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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kamala Harris has agreed to talk on Fox News with
Brett Bayer.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's your initial thoughts to hearing this?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Mildly surprised, but the timing of this makes a lot
of sense because what have we been here in the
last couple of days, poll numbers and just a lot
of pontification.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Three big national groups put out like ABC, IPSOS, NBC,
you Gov, I think, or CBSU GOV, ABC and IPSOS.
It was for fifty to forty eight that was used
to be a six point lead for Harris on an
It's a national poll, so you know, take that for
what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We don't actually vote that way.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Fifty to forty eight, and then they're deadlocked in an
NBC News poll and then CBS and you Gov. Harris
has a three point edge. That's down from a four
point advantage. So I don't know, man, You're right, the
polls are showing that, hey, momentum is stopped. What do
you think though about her doing this in what she's
(00:59):
trying to at here? Because remember, I think the biggest
thing about the I think the biggest complaint about her
campaign is since she's gotten the nomination. They've been incredibly
picky with her being available to talk to anyone. She
didn't really talk to anybody, Like who is she talked to?
This is definitely this is it seems. I mean, on
one end, it could be very clever if it goes well,
(01:21):
how like, but defined going well because she's going into
a proverbial hornousness. Now, Brett Bayer is not the kind
of guy that's gonna ensnare her in and try to
catch her on stuff. But he's gonna ask her hard questions.
I'm sure she'll be prepared for those. If you're wondering
when this is, it's gonna be Wednesday around six o'clock
hour time or five o'clock hour time, my bad, six
o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Like I kind of want to take it live, but
at the same time, I don't want to put her
on the hook to listen to a bunch of fluff
and flutter, you know what I mean. We'll figure that out. Yeah,
because they announced this during the afternoon. I have no idea,
but this will be happening during our show on Wednesday.
Is anybody's mind going to change about anything here?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
That has to be the objective. That's the only reason, why.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Why, why else should we do this?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is this more to quiet the people who are criticizing
her for not talking to the press than it is
about actually achieving anything.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's got to be. But it's still not a press conference.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, he's going to ask her questions. This is in Pennsylvania,
and of course we know Pennsylvania to be maybe the
biggest prize. It is the biggest prize in terms of
how many electoral votes are at stake, considering the other
six states that are up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
In the air. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, I feel like she's been They've been very
picky about who talks to her, and it's always been
people that they've trusted, you know, these live podcasts and
the view in places where she knows she's not going
to be getting poked about stuff and challenged on things,
and she'll be able to get away with some of
the stuff that she talks about. But if you're not
(02:51):
criticizing her for the stuff that she should technically bear
some responsibility for that's happening in this administration, which I'm
sure Brett Bayer is going to try to get to
the bottom of, Like Okay, so you say you're with
Joe Biden, yet you're trying to distance yourself on a
lot of Joe Biden positions. How is the American people
supposed to reconcile that, especially when nobody voted you to
be in this position in the first place. This is
(03:12):
a spot you basically were handed because you were the
vice president. I don't know, like, what do you like?
What does he ask her? I mean, like, what policy
do we need more clarification on other than the fact that, okay,
well the southern border.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really what do you feel about that?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is she going to pander to the Fox News audience
crowd or is she going to kind of push back
and say, no, I think that bipartisan bill that we
had earlier this year should have been passed and here's why.
If she can answer that, does that change the way
that people view her on this?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, and we're hearing it in the news update there,
former President Bill Clinton was talking about how her role
as the quote unquote borders are has been misconstrued. Maybe
we could get some clarification on that exactly what was
her role as far as how you know, how did
she oversee what happened at the border, or did or didn't?
(04:03):
More things on the economy, You know, are you really
are you really gonna do these price controls that people
are saying are gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The control?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Why are we not talking more about that? Everybody's talking
about the sensationalism of the southern border. That matters way
more than Like I legal immigration is incredibly important. I'm
not here to tell you it's not. But selfishly, I
kind of want to know what the heck's going to
happen with our pricing in this country. Like if you're
talking about all these different things that are gonna change
from the Biden baby game heeks that we've had, how
(04:32):
and why hasn't this been a thing that you've advocated
for while you're like the right hand person for the president.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Can she answer that? Hopefully?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Brett asks her that, like how much control do you
really have as the vice president? If any If there's
any answer other than I don't have much control over anything,
then she's got to bear some responsibility for what's been
going down. You know what I think, though I don't
think the vice president does much. I've made this point before, like, yeah,
she's the borders are, Yeah, the people on the right
want to, you know, point fingers at her in say, hey,
(05:00):
she's responsible for a lot of the stuff that's going
wrong here. I just got to go, hey, in American history,
you tell me one vice president that actually did something
that mattered while vice president. The most important things that
any vice presidents have ever done. We're taking office for
somebody who died in office or their term expired and
they stepped in and took over, you know, which is
(05:21):
really only count George hw Bush because we really haven't
had that situation happen, because no political party stays in
favor for more than eight years in this country.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You think about the free time that al Gore had.
He had all the time in the world. He invented
the Internet while he was the VP.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh stop. He also had been a climate change.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right he had he had time to do both and
grow a beard.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, oh, that was after you, that was after that.
That was the best timeline. Yeah, I don't know, I'm
getting his post recount beard, His hanging Chad. Remember when
Florida was a toss up state. Remember hanging Chad's I
don't feel like that's a word that you could say
and not give context to because.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What is that? Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Millennials will probably be trying to cancel you just on
the hearing of that term.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Google it before you cancel me.
Kamala Harris has agreed to talk on Fox News with
Brett Bayer.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's your initial thoughts to hearing this?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Mildly surprised, but the timing of this makes a lot
of sense because what have we been here in the
last couple of days, poll numbers and just a lot
of pontification.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Three big national groups put out like ABC, IPSOS, NBC,
you Gov, I think, or CBSU GOV, ABC and IPSOS.
It was for fifty to forty eight that was used
to be a six point lead for Harris on an
It's a national poll, so you know, take that for
what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We don't actually vote that way.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Fifty to forty eight, and then they're deadlocked in an
NBC News poll and then CBS and you Gov. Harris
has a three point edge. That's down from a four
point advantage. So I don't know, man, You're right, the
polls are showing that, hey, momentum is stopped. What do
you think though about her doing this in what she's
(00:59):
trying to at here? Because remember, I think the biggest
thing about the I think the biggest complaint about her
campaign is since she's gotten the nomination. They've been incredibly
picky with her being available to talk to anyone. She
didn't really talk to anybody, Like who is she talked to?
This is definitely this is it seems. I mean, on
one end, it could be very clever if it goes well,
(01:21):
how like, but defined going well because she's going into
a proverbial hornousness. Now, Brett Bayer is not the kind
of guy that's gonna ensnare her in and try to
catch her on stuff. But he's gonna ask her hard questions.
I'm sure she'll be prepared for those. If you're wondering
when this is, it's gonna be Wednesday around six o'clock
hour time or five o'clock hour time, my bad, six
o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Like I kind of want to take it live, but
at the same time, I don't want to put her
on the hook to listen to a bunch of fluff
and flutter, you know what I mean. We'll figure that out. Yeah,
because they announced this during the afternoon. I have no idea,
but this will be happening during our show on Wednesday.
Is anybody's mind going to change about anything here?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
That has to be the objective. That's the only reason, why.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Why, why else should we do this?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is this more to quiet the people who are criticizing
her for not talking to the press than it is
about actually achieving anything.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's got to be. But it's still not a press conference.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, he's going to ask her questions. This is in Pennsylvania,
and of course we know Pennsylvania to be maybe the
biggest prize. It is the biggest prize in terms of
how many electoral votes are at stake, considering the other
six states that are up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
In the air. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, I feel like she's been They've been very
picky about who talks to her, and it's always been
people that they've trusted, you know, these live podcasts and
the view in places where she knows she's not going
to be getting poked about stuff and challenged on things,
and she'll be able to get away with some of
the stuff that she talks about. But if you're not
(02:51):
criticizing her for the stuff that she should technically bear
some responsibility for that's happening in this administration, which I'm
sure Brett Bayer is going to try to get to
the bottom of, Like Okay, so you say you're with
Joe Biden, yet you're trying to distance yourself on a
lot of Joe Biden positions. How is the American people
supposed to reconcile that, especially when nobody voted you to
be in this position in the first place. This is
(03:12):
a spot you basically were handed because you were the
vice president. I don't know, like, what do you like?
What does he ask her? I mean, like, what policy
do we need more clarification on other than the fact that, okay,
well the southern border.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really what do you feel about that?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is she going to pander to the Fox News audience
crowd or is she going to kind of push back
and say, no, I think that bipartisan bill that we
had earlier this year should have been passed and here's why.
If she can answer that, does that change the way
that people view her on this?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, and we're hearing it in the news update there,
former President Bill Clinton was talking about how her role
as the quote unquote borders are has been misconstrued. Maybe
we could get some clarification on that exactly what was
her role as far as how you know, how did
she oversee what happened at the border, or did or didn't?
(04:03):
More things on the economy, You know, are you really
are you really gonna do these price controls that people
are saying are gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The control?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Why are we not talking more about that? Everybody's talking
about the sensationalism of the southern border. That matters way
more than Like I legal immigration is incredibly important. I'm
not here to tell you it's not. But selfishly, I
kind of want to know what the heck's going to
happen with our pricing in this country. Like if you're
talking about all these different things that are gonna change
from the Biden baby game heeks that we've had, how
(04:32):
and why hasn't this been a thing that you've advocated
for while you're like the right hand person for the president.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Can she answer that? Hopefully?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Brett asks her that, like how much control do you
really have as the vice president? If any If there's
any answer other than I don't have much control over anything,
then she's got to bear some responsibility for what's been
going down. You know what I think, though I don't
think the vice president does much. I've made this point before, like, yeah,
she's the borders are, Yeah, the people on the right
want to, you know, point fingers at her in say, hey,
(05:00):
she's responsible for a lot of the stuff that's going
wrong here. I just got to go, hey, in American history,
you tell me one vice president that actually did something
that mattered while vice president. The most important things that
any vice presidents have ever done. We're taking office for
somebody who died in office or their term expired and
they stepped in and took over, you know, which is
(05:21):
really only count George hw Bush because we really haven't
had that situation happen, because no political party stays in
favor for more than eight years in this country.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You think about the free time that al Gore had.
He had all the time in the world. He invented
the Internet while he was the VP.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh stop. He also had been a climate change.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right he had he had time to do both and
grow a beard.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No, oh, that was after you, that was after that.
That was the best timeline. Yeah, I don't know, I'm
getting his post recount beard, His hanging Chad. Remember when
Florida was a toss up state. Remember hanging Chad's I
don't feel like that's a word that you could say
and not give context to because.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What is that? Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Millennials will probably be trying to cancel you just on
the hearing of that term.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Google it before you cancel me.
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