>> Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate.
This is not much of a surprise to most people.
We know about the pretty extensive list of women he was considering.
But Kamala Harris seemed to always be at the top.
Now he released a statement about his decision saying, I need someone working alongside me
who is smart, tough, and ready to lead.
Kamala is that person.
I need someone who understands the pain that so many people in our nation are suffering,
whether they've lost their job, their business, a loved one to this virus.
The president says he doesn't want to be distracted by it.
He doesn't understand that taking care of the people of this nation, all the people,
isn't a distraction, it's the job.
Kamala understands that.
So, even though I'm not surprised by it, it still stung a little bit as a progressive
who was really still, I know it was naive and ridiculous, still hoping that maybe someone
with progressive policy proposals would be considered, chosen.
I think Karen Bass was the best option of the candidates policy-wise specifically, but
I think Kamala Harris is a decent pick when it comes to helping Joe Biden win.
So that doesn't mean that I agree with her prosecutorial record.
It doesn't mean that I'm actually expecting this Democratic ticket to do anything to fundamentally
improve some of the big issues we have in this country, including income and wealth
inequality, our broken healthcare system, housing insecurity and homelessness.
Those are huge issues that matter to me above all.
And unfortunately, I just don't see this ticket really doing anything to fundamentally change
the system that we're really failing under.
But I do think that Kamala Harris is a good pick if Biden wants to appeal to voters.
>> Okay, so first of all, is the ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris better than Trump
and Pence?
Only about a million times.
So now, none of what I'm gonna say is going to appease anyone that is a stalwart on any
given side.
But it is real and it's true.
So I think most of you will actually agree.
So to me, gee, Biden or Trump, that's not even remotely close.
Kamala Harris or Mike Pence, not remotely close.
So yeah, so I look forward to having us telling you why they're better than Trump.
Because it's true and we mean it, and having them win.
And it is going to be an enormous relief when they do.
And right now, they're up by a ton.
I don't want to get back into no, double anti-jinx because of 2016 blah blah blah.
Okay, and I agree with Ana overall.
I think Kamala Harris will motivate voters better than some other picks that he could
have made.
Partly because the establishment media loves her so much that they're gonna tell everybody
this is so exciting.
Now you have someone who's gonna fight for you.
Now do I think that's true, not really.
But will the media say that, 100%.
Will it motivate some to go to the polls, yes.
So beating Trump, great, wonderful.
Now, after they win, we'll probably fight them tooth and nail.
And I don't know why people find this so hard to grasp.
They are, both Biden and Kamala Harris, are not progressives, and they are better than
Trump.
So easy to understand, but people struggle with it.
They're like I don't, but wait a minute.
If they're better than Trump, doesn't that mean you have to love them?
No, it doesn't mean that at all.
Wait a minute, though, if they're not progressive, doesn't that mean you have to hate them?
No, not at all.
It means they're better than Trump.
But after they win the election, we're gonna challenge them every single day.
And I'll be honest with you, I would be shocked if they were a progressive administration.
They have shown no inclination in that direction.
Hence, I look forward to primarying either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2024.
Almost certainly will help to do that.
Of course there's a way that that would not happen is if they actually let's say, for
example, pass Medicare for All or Green New Deal or massively reformed the policing system.
And set, got a $15 minimum wage, got money out of politics, college for all, a couple
of these.
>> Come on, man.
>> Not all of them, but a couple of these, and I'd go whoa, I didn't expect that, that's
wonderful.
No, we're not gonna primary them.
But you know and I know and the media knows they're not gonna do any of that.
And when they don't, then the media will yell at us and go, wait a minute now.
This is never on your side.
Well, they'll have to prove that, won't they?
And I know that Biden and Harris are better.
But I also know that so far they've shown no inclination to agree with us on almost
any of our issues.
>> Well, okay, so I also want some clarification on something, because I just find it kind
of incredible how people, and you're right.
I mean, I was watching CNN prior to going live because I was curious to see how they
were handling it.
And of course, they were gushing about her, and that was to be expected.
But they had guests on and the narrative in regard to Kamala Harris' prosecutorial record
is that well, what could she have done, right?
As a black woman, working as a prosecutor within this system, there's only so much that
she can do.
Okay, fair enough, but you can't make that argument and then simultaneously say that
Kamala Harris serving as the Vice President is going to single handedly improve race relations
in this country, right?
Because she's still gonna be elected, if they get elected, under this system, which by the
way, Joe Biden has been very clear in stating he has no interest in changing.
So, you can't make both arguments at the same time.
We got to be real about what we're dealing with, and you're right.
I think that it's the most common sense argument to say, Trump is a disaster.
We need to get Trump out, but also after you get Trump out, what are we supposed to do?
Just pretend people in positions of power are a-okay as long as it's not Donald Trump,
and we're not ever allowed to criticize them or critique them or hold their feet to the
fire if they failed us as a country?
Come on, and if you don't like that, then go watch cable news.
Go watch some other show that loves to suck up to power as long as it's not Donald Trump.
This is not that show.
>> And look guys, I'm telling you ahead of time.
If she, for example, convinces Joe Biden while they're in office, hey, you know what, Joe,
what are you doing with marijuana still a schedule one drug?
Are you insane?
No, we're gonna decriminalize marijuana, legalize marijuana, of course.
What are you doing, 50 a week, especially if we get the Senate, we're gonna pass $15
minimum wage, that's easy, but those are the bare minimum.
That is the lowest bar you could imagine.
And if Biden still doesn't want to do it and Kamala Harris helps him to get there, great,
then that's fantastic.
And if they could do just one other thing like Medicare for All or Green New Deal, or
this is unimaginable, but getting money out of politics.
Are you kidding me, if they help get money out of politics, I will love them forever.
And then I will say that they are progressive because they did something progressive.
They did something super important that's progressive.
We only care about the facts, whereas the rest of the audience obsessed with, what side
are they on?
What do they look like?
All of the superficial nonsense.
Guys, you wanna know what we think, it's super easy to follow, it's the policy stupid.
So as Clinton said, it's the economy stupid.
It's the policies that we care about.
So if they give us the policies, we'll love them.
If they don't, we'll fight them.
And that's how it works.