Kamala's "Black Knight" interview (10-17-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] Early voting started today in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Yeah, so not just Mecklenburg, all over the state, early voting underway. And we got breaking news that Israel's prime minister says that they have taken out Hamas's leader, Yaya Senwar. He has, he is taking the celestial dirt nap, as Neil Bortz used to say.

[00:00:58] Probably still does. Former talk show host out of Atlanta. The prime minister says that this is an opportunity now for the Palestinian people. That the mastermind of the October 7th massacre has been eliminated.

[00:01:18] Last night, Iran, you know, Hamas being one of its proxies, was one of the topics that came up for discussion in the interview that Brett Baer did with Kamala Harris.

[00:01:34] And I've got the audio. And Brett Baer did ask my question. So I'm guessing all of the emails and tweets I've been sending him nonstop for 48 hours worked. No, I'm kidding. I didn't send him any.

[00:01:50] But he asked the question. The question. The one, and he framed it the way I've been framing it. I think he listens to the show. He doesn't listen to the show. Well, he might. Maybe one of his producers does.

[00:02:02] But when did you know that Joe Biden's mental capacity had been compromised? Like, when did you know that he wasn't all there, that he was cognitively in decline? When did you know?

[00:02:17] You don't even give her an opportunity to say he's not. You just say, when did you know? He did ask the question. She did not answer it. She did not answer any of his questions.

[00:02:30] So a couple things. First off, what we found out afterwards was that the interview was supposed to start at 5 o'clock p.m. yesterday.

[00:02:42] And they had scheduled it to be about a 25 to 30 minute interview. The Harris campaign said, OK, well, maybe 20 minutes.

[00:02:55] And then she showed up at 5.15. And I understand, you know, vice president campaigning schedules, you know, get get bumped.

[00:03:07] You know, I get it. It's you know, you get delayed and that sort of thing.

[00:03:11] But if you've committed to do a 30 minute interview and then you try to cut it down to 20 minutes and then you show up 15 minutes late.

[00:03:19] And then you start filibustering every single answer to the questions with just your campaign speech, because I've seen her campaign speech enough now that I recognize all of her answers.

[00:03:34] And Brett Baer did as well. And that's why he kept trying to drag her back to the question he asked rather than allow her to filibuster the 20 minutes.

[00:03:48] But she persisted. Nevertheless, she persisted.

[00:03:56] After the event, after the interview.

[00:04:00] Brett Baer said at times, I really didn't know what Kamala Harris was talking about.

[00:04:05] I would ask her about a present day issue and she'd be going back a decade to talk about Donald Trump.

[00:04:12] And that is true. She did that.

[00:04:15] All of her answers, because the questions were about her.

[00:04:19] And her responses were always Donald Trump.

[00:04:23] Oh, yeah, well, Donald Trump. But what about Donald Trump?

[00:04:26] It was all about Trump. Everything was about Trump.

[00:04:29] And I understand why. That's all she's running as.

[00:04:33] I'm not Trump. I'm also not Biden, who I, you know, worked with very closely, but didn't notice any cognitive decline.

[00:04:41] And he made all the right decisions and I support everything that he did.

[00:04:44] But we're going to turn the page and we're going to do a different set of stuff.

[00:04:47] But I can't really tell you what that is, because everything we did so far has been working.

[00:04:50] But things are bad. It's the most inane argument for a campaign I've ever seen.

[00:05:01] Will it be enough? I'm not sure.

[00:05:04] I suspect that her going on to Fox News in the first place indicates that it's not.

[00:05:10] They have shifted their strategy.

[00:05:12] Oh, and by the way, if you've been hoping that she's going to go and talk with Joe Rogan on his podcast,

[00:05:18] I don't think that's happening anymore.

[00:05:22] I think I think it might have happened.

[00:05:25] But for what happened last night.

[00:05:28] Because Joe Rogan's podcasts are three hours long, two and a half to three hours.

[00:05:36] And they just talk about whatever.

[00:05:39] And they pull up stuff and they're like, well, wait a minute.

[00:05:41] Didn't you say this? Hey, Jamie, take a look over there.

[00:05:44] Can you pull that thing up? I think I sent you that clip.

[00:05:47] Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here it is. And then they'll play the clip.

[00:05:48] So you have no idea what's coming.

[00:05:51] And this is not a format that suits her.

[00:05:56] This may have been the very first adversarial journalistic interview she has ever faced.

[00:06:05] Ever.

[00:06:07] She certainly acted like it.

[00:06:09] And she certainly performed as if it was.

[00:06:12] We've got the audio.

[00:06:14] The receipts, as the kids would say.

[00:06:17] Hang on a second, though.

[00:06:18] Today is early voting.

[00:06:20] So let me get David on.

[00:06:22] Hello, David.

[00:06:22] Welcome to the program.

[00:06:23] As I understand it, you are David Merrill, the Mecklenburg County GOP vice chairman.

[00:06:28] Yes, sir.

[00:06:29] Thank you so much for interrupting the review of that debacle last night.

[00:06:33] I think that was phenomenal timing for Kamala Harris to do that just before early voting started.

[00:06:38] Really?

[00:06:38] She might have just sealed the deal for us.

[00:06:40] I was going to say, she might have done you a solid there.

[00:06:43] I saw, was it one of the Trump Twitter accounts sent out a tweet immediately afterwards?

[00:06:49] And they said, Trump campaign is up with its new ad.

[00:06:52] And it is literally the entire interview.

[00:06:54] It's the 26-minute interview.

[00:06:57] Yeah, we could basically win if Trump would just start replaying videos of Kamala Harris and saying, I'm Donald Trump.

[00:07:02] I approve this message.

[00:07:03] So one of the things Trump does, I view him much like a radio host.

[00:07:08] It's like when he does his speeches at his rallies, he'll read a couple of sentences, you know, like I do.

[00:07:13] I'll read from some news report and then I'll just start riffing on what the news report says.

[00:07:17] And so he does a lot of that, but with his own speech.

[00:07:19] He could do that with this interview, right?

[00:07:22] Like he could play some of it on the screen and then just like start riffing on what she said.

[00:07:28] It was terrible.

[00:07:29] It was terrible.

[00:07:31] All right.

[00:07:31] So tell me, what about early voting?

[00:07:34] What are you guys looking at and how does it look so far?

[00:07:37] You got decent turnout or is it light turnout?

[00:07:40] We've had great turnout.

[00:07:41] So we placed signs at all 33 early voting locations last night.

[00:07:46] Unfortunately, some have been stolen between 5 p.m.

[00:07:49] last night when they were placed and this morning.

[00:07:50] But we've been placing trail cams out on areas where people have been stealing signs.

[00:07:55] So we have videos of people taking our campaign signs for our candidates, which is a crime.

[00:07:59] And we actually have somebody with a good case of TDS doing that in front of the next GOP Trump headquarters this morning.

[00:08:05] But that being said, we had incredible turnout.

[00:08:08] I've been down at the South Park Library all day today.

[00:08:11] I got there at about 816 and I was the 116th person to vote in that line today.

[00:08:16] And there's been no fewer than 100 people in line all day today.

[00:08:19] But I'm calling because that is an area that does lean Democratic.

[00:08:24] And we need to get as many conservatives out to vote as we can.

[00:08:27] And we tend to vote on Election Day.

[00:08:30] We need everybody voting early because that helps redirect the funds that are being used for the mailers, the phone calls, the text messages, which none of us love.

[00:08:38] And we can start using those to get other people to vote.

[00:08:41] So we just want everybody to come out and vote early and trust in the early voting system.

[00:08:45] That's one of the things I tell people.

[00:08:48] And I know Republicans have this, I would say, newly adopted skepticism of early voting.

[00:08:56] And I find it to be unwarranted because it's just like in-person voting on Election Day itself.

[00:09:01] You're going down, you cast your vote, and then it's just banked.

[00:09:04] And then the parties and the campaigns, they don't have to spend any more time and effort reaching out to you to try and trying to get you to go vote.

[00:09:12] They can go find someone else that may be less likely to vote, and now they can do more voter outreach.

[00:09:18] That's right.

[00:09:19] And look, I am very skeptical, but you have to be skeptical of the skeptics as well.

[00:09:24] And being so involved in the Mecklenburg County election process, I trust the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections.

[00:09:30] Nothing is ever going to be perfect, but they get it right enough that I don't think it's going to have any negative impact.

[00:09:35] So, again, we really want everybody to go out and vote early.

[00:09:38] And the thing I tell people about this is what happens if something comes up on Election Day?

[00:09:43] What if there's a death in the family?

[00:09:45] What if somebody breaks a leg at soccer practice the night before or that day and you can't get out and vote?

[00:09:50] Some of our races are going to come down to the wire, especially with races like Dan Bishops, with Luke Farley,

[00:09:56] because I'm seeing his opponent signs all over Mecklenburg County.

[00:09:59] Those are some very important council estate races that are going to be very close that we have to win.

[00:10:04] And the faster we can get people to vote, the sooner we can focus on getting other folks who may not have voted yet.

[00:10:09] The other thing is people think, well, my vote doesn't matter.

[00:10:12] I live in a very blue part of the state or something.

[00:10:15] But in the statewide races, you've got to be competitive, because even if Republicans are outnumbered in Mecklenburg County,

[00:10:22] you would know the numbers better than I.

[00:10:24] There are still tens of thousands or, what, 100-something thousand registered Republican voters that will affect that statewide count.

[00:10:33] You've got to be competitive to some level in the areas where, yes, you may not win that county,

[00:10:40] but that vote total is going to count towards the state total.

[00:10:44] That's right.

[00:10:45] And look at my good friend, Tark McCartney, who two years ago won re-election by 357 votes.

[00:10:51] Last year, I think it was 344.

[00:10:54] Every vote matters.

[00:10:56] Yeah.

[00:10:57] You mentioned some people got busted on your trail cams.

[00:11:01] Anybody?

[00:11:02] Do you recognize any of them?

[00:11:03] We didn't.

[00:11:04] We had one cam that we got back two days ago, and it was at Idlewild in 485, which is Trish Cotham's area.

[00:11:11] And we saw a couple teens, what looked like a Kia Optima, and they were just giggling, a car full of teens taking the signs, just driving off with them.

[00:11:21] And, of course, this was just a couple days after the Moore County Democratic Party chairman was arrested for stealing Trump signs.

[00:11:28] And then, again, we saw a lady today who's not yet identified, who was taking Trump fans and all other candidate signs from front of the headquarters on Central Avenue,

[00:11:35] which it's sad to see that people are doing that, but it tells you maybe they are starting to take Trump seriously,

[00:11:41] and they do know that they are probably going to lose this election as long as all your listeners come vote.

[00:11:46] Yeah.

[00:11:46] Am I saying that enough?

[00:11:47] Yeah, no, I think so.

[00:11:48] I think I've got the message there.

[00:11:51] David, I appreciate you.

[00:11:52] Call back with any updates as you need to.

[00:11:54] I appreciate your time.

[00:11:56] Hey, thank you so much, and keep up the great work and everything you do.

[00:11:58] All right, thanks.

[00:11:59] That's David Merrill.

[00:11:59] He's the Mecklenburg County Republican Party vice chairman.

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[00:14:48] So let me, before I get to the audio from last night's what's being called the Black Knight interview,

[00:14:56] Kamala Harris' Black Knight interview, which is a reference to Monty Python's Holy Grail.

[00:15:01] Is that the name of the movie?

[00:15:03] Search for the Holy Grail?

[00:15:04] Or was that Indiana Jones?

[00:15:07] The Black Knight who gets into the sword fight with the protagonist,

[00:15:11] and he ends up getting all of his limbs chopped off,

[00:15:13] and the whole time he's like still wanting to fight.

[00:15:15] It's just a flesh wound.

[00:15:16] I'll get you.

[00:15:17] You know, like that's the reaction from the Harris defenders really is kind of comical,

[00:15:27] but it is also illustrative in that they're not tweeting out videos of how awesome she did.

[00:15:37] Here was one that made the rounds from Leslie Marshall,

[00:15:41] Democrat strategist, political analyst, syndicated talk show host, Fox News contributor.

[00:15:49] And in her bio, she says, she, her.

[00:15:54] She tweeted out, I do want to point out that on tonight's Fox News interview with Brett Baer,

[00:16:01] the vice president had no notes, no teleprompter, and no advanced knowledge of the questions.

[00:16:11] So do you want a cookie for that?

[00:16:15] Why would you need notes, a teleprompter, and a list of the questions ahead of time?

[00:16:21] Like that's standard.

[00:16:23] Wait, wait a minute.

[00:16:25] Why do you think that's not standard?

[00:16:31] Sean Davis, the co-founder and the CEO of the federalist.com.

[00:16:37] He responded to Leslie Marshall's hot take and said, you actually don't need to point any of that out.

[00:16:43] We could all tell.

[00:16:47] Yes, we could definitely see she had no notes and no teleprompter and did not know the questions ahead of time.

[00:16:58] And I will say, in watching her response to one of the questions in the back and forth with Brett Baer,

[00:17:05] because Brett Baer was not letting her just filibuster.

[00:17:09] He kept, he, and then of course this, like Joe Scarborough from MSNBC, he's like,

[00:17:15] Brett Baer was being shockingly rude.

[00:17:19] That's what he said.

[00:17:21] That, no, Brett Baer was being a journalist.

[00:17:24] And he was holding her to the exact same standard that he held Donald Trump to when he interviewed Donald Trump months ago.

[00:17:32] And Trump world was very angry at Brett Baer.

[00:17:36] But that's what you do.

[00:17:38] When that's your job, that's what you do.

[00:17:41] You take an adversarial approach in the interview in order to get them to answer the questions if they're not going to answer the questions.

[00:17:49] You ask the tough questions.

[00:17:51] And that's what he did.

[00:17:52] And she was completely out of her element.

[00:17:55] And there was a flash of her anger.

[00:17:58] And she did this thing where she leaned her head back, right, and literally looked down her nose at him.

[00:18:08] And in that moment, with this disdain and this anger, I was like, oh, that's why she's lost 92% of her staff.

[00:18:21] That's the real Kamala Harris right there.

[00:18:25] That you never see that.

[00:18:26] It's all joy.

[00:18:29] Psychopathically.

[00:18:30] Like, that's, it's all joy.

[00:18:33] The front.

[00:18:34] And we got a peek at it.

[00:18:37] At what is beneath that surface, beneath that facade.

[00:18:41] We saw it last night.

[00:18:44] And that alone was worth the price of admission, which is nothing.

[00:18:49] Like, literally, I watched it for free on YouTube.

[00:18:52] Anyway.

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[00:21:04] All right.

[00:21:05] So let's go to the Black Knight interview, Kamala Harris's Black Knight interview.

[00:21:11] Reference to the movie.

[00:21:13] That's what it's a reference to.

[00:21:14] Okay.

[00:21:15] So first question out of the gate was about illegal immigration and how many illegal immigrants,

[00:21:20] a very specific question.

[00:21:22] Brett Baer says, how many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released

[00:21:27] into the country over the past three years?

[00:21:31] So it's a number.

[00:21:32] However, how many would you estimate?

[00:21:35] Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you.

[00:21:38] It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.

[00:21:44] And you know what I'm going to talk about.

[00:21:45] Yeah.

[00:21:46] But just a number.

[00:21:47] Do you think it's 1 million, 3 million?

[00:21:49] Brett, let's just get to the point.

[00:21:51] Okay.

[00:21:51] The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.

[00:21:57] So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85% of apprehensions.

[00:22:01] I'm not finished.

[00:22:01] We have an immigration system.

[00:22:03] It's a rough estimate of 6 million people have been released into the country.

[00:22:07] And let me just finish.

[00:22:08] I'll get to the question.

[00:22:08] I promise you.

[00:22:09] I was beginning to answer.

[00:22:10] And when you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border

[00:22:15] policies.

[00:22:16] By the way, this is the first question.

[00:22:19] So you can tell the tone of the interview.

[00:22:22] Most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation,

[00:22:28] either in the U.S. or in Mexico.

[00:22:31] And you switched that policy.

[00:22:32] They were released from custody awaiting trial.

[00:22:35] So instead, included in those were a large number of single men, adult men, who went on

[00:22:41] to commit heinous crimes.

[00:22:43] So looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning

[00:22:50] of your administration?

[00:22:52] At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the

[00:22:59] first bill that we offered Congress before we worked on infrastructure, before the Inflation

[00:23:06] Reduction Act, before the Chips and Science Act, before any before the bipartisan Safety

[00:23:13] Communities Act, before we ousted Joe Biden, before 2024, before December 1st, 2023, before November

[00:23:24] 1st, 2023, before October 1st, 2023, before September 30th, 2023.

[00:23:32] You see what she's doing?

[00:23:33] She's running out the clock.

[00:23:35] That's what she's filibustering.

[00:23:36] The first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration

[00:23:43] system.

[00:23:43] Yes, ma'am.

[00:23:44] It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.

[00:23:49] Exactly.

[00:23:49] Essentially a pathway to citizenship.

[00:23:51] May I please finish?

[00:23:52] Yes, ma'am.

[00:23:52] May I finish?

[00:23:53] May I finish responding, please?

[00:23:54] Let me finish.

[00:23:55] You have to let me finish.

[00:23:56] Let me finish.

[00:23:56] May I finish?

[00:23:56] And the White House, and the House, and the Senate.

[00:23:58] I mean, will you let me finish?

[00:23:59] This is very Ross Perot-ish, you know?

[00:24:02] Am I dating myself there?

[00:24:03] Probably.

[00:24:05] But Ross Perot was in a debate, and he kept saying, will you let me finish, to the moderators,

[00:24:11] and it became this whole thing, because he kept going over time, and they kept cutting

[00:24:17] him off, and he kept saying, will you let me finish?

[00:24:19] Will you let me finish?

[00:24:20] And that, like, I still know it today.

[00:24:23] Okay, he's not letting you finish, because you're not answering the question.

[00:24:29] He asked you, first, what the number was, how many illegal immigrants would you estimate

[00:24:35] the administration has released into the country?

[00:24:38] She did not give him an answer, so he said, it's six million, according to your own cabinet

[00:24:43] member.

[00:24:44] And then the second question was, do you regret the termination of the Remain in Mexico policy?

[00:24:48] And she's not answering that either.

[00:24:50] She's talking about all these other things, and she's trying to kill as much time as

[00:24:53] possible to limit the number of questions.

[00:24:56] It didn't bring up that deal.

[00:24:57] In the middle of responding to the point you're raising, and I'd like to finish.

[00:25:01] Yes, ma'am.

[00:25:04] We recognized from day one that to the point of this being your first question, it is a

[00:25:10] priority for us as a nation and for the American people.

[00:25:14] And our focus has been on fixing a problem.

[00:25:18] And from day one, then, we have done a number of things, including to address our asylum system

[00:25:25] and put more resources, getting more judges.

[00:25:27] What we needed to do to tighten up penalties and increase penalties for illegal crossings.

[00:25:33] What we needed to do to deal with points of entry between border entry points.

[00:25:40] That's the work we did, and we worked on supporting what was a bipartisan effort, including some of the most

[00:25:48] conservative members of the United States Congress, to actually strengthen the border.

[00:25:53] That border bill would have put 1,500 more border agents at the border, which is why I believe the

[00:25:59] Border Patrol agents supported the bill.

[00:26:01] It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States,

[00:26:05] which is a scourge affecting people of every background, every geographic location in our country, killing people.

[00:26:11] It would have allowed us to put more resources into prosecuting transnational criminal organizations,

[00:26:16] which I have done as the attorney general, former attorney general of a border state.

[00:26:21] This is all right.

[00:26:22] All of this is just stump speech slogans.

[00:26:25] That's that's all this is.

[00:26:27] This is the stuff she says out on the campaign trail all the time.

[00:26:30] It's all she knows.

[00:26:31] It's all that's in her head, apparently.

[00:26:33] A couple of things.

[00:26:33] Prosecuted trafficking of drugs, guns and human beings.

[00:26:36] And Donald Trump.

[00:26:37] But let me just finish.

[00:26:39] Six Democrats voted against that bill.

[00:26:40] And Donald Trump learned about that bill and told them to kill it because he preferred to run on a problem

[00:26:46] instead of fixing a problem.

[00:26:48] And in this election, this is rightly a discussion that the American people want to have.

[00:26:55] And what they want are solutions.

[00:26:57] And they want a president of the United States who's not playing political games with the issue.

[00:27:01] I hear you.

[00:27:02] But actually is focused on fixing it.

[00:27:03] Six Democrats voted against that bill.

[00:27:05] It would have allowed one point eight million illegal immigrants into the country a year.

[00:27:09] A lot.

[00:27:09] A lot of conservatives had a problem with it.

[00:27:12] Yeah.

[00:27:12] Byron Donald's was one of them.

[00:27:13] He said the border deal that was introduced by Democrats and Lankford, which, by the way, great job there, Senator Lankford.

[00:27:23] You've given the Democrats this ammo for the last two years now or whatever it's been.

[00:27:27] But it failed because it codified catch and release.

[00:27:31] It let in.

[00:27:32] It would let in 1.8 million illegals.

[00:27:35] It would fund sanctuary cities.

[00:27:37] It would fund the NGOs that are moving illegal immigrants all around the country.

[00:27:41] It would fund lawyers for illegal immigrants.

[00:27:45] It would give work permits to illegal immigrants.

[00:27:49] Did nothing to deport any illegal immigrants.

[00:27:52] And no immediate wall funding.

[00:27:55] And also there were 60 billion dollars to Ukraine.

[00:27:59] That was the very bad Biden border bill.

[00:28:02] That's why it was defeated.

[00:28:04] Not because Donald Trump said kill it because I want the issue for the election.

[00:28:08] It was a terrible bill.

[00:28:09] Radio 1 Charlotte and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.

[00:28:13] We're asking you to help one another.

[00:28:15] That's the name of the radiothon that is going on right now.

[00:28:17] Not just on WBT, but all of our sister stations as well.

[00:28:21] Raising money and donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.

[00:28:26] And they are running the supplies and such up to Western North Carolina.

[00:28:31] Trying to replace the operations that Mana Food Bank did up there in part.

[00:28:38] You can help by texting HELP1.

[00:28:41] All one word.

[00:28:43] HELP1.

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[00:28:58] See, if I just keep saying it, it sounds like I'm singing it.

[00:29:01] It's something that the brain does.

[00:29:02] I can't explain it.

[00:29:03] But you can also go to WBT.com.

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[00:29:17] Next up, Brett Baer tries to drag Kamala Harris back to the original premise.

[00:29:25] Jocelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin, Lakin Riley.

[00:29:29] They are young women who were brutally assaulted and killed by some of the men who were released

[00:29:34] at the beginning of the administration, well before a negotiated bipartisan bill.

[00:29:39] Former President Clinton actually referred to Lakin Riley Sunday campaigning for you

[00:29:43] in Georgia saying if those men had been properly vetted, Lakin Riley probably would not have

[00:29:48] been killed.

[00:29:48] So if it wouldn't have happened, this is well before any negotiation.

[00:29:53] This is well before Donald Trump got involved in the politics.

[00:29:56] This is a specific policy decision by your administration to release these men into

[00:30:01] the country.

[00:30:01] So what I'm saying to you, do you owe those families an apology?

[00:30:06] Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases.

[00:30:10] There's no question about that.

[00:30:13] There is no question about that.

[00:30:15] And I can't imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss

[00:30:23] that should not have occurred.

[00:30:25] Why did it then?

[00:30:27] So that is true.

[00:30:29] It is also true that if a border security had actually been passed nine months ago, it

[00:30:35] would be nine months that we would have had more border agents at the border, more support

[00:30:42] for the folks who are working around the clock, trying to hold it all together.

[00:30:46] Madam Vice President.

[00:30:48] See what?

[00:30:48] He's going to interrupt her here because you hear what she just did there.

[00:30:51] It's she's so bad at this.

[00:30:53] It's just really bad.

[00:30:55] Good politicians can pivot to talk about the thing they want to talk about, to answer the

[00:31:00] question with whatever it is they want to say, not what the answer should be.

[00:31:04] But she is so obviously bad at doing this.

[00:31:07] He sees what she's doing.

[00:31:09] Here's what she's doing.

[00:31:09] And then he jumps in because the question was, do you owe these families an apology?

[00:31:14] And she at first says, and this has obviously been coached with her is to, you know, you

[00:31:19] know, to accept the premise to to say, oh, yes, that's correct.

[00:31:22] And then you pivot off of that.

[00:31:24] But the premise was the these women never should have been murdered.

[00:31:29] Right.

[00:31:29] That's why he asked you the question.

[00:31:31] Do you owe the families an apology?

[00:31:32] Because all that stuff came after you got rid of the remain in in Mexico policy.

[00:31:38] And that's how they got in.

[00:31:42] Donald Trump, nine months ago, whatever role he played in the bad border bill going down

[00:31:47] had nothing to do with these murders.

[00:31:49] It had everything to do with your decisions.

[00:31:52] So do you owe them an apology?

[00:31:54] And you want to talk about the last nine months or that no future harm would occur.

[00:32:01] And this election in 20 days will determine whether we have a president of the United

[00:32:07] States who actually cares more about fixing a problem, even if it is not to their political

[00:32:13] advantage in an election, because there was a solution, Brett.

[00:32:17] Madam Vice President, it was a policy decision in the early part of your administration.

[00:32:22] I will let one of the mothers talk about it.

[00:32:24] Take a listen.

[00:32:25] Oh, because of the Biden Harris administration, open border policies catch and release.

[00:32:31] They were enrolled in the alternatives to detention program.

[00:32:35] This meant that they were released into the United States.

[00:32:37] It was not even a full three weeks later that they would take my daughter, Jocelyn Nungare's

[00:32:43] life.

[00:32:43] I believe the Biden Harris administration, open border policies are responsible for the

[00:32:48] death of my daughter.

[00:32:49] That's the early days.

[00:32:52] So do you owe them an apology is what I'm saying.

[00:32:55] I will tell you that I am so sorry for her loss.

[00:32:58] I'm so sorry for her loss.

[00:33:00] Sincerely.

[00:33:02] But let's talk about what is happening right now with an individual who does not want to

[00:33:09] participate in solutions.

[00:33:11] Let's talk about that as well.

[00:33:14] In all fairness, I told you, I feel awful for what she and her family have experienced.

[00:33:21] So.

[00:33:23] Sorry if your feelings got hurt.

[00:33:25] I'm sorry that you're feeling that way.

[00:33:26] I'm sorry that happened to you.

[00:33:28] Not I'm sorry.

[00:33:31] I regret terminating that policy.

[00:33:33] I'm sorry I made a mistake.

[00:33:35] Not that kind of an apology.

[00:33:39] Do I have time for this other one?

[00:33:42] Yeah.

[00:33:43] During that time, you repeatedly said the border was secure.

[00:33:46] When did it start becoming a crisis?

[00:33:48] This.

[00:33:49] I think we've had a broken immigration system transcending, by the way, Donald Trump's

[00:33:53] administration even before.

[00:33:55] Let's let's all be honest about that.

[00:33:58] I have no pride in saying that this is a perfect immigration system.

[00:34:02] I've been clear.

[00:34:03] I think we all are.

[00:34:05] That it needs to be fixed.

[00:34:07] We need more.

[00:34:08] I was just down at the border talking with border agents.

[00:34:11] Mariah Carey, kind of that octave that she's hitting there.

[00:34:14] That range is amazing.

[00:34:16] I can't even get that.

[00:34:17] They will tell you.

[00:34:18] And I'm sure you probably I know you investigate and you are a serious journalist.

[00:34:23] What?

[00:34:23] They will tell you.

[00:34:24] Wait a minute.

[00:34:25] What?

[00:34:26] She just called him a serious journalist.

[00:34:30] That can't be true because I've seen all of the reaction on left wing Twitter that says

[00:34:34] he's some sort of a hack.

[00:34:36] She called him a serious journalist, which, of course, he actually is.

[00:34:40] That's why he angered all the Trump people, too.

[00:34:43] So she does not answer.

[00:34:45] When did it start becoming a crisis?

[00:34:49] She said the border was secure.

[00:34:51] But now she said it all has to get fixed.

[00:34:55] Now it's a crisis.

[00:34:57] So when did that happen?

[00:34:58] When where was that tipping point?

[00:35:00] What what occurred?

[00:35:01] And she won't say.

[00:35:04] She refuses to say.

[00:35:06] All right.

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