{"id":1214785,"date":"2022-01-13T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214785"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:04:31","slug":"kamala-harris-serves-nbcs-craig-melvin-a-word-salad-when-asked-about-covid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-serves-nbcs-craig-melvin-a-word-salad-when-asked-about-covid-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Serves NBC\u2019s Craig Melvin A Word Salad When Asked About COVID Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-serves-nbcs-craig-melvin-a-word-salad-when-asked-about-covid-strategy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to fumble a pointed question about the administration\u2019s COVID-19 response during an interview Wednesday with NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt what point does the administration say \u2018you know what, this strategy isn\u2019t working. We\u2019re going to change strategies.\u2019 Six former administration officials last week wrote that open letter, urging the administration to change course, to change strategy. Is it time?\u201d NBC\u2019s Craig Melvin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/kamala-harris-on-cdc-covid-testing-voting-rights-130764869573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;the vice president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Oh.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HvDRIlgLqQ\">pic.twitter.com\/HvDRIlgLqQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lawrence Jones III (@LawrenceBJones3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawrenceBJones3\/status\/1481632631934623747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is everyday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/24\/kamala-harris-failure-washington-dc-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris<\/a> responded.&nbsp; \u201cEveryday it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. And so right now we know we still have a number of people, that is in the millions of Americans, that have not been vaccinated and could be vaccinated and we are urging them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at what point does the administration acknowledge these people aren\u2019t going to get the shot. They\u2019re just not going to do it,\u201d Melvin pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in giving up on people, Craig,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/06\/kamala-harris-compares-jan-6-september-11-attack-pearl-harbor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris<\/a> responded. \u201cI really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melvin also asked when the administration plans to send out millions of tests amid a testing shortage, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/27\/face-the-nation-kamala-harris-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris<\/a> said she believes it would happen soon, possibly next week, but would need to check. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/05\/white-house-chief-staff-ronald-klain-criticized-coronavirus-testing-shortage-2020-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Chief Of Staff Ron Klain Criticized Testing Shortage In 2020, But Now The Biden Admin Faces Its Own Crisis)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden deflected blame for the rapid testing shortage in December, claiming it was not the administration\u2019s fault because the Omicron strain was too <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/biden-says-covid-rapid-test-shortage-not-his-administrations-fault-because-latest-variant-was-such-a-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unexpected<\/a> to prepare for. Vanity Fair <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/24\/white-house-covid-tests-octobor-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that the administration dismissed an October proposal that would have provided rapid, at-home tests in anticipation of the holidays<\/p>\n<p>Melvin asked Harris why, one year into the Biden administration, the nation is seeing record case surges.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said the administration is also frustrated with \u201cwhere we are,\u201d but that it\u2019s a \u201cmistake\u201d to believe the nation has not made progress, comparing the current situation to that of March 2020, when the virus first hit the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to fumble a pointed question about the administration\u2019s COVID-19 response during an interview Wednesday with NBC News.\u201cAt what point does the administration say \u2018you know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}