From kissy-face sitdown on ‘The View’ to a tougher grilling on ‘60 Minutes,’ Kamala Harris is making news

It was a cringe-inducing moment.

No 1 expected Kamala Harris to beryllium grilled on "The View," comprised of cheerleaders for her candidacy. 

But Whoopi Goldberg introduced her by bellowing "the next president of the United States," it was a slap-your-forehead moment." Seriously?

The full league yesterday was an in-kind publication to the Harris campaign. 

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I know, they’re not consecutive journalists, they’re wide commentators slash entertainers. They work their questions verbatim disconnected bluish cards. That’s precisely wherefore she wanted to bash the show. 

There were immoderate tenable questions: How would her presidency disagree from Joe Biden’s? How would she grip the border? Why wouldn’t Ron DeSantis instrumentality her calls about hurricane preparations with a Category 4 tempest astir to deed Florida?

And past determination was Joy Behar, who went connected astir Trump’s lies and asked however anyone could perchance enactment him. That enabled the Vice President to accidental Trump was each astir idiosyncratic grievances, not the voters. 

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared connected Tuesday's occurrence of "The View." (ABC)

Kamala made bully usage of the forum, specified arsenic dishing connected however she was moving retired and with her kids erstwhile Joe Biden called to accidental helium was stepping aside. 

Bottom line: "The View," an ABC programme founded by Barbara Walters – it’s inactive successful the quality part – was adjacent much embarrassing than I expected, with the ladies falling each implicit themselves to praise Harris and trash Trump. 

Some tenable questions were asked, but Kamala ran circles astir them and deflected what she didn't privation to reply portion getting her acquainted talking points in.

It was a bully forum for her, and for erstwhile she came prepared to marque news. In a determination earlier leaked to Politico, Harris made her pitch for having Medicare reimburse caring for the aged astatine location alternatively of lone successful costly institutions – the archetypal caller argumentation connection she's made successful weeks. She said she would wage for it by demanding deeper discounts connected definite drugs paid for by Medicare. Needless to say, she was not precisely cross-examined connected the subject.

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The ladies seemed awed that Kamala Harris was adjacent there.

It was a precise antithetic Kamala who appeared connected a "60 Minutes" prime-time peculiar aired the nighttime before.

To beryllium sure, the quality mag amusement repeated immoderate of her criticisms of Trump, with Bill Whitaker saying: "You person accused Donald Trump of utilizing racist tropes erstwhile it comes to Haitian immigrants. In Springfield, Ohio. When it comes to birtherism, erstwhile it comes to Charlottesville, successful fact, you person called him a racist and divisive, yet Donald Trump has the enactment of millions and millions of Americans."

The veep’s talking-point response: "I judge that the radical of America privation a person who's not trying to disagreement america and demean."

But Whitaker was a bulldog erstwhile it came to asking for followups again and again erstwhile the Democratic nominee offered generalities.

CBS News appears to person made a favorable edit to its "60 Minutes" interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris.  (Screenshot/CBS News)

When asked astir the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget saying her program would adhd $3 trillion implicit the adjacent decennary – it was overmuch higher for Trump – Harris talked astir economists liking her program and pivoted to praising tiny business.

Whitaker’s response: "Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was, however are you going to wage for it?"

This time, Harris said she’d marque definite billionaires and large corporations would person to wage their "fair share," and Whitaker expressed skepticism that Congress would o.k. that.

This was the question that Harris hasn’t truly had to answer.

"Let maine archer you what your critics and the columnists say, okay? They accidental that the crushed truthful galore voters don't cognize you is that you person changed your presumption connected truthful galore things," said Whitaker. "You were against fracking. Now you're for it. You supported looser migration policies, present you're tightening them up. You are for Medicare for All. Now you're not truthful galore that radical don't genuinely cognize what you judge oregon what you basal for."

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Harris offered this answer: "In the past 4 years I person been vice president, United States. And I person been traveling our country. And I person been listening to folks and seeking what is imaginable successful presumption of communal ground. I judge successful gathering consensus." Translation: The satellite has changed and I person to beryllium realistic astir what I tin get passed.

The interrogation was truthful heavy edited that you could spot the changes respective times arsenic Harris magically constricted her answers to 2 sentences. That’s the overproduced "60 Minutes" style, but I deliberation it was a mistake. CBS should have tally the full thing, oregon a large chunk of it, unedited. 

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Scott Pelley said Trump had agreed to an interrogation but backed retired with shifting explanations, including that determination beryllium nary fact-checking.

By yesterday afternoon, Kamala was taping her interrogation with Howard Stern, who loved Trump backmost successful the time erstwhile they were standing women and has been wholly opposed to him arsenic a campaigner and president.

Reacting to Bob Woodward’s forthcoming publication saying Trump secretly sent Vladimir Putin a COVID trial instrumentality during the pandemic – which the erstwhile president denies – the VP said: "I judge that Donald Trump has this tendency to beryllium a dictator. He admires strongmen and helium gets played by them due to the fact that helium thinks that they’re his friends and they are manipulating him full-time and manipulating him by flattery and with favor…

"This feline who is President of the United States is sending them to Russia? To a murderous dictator for his idiosyncratic use?"

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Stern called it "maddening" and "insanity" that anyone would enactment Donald Trump. He told Harris helium would ballot for her, but could besides ballot for "that partition implicit there" implicit the ex-president.

Harris is yet starting to marque immoderate news. Imagine if she’d started immoderate of these interviews weeks ago.