(The Center Square) – Vice President Kamala Harris sparred with Fox News host Bret Baier on immigration, the economy and former President Donald Trump in an exclusive interview on Wednesday night.
Harris said that Trump does not want to “participate in solutions,” while stating that her presidency will provide a “new way forward” for the country.
The 28-minute interview was filled with tense moments as Baier and Harris discussed the issues just 20 days from Election Day.
Much of the interview was spent on immigration, as Baier tried to get Harris to answer a series of questions.
The first question Baier asked was how many illegal immigrants Harris thinks have entered the country since she first took office in 2021.
“I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you,” Harris said. “It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.”
She refused to give a number, instead stating she wished to “get to the point.”
“We have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired,” Harris said. “It is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people. Our focus has been on fixing a problem, from day one.”
Yet, since fiscal year 2021, at least 14 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border into the country, The Center Square exclusively reported. That is the greatest number under any administration in U.S. history.
Harris said the Biden-Harris administration increased the number of border agents and “what we needed to do to tighten up penalties and increase penalties for illegal crossings.”
She acknowledged that there’s more to be done.
“I think we’ve had a broken immigration system transcending, by the way, Donald Trump’s administration and even before,” Harris said. “I’ve been clear . . . that it needs to be fixed.”
Baier also asked for Harris’ thoughts on the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing roughly 16,000 Border Patrol agents nationwide, endorsing Trump for president.
“I think they are frustrated and I get it, they want support,” Harris said. “These men and women are working hard. They are working around the clock. I get it.”
Harris called for an end to “political games” around illegal immigration, arguing that Republicans purposefully killed a bill earlier this year that would have added additional border security. Actually, the measured stalled in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate, and critics noted that the bill would have allowed an additional two million foreign nationals into the country a year, The Center Square reported.
Baier also asked Harris about the murders of Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley by violent foreign nationals released into in the U.S. illegally by the Biden-Harris administration, and whether she owed their families an apology. Harris didn’t apologize, calling the murders “tragic cases.” When pressed again by Baier on whether she owed them an apology, Harris said, “I will tell you that I’m so sorry for her loss,” before changing the subject to Trump.
Baier and Harris also spent a while talking about her opponent, Trump.
“He spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in the voters, because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs of the American people,” Harris said.
When asked by Baier why the American people consistently say in polling they trust Trump more on the economy than Harris, the vice president turned it back to Trump.
“I do believe the American people are ready to turn the page on the divisiveness and the type of rhetoric that has come out of Donald Trump,” Harris said. “People are ready to chart a new way forward, and they want a president who has a plan for the future and a plan that is sound and will strengthen our country.”
Inflation skyrocketed to 40-year highs during the Biden-Harris administration, with costs today more than 20% higher than when Harris took office in 2021.
Throughout the election, building a new image has been a challenge for Harris. In an interview last week, she said that she would not have done anything differently from Biden if she was president.
Yet, in another critical moment of Wednesday’s interview, Harris stated that her “presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” instead promising “fresh and new ideas.”
When Baier asked how she plans to “turn the page” from her current term as vice president, Harris said she plans to turn “the page from the last decade” and from Trump’s rhetoric.
“[Trump] talked about locking people up because they disagreed with him,” Harris said. “This is a democracy.”
Trumpo faces four separate indictments since he left office, two brought by the Biden-Harris Justice Department.
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this unethical Democrat Party cabal and their useful idiot self-serving Kamala Harris know no bounds.
Harris’s presidency will provide a “new way forward” for the country. ?
Just like the disastrous Biden’s “build back better” and destructive Bidenomics Bull Smit!
“,” Harris said. “People are ready to chart a new way forward, and they want a president who has a plan for the future and a plan that is sound and will strengthen our country.” But she doesn’t know what that plan is.
Inflation skyrocketed to 40-year highs during the Biden-Harris administration, with costs today more than 20% higher than when Harris took office in 2021.”
“[Trump] talked about locking people up because they disagreed with him,” Harris said. “This is a democracy.”
Trump faces four separate indictments since he left office, two
brought by the Biden-Harris Justice Department.
Loved to watch Bret Baer do to Kamala, what Dorthy did to melt down the wicked witch of the west coast. Even Tampon Tim could not stop the bleeding with a pack of extra-large Tampons. I was sure she would break don into another “I’m melting, Oh what a horrible word” blaming others just like the wicked witch blamed everyone in the world except herself and her own dispensed and now exposed evil. She should have surrounded herself with more Munchkins like Tim to make her appear larger and more important than she really is. Her illusion of her delusions once the mask comes off reveals an empty vessel indeed, and America will not allow someone who went through no primaries, got no votes of the people to purloin another presidency. Those so-called fake media driven razor thin polls will come back in a boomeranged take off her own head, like a Robespierre trip to the guillotine.Then we will see who actually belongs in jail when their smoke and mirros evaperates.
PITY it was only for barely 15 mins.. AND I’d love it if hanity got the next chance!
” Harris said. “It is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people. Our focus has been on fixing a problem, from day one.”…“what we needed to do to tighten up penalties and increase penalties for illegal crossings.”
She acknowledged that there’s more to be done.”
This has always been a good answer for this administration: “We’re working on it. We have been working on it. More to be done. HE DID IT!”
Increased penalties for illegal crossing? But grab and go’s are LEGAL under this administration.
What has got to happen is close the border to ALL non Constitutionally legal immigration.
Notice that’s ALL SHE ALWAYS says “WE need to do more.. ”
BUT NEVER SAYS WHAT exactly it is we need to do more of.
All that gibberish is is a ploy to stop the questions.
It is meant to convey the idea that:
[a] “We the Administration” (SHE and other un-named expendables to be blamed later) are aware of the problem, so SHUT UP about it!
[b] We The Administration HAVE BEEN working on it, (Just ignore the disastrously negative results) you’re too dumb to notice. So, SHUT UP about it!
[c] Well, things are not improving, obviously, more needs to be done…We’re going to need a lot more money to keep “working on it”. You want it done so DON’T Complain about the tax increases! SHUT UP about it!
[d] Don’t expect results. This problem has been around forever and is likely to remain as long as we have to work on it.
(Alright, you got us. It will still be a problem when you are all homeless.)
AND E) it matters not we’ve already spent BILLIONS ON this, not only has it not been fixed, it ITS GOTTEN WORSE.. So ignore all that, GIVE US MORE money, and shut up!
The first question Baier asked was how many illegal immigrants Harris thinks have entered the country since she first took office in 2021. “I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you,” Harris said. “It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.”
Harris – Yes, I agree the current admin is a disgrace…. oh wait, that’s MY admin.
“People are ready to chart a new way forward”
“Hey, Pappy! Maybe we aught to get us some of that REEEform?” Junior O’donell, (Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?)