Katie Couric took a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris for her non-answers in numerous interviews main as much as the presidential election.
On Thursday’s installment of her podcast “Subsequent Query with Katie Couric,” the veteran broadcaster had a prolonged post-election dialog with MSNBC host and longtime Democratic spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who mentioned she thought considered one of Harris’ “higher interviews” was her Fox Information sit-down with Bret Baier.
“I all the time discover that folks do higher after they’re requested actually difficult, pointed questions. I all the time felt that manner about Hillary Clinton,” Couric mentioned. “If you’re giving them these nearly bizarre, like, amorphous softballs, it is actually laborious to type of hone your message and be succinct and say what you really want to say.”
“I additionally felt that, and once more, I feel [Harris] actually did nicely in so many areas, however I used to be annoyed by her lack of ability to actually succinctly reply questions at occasions, Jen,” Couric continued.
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Veteran journalist Katie Couric mentioned she was “annoyed” by Vice President Kamala Harris’ “lack of ability to actually succinctly reply questions.” (Getty Photos)
“Like, if she was requested about altering the Supreme Court docket at that CNN city corridor, she had a possibility to speak about ethics and what, you already know, [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and Clarence Thomas have been doing, and he or she answered, like, in a single sentence, after which went on to one thing that had nothing to do with the query,” Couric mentioned. “You recognize, individuals discover that, and it is like, ‘Reply the g-dd–n query, please!’”
She then pivoted to Harris’ now-infamous feedback on “The View” the place she was requested about what she would do otherwise from President Biden, calling it “one of the damaging issues.”
“Okay, Jen, you are an insider. Why did not Joe Biden say, ‘Hear, I do know you are going to need to separate your self from this administration. Let’s discuss areas the place you may, the place they’re respectable, and God pace,'” Couric puzzled. “As a result of it- I feel someone wrote that it was nearly as in the event that they have been extra afraid of injuring Joe Biden’s emotions than successful the election.”
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Couric known as Harris’ alternate with “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin as “one of the damaging issues” that occurred to the vice chairman’s marketing campaign. (The View / ABC)
Psaki, who served as Biden’s White Home press secretary earlier than becoming a member of MSNBC, responded by saying it was a “distinctive and painful summer season” for Biden and that there “was a fragility” about him being sidelined by the Democratic Celebration. She additionally identified that Biden was “beloved” by the get together when he stepped apart and that Harris had “navigated the politics of that in a really tough manner.”
“It appears to me, if I have been working for president, Jen, I might sit down with my mind belief, and I might be like, ‘Okay, let’s play out these questions. What am I gonna say?'” Couric mentioned.
“And I might have had a template that I might have carried round with me in each interview, and I might have reviewed them and mentioned, you already know, ‘That is what I imagine, and that is how I’ll deal with a query like that.’ Now, why did not they- it simply did not appear to be that was carried out. Am I loopy?” she puzzled.
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Couric known as out Harris for not having a “template” useful for interviews, one thing she mentioned she would have had if she ran for president. (John Lamparski/Getty Photos)
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Couric additionally knocked the vice chairman for going a number of weeks with out doing any interviews when she first emerged because the Democratic nominee, saying it was “making me loopy as a client.”
“What was that?” the previous “Right now” host requested.
“I do not know,” Psaki responded earlier than speculating that the Harris marketing campaign was prepping for the talk.
“She ought to’ve been in all places,” Couric later added.
