With less than a month to go before the mid-term primary election, we take a look at the life and career of Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate running for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts). In this episode, we speak with attorney James O'Keefe, who first met Kamala in 2003 and has been with her since the beginning of her political career. He talks about how she became a lawyer, her early life growing up in the streets of Oakland, California, and how she went on to become one of the most powerful women in the country. He also talks about why she decided to run for office and why she thinks she has a chance to win in November. Tune in to learn more about Kamala and her life, and why it s important to remember who she really is and what she s all about. You can catch up on our newest documentary, Line in the Sand, starting October 10th, premiering only on TCN on October 10, 2019. You can sign up to watch Line In The Sand starting on October 9, 2019, only on the TCN Network streaming channel, where you get access to the entire documentary and access all of the episodes starting on the 10th and 11th of every month. You won t be able to access Line in-depth coverage of the documentary starting on The Tucker Carlson Show wherever you get your favorite streaming service. Thanks for listening! -Tucker Carlson Logo by Courtney DeKane. Music by PSOVOD, produced and produced by Riley Bray. and edited by Kaitlynneat&rews. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Tucker Carlson Podcast. -The Tucker Show is a production of Gimlet Media and we hope you enjoy the show and share it with your friends and family and friends. Thank you so much for all of your support and support the show! -Kamala Harris and her supporters everywhere else, thank you for all your support, we really really appreciate it. -Tuckercarlsonson@tuckerclarencecrarlson.co.co - Thank you, kim@tuckcarlson -p&p&t=a&p=1&q=3&q&a&qid=8&qtrk=3 &qtr=1s&qref=1 KAMALA Harris
00:07:03.780And that said, he was tough on murders and tough on the serious crimes, but it was the lower level drug dealers and so forth, that quality of life crimes that he was a little bit softer on.
00:07:15.460But he recruited Kamala Harris, or hired her anyway, and hired her out of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
00:07:25.760And during that campaign in 2003, he actually said that he did it as a favor to the mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown.
00:07:38.800But he gave her her chance to move from the job she was in, which was sort of, you know, Alameda County's not San Francisco.
00:07:46.220You know, San Francisco's the big leagues where all the glamorous stuff happens in the Bay Area and where we had two United States senators from there.
00:07:54.800A lot of the top brass in California that's now infecting the United States came from San Francisco County.
00:08:02.840So, she was a step up to go to be a prosecutor in the big city there in San Francisco.
00:08:07.440So, she got her opportunity to move over there.
00:08:10.460And she was the head of the criminal organization's five-person unit after being there for a bit of time.
00:08:21.660And so, you know, it was five people she was in charge of, but she was passed over for chief of staff, which is the number two position in the district attorney's office on two occasions.
00:08:30.460And, you know, as soon as she got there, she began making her mark and setting her eyes on her political career.
00:08:35.520Okay. So, starting around age 29, again, when she moved to San Francisco, she started dating the mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown.
00:08:47.780And he had been the speaker of the assembly.
00:08:50.800He was maybe the most powerful machine politician in Democrat politics.
00:08:57.280Willie Brown and John Burton ran San Francisco.
00:09:01.360They had a political machine, and to win election in that town, their stamp of approval was necessary.
00:09:08.580And they really had a, I mean, not a complete control, but they were the most formidable block to get ahead in San Francisco.
00:09:16.120So, they kind of approved who got to be on the board of supervisors who, you know, really ran for all these different positions and handed out patronage jobs in the city.
00:09:24.740And so, the fastest way to ascend in politics there is to be tied to the coattails of Willie Brown.
00:09:33.880And so, you know, she did that, and I don't know what-
00:09:36.460Well, more tied, more than tied to the coattails.
00:09:38.580I mean, she's sleeping with him, right?
00:09:44.260And so, he's 90 today, but he was married throughout this time that he was together with her for two years.
00:09:49.860Okay, and so, they were a society couple, and they went to all the operas, ballets, black tie events very openly.
00:09:58.000And, you know, I've met Willie Brown several times.
00:09:59.800He just, you know, that's not disputed that he gave her her start in politics and almost certainly encouraged her, hey, maybe you should register to vote.
00:10:11.920Certainly, how to move up in the ranks.
00:10:15.020And so, one of the ways you do that is you get started with some lower-level elective office.
00:10:20.360But even before that, a lot of our politicians in Congress and in the Senate and, you know, former presidents have been lawyers.
00:10:28.340It's a great stepping stone to a political career.
00:10:32.220So, getting a good record in the DA's office would have been a way to do that.
00:10:37.660So, she, you know, hustled her way into the district attorney's office and immediately began setting her sights on her power base.
00:10:46.860So, she developed relationships in the African-American community, became friendly with Amos Brown, a notorious pastor and activist in the Bayview Hunters Point District, where there's a large African-American population there.
00:11:02.880And, you know, it's one of the rougher parts of town where the projects are.
00:11:07.280A lot of the drug and gang violence was centered in that area.
00:11:10.400And so, she tried to make that her patch.
00:11:12.900And her theme was, you know, supposedly hard on crime, but not in an unfair, disproportionate way on the African-American community.
00:11:23.420So, as you know, during that time, the 1990s, there was a lot of discussion in our country about harsh drug laws and disproportionate impact on African-Americans.
00:11:33.400And so, she kind of focused her efforts on that.
00:11:37.440And that was her assignment was criminal organizations, basically gangs.
00:11:42.280So, she was a gang and drug prosecutor, not a murder prosecutor, not a violent crime prosecutor.
00:11:48.540She never was that in her jobs before she became the district attorney.
00:11:53.000So, she wanted those jobs, according to reporting at the time.
00:11:58.200She wanted to be moved up to the more serious responsibilities of violent crime and murder prosecutor.
00:12:05.320But she never was given that opportunity by Terrence Halinan, who I think, reading between the lines, began to suspect that she was gunning for his job pretty early on.
00:12:16.040So, after she was passed over a couple of times for the top lieutenant position in the district attorney's office, she quit.
00:12:25.180She quit and she went immediately sideways to the city attorney's office in San Francisco, which is also a prominent breeding ground for some excellent judges.
00:12:37.080So, she moved sideways after less than two years at the district attorney's office to the city attorney's office, where she put together a portfolio involving child welfare and, you know, sort of juvenile offenders.
00:13:04.520Again, I would call it a pretty fluffy portfolio, but something that's designed to give her something to talk about if she runs for office.
00:13:12.340And so, for two or three years, she spent her time there at the city attorney's office.
00:13:16.800Again, by the way, all on the, you know, public employment.
00:13:20.640She's never had a job in the private sector.
00:13:37.320While she was doing some of these jobs, she actually was doing multiple jobs on paper.
00:13:42.240Because Willie Brown, one of the positions that you get access to when you're the speaker, and then you pretty much continue to have a lot of access to over the years, is the ability to appoint people to patronage jobs.
00:13:57.440And so, before he, you know, kind of left the speaker's office, he was able to appoint her to one of two commissions.
00:14:06.420So, she was on a taxpayer-funded commission called the Unemployment Appeals Board.
00:14:13.780And so, you hear appeals of denials of unemployment benefits.
00:14:18.400That's a cushy part-time job, which pays almost $100,000 salary.
00:14:24.620And then he also got her appointed to a second sort of part-time job, very part-time, a couple of days a month again, something called the Medical Assistance Commission, which was dealing with Medi-Cal contracts and appeals over that.
00:14:43.720And so, over the years that she was taking a salary as first an Alameda County Prosecutor and then a San Francisco County Prosecutor, she earned an additional over $400,000 over a five-year period from these low-show slash no-show jobs.
00:15:07.680Willie Brown gave Kamala Harris a BMW?
00:15:10.860He gave her a BMW, and he got her these extra hundreds of thousands of dollars of jobs.
00:15:15.520And to give you some perspective, the salary of a prosecutor around that time was about $100,000.
00:15:20.820So, she basically got double or triple what her colleagues were getting.
00:15:25.100So, imagine the morale in the office when your person sitting next to you is also dating the mayor and also is making hundreds of thousands of dollars more than you because...
00:15:52.380And, you know, she's had to face these criticisms over time.
00:15:55.640I mean, she's become very glib and good at deflecting the criticism.
00:16:02.540But I don't think it's disputable that the extra income and, more importantly, the patronage that she enjoyed in her 20s and early 30s made her the person who's, you know, the vice president of the United States today and seeking the top job.
00:16:21.820Not merit, but influence peddling and using her female wiles.
00:16:27.680And just all the sleaze and corruption that inevitably arises in a one-party state like California.
00:16:33.960You know, multiplied by 100 when you're dating the most, you know, powerful person there.
00:16:39.640And even after she broke up with him, as the story goes, because she realized that he was never going to make her a wife.
00:16:47.760She continued that strong relationship.
00:16:50.580And to this day, you know, Willie Brown has endorsed her and is, you know, out there helping her raise money.
00:16:57.120And so she had broken up with him by the time she ran for district attorney.
00:17:02.380But he was instrumental in helping her raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and eventually winning in that position.
00:17:08.880Willie Brown has a reputation for the last 60 years for corruption.
00:17:52.400So there was some corruption in the police department in San Francisco.
00:17:56.020The SFPD had a scandal called Fajita Gate, where some cops got into a beef with some street vendors over some fajitas.
00:18:04.820You know, it's kind of a silly beginning of the story.
00:18:09.300But the end of that story is that Terrence Hallinan brought charges against the police chief, his deputy, and some other cops involved in this scandal.
00:18:24.240You know, he had put all these people, basically, everybody in the top jobs in San Francisco owed it in some way to Willie Brown.
00:18:30.560And so Willie Brown was able to get stuff done in the city as a lobbyist and as a fixer, and particularly for the real estate industry, by controlling a lot of the elected officials and the law enforcement in San Francisco.
00:18:46.920There were corruption investigations that Terrence Hallinan was looking at regarding some of this power structure in San Francisco.
00:18:56.700And so by replacing Terrence Hallinan, Willie Brown, through his agent of Kamala Harris, was able to put an end to some of these investigations.
00:19:06.980These investigations were quietly dropped.
00:19:09.240The Fajita Gate thing quietly went away.
00:19:28.600The police were also frustrated at Hallinan's failure to take drug dealers off the streets.
00:19:33.400So Willie Brown, through that dint of getting his former mistress the DA job by helping her raise money, getting her key endorsements from the socialites, the Getty family and all the top families in San Francisco who backed her, the founder of North Face and others.
00:19:54.160The Getty family would be the patrons of Gavin Newsom, now the governor.
00:19:58.040Gavin Newsom's patrons and the patrons, I mean, I think they're supporters of Kamala Harris and others.
00:20:03.280They've supported every major Democrat elite in California.
00:20:08.140And so, you know, they're Pacific Heights establishment, noblesse, oblige there.
00:20:16.560Pacific Heights being one of the richest neighborhoods in San Francisco.
00:20:19.700And so, fundraisers, glittering events, black tie events, patrons of the arts, you know, these are the folks, these are the circles that Kamala Harris moved in through Willie Brown's assistance.
00:20:31.960And so, Willie Brown was able to put an end to pesky investigations into corruption in San Francisco and misconduct by the police department by getting Kamala Harris installed over there.
00:20:46.420So, everything became smooth again when she became the district attorney and stayed that way under control for many years while she was the district attorney until she ran for attorney general.
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00:23:25.400Well, she's a shapeshifter, like I said.
00:23:29.080So, although, you know, I saw an explanation in one of these liberal publications trying to explain how throughout most of her career,
00:23:37.580she's passed as African American and not mixed race, because, of course, not until Tiger Woods became prominent did people parse out their differences in their racial background.
00:23:50.240So, you know, it was suggested that she had to pick one or the other early in her career, and she largely identified as African American.
00:23:58.960And so, she really focused on the African American community in San Francisco.
00:24:15.000But she was, quote, focused on the African American.
00:24:16.560She was focused on the African American community.
00:24:19.360Now, I've read just about everything that's been written about her, and back in that time period,
00:24:24.800Willie Brown actually got one of his political clients and patrons to rent her campaign headquarters in Bayview Hunters Point.
00:24:33.680Not where she lived and not where the courthouse is, but she had her campaign headquarters in that African American neighborhood at well below market rent from a connection of Willie Brown's.
00:25:49.840So, I had a friend from the South Asian Bar Association who'd practiced with her in the DA's office in Alameda County who was, you know, helping her with her DA run.
00:25:57.440And so, I went to this fundraiser, I was new to town and, you know, Kamala Harris walks into the fundraiser.
00:26:03.620It was all Indian Americans at this particular fundraiser.
00:26:06.140And so, she was, you know, she was all business, no nonsense, strides into the room wearing a designer outfit well beyond her means as a district attorney, assistant district attorney, or at that time city attorney employee.
00:26:19.020Like, four-inch heels, you know, strides confidently into the room and begins telling us why she's going to be the better candidate than Terrence Hallinan, who was running for re-election.
00:26:29.820And I recall from that meeting, you know, she was really focused on process.
00:26:33.540She didn't really have a policy difference with Terrence Hallinan.
00:26:37.100She has also always painted herself as a progressive, but tough on crime, but progressive prosecutor.
00:26:44.320So, she talked a lot about how the computers in the district attorney's office were outdated and, you know, we really needed to professionalize the office.
00:26:53.900I mean, who could argue with that, right?
00:26:55.320I mean, of course, the district attorney's office in a major American city should have up-to-date computers.
00:27:00.100I mean, I had them in my law firm practice.
00:27:03.940And, you know, she also criticized Hallinan for being soft on crime, which in retrospect is not fair because she had a much worse record than him in prosecuting violent crime.
00:27:17.100But, you know, she really portrayed herself as just being the younger, more competent, liberal, but tough on crime prosecutor.
00:27:26.300And so, she was planning to prosecute marijuana and drug offenses.
00:27:31.720She was planning to prosecute, you know, all these quality of life crimes that Hallinan allegedly wasn't prosecuting.
00:27:38.280And so, that was her selling point in this fundraiser.
00:27:42.740But when I saw her in other settings, you know, she didn't identify with the Indian American community at all.
00:27:48.860And so, I saw her in South Asian Bar Association events after she became the district attorney and otherwise.
00:27:54.720And so, when she came into an event where there were Indian Americans there, like a South Asian lawyers event, she was all, you know, namaste and, you know, all of that.
00:28:04.100But you never saw that outside that setting, right?
00:28:17.760And I immediately saw that when I saw her in more than one setting, that this woman is just pandering to whoever is in front of her, which is, of course, you and I have been around a lot of politicians over the years.
00:28:28.060That's a common theme in politics, right?
00:28:30.040But the extent to which she was willing to just adopt an abandoned persona was truly striking.
00:28:35.940Well, and it's the self-righteousness, too.
00:28:36.980I mean, you know, of course, every politician panders.
00:29:01.160Well, let me pick up on that for a second.
00:29:02.600So it's been really striking in this campaign for president.
00:29:06.580And even when she ran for president in 2019 and 2020, how she's very self-righteous about being in law enforcement and, you know, a top cop and a border cop and just like this law enforcement icon.
00:29:21.600But she actually began her career in politics by breaking the law on multiple occasions.
00:29:27.620And so this dates back even to before she ran for the district attorney position.
00:29:32.700In 2000, Willie Brown asked her to take a break from her job at the city attorney's office, take a little leave of absence, and do some work for Amos Brown, this notorious pastor who was running for re-election for the Board of Supervisors.
00:29:53.060And Amos Brown was representing that African-American community, and he was one of Willie Brown's people, right?
00:30:01.520And so she had no background in politics or anything, but, you know, he thought, well, this is a good way for you to learn the ropes of how a campaign is run.
00:30:14.740She was paid as a political consultant by Amos Brown's campaign, but she never registered under city law, which requires all political consultants who are paid by a campaign more than $1,000 to register.
00:30:29.380And so she was paid, I think, almost $10,000 during this time she worked there.
00:30:36.460She was called out on it, and she skated.
00:30:40.360She explained she didn't know the rules, and, you know, she hadn't really intended anything, and so I think a fine or some penalty was paid at that point.
00:30:48.840And that was the beginning of simply giving the middle finger to the law by Kamala Harris.
00:30:55.280She created—she got herself embroiled in a much bigger scandal when she ran for district attorney.
00:31:01.400So in San Francisco, like many of our liberal cities in California, there's campaign finance matching funds that are available, but there's also a benefit that you get if you agree to voluntarily cap your raising and spending.
00:31:16.140At the time, for mayor, I think it was a little bit higher, but for district attorney and mayor, it might have been the same.
00:31:24.380So if you agreed to cap your raising and spending at $211,000 in 2003, you got a statement published in the voter guide that's mailed to all the almost half a million voters in San Francisco, registered voters, saying that you had voluntarily agreed to confine yourself to that spending cap.
00:31:43.020So it's like a level playing field, and it's a little bit of a gold star that you're agreeing not to engage in corruption, wasteful spending, cronyism by raising money from all kinds of unknown sources.
00:31:57.300She signed it under penalty of perjury, saying, I, Kamala Harris, agree to this voluntary spending limit.
00:32:03.500The other—most of the other candidates in the race and candidates for mayor during that race, they also agreed to that spending limit.
00:32:10.320Okay, so most of the candidates running for office in California—San Francisco, rather—agreed to that spending limit.
00:32:17.580Well, it turns out that Kamala Harris, who, by the way, started out in this campaign third, behind her boss, Terrence Hallinan, who was in the lead, and then a guy named Vic Fazio, who was a former prosecutor, then defense attorney, who was going to be the hard-on-crime guy.
00:32:35.860He was eventually endorsed by the Republicans in San Francisco.
00:33:55.740She got the San Francisco Ethics Commission—and by the way, many of those people on the Ethics Commission owed their positions to Willie Brown.
00:34:04.500She got them to look the other way on this gross violation.
00:35:47.380Yeah, today's voice for justice, Kamala Harris for district attorney, you know, Aaron Peskin, Fiona Ma, you know, some of the shadiest politicians in California are here on her endorsement list.
00:36:00.380Of course, Willie Brown, she was, you know, she checked all the boxes to get the gay community on board, the Asian community on board.
00:36:08.620You know, she really put the coalition together thanks to the mentorship she enjoyed.
00:36:46.620This is another one of her glossy mayors, glossy mailers.
00:36:53.880So, she's a veteran prosecutor with 13 years of courtroom experience and a 90% conviction rate.
00:37:00.320She actually had only been a prosecutor for 10 years, and her conviction rate—I mean, you can manipulate any statistic you want by simply changing the numerator and the denominator.
00:37:13.120And so, you know, it's pretty incredible that the birth of this meteoric career comes out of multiple campaign finance violations.
00:37:30.340I mean, one of the mailers from the other side is a mailer from the Tenants Union, which was supporting Kamala Harris—sorry, supporting Terrence Hallinan.
00:37:43.640And they pointed out that she had committed another violation, and that is soliciting money from landlords who she was supposed to be regulating in her job at the city attorney's office.
00:37:55.300So, one of her jobs in the city attorney's office involved, you know, sort of the welfare of people who were on public assistance, and that included people in the SRO, single residence housing, and Section 8 housing.
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00:40:46.740And she was given a pass if she issued corrective apology and disclosure to the public.
00:40:55.320So, how she did that was she had a door hanger, and those of us who were involved in politics, you know, you go walk doors, you knock on the doors, and you hang a door hanger with your materials.
00:41:06.040So, she replaced her door hanger with this Kamala Harris folded door hanger, and then in the tiniest possible print—
00:41:21.840I mean, due to an error by the Kamala Harris campaign, the voter information pamphlet indicates that the campaign has agreed to voluntary limit campaign spending.
00:41:40.880The normal wage slave coming home from their actual job where they worked, you know, a full day, unlike Kamala Harris, would go and pull this off.
00:41:49.380People who are not dating Willie Brown, you mean.
00:41:51.800Those of us taxpayers who have private sector jobs, you come home, and the first thing you do with this annoying piece of crap is tear it off, right?
00:41:59.420So, this is the part that would fall to the ground when you tear it off and maybe clutch your mail and take it.
00:42:04.100And nobody read this, like, three-point disclosure on this thing.
00:42:08.120And so, because her patronage boyfriend had fixed it for her, she got away with this.
00:42:15.700Nobody else would be able to get away with this today, I can guarantee you.
00:42:18.860And so, no shame, and that's how she got her start in politics, by breaking the rules.
00:42:25.360And so, I mentioned to you these no-show jobs as well.
00:42:30.760She had the lowest attendance record of any of the attendees of these two commissions either.
00:42:35.320So, on top of having a job where she got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do very little, she didn't even show up and do that.
00:42:56.260We're supposed to record our time in tenths of an hour, okay?
00:42:59.980So, in the city attorney's office, you recorded your time that way.
00:43:05.320And so, someone in one of these various campaigns she's been in over the years did a Public Records Act request for these hours.
00:43:12.380And her predecessor in her job at the city attorney's office was a now, I think, retired or semi-retired judge, Catherine Feinstein, the daughter of Dianne Feinstein, the former United States senator.
00:43:26.540So, Feinstein had the job and then Kamala Harris had the job.
00:43:29.880So, if you compare their hours, you see that Kamala Harris, I think, worked one day over eight hours in all the three years that she worked there.
00:43:37.440Dianne Feinstein's daughter regularly worked long, normal lawyer hours.
00:43:41.660So, she worked one day over eight hours in how long?
00:43:48.720And there were a number of days where she had block eight hours, phone calls, research something, eight hours.
00:43:55.740So, she didn't work full days in that job.
00:43:58.680That's what any supervisor, I'm a supervisor of about 25 lawyers.
00:44:03.300If I saw timesheets like that, I would call that person and I'd put them on probation because they clearly aren't working a full day's worth of work.
00:44:09.680They're block billing, they're putting down time, they're doing a lot of admin time, days and days of admin time, meaning I didn't work that day, I read the newspaper, I did continuing legal education, I did some, you know, background research.
00:44:26.820That's what any supervising lawyer, being honest, would tell you.
00:44:31.080So, that's pretty striking because as it is, you're, you know, only expected to work, you know, sort of nine to five, unlike those of us who are, you know, working in the private sector, working much harder to make a living and keep our jobs.
00:44:45.080There's no such accountability in the jobs that she's held.
00:44:49.360And so, when she ran for DA, she claimed, I've tried hundreds and hundreds of serious felony cases, and she got busted by the tenant's union saying, actually, you've tried 10 cases.
00:44:59.840And then she had to sort of, over the years, own that maybe she was affiliated with hundreds of cases.
00:45:09.540And look, as you get more senior as a lawyer, you don't try every case, I get it, but in those early years of your career, if you're billing yourself as a top cop and a top prosecutor, normally people do, but that is not Kamala Harris.
00:45:25.460You have an excellent memory, well, in general, but for this period 20 years ago, and you were around Kamala Harris, living in that world, met her, all that.
00:45:38.240When you see Kamala Harris now, does she seem like the same person to you?
00:45:44.100I got the impression from the first time I met Kamala Harris when she strode into my friend's apartment in that small fundraiser of an extremely confident, competent, articulate person.
00:45:58.620Now, I don't think she's a great lawyer, and I think she's hardly had much courtroom experience, but she exuded competence and confidence.
00:46:07.160And the Kamala Harris you saw as vice president of the United States seems to be a completely different person, inarticulate, lacking confidence, almost like dazed or medicated in some way.
00:46:26.040And I don't know that, of course, I'm just telling you that the impression of somebody extremely competent and confident and able to talk about their record, their recent record, even falsely, with a degree of confidence and bravado, there's a couple of dynamics there.
00:46:44.500First of all, I think the record that she's been running on is way in the past.
00:46:49.220And so, it's become part of her own personal hagiography that she's, you know, this brilliant, accomplished, stunning, you know, top cop who criminals quake in their boots to see her.
00:47:02.080That's not true, but, you know, she's adopted it, but it's also way in the past.
00:47:05.920But secondly, it feels like she's not able to articulate herself.
00:47:11.780There seems to be a veil of inability to string together complete and coherent sentences.
00:47:38.740Well, imposter syndrome is somebody who is successful, has reached certain levels of at least outward appearances of success, but yet is plagued by self-doubt that maybe I don't belong here.
00:48:06.000And so, but it isn't one, it can happen to any of us.
00:48:09.940And we all freeze sometimes in tense situations.
00:48:12.540Well, we've all seen her on the national and international stage doing increasingly incoherent word salad statements.
00:48:19.380We've just seen the incident with 60 Minutes substituting a completely incoherent answer that she gave to a question with something else that she did in another part of the interview or maybe even taped afterwards.
00:48:35.240I have no idea how 60 Minutes came up with that.
00:48:37.640But 60 Minutes got caught lying about the interview.
00:48:39.50060 Minutes has been caught blatantly fixing her incoherence for her.
00:48:44.660And, you know, that has been the case with the mainstream media.
00:48:47.020And I think this is a theme throughout her career, dating back to that 2000, 2003, is she gotten her leg up in life by shortcuts, not by meritocracy.
00:49:01.020And then she finds herself in a position that is beyond her capabilities.
00:49:05.120And then she has to lie and exaggerate to maintain that position and get to the next level.
00:49:10.640But with the assistance of the Democratic machine in California, to be fair to her, she's not the only person.
00:49:17.500I mean, Gavin Newsom is another example of somebody who has faked his way to the top.
00:49:24.140Javier Becerra, who's in the cabinet today, is a guy who had basically one year of legal experience before he became the attorney general of California.
00:49:32.440And so California's machine has produced a number of underqualified and overconfident duds.
00:49:40.040But this person is seeking the top job of the United States with an exaggerated record, with a tattered history of sordid ways that she got to where she is,
00:49:51.740of numerous legal violations that could have resulted in criminal prosecution, just the campaign finance violations alone.
00:49:58.640And so, you know, I can understand why somebody might have an imposter syndrome, and that's their history.
00:50:06.140I know, the sad thing is California used to be famous for producing things from the world's best ag to aerospace to great movies.
00:50:12.620And now it's like failed light rail projects in Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom.
00:50:17.780And gaslighting, gaslighting the voters on so many levels.
00:50:21.540So, I mean, Kamala Harris promised to San Francisco voters to get elected that she was going to be tough on crime.
00:50:28.640The murder rate skyrocketed during her years as a district attorney.
00:51:11.680The criminals came to San Francisco to do their drug dealing, to do their break-ins, their hot prowl burglaries, their low-level offenses.
00:51:19.200Kamala Harris was notorious for being hard on gun possession by legal taxpayers, but extremely lenient to the point of multiple criminals who possess guns committing murders after she let them off with a slap on the wrist or no punishment at all.
00:51:38.840So, there was a double standard there in her prosecution.
00:51:41.600And that's a theme throughout the state where, you know, they've legalized stealing.
00:53:05.140There was an interesting situation where a criminal committed a crime in San Francisco while she was a district attorney.
00:53:13.700And that criminal was free to commit that crime because she had pushed for that criminal to be part of a program of rehabilitation.
00:53:21.820So, there was a rehabilitation program where if you did some job training as someone arrested for a serious crime, you could avoid prison time.
00:53:30.920Well, an illegal alien is not entitled to hold a job.
00:53:36.020So, San Francisco taxpayers, California taxpayers under Kamala Harris's leadership were paying for jobs training for illegal alien criminals to get out of their criminal sentences.
00:53:48.960And then they weren't even eligible to go on to hold those jobs.
00:53:53.640So, one of those people committed a serious violent crime shattering the skull of a taxpayer in San Francisco.
00:53:59.940And he was able to do that because Kamala Harris signed him up for jobs training when he isn't illegally allowed under United States law.
00:54:38.740I mean, trying to overthrow the United States government and system and destroy democracy and invalidate our founding documents, our core freedoms.
00:54:48.780I mean, those are all species of insurrection, it would seem to me.
00:54:53.360Well, she's broken a lot of laws over the years, just in the, you know, white-collar laws.
00:54:58.840But she's enabled hundreds, if not thousands, of criminals to go on to commit violent crimes and even fatalities.
00:55:06.880I mean, there are police officers in San Francisco who lost their lives because Kamala Harris was soft on the criminals who went on to kill them as one of their dozens of offenses.
00:55:18.580There's a long trail of victims in San Francisco and now California who have suffered because of Kamala Harris's soft on crime policies.
00:55:29.500And she's lied about it and gotten away with it.
00:55:32.300And it's kind of incredible that someone who failed, who increased the murder rate by many percentage points, who prosecuted almost no violent crimes in San Francisco during the many years she was a district attorney, she failed up to becoming the attorney general.
00:55:48.720Where she went on to violate the rights of criminal defendants on a much more massive scale.
00:55:55.340But even before that, Tucker, one of the interesting incidents is in the last two years of her race, of her tenure as district attorney, she was embroiled in a major scandal involving the systematic violation of criminal defendants' rights.
00:56:11.280And in San Francisco, in San Francisco, there was a drug technician who was supposed to test the drugs and this person was sampling the drugs, taking them home and sampling them and also making numerous errors.
00:56:25.620This was an open secret in the district attorney's office.
00:56:28.400So after, you know, people mentioned it on numerous occasions, judges chastised the district attorney's office, eventually a top manager in the office sent a cover your ass email to Kamala Harris saying, hey, by the way, I think the head of this drug lab section is actually taking drugs and regularly violating protocols and handling evidence.
00:56:52.980Kamala Harris, instead of doing her immediate duty as a district attorney to inform all defense counsel in all the cases in which this lab technician had handled the drugs for testing, she sat on it for a period of three months.
00:57:08.320And it only came out not through Kamala Harris disclosing it.
00:57:12.220And so the judge in that case, Christine Mazzullo, excoriated the district attorney's office.
00:57:17.620Now, by this time, Kamala Harris had been the district attorney for six years.
00:57:21.040In the six years she was the district attorney, she created no protocol for disclosing to defense counsel this what's called a Brady violation, a violation which is so massive that you have to disclose to the other side that there's been a potential due process violation that could be exculpatory.
00:57:39.940She went on after that two years later to become the attorney general of California.
00:57:44.460So there's literally no accountability for, by some accounts, 1,400 cases, either convictions or pending cases, had to be dismissed in San Francisco because of this due process violation of the rights of the accused.
00:58:00.640I personally litigated a case against Kamala Harris myself, and I saw the same pattern.
00:58:06.980So I had an important civil rights case involving a sick applicant for a prison guard job in the prison department in Sacramento County.
00:58:17.300Kamala Harris was the attorney general when this case went to trial, was getting prepared for trial.
00:58:22.160And I had won this case at the administrative level.
00:58:24.600So I was able to prove at an administrative hearing for state employees that the civil rights of my client had been violated because he was denied a job with the prison department because of his articles of faith.
00:58:35.860He had a beard, he had a turban, and under federal equal employment law and state law as well, you know, the state has to accommodate that.
00:58:44.980They had to, you know, offer him the opportunity to take a different gas mask test and prove that he could do the job.
00:58:49.540Well, I won that case at the administrative level, which should have been a slam dunk for the state to agree that he should have this job.
00:58:56.920Well, Kamala Harris fought that decision all the way to eve of trial.
00:59:03.020And I remember, you know, getting the United States Department of Justice involved in this case.
00:59:08.040And it was only after the United States Department of Justice opened up a civil rights investigation from the Office of Civil Rights into the state corrections department and how the state was handling this particular case.
00:59:19.780And after I got a national coalition of civil rights organizations, ranging all the way from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Beckett Fund, a conservative organization.
00:59:29.660So, a whole panoply of almost 30 civil rights organizations, only when I had a massive press conference on this issue did Kamala Harris, four years into this case, finally agree to settle the case.
00:59:40.720So, you know, and why would she do that?
00:59:43.880Well, the prison guards union, it turns out, only wanted accommodations for certain people, but not others.
00:59:50.080And they didn't want this newcomer coming into their ranks.
00:59:53.540So, you know, there was a blatant violation of my client's civil rights, but I finally won, but only after exerting outside pressure.
01:00:00.480And this has been her pattern, typically.
01:00:02.660She's only willing to back down, not because she's wrong, but because she's embarrassed or confronted publicly.
01:00:09.060And even then, she's had such an entire career of faking her way to the top that there's just no shame there.
01:00:18.380And, you know, she's willing to continue to lie until she gets caught.
01:00:21.680How'd she get to be attorney general of the state of California after failing as a prosecutor for San Francisco County?
01:00:28.540Well, again, it's the machine politics of California.
01:00:32.660You know, at the same time, there was consideration of whether Kamala Harris might run for governor.
01:00:37.340And basically, in the upper echelons of Democrat politics in California, these things were all worked out in advance.
01:00:44.320You know, multiple people might want the job, and I can guarantee you that's happening right now in the case of Nancy Pelosi, who's, you know, reaching the end of her career at some point of her, you know, it'll naturally expire.
01:00:55.780But there's a lot of jockeying like that.
01:01:06.180All that matters is identity politics.
01:01:08.080So, you know, at that point in time, she was a district attorney, and she could have run for multiple different offices.
01:01:15.500Senate wasn't open at the time, so she ran for the attorney general position.
01:01:20.440And so despite this massive, and I could go on for hours, I have a dossier of horrific instances of gross civil rights and human rights violations that occurred on her watch.
01:01:33.580She had the resume, and she had the powerful backing, and she checked the boxes of identity politics.
01:01:42.240First woman, first African American, first Indian American.
01:01:50.160Now, she ran against a highly competent, seasoned district attorney of Los Angeles County, Steve Cooley, who I consider a friend and who's been a fellow warrior in the pro-life movement with me.
01:02:01.500Steve Cooley ran the strongest campaign that year of all the campaigns, and he narrowly lost by just a handful of votes.
01:03:04.980But I can say that when you're talking about a single-party state, machine politics, differential application of safeguards on how votes are counted, like some counties match the signatures.
01:03:19.460Some counties don't bother to do that, even though that's required under the law.
01:03:23.160Some counties look the other way on irregularities, on things like, is the ballot dated?
01:03:33.260Some counties, Los Angeles County is a prime example, have over a million voters on the voter rolls at that time who were not entitled to be on the rolls.
01:03:43.900Dead, having moved multiple registrations.
01:03:49.060A 2017 settlement after a lawsuit by Judicial Watch in Los Angeles County showed that in Los Angeles County alone, there were over a million people on the rolls who should have been removed.
01:04:32.040So in our system there in California, which by the way has now become the national system by default because crazy California politicians are now running the country in many ways or seeking to run the country, it's a very dangerous situation for election integrity.
01:04:52.560And the person seeking the top job in the United States got her start with campaign and election violations, got away with it, has won elections while getting away with it, and is now seeking that top job.
01:05:07.480So if anyone thinks that she would qualm or have any second thoughts about violating the law to get what she wants, she's done it many times in her career.
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01:06:46.480What kind of attorney general was she?
01:07:03.000Well, she had a couple of big flashy cases involving so-called consumer protection, but civil rights organizations criticized her for repeatedly violating the rights of the accused.
01:07:14.460There were several instances of actual innocence claims by convicted felons who claimed that it was a case of false identity or otherwise.
01:07:25.100And her attorney general's office rigidly took the position that on a technicality, for example, that someone had failed to raise this claim in a timely manner, you know, because they're an uneducated criminal, they should lose the right to prove their innocence claim.
01:07:40.600She won on some of these and she lost on some of these.
01:07:44.460We had prison overcrowding lawsuits in California during the time that she was the attorney general and federal judges ordered California to release lower level criminals from prison due to prison overcrowding.
01:08:00.040Kamala Harris was nearly held in contempt of court for failing to do this.
01:08:04.740And the reason that her office gave under her direction for not obeying a federal court order to sustain the civil rights of these inmates was because California has a lot of wildfires and prison inmates are used as cheap labor to fight those fires.
01:08:24.580And who's going to fight the fires if we don't have the free or cheap labor of the prisoners to be able to do that?
01:08:34.500I mean, it's akin to saying who's going to pick the cotton if we free the slaves.
01:08:39.680And that's an argument made by our attorney general Kamala Harris.
01:08:45.320There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in California.
01:08:48.680You wouldn't think they would have a labor problem.
01:08:51.200No, but, you know, that's a whole other argument there.
01:08:57.740I mean, I think the left is systematically counting on the votes of people who aren't entitled to vote in multiple different ways in order to try to win this coming election.
01:09:10.120I mean, they have gone to court repeatedly, the Mark Elias through the Democrat machine that Kamala Harris is now enjoying the full support of, to block voter ID laws.
01:09:22.120It's illegal in California to ask for voter ID.
01:09:24.440And this is after some jurisdictions tried to pass at a local level, Huntington Beach, voter ID requirements when you register to vote, when you vote.
01:09:32.640And so the left in this country wants to make it illegal to ask for ID in just about every other, and every other way to, I mean, to register, to check into a hotel last night, I had to show my ID.
01:09:59.980So she seemed to have, just watching, having fled myself, California, decades ago, I'm just watching this on the news, but she seemed to have special animus toward pro-life people.
01:10:15.300So I represent David Daleiden, who is one of the most courageous young Americans I've had the privilege to represent in my 31 years of practicing law.
01:10:23.980David went undercover in a long-form undercover investigation spanning years, posing as a purchaser of fetal tissue in order to expose Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation's systematic violation of federal law.
01:10:39.720It's illegal in the United States, as it should be in every civilized place, to buy fetal remains for any reason.
01:10:47.980But there's, in fact, a brisk trade in fetal remains.
01:10:52.600And Planned Parenthood and its members of the National Abortion Federation members were circumventing or flouting federal law openly by offering price lists for different parts of fetal remains.
01:11:09.560And, you know, this is a con on multiple levels.
01:11:12.680So women who are unsure when they went into an abortion clinic, what they should do.
01:11:30.900I know it's illegal to sell those remains, but actually Planned Parenthood clinics were caught offering them for sale to researchers.
01:11:39.420And so David busted them by taping in San Francisco hotel lobbies at abortion trade shows.
01:11:48.500Believe it or not, a National Abortion Federation runs trade shows for abortion providers.
01:11:52.360He collected this testimony, this evidence, by himself and with a couple of other helpers over the years and then exposed it in video recordings that he made public.
01:12:14.000Hardly anybody does that work anymore, going undercover like he did.
01:12:17.940And it was very brave and it was explosive.
01:12:20.960As a result of this testimony, several states opened up investigations and in some states, public funding was stripped from these clinics who did this horrific act of selling human body parts, arms, legs, livers.
01:12:36.920I mean, there was a price list that these people were circulating.
01:12:39.540And so this was obviously very upsetting to Big Abortion.
01:12:43.360So Big Abortion, which is a big supporter of Kamala Harris and other big time Democrats in California, they can be counted on regularly to contribute millions to their campaigns.
01:12:55.160So Big Abortion went to Kamala Harris and asked her to prosecute David Daleiden.
01:13:00.120Now, there's this pesky little problem called the First Amendment.
01:13:05.160And the First Amendment allows citizens to do journalism.
01:13:07.720And so multiple jurisdictions in the United States have ruled that journalists going undercover, even if there's a wiretapping statute, are not to be prosecuted for that because of the First Amendment.
01:13:20.560They're exercising their free speech rights.
01:13:23.360Well, California has a wiretapping law.
01:13:26.540It's never been used against a journalist.
01:13:30.780So under the rule, both people have to consent to the taping.
01:13:34.100Now, the exception is if it's in a public place, which most of these tapings, arguably all of these tapings in California were made in a public place.
01:13:44.220So Kamala Harris ignored the First Amendment and custom made the first prosecution of a journalist in California history.
01:13:53.760So David Daleiden was indicted for undercover journalism seven years ago.
01:14:00.740And his case has been pending now for seven years in San Francisco Superior Court.
01:14:06.080Judge after judge after judge has not been willing to send a journalist to prison, not been willing to bring it to a head.
01:14:15.160And so people just keep changing assignments.
01:14:17.780And David remains on the hook, paying all this money to defend himself from the charge of doing journalism.
01:14:52.660I mean, it's characteristic of her double standards and lack of morality throughout her entire professional life.
01:14:59.500I think that's, I think it's, look, I mean, when people are looking and when she's embarrassed, she does the right thing.
01:15:07.040I mean, there's a case of a death penalty inmate who was wrongfully convicted.
01:15:11.540And it was only after somebody circulated the embarrassing Ninth Circuit argument where her office made ridiculous arguments that she reversed herself and dropped her office's opposition to letting this person go free.
01:15:26.780So, now, what's scary about this, Tucker, is, as you and I both know, without Elon Musk being willing to invest in X and allowing us to have a free speech platform, we wouldn't be able to have this conversation publicly right now, right?
01:15:44.200Well, Kamala Harris wants to make it illegal for journalists to expose the wrongdoing that public officials regularly commit.
01:15:54.880And so if you don't have the media accountability and you don't have the ability to speak freely and criticize these politicians, they get away with crimes themselves.
01:16:04.620And so she has made it a hallmark, not only of her current campaign, but dating back to her campaign for president in 2020, that people shouldn't be allowed to speak freely on the internet.
01:16:18.000We must be able to, I mean, she confronted Elizabeth Warren during one of these debates, trying to get Elizabeth Warren, no shrinking violet herself, to agree that we must have censorship online.
01:16:29.260And Elizabeth Warren kept trying to change the subject to her credit.
01:16:31.480You know, she didn't want to agree with Kamala Harris that, yes, we must force X and every social media platform to censor commentary that might be dangerous, not just false, but so-called malinformation.
01:16:44.680Right. Something that criticizes bad leadership.
01:17:06.360And it's their hostility to free speech.
01:17:13.220I mean, you know, you saw the vice presidential debate recently where a sitting governor of the United States, her running mate,
01:17:20.220spouted wrong think and wrong information about the First Amendment, saying that, for example, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater, which is a dicta from a overruled case that was a shameful case involving censorship of flyers during World War I, you know, criticism of the government.
01:17:43.860And that that truly a shameful case, truly a shameful case.
01:17:49.700And that people who objected to getting into the most pointless war of all time, which was the First World War for no reason whatsoever, other than the vanity and ambition of our politicians.
01:17:59.700And even to criticize that, went to jail.
01:18:21.040And so the freedom that we enjoy today on social media, in some circles, X specifically, would go away under Kamala Harris's regime.
01:18:32.740And she has gotten power and abused it repeatedly throughout her career.
01:18:38.820And we saw her shameful performance in the Kavanaugh hearings, you know, for example, where she used her platform to pretend to be this big prosecutor and to hold Brett Kavanaugh accountable on zero evidence.
01:21:13.120Maybe he's done her some favors or what have you.
01:21:15.060But Kamala Harris dated Willie Brown, dated some other powerful men over the years.
01:21:21.240Montel Williams, ladies and gentlemen.
01:21:22.540Montel Williams, you know, there's been allegations that she dated Phil Bronstein, you know, who ran the San Francisco Chronicle for many years.
01:21:50.220I mean, the significance of it is she's a user.
01:21:54.600I think she's an ambitious person and she's only wanted to climb the rungs of power by aligning herself in a very medieval way with people who can further her geopolitical interests, if you will.
01:22:18.180And he, you know, as a person who gave her entree, that really helped her out a lot in her Senate fundraising and so forth.
01:22:25.880So, you know, she's married this guy in recent weeks.
01:22:30.340It's come out that he is very credibly accused by a woman who's told her story to multiple publications of publicly slapping her at the Cannes Film Festival where this lady had been invited.
01:22:49.280In the face so hard that she spun around from it and he did it because after a couple of cocktails, he was apparently very jealous.
01:22:57.540You know, she went up to a valet to try to jump the line a little bit after waiting over an hour after the film festival got out and was trying to tip him to let them cut the line.
01:23:07.660And he got jealous of this and publicly assaulted her.
01:23:15.120And she immediately reported this to multiple friends of hers.
01:23:18.680And in the law, this is considered what we call an excited utterance.
01:23:21.540So, if you tell somebody something horrible that happened to you in the immediate seconds and minutes afterwards, it has assigned a higher degree of credibility under hearsay law than otherwise.
01:23:32.840Because, you know, people are more likely to be truthful when they've got the adrenaline running through them in the moment of what exactly just happened.
01:23:39.400So, because of the dynamics of the situation, she allegedly got into the car.
01:23:46.060The valets were shocked by this disgusting scene and, you know, let them go.
01:23:53.340So, while she's in the car with this person, the story goes that the Daily Mail has reported she called somebody she knew back in the United States and told them what was happening.
01:24:02.720And she also reported it to a couple of friends of hers.
01:24:04.860And so, her story has apparently been consistent according to the witnesses who the press has interviewed.
01:24:13.240But the more shocking part of the story is that this woman recounts that Emhoff casually told her in the days or weeks before this incident, because she was being what she called love-bombed by him.
01:24:28.780He was allegedly, you know, pursuing her for marriage.
01:24:31.860You know, this is after he got divorced from his wife.
01:24:34.520And they were dating for a period of months.
01:24:37.460She finally, you know, sort of, I think it must have come up, how did you get divorced?
01:26:06.240And, I mean, you know, dating back to my years in law school, I took 40 hours of training and became a counselor for victims of domestic violence.
01:26:14.780Since I've gone to court for many women who have been abused.
01:26:17.600And it's, you know, science behind it that someone who hits a woman once in a public place.
01:26:37.980It's the culmination of pattern of years of experience.
01:26:41.460Another story has come out about Doug Emhoff's conduct at his own law firm, Venables, where he apparently hired a lady to be his paralegal or secretary sitting on his desk.
01:26:52.920And her name was Katya, and to the point that other partners, other male partners in the office demanded their own Katya, demanded their own paralegal to sit on their desk.
01:27:04.140And this Katya episode happened during the time that Kamala Harris was engaged to be married to Doug Emhoff.
01:27:12.660She may have come into contact with this person.
01:27:40.660I've never met one who was not an abuser of women, ever.
01:27:42.960Well, what concerns me as a 30-year-plus activist on domestic violence is the prospect that somebody like that might be in the White House.
01:28:20.900And this is an actual human being making these allegations?
01:28:23.300Actual human being making these allegations and, you know, they're making them to a person who has a history of looking the other way, enabling, being the beneficiary of.
01:28:45.340And, you know, when she was running for district attorney, I've looked at her resume at the time, and she listed as one of her credentials being the chairman of the board of a domestic violence advocacy organization.
01:28:59.480She has promoted herself as a prosecutor who's been, you know, protecting women from sex trafficking and human trafficking.
01:29:06.180And I can tell you, like, I mean, just a quality of life issue in San Francisco where I've lived for the last almost 25 years now is that you can't get elected in San Francisco without checking the boxes of different constituencies.
01:29:21.300And one of those is the Chinese-American Chinatown community, which includes a lot of organized crime and sex trafficking.
01:29:31.400And in her years as district attorney-
01:30:40.320So, today's fentanyl bend that you see on every corner in San Francisco, the gangs of young criminals who come into the city to rip it off, you can trace all of that back to Kamala Harris's leadership.
01:30:52.320When she ran for district attorney in 2003, she proudly noted that she was one of the prosecutors, one of the few prosecutors, who was opposed to a proposed law, a proposition that would allow prosecutors to treat juveniles who committed violent crimes, prosecute them as adults.
01:31:14.520She wanted to protect the juvenile violent criminals and the people who would go on inevitably to create, to commit greater and greater crimes.
01:31:24.900So, she's been soft on crime, at the same time calling herself a top prosecutor all these years.
01:31:31.540I mean, she has been open about what she is in many ways, but, you know, packaged it in very slick terms.
01:31:37.960And because she's a woman and because she's a minority and because so much of our culture panders to this identity politics, she's been able to somehow get away with the Marxist substance of what she has been peddling.
01:32:19.280And, you know, what's even, I bring, I come back to Amos Brown, who she did her first known violation of the campaign finance laws for in 2000 when she was a consultant for his campaign.
01:32:32.880I mean, just last year, she traveled to Ghana with Amos Brown on a mission on behalf of the United States where she promised billions of dollars of aid to Ghana.
01:32:49.360I don't know, some expiation of white guilt in the United States, you know, that somehow we're responsible for crimes and impoverishment that has occurred over there.
01:32:58.440I don't know why, but, you know, we as a country, the Biden and Harris administration have promised billions of dollars to Africa at the same time that white Appalachia is drowning and we've had this flood damage in North Carolina where I grew up and no one's promising them even millions of dollars, much less billions.
01:33:19.960And so this is the administration and, you know, this is normal.
01:33:31.280How does she get from Attorney General of California to the Senate?
01:33:36.760Well, again, it was the machine politics of California.
01:33:41.520And, you know, in California, there's usually a game of musical chairs.
01:33:45.560And so one politician is anointed for the next office.
01:33:49.800And then, you know, there's jockeying behind the scenes and then people take their turn.
01:33:54.180And I will say to the Democrats' credit that they're usually very disciplined about these issues.
01:33:59.140And, you know, they'll have their vicious game of identity politics behind the scenes, right?
01:34:05.680But then one person will emerge from that in some deal making.
01:34:08.780Okay, you run for this, you run for that, you run for the other, you wait your turn.
01:34:11.860So it was Kamala Harris' turn to graduate from her two terms as Attorney General to run for the Senate.
01:34:21.340And the pathway was cleared for her to do that.
01:34:24.420So then, I mean, when you win the Democratic primary in California statewide, you're done.
01:34:28.860Yeah, the opposition we always do as Republicans, and I've been a leader in the Republican Party.
01:34:34.400We always recruit somebody and run somebody and they do their best and they're usually better than the Democrat.
01:34:40.100But the Democrat funding mechanism is such and the voter registration advantage is such in California that it's virtually impossible for Republicans to win statewide office.
01:34:50.520And indeed, it's been many years since we've won a statewide office in California.
01:34:55.640And so, it's just, it is a one-party state.
01:34:58.840It's a one-party state and one-party states become corrupt and there's a lack of accountability and the quality of the legislators goes down and down and down.
01:35:07.820And so, the gene pool, if you will, for these higher offices in California is decreasing.
01:35:14.960And, I mean, there was a point in time when you had a Jerry Brown, now, of course, very liberal.
01:35:19.560I didn't agree with him on just about anything, but at least he was a, you know, accomplished person academically.
01:35:25.940He's a dynamic, interesting person, actually.
01:35:30.060He's a big liberal, but Jerry Brown was not mediocre.
01:35:32.900He was not mediocre, talented, you know, intelligent.
01:35:36.940That is not the caliber of California Democrats today.
01:35:41.400I mean, I told you, for example, now, a cabinet member in the Biden administration, Javier Becerra, had barely practiced law before he was deemed to be appropriate to replace Kamala Harris as the attorney general in California when she became United States senator.
01:36:11.080It's just a waiting room for the next office and the next office.
01:36:14.460So, it's going to become interesting to see who's anointed by their machine to replace Gavin Newsom.
01:36:22.400But we are in California behind this iron curtain of the left, and, you know, taxpayers are just at the mercy of these increasingly mediocre Marxists in California.
01:36:37.160Well, this is why the productive people have left.
01:37:21.980Um, you can't go into a drugstore in California today and pick up a deodorant and take it to the counter.
01:37:31.140You have to call an assistant to come and unlock it for you in any city in California because we have a law that effectively legalizes theft under $950.
01:37:40.440And so, I've witnessed gangs of criminals come into my CBS or Walgreens and just steal hundreds of dollars of stuff right in front of my eyes, thousands of dollars of stuff.
01:37:52.040They bring in bags, they put them into the bags, they walk out, and the employees of these stores are disciplined by their employers if they take any steps to try to interfere with this wholesale larceny.
01:38:06.640And, by the way, it would be dumb to interfere with them because they have weapons and you, as a citizen, don't have a weapon typically.
01:38:15.620You know, it's virtually impossible in San Francisco still.
01:38:17.840There's only, in the dozens of people, I think, have gotten concealed carry permits to carry after, you know, the Supreme Court has effectively made that mandatory as a shall issue.
01:40:04.820And that was really, as a native California, in the first moment I realized voters don't play a meaningful role in kind of anything in California.
01:40:26.520You're a very charming woman, just being honest.
01:40:28.780I mean, Dianne Feinstein even had a better pulse on the people.
01:40:32.880When Kamala Harris, as a district attorney, refused to seek the death penalty for a cop killer in San Francisco in her first year as district attorney, Dianne Feinstein called her out on it.
01:40:44.180And she said, if there were ever a special circumstance, it's a gangbanger shooting a cop in cold blood.
01:40:50.240And, you know, she had the common touch.
01:40:55.460And Kamala Harris is just lacking charisma.
01:40:59.640And, you know, you try to unpack that and analyze it.
01:41:01.940Well, if you have had everything handed to you from a fairly early age and she started getting her leg up, if you will, in the age of 29 in politics.
01:41:37.540She was not the obvious choice for, for vice president for many of us.
01:41:44.100Like, you know, people would have said Gretchen Whitmer, somebody from the Midwest, you know, someone who's adding something to the ticket.
01:41:48.620But the politics of the Democratic Party have become such that their most loyal constituency today is African-American women.
01:41:56.340And so, you know, Joe Biden himself was a marginal candidate.
01:42:00.820And so the calculation was made that we need to pick the best African-American female candidate.
01:42:16.660But she checked a couple of boxes for the Democrats, and that's how he was paired with her.
01:42:24.580And if Joe Biden and Jill Biden had thought about it, they might have gone back and asked Terrence Hallinan, who gave Kamala Harris her start in San Francisco, how that went for him.
01:42:37.440How did it go for him to hire her into the office and give her a chance?
01:42:41.540Well, she ate his lunch pretty quickly, and that's exactly what happened with Kamala Harris, who's been scheming, I suspect, since day one, getting into the White House, undermining Joe Biden, and, you know, eventually clawed her way to the top of the ticket.
01:42:58.020Has she ever created anything that you know of?
01:43:00.480Well, she's responsible for many deaths of innocent people in San Francisco.
01:43:10.020She's created a lot of tragedy for victims of crime in our state.
01:43:14.360She's created a lot of civil rights violations.
01:43:17.860She has not created anything in the sense that you or I would consider a proud accomplishment.
01:44:15.560And, you know, I wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal in 2019 when she was running for president, highlighting her flip-flops as a prosecutor on marijuana, on truancy, on even on, you know, many other forms of crime and other policy issues.
01:44:33.580And she's unashamed about it, and she's, she just says, well, I've evolved, circumstances have changed.
01:44:41.640She's evolved on just about every single issue.
01:44:44.480And what that tells you is there is no fundamental core there.
01:44:47.980And you can look at a Bernie Sanders, for example, complete Marxist, far left, but he's kind of inconsistent throughout his whole, you know where you stand with him.
01:44:57.120He isn't going to suddenly embrace drilling or, you know, any particular issue that he's been opposed to.
01:45:49.400If, this is my last question, if she is elected president the second week of October, as we're having this conversation, Trump is ahead, substantially ahead, appears to be, in internal polling, which I think is real.
01:46:02.060But, you know, the Democratic Party cheats, they're going to cheat in this election, we can say confidently, if she becomes president, what is the country in for, do you think, based on what you've seen?
01:46:16.020Well, the Democratic Party of today has become the party of big business and pharma.
01:46:22.980So, I think they're also the party of the warmongers.
01:46:26.100So, I think you can expect big warmongering and neocons to be happy with the level of, quote-unquote, investment in other people's countries.
01:46:37.260You can expect the forced taking of drugs that Joe Biden tried to force on all American employers to, in turn, force on their employees, the ineffective COVID vaccines that don't prevent what they claimed.
01:46:52.740And other drugs, you know, America is one of only two countries in the world that allows drugs to be advertised on television.
01:46:59.820And, you know, Democratic Party is definitely, both parties, but certainly the Democrats are definitely taking from that side.
01:47:07.240But the most scary thing to me is the conversation that you and I are having, that presumably a lot of people are going to see, will not be possible in Kamala Harris's United States.
01:47:17.680She has openly called for the censorship of viewpoints that she doesn't agree with, and you can expect the permanent change to the United States Supreme Court of stuffing term limits, otherwise corrupting it away from the vision of the founders.
01:47:35.260And I think you can expect so many other innovations that Democrats have talked about, innovations like eliminating the electoral college, national popular vote, as our way of permanently putting rural Americans under the heel of the corrupt coastal elites.
01:47:55.500So the way of life that my parents brought me to the United States as a small child to enjoy will not be available to Americans under the vision of Kamala Harris that she's openly promising.
01:48:08.900How will you respond if she's the president in January?
01:48:18.040So we will have to fight that in whatever corners of the country and whatever courts that'll still hear us until we're silenced.
01:48:25.500So if the laws change, and she has promised to change them, and she has the support of the Atlantic magazine and all the, basically everyone in Washington, and free speech ends in America, and you can be punished for saying things the regime doesn't like, will you stop talking?
01:48:40.420I will not stop talking, and I know you won't either, Tucker.
01:49:07.940People did it in the years after 2020, in the years before 2020.
01:49:15.320So many Americans have passively allowed, I mean, I would date this back to the Patriot Act in 2001, when I was one of the few Republicans who stood up and said, it is wrong to interrogate Americans on the basis of their background.
01:49:33.260It is wrong to surveil Americans and all of our communications.
01:49:39.440And today, in the name of national security, Republicans and Democrats have repeatedly enabled the deep state and the big state to collect all of our communications and surveil us.
01:49:52.200And for our own good, force us to take drugs and censor what we're allowed to see.
01:49:59.200And so, those Americans who are getting their news from cable and the nightly news and the networks are seeing a version of Plato's forms.
01:50:12.620And so, without the free speech that the founders so wisely guaranteed as our first of those civil rights in the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment, which allows us to defend those rights, this isn't a country anymore.
01:50:26.180And I think that's the apocalyptic future that we're facing.
01:50:32.760I should say, for those who don't know this, but you're from a religious tradition that's a small religious minority in India.
01:50:40.500And they were mistaken for radical, it sounds funny now even to say it, radical Muslims.
01:50:48.280I guess it's not funny at all, but there were a lot of...
01:50:50.460People lost their lives in the wake of 9-11 because they were mistaken.
01:50:53.760Sikhs were mistaken as people from Afghanistan or the Middle East.
01:50:58.780But completely different religion, nothing to do with it.
01:51:00.960Completely different religion, totally different.
01:51:03.320In fact, Sikhs fought against Muslim invaders in India and safeguarded that whole subcontinent from invasion.
01:51:10.540And so, it's no joke to us to have our right to exercise our faith, to not be, have the FBI show up at your door because of ignorance and start interrogating you.
01:51:21.680By the way, even if they, I should just say, as a matter of principle, in fact, I know a million great Muslims personally who I love.
01:51:30.200And so, even if they had been Muslims, it wouldn't, you can't hassle people because of their religion.
01:51:35.380And then the ACLU, which I joined back then because of this specific issue, was the only voice in America fighting against Muslims being rounded up and interrogated in Los Angeles in 2001.
01:51:49.080It's abhorrent and it smacks of Japanese concentration camps and other dark periods in our American history.
01:52:12.120And today, those liberal groups have abandoned those principles.
01:52:17.840So, today, it's Republicans and conservatives who go to court.
01:52:22.100It's, you know, my nonprofit, the Center for American Liberty, that goes to court to defend the rights of students to hear differing viewpoints on campus or to defend young girls from being mutilated by abusive doctors in the name of transgender craziness.
01:52:39.820And so, today, we are the civil libertarians.
01:52:43.660Ill-prepared as we are institutionally, conservatives are the last bastion to defend our country.
01:52:53.440And I just want to say, I want to add to the list of things I've apologized for over the years, including the Iraq War.
01:52:59.040I didn't perceive just how scary and anti-American the Patriot Act was.
01:53:07.620You were one of the very first, very first people on the right.
01:53:10.840You were definitely the first person on the right I saw say that.
01:53:14.020And bless you for catching that immediately.
01:53:16.720Well, you know, again, we go back to the Constitution.
01:53:20.720And when I look at this election, Kamala Harris has shown herself over all of her decades of public service exactly who she is.
01:53:29.360She's someone who is ruthless, who has ignored the law when it benefits her, who was even ignored as a guardian of the law, the Constitution repeatedly.
01:53:37.760The rights of the accused, the rights of the wrongfully convicted, the rights of the citizens she has sworn to defend, and those laws that she has sworn to uphold.
01:53:49.860And I think that's, particularly when you take on the mantle of, I'm the top cop, I'm the border czar, I'm the prosecutor, I'm America's top law enforcement person.
01:54:00.920And it's scary that that person wants to be the number one person with the most power in the free world.
01:54:10.200And so that's what's at stake in this election.
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