Speaker 1: It's nice Eyes.
Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3: Now. One of the disadvantages of doing a talk program
Speaker 3: from eight to midnight is that it's difficult to watch
Speaker 3: what's going on on television during my program that I'm
Speaker 3: doing from a to midnight. And tonight the first interview
Speaker 3: in thirty five days. We are well one third of
Speaker 3: the way to November fifth, from the time that Joe
Speaker 3: Biden dropped out as the Democratic nominee. So tonight, finally
Speaker 3: there was a so called interview on CNN. Now, I
Speaker 3: have not watched the entire interview, so I need to
Speaker 3: rely upon my listeners a little bit. I will tell
Speaker 3: you that during the news breaks, I was able to
Speaker 3: been about a little bit of the interview. I'm also
Speaker 3: reading and have been able to read some of the
Speaker 3: reports of what happened during the interview. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: the Washington Post, I'm also looking at USA today, and
Speaker 3: I'm relying upon all of you. If you watch the interview,
Speaker 3: love to hear from you. Was it a tough interview?
Speaker 3: What I saw, it wasn't very tough. Okay, it was
Speaker 3: like little softball questions from Dana Bash. But that's we'll see.
Speaker 3: If I missed them tough, tough questions, Let's bring it on.
Speaker 3: But my question was what question. I mean, in the
Speaker 3: unlikely event that Vice President Harris and governor the governor
Speaker 3: of Minnesota would be willing to sit down and give
Speaker 3: you the opportunity to ask them questions, I mean not
Speaker 3: so much. Governor Walts. I mean, he's the vice presidential candidate.
Speaker 3: He gets sort of a free ride. But the courage
Speaker 3: vice president Vice President Harris has always been the last
Speaker 3: person in the room with Joe Biden, and it seems
Speaker 3: as if she's changed some of her positions, kind of
Speaker 3: some of her important positions. So if you watch the interview,
Speaker 3: was it tough? Was it hard hitting? If you want
Speaker 3: to give me your reporter, I appreciate it. The interview,
Speaker 3: the question and answer portion of the CNN interview, which
Speaker 3: I think was on for an hour. According to national
Speaker 3: political reporter of the Washington Post, May Reston, I wonder
Speaker 3: if she's a descendant of Scottie Reston of the New
Speaker 3: York Times. The question and answer portion of the Harris
Speaker 3: Walls see in an interview clocked in at just over
Speaker 3: twenty seven minutes, not including any of the introductory remarks
Speaker 3: from Dana Bash during the interview. I guess President Trump
Speaker 3: posted on truth sanchal as you would expect boring. And
Speaker 3: then one of the tough questions that were asked by
Speaker 3: Dana Bash may rest in reports is though Harris said
Speaker 3: she's the best person to do this job at this
Speaker 3: moment for all Americans, regardless of race and gender. She
Speaker 3: did say she had an emotional response to a photograph
Speaker 3: of one of her grand nieces watching her speech from
Speaker 3: the convention for the photograph was shot me from behind,
Speaker 3: highlighting the youth, race, and gender of her grand niece
Speaker 3: as she watched Harris, potentially making history as she delivered
Speaker 3: the speech accepting the Democratic nomination. Harris is quoted as saying,
Speaker 3: I did see that photograph and I was deeply touched
Speaker 3: by it. It's the back of her head, her two
Speaker 3: little braids, and then I'm in the forefront, in the
Speaker 3: front of the photograph, obviously speaking, and it's very humbling.
Speaker 3: It's very humbling in many ways. A tough question from
Speaker 3: Dana Bash. According to Joey Garrison, who is a reporter
Speaker 3: for USA Today, he doesn't say what he is, whether
Speaker 3: he's but he's a reporter for USA Today. Said, Vice
Speaker 3: President Kamala Harris defended her evolving positions. By the way,
Speaker 3: these are no longer referred to as flip flops as
Speaker 3: they were for Mitt Romney back in twenty twelve. The
Speaker 3: headline says, Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris addresses flip flopping takes
Speaker 3: on Trump in seeing an interview with Walls. Well, the
Speaker 3: CN interview really wasn't with Walls. The CNN interview was
Speaker 3: with Dana Bash of CNN. But that's okay. So Vice
Speaker 3: President Kamala Harris defended her evolving positions. That's a word. See,
Speaker 3: semantics are very important in America these days. It is
Speaker 3: not a flip flop. If it is if it is
Speaker 3: done by a democratic nominee, it is an evolving position.
Speaker 3: An evolving position is something that people have thought long
Speaker 3: and hard about and they have decided to basically polish
Speaker 3: up the position. It's evolving. It's something that is evolving.
Speaker 3: You evolve into something greater, you never evolve into something less.
Speaker 3: But it defended her evolving positions, not her flip flops
Speaker 3: on Board of Security and Climate Policy on Thursday, while
Speaker 3: promising to appoint a Republican to her cabinet. I did
Speaker 3: not realize Liz Cheney might be available for the Democratic candidate,
Speaker 3: but either she or Adam Kinsinger, I'm sure would be
Speaker 3: more than happy to step up and accept that, promising
Speaker 3: to a point a Republican to her cabinet. During her
Speaker 3: first sit down interview since becoming the Democratics, the Democrats
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four presidential candidate, I referred to that as
Speaker 3: the immaculate nomination. It's miraculous when you think about it.
Speaker 3: Never campaigned for the position, never secured a single vote,
Speaker 3: never had a campaign head quarters anywhere. I don't think
Speaker 3: there was ever a Harris for President bumper strip printed before,
Speaker 3: which then wouldn't have been. But it worked out that
Speaker 3: Joe Biden basically threw up on his shoes when he
Speaker 3: had his debate with Donald trumpet late June, and the
Speaker 3: Democrats concluded at this point, oh, this dog won't hunt,
Speaker 3: this horse won't ride, And then there was a pressure
Speaker 3: for the president, the current president, Joe Biden stepped down,
Speaker 3: and of course the beneficiary of that would be the
Speaker 3: vice president, Vice President Harris. The interview was seeing an
Speaker 3: anchored this is now coding and Joey Garrison of USA today,
Speaker 3: I would see in an anchored Dana Bush was recorded
Speaker 3: in the afternoon, So this was not a live interview. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what I just learned there. Because it's not a
Speaker 3: live interview edits can be done. And I don't think
Speaker 3: that the Democratic Party is concerned that CNN would edit
Speaker 3: anything out of context. But if there was a flub,
Speaker 3: it gave them the opportunity to edit it. So it
Speaker 3: was not a live interview. Was recorded in the afternoon
Speaker 3: during a campaign stop in Savannah, Georgia, amid sustained criticism.
Speaker 3: It's not just criticism, but it's sustained criticism from Republican
Speaker 3: rival Donald Trump's campaign over Harris waiting nearly five weeks
Speaker 3: to take formal interview questions from a reporter. I'm sure
Speaker 3: they were tough questions. That longwait made for higher stakes
Speaker 3: than a typical candidate's conversation with a prominent journalist, particularly
Speaker 3: with election day now sixty seven days away. Oh, this
Speaker 3: is a countdown. Harris, who was surged in the polls
Speaker 3: entering the twenty twenty four White House race, still has
Speaker 3: not held the press conference since she took the torch
Speaker 3: as the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out
Speaker 3: of the race on July twenty first. Yep, Joe Biden
Speaker 3: just decided I'm done. I've had it. He dropped out.
Speaker 3: He was not pushed out. There was no coupe here.
Speaker 3: This was just sort of a natural evolution, like Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris's evolving positions. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Waltz joined
Speaker 3: Harris for the interview, a move that it attracted more
Speaker 3: scrutiny from Republicans. Although a joint interview with a running
Speaker 3: made follows precedent, Republicans critics argued that her first interview
Speaker 3: as a candidate should have been solo. Those darn Republicans, darn, darn,
Speaker 3: darned Republicans. Okay, if you watch the interview, if you
Speaker 3: have anything to comment about the interview, love to hear
Speaker 3: from you. Six seven thirty So what I watched It
Speaker 3: seemed to be a softball question. Now again, I can
Speaker 3: only watch during the break, so I may have seen
Speaker 3: it out of context. I give you that possibility. We'll
Speaker 3: get to some of the issues that she dealt with,
Speaker 3: and we will take a break. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty six nine three one ten thirty. This presidential
Speaker 3: campaign is going by day after day. Pretty soon it's
Speaker 3: going to be time to vote. Well it, we'll be
Speaker 3: time to early vote even sooner than that. So at
Speaker 3: this point, obviously the afterglow of the Democratic National Convention continues.
Speaker 3: Certainly in the CNN interview tonight, I don't think there
Speaker 3: was a tough question asked if you want to contradict
Speaker 3: me on that, and you saw a tough question. Loved
Speaker 3: the chat about it back on Night'side after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the phone calls. Let's see
Speaker 3: what Dot in Medford says. She's a pretty good observer
Speaker 3: of politics, DoD Did you get a chance to watch
Speaker 3: the interview?
Speaker 4: I did, Dan, I had it on kind of mute
Speaker 4: until they did the talking and then I put it up.
Speaker 4: But evolution is a wonderful thing, Yes, wonderful. She isn't
Speaker 4: involved on every single point, I mean, fracking even you
Speaker 4: know everything. She's all for everything that she was always against.
Speaker 4: And it was a very frivolous interview. Dana Bash was
Speaker 4: just kind of skirting the issues. And if she asked
Speaker 4: a question, especially of him. Uh, he just ignored the
Speaker 4: question and went on to Tutor's horn. And that's all.
Speaker 4: It was about tooting their hands. It was really boring.
Speaker 3: So was there a tough question that at any point that.
Speaker 4: I didn't see any tough question. No. No, she was
Speaker 4: just kissing up to them with her smile. You know,
Speaker 4: I mean, so obvious they're in the pocket.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I think I think that there was
Speaker 3: one question which was asked, and there was a very
Speaker 3: long answer that I watched, was how did President Biden
Speaker 3: tell you that he was Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. It was on a Sunday and her
Speaker 4: family was the I.
Speaker 3: Think they were having Were they having big breakfast?
Speaker 5: They were they and they.
Speaker 3: Were doing I think they were doing puzzles, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken.
Speaker 4: Oh they did, they did, and then the kids wanted
Speaker 4: more bacon, so she she got the piano and she
Speaker 4: cooked more bacon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a what of?
Speaker 4: I mean, really, you.
Speaker 3: Don't believe that that really happened. Such a cynic. God,
Speaker 3: I can't believe it.
Speaker 4: I know it. It's just a joke.
Speaker 3: So did they say what sort of puzzles were they doing?
Speaker 3: What were they doing?
Speaker 4: Just mentioned no no.
Speaker 3: I wish that she that Dana had pressed her on
Speaker 3: the details, because on a Sunday it could have been
Speaker 3: a crossword puzzle, or maybe they were doing a puzzle
Speaker 3: of the map of the United States and with the
Speaker 3: children finding all the different states and where they're located.
Speaker 4: That's I mean, all these grand nieces, they're all coming
Speaker 4: out of the woodwork, these cute little kids, and they
Speaker 4: just serve in ar of their irante. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Oh it's just it's just sickening, sicking. Well, but anyway,
Speaker 4: that's my impression, dear well.
Speaker 3: As always, you don't hold back, and that's what I
Speaker 3: like you. You're a good critic. I thought i'd be
Speaker 3: honest with it when I was listening, and what happened
Speaker 3: is during the break, I can flip the TV on,
Speaker 3: bring the audio up, and I thought to myself, we're
Speaker 3: talking about pancakes on Sunday morning, and I think of
Speaker 3: the context, and we thought about that was the morning
Speaker 3: that President Biden called to tell her that he was
Speaker 3: going not to run, and her first question was, but
Speaker 3: are you sure?
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 4: And did he also mention I got the boot? Nancy
Speaker 4: Pelosi et cetera they're all on my back.
Speaker 3: No, it was his decision. It was his decision. There
Speaker 3: was no effort to force it, Lovely, it was a
Speaker 3: spontaneous decision that he woke up. He had said that
Speaker 3: under no circumstances would he leave unless unless God told him,
Speaker 3: Almighty God, don't just what No.
Speaker 4: Of any God. There was no mention of any God.
Speaker 4: All they talked about was evolution and pancakes. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and pet cakes and bacon.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did she say in the interview did Dana did
Speaker 3: Dana presser at all on were they blueberry pancakes? Or
Speaker 3: were they?
Speaker 4: I think even Dana was a little amused.
Speaker 2: By the whole thing.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is that that would have been that
Speaker 3: probably would have been the toughest question. You know, she
Speaker 3: could have phrased it this way, Madame Vice President. I
Speaker 3: know that you had a busy few weeks, but do
Speaker 3: I know the American people are concerned and are wondering
Speaker 3: what sort of pancakes did you serve that day? Were
Speaker 3: they chocolate chips or were they blueberry pancakes?
Speaker 4: I think everybody, I think everybody wants to.
Speaker 3: Know, yes, exactly. Thought it's a pressing question that that
Speaker 3: Dana started to drill down on and yet she didn't
Speaker 3: have the follow up question.
Speaker 4: You know, it was about the most serious thing that
Speaker 4: was discussed.
Speaker 3: Pancakes.
Speaker 4: Okay, banks, breakfast, Yeah, okay, Dan.
Speaker 3: All right, good nuys Okay, pancakes. Well, that's good to
Speaker 3: know that on a Saturday, on a Sunday morning, pancakes.
Speaker 3: I wonder if she'd gone to church that morning. I
Speaker 3: hope that Dana asked that question, or if they at
Speaker 3: least had prayed Ken in Florida. Ken. It sounds to
Speaker 3: me like Dana really put her feet to the fire tonight.
Speaker 6: Oh Dan, you know what, it's past my bedtime. I
Speaker 6: didn't think i'd call you toime. I you tell me
Speaker 6: stop watching Fox News and watch now CNN. The other perspective,
Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you a DVR itt and uh,
Speaker 6: I wasn't getting ready for bed. I feel nauseous, and
Speaker 6: it was Can I make a suggestion? It was pathetic.
Speaker 3: Can I make a suggestion, if you feel nauseous, put
Speaker 3: some pancakes. Make some pancakes.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, Yes, the big question at night was pancakes.
Speaker 6: You know, Dan, I'm gonna make a confession. I love
Speaker 6: blueberry pancakes and I will put extra butter until my
Speaker 6: new diet starts on Monday Sunday. And it was you
Speaker 6: tell me, Ken, you know, don't just watch you know
Speaker 6: Fox News. I had trouble finding CNN, but I did
Speaker 6: DVR it.
Speaker 3: Well, remember you're in Florida, so I can understand that. No.
Speaker 3: The reason I think it's important for everyone to watch
Speaker 3: both Fox and the CNN, and to watch CNN is
Speaker 3: to see how the stories are treated differently. Now, Dana
Speaker 3: Bash apparently tonight subjected the Vice president to a withering interview.
Speaker 6: Oh it was it was what's the term? It was intensive?
Speaker 6: You know, uh, you know, you know what struck me.
Speaker 6: She actually was apologetic when she was asking the questions.
Speaker 6: She she shrunk and said, I'm sorry to ask this question,
Speaker 6: but you know what.
Speaker 3: Well, that's she didn't have the courage to say, Madame
Speaker 3: Vice President, I apologize in asking you, but can you
Speaker 3: share with us the American people whether or not on
Speaker 3: those pancakes they were blueberries or chocolate chips.
Speaker 6: Yeah, nailed it. I mean we're making we're making jokes
Speaker 6: of it, but Dan, on serious issues. It was exactly
Speaker 6: that tone. And you'll watch it. You know tonight after midnight,
Speaker 6: it was pathetic.
Speaker 3: Will it help me go to sleep? Can? That's my question? No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: No? Uh me?
Speaker 3: When I finished generally, when I finished my program, I'm
Speaker 3: a little psyched up, you know, because the the program
Speaker 3: is over and the adrenaline is still flowing, and I
Speaker 3: just sometimes need something to kind.
Speaker 6: Of do you like to be amused before you go
Speaker 6: to sleep?
Speaker 3: Mildly?
Speaker 6: Mildly, I'll admit I was. I was tipping a little
Speaker 6: bit of Jamison before my four month hiatus from that.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's for medicinal purposes. I understand that you
Speaker 3: need not have to.
Speaker 6: It was awful, you know, you know, it's even worse.
Speaker 6: They did the CNN panel after all.
Speaker 3: Oh, I saw the panel. They looked very pleased with
Speaker 3: how it went.
Speaker 6: Oh, they were all thrilled. They were thrilled. She can
Speaker 6: because Kamala can do no wrong. You know, she cannot
Speaker 6: answer the real hard questions and I can now wait
Speaker 6: and again, we've gone over this. I won't talk much longer.
Speaker 6: We've gone over this many many times. Donald Trump is
Speaker 6: a jerk. I don't like the man. I like his
Speaker 6: policies and his leadership. She cannot lead our country. It's very,
Speaker 6: very obvious to see that. Listen to her talk. She
Speaker 6: had to have her vice president to what did somebody
Speaker 6: call it her vice friend? Support person or support or.
Speaker 3: Comfort a comfort blanket? Right?
Speaker 6: Comfort person? Can she cannot lead our country? And I
Speaker 6: think I'm gonna say I'll close with this because I
Speaker 6: want to go to that and you're done talking to me.
Speaker 6: I think that Trump, like you did in twenty sixteen
Speaker 6: with Hillary his polls. People don't eat polls under whatever.
Speaker 3: They're undervalue, underestimate.
Speaker 6: So Dan, I just it was horrible and gee, she
Speaker 6: did it. She did it, She.
Speaker 3: Did her She subjected herself to scrutiny.
Speaker 6: To you know, and tough. You know, Dan, we all
Speaker 6: struggle with those tough breakfast questions. I I love eggs
Speaker 6: over reads, do with you know, cornbef hash, you know.
Speaker 6: But if you want to question me to our home
Speaker 6: fries or we toast, you know, then we get into
Speaker 6: a totally different, you know, topic when.
Speaker 3: You're talking about when you're talking with the vice president
Speaker 3: of the United States, important issues facing the world. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I don't know if there was any question about Ukraine
Speaker 3: or the Middle East foreign.
Speaker 6: There's no foreign policy questions.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, that's that's that's good. That way she would
Speaker 3: not make a mistake. That's that's I think important. However,
Speaker 3: for Dana Bash not to drill down to find out
Speaker 3: what type of pancakes, I can't believe that on a
Speaker 3: Sunday morning with her with her nieces and nephews there
Speaker 3: and other of her and I.
Speaker 6: Think that's going to be the top headline and CNN
Speaker 6: tomorrow it's going to be the pancake what do we
Speaker 6: call it? Pancake Gate? You know your right? He's a
Speaker 6: good Dorchester guy and from my alma mana universe Fort Island.
Speaker 3: Right, I didn't really did you grew up in Dorchester? Yes,
Speaker 3: she did, as far as natives of Dorchester would say, Dochester.
Speaker 6: Good Dorchester University or Island. I graduated maybe year ahead
Speaker 6: of me. What's his name, Doug M. Hall? Well, no, no,
Speaker 6: I'm drawing a blank, the gray hair. He's great politically,
Speaker 6: does all the maps. But he's a h John King,
Speaker 6: John King, John King. You're the guy I didn't realize.
Speaker 6: So he's got like me?
Speaker 3: All right? Okay, yeah, well he could again that could
Speaker 3: be the subject of the next interview, and they could
Speaker 3: they could, They could do that for an hour just
Speaker 3: to talk about you know, what are you gonna have
Speaker 3: with pancakes? Now, I will remind you Ken, you are
Speaker 3: allowed to call a second time tomorrow night, because tomorrow
Speaker 3: night we will do our final, not our final, but
Speaker 3: our presidential poll. We always do it at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 6: On the last, so I had to call after eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I appreciate that I may this time.
Speaker 3: No, I understand that we'll just you know, take it
Speaker 3: easy in the jamison and then you'll still be with us.
Speaker 6: Well, I have two more nights of James and the
Speaker 6: four weeks off, So Dan, I appreciate you give me
Speaker 6: extra time. I probably not many callers, so no, no, no.
Speaker 3: You're analysis analysis was spot on and again you're I.
Speaker 3: I view you as an undecided voter, and I wanted
Speaker 3: to see if you were.
Speaker 6: Swaying by wait wait it again.
Speaker 3: This performance tonight?
Speaker 6: Oh oh, you watch it and you tell me if
Speaker 6: I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: It was all right?
Speaker 6: I want to I want to delete my CNN app
Speaker 6: on my phone or it was awful.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let's see let's see what others said. Let's
Speaker 3: Let's see what others say, I gotta go do it.
Speaker 3: Talk soon maybe tomorrow night after eleven, talk to you later, Paul.
Speaker 6: Is it the breakfast poll.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's the it's the eleven o'clock Night Side
Speaker 3: twentieth Hour Presidential Paul. We do it on the last
Speaker 3: Friday night, but done it in March, April, May, June, July,
Speaker 3: and tomorrow we do in the.
Speaker 6: Last part breakfast pull what the vice president would select. Okay,
Speaker 6: well we could turn out eleven night. Now you got
Speaker 6: before I call?
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, man, talk to you all right, Love you too. Man,
Speaker 3: all right, were gonna take quick break. I got a
Speaker 3: bunch of open lines here, which is crazy. Okay. Some
Speaker 3: of you must have watched CNN the the SmackDown that
Speaker 3: Dane and Bash put on Vice President Harris asking her
Speaker 3: about what she had for breakfast on the morning that
Speaker 3: she found out that she would be the nominee of
Speaker 3: This was an important moment in the Immaculate Confirmation proceedings.
Speaker 3: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
Speaker 3: one ten thirty. Let's light it up. I want to
Speaker 3: hear from you. And if you watched it and you
Speaker 3: think that the vice president did a great job. I'd
Speaker 3: love to hear from you. I did not watch it
Speaker 3: in this entirety, but the portions that I watched during
Speaker 3: our breaks, it didn't seem like the hardest, the toughest
Speaker 3: interview that a candidate. Would seem very reverential. Almost. If
Speaker 3: you could look up the word obsequious in the dictionary,
Speaker 3: that might apply as well. Maybe you have a different
Speaker 3: adjective you'd like to apply. We'll be back on Night
Speaker 3: Side right after.
Speaker 2: This with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Well, we go to Laurie in Idaho. See if Laurie
Speaker 3: has a play by play report of the hard hitting
Speaker 3: Dana Bash interview tonight with the Vice President of the
Speaker 3: United States. Laurie, did you get a chance to watch
Speaker 3: ce An end tonight? Oh?
Speaker 5: Hell no, that would be allen hour of my life.
Speaker 5: I could not get back.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, it would appear. I I dipped in and
Speaker 3: out of it just when there were breaks during the
Speaker 3: nine o'clock hour and I found out that it was taped.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I thought it was going to be a lie.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I knew that. I heard that it was
Speaker 5: taped ahead of time. I heard that yesterday. I think, why.
Speaker 3: Would they tape it ahead of time and not have
Speaker 3: it more spontaneous.
Speaker 5: That's a rhetorical question, right, Yes, yes, you're very sponse.
Speaker 3: Your first brought according to USA Today. Bash pressed Harris
Speaker 3: on her positions that have changed as a twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four presidential candidate compared to her time as a US
Speaker 3: Senator in California and when she ran unsuccessfully in the
Speaker 3: Democratic presidential primaries of twenty twenty. For example, Harris was
Speaker 3: a lead Senate supporter of the Green New Deal legislation,
Speaker 3: but now has distanced herself from some of its most
Speaker 3: aggressive measures. She previously said she supports a ban on
Speaker 3: fracking to extract natural gas. Oppose is such a band?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, Harris responded, And this is a very thoughtful response.
Speaker 3: I think the most important and most significant aspect of
Speaker 3: my policy perspective and decisions is my my I think
Speaker 3: grammatically she's incorrect there. She should say are my values?
Speaker 3: But let me see, I think the most important and
Speaker 3: most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions are
Speaker 3: my values? Have not changed, haristote, Bash, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3: On the border, she denied her position and changed in
Speaker 3: securing the southern border. She's always been I think, right,
Speaker 3: you know, shoulder to shoulder with Trump on the border.
Speaker 3: Has she non? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 6: JD.
Speaker 5: Vances is gonna have a ball with her. Oh my god,
Speaker 5: he's gonna be between and Trump.
Speaker 3: She said she plays to a point a Republican to
Speaker 3: her cabinet if she's elected. I want to take a
Speaker 3: guest she hasn't disclosed that. I'm I'm i mean breathless
Speaker 3: anticipation there. But who do you think it would be?
Speaker 3: Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Change, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Adam Kinsinger could be a dark.
Speaker 5: Horse possibly, Yeah, but you know, she could have another
Speaker 5: you know what, what did she call him? A transformation
Speaker 5: or whatever?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 5: Have a question for her, though.
Speaker 3: Yes, what is the question you would like to ask?
Speaker 3: Vice President?
Speaker 5: Were you using a luxury motor coach for your little
Speaker 5: ground tour through Georgia instead of a yellows school bus?
Speaker 3: She loves school buses. Everybody was using that, Yeah, everybody sort.
Speaker 5: Of a fancy motor coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I hate I'm sure Secret Service
Speaker 3: probably uh insisted. But that's a great question. I hope
Speaker 3: there will be some other questions for the vice president.
Speaker 3: When do you think she'll do her next interview.
Speaker 5: When she's forced to?
Speaker 3: No, I'm talking about a date certain here, Laurie.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's anything any such thing in her campaign.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well she's she survived a pretty tough interview
Speaker 3: from data Dana. Jake Capper and Dana Bash were actually
Speaker 3: very fair, uh in the Biden trunk debate in late June.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, I do think they were fair. I
Speaker 3: don't know that Dana was fair tonight. Not to press
Speaker 3: her on whether or not the pancakes were blueberry pancakes
Speaker 3: or chocolate shirt pancakes. Unacceptable accepted from a from a
Speaker 3: veteran journalist like that. That's a question we the American
Speaker 3: people need to know.
Speaker 5: And the saddest thing about the time of year, they
Speaker 5: couldn't have a log on the fireplace.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Oh well, Harry, Yeah, I hope you're going
Speaker 1: to call us tomorrow night in the eleven o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: because we will have our presidential poll poll night tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Night, last Friday of August. So we did it in
Speaker 3: March on the last Friday of March. Last Friday of April,
Speaker 3: last Friday of May, last Friday of June, last Friday
Speaker 3: of July. So this will be our sixth poll, and
Speaker 3: this will be the first one without our fk in
Speaker 3: there because he called us today, his name off our
Speaker 3: off our poll, so we cannot pull for our Holy kidny.
Speaker 5: Well you're bigger than I thought.
Speaker 3: Holy Kiddy. Oh. I appreciate your calls as always, Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for checking in. All right, good night,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: I want to know, it seems to me that this
Speaker 3: is when I thought people would be pretty creative tonight
Speaker 3: and they would have some questions for the vice president.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna just keep these lines going and you
Speaker 3: can join the conversation at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: four to ten thirty, or you can join the conversation
Speaker 3: at six one, seven, nine three ten thirty. Now, if
Speaker 3: your call after fifty five, I don't think you're going
Speaker 3: to get on. So if you want to get on,
Speaker 3: now is the time to call. What question? If you
Speaker 3: had been Dana Bash, would have you asked the vice
Speaker 3: president tonight? I know I would have asked what type
Speaker 3: of pancakes? Once? Once she leaked uh and made the
Speaker 3: mistake of disclosing that pancakes were being made and served
Speaker 3: when she got that call from the from the President
Speaker 3: that he was not going to be a candidate. I
Speaker 3: mean that pictured a warm family setting to me, and
Speaker 3: it showed me what the vice president is all about
Speaker 3: on the Sunday morning, cooking pancakes for her family. Just
Speaker 3: a beautiful picture in my mind. Join the conversation back
Speaker 3: on nights Side. Feel free, love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: And if there was a question that you heard Dana
Speaker 3: Bash ask, assuming you watched the CNN debate and you
Speaker 3: can remember the question and you think it was a
Speaker 3: good one or a tough one, I'd love to hear
Speaker 3: from you. We'll join the We will get more phone
Speaker 3: calls right after this quick break on Nightside. We're coming
Speaker 3: back quickly, dial quickly.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
Speaker 2: Nice Side Studios on DUMBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: One other recent change your position by the Vice president
Speaker 3: on the border. According to USA Today, Harris also denied
Speaker 3: that her position has changed in securing the southern border.
Speaker 3: After opposing the construction of a wall of the US
Speaker 3: Mexico border as a twenty twenty presidential candidate, Harris backed
Speaker 3: bipartisan border legislation pushed by the Biden administration that would
Speaker 3: have allocated unspent dollars to continue the construction of a
Speaker 3: border wall, among a host of other messures. So she's
Speaker 3: now saying that she was in favor of a border wall.
Speaker 3: News to me, Well, let's keep going here as we
Speaker 3: head towards the midnight hour. Ross is in debt. And Ross,
Speaker 3: did you have a chance to watch to see in
Speaker 3: an interview tonight?
Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3: Which is it?
Speaker 7: Well? I thought CNN kind of blew to the opportunity,
Speaker 7: you know, in what way? Well, for example, she came
Speaker 7: out last week with an economic plan. Yes, and okay,
Speaker 7: let's let's look at the teeth. Where's the teeth to this.
Speaker 7: You want to give twenty five thousand dollars for new
Speaker 7: home buyers, yep, you want to do away with college
Speaker 7: along get said, Okay, that's those are all wonderful things,
Speaker 7: but we have this little thing called her death. Said, So,
Speaker 7: I don't know why the interviewer with CNN didn't touch
Speaker 7: on things such as that, like, let's get some let's
Speaker 7: get some clarity here.
Speaker 3: Well, clarity is probably not something that the Vice president
Speaker 3: really wants to engage in At this point, I'm hoping
Speaker 3: that in the Vice president's economic plan, there might be
Speaker 3: let us say, I don't know, a half a million
Speaker 3: dollars for every American talk show host. That's That's one
Speaker 3: of the planks that I'm hoping she might. It might
Speaker 3: make me feel much more warm and fuzzy. Told her
Speaker 3: if she would just put that plank in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got I don't have a problem with her.
Speaker 7: I was hoping that the interview would pull out some clarity,
Speaker 7: like let me get to know you. You know what
Speaker 7: I mean, like we we all know Trump. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's pretty much black and white. It is what it is.
Speaker 3: It's the question about that. I'm beginning to wonder whether
Speaker 3: or not. And I know you're going to think I'm
Speaker 3: nuts when I say this, but I've said it before.
Speaker 3: I'm beginning to wonder if Trump really wants to lose
Speaker 3: this election. I just think that when.
Speaker 7: You know, tackle the Capitol again, Well.
Speaker 3: I hope not. No. But what I'm saying is, if
Speaker 3: if he were to win the election, he would have
Speaker 3: to spend the next four years governing. He would be
Speaker 3: at the end of that term eighty two if he
Speaker 3: loses the election, Okay, if he loses the election, he
Speaker 3: can always say he won, he was president for four years,
Speaker 3: and then he can say in his own mind that
Speaker 3: he was robbed twice and he can spend the rest
Speaker 3: of his life thinking of him as some sort of
Speaker 3: a victim or a martyr. I don't know. I just
Speaker 3: think it's insane when I'm hearing.
Speaker 7: I mean, the only thing I know shoes with him.
Speaker 7: Thing I know is I think she's a smart lady,
Speaker 7: a nice lady. But I'm just not getting the whole
Speaker 7: what path are you walking down? Making sense?
Speaker 3: I just well, I think I think that she's hoping
Speaker 3: and I think the Democrats are hoping that they can
Speaker 3: basically say, she's a joyful person. You saw a lot
Speaker 3: of joy at the Democratic National Convention, and if we
Speaker 3: elect her, she will not be Donald Trump and uh,
Speaker 3: and everything will be right with the world. And you know,
Speaker 3: of course, the question that I would want to ask
Speaker 3: her is where have you been the last three and
Speaker 3: a half years?
Speaker 7: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we realized that the vice presidency is not a
Speaker 3: high profile position. But remember she had the interview with
Speaker 3: the NBC anchor Lester Holt, and he asked her, and
Speaker 3: I probably He asked her if she had visited the border,
Speaker 3: and she looked at him and said, no, but I
Speaker 3: haven't been to Europe either, and then she kind of laughed.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that that interview?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do, I do, I do.
Speaker 3: And you can see that Lester Holt is a very
Speaker 3: serious journalist, was looking at her like, what is that
Speaker 3: all about. I mean no, and I haven't been to
Speaker 3: Europe either, And she could have said she's never been
Speaker 3: to the South Pole. I mean whatever, but guess what.
Speaker 7: Well, the best thing to do is go hug a
Speaker 7: tree and save a whale.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so, I'll go hug a whale
Speaker 3: and save a tree one or the other, you know. Thanks,
Speaker 3: Thanks Ross.
Speaker 7: Enjoy your long weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna not only have a long weekend, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have a week's off week off next week two,
Speaker 3: which I'm looking forward to. Thanks for Ross, very nice.
Speaker 3: Thank you man. Talk to you soon. Have a good one.
Speaker 3: All right. I can still get a couple more and
Speaker 3: if you like, If you don't, that's okay. I guess
Speaker 3: there's not a lot of excitement for the vice president.
Speaker 3: Let me go to cat and Ipswich Cat. Did you
Speaker 3: get a chance to watch Seeing End tonight?
Speaker 8: No, I didn't. I was out watching tennis and the
Speaker 8: Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Red Sox. They left their bats at home tonight.
Speaker 3: They lost to nothing.
Speaker 8: I know, what can you do? But here's my question
Speaker 8: for Yeah, Tamila Harris. My question is where and when
Speaker 8: did you exactly work for McDonald's Because I'm not buying
Speaker 8: that she worked there while she was in undergrads. I'm
Speaker 8: not buying it. I worked at McDonald's when I was
Speaker 8: in high school. I hated it, but you know, it
Speaker 8: was like something I had to do. And then I
Speaker 8: went to like a very elite college, and I was
Speaker 8: like the poor person. I found out that all not
Speaker 8: only did I work in a basketball place in high school,
Speaker 8: but all these rich kids did too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I think I think McDonald's is kind of
Speaker 3: a high school job. Now, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know if she's specified that, but you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: she did.
Speaker 8: She difically said she worked there as an undergrad, and
Speaker 8: I don't believe that at all. Okay, But the other
Speaker 8: thing I wanted to comment on you were talking about,
Speaker 8: how like see, I don't know if it was your
Speaker 8: the call that you just spoke to said that. People say, oh, well,
Speaker 8: you know, Kamala Harris is a joyful person. Like yeah, okay,
Speaker 8: well I am too. But you know, lots of us
Speaker 8: are joyful people. But that doesn't mean we're up to
Speaker 8: running the United States.
Speaker 3: No, no, no. But what I'm saying is that the message.
Speaker 3: You know, all I was saying was that the message
Speaker 3: that I watched when I did get a chance to
Speaker 3: watch the Democratic National Convention, everybody it was joyful. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's fine, they were joyful, but that doesn't that doesn't
Speaker 3: solve our problems. I mean, you know, there's some serious
Speaker 3: problems around the world, and I'd like to see policy positions.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm having some fun with this this hour tonight.
Speaker 3: And I and when I think that Dana Bash spent
Speaker 3: some time asking her and allowed her to go on
Speaker 3: about baking cooking pancakes on Sunday morning, it's absurd that,
Speaker 3: you know, data Bash was fair along with Jake Tapper
Speaker 3: during the Biden Trump debate. She was I mean, it
Speaker 3: was like she just put on a school pursuit and
Speaker 3: dove into the tank. Tonight. You know, maybe there was
Speaker 3: a tough question there. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I didn't hear any And I've spent an hour
Speaker 3: asking people who might have listened, and no one's telling
Speaker 3: me any sort of tough questions. And I think that
Speaker 3: the Harris campaign knew it. That's why they went to CNN.
Speaker 3: They certainly aren't going to go to many She's not
Speaker 3: going to do many interviews, and that one only lasted
Speaker 3: about twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but if the American.
Speaker 3: People buy that, and that's what the American people are
Speaker 3: going to vote for, well, then then the Democratic consultants
Speaker 3: have called the right, have the play that will win,
Speaker 3: have a happy, happy convention, and then and then avoid
Speaker 3: the media.
Speaker 8: You know, one thing I am enjoying that, you know,
Speaker 8: James Carabell, I love that he you know, I don't
Speaker 8: agree with him all the time, but he knows what
Speaker 8: he's talking about.
Speaker 3: All right on that point, on that point, we will.
Speaker 3: We will end the evening. Thanks, Thanks, Kat, I appreciate
Speaker 3: your call so much.
Speaker 8: Thank you, talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: All right, everybody want to thank Rob Brooks, want to
Speaker 3: thank MARIAA. My name is Dan Ray. We have spent
Speaker 3: the evening together I hope you've had a few smiles
Speaker 3: and a few laughs, and we will be back tomorrow night.
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