{"id":2356172,"date":"2024-10-17T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-tries-to-disrupt-baier-with-late-appearance-for-confrontational-interview-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:37:25","slug":"harris-tries-to-disrupt-baier-with-late-appearance-for-confrontational-interview-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-tries-to-disrupt-baier-with-late-appearance-for-confrontational-interview-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris tries to disrupt Baier with late appearance for confrontational interview &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fharris-tries-to-disrupt-baier-with-late-appearance-for-confrontational-interview-washington-examiner%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=2356172&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--><p>Fox\u200c News anchor Bret Baier reported on a recent interview\u200c with Vice \u2064President Kamala Harris, describing the \u2064tense atmosphere caused by her \u200clate arrival. Initially\u2064 scheduled for 5 \u2063p.m., Harris arrived 17 \u2064minutes late, which shortened the interview preparation\u2062 time and felt\u200c like a strategy to\u2062 disrupt \u2063the\u2063 flow, akin to &#8220;icing the kicker&#8221; in \u2063football. Once\u2063 the interview began, it turned contentious, focusing on immigration issues, including the increase \u2064in illegal immigration during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hunter-biden-banking-records-revealed-look-what-russian-and-ukrainian-oligarchs-sent-while-joe-was-vp\/\" title=\"Newly Unveiled Hunter Biden Bank Records: Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs&#039; Transactions During Joe&#039;s VP Tenure\">vice \u2064presidency<\/a> and \u200bher stance on \u200bfunding transgender operations for imprisoned illegal immigrants.\u2063 When questioned about \u2063the\u2062 number\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-bidens-border-crisis-is-a-superspreader-event\/\" title=\"Cotton: \u2018Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Is A Superspreader Event\u2019\">illegal immigrants released<\/a> by her administration, Harris redirected the \u200cconversation, emphasizing the \u200dneed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-extend-contract-for-controversial-ice-jail-after-pressure-from-unions\/\" title=\"Biden succumbs to union pressure, extends contract for contentious ICE jail\">immigration system reform<\/a>. The interview highlighted the challenges both sides faced in the discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Harris tries to disrupt Baier with late appearance for confrontational interview<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1837608\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Fox News anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bret-baier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bret Baier<\/a> suggested Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> tried to catch him off guard ahead of her tempestuous interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican<\/a>-affiliated host on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Giving a recap of the sitdown during a Wednesday evening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6363357912112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>appearance<\/a> on Fox News host Sean Hannity&rsquo;s show, Baier offered a behind-the-scenes look into the interview, reflecting that when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-harris-ignores-question-on-illegals-outside-her-house\/\" title=\"VP Harris Ignores Question on Illegals Outside Her House\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> walked<\/a> into the interview 17 minutes late, it felt like she was &ldquo;icing the kicker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were supposed to start at 5 p.m. This was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, &lsquo;Well, maybe 20.&rsquo; So, it&rsquo;s already getting whittled down. And then, the vice president showed up at about 5:15 p.m. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6 p.m. So that&rsquo;s how it started,&rdquo; Baier said.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere was tense as the Fox production team waited for Harris to show up, Baier said, as her late arrival pushed the limits for the network to get the interview up and running for the 6 p.m. air time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At 5:17, the vice president walked out, so it did feel a little bit like they were icing the kicker or trying to, and originally they were talking about 25 minutes and they gave us 20 minutes,&rdquo; Baier said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the interview finally did get started, it turned into a contentious debate at times, with Baier pressing Harris about the rise in illegal immigration during the past three years she has served as vice president, her position on funding transgender operations for imprisoned illegal immigrants, and how she planned to offer &ldquo;a new way forward&rdquo; (as her campaign slogan says), having served at the top of the Biden administration since 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Baier asked, &ldquo;How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?&rdquo; Harris deflected with, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you, it is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bret Baier: &ldquo;How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris: &ldquo;Bret, let&rsquo;s just get to the point, OK? The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Do3DeQJMuM\">pic.twitter.com\/Do3DeQJMuM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1846711230045868324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>When pressed for a specific estimate again, Harris responded, &ldquo;Bret, let&rsquo;s just get to the point. OK, the point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When the anchor moved on to the next question, she complained, &ldquo;I promise you I was beginning to answer,&rdquo; before the pair descended into another battle following Baier&rsquo;s question about how &ldquo;your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies&rdquo; that allowed some illegal immigrants to stay in the country and &ldquo;commit heinous crimes,&rdquo; allegedly including the murders of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to redirect without me trying to interrupt,&rdquo; Baier noted, later telling political commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UPNTUJn41So\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mark Levin<\/a> that he was &ldquo;just trying to get through the talking points.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was hoping it was going to be this civil back-and-forth,&rdquo; the Fox host said. &ldquo;But I was just trying to get through the talking points and it took a while, and it was a little bit of, you know, interrupting, and kind of, getting in on the breath.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1837608\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837608\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris attempts to unsettle Baier with her late arrival for a tense interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2356173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-Baier.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[29131,43210,4021,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2356172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-baier","tag-confrontational-interview","tag-harris","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-Baier.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356172","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\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}