Kamala Harris struggled to answer a simple question during her interview
with Charlemagne over the weekend.
So let's see how it all went down.
>> Somebody has to push back on Joe Manchin?
That guy is stopping progress, he's ruined a democracy.
Are you willing to be that superhero?
Because what scares me is if voting rights don't pass or
the build back better plan doesn't pass or police reform doesn't pass,
I doubt you're gonna get black people to go out there and vote in 2022 and 2024 and
Trump will be President again.
What's the plan for all of that?
>> Well, I couldn't agree with you more on the seriousness of these issues and
and how people take these issues seriously.
And so we're gonna have to keep fighting on voting rights,
we need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
We need to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and be relentless about pushing for that,
which is what we've been doing and what I certainly am gonna keep doing.
We need to keep pushing for what we gotta do to really reform the system that we
know needs to be reformed with the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.
But, again, Republicans stood in the way to get that done.
>> Who's the superhero that's gonna speak against Joe Manchin?
[LAUGH] No, I wanna know who's the real president of this country?
Is it Joe Biden?
Is it Joe Manchin?
>> [INAUDIBLE]
>> She can hear me [LAUGH].
Can you hear me, Madam Vice President?
They're acting like they can't hear me.
>> So after Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer the very specific
question in regard to Joe Manchin, of course, Charlemagne does the right
thing and asks the follow up, repeats the question and that's when
Kamala Harris's AIDS, Simone Sanders jumps in and tries to end the interview.
So by the way, let me just be clear about something.
Kamala Harris emphasized the need to keep pushing for the police reform and
I just wanna remind you all that that bill is dead, it's gone.
They're not even considering it in Congress right now.
So to say like we gotta keep fighting for it,
she knows full well that that bill is going nowhere, but she's of course
listing a whole host of issues that in an effort to make it appear as though,
Democrats are still working on or fighting for various issues.
Well, in reality, she knows that's not the case, but stay tuned because the interview
is about to get even more fire in just a second, Cenk.
>> Yeah, I don't know what's the most Sanders was doing?
Getting, you're asking a real question, I'm gonna interrupt this interview,
a real question broke out.
We thought you were gonna be soft.
I mean Charlemagne?
God, aren't you just like a funny guy or a fun guy or something?
Why are you asking a real question?
This is embarrassing, the rest of the press, we have them locked up and
they never ask us real questions.
And all they do is kiss her ass.
You're not kissing her ass, Charlemagne, what's wrong with you?
Right?
So by the way, Simone Sanders now leaving the Vice President's Office, I don't know
if this has something to do with it or if she just wanted to leave a sinking ship.
But, look, Charlemagne is going to be very polite here.
He's going to ask exactly the right question that any decent journalists
would ask.
But we don't have decent journalists, we just have Charlemagne apparently that
people will talk too and he's way more polite than we are.
Kamala Harris is definitely lying.
They're not pursuing the George Floyd Act at all, Tim Scott said no and
they dropped it and as 100% right.
And so half of the things that she mentioned, they're not pursuing at all.
She's going on there to lie to the African American audience,
she gets called out an inch on it and she catches feelings.
>> Yes, exactly.
So if you think that was bad, you haven't seen anything yet
watch the second half of this interview.
I can hear you.
>> So who's the real president of this country?
Is it Joe Manchin of Joe Biden, Madam Vice President?
>> Come on, Charlemagne, it's Joe Biden.
[CROSSTALK] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's Joe Biden and don't start talking like a Republican about asking whether or
not he's president.
>> Do you think Joe Manchin's the problem?
And it's Joe Biden and I'm Vice President,
my name is Kamala Harris and the reality is because we are in office,
we do the things like the child tax credit, which is gonna
reduce black child poverty by 50% on track to do that.
>> Child tax credit is gone.
>> Dead.
>> The final child tax credit was deposited into bank
accounts for American families last week.
That was the final child tax credit deposit.
The extension of the child tax credit was supposed to be part of the build back
better agenda, which President Joe Manchin has said that he will
vote against essentially blocking the passage of that bill.
Look, calling him president is a cutesy way of me saying, no,
effectively, he is the president.
Okay, Joe Biden might have the title of President of the United States, but
he's not the one who's been calling the shots.
Joe Manchin, the senator of West Virginia, is the one who's been calling the shots.
And guess what?
President Joe Biden has allowed that to happen.
He's given Manchin all these cookies, all these goodies.
The honorable Joe Manchin refuses to ever play any hardball,
refuses to ever apply any pressure to Joe Manchin, and
now the chickens have come home to roost.
We see what's happened to the build back better agenda.
Child tax credit gone, done, finished.
So you can't be bragging about that unless you actually accomplish
the extension for it.
>> So look, we beat up on the press all the time cuz they actually deserve it.
But apparently, all the journalists are hiding in Comedy Central and
they don't take Charlemagne lightly.
He literally is ask better questions than any journalists in the country.
And the reason why the other reporters don't ask the questions is because of
the reaction to Kamala Harris, basically her answer was how dare you, and
Charlemagne doesn't care about, he's already popular,
he doesn't need Kamala Harris, okay?
Whereas other reporters are worried to death about losing access.
And if you ask a real question to Kamala Harris, you will lose all access.
You'll never come on your show again, right?
You think it's an accident that establishment Democrats never come on
this show?
I remember when Harry Reid's staff told me over a decade ago, we were banned.
Why?
Cuz we asked tough questions, real questions.
If you have the answers, come on and answer them, they don't have the answers.
They're lying, that's why.
So now she she does all that cutesy stuff, Joe Biden is president,
Joe Biden is president.
Like all of us.
And by the way, do you notice she talks differently to Charlemagne than she does
to normal Washington, DC reporters.
You're such a fraud, you're such a fraud.
Okay, and that cutesy line up, I'm the Vice President and
my name is Kamala Harris, I don't give a goddamn what your name is.
All I care about is action.
Do we have voting rights?
No, we don't.
Police reform, you're a joke.
I will vote for you, I'll bring pom poms for
you if you get the Republicans passed police reform.
You're a joke.
You know that's a lie.
Okay, you don't need the Republicans, you can get rid of the filibuster,.
You know you can get rid of the filibuster.
Kamala Harris can.
In effect, you do everything through reconciliation, the parliamentarian says,
no, well Kamala Harris is the Vice President,
the person who can overrule the parliamentarian.
So if you didn't do it, it was you and your name is Kamala Harris.
>> And remember they were unwilling to overrule the parliamentarian
when this unelected person decided to say that a $15 an hour minimum wage
can't be passed through reconciliation.
That advisement essentially could have been overruled by the Vice President but
they didn't do that, did they?
Because they don't care about passing a $15 an hour minimum wage.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna say one last thing about this, and
people in Washington would just find any excuse to protect the powerful so
I'm sure they'll hate me for it, etc.
I don't give a damn K hive, you can do whatever you want you ask kissers, okay?
So she's going on there and pretending to be with the community while
she's actively and purposely lying to the community.
>> Exactly.
>> Don't patronize us, please.
I know it works in Washington and I know it works with your zombie K hive,
we're not interested.
We tell the truth.
The truth is you haven't done any of those things so
don't come pretending you're working hard when you're the ones blocking it.
Did you ever overrule the parliamentarian?
No, your name is Kamala Harris.
Did you pass any of the things that you were talking about?
No, your name is Kamala Harris.
You own that, why do you think you're a 28%?
You think you're fooling everybody?
You're fooling no one.
It's an act.
And other than the people in DC, everyone knows it's an act.