Katie Couric rips Kamala Harris for word salad responses in campaign interviews: 'Answer the godd--- question'

Katie Couric took a swipe astatine Vice President Kamala Harris for her non-answers successful assorted interviews starring up to the statesmanlike election. 

On Thursday's installment of her podcast "Next Question with Katie Couric," the seasoned broadcaster had a lengthy post-election speech with MSNBC big and longtime Democratic spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who said she thought 1 of Harris' "better interviews" was her Fox News sit-down with Bret Baier. 

"I ever find that radical bash amended erstwhile they're asked truly challenging, pointed questions. I ever felt that mode astir Hillary Clinton," Couric said. "If you are giving them these astir weird, like, amorphous softballs, it's truly hard to benignant of hone your connection and beryllium succinct and accidental what you truly request to say."

"I besides felt that, and again, I deliberation [Harris] truly did good successful truthful galore areas, but I was frustrated by her inability to truly succinctly reply questions astatine times, Jen," Couric continued.

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Veteran writer Katie Couric said she was "frustrated" by Vice President Kamala Harris' "inability to truly succinctly reply questions." (Getty Images)

"Like, if she was asked astir changing the Supreme Court astatine that CNN municipality hall, she had an accidental to speech astir morals and what, you know, [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing, and she answered, like, successful 1 sentence, and past went connected to thing that had thing to bash with the question," Couric said. "You know, radical announcement that, and it's like, ‘Answer the g-dd--n question, please!’" 

She past pivoted to Harris' now-infamous comments connected "The View" wherever she was asked astir what she would bash otherwise from President Biden, calling it "one of the astir damaging things."

"Ok, Jen, you're an insider. Why didn't Joe Biden say, 'Listen, I cognize you're going to person to abstracted yourself from this administration. Let's speech astir areas wherever you can, wherever they're legitimate, and God speed,'" Couric wondered. "Because it- I deliberation idiosyncratic wrote that it was astir arsenic if they were much acrophobic of hurting Joe Biden's feelings than winning the election." 

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Couric called Harris' speech with "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin arsenic "one of the astir damaging things" that occurred to the vice president's campaign. (The View / ABC)

Psaki, who served arsenic Biden's White House property caput earlier joining MSNBC, responded by saying it was a "unique and achy summer" for Biden and that determination "was a fragility" astir him being sidelined by the Democratic Party. She besides pointed retired that Biden was "beloved" by the enactment erstwhile helium stepped speech and that Harris had "navigated the authorities of that successful a precise tricky way."

"It seems to me, if I were moving for president, Jen, I would beryllium down with my encephalon trust, and I'd beryllium like, 'Okay, let's play retired these questions. What americium I gonna say?'" Couric said. 

"And I would person had a template that I would person carried astir with maine successful each interview, and I would person reviewed them and said, you know, 'This is what I believe, and this is however I'm going to grip a question similar that.' Now, wherefore didn't they- it conscionable didn't look similar that was done. Am I crazy?" she wondered.

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Couric called retired Harris for not having a "template" useful for interviews, thing she said she would person had if she ran for president. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

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Couric besides knocked the vice president for going several weeks without doing immoderate interviews erstwhile she archetypal emerged arsenic the Democratic nominee, saying it was "making maine brainsick arsenic a consumer."

"What was that?" the erstwhile "Today" big asked.

"I don't know," Psaki responded earlier speculating that the Harris run was prepping for the debate. 

"She should've been everywhere," Couric aboriginal added.