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CV NEWS FEED // On Wednesday, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with FOX News’ Bret Baier, who grilled the incumbent vice president on the ongoing crisis at the southern border, and President Joe Biden’s alleged cognitive decline, among other topics.
“How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?” Baier asked Harris at the beginning of the interview.
“Well,” Harris replied, “I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you, it is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.”
The FOX host pressed Harris to name a number.
She responded: “Bret, let’s just get to the point. The point is, that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.”
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Soon after, Baier named several Americans killed by migrants who had illegally crossed the border during the Biden-Harris administration.
“Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, Laken Riley,” he said. “They are young women who were brutally assaulted and killed by some of the men who were released at the beginning of the administration.”
“This is a specific policy decision by your administration to release these men into the country,” Baier added. “Do you owe those families an apology?”
“Those are tragic cases. There is no question about that,” Harris replied. “And I can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred.”
“Madam Vice President, it was a policy decision in the early part of your administration,” Baier repeated.
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FOX then played a clip of Nungaray’s mother testifying before Congress in September: “I believe the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies are responsible for the death of my daughter.”
“I am so sorry for her loss,” Harris said in response to the clip.
Nungary was only 12 years old when a pair of illegal migrants sexually assaulted and strangled her to death before dumping her lifeless body in a bayou.
Later in the interview, FOX played a clip – used in a pro-Trump ad – of Harris telling a pro-“transgender” activist group in 2019 that she “worked behind the scenes” as California Attorney General to ensure “every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access” to “surgery.”
Baier asked the Democratic candidate: “Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?”
“I will follow the law,” Harris said in reply. “And it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed.”
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Soon after, Baier told Harris: “Your campaign slogan is ‘A New Way Forward,’ and ‘It’s Time to Turn the Page.’”
“You’ve been vice president for three-and-a-half years,” the host pointed out. “So, what are you turning the page from?”
“Well, first of all,” Harris responded, “turning the page from the last decade in which we’ve been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country, and have Americans literally point fingers at each other.”
Baier then referred to a poll conducted by Marquette Law School earlier this month in which 79% of respondents indicated that the country was on the “wrong track,” compared to only 21% who said it was headed in the “right direction.”
“If it’s on the wrong track,” the host said, “that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president. If you’re turning the page, you’ve been in office for three-and-a-half years.”
“And Donald Trump has been running for office,” Harris interjected.
“But you’ve been the person holding the office,” Baier fired back.
Harris went on to claim that Trump is “unfit to serve,” “unstable,” and “dangerous,” and that “people are exhausted” of him.
“If that’s the case,” Baier said to Harris, “why is half the country supporting him? Why is he beating you in a lot of swing states?”
“This is an election for President of the United States,” Harris answered. “It’s not supposed to be easy.”
“You called Donald Trump … you say now he is ‘unstable,’” Baier said to the Vice President.
“He is not stable,” she interjected multiple times.
“Let me ask you this,” Baier added. “You’ve told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game.”
“When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appear diminished?” he asked Harris.
“Joe Biden, I have watched from the Office to the Situation Room,” she said. “And he has the judgment, and the experiment – and experience – to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.”
“Joe Biden is not on ballot,” Harris added. “And Donald Trump is.”
Baier asked Harris if she had “any concerns” about Biden’s mental ability over the last three-and-a-half years of their administration.
“I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump,” Harris said.
Just before the interview ended, Baier said “They’re giving me a hard wrap here,” referring to Harris’ staff.
The host weighed in on this moment later on Wednesday.
“I’m talking like four people waving their hands, like it’s got to stop,” Baier told a panel including his FOX colleague Dana Perino, who served as the White House Press Secretary during the George W. Bush administration.
“You can tell,” Perino remarked.
“I had to dismount there at the end,” Baier added.
During an appearance on FOX News the following day, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-OH, blasted Harris’ performance in the interview.
“The entire theme of her campaign is that she hasn’t even met the person that’s the president, even though she’s his sitting vice president and ran along the ticket with him,” Vance said, referring to the Democratic nominee’s repeated insistence that she represents a new direction.
“She is, of course, the deciding vote in trillions of Joe Biden’s spending,” Vance noted. “She bragged about being the last person in the room when major decisions were made.”
“But we have to sort of step back and appreciate, there is something pathological going on here,” the Republican said, referring to Harris. “She has been in power for three and a half years and when asked about how she would be different, she goes and talks about Donald Trump.”
