Bill Maher shocked by MSNBC's softball Kamala Harris interview: I didn't expect them to be 'rubbing her feet'

"Real Time" big Bill Maher appeared shocked by MSNBC's softball interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris, taking a swipe astatine his caller impermanent Stephanie Ruhle.

"Working to enactment up [Harris'] vulnerabilities, determination has been a batch of unit connected her. She doesn't bash interviews. She doesn't reply [questions]- truthful she sat for an interview. She said ‘Ok, I volition reply your hardball questions.’ So she went connected MSNBC," Maher quipped during his opening monologue Friday night.

"There were not-hardball questions, but I inactive expected not them to beryllium rubbing her feet," the wide big added, sparking laughs from his audience.

MSNBC'S STEPHANIE RUHLE FAWNS OVER HARRIS, SAYS NON-ANSWERS ARE ‘OKAY’: THESE AREN'T ‘CLEAR AND DIRECT ISSUES’

"Real Time" big Bill Maher took a swipe astatine MSNBC's interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris during his opening monologue, saying helium didn't expect the web to beryllium "rubbing her feet." (Screenshot/HBO)

Ruhle appeared connected "Real Time" conscionable days earlier she landed the interrogation with the vice president wherever she defended Harris not answering pugnacious argumentation questions.

"Kamala Harris is not moving for perfect. She's moving against Trump," Ruhle said to Maher. "We person 2 choices. And truthful determination are immoderate things you mightiness not cognize her reply to. And successful 2024, dissimilar 2016 for a batch of the American people, we cognize precisely what Trump volition do, who helium is and the benignant of menace helium is to democracy."

The MSNBC big repeatedly fawned implicit Harris pursuing her exclusive interview. 

MSNBC'S STEPHANIE RUHLE CALLS OUT HARRIS FOR DODGING HOW SHE'D RAISE TAXES: ‘SHE DOESN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION'

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle defended Harris not answering argumentation questions conscionable days earlier she landed an interrogation with the VP.  (Screenshot/HBO)

"What I didn't perceive from her was divisive language," Ruhle told her MSNBC workfellow Nicolle Wallace. "Imagine if I was sitting against Donald Trump, ideate the connection helium would beryllium using, please! And conscionable the information that we were talking astir collaborative inclusivity — I don't know. Vote for her oregon don't ballot for her, but isn't it large to conscionable person a affirmative speech close now?"

Ruhle admitted that Harris didn't reply a question astir however she would get the backing for her ambitious economical docket without Congress, but rapidly defended her by saying Trump would "balloon" the shortage "significantly bigger than Vice President Harris will."

She went connected to accidental it's "okay" for Harris not to connection specifics astir her argumentation proposals and shrugged disconnected the non-answers arsenic her simply being a "politician." 

Ruhle repeatedly fawned implicit Harris pursuing their interview.  (Screenshot/MSNBC)

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"It's complicated, right?" Ruhle exclaimed. "We're a state of 330 cardinal people, our system is complicated. In the aforesaid mode — is the system bully oregon bad? It wholly depends! So tariffs, if utilized successful the close places, tin work. And 1 could ticker that and say, 'Well, she didn't springiness a clear, nonstop answer.' That's okay, due to the fact that we are not talking astir wide oregon nonstop issues."