close this ad egg Prices rose 60% in 2022 because a collusive scheme by suppliers I see to me that's not a hard-hitting question but it does go to a policy issue that she rais a pocketbook issue that people are concerned about and may very well explain why prices have been jacked up and people then go oh now I know why eggs were damn near $10 a dozen go ahead I think what you're talking about might be precisely why it took so long for Harris Wall's team and Camp to agree to an interview of any kind because the the the points that you're making they've been staying on the campaign Trail for weeks the points that you're making have lowkey been um addressed to reporters in the uh the I I don't know what the formal uh word is but that that time when she comes off the plane and you see the reporters talking to them she she addresses that there but something tells me that she knew that once it was a national interview that all of that would go out the window and they would frankly debase themselves to the most of the simplistic questions being you know like you said what's your hair color why the tan suo why not skirts why not dresses I mean it I I was the way that that interview went I was surprised that Dana didn't go so far as to say you have a lovely figure why don't you just show it off because that was the tenor of the interview the entire time there was no indication through that hour that something was something substantive was going to come out of it for All We Care again we could have heard this on the campaign Trail we have been hearing this on the campaign Trail they could have put out a press release and and done this um in less time and with less effort um like I said it was disappointing thisis right how about this um uh Madame President there are 140 million poor and working people in America 73% excuse me 73 million of these people are women 68% of these people are African-American 66 million are white and these poor and Working Class People make up 30 to 40% of the electorate and many of them sit out elections what will you do as president to speak to the needs and the interest of low and workingclass people that's a better question than asking about oh Donald Trump said this what do you say Michael yeah uh I I agree Roland and when I when I uh use the I'm hard-hitting I I didn't mean a gotcha question I meant something that's insightful uh a question that would cause people from the answer that that vice president KLA Harris would give would cause people to really learn a lot more about her and her policies that's that's what I meant when I use the term hard-hitting um when the answer that she gave uh to the question about Donald Trump questioning her Blackness quote same old tired play book uh uh that that she said is what she said when I I took away from that that also goes to uh another question that was uh asked and she talked about turning the page on the last 10 years because the last 10 years especially deal with the the with Trump in power surrounding Trump has been a divisiveness in this country a nastiness in this country and she's talking about turning a page on that the othering of other people so uh yeah and she price the her plans dealing with uh attacking price gouging that came up a little bit it could have because of the case that's taken place to uh stop the merger of Kroger and Albertson and what came out uh Tuesday in court dealing with uh um uh price fixing okay that that should have come up Dana Dana baz should have asked that question I think in fact in fact in fact in in in fact in fact if you're going in fact if you're going to go that route what you also say President Biden has been extremely aggressive when it comes to his Federal Trade Commission and stopping a lot of these mergers and Acquisitions that create mon monopolies yes will you as president continue to be just as aggressive as President Biden has been or will you be more what some are called business friendly see substantive question not sexy not a gotcha not may not necessarily go viral but that is a policy question that could have also potentially elicited a difference between her as president and Biden's president so all I'm saying to folks is that just understand to everybody who's watching when you see these questions um these are questions that senior execs want wanted and asked things along those lines then they they don't always dub tail what really was 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