Tucker & Charlie Spiering React to the Al Smith Dinner, & Why Democrats Are Turning against Kamala
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In this episode, we speak with the author of Kamala harris' new memoir, "Kamala: Who is She?" about her journey to becoming a best-selling author, why she wrote it, and what it means to be a black woman in the 21st century. She tells the story of how she became a writer and activist, and how she went on to become one of the most prominent black women in American politics. And how she built a career as a journalist and political strategist. She s also the first black woman to write a book about Kamala s life, and she s the first person of color to write about her experience of growing up in the shadow of one of America s most powerful women, Kamala Khadijah Karemala Harris. She s a force to be reckoned with, and her story is a must-listen to if you ve ever wanted to know who the real Kamala is, and why it s important to understand who she really is and why she s so important to the country she grew up in such a powerful and influential place. We talk about the politics of identity and identity, and the complicated relationship between identity and race in the American political system. And we talk about why it matters so much to Kamala's story and why we should care about who she is really is, not just who she says she is, but what she says about herself and what she s really is about, and who she does about her identity really is. This episode is an essential listen for anyone who wants to know more about her story and her identity. Check out all of our content, including the book. . To find a list of our sponsors and show notes, go to gimlet.co/OurAdvertisers/Our Sponsorships/Become a supporter of the show: bit.ly/sponsors/TheTuckerCarrillos We are not gatekeepers, we are honest brokers here - we are brokers here to tell you what we think you need to know and do it honestly! Thank you for listening to our content and doing it honestly, check out our content at Tucker Carlson and Do it honestly Check out our show on the show on our social media: and Do It Honestly, here: Here s the episode of The Tucker Carlson Show on the Tucker Carlsons Show on The Tucker Carlon Show on Instapod:
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at tucker carlson.com here's the episode so how how long did you marinate in carmella harris
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and how do you pronounce her name well as she she issued a ad when she ran for senate featuring
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children to remind everybody exactly how she expected her name to be pronounced and obviously
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you know that if she if you diverge from that then you are automatically accused of
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um all sorts of things but most of all it's a very racist thing to do you saw the same accusation go
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when donald trump did his al smith dinner speech said kamala and that made a lot of people very
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angry who are still there how can you be racist if you don't know what race she is well she's i'm not
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even sure who i'm discriminated against when i'm discriminating against carmella harris or whatever
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name is right i imagine that if you if somebody mispronounced your first name then perhaps you
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could say that well if i if i pronounce my own first name at least two different ways as she has
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we have it on tape um then i think it would be a lot to attack other people for for pronouncing it
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differently right it's something that if you're that insecure about how people pronounce your name
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you know it shouldn't be you should just be able to either quietly correct them or be completely just
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go with it yeah but she's made it very clear and spent money to make it clear this is how i pronounce
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my name so how long did you spend like staring at kamala harris like how long did you work on this book
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right so i started in january 2023 just doing the research and pulling everything together
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so about a year i spent working on researching writing the book and wrapped it up the first draft
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by the summer of 23 so just to skip to the end and we'll unpack it of course but did by the end of
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your research did you like her more or less yeah probably less but i learned so much about her that
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it just seemed you know she she frequently talks about you know never let anyone else tell your story
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you tell your story she cites this all the time she cited it last night during the al smith dinner
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video that she did never let anyone else never let anyone else tell your story you tell the story
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and that statement strikes me as very fundamentally un-american right it seems like if you run for
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office then if you tell your story it's probably not real there's probably a lot more to the story
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than your preferred version and so that was a huge part of it just finding out more about her but
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also just the endless talking about herself she and everyone in her social class and political party
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all they do is talk about themselves right but only in very scripted ways right or how about at all like
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talking about yourself is like and the i would say the main thing i mourn as i look back in the world i
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grew up in that's now gone the thing i miss most is the directive that came very clearly from my family
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and i think in most families like shut up about yourself already stop talking about yourself it's
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not about you you freaking narcissist well that's why so much of her campaign depends on her identity
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no but have you noticed this i mean maybe it's just the culture the angle culture i grew up in like
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you were not welcome to talk about yourself all the time that was considered just not acceptable
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at all not it's very rude and pompous like you don't want to be that person yes even politicians
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are kind of encouraged to talk about other people instead of course but i think for her a huge part
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of it is just crafting her identity from the very beginning yeah when she first started running for
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national office she was very focused on creating this image of her as a person
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um really baking in to her identity first of all that she was the product of that she always cared
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about politics she always cared about justice she grew up marching and shouting with her activist
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parents who pushed her in a stroller through these protests and then you know skip a few decades and then
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suddenly she's sort of the product of uh the overarching progressive movement that somehow she's always been
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this progressive liberal who has always been very focused on justice and truth and has made it part of
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her life and part of her biography when that's not really true well it's demonstrably not really true
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i'm not sure what is true about a couple of episodes in her life that i've heard really nothing about and one
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is her high school years in canada and i think any adult looking back will concede that high school is
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the period that forms you more than any other and that period in her life was spent unless i'm
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misremembering in montreal canada right a huge part of her life was spent in montreal and so you're
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kind of alienated from any sort of your upbringing so she's definitely alienated from san francisco and
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the berkeley environment where she was raised kind of brought to a similar location academic
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neighborhood high middle class i believe you know it was not a not a working or middle class
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neighborhood in montreal in montreal yeah and she was the product she went to a school with you know a
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lot of elites in the in the country and was certainly aware of what was going on but it was sort of she
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was sort of alienated from the overall american experience right well yeah so she did spend her high
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school years in canada and she might have gone home to california for some of the summers i think
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there's evidence that she did so to visit her dad on a couple occasions but i don't think she spent much
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time there did she graduate high school in canada i think so and then then she's canadian i mean why
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are we playing i'm serious like why are we pretend it's like obama who grew up in indonesia i don't and
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hawaii i don't understand why we're ignoring everyone seems to be ignoring the obvious you know you are
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formed by your years in high school and so she's basically she was very inspired by people in her
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life um people who were in california to go to howard this is definitely a product of kamala harris
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seeking to sort of seize on an identity by going to howard in dc as you know this historically black
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university and really sort of embracing that identity and using that as she moved back to california and
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into the you know went to law school in california and sort of jumped into the legal world
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yeah it's i mean the the peril obama is a much smarter and more talented i i think than kamala
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harris but there is a similarity in that both of them have these rootless childhoods not their fault
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of course broken families pretty tragic family situation for both of them and both of them
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and neither one of them has anything to do with american black culture at all either genetically
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or culturally they've just nothing to do with it and both of them decide to become american black
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people right that's why she brings up who she calls her second mother a lot she was raised in a
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by her single mom who was always at work and then uh in the same building there was a person who ran a
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and uh daycare center miss shelton and this is the woman who is actually from the black south
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she has that black experience she referred to this is the person woman she refers to as her second
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mother who's a small business owner okay so this is the woman she was talking about in her speech i was
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totally confused right who is this woman this is uh regina shelton she ran a daycare business in the
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same building as as their apartment and she helps raise the children while mom's at work and so she
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describes this woman as her second mother and this is the mother who is connected with the black south
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that took kamala to you know kamala talks about her taking them to a christian black church where and
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even she says they sang in the choir at this church and so whenever she's in a place where she's speaking
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to the black church she refers to this experience whereas when she was running for office in
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california so she went to a black church once all the time apparently yeah according to kamala got it
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but at the same time when they were doing magazine articles with kamala harris's real mother she
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taught said that and they were speaking to certain audiences her real mother said that she grew up in
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the hindu temple and practiced all of the traditions and uh and believed in all the hebrew in all the
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hindu uh religious practices so she was actually a polytheist in childhood right and when she first
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starts running for office there's there's a couple incidents where she starts referring to um this hindu
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goddess um and using her she uses this hindu goddess at i think it's poverty um who is both she's both a
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vengeful warrior and also someone who's very loving and so she refers to this goddesses as someone who
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inspired her decision to get into law enforcement and justice so what yeah so she goddess yes um
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hindu goddess inspired her to get into justice someone who can be both a vengeful goddess but
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also a caring and loving goddess was she suggesting that this goddess was real right this this character
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in her in the mythology of the hindu religion i don't think it's considered mythology i think it's
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considered real oh from if you truly believe in well yeah if you're a hindu i don't i don't think
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i think it's fake i think you think it's real it's unclear and it may be entirely real by the way
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right but from a christian perspective that's demonic so no i'm not right kind of taking sides
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though i have an opinion but um obviously but as a as a theological matter those couldn't be more
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incompatible with each other like you can't unless you're running for political office right then you
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can take those the opposites that's like saying you know it's like you know going to a pita conference
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in the morning and you know cattle rancher conference in the afternoon and saying i love
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you both like that's just not possible but those are the best politicians
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okay you covered the white house for a long time you're more cynical than i am okay that's just
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interesting so she said she was inspired by a goddess right a hindu goddess to again from a christian
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perspective a demon i mean that that's what christians think um i guess in the end she also
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sang in the black choir and about justice and learned about justice and and loving thy name was she a
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cantor in her synagogue too do you know i don't know maybe that maybe that's doug's role although i
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don't know if he goes to synagogue very much i don't think so um okay amazing has she ever talked
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about the canadian part of her childhood no not much oh yeah um that definitely came from her
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mother and some of her earliest profiles um back when they were just running for her first office as
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district attorney yeah and trying to make the case that she was a a real genuine person who really
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wanted the job and had a cultural identity that was close with san francisco and uh really made the
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best case for her and she was sort of running for office and she mentioned canada then no no canada
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was not in the uh okay in the but but the goddess stuff was yeah a little bit yeah for sure amazing
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um so the howard university years did she participate at all politically at howard that
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we know of well she has a photo right of her protesting at some march on washington but that's
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pretty much the extent of it she also interned in uh and on capitol hill with the senator um but
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other than that there doesn't seem to be much very much political activity going on she's yeah a
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democratic senator um and it's very clear that she's really just enjoying being at college as
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most of us were when we were in college just enjoying being at college and i don't think the
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activist streak was very strong back then um so i think the the first time that most americans who
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are not from california noticed kamala harris was during the cabnaw hearings right but even before
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that um when she won in 2016 she was sort of the one of the small victories for women
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at a time when their greatest champion hillary clinton was vanquished by
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at the time donald trump right and so when she declares victory in 2016 her her race for senate
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she tears up her speech and delivers something entirely different um really trying to inspire and
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encourage everybody who's watching and vow to be the next great fighter who's going to go to washington
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dc and sort of stop donald trump that's kind of her her first message and one of the very first things
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she does was that election night yeah wow night in november 2016. did she ad-lib that speech no i think
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she and her staff went behind the scenes and rewrote it yeah yeah very quickly because they saw that
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that things were not going well for the democratic party and one of her first things she did when she
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got to washington was deliver a big speech at the women's march and basically saying we are here to
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fight and so would that was the pink hat march yeah i got caught in that by accident oh most of us who
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were in the capital were right yeah well i was i was just driving um to the gym to play squash actually
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and all of a sudden it was over yeah my car was surrounded by all these fat ladies in pink hats
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i remember thinking i don't know what you know i'm from dc i've been there most of my life and i never
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seen all these people on 17th street it was one of those days that was very big like some protests you
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have to really try to sell it as a as a big protest no no that was that was a big march yeah and as
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someone who's really from the bottom of my heart pro women i just have always really liked women
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um i started to rethink my position on women just watching the people at that speech they were
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the most physically unattractive unhappy people i think i'd ever seen in my life i mean they were
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just really a gruesome bunch it was like it was also a lot of like really like intelligent feminists
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from washington liberal intelligent feminists who were out in the streets so unhappy it was like
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every unhappy chick from bethesda was there you know what i mean like the moms you see at the
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grocery store who just like hate their weak husbands and i just didn't realize that there
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were a half a million of those people in the area but there were yeah it was very uh so she spoke at
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that what did she say right she um well it's very interesting because part of her was still kind of
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clinging to this idea that uh a regular agenda was a female agenda she talks about how you want to
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talk about women's issues i will talk to you about finance i will talk to you about education
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really trying to separate women have something special to add in those areas right it was like
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she was just trying to say that during the speech she makes the case that you know all issues are
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women's issues there's what's feminist economics look like yeah that was kind of her point right
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it's just like but eventually i think because of the woman's march she kind of does sort of slip
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into this agenda and certainly with the uh the the issue of abortion she really embraced that
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but yeah her first idea is that the that women should not have kids women should have the freedom
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to kill their children in utero makes them more powerful right does what did she mention the
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goddess when she said that no this is the new connell harris this is what i somehow feel like the
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goddess may be inspiring that position but i can't prove it right um okay so she gave a talk at the
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women's march was um jogged my memory was that a big deal was she a major speaker that she was one
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of many yeah yeah okay you know they get all the senators up on the stage at the same time right
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they each get a couple minutes so yeah as soon as she got to the senate she spent a lot of time just
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you know clashing with trump appointees right because that's what you do when you first get to
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this right yeah for sure get they pick their cabinet and right they go through the the hearings and
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grandstand if you can if you can make a splash yeah you can make a name for yourself and so
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one of her first things she torments uh general kelly who was widely respected by partisan
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majority of senators who viewed general kelly as a true public servant and she yeah she was one of
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the ones that clashed with him and um prosecuted him and and basically made a name for herself on all
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the different appointees and then yes then after that it was the whole um jeff sessions russia thing
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she made a big name of herself then you know grilling jeff sessions and getting him to admit that if he's
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rushed then he gets nervous and that was a whole big viral moment you know with the with the dawn of c-span
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every every senator every congressman is looking for these sort of viral moments yeah just you know
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springboard them into the future and so she really got this reputation as being a fighter someone who
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could take on the trump people and make them look foolish hmm what happened with kavanaugh right with
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russia case with any lawyer from this kasowitz firm in washington and kavanaugh's being very
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still being very careful and it turns out like she never had any evidence of this ever happening
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of surprised by the end of this great exercise that oh wow she has no evidence that he ever
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met or spoke about the case with the lawyer from this firm um but yeah it was back in the
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days when anything russia russia russia related it was hot political news right if you could ever just
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smear anybody with the very whiff of russia um it was always like a considered a great victory which
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kind of pales in comparison now yeah looking back like the stupidity of that was just awe-inspiring
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it was one of the no of the russia stuff like there was it was the idea that the trump campaign was
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colluding with anybody you know to to actually believe that you would have to know nothing about
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what the trump campaign was really like where they were you know it was a little disorganized they were
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not including with each other as you know and um there was never never i mean that was like insane
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it was evidence-free russia was not a threat to the united states there were a couple of other
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countries that were playing in a huge way in our elections and still are no one will ever mention
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them it's not russia to put it mildly everyone in dc knows that russia had no role whatsoever in our
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domestic politics and they had no sort of agenda that would affect our core interests so like the whole
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thing was just nuts and everybody went along with it everybody went along with it right like everybody
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just like from the force of repetition just because you know every channel every newspaper
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every day was talking about russia people like you know i really think there's something there
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what it just showed how dumb everybody was or it all just hurt animals including friends of mine
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for whom i lost a lot of respect i was okay i'm open-minded i'm kind of agnostic on russia and
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i'm willing to believe anything so where's the evidence yeah you know do you remember this yeah
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i do and it was it's always very puzzling because it started from this dossier right that they always
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had in their back pocket but didn't use it during 2016 because they didn't think they had to right but
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once trump won it was the first thing that they pulled out of their pockets they're like wow we can
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actually use this was harris big on the russia thing not too much um she she prosecuted uh
00:25:34.780
different trump officials she did get bill barr one time you know asking him if trump had ever
00:25:41.100
asked him to sort of stop the investigation and he he found himself sort of fumbling for words and
00:25:48.460
yeah couldn't really answer the question so she did have some good moments there but
00:25:52.860
yeah i think a lot of it was just she was seen as somebody who was fighting she had this opposing
00:25:59.020
you know she was fighting something else right and people place that excitement because she was the
00:26:05.980
one doing the fighting against this force that they were very unhappy about
00:26:11.340
so how did if you were to summarize how she behaved during the kavanaugh hearings um i mean i think i
00:26:19.100
remember her going all in on the rape stuff or sexual assault stuff right right she was very very adamant
00:26:27.340
about supporting christine blasey ford and was also around the me too movement right she was very
00:26:32.940
she very she honed in on that as a political force that would help her so when it came to that she was
00:26:40.380
just very intent on pushing christine blasey ford as this as this hero as this patriot you know she
00:26:48.620
repeatedly claimed that she believed her when she first spoke before she even met her
00:26:53.900
um she repeatedly said that you know she was a patriot and a hero for coming forward and she
00:27:00.620
really thought that this was the moment that she could really push through and stop kavanaugh you
00:27:05.340
know democrats didn't have much to go on but when when they found out that diane feinstein had this
00:27:11.260
letter from christine ford who wished to remain anonymous um different you know she confronted feinstein
00:27:19.180
about the letter like you better address this once reports started leaking out about the existence of
00:27:23.660
this letter she confronted feinstein and said you better address this or it's going to look real
00:27:28.700
ugly for you so feinstein was eventually forced out to make this letter public to bring them
00:27:34.860
in to bring her into the conversation even though she wanted to remain anonymous
00:27:39.100
and so this woman was ultimately pulled into the fight and senator senators and senate staff who were
00:27:45.740
went through that it was a very tough time for a lot of people in the senate whatever happened so
00:27:50.380
christine blasey ford this is all coming back to me it was about there was a high school party in
00:27:55.500
bethesda it always starts in bethesda doesn't it and um which is a suburb of dc right of course in
00:28:02.700
maryland montgomery county and the and cabnaw supposedly at this
00:28:08.620
high school party 40 35 years before had acted badly and sexually assaulted christine blasey ford is
00:28:16.300
that that was right right that was her uh so then blasey ford basically destroyed her life correct
00:28:23.820
right i you know maybe she's still a progressive hero among some but you certainly we've seen this
00:28:30.460
story before where the democrats will pull an unsuspecting character to weaponize against the
00:28:36.780
republican party and just sort of cast them aside when it's all over well exactly nicely put that's
00:28:41.900
exactly right like whatever happened christine blasey ford is no longer a hero right right like george
00:28:49.340
floyd it's like she was useful for a news cycle they upended her life and then i don't i don't think
00:28:58.460
they've like named any chairs after her makes me think of all the moms who lost their sons in iraq how
00:29:05.500
they were weaponized and held up as paragons of you know this is why the bush administration is evil
00:29:11.260
because we have this poor woman who's suffering the loss of her son they would hoist them up and bring
00:29:15.900
them to all the speeches and then yeah and now all those moms are against moms who have hostages and
00:29:22.060
you know israel no it's totally they brought them on stage and then it turns out oh we can't
00:29:26.620
help your child who's being held hostage so smart able to help them either but we were able to use
00:29:33.660
them politically to it's funny all those iraq moms who are marching against trump i mean rather against
00:29:40.140
bush right they all have my sympathy speaking for myself but they um you know now the democratic party
00:29:48.220
that once you know promoted them and called them heroes is aligned with dick cheney and his repulsive
00:29:54.780
little daughter right you still have you know like whatever you still have remnants of the code
00:30:01.660
pink out there exactly they certainly aren't the champions that no i'm on their side media and we're
00:30:06.700
no longer hailing them as the champions sorry truth and justice sorry to digress but it's just it's
00:30:11.660
just interesting it's a funny things i've forgotten about it is a an interesting time to revisit for sure
00:30:17.260
so but kamala harris becomes more national figure after falsely accusing right brett kavanaugh of
00:30:24.220
sexual assault 40 years ago is that claiming i believe the believe all women believe the victims
00:30:30.380
right this whole me too movement that was kind of around 2018 i believe the 17 18 right around this time
00:30:37.820
that kavanaugh was sort of brought up and right like the the entire movement was kind of leveraged
00:30:42.540
in this whole thing where it's like believe all women and that's our new platform for the democratic party
00:30:48.860
so women don't lie ever no especially about this because they're hindu goddesses or something
00:30:55.580
they're incapable of lying i don't know i don't know about it's funny to find out that 51 of the population just
00:31:01.340
doesn't lie everything they say is just gospel it's just true well you're supposed to because
00:31:06.060
you know that's the those are the new marching orders only it turns out that it didn't go so well
00:31:12.140
does that apply to candace owens or just just christine blasey ford um right just
00:31:20.380
it's just funny to look back i'm sorry i keep interrupting you but it's just funny to right look
00:31:24.220
back it's like a time capsule it's you remember these moments and in retrospect they're so
00:31:30.060
completely absurd it's hard to believe that martha raddatz and joe scarborough and all these other
00:31:34.940
supposedly educated people are saying this stuff with a straight face on television well especially
00:31:39.740
the me too movement i mean women are you joking no come on no and kamala harris was one of the
00:31:48.380
first to see this as like a politically advantageous position to take the me too movement so there's
00:31:53.820
video of her uh marching in san francisco at a parade with championing the me too movement and
00:32:00.060
who's who's along with her um noted celebrity jesse smollett not really he is also right beside her in
00:32:08.620
a me too juicy smollett was a me tour tour back in 2018 and they're both chanting you know up up with
00:32:17.820
education down down with deportation so they're also protesting making this up charlie they're
00:32:24.460
also protesting immigration wearing me too movement gear but what's interesting about that and if you
00:32:30.700
look at the me too movement as a political force look at what they did to al to uh al franken
00:32:38.060
oh yeah he was one of the first democratic victims of me too i defended him right he wouldn't
00:32:43.580
defend himself he's such a cuck he wouldn't even defend himself he did nothing wrong oh right so he
00:32:48.460
was he was a rising political star yeah people were actively he just published a book people were
00:32:55.340
actively talking about him as maybe he's the answer to donald trump he found this populist movement in
00:33:00.540
minnesota that pretty much vanquished the republican party in the state yeah and was this like awkward
00:33:07.420
weird anti-trump right and so people were actively talking about him as a possible presidential candidate
00:33:14.140
but then when you know these allegations start coming out about his behavior who are the first
00:33:20.380
ones to seize on it all the democratic women senators who were also interested in running a
00:33:25.820
presidential campaign i think it was i think it was christian gillibrand that fired the first
00:33:31.020
shot she's the worst not her real name by the way i can't remember her real name no it's all fake
00:33:38.060
um i wish i could remember her real name but it's not even close to kirsten gillibrand but um
00:33:42.860
anyway amy klobuchar kamala harris they're all klobuchar did that they all band together and
00:33:50.860
march to schumer's office and say he's gotta go and and he actually obeyed them right well him and all
00:33:59.260
his colleagues were you know when schumer pulls him into the office and says i can't defend you i can't
00:34:04.620
fight for you what are you gonna do are you gonna fight for yourself and go be rigged over the coals
00:34:12.460
for the rest of your life or do you just go away quietly it seems in franken's case he didn't want
00:34:19.260
to fight that i i know franken well and have known for 25 years yeah but he's a pretty clever guy um
00:34:27.820
has good qualities people in the senate always had good things to say yeah i mean i never hated
00:34:31.740
dal franken but he was ultimately all he really cared about was left-wing ideology and just such
00:34:37.100
a sad and being liked i think broken guy yeah um but again you know charming guy talented guy more
00:34:43.580
talented than most u.s senators for sure but so weak inside sure i think bossed around by his wife
00:34:50.620
that was always my impression franny from portland maine as i recall but um but the point is he didn't
00:34:57.020
do anything wrong and if he had just ridden it out for a week and just let it just hunker down you know
00:35:05.420
go to barbados for a week come back he'd be fine he was an elected united states senator and he gave
00:35:10.300
up his seat voluntarily because four ambitious girls didn't like him i mean wow what a loser
00:35:19.260
are you serious right you wouldn't certainly expect and more people started fighting back
00:35:24.460
ultimately but at the time they were very afraid of the movement it was very much if you were al
00:35:29.100
franken and you just dishonor yourself and your family your kids are ashamed you go down in history
00:35:35.660
as some sort of sexual assaulter right some sort of crypto rapist you give up your own senate seat
00:35:41.820
that you really fought hard for just because kirsten jillibrand or whatever her real name is right
00:35:48.540
wants what you have can you imagine the regret he must feel right i think a lot of democratic donors
00:35:55.740
were not happy with that certainly with jillibrand a lot of democratic donors were not happy when
00:36:00.540
she ran for president in iowa it kind of ended very shortly afterwards because democratic donors
00:36:06.300
were still furious at her taking franken off the table completely false person i'd take carmella
00:36:10.860
harris any day over kirsten jillibrand oh really i there's something about jillibrand that's just really
00:36:16.220
um she's just new yorker so ruthless oh my gosh you have to be that's fascinating so yeah so harris
00:36:24.460
joined the chorus against against uh al franken right at the same time she has somebody in her office
00:36:33.980
that is also under investigation for his own me too stuff when he was back in california so someone in
00:36:42.620
her close circle uh i don't want to get his name wrong but it was somebody very close who was being
00:36:50.380
investigated by you know the justice system in california they ultimately had she was he was
00:36:59.340
sued by a woman for inappropriate behavior and they eventually had to award this woman a big payout
00:37:06.460
because of things that he had done to her in her in his office in his previous job yeah um when kamala
00:37:13.420
harris is informed about it she has no idea she's shocked i had no idea that this was even happening
00:37:20.940
well if he was currently having this case being taken that was already underway by all the rules of
00:37:28.540
the me too movement you're supposed to get rid of this person as soon as you hear about it execute
00:37:32.220
him yeah of course but to have someone on his staff on her staff who was involved in this whole situation
00:37:40.060
and then suddenly claim ignorance when the ruling is issued really doesn't pass the smell test well
00:37:46.380
also i mean kamala harris got her job because she was having sex with a married older man willie
00:37:52.540
brown and then she was montel williams's side piece so it's like i'd love to know her actual
00:37:57.980
perspective on sexual politics it's a little bit different from maybe what she's saying you know
00:38:02.940
what i mean right right i mean if there's one anti-feminist in the state of california it's willie brown
00:38:09.100
right you think although he very much loved to see himself as a feminist no but he would bring
00:38:15.020
real life right but he would bring he would host these events that featured only women
00:38:20.540
and he would talk about how these were great woman empowerment summits i think they're known as ladies
00:38:27.660
one thing and second like look i like willie brown i'm not attacking right around i think he's hilarious
00:38:33.180
because i think he's a little bit more honest but like very honest if there's anybody whose life
00:38:39.180
violates the principles of second wave feminism it's willie brown right i mean honest honest i mean
00:38:45.660
really willie brown yeah okay i think that even bill clinton described him as the real slick will
00:38:55.580
did he really say that yeah oh that's so good now you're making me like them both because i you
00:39:00.380
know you just like flashes of honesty wherever you find them right willie brown was this character
00:39:04.540
in california politics that couldn't be brought down by corruption but he always he was always
00:39:08.940
teasing and joking about corruption yeah it's very if you're having sex with willie brown in order to
00:39:14.060
get a job you know whatever you can deal with your own conscience and with your own hindu goddess on
00:39:20.700
that you know but you definitely can't lecture me on feminism if you've done that i think it's fair to
00:39:25.740
say right i think so i think when you talk to women they would they would agree with that statement
00:39:30.780
you you you know you give up your you gain a lot you get to be attorney general in the state of
00:39:35.100
california and the u.s senator and vice president but you you do give up your right to lecture me
00:39:40.140
about feminism right is that fair a lot of women would agree with that i think that's right i'm just
00:39:44.700
being i'm not judging i'm sure but she she's not allowed to judge either i guess that's what i'm
00:39:50.380
saying it's certainly not without evidence right yeah like that was the whole sorry you had sex with
00:39:55.100
willie brown to get a job so why don't you cool it on the feminism stuff as you discussed with the
00:40:01.180
previous guests like yeah it kicked off her entire career oh of course it did wasn't just that it was
00:40:06.140
he you know willie brown gave her positions of power on state boards gave her that paid handsomely
00:40:12.460
you know she made up to four hundred thousand dollars back in the 90s from can you be specific about
00:40:17.500
which positions uh uninsured i just think it was an insurance now i'm getting vulgar again
00:40:24.460
oh yeah well yeah and then she made so she made about four hundred thousand dollars over a couple
00:40:30.220
years just from these once a month state board positions and that's like you adjust that for
00:40:35.260
today's dollars that's like almost a million dollars oh yeah and then bought her the key you know
00:40:40.300
bought her a bmw helped pay for her wardrobe um really turned her in to kamala harris
00:40:47.100
so there are two ways to look at this and as a charitable man who instinctively likes women
00:40:52.300
and likes kind of plucky up from the bootstrap stories i think you could tell that story in an
00:40:58.300
honest way that might make you admire kamala harris here's this woman who doesn't know anybody
00:41:03.660
she's from canada you know she doesn't she's not from the area really she's i think from she was
00:41:10.940
working at the alameda county prosecutor exactly right in the east bay right and she winds up
00:41:17.260
becoming attorney general the biggest state and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get that
00:41:21.580
including have sex with willie brown and monte williams if you told a story that way i'd say well
00:41:27.500
you know morally it's obviously malodorous but on the other hand this woman has a lot of um a lot of
00:41:37.820
energy she's focused she does what it takes to get what she wants exactly right and she's totally
00:41:44.300
self-made and i think willie brown really opened her up to this world of the possibility for sure
00:41:50.300
if you're a young prosecutor at the age of 29 you see what's possible but being on the arm of willie
00:41:55.900
brown you should have sex with willie brown why wouldn't you look at that and say i can seize
00:42:01.020
this for myself as long as i show up and demand it and willie brown taught her how to do that he
00:42:06.460
talks about in his book like in order to get into wealthy white worlds you force your way into these
00:42:14.620
positions of influence like on museum boards and the arts and you know the charities and you present
00:42:21.980
yourself as this figure then they'll welcome you into these worlds and they'll hoist you up
00:42:27.580
onto these political platforms but okay that's all fine i get it i mean it's a form of prostitution but
00:42:33.660
like you know i try not to judge all i'm saying is why would you be self-righteous and scolding
00:42:40.860
if you like she has no right to be self-righteous about anything or scold anyone and she doesn't
00:42:48.220
need to by the way she could just i don't know tell her story honestly and people might say i would
00:42:52.460
say i kind of get it you know she made something out of not much and i admire that why does she have
00:42:57.500
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00:43:01.900
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but that's democratic politics shut up honey you're from canada stop telling me about the edmund pettus
00:45:11.260
bridge like you had nothing to do with that right no right but she's not from alabama no no no she
00:45:19.180
definitely uh embraced this agenda as her own yeah and breast embraced her her identity if anybody
00:45:26.700
questions her identity she's just like i'm not even going to take the time to discuss this with you
00:45:31.580
with you um if you have a problem with me being black that's your problem
00:45:35.740
being black oh so black oh it's hilarious right and when you talk to black women and in politics like
00:45:46.380
they know but they also see her as someone who could do the job it's just so fake so
00:45:54.380
she did uh brett bear's show the other night right it's the first interview i've ever seen where after
00:46:01.020
the interview everyone tells you ignore all the substance of everything she said and focus only
00:46:07.420
on the style all of her defenders like focusing on the styling wow just the fact that she did this
00:46:12.780
interview she won whereas do an interview with brett bear that's open i mean it's all so stupid but
00:46:19.740
what i i didn't read any of the coverage of it because you know the lesson was obvious for me i didn't
00:46:24.540
need to be told what the lesson was but i i was really struck by how angry and touchy she was
00:46:31.100
defensive she was nasty she was skillless she was you've seen a million of her interviews is she
00:46:38.220
always is that a theme that you've noticed in the past this is something that was very much a product
00:46:42.860
that sort of boosted her on the public stage which is why she's trying to repeat it you know
00:46:46.780
she had a better than expected debate against donald trump yeah because she was able to
00:46:50.940
tangle with him and demonstrate that i thought she did a pretty good job right not bad right she
00:46:57.580
she needed that the opposition force to campaign against like she needs trump if she doesn't have
00:47:05.260
trump what does she have and so i think that that was part of the calculus of doing the fox news
00:47:10.140
interview it's like if i can just go against something if i can just stand tall and get in a
00:47:15.260
fight with brett bear then i look better by comparison it's like a total asshole i mean that
00:47:20.620
was just my view i mean i don't know maybe i'm completely out of it i you know it's nothing to
00:47:25.500
their gender she just was like screechy and defensive and mad is she right you've seen other
00:47:31.660
interviews like that with her is that she always is it's very interesting because and i talk about
00:47:35.980
this in the book a lot is when she was sort of this like democratic champion in the senate where
00:47:42.780
she was known for repeatedly fighting and getting angry and and doing her utmost to you know crush
00:47:48.460
kavanaugh i think she realized at some point that if i'm going to run for president i need to like
00:47:53.500
be sort of a little more than just this opposing force i need to have an idea an identity that attracts
00:48:02.940
americans to vote for me for president and so that's when she introduces this concept of a joyful
00:48:09.740
warrior she makes a hard pivot away from the fighter and goes on ellen and delivers this elegant
00:48:16.620
soliloquy about the importance of being a joyful warrior about loving your country and fighting for
00:48:22.700
your country and not being angry all the time she had multiple interviews where she's like i'm tired of
00:48:27.340
being mad all the time and i want to be a joyful warrior did she use the phrase joyful warrior repeatedly
00:48:34.540
repeatedly um on ellen in magazine profiles she completely and this is this is actually before kavanaugh
00:48:43.100
because she has this reputation of being a fighter in the senate then she pivots to be a joyful warrior
00:48:48.220
around 2018 then she pivots back to the vengeful warrior when she's fighting kavanaugh and then by the
00:48:56.700
time she's ready to announce her campaign for president in 2019 early 2019 she sort of pivots back to this
00:49:03.820
idea that i'm a joyful warrior and all i care about is speaking truth joyful so you've looked pretty
00:49:09.900
closely to her life you just wrote a book about her how many instances did you stumble across
00:49:15.180
of joy true genuine joy very hard to find very hard to find she's very guarded she's very guarded
00:49:21.660
she's a very private person and she's uncomfortable talking about herself she talks about it all the
00:49:26.140
time she's just like i'm just not comfortable talking about myself but she never stops talking
00:49:30.220
about herself i know this except in the specific ways like being raised in a middle-class family
00:49:36.540
being the product of her community being what community is she talking about right the san
00:49:41.500
francisco community but she's from canada right like what the hell is she talking about when she's
00:49:47.500
talking about the community she's talking about her childhood community that she grew up in
00:49:52.060
leaving the canada part out entirely and then just pretending she's always been
00:49:56.460
from oakland which she's actually from berkeley but she doesn't like to talk about it
00:50:01.500
yeah i mean what yeah i am from that area so i know it well and there are like no black people
00:50:11.580
there i don't even know what she's talking about there in in san francisco no oh there's like one
00:50:16.780
and a half black neighborhoods tiny percentage of population i think she is the daughter of an
00:50:22.380
academic elite right her father and mother too right right her father and mother were sort of hard-left
00:50:29.420
academics they were not necessarily the marching and shouters i mean i'm sure they went to a few
00:50:35.100
protests but they were very much intellectual activists they're very can i ask is um her father
00:50:41.660
attacked her at one point didn't he right and this is for using her jamaican identity to sort of defend
00:50:48.700
the idea of smoking weed legalizing weed yeah he was horrified by that it's the rare occasion where he
00:50:56.060
just without permission went out and wrote an angry essay essay you know explicitly saying i wish i
00:51:04.780
with i wish to categorize you know categorically disassociate myself from this brand that she's
00:51:11.900
selling of her jamaican heritage being the reason why she supports legalized marijuana yeah because i mean
00:51:19.020
if you actually are jamaican the idea that everyone in jamaica's you know peter tosh is right offensive it's
00:51:25.340
offensive right he was very angry so she doesn't get along with him then clearly no no and then he
00:51:31.180
is he was forced to take that actually he lives in washington dc what yeah harris's father lives in
00:51:38.220
washington dc the father who denounced her right what does he do what's this tell me that story why
00:51:43.580
haven't i heard that yeah um we had some reporters from the daily mail which is where i work and uh they
00:51:49.820
sort of tracked him down and he does actually live in a house not too far away from kamala harris and
00:51:55.580
it does not look like they spend a lot of time together if at all i think the last time he posted
00:52:00.620
photos of an adult kamala harris and him together were from many years ago before she came to washington
00:52:07.260
and he does a lot of work with economics and jamaica and the world bank i don't but he's also semi-retired
00:52:13.180
at this point so yeah he's just kind of this figure that exists in dc but has no close connection
00:52:18.780
with his daughter has he ever talked about her other than to write an op-ed attacking her he wrote
00:52:23.580
in a brief piece about his jamaican heritage and how kamala harris was connected to that uh he wrote
00:52:30.700
that for a jamaican newspaper where he talks about his life and you know having kamala at a young age
00:52:38.540
and then you know becoming distanced and it eventually estranged entirely from her
00:52:44.540
um yeah it's a very sad story he talks that he writes in his book his book about you know marxist
00:52:51.180
economics he talks about you know this book is dedicated to my daughters kamala and maya
00:52:56.700
and i from whatever relationship we have like it's a little bit of a sad story because it seems like he
00:53:02.300
was kind of pushed out of the family's life entirely after after quite some time
00:53:07.980
yeah um i mean he wasn't at any of her victory parties for her political races he did not attend
00:53:15.340
her inauguration kamala never personally invited him to an inauguration i think the times did a story
00:53:21.660
a couple weeks ago that said somehow he got an invitation through an intermediary but he was
00:53:26.540
never asked personally to come by his daughter ouch yeah yeah women who are mad at their dads
00:53:33.020
you know tend to um not all but a lot of them end up at wearing pink hats at women's marches and
00:53:40.780
in general if you're a father and your daughter grows up to be a man hater it's probably kind of your
00:53:46.460
fault right yeah fair you sort of take on that responsibility you know yeah you know that yeah
00:53:53.100
you know that it's your your fault right it is don't have a relationship with your daughter then
00:53:57.420
that's kind of yeah if she's running around promoting abortion right should occasion some
00:54:02.860
soul searching on your part i would say but um as as a father of daughters i can say that but um
00:54:09.180
so anyways she comes to dc speaking of relationships how and she's chosen by joe biden who was promised
00:54:15.260
america to give us what we really want which is a female black vice president well they totally rejected
00:54:21.580
it during the campaign when her failed presidential campaign when she thought she was launching this
00:54:27.980
historic future forward looking campaign in 2019 in january of 2019 when she announces her run for
00:54:35.660
president um it doesn't go well and it goes really badly and i'm sorry to elide right right over that
00:54:43.820
so she announces how long does she run for president she's one of the first out of the gate she has all
00:54:49.340
the support from many of the donors many of the major media elites you know she has this moment with
00:54:55.740
people like rachel maddow who says you know i do think that you are one of our strongest candidates
00:54:59.980
and i do think that you're going to make it to the final finishing line it's really an
00:55:04.380
impressive effort by the elite in the entire party they want to see connell harris succeed and they're
00:55:10.540
very bullish about her chances when she gets into the race it's such a funny funny race so the
00:55:15.580
the the the candidate the democrats really want is the socialist but he criticizes the banks so he
00:55:22.220
cannot be allowed to be the nominee because you can't criticize banks right that's immoral criticizing
00:55:28.460
banking and we're a little squeamish about you universal health care right but kamala harris
00:55:34.060
we don't actually want to give democratic voters anything they really want right so when she runs as
00:55:39.740
this uh you know she moves herself so far to the left right before she runs for president she's
00:55:45.580
become this like radical leftist candidate even more radical than bernie sanders himself she endorses
00:55:51.820
medicare for all but when she's up on the debate stage and they're like but if you have medicare
00:55:56.380
for all this means getting rid of private health care and she's like that's right i agree and then when
00:56:01.980
she gets enormous pushback media coverage the health insurance industry uh then she walks it back
00:56:10.700
and says well actually i don't mean that um i'm sure private insurance will still be around and i want
00:56:15.980
it to be around even though there is socialized health care well it's not really how it works but
00:56:21.100
if you if you you know can pivot quickly to say that and then she makes the same mistake again
00:56:26.540
and this is when you know you obviously have a core democratic party that wants to see you as
00:56:32.380
like this leftist champion like bernie sanders is right connor harris really wants to be that figure
00:56:38.620
and is doing her most desperate attempt to win sort of the bernie sanders mantle but the bernie
00:56:45.260
sanders supporters are very angry with her for even pretending to be a socialist democratic socialist
00:56:50.220
right because she's not and so i think that there was a very well she's a tool of the banks
00:56:56.940
right and the neocons and every other sort of evil institution and democratic party land
00:57:02.860
well she's willing to do the bidding of anybody who can get her in power she's not she was never
00:57:08.220
known in california as someone who is you know she talks about this we keep going back i'm sorry but uh
00:57:14.060
she talks how much about how she fought the big banks to win this massive mortgage settlement after
00:57:20.540
after the disastrous 2008 crash yeah um but yeah what she didn't lead the charge it was led by eric
00:57:28.060
schneiderman from new york who sort of rallied any progressive attorney general of a state
00:57:34.140
many who have gone on to have successful political careers and been like this is our moment if we
00:57:40.140
fight the big banks and earn a bigger settlement then we are automatically seen as champions and so
00:57:45.820
she fought the big banks and got a bigger settlement but she still settled and well she's a tool of the
00:57:51.660
rich right has been always the the banking industry the abortion industry the war industry it she's
00:58:00.060
she's a little foot soldier for industry i mean that's always has been right right and activists have
00:58:05.340
all been very frustrated with her unwillingness to take risks until she's running for president and then
00:58:11.100
she's suddenly for everything uh she's for reducing red meat consumption she's for banning plastic
00:58:18.060
straws she's for decriminalizing prostitution despite her mixed record on that she's for legalizing
00:58:25.420
marijuana um she just totally pivots and becomes this this figure who supports every single radical
00:58:32.540
agenda item during the democratic primary and yet well that makes sense as a feminist because if
00:58:39.660
obviously if you're for women you want to encourage them to sell their bodies like slaves
00:58:43.580
right right right yeah and apparently this is you go on you know black needed to sell this as
00:58:51.020
as something that you want yeah something about freedom we need what you need is decriminalization
00:58:56.540
of prostitution and an abortion to sell more weed kill your children and smoke more weed and that's
00:59:03.500
about freedom that's about success that's that's the that's the opportunity economy that we want to sell
00:59:09.340
yeah that's the agenda of the goddess um so her her presidential campaign despite a vigorous endorsement
00:59:19.100
from white ladies like rachel maddow crashes and burns like right the dogs won't eat the dog food
00:59:24.380
correct right how she goes to iowa once she hits iowa it's her whole life she's lived in a in a one party
00:59:32.540
state california and the idea there is to get the backing of the elites the donors and then raise enough
00:59:38.780
money to just plaster the air with advertising right then you win and as long as you have the blessing
00:59:44.620
of the elites then you can pretty much win in california you don't have to necessarily go on the ground
00:59:50.380
and convince voters um you just need those three things and so she goes into this primary in iowa
00:59:57.420
with sort of the the same focus right win the blessing of the elites raise a bunch of money
01:00:03.500
run all the advertisements and then when she hits the ground in iowa she suddenly finds that democrats
01:00:10.460
are not they're they're willing to listen but when they listen to her they're not satisfied with what
01:00:15.180
they're hearing they see her on the debate stages making the case for all these progressive policies
01:00:20.860
but then when she's asked to defend them she's either walking back or changing her mind on these issues
01:00:26.140
on top of it all in the beginning very beginning of her campaign is when the jesse the jesse smollett
01:00:31.580
stuff breaks and that's when she sort of rushes to his defense and is is the first candidate sort of
01:00:38.140
leading the march for justice for jesse so she sends out a tweet it's like wait hold on stop stop here you
01:00:45.900
are making fun of her she's totally fake but in one sense she is a legitimate pioneer she was the first
01:00:52.700
across the not the edmund pettus bridge but the jesse smollett bridge like she was there facing off
01:00:59.020
the guard dogs and fire hoses on behalf of jesse smollett right right she was lead she led the entire
01:01:06.140
democratic primary field to defend jesse smollett and then she still hasn't apologized for that by the
01:01:14.220
way so she still hasn't taken down the tweet in some sense a civil rights hero if you define civil
01:01:18.700
rights is like fake hate crimes right yeah right so uh and she's never apologized for that no she's
01:01:24.460
never apologized for it she expressed regret that it happened but she never apologized for was it
01:01:30.780
passive constructive construction like very much that it happened yeah yeah this is not spontaneous
01:01:37.340
basically like this is not good for people who have real hate crimes so but she still has the tweet
01:01:43.420
defending him as one of the smartest that's still up that's still up just like her you know the the
01:01:49.420
famous minnesota bailout of the protesters in minneapolis yeah yeah that's still alive too so
01:01:55.580
she's not she's not one to apologize very much i don't know it happens with a lot of politicians
01:02:00.060
certainly joe biden doesn't like to apologize for anything yeah it's it's so telling whereas you know
01:02:05.820
if you want to be strong apology is the only way right and people saw her as like the anti-biden so when
01:02:11.740
she first goes out on the debate stage and basically calls him a racist when they ask him
01:02:18.380
about the accusations of women of unwanted touching and groping she says i believe all women and they
01:02:24.140
have the right to say that so she's one of the first ones to sort of tackle biden as this out of
01:02:29.980
touch dinosaur who no longer belongs on the national stage she said as much during the debate you know
01:02:35.980
trying to be nice i'm not calling you a racist but let me call you a racist that's if essentially what
01:02:41.020
she said he wasn't enthusiastic enough about busing yeah they she pulled that from biden's past but at
01:02:48.860
the same time he's out there talking about the good old days when he worked with segregationists
01:02:52.540
and everybody got along and certainly the modern left was like well you can't do that i don't want
01:02:57.980
that i don't want joe biden busing was a disaster and it didn't help anybody it crushed white kids it
01:03:04.300
crushed black kids it destroyed public schools in the united states i'd love to hear someone explain why
01:03:08.860
busing was a good idea right in what sense was it a good idea like how where did that work exactly
01:03:14.700
and give me the numbers to show that it worked it didn't work it was horrible and the people who
01:03:19.340
promoted it sent their own children to private school so like i i don't know the fact that she
01:03:24.860
got up there on stage and yelled at biden who's a pig i'm not defending biden but like the one place
01:03:30.860
he's been right in his career was to oppose busing busing was immoral as hell and nobody called her on it
01:03:36.700
it was weird what was weird is that she was projecting herself as somehow this victim of
01:03:41.580
segregation and and suffrage and growing up in berkeley california and growing up in montreal i
01:03:47.260
mean that's where she went to high school that's where she went to high school was she was a lot
01:03:50.700
of segregation that little girl was me you know talking about riding the bus from one wealthy
01:03:57.420
california enclave to another right and trying to embrace this idea that she was somehow this great
01:04:03.260
civil rights figure it was rather offensive to a lot of black people who were just like well it's
01:04:07.580
just insane what about white people i mean the whole thing is nuts the idea that whatever without
01:04:13.500
even getting into busing but i would just love to hear someone defend busing on its own terms
01:04:18.060
like where was busing a success who benefited from it exactly right and when they asked her well what's
01:04:23.100
your position on busing she she found herself unable to explain yeah and they really like well why are we
01:04:29.420
talking about busing anyway right it was just it was it was an attempt to just find any cudgel at all
01:04:34.540
to hit joe no it's totally right it made a big splash did you really say that why are we talking
01:04:38.380
about it in the first place no that's what i'm saying but when they asked her for her position on
01:04:42.700
busing she's like well i don't know like she didn't have a good answer of what how whether or not she
01:04:48.060
would support federal busing gosh this is you don't have to it's such an obvious political attack well but
01:04:55.660
you don't even need to try that hard to expose her she exposes herself it's also fake a lot of bad
01:05:02.860
things going on in the world that honestly not many of us can have an effect on rising crime failing
01:05:09.580
schools a tanking economy what can you do about that well not a lot but you can get your own house
01:05:16.540
in order and above all you can spend money with merchants with companies that support your values
01:05:22.460
that are making this a better country and not a worse country but how do you find those companies
01:05:27.500
well that's where public square comes in public square actively curates the best products from
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america's small businesses to help families lead happier healthier more productive and connected
01:05:37.740
lives that means fewer errands to big box stores let's searching to find wholesome alternatives to the
01:05:43.820
garbage being offered in our culture and more quality time spent with people you love most
01:05:48.940
if you want to fix your country you've got to strengthen yourself and your home and you need
01:05:52.700
to spend your dollars where they do good and not bad rebuilding america takes place one small change
01:05:59.820
at a time with wise spending supporting people who support your family not funding people who hate you
01:06:06.380
if you want to do that public square.com is the answer public square.com
01:06:27.500
was she ever popular in california did you ever find evidence that she was
01:06:31.340
like had majorities just widely accepted she won her elections pretty handily except for the
01:06:36.220
the one race she had problems with was running through um the district the attorney general's
01:06:42.140
race there was a formidable republican still in the state steve cooley yeah who posed a pretty big
01:06:47.260
threat but did she when i've often heard people say but i've never checked it myself that when she ran
01:06:53.660
for president she did not have anywhere near majority support in her own state right is that correct
01:06:59.900
that was the big problem is that she thought she could use california as a springboard like obviously
01:07:07.340
they will rally around me in california and push me forward as the next great leader of the
01:07:11.420
of the democratic party but people in california did not she was so low in the polls in california
01:07:16.940
she had to quit before she got to the california primary because they obviously favored bernie
01:07:21.900
yeah well bernie's not allowed because the donors didn't like bernie right there was although there was
01:07:26.940
that well and then the biggest i think the moment that was critical for her campaign she was still
01:07:33.100
kind of limping along even after the biden attack some people liked it some people didn't and most
01:07:39.020
you know and more importantly the the people who were really in charge of the party and who was
01:07:43.580
going to win were not happy with and i think that's kind of why she pulled back like with biden's
01:07:50.220
record and if you're a democrat a young rising democrat and if you really want to take out joe biden
01:07:56.220
if you go at him hard for about four or five months on his record you can pretty much turn
01:08:01.100
the entire i think you could have turned the entire party against him but because he was sort of seen
01:08:08.380
as maybe the only one who could defeat donald trump i think that there was a lot of force
01:08:13.580
from the establishment democratic party this is like look just leave him alone he might be what we need
01:08:20.140
it's just crazy that the anti-white party in the end nominated an old straight white guy right blowing
01:08:27.260
past the position of fear right the fake black lady the gay guy who may not even really be gay i don't
01:08:33.500
really know but the guy who claims he's gay anyway and they pick you know a 76 year old straight white
01:08:42.380
guy really with all this baggage and history of democrats past right it's like yeah it's just
01:08:48.940
interesting so oh the moment that effectively ends her campaign as i was saying is the moment that
01:08:54.860
tulsi gabbard had the courage to get on stage and call her out as a fake progressive yeah as a warmonger
01:09:00.300
right and uh i think that really deep six her campaign crushed her she was never able to recover from
01:09:07.420
that she there was several attempts at reboots um you know at one point standing for censorship of
01:09:13.100
president trump on twitter that somehow she was going to leverage her entire political reboot on
01:09:18.140
this idea of censoring president donald trump or even progressives like elizabeth warren were like
01:09:23.420
what are you doing how is that even legal this doesn't even make any sense aren't she weren't
01:09:26.940
she the attorney general you're supposed to be a i think you're supposed to support free speech
01:09:31.900
as part of the constitution yeah but at the same time she she delivered a speech at the
01:09:36.940
naacp that said i will increase the number of attorneys at the department of justice to go
01:09:44.540
after hate speech and misinformation on social media and these social media companies better be very
01:09:50.620
afraid for what i want to do yeah don't give up like we need to hold them responsible for everything
01:09:56.380
that's posted on there yeah for criticizing us it shouldn't be right allowed how do people like that
01:10:02.220
who weren't even meaningfully attached to this country in any way or understand what it is
01:10:07.020
how do they get positions of power i don't understand like how could someone like kamala harris who
01:10:12.940
obviously doesn't like the united states but doesn't even really understand it like she gets
01:10:17.420
to administer our laws there's something wrong with our system don't you think right i think it's very
01:10:22.700
much focused on how can we find a willing participant to do everything we say and say and be willing to be
01:10:28.940
flexible on a number of different issues someone who doesn't have any core values is easier to
01:10:34.300
manipulate easier to manipulate yeah and i think that they saw her as somebody which is part of the
01:10:39.820
reason why they chose her as vice president this is someone who obviously has the support of the biggest
01:10:46.460
donors who also has been out in the streets during the george floyd protests um you know backing the idea of
01:10:54.620
these protests and what better person to be president biden's running mate than the person who accused
01:11:02.540
him of being a racist than the lady from the hr department which is what she really is bring her
01:11:07.100
into and that's sort of what she that was sort of how she leveraged her way into the front of the pack
01:11:13.260
right it was during the entire black lives matter george floyd protests of 2020 that tore up the entire
01:11:20.220
country and i think that many in the democratic party thought that she was necessary to tack on to
01:11:27.420
biden who clearly had his problems during the debates on his on black issues you know suggesting to
01:11:33.580
to black families that if they didn't play the record player at night they were raising their children
01:11:37.260
wrong and telling all these bizarre stories of you know relationships with black people and we're just
01:11:45.100
totally out of touch so i do think they felt that they needed to put the obama coalition back together
01:11:51.340
and if he was going to have a chance of winning in order to do that you need a person of color on the ticket
01:11:56.140
yeah i think that's like the um rich white liberal way of understanding black people right
01:12:02.140
and i bet you money that biden in the end will wind up doing better with black voters than kamala harris
01:12:09.420
i bet you i bet you money i mean i'm off it it clearly was in south carolina right when
01:12:14.540
he won all the black vote in south carolina well yeah because of jim cliburn he
01:12:21.660
became the nominee after south carolina and they found out that you know black people actually like
01:12:26.460
him and will vote for him then it was like time to clear the field and i get that right and i bet he
01:12:31.340
was the vice president for the first black president and well yeah but he's just also he he's a little bit
01:12:38.060
slightly more authentic than her like she's so obviously fake right but what do i know um
01:12:45.820
i do know that she's rachel maddow's version of a black candidate
01:12:52.380
you know what i mean but anyway um so okay so she gets chosen by biden was there any jog my memory
01:12:59.900
real contest were there other people under consideration right because he famously came
01:13:05.420
out when he's trying to seal the deal with bernie he comes out during a debate in the spring saying
01:13:09.900
i will choose a woman vice president and got a little splashed nobody remembers the substance of
01:13:15.420
the debate just that headline right yeah and then it became you know as he's exploring the idea like
01:13:21.020
who that you know there's a number of women he really liked but certainly um on the top of the
01:13:25.180
list were some of these sort of um these figures like gretchen whitmer of michigan who he felt was
01:13:34.220
kind of this this fun rising power in michigan who was kind of populist when she ran for office
01:13:40.380
and kind of had this idea of fixing the damn roads you know that's just music to the ears of this
01:13:45.580
this future president that just wants to fix infrastructure that's one of his biggest issues
01:13:50.700
so he's certainly attracted by her amy klobuchar was also someone else that he was interested in
01:13:55.420
bringing on board someone who he thought would be good but it became very clear that and then
01:14:01.740
certainly his campaign advisors as well um believe that no it's not just enough to have a woman on
01:14:07.420
the ticket we need a woman of color on the ticket because if you look back at hillary clinton
01:14:11.420
she lost a lot of the black vote because she chose color by the way right it's uh dependent on
01:14:19.740
the people that vote for democrats right the big part of their so i feel like he really wanted to
01:14:27.340
pick a gretchen whitmer or an amy klobuchar and certainly the biden family was not happy with the
01:14:34.380
idea of kamala harris as vice president he's the she's the one that actually came out and attacked him
01:14:39.500
for being a racist so when it became clear if you remember hillary clinton she chose tim kane who
01:14:47.580
one of the most vanilla people in the senate as her running mate and she also lost a lot of
01:14:52.540
the black votes so the smart people consultants in washington are saying the times demand that we
01:14:58.380
choose a woman of color a black woman they are the dumbest people i've ever met um so biden looks at
01:15:05.660
this these options and he has on his top of the list as he's heading into it it's kamala harris
01:15:14.060
susan rice who has a good relationship with from his time in the biden administration or in the obama
01:15:19.900
administration and um so those are sort of his top two picks and the fact that susan rice is even
01:15:27.980
being considered seriously shows that she was that you know they do not want kamala susan rice was jill's
01:15:35.740
favorite but ultimately between his conversations with his donors with his advisors and certainly with
01:15:42.860
obama himself he was urged to sort of put the past behind him and choose kamala harris and so it's
01:15:48.140
interesting i know susan rice pretty well and i think she's a scary person who's motivated basically
01:15:54.860
by hate but she's capable she's a real person right kamala is not a real person is totally fraudulent
01:16:02.620
just dei pick but susan rice is not and susan rice is a pretty serious person and like if you had it
01:16:09.900
might have been difficult to run a campaign with susan rice right i don't feel like she may i've
01:16:15.020
always been kind of impressed by susan rice even though i fear susan rice and i think i don't think
01:16:19.340
she's a particularly good person but i i definitely have some respect for susan rice um she was my
01:16:26.300
neighbor for years oh really yeah i you know for for any conservative they would see susan rice as the
01:16:33.900
face of benghazi and why would you ever want well the whole benghazi story was bullshit in the first
01:16:39.260
place right and the amount of lying by conservative media about benghazi in enrages me the point of
01:16:44.380
benghazi was they were moving weapons from qaddafi's weapon stockpiles to syria to fight an undeclared war
01:16:53.900
that only hurt the united states and those a lot of those weapons are going to islamic extremist groups
01:16:59.340
and that was the actual story and that was suppressed because the neocons didn't want to
01:17:03.820
talk about that wow and i just sat in in rage for years watching this benghazi i mean the benghazi
01:17:09.900
story was real right people died the reason true tragedy but right no one was allowed to ask like
01:17:16.060
what were all those ci officers doing in benghazi in the first place there was i think it was rand paul
01:17:20.860
who was sort of the only one did you ever hear anyone ask like what was that wait wait a second why
01:17:26.140
yeah fascinating just as someone from dc i'm like wait a second why were there that many cia personnel
01:17:32.540
in this one town huh and i remember asking that myself in television and having a producer say to
01:17:38.620
me that's not really the story and i was like well actually i think it is the story it's part of the
01:17:42.780
story anyway it's the context of the story right sorry i've been mad about this for a decade no i'm
01:17:48.380
i'm only saying that i'm not susan rice right i'm not endorsing anything that susan rice has ever done
01:17:53.900
i think susan rice is one of the reasons that the country is so screwed up right now all i'm saying
01:17:59.740
is if your job is to run the government you don't want to pick someone who's like pathetic like kamala
01:18:08.540
harris who's not done a single thing in her entire life right and is just clearly not a capable person
01:18:14.300
can't make a decision doesn't have a clear doesn't have much experience had never done anything like
01:18:20.620
even obama delivered a great speech that everybody thought was the had healed the nation he was a
01:18:26.460
talented guy he was a figure right kamala harris was never a figure exactly and uh i mean susan
01:18:32.700
they really wanted her to be they they started by calling her it's just your classic rich white liberal
01:18:37.820
view of the world it only all that matters is your skin color right it's not so different from the
01:18:44.540
segregationist view of the world which they also supported you know their parents supported in the
01:18:49.340
democratic party it's just like all that matters is what color you are anyway whatever don't get
01:18:54.060
me going but um okay so they pick her what's her relation you say jill biden was actually for susan rice
01:19:02.300
right what is the relationship between kamala and the bidens once she gets chosen so i really think
01:19:09.900
that joe biden felt that he could that kamala would be his buddy he really wanted a buddy vice president and
01:19:15.420
he really thought kamala could rise to the occasion and learn how to be a good vice president because
01:19:20.780
he had been a vice president yes he knew what it took for eight years for everything you can say about
01:19:25.100
joe biden he was very deferential to the president and he was very loyal to him and worked very hard
01:19:33.340
like obama's not sort of uh a warm glowing figure that wants to be friends with everybody
01:19:39.500
and but biden sort of wormed his way into a buddy type relationship with obama and they actually got
01:19:47.660
along pretty well when they were in office despite you know obvious frictions between the two camps
01:19:53.340
that always happens but i think that he thought that kamala harris would sort of drop everything and
01:19:58.780
become wholly united to his vision and his campaign but they found out very soon after they took office
01:20:06.380
that no kamala harris had no interest in being joe biden's buddy had no interest in taking hard
01:20:12.700
issues off his plate or defending him i think it was very clear from the moment she got into office
01:20:17.820
she was here for the next step in her career and she was going to do everything possible to sort of
01:20:23.260
preserve her political future and not waste it on this aging joe biden who is clearly on his way out
01:20:30.140
it's nicely put wait so you're saying that joe biden picked a ruthless careerist loyal to no one but
01:20:36.940
herself right and was shocked to discover that she was a ruthless careers loyal to no one but herself
01:20:41.500
and someone who was not competent and she's dumb
01:20:48.700
wow do you think they were really surprised by that i think so i think i think biden really thought
01:20:53.900
that she would rise to the occasion and realize the nature of the job well he was senile then huh yeah
01:21:00.220
i guess so um but yeah it became very clear that she was not there to help him she was there to
01:21:09.180
the next step in her career and she kind of has this kind of has this this this kind of aspect goes
01:21:16.540
back throughout her entire career right she she rises with willie brown and then when willie brown
01:21:21.660
leaves office she kicks him under the bus um basically saying if he commits any crimes i'm going
01:21:27.020
to throw him in jail and you're sort of kicks him under the bus as someone that's no longer
01:21:32.060
politically relevant right he said that yeah when she's running for district attorney everyone
01:21:36.220
that's all people wanted to talk about this is this is the woman who dated willie brown she's
01:21:41.500
obviously corrupt and she's like no willie brown i'm done with him he has no influence on me even
01:21:47.340
though he's behind the scenes raising money for her she essentially throws willie brown under the
01:21:52.540
bus i don't think it's a good idea to date kamala harris and that's that's the picture that's emerging
01:21:57.660
right right do you agree with that certainly not in her early career no and she didn't eventually
01:22:03.980
i just want people listening to this to remember do not date kamala harris unless you're doug emhoff and
01:22:08.380
then perhaps you can get remarried to a 50 year old woman and uh who's has a career path
01:22:18.700
into national politics but he's pretty tough on the ladies though i mean he's he runs a tight ship
01:22:22.940
he'll run he'll smack he'll smack you in the valet line if you get mouth there's been some great
01:22:26.860
reporting at the daily mail about that i'm sorry i'm getting ahead of the story so so so joe biden
01:22:33.580
right thinks that kamala harris is going to be his little friend right his little black friend
01:22:39.100
actually his cool black certainly a supportive supportive a supportive force to sort of ease up
01:22:45.740
all the tension he's getting from women and and black people maybe will help try and make the ladies
01:22:50.700
settle down yeah yeah so um he really because obama did this to biden right he anytime he had a thorny
01:22:58.940
issue be like i'm gonna put sheriff joe in charge of this and he's gonna take care of it and biden
01:23:03.420
realize what obama was doing but he just sort of grinned and be like yep i'm the vice president
01:23:07.660
this is what we do um so right away the first thing for kamala harris it's like we need you to
01:23:15.100
take a thorny issue off our plate we're going to put you in charge of immigration and we all saw how
01:23:21.580
that went right and yeah she was very adamant about i'm not in charge of immigration i'm not the
01:23:28.380
immigration czar i'm only in charge of root causes in the northern triangle he was very adamant about
01:23:35.420
that even correcting joe biden behind the scenes when he's in congress he's like and kamala is going
01:23:40.780
to take care of the immigration problem and she was like actually no mr president i am only handling
01:23:47.340
the root causes of immigration maybe it's mayorkis or or somebody else that's actually going to handle
01:23:54.860
the immigration problem for you because that's not my job but you know now we have this whole thing
01:24:00.060
like she was never the border czar but she was in charge of the messaging on immigration when she
01:24:06.940
made her trip to guatemala and told migrants do not come if if you come i believe you'll be sent away
01:24:17.260
well we all saw how effective that messaging was so it's very clear that the administration really
01:24:24.220
wanted to take her to take this issue off the plate to be the messenger on immigration
01:24:28.540
and she sort of wriggled out of that assignment ultimately you know did she succeed at any aspect
01:24:34.700
of the root causes i think they might have some metrics to say she did but did she fix mexico she
01:24:39.900
certainly didn't finish oh fix any root causes as we know it's also absurd um and root causes is always
01:24:46.220
a dodge not that there aren't root causes there are but whenever you see a politician pivot from
01:24:51.980
well let's get to the core the problem right to its root causes you realize that politician is just
01:24:58.780
punting right yeah so what was um in the end joe and jill biden's view of kamala harris disappointment
01:25:10.300
i think i think they really hoped she would rise to the occasion when there's reporting done that you
01:25:15.180
know joe biden said that she was work in progress just a few months ago he still believes that she was
01:25:24.460
making her way but probably hadn't have risen and seized the the imaginations of the american public
01:25:31.980
as well as they had hoped as being the sort of transformational figure historic figure
01:25:36.060
right like how can you not just instantly become an american icon yeah but with kamala harris it was a
01:25:43.180
very big struggle american icon certainly obama was an american icon right yeah but she's a member of
01:25:52.220
the master race so we have to worship her but no that's not how it really works in in the end if i
01:25:58.540
can just restate the obvious obama who i think was evil and bad for america but he was really talented
01:26:04.220
mm-hmm and i don't think it was because he was black he's just talented no it was he was very
01:26:10.300
talented and very but it was people like joe biden who's like wow you know he was the one on the
01:26:16.060
record calling but it's just praising him for being an articulate black guy just shows exactly it just
01:26:21.260
shows how racist the the rich white liberal is because all they see in obama is black and they're
01:26:26.620
like oh we just get some black person in here so when we can call black that person will become an american
01:26:31.020
icon and it's like no that's right you kind of have to earn it right and imagine if you're kamala
01:26:35.820
harris right you're brought into the democratic party as this as this this transformational figure
01:26:40.700
as this icon you're they view you as the female obama it's very insulting right because they don't
01:26:46.140
it's so insulting it's insane but this and this happened with tulsi gabbard too because if you remember
01:26:52.540
and i've she's done a number of great interviews with rogan with you um where she talks about how when she
01:26:58.300
first got and when she was first elected to congress the democratic party immediately brings
01:27:03.500
her into the higher echelons of power not the important ones right but the one vice chair of
01:27:08.620
the dnc yeah bring her into these positions because she's seen as this obvious person that we need to
01:27:17.260
center our agenda on to show how diverse and how open we are to new personalities and new people and
01:27:24.860
how fresh and young and interesting we are and the minute she diverts from the you know she talked
01:27:31.020
about this how she was celebrated by all of course democrats and the minute she diverts from the agenda
01:27:36.940
to warn about war in syria which is something she profoundly believes in war she's been to war
01:27:43.020
she does not like war but the minute she diverts from the agenda everyone's like oh i'm so sorry
01:27:49.740
your political career is over and now we're going to ostracize they never listened to what she said
01:27:54.540
i mean her views didn't change no she believed that when she got elected from hawaii but all they saw
01:28:02.140
was the way she looked right because they're racist and they judge people on the basis of their race
01:28:07.340
that's the definition of racist and they saw her and they're like oh she's not white therefore she's
01:28:13.580
great and they never heard a word she uttered even when she ran for president they just ignored her
01:28:19.660
they didn't well by that point they hated her because they they finally picked up on the fact
01:28:23.420
that she was against their whole agenda right but and she took out one of their star
01:28:30.700
their star people well she's tough yeah and she's great she's genuinely believes in things she's not
01:28:35.340
fake tough like harris right yeah it's like on the verge of tears when brett bayer asked her a question
01:28:41.020
it's like oh my gosh um so jill biden is very famous in dc this is a product of my reporting
01:28:47.660
from living down the street from her um as like a real bitch as someone who's you know tough and nasty
01:28:55.020
and i always tough girl from philly and she's on the record saying i am willing to forget the attacks
01:29:03.900
i will never forgive yeah i mean she's that i mean that's certainly you know her reputation
01:29:10.860
in dc over the 35 years i lived in the same city as her she was definitely regarded as
01:29:17.500
a bitch so i always wondered how did she get along with kamala harris now i don't think they ever
01:29:23.020
got along i think and it was very clear in events they say the things like we're so proud of you
01:29:28.700
thank you kamala yeah yeah right uh when she was selected you know jill biden was there to offer cookies
01:29:35.500
and pretend that everything's normal but yeah you don't forget those kinds of attacks against your
01:29:40.300
husband but good for her by the way i'm on i'm on dr jill's side on that right like you're obviously
01:29:46.940
part of have been in politics for a very long time so you're used to people attacking your husband and
01:29:52.380
certainly joe biden he was attacked for he always wanted to be president and he was always pushed
01:29:57.580
aside by the elites so she did have a chip on her shoulder yeah fair yeah and even joe biden himself i
01:30:03.100
mean when they finally reached this position they are people who were repeatedly thrust out of the
01:30:08.540
conversation and pushed aside and mocked and belittled until they needed him and so oh but
01:30:15.900
wait you get four years and then it's time for you to go we're done with you so what happened i mean
01:30:22.700
this just happened this summer yeah but it's maybe because it did just happen it's hard to understand
01:30:27.980
exactly what that was um what like what do you think that was and did kamala harris have a role i
01:30:34.460
assume she had a role in pushing biden out of course right the official narrative is that you
01:30:39.820
know she woke up one morning and had pancakes and bacon with her nieces and was working on a puzzle
01:30:45.740
and joe biden called her out of the blue and said i'm getting out of the race and i'm going to endorse
01:30:51.420
you for president and then she jumped and got on the phone and within 12 hours on the phone she wrapped
01:30:58.460
up the entire nomination that's the story that's the official story is it actually yeah so this is
01:31:04.940
single-handedly got on the phone eating anchovy pizza and sweats wearing her sweats and made it
01:31:12.220
enough phone calls to where she could wrap up the entire nomination in in a day so this is the so
01:31:17.180
that's the official that's the official tell lies that are so absurd they know we're not going to
01:31:22.940
believe them but they don't care they have actually i missed all this they that was the story that's
01:31:28.540
sort of the official story well that's just soviet i mean that's just absolutely crazy yeah so but we
01:31:35.660
know for three weeks maybe four from from after the debate in june to the day that joe biden announced
01:31:43.580
that he was stepping down there was a furious amount of activity behind the scenes pelosi schumer and
01:31:50.620
you know that kamala harris has to publicly backing joe the whole way but what are her people doing
01:31:59.180
behind the scenes is there no effort to sort of make sure that you're being considered come on to be
01:32:06.540
his heir which is your rightful position these are politicians politics is what they do right i mean
01:32:11.820
that's why they got into this that's how their brains work there's people behind you who are working
01:32:15.900
of course like of course you can claim to my ability i was doing nothing yeah there's people
01:32:21.100
who support you who tend who will get power from you if you were elected that are working on your
01:32:27.020
behalf that just happens organically out of our political system right it's been going on for
01:32:32.780
generations so you have to imagine that there was always going to be this this idea that there might be
01:32:41.420
an actual convention where we go and choose the candidate that we want there might be a democratic
01:32:47.900
process it's like uh yeah like a democratic process what do they call it a brokered convention
01:32:51.820
yeah or democracy i think they call it yeah something like that because it's so fragile so very fragile but
01:32:57.180
so very strong well it obviously doesn't exist if your presidential candidate gets the job without
01:33:05.500
anyone voting on it then that you don't have democracy right so i think that pelosi and people
01:33:10.940
did want to see a choice because they had hoped that the strongest candidate would emerge i think a
01:33:16.620
lot of the reason why biden ran for re-election in the first place is because he and many in the
01:33:20.860
democratic party and certainly in 2023 nobody thought that kamala harris could win a race for president
01:33:29.260
against donald trump not even win a primary they just didn't think he was ready right and that's
01:33:36.380
what's so fascinating like when i published the book a lot of what i was you know reporting and
01:33:42.860
researching was 23 in in dc when they when washington dc had thoroughly rejected her and we're even having
01:33:49.580
conversations of why not get rid of her entirely on the ticket we need somebody else if joe biden's
01:33:54.380
gonna win again so that we went from there i mean washington's cruel right you you show up and you
01:34:02.060
are not ready and you make mistakes as she clearly did during her first three years and that's pretty
01:34:07.020
well chronicled then they turn on you they don't see you as valuable and they had officially most of
01:34:13.260
washington thought she was a complete joke she didn't have you know there's not like these these
01:34:19.100
defenders or people who actually want to see you succeed in washington they're all rooting for
01:34:24.220
your failure and they only respect you if you prove them wrong and conal harris clearly wasn't
01:34:28.860
proving them wrong at this point in 23 so when she's ultimately kept on the ticket it's for obvious
01:34:35.260
reasons like we can't just kick her aside and and bring gretchen whitmer in to save the day
01:34:40.540
to run with joe biden right it's tough yeah it's tough you're you're beheld by the same
01:34:45.980
identity politics that you embrace to get her to this position
01:34:49.020
oh yes you're hung by your own petard yes that is um i mean it was it was obvious this was going
01:34:57.500
to happen i wasn't surprised at all i was a little surprised um that she picked tim walls if you want
01:35:05.660
a gay guy why not just go with pete butta judge what what was the thinking there um i don't know too much
01:35:14.060
other than what's been reported right it's just that ultimately she selected tim wall she had a
01:35:19.580
prior relationship in fact tim walls first appeared on the campaign trail when she went to minnesota
01:35:25.820
to visit a planned parenthood clinic for being the historic first vice president to actually campaign
01:35:31.900
at a planned parenthood at an abortion tim walls was right there cheering her on kind of wholesome
01:35:36.940
uplifting deal right like this is what we're for these are totally normal people right and so i think
01:35:42.700
that she met him there and at various points in her career and found him to be an entertaining
01:35:49.260
figure likable figure right figure you know we met at an abortion clinic and uh got along real well
01:35:56.380
he seemed kind of fussy and bubbly and so i thought i would pick him yeah they actually met
01:36:00.780
at an abortion clinic i don't know if that's the first time but that was definitely a pivotal moment
01:36:05.100
right it was like okay um wow i didn't know that that's it's one of the first times you see tim
01:36:13.900
walls on camera which i didn't recognize him at the time but going back and looking at her speeches
01:36:18.620
there he's right behind her clapping the whole time so i you know you assess people by what they do
01:36:23.580
but also by their relationships who are they close to and in her case i'm looking at the men in her life
01:36:29.260
and i see well obviously montel williams and willie brown um i know both of them um i like them both
01:36:38.460
better than the men currently in her life but the men now in her life would be her dad who is not in
01:36:43.500
her life in her life writing an op-ed attacking her not invited to her own inaugural you see tim walls who
01:36:51.260
is you know i guess her little gay friend or whatever but creepy guy hanging out at abortion clinics
01:36:56.860
together and then you see her husband the nanny impregnator who smacked a woman in the face
01:37:05.660
um what is that right when i did the reporting from the book and and i certainly did not pick
01:37:12.620
up on this but in washington at the time he was widely celebrated widely liked they really do people
01:37:18.380
in washington people in washington dc really like doug emhoff they thought he was this gregarious fun
01:37:23.180
which looks like it loved being in power and was just a golfer doing the best he could to back up
01:37:29.180
kamala harris and he would do all these panels about how his number one job was to you know defend
01:37:35.180
this idea of of having a strong woman in office well they love the beta male and it's always the beta
01:37:40.940
male was punching women in the face but whatever yeah but where did she meet him unfortunate what is that
01:37:46.780
they met but right i think it was right as she ran right after she won her second term
01:37:56.300
well it would have been in 2014 but right as she's getting ready to go national and she talks about in
01:38:02.460
her book how it wasn't easy to be a political figure being a single woman talks about how she was treated
01:38:08.940
differently and how it was a struggle so i do think ultimately she you know i'm sure they had a great
01:38:14.460
dating relationship and that they they've found enough in common to where they felt that you know
01:38:20.140
it was worth pursuing do you think she let him smack her around i don't see that no yeah i think doug's
01:38:26.940
been sufficiently tamed kept in his place yeah he's been tamed by the despite all the reporting of who doug
01:38:33.660
was before like he has definitely been put in his place and yeah and realizes his job and he's enjoying
01:38:42.220
the benefits of being a a man who supports strong women and i think that's why a lot of people i
01:38:48.860
think that was a step too far for a lot of the people that spoke to the daily mail it's like no
01:38:52.700
you are not this but they all are any male feminist has probably hit a woman i mean that's the whole
01:38:58.140
point of being a male feminist is to hide the fact that you treat women the fact that you're a monster
01:39:02.140
right obviously um every woman knows that by the way if you just ask a woman who are the men to be
01:39:08.140
afraid of is the one who's always telling you how is that right oh yeah any man who describes himself
01:39:13.740
as a feminist is probably a physical danger to you yeah wow sure well i mean i'm i'm from california
01:39:19.580
so i've seen this my whole life lived in washington yes for a very long time but emhoff um were did they
01:39:26.620
like publicly date i i missed all this were they was it well known that they were dating was he a big
01:39:32.780
political figure in california who is he no he's an entertainment lawyer yeah and so he was connected
01:39:38.620
by one of commonless friends and i think that they ended up together because obviously it's very
01:39:47.340
good in this time of your life to not be a single person i think that's especially if you're pursuing
01:39:52.300
higher office you don't want to be a single person and you know um and you shouldn't be it's
01:39:57.740
right and i'm not saying this in a mean way just honestly that kind of job is so hard
01:40:02.940
if you're not going to have somebody in your corner oh i agree yeah i'm not i'm sympathetic
01:40:07.580
to kamala harrison that way sure and they very much talk about doug as being this figure someone
01:40:13.340
she can come home and vent to and talk to and um even though she made the decision to go basically
01:40:21.420
be the president when he's at soul cycle exercising with friends and he doesn't find out until he gets
01:40:27.180
back to his car no he he admitted he admitted being at soul cycle with his gay friends yeah
01:40:32.220
that's what he said and he said he didn't find us real i mean how could it not it just
01:40:40.060
i was where else would you be how can you you like there has to be obvious evidence of that you
01:40:45.100
wouldn't make up that story it's just so unbelievable imagine yourself saying that when my wife got the
01:40:51.740
nod that she was going to run for president i was at soul cycle with my gay friends and i think he
01:40:56.220
said that that's what he said and then he said when i got back to my car i picked up my phone and
01:41:00.620
called her and she said where the f have you been man if one of my college roommates did something like
01:41:06.300
that i would call him up and say what are you thinking seriously wouldn't you yeah i would say
01:41:13.500
what yeah you made it and certainly yeah i mean it seems like she very much made the decision on her
01:41:19.420
own without you know time to think about it with friends and family maybe they had had this discussion
01:41:24.460
beforehand that if it if she ever got the call she could just go for it but doesn't sound like most
01:41:30.540
politicians are like well i gotta think about it with friends and family before i know you gotta
01:41:34.860
talk to your husband right your spouse yeah or your wife right yeah not friends and family your
01:41:41.580
spouse the person you're married to right right and then your kids they don't have kids she doesn't
01:41:46.700
have kids but but yeah then i guess your friends and family but your spouse is the first person you
01:41:52.380
should at least have a phone call before you accept it but we both should be on the same page or you're
01:41:57.340
not really married right well obviously this these are obvious things to non-political people it's not
01:42:02.780
just kamala harris she's not the only one with a fake marriage and politics like most of them seem
01:42:07.420
to have those but but i just want to say that out loud because it is really sick it's not normal and
01:42:13.580
we should just acknowledge that so we remember what normal is normal is when you have a marriage it's
01:42:17.980
a partnership a full partnership where if you're going to make a major life decision you talk it over
01:42:22.060
with your spouse that's my experience well of course or else it's not a real marriage right i mean
01:42:27.660
is that the whole point of marriage i think so i thought so right it is certainly just say i'm not
01:42:32.620
very familiar with um sort of the marriages that you're describing well that's just a roommate
01:42:37.500
situation yeah um so wow these stories came out in your paper can you just describe for maybe people
01:42:46.300
haven't been reading the daily mail so what are the stories that we've what have we learned about doug
01:42:50.540
emhoff right um that he had this relationship with this pretty professional pretty successful female
01:42:56.540
lawyer and that he struck her in the face when they were at a public event together and then
01:43:02.220
afterwards he kind of forced his way into her taxi even after the incident and basically was like well
01:43:10.700
this is just the product of of our relationship and you know this woman is clearly very upset very
01:43:17.660
um frightened by what he's done but he doesn't necessarily it's not let's there's no attempt to
01:43:28.060
heal or it just seems like it's the product of what happened that night and he certainly doesn't seem to
01:43:34.140
repented from that certainly not publicly do you okay so the but he the bottom line is he was dating a
01:43:39.020
woman there in can france south of france right at the film festival but at some aids event as i remember
01:43:45.660
yeah and he hits her in the face waiting out of jealousy she says waiting for their car in the
01:43:53.420
valley line mm-hmm i think that's the allegation is is it real i mean it's october of an election year
01:43:59.660
do you believe that's a real story certainly like the evidence that we've gathered in the fact and the
01:44:05.500
testimony you know the evidence from that night is certainly more real than any other accusation we've
01:44:11.820
heard about um a lot of men politicians recently really um can you imagine if maybe somebody accused
01:44:21.660
mike pence of doing that right would they would the media actually care about that i don't know um
01:44:29.980
that's a whole nother mike pence is a whole nother story man i don't know what to think there but
01:44:34.300
or any other no no of course no i see your right that if if the partisan positions were switched of
01:44:39.420
course if donald trump jr was obviously slapping women in the face would that be a big story and
01:44:44.300
really hard spinning her around right with his hand right so but when you say testimony can you
01:44:49.500
tell us what that is you talked to other people who were there well it wasn't my story at the daily
01:44:54.220
mail but but yeah the reporters who worked on the story and the editors who worked on the story
01:44:59.660
um spoke with a lot of witnesses about what had happened who recall that day the day that she called
01:45:08.220
them to tell them what happened and this you know corroborated evidence with evidence of the flight
01:45:14.860
ticket there's certainly enough there and you had a great conversation with megan kelly who came away
01:45:20.220
you know megan kelly's pretty a sharp lawyer right she came away saying she's very sharp she it was very
01:45:26.300
interesting to hear her talk about it and say you know i believe it all but she's a experience these
01:45:31.740
type of men that do these things and b um knows enough to smell whether or not a story is fake
01:45:39.020
yeah it's i guess and who does he go to to sort of wipe it all away joe scarborough
01:45:44.380
so funny joe scarborough is like well what about all this stuff and the tabloids and and doug emhoff
01:45:53.820
just looks him straight in the eyes like we can't get distracted from our mission here oh so emhoff
01:45:59.900
never denied it no i think his team did in some passive language but he certainly hasn't personally
01:46:07.420
so but bottom line you're convinced and again you work at the publication that ran this story
01:46:13.740
that this is a real person and your reporters oh i've heard people say oh we know who this woman is
01:46:20.300
like if the mainstream media was actually concerned about validating the story they could pursue it
01:46:29.100
yeah but as is often the case when you have an uncomfortable narrative or in the last days of an
01:46:35.260
election you know i guess we didn't get censored right and we didn't uh they didn't call it russian
01:46:41.740
disinformation and ban us from social media i think they're trying to just make it go they really would
01:46:47.660
like it to go away of course right which it will and the fact that you're talking about it and megan
01:46:51.420
kelly is talking about it is very inconvenient for their campaign you know it just it's look i i just
01:46:56.780
want to be consistent however i don't like doug emhoff's politics i feel sorry for him um just
01:47:02.700
because his life seems depressing but i don't like his politics but i also know that there have been a
01:47:07.500
lot of people whose politics i also don't like who've been destroyed by false accusations of sexual
01:47:13.740
harassment physical abuse like there's a lot of falseness around me too claims including people i know
01:47:23.020
and um had one of them on the other day mark alprin and so i just i just want to be fair right and i'm
01:47:31.020
also really uncomfortable with any accusation from an anonymous source against someone we name like so
01:47:36.060
we we name the person who's been accused but we don't name the accuser i just want to say for the
01:47:40.140
record i think that's immoral i don't think we should have anonymous accusations but whatever it seems very
01:47:45.740
common now but i just want to make sure that that um so you believe this they know who this is and
01:47:52.460
this seems like a real thing right i do believe it and when you have multiple witnesses that are
01:47:56.780
willing to say something means that they're deeply upset by what happened and not only that they're
01:48:00.780
deeply upset by the person he's being portrayed it's like they saw it happen witnesses you had you
01:48:06.060
interviewed your paper interviewed witnesses you saw it happen i think that they were witnesses who were
01:48:10.380
there who the woman talked to right wow the woman who you know this isn't uh this isn't you know we
01:48:17.820
can't be too cavalier but this isn't a christian christine blasey ford accusation this is something
01:48:22.620
where multiple people are and it wasn't it wasn't 40 years ago right this is something that happened
01:48:28.700
very recently amazing do you think that story has penetrated at all well certainly you and megan have
01:48:35.500
talked about yeah but which yeah has and donald trump made a joke about it well and not about the
01:48:43.100
violence story but he made a joke about the nanny story and during so that story is that emhoff
01:48:47.820
impregnated his nanny right and that that just seems like a fact he actually addressed it and said that yes it
01:48:53.500
happened huh um it has kamala respond said no no no and it's very it's one of those stories right you
01:49:06.460
don't ask about that if you ever want to get an interview with kamala harris again that's not
01:49:11.340
something you bring up right so certainly a lot of media figures aren't interested in asking about that
01:49:16.300
story how do you assess the coverage of her just kind of meta question here as a reporter as someone
01:49:23.740
who's really tried to cover kamala harris yeah that's what i've kind of you know because i remember
01:49:29.900
obama and i remember how the media was how they acted during the obama administration and if they
01:49:37.820
had actually held him accountable on a few things then it might have gone better yeah i think as a
01:49:42.860
journalist you kind of want to just hold people accountable and puncture through like their false
01:49:48.700
narratives reveal who they really are kind of expose their weaknesses yeah warn the american people like
01:49:55.100
this is the type of person that you would vote for yeah this is how they act behind the scenes this is
01:50:00.540
who they really are they're we're not going to let the politician tell their own story that's not good
01:50:05.900
for america that's not good for democracy you have to know the full story and you have to have
01:50:11.260
impartial people looking into it but you but kamala harris as a hero of the civil rights movement has
01:50:17.740
a story has exclusive rights to her own story right you don't get to tell her story right and you can
01:50:22.300
write your book every politician writes a book before they run for a higher office look at ronda
01:50:27.420
santus he published a book telling his whole story yeah but we don't just take the biography and
01:50:32.140
run with it as as the next american icon they have to earn that and certainly well we get to
01:50:38.460
we get to ask questions don't we that's our that's what we like to do i think yes actually uncover
01:50:44.860
interesting things about people that yeah and paint a bigger portrait than just the one that's on their
01:50:51.020
campaign ad their campaign slogan so i do i do find that very rewarding i think every journalist should
01:50:57.020
find that rewarding like who is the real kamala harris what does she believe in turns out not much
01:51:01.500
um if there's any issue she's never changed her position on or one issue she actually cares about
01:51:08.700
and can speak passionately about it's abortion i think that's her number one why do you think she's
01:51:14.380
so is this someone who never had children i'm not attacking her i feel sorry for her children are a source
01:51:19.020
of joy really the only enduring source of joy so um speaking of joy so i'm i'm definitely not attacking
01:51:25.180
her for that at all i feel really bad for her but why but it's just interesting that someone who never
01:51:31.260
had kids would be so committed to abortion like what do you think that is yeah i'm not sure um it's
01:51:36.700
it's obviously something that she has dealt with she's obviously had people in her life
01:51:41.500
who have dealt with she had an abortion she's not anyone asked her she's never publicly said anything
01:51:47.260
about it she's constantly talking about other people's abortions and abortion abortion abortion abortion
01:51:53.100
why is it out of bounds say have you had an abortion right because if you had you would
01:51:58.220
certainly expect that you would be this you would champion that moment since it's the expression of
01:52:03.340
human freedom if i'm running around talking about how we need how you know abortion subsidized
01:52:08.940
appendectomies then i think it's fair to say have you ever had an appendectomy right if there's
01:52:12.860
nothing to be ashamed of then why does nobody ask her i don't get that i don't you know i'm kind of
01:52:16.300
sick of playing along with all this stuff i must say all these weird taboos that only serve one
01:52:21.580
political party where there's some things you're supposed to talk about but only in a certain way
01:52:25.580
other things you're never allowed to talk about certain people have a right to tell their own
01:52:29.260
story other people who have no right to talk at all like i'm just who makes these rules and
01:52:33.340
why are we playing along with them right has any pro-choice woman who is in political office
01:52:40.540
shared her experience of having an abortion yeah i mean i really just for the record don't
01:52:44.620
want to hear about other people's abortions or abortion at all it's killing it's but if it
01:52:48.060
is the if it is the act of ultimate human freedom and you and you campaign on this well they're the
01:52:53.740
ones who are talking about it constantly so maybe maybe you would consider that this would be but if
01:52:58.140
brett bear had said to her the other night um you know madam vice president have you ever you talk
01:53:02.380
about abortion have you ever had one i mean i think he would have been fired from his job for saying
01:53:07.020
right and he certainly would become instantly a villain and you sort of wonder like why if there's
01:53:13.740
nothing wrong with abortion if you're supposed to shout your abortion or like tim walls is
01:53:19.340
very obviously gay i look at him i'm like well you're gay and i'm sure i'll be attacked for
01:53:24.300
saying that maybe he's not gay but he certainly seems gay right and you immediately say where's
01:53:28.700
your evidence oh i don't have any evidence i'm just saying the guy looks super super gay to me
01:53:33.100
but they're the ones always running on being like it's great to be gay okay if it's great to be gay then
01:53:37.340
why is it an attack on him for me to say that and why would it be out of bounds to be like hey
01:53:42.700
tim walls you seem super gay are you gay have you ever slept with dudes like if you asked that
01:53:47.980
question you would you'd be fired from your job you're just asking that now it's very controversial
01:53:52.780
right but why would it be controversial if there's nothing wrong with it right then why is it so
01:53:57.500
offensive to ask that question i don't like this doesn't make any sense i think ultimately democrats
01:54:02.060
feel like these issues are very private which is why they campaign so strong they're so private
01:54:06.220
really you've got a lgbtq plus parade in san francisco new york seattle every big city in
01:54:14.540
the country people having sex in the street so it's not private right they're telling my kids constantly
01:54:19.900
that it's a good thing so there's nothing private or forbidden or taboo about it now right just to be
01:54:25.500
clear those are right and then you have to keep the hell out of my bedroom we are the okay party of
01:54:31.180
privacy but if there's nothing wrong with being gay which is certainly in a position in fact it's
01:54:35.580
morally superior to being heterosexual obviously they say that in effect if the state department's
01:54:40.940
pushing it on every country around the world then why would it be somehow crazy or out of bounds or
01:54:47.020
taboo or offensive for me to say to tim walls you seem gay it's not an attack right are you gay
01:54:53.420
what but you know as well as i do that if i had an employer which i don't i would immediately be
01:55:01.260
fired for saying right so like what is that that doesn't make any sense and why are we playing along
01:55:05.260
with it that's my that's my point yeah i'm not gonna ask that question and by the way i wouldn't
01:55:13.740
either because i don't really want to know about tim wallace's sex life i don't want to know about
01:55:18.700
anyone's sex life i want to stop talking about our sex lives actually immediately right and i want to
01:55:22.620
talk about this in the past forcing other people in other countries to talk about their sex lives
01:55:26.620
i just want to declare a truce on race and sex and abortion i don't want to hear about your abortion
01:55:31.740
right i don't want you to talk about abortion shut up about abortion about your sex life about your race
01:55:37.900
that's the world that i want to live in but they're not allowing me to live in that world so as long
01:55:42.780
as they're not allowing me to live in that world why am i playing along with rules that are rigged
01:55:47.100
against me right these are fair questions right so why don't you ask him why don't you ask tim
01:55:52.060
walls that question about abortion no no just say hey tim walls you seem gay not attacking you but i've
01:55:59.340
seen the video of you doing jazz hands yeah are you gay have you ever had sex with a man i don't know
01:56:04.380
if i would i don't know if i would have enough evidence to make that no no but it just seems that
01:56:09.900
way uh-huh it's kind of my impression yeah are you gay would but that would that would go badly
01:56:16.060
for you wouldn't it right i would never i would never ask that question not all of us have the
01:56:23.500
the freedom to ask that question or the same like interest in that question well i don't have any
01:56:29.180
interest in it he's the one who's constantly he's the one who ran a gay straight alliance where he's
01:56:33.260
talking to children about their sex lives so right there that's a criminal offense in my book you
01:56:38.300
don't get to talk to other people's kids about their sex lives period yeah freak right but there
01:56:43.580
he's bragging about it okay you know why am i barking you charlie don't mean to bark at you
01:56:51.500
i don't know just trying to be rational for a second yeah it makes sense you know when you learn
01:56:55.740
to when you look at the what our media has become and when you wonder when you look at the questions
01:57:02.060
that they ask when they get the privilege you know interviewing a presidential candidate is now a
01:57:07.100
privilege right bestowed on you and you have to demonstrate that you're worthy on a number of
01:57:13.180
issues right the first person that got an interview with kamala harris was the woman from msnbc who
01:57:19.660
publicly said she didn't need to do interviews and then suddenly she gets an interview so that's what
01:57:24.860
our that's what our media has become right so you're you're filling me in on so much that i've missed
01:57:29.660
who at msnbc said that kamala harris didn't need to do it uh stephanie brule
01:57:33.340
stephanie brule she was on bill moire and said kamala harris doesn't need to do interviews
01:57:40.140
because it's so obvious that donald trump is the worst and that she's the best i mean i'm paraphrasing
01:57:46.060
stephanie brule the perky business reporter from msnbc yeah she was a business reporter
01:57:51.980
really checked i think so yeah yeah i mean she was the first one to ask she was the first one to
01:57:59.180
get a major well i guess dana bash got the first one right with uh tim walls and kamala harris but
01:58:05.420
stephanie brule got the first solo sit down with kamala harris i think that's true and yeah she
01:58:11.420
publicly said on bill moire then why does she even need to do media when it's very obvious that
01:58:17.260
she's the best candidate compared to trump wow that's crazy right she's just so great we don't
01:58:28.220
need to talk to her that's her position as journalists right that's the and she's the
01:58:32.940
one who got the first interview right i think it's because i think donald trump said something nasty
01:58:38.300
about her so that obviously about stephanie rule right which is why you instantly get elevated
01:58:43.260
i don't know stephanie rule we did not overlap i were i once worked there um she's good on camera
01:58:50.140
but i i haven't seen her on tv in a long time because i don't have a tv but right she you're
01:58:55.100
free well i am kind of free but i also miss stuff so i'm grateful that you're filling me in that's
01:58:59.340
amazing that she said that yeah so i'm i just want to boil it down and these are just my perceptions and
01:59:06.300
you can obviously disagree but i don't think you're likely to get a kamala harris interview
01:59:11.500
hope springs eternal no it's very true she has uh it's been reported that she has an enemies list
01:59:20.380
of reporters because she's very thin-skinned when it comes to coverage yes she hates anything poorly
01:59:26.780
written and i think one of the biggest examples of that was when she was very angry with the vogue
01:59:31.020
cover that came out after she won the vice presidency she was very displeased with this vogue cover of
01:59:36.220
her standing there in her chucks you know her sneakers and uh she was very upset by that was
01:59:43.660
one of the first controversies of her life so vogue was too tough on her vogue was ran and very
01:59:49.100
insensitive racially insensitive ignorant cover and she was very displeased by that what was it
01:59:55.260
a candid she didn't know she was posing for a vogue photo she was posing she just didn't know that would
01:59:59.340
be the cover she got to choose the outfits and the background but that was supposed to be inside
02:00:04.540
the magazine but it was not the cover to put her on the oh she was very upset about it people found
02:00:09.340
it very demeaning are you serious yeah it was one of the biggest controversy before she even took office
02:00:15.420
this was one of the biggest controversies of her career and that was even even the narcissism of rich
02:00:23.660
people in this country it's just it really doesn't even the biden team communications team was like
02:00:29.340
can we tone it down a little bit of it we don't want this to be the first major
02:00:33.180
controversy of our ministry of our we haven't even taken office yet and this is already what was
02:00:37.580
racially insensitive about it i'm not sure i think portraying her in a casual manner
02:00:44.620
was uh something she did not appreciate but i thought she was she was a joyful warrior
02:00:50.860
a joyful casual warrior so you just you just can't with someone like that right but the point is is
02:00:59.260
that she has an enemies list of reporters who don't appreciate her rise to power and any time that they
02:01:04.700
stray from the official common harris narrative then she's not going to do an interview with you
02:01:10.300
which is why you have um so many reporters being very cautious very careful and she certainly earned
02:01:16.060
that reputation throughout her whole presidential campaign i mean reporters and editors were very
02:01:20.300
familiar with getting angry responses from the way they covered kamala harris as a presidential
02:01:25.500
candidate i honestly feel like this is like some kind of weird right-wing parody meant to discredit
02:01:34.380
people like kamala harris i mean she's she's like living down to every stereotype but totally fragile
02:01:41.340
indecisive narcissistic this is not the female leadership we were promised at all this is like right
02:01:49.100
are all are all are all politicians narcissistic yes pretty much they are for sure oh definitely
02:01:55.980
she's not the only one i just want to be clear yeah but also you know being thin-skinned narcissistic
02:02:03.180
um very adamant about how you're covered um and very angry with how you're treated that's kind of if
02:02:10.700
if she called a vogue racist then we're dealing with i don't think she actually said that but
02:02:16.540
people close to her were upset of it for that yeah okay um last question are you going to make sure
02:02:23.740
that she sees this interview do you think she'll watch is she going to send this over to her press team
02:02:29.900
yeah i think i will and see if they have any response but ultimately i think that's going to
02:02:36.540
affect your there's a lot of people who are talking about kamala harris in a way that she would not
02:02:40.060
approve of yeah and up until this point she's decided just to ignore it but i think like there's enough
02:02:47.100
people talking about you've had some great people on who including an attorney from san francisco what's
02:02:53.500
her army dylan yeah army very very she was not a source for the book but very insightful yeah
02:02:59.500
growing up in that neighborhood and experiencing kamala harris for who she is i mean very insightful
02:03:04.620
interview and i think there's a lot of people talking about who the real kamala harris is that
02:03:09.980
i think that's why ultimately she feels like she has to come out and do a media tour because she has to
02:03:14.460
distract from the conversations that are actually taking place it's not working well you'd think she'd feel
02:03:19.580
obligated just because that's how democracy works voters have a right to information about you before
02:03:26.060
they vote on you right but she doesn't feel that way well and obviously as these news institutions lose
02:03:32.220
the power to control the masses and cheerlead for you even though you don't give them interviews
02:03:44.060
yeah i mean we don't have a working it's just north korean press agency here so
02:03:48.300
yeah well bless you and the daily mail and anyone else who retains a commitment to telling the
02:03:56.220
truth you know imperfectly because we're people but you know trying um i don't think we can function
02:04:03.420
as a free country without it so i appreciate your doing it well thanks so much for having me
02:04:07.020
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