Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris for VP, and the Trump campaign is rightly licking its chops. Get ready, the campaign is on. Ben Shapiro: Here's why the VP pick doesn't matter nearly as much as you think it does, and why a woman should be the next president of the United States. He also explains why the media should not be celebrating the selection of a woman of color as the first female Democratic VP pick, and what it means for the future of the Democratic Party and the country as a whole. And, of course, he gives his thoughts on why Joe Biden should have chosen someone more like Amy Klobuchar, not someone who is a little bit more like him, and how to deal with the craziness that s already coming out of Donald Trump's White House. If you don't like the government spying on you, visit ExpressVpn.com/Vpn and use the discount code "ELISSA" to get 20% off your first month with discount codes "VANILLA" and "VIP" at checkout at the checkout counter at the ExpressVPN store. VINILLA is the best high-end retail store in the entire country, and is the only place to get quality, high-fashion and high-performance leather and suede-upholstery at the same time they can get the best of the best in the best design and design throughout the entire U.S. and we'll send you an ad-free version of the entire experience. VVPP is the place you'll get the whole experience, including all the best vlogs, including the best tips and chat app, including how to find VVPVP is all that you'll ever get in the VPN experience. VPN is VPR is the VP is all VPR, and VRP is VPC is a VPC, VPR's is VRP, VPC's is a 24-hour training program, VRP's VPC has is VP's VP gets it's VPR -- VRP has VRP meets VRP gets VRP and VQA is VQQ, VQC is VORO, VOGA, VOCAL, VZION IS A SONGS ARE VOTED VORORED VOGAN VOCATION AND VOTING IS A PODCAST IS QED AND VOGUE IS GAS CHECKED FOR VOROCE AND VOCED VOTER IS A THING?
00:00:30.000Because he is not going to live through his first term.
00:00:32.000OK, I know we're not supposed to say that.
00:00:34.000I know we're not supposed to say that, but 6 in 10 Americans agree with me, including some 57% of independents and 49% of Democrats.
00:00:41.000The reason that the VP pick matters this time, and I have been a longtime advocate of the notion that the VP pick does not matter nearly at all.
00:00:47.000It matters this time because everyone assumes that Joe Biden is at the very least not going to run for reelection and probably will not finish his first term.
00:00:54.000He himself has called himself a transitional candidate.
00:00:56.000He is obviously in a state of cognitive decline.
00:01:00.000And at this point, President Trump should simply ignore Joe Biden and go directly after Kamala Harris and say, this is the next president of the United States, not Joe Biden.
00:01:09.000See, this is a real strategic blunder by Biden.
00:01:11.000I'm frankly amused and astonished by the number of people in the conventional political class who have suggested that this was the safest pick.
00:01:19.000This was the pick that made the most sense.
00:01:23.000Biden's entire campaign is predicated on the assumption that Joe Biden is basically a return to normalcy.
00:01:30.000He is a non-threatening, elderly, grandfatherly character who is not going to threaten anything about the way America was running before President Trump became president.
00:01:41.000And because he's just a dude and kind of an elderly doddering dude at that, you don't have to worry about Joe Biden.
00:01:45.000You don't have to worry about chaos in the streets.
00:01:47.000You don't have to worry about the crazy tweets coming out of the White House.
00:01:49.000All you have to do is simply go about your business and Joe Biden will have your back.
00:01:53.000That was the Biden campaign in a nutshell.
00:01:55.000And so you should focus when you go into the voting booth on his opponent.
00:01:58.000You should focus on the volatility and the kind of craziness of Donald Trump's presidency when you choose to vote.
00:02:04.000So, when he picked a VP, he should have underscored those strengths, right?
00:02:08.000What he should have done is he should have picked somebody like Amy Klobuchar.
00:02:10.000He should have picked somebody who was inherently non-threatening, somebody that the American public widely perceives to be somewhat moderate.
00:02:16.000Instead, he decided to cave to the Twitterati.
00:02:19.000And he made this mistake for a couple of reasons.
00:02:21.000First, he decided very early on that he was going to pick a woman.
00:02:24.000Well, as soon as you say that you're basically going to pick a VP based on tokenistic concerns, and let's face it, that is a tokenistic concern, whether your VP is a woman.
00:02:32.000OK, that that that does not say anything about her character.
00:02:34.000It does not say anything about her politics.
00:02:37.000The idea that this is a criteria for picking the VP is the is the sex to which they belong is a bizarre idea on its face.
00:02:45.000And it becomes even more bizarre when you realize that the Democratic Party platform at this point is that women don't exist and a man can be a woman.
00:02:51.000So as my friend Matt Walsh has pointed out, it's very bizarre that the media are championing first female black VP Pick by a Democrat.
00:03:00.000They don't even believe women exist, so I'm wondering what's so historic about an individual with a cervix, as the media might put it, being selected as the VP candidate.
00:03:08.000They literally say there are no differences between men and women to the point where a man can be a woman, but it's very historic that Kamala Harris is in fact a woman.
00:03:15.000In any case, Joe Biden early on signaled he was going to pick a woman.
00:03:18.000Well, this boxed him in, but it didn't box him in that much because there was still a bevy of qualified women who are out there.
00:03:24.000Then, because he had already caved to, OK, I have to pick somebody who is representative of a particular demographic population in the United States.
00:03:32.000Then he was pushed into, OK, it has to be a black woman.
00:03:37.000So he sort of futzed between black woman and woman of color.
00:03:41.000And finally, he settled on Kamala Harris, and she was probably the worst available pick.
00:03:46.000There are some other people who are up for this thing.
00:03:49.000Raphael Demings in Florida, largely anonymous, but at least not disliked by the American public.
00:03:53.000You had Karen Bass in California, who's kind of a communist, but again, not very well known, and at least had significant support in the black community as the longtime head of the Congressional Black Caucus.
00:04:01.000And then you had Kamala Harris, a woman so deeply unpopular that she dropped out of the presidential race before her voters in California even had a chance to vote on her.
00:04:09.000She was registering at 7% in the California primaries.
00:04:13.000Kamala Harris was such a bad candidate that after jumping to the lead early on in the race, based again on those Twitter blue check marks, checking particular boxes, woman, black, Well, she jumped to the top of the race and then she immediately flamed out because it turns out that she's garbage at this.
00:04:36.000Is that supposed to make people feel sanguine about the future of the country?
00:04:39.000Is that supposed to make people feel comforted and solidified in their belief that he is, in fact, a moderate who's going to carry America on gentle waves to better days?
00:04:49.000Is that really the pick that makes a lot of sense?
00:04:59.000Because as we will examine throughout today's show and in the coming days, Kamala Harris is not only not a moderate, she's extraordinarily radical in her policies.
00:05:06.000She's been rated one of the most liberal senators in the United States Senate.
00:05:10.000GovTrack.us rated her as the fourth most liberal senator in the United States Senate just behind Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:05:19.000She voted with Bernie Sanders 92% of the time while she was in the Senate.
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00:07:03.000All righty, so the media have been attempting to spin this thing, and spin it they have.
00:07:07.000The New York Times headlined, they tweeted this out, quote, Senator Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden's pick for vice president, a pragmatic moderate.
00:07:16.000She's the first black woman on a major party ticket.
00:07:19.000Well, the only sentence, the only part of that sentence that matters to the New York Times is, as we will see, the last part of that sentence, that she's the first black woman on a major party ticket.
00:07:26.000I don't think this has the same quite historic appeal, you know, black woman on a major party ticket as Barack Obama, first black president for two terms.
00:07:32.000I think we have already established in the United States that we are willing to elect black people to extraordinarily high office.
00:07:36.000Kamala Harris is not breaking any glass ceilings here because there was no glass ceiling.
00:07:40.000Hillary Clinton was last major party nominee.
00:09:47.000Seems like this is a pretty damned great country that she will then set about her mind to talk about how terrible it is.
00:09:52.000Okay, but, so the media are just, they've got the drool cups full out for Kamala Harris.
00:09:58.000David Axelrod says she's the safest pick, the advisor to Barack Obama.
00:10:02.000Obama himself was very thrilled with the Kamala Harris pick.
00:10:06.000I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama said some kind of sexist things about her looks, actually, back in the day.
00:10:10.000In any case, CNN's David Axelrod, he says, it is a measure of these extraordinary times that Joe Biden's historic choice for vice president was also the most conventional.
00:10:19.000In choosing Kamala Harris, Biden selected the candidate who had been the front runner among political handicappers and betting markets for months.
00:10:24.000The senator from California fulfills Biden's pledge to name a woman and responds to the expectation that he would pick the first woman of color ever to serve on a national ticket.
00:10:32.000Pressure to make such a choice had been building since the killing of George Floyd, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:10:37.000Okay, so this is where it is pretty obvious that David Axelrod has been taking Joe Rogan's advice and trying DMT.
00:10:53.000I mean, I suppose she's magnetic on television in the same way that Joaquin Phoenix is magnetic in that scene from Joker where he goes on The Late Night Show and then proceeds to laugh like a hysterical crazy person.
00:11:04.000Senator and recent presidential candidate, Harris also meets another important test for Biden.
00:11:08.000People familiar with research the campaign undertook to inform its decision told me voters viewed her as among the most qualified to be president day one.
00:11:16.000Elizabeth Warren's just over in the corner crying somewhere.
00:11:21.000By the way, polling numbers like that are incredibly stupid.
00:11:24.000They view her as qualified to be president.
00:11:26.000They didn't know the names of any of the other people being discussed.
00:11:30.000She is familiar with the maelstrom of a national campaign, says David Axelrod, having spent a year running for president, albeit unsuccessfully.
00:11:37.000Though she was at times less than sure-footed in dealing with incoming criticism, she understands the pace and nature of it, which will only intensify in a fall race against Trump.
00:12:19.000But now, because it appears that Joe Biden has picked a radical as his VP candidate and because Joe Biden is a corpse, Trump should just go right around Biden.
00:12:44.000I mean, Joe Biden himself has said that he is a transitional figure.
00:12:47.000So Trump should just treat him that way.
00:12:49.000He should treat him the same way that most Americans treat the Washington football team's new name.
00:12:53.000In fact, I think the Washington football team should rename itself the Washington Bidens in honor of the fact that it's an interim name that means nothing and will be gone incredibly soon.
00:13:01.000Here is President Trump saying he is glad that Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris.
00:13:39.000Trump then suggested that she is nasty and disrespectful, which, of course, is going to launch a thousand headlines about how it's sexist to point out that Kamala Harris is actually quite cruel, which she absolutely is.
00:14:15.000She was very disrespectful to Joe Biden.
00:14:18.000And it's hard to pick somebody that's that disrespectful when she said things during the debates, during the Democrat primary debates, that were horrible.
00:14:30.000Okay, well, he is absolutely right about that.
00:14:32.000We'll get to the campaign ad that the Trump campaign immediately released as soon as Kamala Harris was named the pick.
00:14:37.000But first, if you have a car that's taking up space sitting in your driveway, why would you not get rid of it?
00:14:41.000You're paying insurance on that thing, and you could do something amazing with that car.
00:16:10.000Kamala Harris ran for president by rushing to the radical left, embracing Bernie's plan for socialized medicine, calling for trillions in new taxes, attacking Joe Biden for racist policies.
00:16:40.000So he's going to need to do better than phony Kamala because I don't think that it's the question about Kamala Harris is not that she is a phony.
00:16:45.000The question about Kamala Harris is that she is an extraordinarily radical candidate who is indeed manipulative.
00:17:09.000That's what the Democratic Party is basically praying for at this point.
00:17:13.000Now, let's go through a little bit of Kamala Harris's history, because I think it's important to recognize the way that her career took shape.
00:17:20.000This is a person who is basically willing to say or do anything to get power, but who also has extraordinarily strong authoritarian tendencies.
00:17:32.000Before everybody starts shouting that you're not allowed to talk about Kamala Harris's past, she's running for vice president of the United States.
00:17:38.000It was fair game when she was running for Senate.
00:17:39.000It was fair game when she was running for president.
00:17:41.000It is fair game now that she's the vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket.
00:17:45.000So it is absolutely fair game to ask how she started her career, and Donald Trump is not going to be shy about mentioning this.
00:17:50.000A 1994 LA Times report about then-California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's rush to hand out patronage jobs described Kamala Harris as Brown's frequent companion, and said several people referred to her as Brown's girlfriend.
00:18:04.000That report also cited a column from the Chronicle's Herb Cain that called Harris the speaker's new study.
00:18:16.000According to Kane, the couple split up in 1995, which flabbergasted those who found Kamala the perfect antidote to whatever playboy tendencies still reside in the mayor-elect's jaunty persona.
00:18:24.000He ended up as the mayor of San Francisco.
00:18:27.000Although Brown supported Harris in her successful 2003 run for San Francisco District Attorney, she tried to distance herself from him in that race, telling San Francisco Weekly that Brown, whose career was then dogged by corruption allegations, was an albatross hanging around my neck.
00:18:58.000Brown wrote, Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was assembly speaker.
00:19:04.000He was the speaker of the assembly from 80 to 95.
00:19:07.000Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and then to the Medical Assistance Commission, positions that paid her more than $400,000 over five years.
00:19:17.000He said, I certainly helped her win her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.
00:19:22.000I've also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and Dianne Feinstein, he added.
00:19:26.000The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word I would be indicted if I so much as jaywalked while she was DA, Brown wrote.
00:19:38.000But Kamala Harris then became a district attorney in San Francisco.
00:19:43.000And then on the basis of that, she ran for attorney general in California.
00:19:47.000And there she campaigned as a hardcore law and order type.
00:19:51.000And she said that she was going to go after criminals.
00:19:53.000And listen, I'm a big fan of going after criminals, but she simultaneously went after very, very low level offenders and also basically did nothing to lower the crime rates in California, which is kind of an amazing achievement when you think about it.
00:20:06.000According to Lara Bazelon, the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs, writing in the New York Times, said, consider her record as San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011.
00:20:17.000Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who'd been accused of intentionally sabotaging her work and stealing drugs from the lab.
00:20:25.000After a memo surfaced showing that Harris's deputies knew about the technician's wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Harris's indifference to the systemic violation of the defendant's constitutional rights.
00:20:36.000Harris contested the ruling, arguing that the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney, had a conflict of interest.
00:20:41.000Harris lost, and more than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed.
00:20:46.000She also famously decided that she was going to support a law that allowed for the prosecution of parents for truancy of children.
00:20:54.000In 2004, Harris and then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who's now the governor of California, launched an anti-truancy initiative.
00:21:01.000The $450,000 program included a warning to parents they could face a criminal charge if their kids didn't show up to school.
00:21:06.000To be considered truant, a student needed to be only 30 minutes late without an unapproved excuse on more than two occasions.
00:21:11.000Parents of students with 20 or more unexcused absences in a year could face a year in jail or a $2,500 fine.
00:21:52.000Before any of the civil, before any of the prosecutions had actually been legalized at that point.
00:21:59.000So she was willing to use the authority of the government to do pretty much anything, which is very much in line with Kamala Harris's thinking.
00:22:07.000And then, obviously when she was running for president, then it became totally okay to joke about past marijuana use, right?
00:22:11.000So she prosecuted like a thousand people, 1,500 people for marijuana use.
00:22:16.000Which, again, like if you're, as a strict law and order guy, if you're a drug dealer and it gets downgraded to a marijuana use charge and you go to jail, I don't have a problem with that.
00:22:23.000But Kamala, you certainly don't get to laugh about smoking pot at the same time that you're talking about how you were a great prosecutor.
00:22:29.000Here was Kamala Harris laughing at her own marijuana use.
00:22:43.000Okay, she actually went on a podcast where she laughed about her own marijuana use.
00:22:49.000This led Tulsi Gabbard to famously wreck Harris during a debate, pointing out that Kamala Harris was the queen of tough on crime, and then laughed and scoffed about her own marijuana use at exactly the same time, basically.
00:23:02.000Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
00:23:10.000There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
00:23:21.000She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
00:23:28.000She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
00:23:34.000And she fought to keep the cash bail system in place.
00:23:38.000That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
00:23:41.000And Harris was attacked like this twice in debate and had no answer to it anywhere along the line.
00:23:46.000This is why it's no shock that Breonna Joy Gray, who is the former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders, So she's going to be attacked from the left for being too harsh on crime.
00:23:59.000But she was only harsh on crime on a low level, really, because she wanted to be perceived that way so that she could then run as senator.
00:24:07.000Because being a Democratic prosecutor always makes you look better when you run for senator.
00:24:10.000Then, as soon as she became senator, she swiveled to the extraordinarily radical left.
00:24:14.000By the way, at the same time that she was being tough on crime, she was cultivating the banks.
00:24:19.000Apparently Silicon Valley is super duper pleased that Kamala Harris has now been chosen according to recode.
00:24:25.000Cooper Tebow, a former Democratic fundraiser, a top Democratic fundraiser in Silicon Valley, said about one third of major West Coast donors have been waiting to see who Biden would choose as VP.
00:24:34.000If Biden had chosen Warren, they would have had concerns, but they said that Kamala Harris is a safe pick.
00:24:39.000So very tough on the prosecutions of the marijuana, but pretty tight with all the people in power.
00:24:44.000So that pretty much It confirms what we think about Kamala Harris.
00:24:48.000We'll get to her actual authoritarian streak in just one second because she has a strong authoritarian streak.
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00:26:18.000What did we learn from Kamala Harris's tenure?
00:26:20.000Well, we learned that she's incredibly manipulative, that she will use people to get ahead and then she will ditch them at the first available opportunity.
00:26:25.000As you'll see, she did this to Joe Biden as well.
00:26:26.000And she will ditch him at first available opportunity as well, too.
00:26:30.000We know that she is perfectly willing to use the auspices of government in order to achieve particular goals.
00:26:36.000She's willing to be authoritarian in her use of government, and she has threatened to be incredibly authoritarian if ever she became president.
00:26:42.000During this last campaign, she repeatedly talked about how she was going to overthrow the boundaries of constitutional government.
00:26:50.000She said openly that she would give Congress 100 days to act on guns.
00:26:53.000And then, if Congress did not act on guns, then she would immediately use executive action to act on guns.
00:26:59.000So this is her openly threatening to violate the Constitution.
00:27:01.000If Congress doesn't do... There is no clause in the Constitution, by the way, that says, if Congress doesn't do what the president wants, the executive branch shall have the power to simply declare the law.
00:27:09.000There's nothing in the Constitution like that.
00:27:11.000But as we'll see, Kamala Harris does not give two good damns about the Constitution.
00:27:16.000Here is Kamala Harris, in open debate, saying that she'd give Congress 100 days to act on guns, then she'd just do it herself.
00:27:22.000Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws.
00:27:32.000And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.
00:27:36.000And specifically, what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns.
00:29:44.000Okay, and then there's Kamala Harris, the opportunist.
00:29:47.000So as we talked about, rather opportunistic in her early career.
00:29:51.000Okay, but she's been even more opportunistic on issues of race.
00:29:54.000So very early on in this race, she basically, recognizing that her main pitch for the presidency was the intersectional checkmarks on her resume, she complained that people should not say anything about identity politics.
00:30:42.000And they'll bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion.
00:30:50.000They'll bring it up when we're talking about civil rights issues, as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up.
00:31:01.000Okay, no one's shutting up Kamala Harris.
00:31:02.000She's been fully able to talk for literally her entire life.
00:31:05.000I mean, basically since she was a child, she's been able to talk.
00:31:08.000And it seems like nobody has really been successful in forcing her into saying anything or not saying anything.
00:31:13.000In fact, she's been able to say anything and everything she wants to say, including some of the dumbest crap that's ever entered the human lexicon.
00:31:20.000Here's Kamala Harris tweeting back in January 2019.
00:31:22.000You'll remember that there was a victim of a hate crime named Jussie Smollett.
00:31:26.000Unfortunately, his victimizer was also a man named Jussie Smollett.
00:31:30.000suggested that there are two white men wearing red MAGA hats, basically, walking down the street at 3 a.m.
00:31:35.000in Chicago in the middle of a freezing windstorm, who decided to hit him with bleach and then put a rope around his neck, and it all ended up being bullcrap, which it was perfectly obvious it was from basically the first moments.
00:31:45.000Kamala Harris, however, jumped in at the time and tweeted out, Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.
00:32:15.000Well, she has now decided to sign on to the campaign of a man that she called essentially a segregationist and perhaps also a sexual abuser.
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00:34:16.000Okay, before we get to more of the charming and moderate Kamala Harris...
00:34:22.000And we're about to get to what Kamala Harris said about Joe Biden during this campaign.
00:34:26.000Basically, she now says that she is going to run on the same ticket as a quasi-segregationist who would have kept her out of integrated schools and a person who routinely sexually harasses women.
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00:36:17.000And all you have to do is point to the comments she made about Joe Biden.
00:36:20.000By the way, some of us are consistent.
00:36:21.000I defended Joe Biden against this garbage, scurrilous attack back when she originally levied it against him.
00:36:27.000So you'll remember all the way back at the beginning of this campaign, it was a Democratic debate.
00:36:31.000This little tete-a-tete sent Kamala Harris rocketing to the top of the polls because everyone is stupid and everyone is dishonest.
00:36:38.000Essentially, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a segregationist.
00:36:40.000She said if Joe Biden had had his way, then little Kamala, little baby Kamala, never would have been able to go to an integrated public school in San Francisco.
00:36:49.000Except for the fact that she obviously would have, and Joe Biden was not opposed to integration, and it was all a lie.
00:36:56.000And she doesn't support forced busing.
00:36:58.000But it was this Magical attack that made Kamala Harris's name on the national stage because this lady is willing to say or do anything.
00:37:06.000Here she was going after the guy who would later select her as VP because he's a doddering old fool.
00:37:10.000It's personal and it was actually very, it was hurtful.
00:37:14.000To hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
00:37:27.000And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
00:37:34.000And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
00:37:42.000And she was bused to school every day.
00:38:13.000That's not quite the same thing as someone calls you an overt racist who was going to stop her from going to an integrated school when she was a child.
00:38:39.000And in fact, when asked if Biden should drop out of the race, okay, she was like, well, that's up to him.
00:38:45.000What an honorable, honorable, deeply honorable candidate.
00:38:49.000I mean, I wouldn't fear her in a position of power at all, this lady.
00:38:53.000To coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who, if they had their way, I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is, I think, it's just, it's misinformed and it's wrong.
00:39:08.000He's going to have to make that decision.
00:39:09.000But, you know, let's be very clear that the senators that he is speaking of, with such adoration, are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.
00:39:24.000And by the way, she didn't stop there.
00:39:25.000When Kamala Harris was asked during this campaign, because she was desperate to win, I mean, desperate to get any sort of traction at all, she had none.
00:39:31.000She was like wheels skidding on ice throughout this campaign.
00:39:34.000When she was asked about the accusers who came forward and said Joe Biden is weird and creepy and smells people's hairs and touches them in inappropriate ways, Kamala Harris was like, yeah, I believe the accusers.
00:39:44.000So she's now running on the ticket with a guy who she literally called a quasi-segregationist who sexually harasses women regularly.
00:39:56.000But don't worry, she loves him and they are best friends.
00:39:58.000And also she's not an opportunist in any way.
00:40:00.000She's just a deeply honest politician of conviction.
00:40:04.000I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.
00:40:11.000Do you believe that the vice president should enter this race?
00:40:14.000Oh, he's going to have to make that decision for himself.
00:40:34.000The good news for Joe Biden is that he is not the only target of her tender mercies.
00:40:39.000You'll remember when Kamala Harris essentially implied that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a rapist.
00:40:45.000In fact, during the hearings on Brett Kavanaugh, She went in a cloakroom and handed to Republicans an anonymous letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of rape.
00:40:53.000It was signed by a woman named Jane Doe, right, meaning just an anonymous person.
00:40:56.000It contained no details whatsoever, and it was used as the basis for questioning.
00:41:02.000Here's Kamala Harris going after Brett Kavanaugh, asking him if he had taken a polygraph, pushing an FBI investigation.
00:41:08.000And then when he's, one of Kavanaugh's lines of defense was, here are a bunch of women who I've treated incredibly well throughout my career.
00:41:15.000And Kamala Harris was like, well, is it true that you can be friends with some women and treat other women badly?
00:41:27.000Here's Kamala Harris being a bad person.
00:41:30.000Judge Kavanaugh, have you taken a professionally administered polygraph test?
00:41:34.000I've not heard you answer a very specific question that's been asked, which is, are you willing to ask the White House to conduct an investigation by the FBI to get to whatever you believe is the bottom of the allegations that have been levied against you?
00:41:52.000Do you agree that it is possible for men to both be friends with some women?
00:42:02.000This was this was touted by the media as an extraordinary showing by Kamala Harris.
00:42:06.000By the way, that wasn't even the worst thing she did during the Kamala during the Kavanaugh hearings.
00:42:09.000The worst thing she did during the Kavanaugh hearings is she somehow she threw out a bizarre theory that Brett Kavanaugh was working with a a law firm called Kassowitz that was also working with the Trump administration against the Mueller investigation.
00:42:25.000And so somehow, for some unnamed reason, Kavanaugh was obstructing the Mueller investigation or something.
00:42:36.000She uses anything at hand in order to harm her political opposition, no matter how dishonest she has to be.
00:42:43.000Here she was going after Brett Kavanaugh for some weird theory about him sharing a law firm with members of the Trump administration.
00:42:50.000Have you discussed Mueller or his investigation with anyone at Kasowitz, Benson & Torres, the law firm founded by Mark Kasowitz, President Trump's personal lawyer?
00:43:35.000She was going to uncover the conspiracy.
00:43:36.000She was going to uncover a conspiracy whereby Brett Kavanaugh was somehow conferring behind closed doors with a law firm that was representing Trump in the Mueller investigation.
00:43:46.000Because she's a bad human being, okay?
00:43:49.000When you throw out allegations like this in open questioning of a Supreme Court nominee with no support whatsoever, and then you just kind of like, it just disappears into the ether.
00:43:58.000It is amazing, amazing that this person is considered a credible politician on the national stage.
00:44:02.000None of this, by the way, even touches her political radicalism.
00:44:41.000Alexander DeSantis writing at National Review reminds everybody that in late 2018, while evaluating the nomination of Brian Boucher to serve as a district judge in Nebraska, Harris posed a series of questions insinuating that his involvement in the Knights of Columbus, a charitable Catholic fraternal organization, disqualified him from serving on the bench.
00:44:58.000One of her written questions was, Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men.
00:45:05.000In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.
00:45:12.000Anderson went on to say, Were you aware the Knights of Columbus opposed women's right to choose when you joined the organization?
00:45:21.000She then went on to ask Boucher whether he was aware the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when he joined, or whether he had ever in any way assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women's reproductive rights.
00:45:42.000Kamala Harris is the same person who filed an amicus brief in Hobby Lobby arguing that religious practice should basically be relegated to the home.
00:45:50.000In her amicus brief, Terrence Jeffries pointed this out at the time.
00:45:53.000She argued, quote, rights to the free exercise of religious beliefs, whether created by statute or by the Constitution, likewise protect the development and expression of an inner sanctum of personal religious faith. Free exercise rights have thus also been understood as a personal, as personal, relating only to individual believers and to a limited class of associations comprising or representing them. There is no tradition of recognizing or accommodating the exercise of such inherently personal rights by ordinary for-profit business corporations.
00:46:19.000In other words, if you operate in the business sphere, we are going to completely override your religious rights.
00:46:24.000That is the legal regime that Kamala Harris seeks.
00:46:28.000She says it would be better to keep the free exercise of religion within the boundaries of religious institutions.
00:46:34.000She says the term religion itself connotes a community of believers.
00:46:37.000Religious organizations act as critical buffers between the individual and the power of the state, giving individuals a space in which to exercise faith without state intrusion.
00:46:46.000In other words, maybe she'll make an exception for some of the religious organizations.
00:47:05.000In fact, she had a proposal modeled on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that would require any state with a history of passing laws restricting abortion access to get clearance, preclearance, from the Justice Department.
00:47:17.000So Kamala Harris would force the state of Alabama to run any law that affects abortion by Kamala Harris's DOJ before passing the law.
00:47:24.000Which violates all precepts of federalism.
00:47:31.000By the way, she is so radical on abortion that she voted against, she's one of many Democrats, in fact, every Democratic presidential candidate, to vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
00:47:42.000That's an act that was specifically designed to prevent infanticide.
00:49:35.000I am opposed to any policy that would deny, in our country, any human being from access to public safety, Public education or public health, period.
00:49:47.000Okay, and where is she on public health, by the way?
00:49:49.000So she was the original endorser of Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All.
00:49:52.000Then she realized it was unpopular, and later she moved to a transitional plan, whereby everybody would lose their private insurance inside of 10 years.
00:49:58.000When she was in her early phase, right, her radical phase, trying to cut off Elizabeth Warren on her left, she openly said that we would phase out private insurance, that we would ban private insurance in the United States.
00:50:08.000You know, the insurance that represents, what, 90% of the American public?
00:50:21.000I believe the solution, and I actually feel very strongly about this, is that we need to have Medicare for All.
00:50:27.000And you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require.
00:50:35.000Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?
00:51:26.000If you want to destroy every major business in the United States, definitely implement the 70% top tax rate.
00:51:30.000People will just stop working to avoid those taxes, because why the hell would you do an additional 10 hours of work a week when seven cents out of that 10 is going directly to the federal government?
00:51:41.000And that doesn't count the state government, right?
00:51:43.000That means that in the state of California, where we have a 16, 17% top tax rate, or will within very short order, I think it's 13% now, you'd be talking about paying, what, 83% of your money above a certain point?
00:51:54.000Here was Kamala Harris being like, it's a great idea, we should invest in it.
00:51:56.000Don't worry, guys, not a radical, a pragmatic moderate.
00:51:59.000It was her being a pragmatic moderate, endorsing the idea of investigating a 70% top tax rate.
00:52:06.000And she's promoting policies like saying that every single carbon emission in the country, every car, should be eliminated within the next 11 years.
00:52:56.000The single greatest reason for declining carbon emissions in the United States is the rise of natural gas replacing oil and coal.
00:53:02.000That is the single greatest rationale for why the United States is actually the world's leading decreaser of carbon emissions over the last five to ten years.
00:53:11.000But here is Kamala Harris endorsing a federal ban on fracking.
00:53:16.000There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
00:53:21.000And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?
00:53:27.000But yes, and this is something I've taken on in California.
00:53:30.000I have a history of working on this issue.
00:53:31.000And to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.
00:53:41.000Well, I mean, yeah, fracking is really a danger to communities.
00:53:44.000Like, you know, all the communities with hundreds of thousands of people reliant on the fracking industry.
00:53:54.000I think that this is going to go great for Joe Biden.
00:53:57.000Again, so much moderation just spilling from the lips of Kamala Harris here.
00:54:01.000The balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors.
00:54:10.000I mean, just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time.
00:54:17.000But there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment.
00:54:31.000And we have to do a much better job of that and the government has to do a much better job of that.
00:54:46.000You want to hear some hysterical Kamala Harris laughter?
00:54:48.000It's been like a solid few minutes since we played Kamala Harris laughing hysterically and awkwardly when she realized that what she's saying is kind of crazy.
00:54:54.000Here is Kamala Harris laughing crazily about plastic straws.
00:55:03.000It's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw when you had, if you're just like, if you don't gulp it down immediately, it starts to bend.
00:55:10.000And then, you know, the little thing catches it.
00:55:12.000And then, you know, so we got to kind of perfect that one a little bit more.
00:55:17.000So you'd ban it, but rely on innovation?
00:55:54.000So Erin Burnett, I love her just feeding the line to Kamala Harris.
00:55:58.000So you're gonna ban plastic straws but rely on innovation.
00:56:00.000Yeah, that's exactly what she was saying.
00:56:02.000No, what actually happened there is that Kamala Harris was like, I want to ban plastic straws, and then she realized halfway through that the replacement straws are absolute crap.
00:56:09.000And so she's like, but they're really bad, the replacement straws, but I still want to ban them because I'm an authoritarian jerk.
00:56:38.000But don't worry, if you're concerned that maybe a lot of this is gonna cost money, maybe this is bad policy, we've been reliably informed by Kamala Harris that policy is not about cost, guys.
00:57:12.000$3 trillion a year for Medicare for All by some studies. I don't, depending on which portions of the Green New Deal you pick to do first, that's money. You know what the Republicans are going to say, tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.
00:57:24.000One of the things that I admire and respect is the measurement that is captured in three letters, ROI.
00:57:51.000By the way, how radical is Kamala Harris?
00:57:53.000Remember that time I said that she's really willing to, like, say, or like a few minutes ago when I said she's basically willing to say or do anything to get ahead?
00:57:58.000And I talked about her prosecutorial record and how there are a lot of people on the left and on sort of the libertarian right We're upset with the fact that she was very much in favor of jailing low-level drug offenders.
00:58:07.000By the way, again, I've lived in California my entire life.
00:58:10.000The crime rates here have been not great for a very long time.
00:58:13.000And she was of very little help as Attorney General of the state of California.
00:58:18.000Well, she was specifically asked the other day about defunding the LAPD.
00:58:21.000So she has not come out full-scale and embraced defund the police, but she was very much in favor of cutting the funding to the Los Angeles Police Department in the aftermath of riots that shut down the city of Los Angeles night on night for a week.
00:58:34.000for a week so that rioters and looters could have their way with the local footlocker, and Kamala Harris went on national TV and said we should probably cut funds to the L.A.
00:58:45.000She's a pragmatic moderate who is going to enforce the law and ensure that you and your family... I mean, look at her record as prosecutor.
00:58:51.000It's not as though she would use power conveniently and for whatever she decided to use it for that day.
00:58:56.000This is a person who cares deeply about you and your family and keeping you safe.
00:58:59.000Here's Kamala Harris saying we should slash the budget in L.A.
00:59:02.000Many cities spend over one-third of their entire city budget on policing.
00:59:08.000But meanwhile, we've been defunding public schools for years in America.
00:59:12.000We've got to re-examine what we're doing with American taxpayer dollars and ask the question, are we getting the right return on our investment?
00:59:19.000Are we actually creating healthy and safe communities?
00:59:23.000And that's a legitimate conversation and it requires a really critical evaluation.
00:59:27.000I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done.
00:59:36.000She's definitely going to keep America safe as well.
00:59:38.000I think that, in essence, to sum up, Joe Biden has made a major boo-boo here.
00:59:42.000His major boo-boo is that he's basically given away the game.
00:59:45.000We all know that he's a temporary stand-in for whatever comes next.
00:59:48.000And what he has decided comes next is that.
00:59:50.000So, if you would like that, meaning a Kamala Harris administration, all the policies, all the authoritarianism, all the opportunism, all the high-handed unwillingness to listen to opposing points of view, if that is what you are in the game for, then by all means, vote for Joe Biden.
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