In a controversial interview with the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Fox News host Bret Baier wasted no time in going after the vice president with a laundry list of topics the former president often emphasized. Donald Trump in the election campaign.
Right after the interview began, Baier began by asking, “How many illegal immigrants do you think your administration has released into this country in the last three and a half years?”
Harris began carefully formulating her answer, but Bayer kept interrupting her before she could finish her sentence.
“It is estimated that 6 million people were released into the country,” Bayer insisted.
“Let me finish and I’ll get to the point, I promise you,” an exasperated Harris said. — I started answering.
Harris sidestepped the question, blaming Trump for the failure of a bipartisan border security bill that died in Congress in May. But Baier also pressed Harris over the deaths of Jocelyn Noongaray, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley, three murder victims whose alleged killers crossed the border during Biden's presidency, before the bill was agreed to.
He then played a clip of Noongarai's mother blaming the Biden-Harris administration for her daughter's death.
When asked if she owed their families an apology, Harris replied, “I'm so sorry for her loss. I'm so sorry for her loss. Sincerely.”
Baier then, bizarrely, questioned the vice president about her policy on gender-affirming surgeries for federal prisoners and showed a Trump campaign ad accusing Harris of supporting “taxpayer-funded gender reassignment for prisoners.”
Harris accused her opponent's campaign of throwing rocks at glass houses, noting that such a policy was used during the Trump administration.
“I will follow the law. And this is the law that Donald Trump actually followed. You're probably familiar with it, it's now a public record that under the Donald Trump administration, these surgeries were available on a medical basis to people in the federal prison system.”
Baier noted that the Trump campaign denies any gender confirmation surgeries performed during his presidency. In 2022 judge's order paved the way for the first federal inmate to receive gender confirmation surgery after a four-year legal battle.
Harris declined to answer whether she would still support funding for transgender care for federal prisoners, instead accusing the Trump campaign of focusing on an issue that is “really quite distant.”
American Civil Liberties Union of Illinoiswho represented the first inmate, said about 1,200 other federal prisoners need gender-affirming care. There are currently 158,892 people in federal custody, according to the department. Bureau of Prisons the latest data.
Harris notably refused to respond to Baier's attacks when she noted that President Biden was losing “mental capacity,” instead repeatedly insisting that “Joe Biden is not on the ballot, but Donald Trump is.”
Harris spent much of the interview trying to convince the Fox host that Americans were ready to move on from Trump. When Baier noted that Democrats have held the presidency for the past three and a half years, she explained that she meant “to turn the page on the last decade in which we have been saddled with the rhetoric emanating from Donald Trump.”
But Baier appeared to point to Trump's popularity among the Republican electorate as evidence that this was not the case. “Why, if he is as bad as you say, is it that half of this country is now supporting this man who could become the 47th President of the United States?” This was later followed by the question: “Are they mistaken, these 50%? Are they stupid?”
“Oh God, I would never say that about the American people,” Harris said, before referencing Trump's recent comments about using the military against Democrats, whom he called the “enemy within.”
Kamala Harris spars with Bret Baier during an interview with Fox News.
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Earlier in the day at a town hall event, Baier played a clip in which Trump rejected those criticisms, instead accusing Democrats of threatening him with “fake investigations” and “weaponizing the government.”
But Harris was outraged. “Bret, I’m sorry, that’s not what he said about the ‘enemy within,’ which he repeated when he talked about the American people,” Harris said. – This is not what you just showed.
“Here’s the point, he said it many times,” Harris said after further arguing with the Fox host. “You and I both know that, and you and I both know that he was talking about turning the American military against the American people. He was talking about going after people who are peacefully protesting. He was talking about locking up people because they disagree with him.”
The two continued to argue with each other for the rest of the interview. “I hope you said what you wanted to say about Donald Trump,” Baier said, trying to wrap up the 30-minute interview.
The two continued to argue with each other for the rest of the interview.
“I hope you said what you wanted to say about Donald Trump,” Baier said, trying to wrap up the 30-minute interview.
“I have something to say. I have something to say,” Harris interjected.
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