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Daily Mail
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Sonny Hostin shares fresh insights from Kamala Harris interview
By Sonny Hostin said she feels 'terrible' that she 'took down the Democratic Party' by asking Kamala Harris to name what she would have done different to Joe Biden in the White House. Harris infamously told the liberal gabfest that there was nothing she would change from how her boss governed. 'There is not a thing that comes to mind,' Harris said. Harris justified her reason for keeping to Biden's record by noting: 'I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.' Speaking to the show's producer Brian Teta on its 'Behind the Table' podcast, Hostin claimed she was right to ask the question but hated the impact it had on the election. Teta asked if she expected it to become a viral moment, to which Hostin answered: 'I knew it instantly when she answered it.' The left-leaning host admitted she desperately flailed to try and save Harris with another question on the subject. 'Which is why I asked the follow-up question, 'is there one thing?' Because I knew, I could see the soundbite and I knew what was going to happen, but I thought it was a really fair question and I thought it was a question that she would expect.' Hostin, who was openly rooting for Harris, felt even worse when she learned the anecdote ended up in Jake Tapper's bombshell book about the cover-up of Biden's senility. 'And now Jake Tapper wrote it in his book? I feel terrible.' Hostin refused to say it cost Harris the election but Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of the show's conservative panelists, disagreed. 'The Trump campaign put so much ad money behind that specific clip and what they were trying to do is tie her to Biden's unfavorabilities, but more than that, just simply the right-track, wrong-track of the election… They used it to say, Well, she's not going to do anything different,' Griffin said. Appearing on the popular daytime show just a month before the elections during her truncated campaign, Harris was unsteady in several of her media appearances. Her comments were made to the hosts of ABC's The View when she appeared on the show in October for a softball interview where she was fawned over. Whoopi Goldberg introduced her as 'the next president of the United States.' The Democratic nominee was just as friendly, posing for pictures with the hosts during commercial breaks. On the view, her advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored when Harris got asked if there was anything she would have done differently than Biden. 'What the hell was that?' Cutter said she thought at the time. 'That's not what we practiced.' Her response was also chronicled in the new book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, by reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. It also tells of other key moments, like a 'cringe' video clip where Harris had to feign surprise at picking up the endorsement of Barack and Michelle Obama. Failing to identify a single issue where she parted with Biden yoked her even more to the president, who had bowed out after his debate disaster but was also unpopular in opinion polls going back years. It denied her the opportunity to hold up a policy difference that might define her as something different beyond being a younger alternative. 'It provided the money shot' for negative ads that would tie link Harris and Biden. 'And it was her own bad moment. When she gave us the gift of the View interview, we were able to anchor her to the Biden administration in her own words, which is something we were trying to do anyway,' a Trump advisor told the authors. Donald Trump, Jr. was even more forceful, as reported at the time. 'And just like that, Kamala's entire bull[expletive] campaign about being a 'change agent' collapses. You can't call yourself a change agent when you not only agree with every single disaster Joe Biden is responsible for, but you brag about being involved in all those decisions!,' he wrote on X. Aides had given Harris a list of items that made her 'proud of her work with Biden.'
Daily Mail
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
The View host reveals wild new details about Kamala Harris interview that 'took down the Democratic Party'
Sonny Hostin said she feels 'terrible' that she 'took down the Democratic Party ' by asking Kamala Harris to name what she would have done different to Joe Biden in the White House. Harris infamously told the liberal gabfest that there was nothing she would change from how her boss governed. 'There is not a thing that comes to mind,' Harris said. Harris justified her reason for keeping to Biden's record by noting: 'I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.' Speaking to the show's producer Brian Teta on its 'Behind the Table' podcast, Hostin claimed she was right to ask the question but hated the impact it had on the election. Teta asked if she expected it to become a viral moment, to which Hostin answered: 'I knew it instantly when she answered it.' The left-leaning host admitted she desperately flailed to try and save Harris with another question on the subject. 'Which is why I asked the follow-up question, 'is there one thing?' Because I knew, I could see the soundbite and I knew what was going to happen, but I thought it was a really fair question and I thought it was a question that she would expect.' Hostin, who was openly rooting for Harris, felt even worse when she learned the anecdote ended up in Jake Tapper's bombshell book about the cover-up of Biden's senility. 'And now Jake Tapper wrote it in his book? I feel terrible.' Hostin refused to say it cost Harris the election but Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of the show's conservative panelists, disagreed. 'The Trump campaign put so much ad money behind that specific clip and what they were trying to do is tie her to Biden's unfavorabilities, but more than that, just simply the right-track, wrong-track of the election… They used it to say, 'Well, she's not going to do anything different,'' Griffin said. Appearing on the popular daytime show just a month before the elections during her truncated campaign, Harris was unsteady in several of her media appearances. Her comments were made to the hosts of ABC's The View when she appeared on the show in October for a softball interview where she was fawned over. Whoopi Goldberg introduced her as 'the next president of the United States.' The Democratic nominee was just as friendly, posing for pictures with the hosts during commercial breaks. On the view, her advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored when Harris got asked if there was anything she would have done differently than Biden. 'What the hell was that?' Cutter said she thought at the time. 'That's not what we practiced.' Her response was also chronicled in the new book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, by reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. It also tells of other key moments, like a 'cringe' video clip where Harris had to feign surprise at picking up the endorsement of Barack and Michelle Obama. Failing to identify a single issue where she parted with Biden yoked her even more to the president, who had bowed out after his debate disaster but was also unpopular in opinion polls going back years. It denied her the opportunity to hold up a policy difference that might define her as something different beyond being a younger alternative. 'It provided the money shot' for negative ads that would tie link Harris and Biden. 'And it was her own bad moment.' 'When she gave us the gift of the View interview, we were able to anchor her to the Biden administration in her own words, which is something we were trying to do anyway,' a Trump advisor told the authors. Donald Trump, Jr. was even more forceful, as reported at the time. 'And just like that, Kamala's entire bull**** campaign about being a 'change agent' collapses. You can't call yourself a change agent when you not only agree with every single disaster Joe Biden is responsible for, but you brag about being involved in all those decisions!,' he wrote on X. Aides had given Harris a list of items that made her 'proud of her work with Biden.' It came as party leaders were in a bind, feeling the need to build up Biden for having relinquish power, even while racing to build up Harris's bio for her run on her own after a brief and unsuccessful primary campaign in 2020.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Senate hearing on who was 'really running' Biden White House kicks off Wednesday
Senate Republicans are gearing up for the first full-scale congressional hearing into the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. will co-chair a Senate Judiciary Hearing Wednesday that delves into "what exactly went on" during Biden's term and why the constitutional power to remove him from office wasn't triggered. Cornyn said on the Senate floor that one of the main goals of the hearing was to shine a light on what happened behind the scenes during landmark moments of Biden's presidency, "from the Biden border crisis to the disastrous results from the withdrawal in Afghanistan. "And it's now clear that for many months — no one knows exactly how long — the president was simply not up to the task," he said. "Whoever happened to be making those decisions and carrying out the duties of the Office of President was not somebody who was authorized by the Constitution or by a vote of the American people." Cornyn and Schmitt's hearing, first announced late last month, will be held after the release of the book "Original Sin" by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which alleges the Biden White House was trying to control the narrative about the former president's health and that his allies worked to cover up his decline. The hearing, "Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution," features a trio of witnesses called by the Senate Republican duo who served during President Donald Trump's first term and during the Reagan and Bush years. Among the Republicans' witnesses are Theodore Wold, who formerly served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Trump administration; Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary and communications director; and John Harrison, a legal scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law who previously served during former the Reagan and Bush administrations. Wold and Harrison told Fox News Digital their testimony would focus on Biden's alleged usage of an autopen, a device that is used to automatically mimic a person's signature, typically used signing of numerous documents, and how the usage of the device may have acted as a smokescreen to prevent the triggering of the 25th Amendment. Biden has rejected assertions by lawmakers and Trump that he habitually used an autopen. Trump recently ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into whether the former president's aides "abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive decline." Spicer's testimony will focus on the media's treatment of Trump compared to Biden during their respective first terms and how some media outlets were allegedly "silent" when it came to signs of the ex-president's decline. Democrats on the panel did not call any witnesses. The top-ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., contended that Cornyn and Schmitt were wasting the panel's time with their endeavor. "We have so many important topics to consider, and this is a totally political undertaking by several of my colleagues," he said. "It is a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee's time."
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The Independent
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Jake Tapper gets scolded by C-SPAN caller over Biden book: ‘I really don't like you'
Jake Tapper found himself on the receiving end of a C-SPAN caller's fury on Tuesday, which saw the CNN anchor being scolded by the Virginia woman and apparent Joe Biden fan for 'doing a disservice to Joe' and the 'American people' over his book about the former president's cognitive decline. Over the past few weeks, Tapper has been on a relentless media tour promoting Original Sin, the bestseller he co-wrote with Axios correspondent Alex Thompson that alleges a White House 'cover-up' of Biden's declining mental and physical health during the second half of his presidency. Throughout his media appearances hawking the book, Tapper has claimed that the alleged cover-up of Biden's diminishment could be 'worse than Watergate,' Biden's 'sleazy' son Hunter acted like the 'chief of staff of the family,' and that 'conservative media was right' about the former president's age-related issues. The book, meanwhile, has already been cited by House Republicans to justify and expand an investigation 'into the cover-up of President Joe Biden's mental decline,' which also includes Donald Trump's allegations that Biden aides abused the power of the presidency by using an autopen to sign pardons. Trump, meanwhile, has admitted he has no proof to back up his claims. Appearing on C-SPAN's call-in show Washington Journal on Tuesday to discuss Original Sin, Tapper was soon confronted by a woman named Sarah from Virginia, who let the CNN star know in no uncertain terms that she didn't appreciate his reporting on Biden. 'I watch you on CNN,' she started. 'But right now, I really don't like you. I think you're doing a disservice to Joe and also to the American people.' Sarah then wanted to know when Tapper was going to turn his attention towards the current occupant of the White House, all while demanding that the 79-year-old Trump face the same amount of scrutiny over his age as Biden. 'When are you going to examine what is going on with Trump? Joe Biden conducted himself for four years taking care of the United States. He took meetings. He went overseas. He negotiated with other leaders,' she said. 'This president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him,' the caller continued. 'We will never get a straight answer on his medical examinations, what medication he is on, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance that… I'm very disappointed in you.' While Tapper sat stoically, Sarah let him know that while she used to 'enjoy watching' his CNN show The Lead, those days were over. 'And I think right now you ought to start writing another book examining Trump and how erratic [he is] and what he is doing, calling out the National Guard, the Marines, and everybody<' she concluded. 'When has a president ever done that? It's pure erratic!' Tapper, while making sure C-SPAN viewers knew when his show aired during the weekdays, defended his coverage of the current president while suggesting that his reporting on Biden could be applied to Trump and others down the line. 'Sarah, as you know from watching my show on CNN, we cover President Trump every day for two hours — every day from 5 to 7 Eastern — and we cover all the things you talk about, in terms of the current president's behavior,' he stated. 'We have covered the times that he has confused Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley.' Saying that he thinks 'some of the questions about President Trump's behavior have more to do with personality than with cognitive decline,' Tapper noted that 'whatever lessons we've learned from covering President Biden, we would apply to any politician' now or in the future. 'So I'm sorry if I'm disappointing you by covering President Biden,' he declared. 'But journalists, we are supposed to cover stories that we think the American people have a right to know, that we think will enhance their understanding of how the country is run.' After telling Sarah that he and Thompson 'are proud of this book,' he reminded her that if she tuned into CNN 'later today, tomorrow, the next day, you'll see we're continuing to focus on' current events.
CNN
7 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Scott Jennings responds to Tucker Carlson's ‘drop Israel' comment
CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he disagrees with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who wrote in his newsletter that the US should 'drop Israel.'
