August 30, 2024 • 10 mins
You told your supporters you believe we should do this, and that you would absolutely do it, and then quickly changed your mind upon learning it wasn't politically viable, but you still believe we should do it, but you won't do it even if those who support you think we should do this thing you think we should do, but won't. Right?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. Last night on CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris
had an opportunity to sit down with Dana Bash and,
to a much lesser extent, her running mate, Governor Tim
Watson Minnesota, who it was noted, did a great job
of doing the sit still look pretty roll last night
(00:24):
during this interview. I think that they wanted to do
a couple of things with this interview. First of all,
since Tim Walls came out running out of the stage,
jumping around like he was in the House of paying video,
they were like, all right, could you act a little
bit more adult? So he sat there serenely, had a
nice smile on his face, didn't freak out or anything.
(00:45):
So that was Tim Walls's job. He did a great
job as far as where the bar was set in
advance of this interview. For Kamala Harris, someone who is
not I mean it comes from a background of being
a prosecutor, California Attorney General, senator, now Vice president, and
(01:07):
someone who a lot of people think is going to
be the next president of the United States. Her background,
I know she worked at McDonald's when she was younger,
but I don't know if she has any specific training
as a chef who makes words solid, but she's gotten
really good at it over the years. That's kind of
been the knock on Kamala Harris. Or you'll ask her
(01:29):
a question which very few people have ever had a
chance to do, especially in the last almost month and
a half since Joe Biden dropped out of the race,
she has not done any interviews, and when you do
ask her stuff like all right, can you detail your
accomplishments for the American people, it's likely she might say
(01:49):
something like, well, our accomplishments are those things that we
have done, and those things that we have done are
those things? Oh, thanks for clearing that up. So that's
(02:10):
been the earned knock on Kamala Harris. So ahead of time,
there were a lot of people, including all the talking
heads on CNN, who were saying, well, you know, what
do you expect to see? What do you hope to
see from Kamala Harris. There was a lot of talk
about her being in command of her words. It was
a phrase I heard a few times before and after
(02:33):
the interview and afterwards. Now what'd you think, Well, you know,
I thought she was in command of her word. This
is the bar set for the future leader of the
free world. And this is after I just saw the
film Reagan to then see how in my lifetime we've
slid from that to I thought she was in command
(02:57):
of her words. That's how you measure someone in a
grade school debate setting, not being the commander in chief.
So she was in command of her words. We also
need to have someone who's a bit of a magician
to make you think that what you experienced in four
(03:19):
years under Trump was horrible and what you've experienced in
the three and a half years since was great. Now,
for her part, Dana bashed the interviewer on CNN brought
that up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
One of your campaign themes is we're not going back.
But I wonder what you say to voters who do
want to go back when it comes to the economy,
specifically because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more
affordable when Donald Trump was president.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden
and I came in office during the height of a pandemic,
we saw over ten million jobs were lost.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's because you wanted them lost. You felt that all
these businesses had to close, all these people who'd built
little mom and pop shops in this country. They couldn't
just shut down for what was it going to be?
Two weeks turned into two months, turned into in some states,
(04:22):
over a year. That was due to a policy that
you supported.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
People.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I mean literally, we were all tracking the numbers. Hundreds
of people a day were dying because of COVID.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID
because we were listing COVID as a contributing factor as
being a part of their death, which counted as a
COVID death, especially in those early days. Oh you have COVID,
Let's take an otherwise reasonably perfectly healthy person, hook them
up to ventilators and tear their lungs apart until they die.
Once we start stripping away some of those deaths, we
(05:00):
don't have the numbers that you said we had, if
we're being honest with ourselves, which of course we're not.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The economy had crashed in large part all of that
because of mismanagement by Donald Trump, of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That mismanagement of what pushing through a vaccine that you
promote in record time that you credit now with not
seeing hundreds of lives lost today? Which is it?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The vaccine saving lives or is it different ways of
dealing with the coronavirus that maybe we could have done
differently in the beginning hindsight being twenty twenty move on crisis.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
When we came in, our highest priority was to do
what we could to rescue America. And today we know
that we have inflation at under three percent. A lot
of our policies have led to the reality.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
We have inflation at under three percent. That was after
it was up eight percent in year one, another eight
percent in year two, and now three percent in year three.
That's in three years, nineteen percent inflation. Combine that with
the people who lost their jobs or lost their valid
level of employment before the pandemic, and many people I
(06:17):
don't know about you. I didn't get a twenty percent
raise in the last three years. And if you're looking
at inflation in what a lot of times in their
numbers they take out those little things that shouldn't count
in inflation numbers. You know, things like food and gas prices.
We don't count those, Oh, because they're volatile, they go
(06:38):
up and down. Yeah, because I can take food and
gas prices out of my monthly budget. So none of
those numbers count right.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Quality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around
the world.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That shouldn't be our standard. Well, other nations wouldn't do
as good as that should not be our standard. But
you are right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Prices in particular for groceries are still too high. The
American people know what I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And whose fault is that. Whereas just like ignoring, you've
been the president or you've been part of the president's
administration for the last three and a half years while
this has been going on. Also in the last five years,
you had some opinions then you don't seem to have.
(07:24):
Now we'll get into that after a Husker Buzz. Extra
is Sean Callahan here in just a few minutes, Scott
Gohees where you know It, News Radio eleven ten kfab
Dana Bash on CNN interviewed Vice President Harris and tried.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Energy is a big one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal,
and in twenty nineteen you said, quote, there's no question
I'm in favor of banning fracking. Cracking, as you know,
is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must win
state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Do you still want to ban fracking.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, And I made that clear on the debate stage
in twenty twenty that I would not banfracking. As vice president,
I did not banfracking. As president, I will not banfracking.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But in twenty nineteen, I believe in a town hall
you said you were asked, would you commit to implementing
a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And you said, there's no question in favor of banning fracking.
So yes. So it changed in that campaign in twenty twenty.
I made very clear where I stand.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We are in twenty twenty four, and I've not changed
that position or will I going forward.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I kept my word and I will keep my word
keep going. What made you change that position at the time, Well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Let's be clear, my values have not changed.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Is very important that we take seriously what we must
do to guard against what is a clear crisis in
terms of the climate, and to do that, we can
do what we have accomplished thus far, the inflation reductions,
what we have done to invest, by my calculation, over
probably a trillion dollars over the next ten years investing
(09:07):
in a clean energy economy. What we've already done, creating
over three hundred thousand new clean energy jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, there's a lot to digest right there. First of all,
we've invested trillion dollars and we created all that. That's
not what government is supposed to do. That is not
a function of government. Government is not supposed to pick
winners and losers when it comes to anything from clean
energy jobs to energy exploration, to grocery prices, to student
(09:40):
loans to insurance. These are not functions of government. We've
made them functions of government because we treat these politicians
like game show hosts. Who's going to get elected and
give me the most stuff? Hey wink, Martin Dale, what
do you got for us? Well, over here, we got
an opportunity for you to not pay back your student loans. Ooh,
I like this south to that one dollar Bob. You
(10:02):
know this is not a game show. And then she said,
my values have not changed, but I'm not going to
do those things that my supporters on the very progressive
left expect me to do that I told him I
would do, and then said I'm not going to do
and I've been very clear on that, but you said
you'd do it. Well, my values haven't changed. So my
value is we should ban fracking. But it's politically unpopular
(10:25):
for me to ban fracking. So I'm not going to
ban fracking because I won't get elected in Pennsylvania because
of Pennsylvania if I ban fracking. Oh, clear as day.
Thank you. Scott Voyes, Mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez. Last night on CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris
had an opportunity to sit down with Dana Bash and,
to a much lesser extent, her running mate, Governor Tim
Watson Minnesota, who it was noted, did a great job
of doing the sit still look pretty roll last night
(00:24):
during this interview. I think that they wanted to do
a couple of things with this interview. First of all,
since Tim Walls came out running out of the stage,
jumping around like he was in the House of paying video,
they were like, all right, could you act a little
bit more adult? So he sat there serenely, had a
nice smile on his face, didn't freak out or anything.
(00:45):
So that was Tim Walls's job. He did a great
job as far as where the bar was set in
advance of this interview. For Kamala Harris, someone who is
not I mean it comes from a background of being
a prosecutor, California Attorney General, senator, now Vice president, and
(01:07):
someone who a lot of people think is going to
be the next president of the United States. Her background,
I know she worked at McDonald's when she was younger,
but I don't know if she has any specific training
as a chef who makes words solid, but she's gotten
really good at it over the years. That's kind of
been the knock on Kamala Harris. Or you'll ask her
(01:29):
a question which very few people have ever had a
chance to do, especially in the last almost month and
a half since Joe Biden dropped out of the race,
she has not done any interviews, and when you do
ask her stuff like all right, can you detail your
accomplishments for the American people, it's likely she might say
(01:49):
something like, well, our accomplishments are those things that we
have done, and those things that we have done are
those things? Oh, thanks for clearing that up. So that's
(02:10):
been the earned knock on Kamala Harris. So ahead of time,
there were a lot of people, including all the talking
heads on CNN, who were saying, well, you know, what
do you expect to see? What do you hope to
see from Kamala Harris. There was a lot of talk
about her being in command of her words. It was
a phrase I heard a few times before and after
(02:33):
the interview and afterwards. Now what'd you think, Well, you know,
I thought she was in command of her word. This
is the bar set for the future leader of the
free world. And this is after I just saw the
film Reagan to then see how in my lifetime we've
slid from that to I thought she was in command
(02:57):
of her words. That's how you measure someone in a
grade school debate setting, not being the commander in chief.
So she was in command of her words. We also
need to have someone who's a bit of a magician
to make you think that what you experienced in four
(03:19):
years under Trump was horrible and what you've experienced in
the three and a half years since was great. Now,
for her part, Dana bashed the interviewer on CNN brought
that up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
One of your campaign themes is we're not going back.
But I wonder what you say to voters who do
want to go back when it comes to the economy,
specifically because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more
affordable when Donald Trump was president.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden
and I came in office during the height of a pandemic,
we saw over ten million jobs were lost.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's because you wanted them lost. You felt that all
these businesses had to close, all these people who'd built
little mom and pop shops in this country. They couldn't
just shut down for what was it going to be?
Two weeks turned into two months, turned into in some states,
(04:22):
over a year. That was due to a policy that
you supported.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
People.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I mean literally, we were all tracking the numbers. Hundreds
of people a day were dying because of COVID.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID
because we were listing COVID as a contributing factor as
being a part of their death, which counted as a
COVID death, especially in those early days. Oh you have COVID,
Let's take an otherwise reasonably perfectly healthy person, hook them
up to ventilators and tear their lungs apart until they die.
Once we start stripping away some of those deaths, we
(05:00):
don't have the numbers that you said we had, if
we're being honest with ourselves, which of course we're not.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The economy had crashed in large part all of that
because of mismanagement by Donald Trump, of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That mismanagement of what pushing through a vaccine that you
promote in record time that you credit now with not
seeing hundreds of lives lost today? Which is it?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The vaccine saving lives or is it different ways of
dealing with the coronavirus that maybe we could have done
differently in the beginning hindsight being twenty twenty move on crisis.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
When we came in, our highest priority was to do
what we could to rescue America. And today we know
that we have inflation at under three percent. A lot
of our policies have led to the reality.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
We have inflation at under three percent. That was after
it was up eight percent in year one, another eight
percent in year two, and now three percent in year three.
That's in three years, nineteen percent inflation. Combine that with
the people who lost their jobs or lost their valid
level of employment before the pandemic, and many people I
(06:17):
don't know about you. I didn't get a twenty percent
raise in the last three years. And if you're looking
at inflation in what a lot of times in their
numbers they take out those little things that shouldn't count
in inflation numbers. You know, things like food and gas prices.
We don't count those, Oh, because they're volatile, they go
(06:38):
up and down. Yeah, because I can take food and
gas prices out of my monthly budget. So none of
those numbers count right.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Quality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around
the world.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That shouldn't be our standard. Well, other nations wouldn't do
as good as that should not be our standard. But
you are right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Prices in particular for groceries are still too high. The
American people know what I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And whose fault is that. Whereas just like ignoring, you've
been the president or you've been part of the president's
administration for the last three and a half years while
this has been going on. Also in the last five years,
you had some opinions then you don't seem to have.
(07:24):
Now we'll get into that after a Husker Buzz. Extra
is Sean Callahan here in just a few minutes, Scott
Gohees where you know It, News Radio eleven ten kfab
Dana Bash on CNN interviewed Vice President Harris and tried.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Energy is a big one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal,
and in twenty nineteen you said, quote, there's no question
I'm in favor of banning fracking. Cracking, as you know,
is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must win
state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Do you still want to ban fracking.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, And I made that clear on the debate stage
in twenty twenty that I would not banfracking. As vice president,
I did not banfracking. As president, I will not banfracking.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But in twenty nineteen, I believe in a town hall
you said you were asked, would you commit to implementing
a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And you said, there's no question in favor of banning fracking.
So yes. So it changed in that campaign in twenty twenty.
I made very clear where I stand.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We are in twenty twenty four, and I've not changed
that position or will I going forward.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I kept my word and I will keep my word
keep going. What made you change that position at the time, Well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Let's be clear, my values have not changed.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Is very important that we take seriously what we must
do to guard against what is a clear crisis in
terms of the climate, and to do that, we can
do what we have accomplished thus far, the inflation reductions,
what we have done to invest, by my calculation, over
probably a trillion dollars over the next ten years investing
(09:07):
in a clean energy economy. What we've already done, creating
over three hundred thousand new clean energy jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, there's a lot to digest right there. First of all,
we've invested trillion dollars and we created all that. That's
not what government is supposed to do. That is not
a function of government. Government is not supposed to pick
winners and losers when it comes to anything from clean
energy jobs to energy exploration, to grocery prices, to student
(09:40):
loans to insurance. These are not functions of government. We've
made them functions of government because we treat these politicians
like game show hosts. Who's going to get elected and
give me the most stuff? Hey wink, Martin Dale, what
do you got for us? Well, over here, we got
an opportunity for you to not pay back your student loans. Ooh,
I like this south to that one dollar Bob. You
(10:02):
know this is not a game show. And then she said,
my values have not changed, but I'm not going to
do those things that my supporters on the very progressive
left expect me to do that I told him I
would do, and then said I'm not going to do
and I've been very clear on that, but you said
you'd do it. Well, my values haven't changed. So my
value is we should ban fracking. But it's politically unpopular
(10:25):
for me to ban fracking. So I'm not going to
ban fracking because I won't get elected in Pennsylvania because
of Pennsylvania if I ban fracking. Oh, clear as day.
Thank you. Scott Voyes, Mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
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