Can we for once stop using the whole “they changed their stance/opinion” as a dig? Everyone changes their stance on most issues as time goes on and their experiences change, politicians including. If it is done in good faith, then I see no issue with it. Like in this interview Kamala explained that she had changed her stance on issues because she has gotten a better understanding of the diverse views across America and gotten a better idea of what is attainable. There is definitely room to criticize Kamala, much like all other politicians, but I think it isn’t fair to criticize her on something that happens to literally everyone.
And to the people that will argue that she is going back on her more progressive policies and therefore a liar/traitor. It might not be 2 steps forward, but it is still one step forward (and actually reasonably attainable). I’d rather have someone in office putting us one step forward rather than 10 steps back.
Troll_in_the_Knoll on
Harris undergoes a ’60 Minutes’ grilling as Trump chickens out. FIFY
Ayemann on
Trump is weak.
Plain and simple. He is a con man running out of room.
Oh please don’t fact check me.
He is a thrashing animal clawing at the last bit of freedom as the cage doors slowly close on them.
rimshot99 on
Love the power and confidence of Harris, it’s such a stark contrast to Trump.
hinanska0211 on
It makes sense to me that she would deflect about some of those questions. I think we all know the border situation wasn’t ideal in the first two years of the Biden administration and I think we all know they have been dealing with congressional Republicans all along who are not interestested in anything but taking back power. I think we all know that this election is like every presidential election in history: how much of her agenda she’s able to accomplish depends on whether we give her a Congress that is actually interested in solving problems.
I think she is wise to not promise support for Ukraine NATO membership without hearing what NATO delegates have to say about it.
Unlike the former liar-in-chief, she’s not about to say things for the sole purpose of garnering votes – things she has no intention of doing. How often did we hear about the wall that would get built, that Mexico would pay for, that would solve all our border problems? (Yeah, right.) How many times did we hear about that fabulous health care plan that would replace the ACA – the plan that never happened, the plan that is, apparently, “concepts of a plan” but that he shouldn’t have to flesh out because he’ not president yet? Why is that argument okay for him and not for her?
And how is it that people are okay with him refusing to go on 60 Minutes because they fact check everything? We actively want presidential candidates to be able to lie through their teeh and if anyone calls them on it, they’re biased?
> "It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris said, pointing to an early attempt to advocate for an immigration bill in Congress.
> Whitaker, who noted that the border security issue had been ongoing for decades, tried twice more to pin Harris down.
The voice over and commentary in that interview was awful and shouldn’t have been a thing. Just post the damn raw interview with no edits.
toast1536 on
Nothing new to say. All he can do is hurt himself at every outing… His handlers are smart for limiting exposure at this point.
WillHart412 on
Trump is a pussy. That’s why the biggest pussies in America (magats) adore him.
No-Goal on
I don’t mind them being tough on anyone but nobody ever stands up to Trump.. wtf
Rlynn11 on
Trump is a whimpering whiny old grump
smiama6 on
Wow… make it sound like a torture session for Harris while sanewashing the moral degenerate. Bad form NBC.
inigos_left_hand on
Clearly Trump isn’t smart enough to sit down for a proper interview.
MoonBatsRule on
Republicans have successfully controlled the narrative on immigration to the point where a majority of this country would probably vote to expel every immigrant, legal or not.
That is disgusting.
Our problem with immigration is that we do not allow enough legal immigration. We only allow about 750,000 legal immigrants a year, and almost all the slots are filled with direct relatives of citizens. This is because as a country, we have been conditioned to see any immigrant as stealing from “real Americans” – though the only “real Americans” have been pushed onto reservations. People can’t see that the greatest strength of the USA has been its ability to accept immigrants and to willingly integrate them into our country, to teach them what it means to be an American, recognizing that **they all want to be Americans**.
Immigrants are not simultaneously a drain and also job-stealers. And while it is possible to find bad people in any group, decrying the group because of a handful of bad people (a smaller handful than actual citizens, I might add) is just plain wrong.
Sadly, Democrats will not stand up tall for immigrants. So Trump wins either way.
AlfredRWallace on
And Trump posted that this was the WORST interview in the history of television. Meanwhile he was afraid to be interviewed. Somehow his cult members buy this. SMH.
DDT1958 on
There was a children’s book series my brother loved called Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold could draw something with his purple crayon and it would become real. Trump thinks he can do that through his voice. If he says something it becomes true. He gets trounced in the debate. Nope. All the polls said he won bigly and it was his best debate ever. He didn’t lose in 2020, he won. Harris’s interview on 60 Minutes was “a disaster”. Three days after Helene, the FEMA response is the worst ever and its all Harris’s fault. Trump’s magic voice creates reality.
Tommy__want__wingy on
Trump didn’t want to do it because he didn’t want to be fact checked.
When that’s what they always do.
And he wanted an apology for something that wasn’t stated in his 2020 interview.
Pristine_Serve5979 on
Trump is a pussy.
bucho80 on
I truly don’t see how any decent, moral, competent person can vote for trump.
Keep putting them signs out, at least I know who to avoid!
Pristine_Context_429 on
This was the best interview so far for solo Harris to get to hear some tough questions and real answers. I liked that he didnt them get around the not answering. I wish Trump would of done it too unfortunately. The call her daddy interview was trash.
Fr05t_B1t on
Idk how a trumper can criticize Kamala when he refused to do the 60 minutes interview
Emergency_Property_2 on
If we give Harris a Democratic Congress then they’d better pass her agenda, starting with either restoring the filibuster to its original form or eliminating it entirely or they should face being primaried
If they do pass her agenda, tax the rich and help Americans the Republicans will be cast to the wilderness for decades.
frostfall010 on
Trump backed out because he’s cowardly and incompetent. He can’t answer questions with anything substantial and every response always devolves into some whining personal grievance he has. If you’re somehow undecided at this point, just listen to the two of them back to back and see which one sounds more interested in helping you, has a plan to do it and can speak to that plan, and doesn’t turn to ugly personal attacks 50% of the time to avoid giving you any information, as a voter, to sway your vote.
sirpushalot on
The lady as guts. The dude is nuts.
-TeamCaffeine- on
He’s such a pussy bitch.
Plzlaw4me on
Makes sense. Harris is scoring points, and Trump isn’t. You’re not afraid to go up to bad if you keep getting on base.
workcomp11 on
Is there a full, unedited version of the interview? The version on YouTube is heavily edited with voice over while she’s answering the damn questions.
Evadrepus on
Having some flooring installed this morning and the workers put on Fox as background. Fox was saying she meandered on answers and just told lies.
It’s a whole other reality.
myslead on
how did she do?
Count_Bacon on
She did great in the interview too as much as republicans hate that
Eroticarnal on
Can’t have a chicken running the country & sucking Putins dick. Vote BLUE
Grnpig on
Good for her to do the interview knowing it would be tough. Peoples positions on matters do evolve particularly if you listen to others and try to build a consensus. That is just simple negotiation with its give and take.
3rdman60 on
I read that as “Trump shits it out”.
Cojemos on
That interview needed a lot of Ranch dressing.
icouldusemorecoffee on
Now comes several weeks of the media whining in public that Trump isn’t doing sit down interviews with traditional media. /s
Competitive_Arm2593 on
This was a grilling for sure! I’d be ok with it if Trump was subjected to it also. He is a big old coward and doofus who can’t take the heat.
B1GFanOSU on
‘Cause he’s a pussy.
GuruTheMadMonk on
Every time I see conservative media, Trump, or his lemmings criticizing her appearance, I’m instantly reminded of what a massive pussy Trump is, and how he doesn’t even have the guts to go on 60 Minutes or debate Kamala again.
GeronimoRay on
Hey NBC – Maybe come out and decry the convicted felon and rapist?
heisup on
Ironic to see how many interviews Harris is doing and unlike the interviews Trump does, the questions are ‘t all softballs.
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A media blitz this late in the game was brilliant
Excerpt:
Vice President Kamala Harris [for weeks was criticized](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-playing-safe-democrats-worry-doom-campaign-rcna173504) for avoiding tough questions that came with long-form traditional media interviews.
In an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired Monday evening, she faced many of them all at once.
When will Trump talk to the (real) press?
…after 60 Minutes of grilling you’re probably cooked (/s)…Harris handled it unlike her opponent…Frontline has offered a good comparison…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPxL5w3OOU
Can we for once stop using the whole “they changed their stance/opinion” as a dig? Everyone changes their stance on most issues as time goes on and their experiences change, politicians including. If it is done in good faith, then I see no issue with it. Like in this interview Kamala explained that she had changed her stance on issues because she has gotten a better understanding of the diverse views across America and gotten a better idea of what is attainable. There is definitely room to criticize Kamala, much like all other politicians, but I think it isn’t fair to criticize her on something that happens to literally everyone.
And to the people that will argue that she is going back on her more progressive policies and therefore a liar/traitor. It might not be 2 steps forward, but it is still one step forward (and actually reasonably attainable). I’d rather have someone in office putting us one step forward rather than 10 steps back.
Harris undergoes a ’60 Minutes’ grilling as Trump chickens out. FIFY
Trump is weak.
Plain and simple. He is a con man running out of room.
Oh please don’t fact check me.
He is a thrashing animal clawing at the last bit of freedom as the cage doors slowly close on them.
Love the power and confidence of Harris, it’s such a stark contrast to Trump.
It makes sense to me that she would deflect about some of those questions. I think we all know the border situation wasn’t ideal in the first two years of the Biden administration and I think we all know they have been dealing with congressional Republicans all along who are not interestested in anything but taking back power. I think we all know that this election is like every presidential election in history: how much of her agenda she’s able to accomplish depends on whether we give her a Congress that is actually interested in solving problems.
I think she is wise to not promise support for Ukraine NATO membership without hearing what NATO delegates have to say about it.
Unlike the former liar-in-chief, she’s not about to say things for the sole purpose of garnering votes – things she has no intention of doing. How often did we hear about the wall that would get built, that Mexico would pay for, that would solve all our border problems? (Yeah, right.) How many times did we hear about that fabulous health care plan that would replace the ACA – the plan that never happened, the plan that is, apparently, “concepts of a plan” but that he shouldn’t have to flesh out because he’ not president yet? Why is that argument okay for him and not for her?
And how is it that people are okay with him refusing to go on 60 Minutes because they fact check everything? We actively want presidential candidates to be able to lie through their teeh and if anyone calls them on it, they’re biased?
trump is *such* a coward, *such* a weakling.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-undergoes-60-minutes-grilling-trump-sits-rcna174415) reduced by 90%. (I’m a bot)
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> Vice President Kamala Harris for weeks was criticized for avoiding tough questions that came with long-form traditional media interviews.
> "It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris said, pointing to an early attempt to advocate for an immigration bill in Congress.
> Whitaker, who noted that the border security issue had been ongoing for decades, tried twice more to pin Harris down.
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The voice over and commentary in that interview was awful and shouldn’t have been a thing. Just post the damn raw interview with no edits.
Nothing new to say. All he can do is hurt himself at every outing… His handlers are smart for limiting exposure at this point.
Trump is a pussy. That’s why the biggest pussies in America (magats) adore him.
I don’t mind them being tough on anyone but nobody ever stands up to Trump.. wtf
Trump is a whimpering whiny old grump
Wow… make it sound like a torture session for Harris while sanewashing the moral degenerate. Bad form NBC.
Clearly Trump isn’t smart enough to sit down for a proper interview.
Republicans have successfully controlled the narrative on immigration to the point where a majority of this country would probably vote to expel every immigrant, legal or not.
That is disgusting.
Our problem with immigration is that we do not allow enough legal immigration. We only allow about 750,000 legal immigrants a year, and almost all the slots are filled with direct relatives of citizens. This is because as a country, we have been conditioned to see any immigrant as stealing from “real Americans” – though the only “real Americans” have been pushed onto reservations. People can’t see that the greatest strength of the USA has been its ability to accept immigrants and to willingly integrate them into our country, to teach them what it means to be an American, recognizing that **they all want to be Americans**.
Immigrants are not simultaneously a drain and also job-stealers. And while it is possible to find bad people in any group, decrying the group because of a handful of bad people (a smaller handful than actual citizens, I might add) is just plain wrong.
Sadly, Democrats will not stand up tall for immigrants. So Trump wins either way.
And Trump posted that this was the WORST interview in the history of television. Meanwhile he was afraid to be interviewed. Somehow his cult members buy this. SMH.
There was a children’s book series my brother loved called Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold could draw something with his purple crayon and it would become real. Trump thinks he can do that through his voice. If he says something it becomes true. He gets trounced in the debate. Nope. All the polls said he won bigly and it was his best debate ever. He didn’t lose in 2020, he won. Harris’s interview on 60 Minutes was “a disaster”. Three days after Helene, the FEMA response is the worst ever and its all Harris’s fault. Trump’s magic voice creates reality.
Trump didn’t want to do it because he didn’t want to be fact checked.
When that’s what they always do.
And he wanted an apology for something that wasn’t stated in his 2020 interview.
Trump is a pussy.
I truly don’t see how any decent, moral, competent person can vote for trump.
Keep putting them signs out, at least I know who to avoid!
This was the best interview so far for solo Harris to get to hear some tough questions and real answers. I liked that he didnt them get around the not answering. I wish Trump would of done it too unfortunately. The call her daddy interview was trash.
Idk how a trumper can criticize Kamala when he refused to do the 60 minutes interview
If we give Harris a Democratic Congress then they’d better pass her agenda, starting with either restoring the filibuster to its original form or eliminating it entirely or they should face being primaried
If they do pass her agenda, tax the rich and help Americans the Republicans will be cast to the wilderness for decades.
Trump backed out because he’s cowardly and incompetent. He can’t answer questions with anything substantial and every response always devolves into some whining personal grievance he has. If you’re somehow undecided at this point, just listen to the two of them back to back and see which one sounds more interested in helping you, has a plan to do it and can speak to that plan, and doesn’t turn to ugly personal attacks 50% of the time to avoid giving you any information, as a voter, to sway your vote.
The lady as guts. The dude is nuts.
He’s such a pussy bitch.
Makes sense. Harris is scoring points, and Trump isn’t. You’re not afraid to go up to bad if you keep getting on base.
Is there a full, unedited version of the interview? The version on YouTube is heavily edited with voice over while she’s answering the damn questions.
Having some flooring installed this morning and the workers put on Fox as background. Fox was saying she meandered on answers and just told lies.
It’s a whole other reality.
how did she do?
She did great in the interview too as much as republicans hate that
Can’t have a chicken running the country & sucking Putins dick. Vote BLUE
Good for her to do the interview knowing it would be tough. Peoples positions on matters do evolve particularly if you listen to others and try to build a consensus. That is just simple negotiation with its give and take.
I read that as “Trump shits it out”.
That interview needed a lot of Ranch dressing.
Now comes several weeks of the media whining in public that Trump isn’t doing sit down interviews with traditional media. /s
This was a grilling for sure! I’d be ok with it if Trump was subjected to it also. He is a big old coward and doofus who can’t take the heat.
‘Cause he’s a pussy.
Every time I see conservative media, Trump, or his lemmings criticizing her appearance, I’m instantly reminded of what a massive pussy Trump is, and how he doesn’t even have the guts to go on 60 Minutes or debate Kamala again.
Hey NBC – Maybe come out and decry the convicted felon and rapist?
Ironic to see how many interviews Harris is doing and unlike the interviews Trump does, the questions are ‘t all softballs.