Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a combative first interview with Fox News on Wednesday, sparring on immigration policy and shifting policy positions while asserting that if elected, she would not represent a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency.
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00:00The first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system.
00:07Yes, ma'am. It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
00:12It was essentially a pathway to citizenship.
00:15May I finish responding, please?
00:18But you have to let me finish, please.
00:20You had the White House and the House and the Senate, and they didn't bring up that bill.
00:23I'm in the middle of responding to the point you're raising, and I'd like to finish.
00:27Yes, ma'am.
00:28First of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we've been burdened with the kind of rhetoric
00:36coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country
00:42and have Americans literally point fingers at each other.
00:46Rhetoric and an approach to leadership that suggests that the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down
00:52instead of what we all know.
00:54The strength of leadership is based on who you lift up.
00:56The strength of an American president, which is one who understands that the vast majority of us
01:02have more in common than what separates us.
01:05Madam Vice President, more than 70% of people tell pollsters—
01:09That is about turning the page on rhetoric that people are frankly exhausted of, Brett.
01:13More than 70% of people tell—
01:15Brett, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying
01:21about the enemy within that he has repeated when he's speaking about the American people.
01:27That's not what you just showed.
01:28He was asked about that specific—
01:30No, that's not what you just showed, in all fairness and respect to you.
01:32No, I'm telling you that was the question that we asked him.
01:34You didn't show that, and here's the bottom line.
01:37He has repeated it many times, and you and I both know that.
01:41And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people.
01:46He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest.
01:51He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.
01:55This is a democracy.