Witness it for yourself. Fox News interviews Harris.

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  1. tsmog profile image87
    tsmogposted 7 weeks ago

    Vice President Kamala Harris grilled on pivotal issues as election nears on 'Special Report' Fox News - Official video (26:56 min) [Oct 16, 2024]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk

    Each will have a view, opinion, and perspective, no doubt. Online article after article is also available for journalist and pundits take on the interview.

    Google landing page for Fox News Harris Interview
    https://www.google.com/search?client=fi … +interview

    Thoughts, criticisms, accolades, and/or commentary?

    1. tsmog profile image87
      tsmogposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Live fact-checking Kamala Harris’ interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier by Politifact (Oct 16, 2024)
      https://www.politifact.com/article/2024 … w-with-fo/

      Note: Timeline from the top of the feed is last to first.

    2. Ken Burgess profile image70
      Ken Burgessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      First I have to say WOW... there is NO Main Stream Media source that I could find trying to cover this IMPARTIALLY...

      I'm not going to say there is none, but damned, even places where I thought I could find some balance are taking a stand of Harris did great or Harris bombed.

      So... like more Americans every day are doing, I went to alternate sources to get a read, here are a couple of the more interesting and insightful ones I found:

      Kamala BLOWS UP During Heated FOX NEWS Interview
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNT-liNEROs&t=4s

      "We Can't Blame Trump For the Border," Kamala Harris Destroyed By Fox News On Migrants, Immigration
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npNTIC3LAoI

      I find it impressive that "average" Americans do have such a grasp of what is really going on... gives me some hope for America.

      BTW if you think the people who create such opinion videos don't matter, look at how many people watch them... hundreds of thousands.

      Also... lets put the Border Issue to rest... Trump DID find solutions to stem the flow of Migrants into America.

      And Biden DID on day one of the Biden/Harris Administration rescind those efforts and joined the UN Global Compact on Migration.

      1. Kathleen Cochran profile image72
        Kathleen Cochranposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

        "And Biden DID on day one of the Biden/Harris Administration rescind those efforts and joined the UN Global Compact on Migration."

        GOOD.

  2. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    The headline I'm expecting today...

    "Harris  stumbles over word;  Trump sways to music for 39 minutes on stage:  is her campaign doomed?"

    She more than held her own in what seemed more like a debate than an interview.    Big thumbs up for going into hostile territory.  Will we see Trump on msnbc? I doubt it, he seems to be either canceling these days or hiding out with those who coddle him while he talks about Alphonse Capone and Hannibal Lecter...

    Baier treated the interview like a full-blown argument.  It was a very "put the woman in her place" vibe.  He constantly spoke over her. It  really just seemed like an attempt to prevent the viewers from hearing her. His behavior was rude and  disrespectful.

    Fox has certainly never come close to using that style and those tactics on Trump, have they?  They sit back and let his mouth run uninterrupted. 

    Kudos for Harris in pointing out the disingenuous clip played by Fox in which Trump  tried to downplay his recent unhinged ramblings about how Americans who don’t support him are “the enemy from within.”

    Harris:

    “I’m sorry and, with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within, that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people. That’s not what you just showed.”

    Deftly handled. 

    A highlight for me?

    Baier tried to play gotcha with Harris at one point when he asked about Trump supporters, saying, “So are they misguided, the 50%? Are they stupid?”

    Without hesitation, she  said, “I would never say that about the American people.”

    It was one of her finer moments in the interview, reminding Baier that it is Trump who disparages those who don’t support him. 

    Points for not storming out and immediately  whining , denigrating the interviewer afterward.   I think she should go on Fox at every opportunity... I don't think she'll be invited back though.

    1. wilderness profile image89
      wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      It was interesting to watch.  Within the first two minutes she had been asked two questions (several times each one) and steadfastly refused to answer either one, rambling off on what SHE wanted to talk about instead.

      The rest of the interview was much the same; an absolute refusal to answer any questions, instead blaming Trump for her many failures. 

      But she did very, very well.  Right!

      1. Willowarbor profile image59
        Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

        The first question was pertaining to how many came to the border and claimed asylum...

        Baier said that roughly 6 million were released.   

        Can we put this into context  that our immigration law gives folks the right to come to the border, in any number, there is no cap, to claim asylum and then it also affords them the right to wait inside the country for their claim to be adjudicated.   

        Her answer, was completely correct that the system is in need of reform.  I wished that she would have gone into more of an explanation of immigration law but it's clear that a lot of folks can't or actually refuse to understand that we have a immigration law that dictates what happens at the border.

        Discussing immigration without acknowledging the law is meaningless.

        1. wilderness profile image89
          wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

          "The first question was pertaining to how many came to the border and claimed asylum..."

          No it wasn't.  She was specifically asked how many illegal aliens she has spread into the interior of the country. 

          And her reply was that we have a broken immigration system.  Asked again for an estimate of the number her administration has released into the country, she still refused to answer.  Correct or not, her answer was NOT an answer to a very specific question.

          You're as bad as she is, refusing to actually listen to the question, and then just assume it was something else.

          1. Willowarbor profile image59
            Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

            "No it wasn't.  She was specifically asked how many illegal aliens she has spread into the interior of the country."

            You understand that migrants have a right under our law to wait in the country? What do you propose we do as an alternative that is legal?  Asking a question about how many people were released, is ignoring the entire process that is governed by our immigration laws. Lol... Does Biden have a choice of whether he has to follow the law or not concerning immigration?   If migrants come to the border, claim asylum, they are allowed to wait in the country.... We have no cap on the number of who can approach the border and claim asylum.   

            If our. immigration system were reformed, asylum laws reformed, there would be a reduction of migrants waiting in the country for their claims to make their way through the system.  Her answer was spot  on but people don't understand the law.   

            This whole "they're just letting them in". mantra is nonsense.

            1. wilderness profile image89
              wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

              Same-o same-o, right?

              You do understand that the rights of illegal aliens have zero to do with the question Harris was asked, OR with your desire to change the question to something it was not?

              Her answer of "we have a broken immigration system" is NOT "spot on" to the question of "how many illegal immigrants did you release into the country".  The answer requires a number to answer, the answer given (and yours) does not contain a number. 

              Harris could have answered "Zero" if what you say is actually true and factual, but she didn't.  Why not?  Because she brought millions of illegal aliens into the country, she knows that and so does everyone else.  Any such foolish answer and she would be torn apart by media.

              1. Willowarbor profile image59
                Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                Our immigration law is what allows any number of migrants, at any time, to claim asylum.... Asking a question about how many have come in is irrelevant because only an act of Congress could change the laws that allow them to do so...not Biden, not Harris. 

                Asking such a question and attempting to correlate the number who have come into this country with any specific policy enacted by this administration is disingenuous.

                It is taking advantage of an audience, for the most part, doesn't know any better.

                1. wilderness profile image89
                  wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                  Why then did she not answer "Zero"?  If they were all legal (yes, I understand that is the primary reason illegal entry has gone down), then she should answer that way?  Why didn't she?

                  1. Willowarbor profile image59
                    Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                    I think we all understand why the interviewer simply wanted her to throw out a number.  She has absolutely nothing to do with that number. I am very clear on immigration law,  it is also just as clear that many folks don't have a clue

          2. Willowarbor profile image59
            Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

            Let me go back to a statement from Trump 2019 that I actually agree with....


            "Now is the time—this is the moment—to finally secure the border and create the lawful and safe immigration system Americans, and those wanting to become Americans, deserve.

            This crisis is only worsening as 2,000 inadmissible migrants arrive at our border every day and overwhelm our immigration system.
            We do not have the resources needed to hold them...

            Immigration courts are overwhelmed, with a backlog of over 800,000 cases.

            The President is calling on Congress to stop the political games and come together and address the crisis we are facing.
            Congress has a responsibility to protect the safety and security of the American people and it needs to meet that responsibility by providing the funding needed to secure the border."

            And he continued...

            President Donald Trump on Thursday pressed Congress to change “our ridiculous immigration laws,”

            “We should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password,” the president tweeted Thursday morning.".

            He criticized current policies as “insane.”

            "Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane....".

            Really? Insane? Well they're the same ones that Biden is working with

            1. wilderness profile image89
              wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

              Trump has zero to do with Harris's refusal to answer questions.  What about this do you not understand?

      2. Kathleen Cochran profile image72
        Kathleen Cochranposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

        You are right. Trump is responsible for his own failures: convictions, riots . . .

  3. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    Also kudos for Harris for bringing something to the fox audience that they rarely see...fact.

    She was asked about gender affirming care  in prisons.

    "I will follow the law. And it's a law that Donald Trump actually followed," she said. "I think, frankly, that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of like throwing stones when you're living in a glass house."

    While Trump was president, his administration kept in place "hormone or other necessary medical treatment" for transgender inmates.

    In a February 2018 budget memo to Congress, bureau officials wrote that under federal law, they were obligated to pay for a prisoner’s “surgery” if it was deemed medically necessary.

    The Bureau of Prisons is the only federal agency under court order to provide gender-related surgeries. But the number of inmates requesting such operations within the bureau is minuscule, with only two known surgeries approved via court action.

    The ads that Trump is running on this issue are very disingenuous.   If he is so deeply against these provisions, why didn't he attempt to change them during his administration?

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-anti … -spending/

    1. wilderness profile image89
      wildernessposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      "She was asked about gender affirming care  in prisons."

      No she wasn't.  She was asked about her feelings as to that care.  Something she never answered, just like nearly everything else she was asked in that interview.

      1. Willowarbor profile image59
        Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

        What do her feelings matter about a law? A law that Trump left in place, didn't even try to challenge during his administration?   This law is rooted in the eighth Amendment of the Constitution... It's not going to matter what anyone "feels" about it

        Do you have the exact phrasing of the question?

        Actually, I went back and listened to the interview and she was not asked about her "feelings" at all.

        You can listen around the 11 minute mark

        https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112

      2. Kathleen Cochran profile image72
        Kathleen Cochranposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

        When someone asks you "When did you stop beating your wife?" the best thing is not to answer.

  4. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    Meanwhile, Trump spent his media appearances Wednesday defending Jan. 6, doubling down on false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets , calling himself the "father of IVF" and saying he learned about IVF from the "fantastically attractive"  Katie Brit..... Things you can really sink your teeth into!

    The good news? at least he wasn't standing on a stage swaying to music for 40 minutes.

    1. Kathleen Cochran profile image72
      Kathleen Cochranposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      All anyone needs to know about Trump is January 6th. There is no defending that.

  5. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    The true high/low point came when Harris brought up Trump’s multiple references to “enemies from within” and his stated intent to turn the military on those who disagree with him.

    Baier thought he was ready for her, throwing to a clip from a Fox town hall that aired earlier that conveniently edited out the section showing him saying those very things.

    What he might not have expected was Harris calling out that fallacy... Which she did splendidly.

    Baier absolutely knows that. Trump used the phrase on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday morning program and at his rally in Aurora, Colo., on Friday. Baier discussed and tried to sane-wash Trump's use of the phrase on his Oct. 15 show. But he also knows the typical Fox viewer won't fact-check him, especially if that would prove the evil liberals might be on to something.

  6. IslandBites profile image91
    IslandBitesposted 7 weeks ago

    More than 7 million watched Harris Fox News interview

    More than 7 million people tuned in to watch Vice President Harris’s interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

    The less-than-half-hour sit-down between the anchor and Democratic nominee for president delivered 7.1 million viewers for the top-watched cable channel, including 882,000 in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic.

    I doubt it changed the mind of any regular Fox viewer, but who knows.

    Btw,

    Fox had both candidates for president on its airwaves Wednesday, with a prerecorded town hall with former President Trump focusing on women’s issues notching just under 3 million viewers during the network’s 11 a.m. hour.

    He must be furious. Ha. smile

  7. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    Fox with their typical, predictable BS....

    Baier said on “Special Report” on Thursday that he “did make a mistake” when it came to clips shown in the interview.

    “I wanna say that I did make a mistake,” Baier said, with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner also on his show, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “When I called for a sound bite, I was expecting a piece of ‘the enemy from within,’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about ‘the enemy from within.’”

    Well golly gee Brett.  Do they really think people are this stupid?  I don't even think Brett is that stupid.  BS piled on top of misinformation, it's what fox is all about.  Harris pulled the mask off fox in real time. 


    His quote...

    "I think the bigger problem are the people from within,” Trump said. “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics.”

    Such a double standard in the way media approaches these two candidates.

    Trump isn’t being held to account on his lack of tough interviews, dismal knowledge of policy or the anti-democratic tone of some of his remarks.

    She has put herself out there over a multitude of appearances while he sticks to safe spaces and cancels interview after interview. 

    The bar has been set higher for Harris, even as it has continued to drop lower and lower for Trump, who still can’t manage to clear it.

    Did anyone see his Chicago economic club appearance? You want to talk about not answering a question and utter lack of knowledge...

  8. Ken Burgess profile image70
    Ken Burgessposted 7 weeks ago

    The REAL reason Kamala Harris agreed to the Fox News interview
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamFOl7iY-c

    Good insight, worth the watch, evaluates the interview.

    1. Willowarbor profile image59
      Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      It's sort of laughable at this point the level of dissection applied to Harris as your candidate is swaying to music for 40 minutes in order to avoid questions.... Like I've said, the bar for her is incredibly high while his is on the floor... And he's applauded when he barely clears it.

  9. Willowarbor profile image59
    Willowarborposted 7 weeks ago

    The lack of knowledge on this forum  about how our own government works, about how laws are made and the role of each branch of government  is absolutely stunning.

  10. Sharlee01 profile image86
    Sharlee01posted 7 weeks ago

    In her recent interview with Bret Baier on Fox News Harris appeared visibly uncomfortable, struggling to offer substantive answers to the host's questions. Instead of addressing the issues directly, she frequently veered into rehearsed talking points, launching into long-winded, nervous monologues that lacked focus and coherence. Her demeanor often resembled a "deer in headlights," a trait she exhibits frequently when speaking without the aid of a teleprompter.

    While some might commend her for venturing into a perceived "lion's den" at Fox, it's hardly praiseworthy for someone running for the highest office in the country to avoid giving a true press conference. The reluctance to face unscripted media scrutiny seems to go unnoticed by many these days. Throughout the interview, rather than offering insight into policies or her own vision, Harris repeatedly resorted to bashing Donald Trump, a move that appeared more rehearsed than genuine. Compared to Trump, who has consistently handled tough interviews head-on and isn’t afraid to provide answers his audience might not want to hear, Harris came across as a puppet — reciting lines handed down from her handlers without demonstrating any depth or command of the issues.

    It's hard to see her Fox interview as anything other than a display of nervousness, where she struggled to address current issues with even a hint of common sense. What I saw was exactly what I've witnessed every time I've watched her in interviews or at rallies: a complete mess.

    It’s time to wake up, folks. Trust what you're seeing and hearing when it comes to Harris.

    1. Willowarbor profile image59
      Willowarborposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      "Trump, who has consistently handled tough interviews head-on"

      Which were those?  I frequently see him on The Big comfy couch of Fox and Friends... Where they don't ask questions, preferring to let him bloviate unchecked.

      He canceled 60 minutes and CNBC squawk box.... Did you catch the latest economic club appearance? He didn't answer anything.  The interviewer had to keep reminding him of what the actual questions were.

      As far as the Baier "interview". He was disingenuous playing an edited clip of Trump's enemies within comment and his "questions"?  They were all MAGA talking points.

 
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