The Matt Walsh Show - Scamala： Kamala Harris Unmasked ｜ Episode 1 - Introducing Scamala

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00:00:55.880 Now, let's dive into Scamala, Kamala Harris unmasked, and see what the left doesn't want you to know. 0.99

00:01:03.200 Meet Kamala Harris.

00:01:04.900 You know her, of course.

00:01:06.000 She's the vice president of the United States, the historic first black female vice president.

00:01:10.980 Since Joe Biden chose Kamala as his vice presidential candidate in 2020, he has touted her as a co-partner in this administration.

00:01:17.180 I will be a full partner to the president-elect and the president, and whatever our priorities are, I will be there to support him and support the American people.

00:01:29.260 She was put in charge of the border crisis.

00:01:31.220 She has substituted for Joe Biden at international conferences on Ukraine.

00:01:35.040 She has sat in on phone calls with foreign leaders.

00:01:37.240 She has globe-trotted to push the administration's agenda on everything from climate change to the economy to race in America.

00:01:44.180 And yet, Kamala Harris is largely perceived as a joke by the American public, a figure straight from Veep.

00:01:49.160 My fellow Americans, words have many meanings, and sometimes instead of conveying our meaning, they can suggest other meanings.

00:01:56.660 We are the United States of America because we are united.

00:02:00.520 Whatever we have in store cannot be known.

00:02:06.760 There is a reason for that.

00:02:08.400 Harris's awkward laughter has become the unofficial accompaniment of the administration's myriad foibles.

00:02:14.260 Poor hubby.

00:02:15.520 Poor hubby.

00:02:20.280 Her bizarre word salads have become a late-night comedy fodder. 0.59

00:02:23.420 Right, the significance of the passage of time.

00:02:26.080 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:02:29.940 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:02:34.580 And as always, Wakanda forever. 1.00

00:02:38.220 Kamala is, in the public mind, according to polling data, incompetent, unqualified, an idiot. 1.00

00:02:43.580 But all of this sells Kamala Harris short. 1.00

00:02:45.860 Kamala Harris has been in public life for four decades.

00:02:48.360 In that time, she has conned her way from obscurity to deputy district attorney.

00:02:52.140 From there, to San Francisco district attorney.

00:02:54.300 From there, to California attorney general.

00:02:56.300 From there, to the United States Senate.

00:02:57.700 And finally, to the vice presidency.

00:02:59.780 Kamala Harris's story is one of corruption and a failing up. 1.00

00:03:02.760 Of lies and betrayals.

00:03:04.280 Of dishonesty and incompetence. 1.00

00:03:06.080 Kamala Harris is not merely incompetent or unqualified or foolish, though. 1.00

00:03:09.620 She is dangerous. 1.00

00:03:10.800 That danger is often obscured by her awkward persona.

00:03:13.040 You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

00:03:15.060 But that persona hasn't been an obstacle to her rise.

00:03:26.980 Now, Kamala Harris is a hair's breadth from the Oval Office. 0.97

00:03:30.060 But how did she get here?

00:03:31.140 How did someone with such a knack for failure manage to climb the greasy pole

00:03:34.700 to the precipice of the most powerful position in the world?

00:03:38.240 In this documentary podcast, we're peeling back the layers of Kamala Harris's career,

00:03:41.880 exposing the scandals, the missteps, and the awkwardness that have come to define her journey.

00:03:46.380 And exposing her radicalism, too.

00:03:48.080 Because here's the ugly truth.

00:03:50.080 Kamala Harris is utterly and radically inauthentic.

00:03:52.800 A person without any central conviction except the desire for power.

00:03:56.260 And if the story of Kamala Harris tells us anything,

00:03:58.560 it's that in America, unbridled ambition,

00:04:01.000 combined with a complete lack of principle,

00:04:03.260 can take you just about anywhere.

00:04:04.760 Even to the White House.

00:04:11.880 My mother used to have a very funny story about it.

00:04:14.240 I was fussing, and she said,

00:04:17.100 Kamala, what do you want?

00:04:18.200 And I said, and this is how she would say it.

00:04:20.600 And she said, Kamala, what do you want?

00:04:22.840 And I said, freedom.

00:04:25.420 That's Kamala Harris on Jimmy Fallon's show in 2021. 0.89

00:04:28.500 And it's one of her favorite stories.

00:04:30.120 In fact, she told it to Elle magazine in October 2020 as well.

00:04:34.080 Unfortunately, that story doesn't appear to be Kamala's.

00:04:36.760 It appears that Kamala plagiarized it from Martin Luther King Jr.,

00:04:39.620 who wrote in 1965, quote,

00:04:41.440 I will never forget a moment in Birmingham

00:04:43.000 when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl,

00:04:45.620 seven or eight years old,

00:04:46.680 who was walking in a demonstration with her mother.

00:04:48.720 What do you want?

00:04:49.360 The policeman asked her gruffly.

00:04:51.000 And the little girl looked at him straight in the eye

00:04:52.940 and answered, feed him.

00:04:54.600 It's a small but telling example of Kamala Harris's

00:04:56.840 constant attempts to reshape and remold her own history.

00:04:59.900 But what lies at the core of the real Kamala Harris?

00:05:02.600 Kamala Harris was born on October 20th, 1964,

00:05:05.100 to Donald Harris, a Marxist economist from Jamaica,

00:05:07.640 and Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India.

00:05:11.320 Like Barack Obama, Kamala was not an American descendant of slavery.

00:05:14.580 Both of her parents would earn PhDs from UC Berkeley.

00:05:17.020 They would go on to divorce when she was seven.

00:05:18.980 She was largely raised by her mother.

00:05:20.780 Religiously, she also grew up going to Hindu church.

00:05:23.120 Her mother told the Los Angeles Times in 2004, quote,

00:05:25.740 a culture that worships goddesses produces strong women. 1.00

00:05:28.580 She performs all rituals and says all prayers at the temple.

00:05:31.120 My family always wanted the children to learn the traditions

00:05:33.380 irrespective of their place of birth.

00:05:34.920 Kamala grew up in the uber-liberal enclave of Berkeley

00:05:37.560 for a few years, from 1970 to 1976.

00:05:40.360 Later, of course, Kamala would claim to have been victimized by segregation,

00:05:43.460 most famously in her second presidential debate when she targeted Joe Biden. 1.00

00:05:46.880 We've also heard, and I'm going to now direct this at Vice President Biden,

00:05:51.160 to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators

00:05:56.720 who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.

00:06:03.360 You also worked with them to oppose busing.

00:06:06.700 You know, there was a little girl in California

00:06:08.720 who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools,

00:06:13.360 and she was bused to school every day.

00:06:16.720 And that little girl was me.

00:06:18.220 When Kamala was 12, she moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, Canada.

00:06:21.940 There, she went to school at the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Nages,

00:06:25.580 then Westmount High School.

00:06:27.200 According to the New York Times,

00:06:28.580 quote,

00:06:30.600 According to one of Kamala's classmates,

00:06:38.360 students at her school were more divided, quote,

00:06:40.420 about who had the latest Jordache genes than about race.

00:06:43.460 In other words, Kamala certainly did not grow up in the face of widespread and sinister American racism.

00:06:48.380 She spent her most formative years in Canada.

00:06:50.500 Nonetheless, after high school, Kamala went to college at Howard University,

00:06:53.940 a historically black university.

00:06:55.620 She chose Howard because, as she later told the Washington Post,

00:06:58.440 When you're at an HBCU, and especially one with the size and with the history of Howard University,

00:07:03.400 and also in the context of also being in D.C.,

00:07:05.620 which was known forever as being Chocolate City,

00:07:07.980 it just becomes about you understanding that there is a whole world of people who are like you.

00:07:12.540 It's not just about there are a few of us who may find each other.

00:07:15.480 She was searching for an identity,

00:07:17.200 and she found one, becoming a social justice activist as soon as she got there.

00:07:21.080 According to the Post,

00:07:22.240 quote,

00:07:22.460 She spent many weekends protesting against apartheid in South Africa on the Mall in Washington, D.C.,

00:07:27.100 and she took part in a 1983 sit-in of an administration building to protest the expulsion

00:07:31.460 of the student newspaper's editor.

00:07:33.360 After attending Howard, Kamala went to the University of California Hastings College of Law.

00:07:37.340 She interned at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office between second and third year at law school,

00:07:41.760 as well as becoming president of the National Black Law Students Association.

00:07:45.260 She failed her first attempt at the California Bar,

00:07:47.600 later making the excuse she hadn't properly studied.

00:07:49.920 Nonetheless, she latched on at the District Attorney's Office as a deputy prosecutor.

00:07:53.760 And Kamala's career might well have ended there, as a local prosecutor. 1.00

00:07:57.620 But then, in 1994, she met someone very important.

00:08:01.180 Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown.

00:08:03.660 Willie Brown had entered the California State Assembly in 1964, the same year Kamala was born.

00:08:08.180 He was 60 years old when they began dating, Kamala, a mere 29.

00:08:11.800 Brown was a famous womanizer who led a separate life from his wife,

00:08:14.580 and apparently had done so since 1980.

00:08:16.680 Bill Clinton called him the real slick Willie.

00:08:19.280 Brown was a California political kingmaker,

00:08:21.160 looking for a new gig after Speaker of the Assembly.

00:08:23.620 He wanted to run for mayor of San Francisco.

00:08:25.720 And Kamala was, to put it mildly, a woman on the make. 0.96

00:08:29.020 Within months, Brown wasn't just squiring around Kamala publicly,

00:08:32.300 introducing her to all the important people in California culture and politics.

00:08:36.300 He was actually appointing her to public positions, taxpayer-funded public positions.

00:08:40.980 First, he appointed her to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board,

00:08:44.760 a position that compensated her $97,000 annually.

00:08:48.120 That would be about $205,000 today.

00:08:50.000 She left after six months, but he then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission,

00:08:54.660 which paid her over $70,000 per year, about $150,000 today.

00:08:58.880 As the Washington Examiner reports, the commission met just twice per month.

00:09:02.300 Kamala still missed one-fifth of all the meetings.

00:09:04.600 Kamala herself was the youngest member of the board by 30 years.

00:09:07.900 Brown sent her a letter stating,

00:09:08.960 I am confident that your knowledge and experience will contribute significantly to the important work of the commission.

00:09:14.120 At the time, she had zero experience in health or medicine, despite the fact that the committee was supposed to be,

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00:10:43.500 Former Republican California State Assemblyman Brett Grunlin told the Examiner,

00:10:46.820 quote, both boards are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards, for personal service.

00:10:52.580 Personal service, indeed.

00:10:54.080 As Kamala's mother would later tell the press, quote, why shouldn't she have gone out with Willie Brown? 0.97

00:10:57.920 He was a player.

00:10:58.920 Brown didn't just provide a public pension to his lover.

00:11:01.040 He also familiarized her with the top players in the state.

00:11:03.460 As journalist Charlie Spearing writes in his political biography of Kamala, Amateur Hour, quote,

00:11:07.700 Brown and Harris only dated for about a year, but he made a foundational impact on her political and financial future.

00:11:12.480 In his last year as California Speaker of the Assembly, Brown appointed his new girlfriend to two positions in state government 0.96

00:11:17.880 that, all told, paid her more than $400,000 over five years.

00:11:21.800 Brown also gave Harris the keys to a BMW.

00:11:23.960 As Brown's girlfriend, Harris was featured in all the gossip and high society columns 1.00

00:11:27.460 as Brown worked the city for his campaign for mayor.

00:11:29.900 Brown has publicly acknowledged how much he helped her in her early years.

00:11:32.920 Yes, we dated.

00:11:33.720 It was more than 20 years ago, he wrote in 2019.

00:11:36.080 Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly Speaker, 0.61

00:11:40.460 and I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.

00:11:44.060 I've also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom,

00:11:47.480 Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a host of other politicians.

00:11:50.120 He does not note, however, that he never had sex with Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, or Dianne Feinstein, we presume.

00:11:55.360 Kamala was not just another fling for Willie Brown.

00:11:57.320 Some people around him thought it was serious.

00:11:59.320 Herb Cain, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who also happened to be Willie Brown's best friend,

00:12:03.500 wrote a lot about his relationship with Kamala.

00:12:05.200 In a June 19, 1995 report, Cain wrote that Brown had, quote,

00:12:08.800 given up girls in favor of a woman, Kamala Harris, who is exactly the steadying influence he needs.

00:12:13.900 In a December 14, 1995, Pete Sun Brown's victory party, Cain referred to Kamala as the, quote,

00:12:18.460 first lady-in-waiting.

00:12:19.680 He reported that the hat-ground war celebrating with

00:12:21.780 DA MAYOR written on it, in all caps, was a gift from Kamala.

00:12:25.040 But then, 11 days later, on the day after Christmas,

00:12:30.020 Cain wrote the newly elected mayor was putting the word out it was over with Kamala.

00:12:33.200 He said the breakup was shocking and flabbergasted aides, who viewed Kamala as the perfect antidote

00:12:37.720 to his playboy tendencies.

00:12:39.420 So, what happened?

00:12:41.000 For that, you need to look in Willie Brown's own autobiography, Basic Brown.

00:12:44.460 Without mentioning Kamala by name, he says his actual wife, Blanche Vitero,

00:12:48.120 put her foot down once she saw the reports about how serious things were with Kamala.

00:12:51.760 In the book, Brown writes that while Blanche, quote,

00:12:53.640 usually maintained her cool about his philandering,

00:12:55.880 every once in a while, she made it clear who was boss.

00:12:58.420 After Blanche read an item in Herb Cain's column that implied a girlfriend of mine and I were going to get married,

00:13:02.820 this is what she said to a friend, quote,

00:13:05.080 Listen, she may have him at the moment, but come inauguration day and he's up there on the platform being sworn in.

00:13:09.900 I'll be the building the Bible. 0.96

00:13:11.400 That's from Willie Brown himself.

00:13:12.960 Why was he scared of his wife?

00:13:14.100 Well, in the book, he also writes that she was a high priestess in Haitian voodoo religion.

00:13:18.440 So, maybe it was that.

00:13:19.560 But more importantly, any notion this wasn't an affair because Brown and his wife were long estranged

00:13:24.380 seems to be undercut by Brown himself.

00:13:26.460 They broke up because Willie Brown was married.

00:13:29.100 And maybe that explains the animosity Kamala clearly still has. 1.00

00:13:31.940 Brown wouldn't leave his voodoo priestess wife to make Kamala San Francisco's first lady. 0.52

00:13:36.860 As Fearing points out in his book, Kamala still refuses to acknowledge her debt to her former lover.

00:13:41.080 Later in her career, as she ran for San Francisco district attorney with his help, she insisted, quote,

00:13:45.260 His career is over.

00:13:46.340 I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.

00:13:48.660 I do not owe him a thing.

00:13:49.980 If there is corruption, it will be prosecuted.

00:13:52.060 Kamala doesn't mention Willie Brown once in her autobiography.

00:13:54.900 In 1998, San Francisco district attorney Terrence Hallin hired the now 33-year-old Kamala.

00:13:59.380 She was to be paid some $100,000 per year, almost $200,000 in today's dollars.

00:14:04.560 Hallinan called her a terrific prosecutor with a great reputation.

00:14:07.820 He also insisted he had not spoken with Willie Brown about her hiring until it was all done.

00:14:12.240 Sure.

00:14:13.120 The next year, despite questions about Hallinan's far-left progressive prosecutorial style, Brown backed Hallinan.

00:14:18.520 Kamala, though, quickly became disillusioned with her lack of power in the prosecutor's office. 1.00

00:14:22.600 She tried to get Hallinan's chief deputy fired. 1.00

00:14:24.540 When she failed in August 2000, she moved to the city attorney's office and set her sights on defenestrating her former boss. 0.99

00:14:30.800 Kamala's next ambitious move would be the betrayal of the man who hired her at the San Francisco district attorney's office. 0.97

00:14:36.380 Just three months after she moved offices, in October 2000, Willie Brown began publicly criticizing Hallinan, paving the way for the Kamala Harris for DA campaign.

00:14:44.540 And I made a very conscious and deliberate decision to become a prosecutor,

00:14:48.100 understanding that it is some of the most vulnerable people in our community who are impacted by the criminal justice system.

00:14:53.780 Kamala turned on Hallinan as soft on crime and tried to make the case that she would be far harsher on criminals than Hallinan had. 0.98

00:14:59.520 She went out of her way to slam Hallinan's refusal to prosecute thousands who had rioted over the Iraq war.

00:15:04.440 She slammed Hallinan as a man willing to let murderers off the hook.

00:15:07.820 She accused Hallinan of, quote,

00:15:09.040 lying to us about his domestic violence record, adding,

00:15:11.520 women are dying because of it. 1.00

00:15:13.120 As we'll see, this was merely rhetoric.

00:15:14.940 In office, Kamala would follow Hallinan's San Francisco prosecutorial model herself. 1.00

00:15:19.320 Hallinan struck back by pointing out Kamala's relationship with Brown.

00:15:21.980 In response, Kamala threw Willie Brown under the bus, undoubtedly with his tacit permission.

00:15:26.500 As the Los Angeles Times would later report,

00:15:28.420 quote, Brown, the outgoing mayor, less than universally loved at the end of his second term,

00:15:32.180 kept his public role minimal.

00:15:33.640 But his stamp of approval was crucial in raising money from the San Francisco establishment,

00:15:37.780 said Aaron Peskin, a board of supervisors member who backed Harris.

00:15:40.780 Kamala wasn't above skirting the line either. 0.54

00:15:42.940 As the Times reported, quote,

00:15:44.180 the City Ethics Commission fined Harris $34,000 for breaching a spending cap she promised to honor.

00:15:48.960 And her campaign manager was caught impersonating a volunteer for a rival

00:15:52.140 in a bungled attempt to gain inside information.

00:15:54.380 She's already accumulated half a dozen misdemeanors,

00:15:57.700 the highest fine in the history of the San Francisco Ethics Commission,

00:16:01.580 and committed violation after violation of our ethics code.

00:16:05.760 But Kamala Harris did win. 1.00

00:16:07.300 For the city and county of San Francisco.

00:16:09.520 Congratulations.

00:16:11.740 After winning, as has been the consistent pattern throughout her career,

00:16:15.000 Kamala immediately embarked on a campaign for higher office. 1.00

00:16:17.560 This involved two simultaneous goals.

00:16:22.760 First, catering to her radical left-wing base.

00:16:25.220 Second, acting tough on crime.

00:16:27.440 Now, there's no easy way to square those two goals,

00:16:29.700 unless you're willing to lie.

00:16:31.320 And that's precisely what Kamala did. 1.00

00:16:33.240 In her inaugural speech, she promised to be smart on crime.

00:16:36.360 By smart, she meant dishonest.

00:16:38.000 First, she sought to cater to her left-wing base. 0.98

00:16:40.540 Kamala had campaigned as an opponent of the death penalty,

00:16:42.820 and she held to that even after the April 2004 murder of police officer Isaac Espinoza by a gang member.

00:16:48.600 Quote,

00:16:48.760 We have thoroughly reviewed the facts and the law in this case, said Kamala.

00:16:52.320 It was a complicated analysis that involved many issues, many facts, and many laws.

00:16:56.400 It wasn't.

00:16:57.080 She just didn't want a death penalty case on her record, 0.96

00:16:59.040 despite the protestations of then-Senator Dianne Feinstein.

00:17:02.220 Kamala also avoided seeking the death penalty for an illegal immigrant gang member who committed a triple homicide.

00:17:06.860 It simply wouldn't do to look too right-wing in going after murderers,

00:17:09.960 even if she had criticized her predecessor for just that sort of conciliatory approach to homicide.

00:17:15.220 Kamala also reversed herself on her critique of Halinin regarding the Iraq War rioters.

00:17:19.180 She ended up letting all of them off the hook.

00:17:21.140 Her office was responsible for the release on probation of a suspect who would murder a prominent Oakland journalist.

00:17:26.080 She refused to prosecute criminals under California's so-called three-strike law unless the final felony was violent.

00:17:31.760 It turns out her campaign as a smart crime fighter was just a facade for the reality.

00:17:35.980 More San Francisco leftism.

00:17:37.240 But somehow Kamala also had to appear tough on crime, at least tough enough to run for Attorney General of California. 1.00

00:17:42.640 And so she began falsifying her prosecutorial statistics.

00:17:45.760 Now, there are two ways of increasing your conviction rates as a prosecutor.

00:17:49.040 First, you can actually increase the number of convictions out of the number of trials.

00:17:52.860 You know, you can be a better prosecutor.

00:17:54.500 Second, you can decrease the number of trials altogether while holding the number of convictions steady.

00:17:58.960 Give a bunch of cases easy plea bargains.

00:18:01.220 Kamala, of course, went with strategy number two.

00:18:03.320 As Charlie Spearing reports, quote,

00:18:04.880 Of the backlog of 73 homicide cases on Hallinan's watch, Harris cut a deal for 32 of them and only convicted 15 of the defendants for murder.

00:18:12.280 Police officers didn't understand why cases were being dropped.

00:18:15.000 But the answer was obvious.

00:18:16.360 Fewer cases you need to prosecute means fewer cases you need to win to keep your conviction rate up.

00:18:20.660 Kamala continued to take both sides of nearly every issue during her time at San Francisco DA. 0.92

00:18:24.820 She refused to prosecute prostitution but opposed decriminalization.

00:18:27.760 She supported legalizing medical pot but also supported federal officers arresting distributors.

00:18:32.580 She tried to prosecute a schizophrenic woman who was injured by the police after attacking officers.

00:18:36.700 Most famously, she began arguing she could lock up parents of truant children.

00:18:40.360 I would not be standing here were it not for the education I received.

00:18:44.840 So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.

00:18:50.120 Later, of course, she would argue she never actually imprisoned parents.

00:18:52.940 But that's not what she was bragging about at the time, trying to be top cop.

00:18:56.440 Her incompetence nearly exploded into the open in 2010 when a member of her office emailed a colleague

00:19:01.300 about an increasingly undependable crime lab technician.

00:19:04.580 That crime lab technician, Deborah Madden, wasn't merely undependable, it turned out.

00:19:08.200 She was criminal.

00:19:09.120 She had tampered with cocaine and stolen some of it. 0.99

00:19:11.320 A court found that Kamala, quote,

00:19:12.660 failed to produce exculpatory information actually in her possession regarding Madden and the crime lab.

00:19:17.800 The court blasted Kamala for significant errors and misjudgment.

00:19:20.860 Hundreds of cases were affected.

00:19:22.120 Kamala would herself dismiss some 1,000 drug-related cases

00:19:25.240 in order to get the scandal off the books.

00:19:27.140 Once again, she was willing to let hundreds of criminals onto the streets 0.78

00:19:29.820 in order to cut short the terrible headlines.

00:19:31.940 All of this time, Kamala's eyes were on the next rung on the political ladder, 0.66

00:19:35.360 state attorney general.

00:19:36.640 To achieve that office, Kamala would have to increase her name brand. 1.00

00:19:39.720 And the media were prepared to help her out.

00:19:41.460 Now to a woman named one of America's most powerful women by Newsweek magazine.

00:19:45.620 As San Francisco's first female African-American and Indian-American district attorney,

00:19:51.240 Kamala Harris has received praise for raising conviction rates against violent criminals

00:19:56.080 while creating innovative programs to reduce crime and prevent repeat offenders.

00:20:00.760 Now if you were to watch that interview with Matt Lauer,

00:20:15.280 you'd think Kamala Harris had been wildly successful in San Francisco. 1.00

00:20:18.480 But in reality, her tenure was a failure with low conviction rates

00:20:21.380 and according to her opponents, the highest homicide and robbery rates in the state.

00:20:25.080 Nonetheless, celebrity power triumph.

00:20:26.880 Kamala won the primary.

00:20:28.000 She then moved on to the general election against Republican Steve Cooley,

00:20:31.460 DA for Los Angeles.

00:20:32.780 Cooley promptly hit the nail on the head,

00:20:34.540 pointing out she had no intention of remaining attorney general for the state,

00:20:37.380 that she had her eyes on higher office.

00:20:39.360 For Kamala's part, she wasn't exactly hiding the ball.

00:20:41.700 She recruited high-profile supporters, including President Barack Obama.

00:20:44.880 Her relationship with Obama would later become a crucial component in her rise.

00:20:48.500 In the end, Kamala pulled out an incredibly close race, winning by just 0.8%.

00:20:52.940 As California AG, Kamala was quickly hailed as one of the nation's most important women.

00:20:56.920 Her star was rising, and the media were burnishing it.

00:20:59.640 38-year-old Kamala Harris came out of nowhere and was swept into office as San Francisco's 0.99

00:21:04.660 district attorney.

00:21:05.720 And as she did, she made history.

00:21:07.780 She was the first woman ever to be the city's top prosecutor.

00:21:11.180 We take a look at a woman that many are calling the female Barack Obama.

00:21:15.540 With a 90% conviction rate, superstar prosecutor Kamala Harris made history when she was elected 1.00

00:21:21.740 California's first African-American female district attorney.

00:21:26.060 Barack Obama in particular gave Kamala high praise, calling her the nation's best-looking

00:21:30.200 attorney general.

00:21:30.800 Mr. Obama praised California Attorney General Kamala Harris.

00:21:34.600 But then Mr. Obama added, she also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general 1.00

00:21:39.540 in the country.

00:21:40.400 The resulting media melee, which Kamala no doubt enjoyed, forced Obama to issue a half-hearted

00:21:44.620 apology.

00:21:45.420 Certainly Kamala wasn't offended.

00:21:46.880 She spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Obama's favor, raising her profile

00:21:50.800 too.

00:21:51.060 The American dream belongs to all of us.

00:21:54.940 And if we can work together and stand together and vote together on November 6th for President

00:22:02.960 Barack Obama, that's a dream we will put within reach of all our people.

00:22:10.400 How worshipful was the press to Kamala, this new rising star?

00:22:13.680 Maxim Magazine named her the 54th hottest woman in the world in 2013, beating out Brooklyn 0.96

00:22:19.360 Decker, Emmy Rossum, Emilia Clarke, and Jessica Chastain.

00:22:22.600 Obviously, Kamala was on the rise.

00:22:24.820 She was just as obviously dishonest.

00:22:26.500 Kamala knew she'd still have to play both sides of the table to preserve her campaign 1.00

00:22:29.600 for higher office.

00:22:30.560 To that end, she pretended to act as a tough-on-crime top cop, cut deals where she had to, and she

00:22:35.320 played to a radical base at the same time.

00:22:37.140 And in California, she got away with it.

00:22:38.660 In 2012, Kamala came under scrutiny from her left for cutting a deal with the banks after 1.00

00:22:42.920 the housing meltdown of 2008.

00:22:44.760 She refused to prosecute One West for predatory lending.

00:22:47.720 This led to criticisms of cronyism from the left, given that key investors included Kamala

00:22:51.740 donors like Steve Mnuchin and George Soros.

00:22:54.180 She also fell under the spotlight after her office made the argument that prisoners slated

00:22:57.960 for release due to prison overcrowding had to be maintained to provide a labor pool for

00:23:02.040 the prisons.

00:23:02.600 Quote, extending two-for-one credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely

00:23:06.800 impact fire camp participation, a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle

00:23:11.140 of a difficult fire season and severe drought, her office wrote.

00:23:14.080 When that news broke, Kamala pretended to be shocked.

00:23:16.660 After all, who could expect the attorney general to read the paperwork her own office was filing? 0.63

00:23:21.000 Meanwhile, Kamala even took a position against cash bail and defended death penalty cases in

00:23:25.220 court, despite her prior opposition to the death penalty as a DA in San Francisco.

00:23:29.480 Now that her eyes were on the national level, she knew she'd have to distance herself at

00:23:32.820 least a little from the San Francisco radical left.

00:23:35.220 But Kamala also played to that left.

00:23:37.540 She infamously refused to defend the will of California voters in the courts in 2012,

00:23:41.580 when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals moved to discard Proposition 8, California's referendum

00:23:45.800 enshrining male-female marriage as the only legal standard for marriage in the state.

00:23:49.580 The night the proposition was killed by the Ninth Circuit, she herself officiated a same-sex

00:23:53.540 wedding ceremony.

00:23:54.440 I now declare you spouses for life.

00:23:59.180 This amounted to a fundamental betrayal of her office.

00:24:01.960 The attorney general of a state doesn't simply get to overrule the people of that state by

00:24:06.500 refusing to defend the law, but Kamala did, and she was celebrated for it. 0.67

00:24:10.480 All was well in Kamala-land, and it was about to get even better. 0.98

00:24:14.280 In 2014, at the ripe old age of 49, just in time for her next political step, she married

00:24:19.220 a wealthy lawyer named Doug Emhoff.

00:24:21.240 As stepmom to Emhoff's two children, she began calling herself Mamala.

00:24:25.260 Kamala easily won re-election as attorney general.

00:24:27.380 Then, in January 2015, Senator Barbara Boxer announced she would leave office. 0.99

00:24:31.960 That left the door wide open to Kamala, by far the most prominent Democrat in the race. 0.99

00:24:36.440 Not only that, California had recently changed its laws so that the top two candidates in

00:24:40.980 an open primary would face each other in the senatorial election.

00:24:44.180 That meant for the first time, no Republican would appear on the final ballot at all, meaning

00:24:49.020 that Kamala only had to be the most popular Democrat in the state to walk into the Senate. 0.99

00:24:53.560 All the stars were aligning.

00:24:54.900 But Kamala would use her final few months as attorney general to polish her left-wing 1.00

00:24:59.240 bona fides.

00:25:00.280 In April 2016, she targeted David DeLayden and Sandra Merritt, pro-life activists who

00:25:04.860 had the temerity to report on the selling of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood.

00:25:08.440 Meanwhile, she was touting Planned Parenthood on her own website.

00:25:11.580 As Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony, lists, I'd quote,

00:25:14.980 The fact that Ms. Harris is seizing private property of a pro-life California activist who has

00:25:19.540 exposed horrific practices conducted by Planned Parenthood, which donated thousands to her

00:25:23.960 last campaign. While her Senate campaign promotes and defends them, the nation's largest abortion 0.94

00:25:28.180 provider is a conflict of interest and abuse of government power. DeLayden stated, quote,

00:25:32.540 This is no surprise. Planned Parenthood's bought-and-paid-for AG has steadfastly refused

00:25:36.380 to enforce the law against the baby body parts traffickers in our state or even investigate

00:25:40.400 them, while at the same time doing their bidding to harass and intimidate citizen journalists.

00:25:44.340 We will pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights.

00:25:46.700 In May 2020, DeLayden filed suit against Kamala for civil rights violations.

00:25:51.360 No matter. Kamala's 2016 Senate campaign was a romp. It required no serious campaign 0.71

00:25:55.940 infrastructure, given that no Republican was running against her. It also required no discipline.

00:26:00.560 As The Atlantic reported in December 2015, Kamala was, quote,

00:26:03.980 The Senate candidate driving Democrats crazy. According to The Atlantic, quote,

00:26:07.580 One stay, one hotel, $1,886. That's how much Kamala Harris's campaign spent this March 1.00

00:26:13.380 to put up the California Senate candidate at Washington's luxurious St. Regis Hotel.

00:26:17.780 A review of the Harris campaign's Federal Election Commission reports reveals it was far

00:26:21.300 from a one-time splurge. In June, the campaign spent $1,500 to house Harris for a night at

00:26:26.700 Houston's posh Houstonian Hotel. In July, it was another night at the St. Regis, this time for $1,600.

00:26:32.400 In Chicago, it was the Waldorf Astoria. In Boston, the Four Seasons. And on four occasions this year,

00:26:37.540 Harris's campaign paid for rooms at the Pricey W Hotel in Los Angeles. The total price tag for these

00:26:42.000 first-class accommodations, almost $18,000. Campaigns typically shell out big bucks on media

00:26:46.700 buys, staff salaries, and expensive fundraisers. But spending it on housing, particularly when far

00:26:51.020 cheaper options are available, is atypical, campaign veterans say, and even Harris's fellow

00:26:54.840 Democrats have taken notice. But Kamala Harris was, in her own eyes, a star. And she deserved star 0.74

00:27:00.380 treatment. Kamala's bad campaign habits didn't cost her anything in 2016. But they would come 1.00

00:27:13.140 back to bite her down the road. For now, though, Kamala's star was on the rise. Kamala Harris had

00:27:17.940 gone from California bar failure to California senator, from Willie Brown's lover to Barbara

00:27:22.220 Boxer's seat. And Senator Kamala Harris had her eyes on just one target, the 2020 presidential election.

00:27:30.380 So how could you view your website data? And with those Instagramitこと, do you see that

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 09, 2024

Scamala： Kamala Harris Unmasked ｜ Episode 1 - Introducing Scamala

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