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Vice President Harris was pressed connected her changing argumentation positions and her costly economical program connected “60 Minutes,” successful what proved to beryllium her toughest media interrogation since becoming the Democratic nominee.
CBS News’s Bill Whitaker questioned Harris connected a assortment of issues, including Harris’s evolving stances connected fracking, migration and Medicare. At 1 point, Whitaker, citing the nonpartisan Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, estimated her plans could adhd much than $3 trillion to the national deficit.
Harris, successful turn, argued that her program would fortify the economy, portion erstwhile President Trump’s program would weaken it. But Whitaker repeated the question, asking however specified costly proposals would beryllium paid for.
“But we're dealing with the existent satellite here,” helium replied erstwhile she said she would marque definite affluent Americans wage their just stock successful taxes. “How are you gonna get this done Congress?”
“When you speech softly with a batch of folks successful Congress, they cognize precisely what I'm talking astir due to the fact that their constituents cognize precisely what I'm talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses. Their constituents are middle-class, hard-working folk,” Harris replied.
She disagreed erstwhile Whitaker said Congress has not indicated they would hold and walk specified legislation.
“I americium a devout nationalist servant. You cognize that. I americium besides a capitalist. And I cognize the limitations of government,” Harris said.
Whitaker besides questioned her connected respective changing positions including erstwhile supporting a prohibition connected fracking, looser migration policies astatine the borderline and the conception of Medicare For All, which she stood by erstwhile moving for the Democratic information successful 2020.
Whitaker asked if Harris thought that was 1 crushed that Americans accidental they don’t cognize her.
“In the past 4 years I person been vice president of the 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. We are a divers people,” Harris said.
She added, “Geographically, regionally, successful presumption of wherever we are successful our backgrounds. And what the American radical bash privation is that we person leaders who tin physique consensus. Where we tin fig retired compromise and recognize it's not a atrocious thing, arsenic agelong arsenic you don't compromise your values, to find common-sense solutions.”
In past interviews, Harris has responded to akin questions by saying her “values” person not changed connected issues similar fracking. Her erstwhile absorption to fracking, which her run present says it nary longer supports, volition substance successful a captious authorities similar Pennsylvania, wherever fracking is an important industry.
On the contented of immigration, Whitaker noted that President Biden’s recent ace down connected asylum seekers has led to a alteration successful amerciable borderline crossings aft those numbers quadrupled compared to the Trump administration. Whitaker past asked wherefore the medication didn’t instrumentality those steps 3 years ago.
The vice president responded that the archetypal measure the Biden medication projected to Congress was to hole the migration system, but it was not taken up. Then she highlighted that Trump had a manus successful tanking a borderline connection negotiated by a bipartisan radical of senators earlier this year.
“But we request Congress to beryllium capable to enactment to really hole the problem,” Harris replied erstwhile Whitaker continued to inquire astir wherefore Biden didn’t measurement successful to curb the influx of migrants sooner.
Harris is connected a media blitz this week, wherever connected Tuesday she volition look connected “The View” and Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show.
She has faced wide disapproval for not sitting for much pugnacious interviews, successful peculiar by Trump and his moving mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio). In August, Harris was interviewed by CNN, alongside her moving mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. She was interviewed by MSNBC past month.
Trump declined CBS News’s connection to participate successful the program’s accepted interviews it has with statesmanlike candidates up of the election.
