Fox News visitor Bret Baier summarized his Wednesday night interview with the Vice President Kamala Harristelling his colleagues that he had an instantaneous sense that Harris “was going to be tough to redirect with out me making an attempt to interrupt him.”
The interview, Harris’ first on the right-wing community since turning into the Democratic nominee, was broadcast on Special report after being filmed throughout the earlier hour. According to Baier, the interview was scheduled for five p.m., however Harris confirmed up quarter-hour late. This, he complained, was like “freezing the kicker” in soccer.
“We had been supposed to start out at 5pm. That was the time they gave us. Initially we had been purported to final 25 or half-hour. They got here in and mentioned, “Well, perhaps 20.” So it is already shrinking. And then the vp confirmed up round 5:15 p.m. We had been pushing the envelope to have the ability to flip it round by 6 p.m. That’s how it began,” Baier mentioned.
The Fox host, who allegedly interrupted Harris’ solutions a number of occasions, mentioned their first trade – about immigration – confirmed it might be “powerful.”
Harris shuts down Bret Baier whereas taking part in MAGA hits
“When we began speaking, I noticed it was going to be tough to redirect her with out me making an attempt to interrupt her,” mentioned Baier, who in contrast her expertise to interviewing former President Barack Obama years in the past. “I did it with President Obama: At one level I merely mentioned, ‘Mr. President, I do know you wish to filibuster.’ I simply did not even have the flexibility, generally, to redirect that approach. I had many extra questions.”
Baier mentioned later that towards the conclusion of the interview, he might see members of Harris’ workforce signaling that his time was up.
“I’m speaking prefer it’s 4 individuals waving their fingers like that is going to finish,” he mentioned, including that Harris may benefit from doing related interviews sooner or later.
“Maybe he ought to do extra of these items,” he mentioned.
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