Sitting down with former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC personality Jen Psaki for an interview, former CBS and ABC news personality Katie Couric slammed Vice President Kamala Harris over the poor answers she gave in interviews, particularly during her disaster of an interview with Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier.
The interview, which occurred on Couric’s “Next Question with Katie Couric” podcast, was released on Thursday, November 14, and primarily focused on what happened during the election and Kamala’s media missteps. The comments Couric made on Kamala’s word salad answers came when Psaki said that, in her opinion, one of Harris’ “better interviews” was the one she did with FNC’s Bret Baier.
Couric, responding to Posaki’s take that one of the best of Kamala’s interviews was her sid-down with Bret Baier, noted that candidates can do better when given real questions rather than softballs, as those make it easier to describe what they really think. She said, “I always find that people do better when they’re asked really challenging, pointed questions.”
Continuing on that same point, Couric noted that softballs make it quite difficult to give a really good answer, saying, “I always felt that way about Hillary Clinton. If you are giving them these almost weird, like, amorphous softballs, it’s really hard to kind of hone your message and be succinct and say what you really need to say.”
Then, tying that to Kamala’s failed election bid, Couric noted that Kamala struggled to give succinct and good answers of the sort she was speaking about. She said, “I also felt that, and again, I think [Harris] really did well in so many areas, but I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen.”
Couric added, noting how ridiculous Kamala’s rambling answer was, “Like, if she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what, you know, Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing, and she answered, like, in one sentence, and then went on to something that had nothing to do with the question. You know, people notice that, and it’s like, ‘Answer the g-dd–n question, please!’”
Building on that, Couric referred to Kamala’s infamous interview with “The View,” where she said she would do nothing differently than the Biden Administration. Doing so, she said, “Ok, Jen, you’re an insider. Why didn’t Joe Biden say, ‘Listen, I know you’re going to have to separate yourself from this administration. Let’s talk about areas where you can, where they’re legitimate, and God speed.’ Because it- I think somebody wrote that it was almost as if they were more afraid of hurting Joe Biden’s feelings than winning the election.”
Then, after Psaki gave what amounted to a non-answer, Couric said, “It seems to me, if I were running for president, Jen, I would sit down with my brain trust, and I’d be like, ‘Okay, let’s play out these questions. What am I gonna say?'” She added, “And I would have had a template that I would have carried around with me in every interview, and I would have reviewed them and said, you know, ‘This is what I believe, and this is how I’m going to handle a question like that.’ Now, why didn’t they- it just didn’t seem like that was done. Am I crazy?”
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