{"id":557193,"date":"2021-06-08T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557193"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:52:13","slug":"kamala-harris-just-showed-how-unprepared-she-is-once-the-media-starts-asking-tough-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-just-showed-how-unprepared-she-is-once-the-media-starts-asking-tough-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Just Showed How Unprepared She Is Once The Media Starts Asking Tough Questions"},"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\">30<\/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-just-showed-how-unprepared-she-is-once-the-media-starts-asking-tough-questions%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=557193&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1133041460.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On the \u201cToday\u201d show this morning, Lester Holt asked Vice President Kamala Harris one serious journalistic question and achieved greater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/middle-east\/six-day-war\">tactical surprise<\/a> than the Israelis during the Six Day War.<\/p>\n<p>A five-minute excerpt of the interview caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-internet-erupts-over-kamala-harris-response-to-grilling-by-nbc-for-claiming-admin-has-been-to-border\">internet excitement<\/a>, with Holt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1402224936136187907\">asking<\/a>\u00a0Harris, who is visiting Central America to petition national leaders to clamp down on the surge in illegal immigration, \u201cDo you have any plans to visit the border?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point,\u201d she said, throwing up her hands in exasperation. \u201cWe are going to the border. We\u2019ve been to the border. So, this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border \u2014 We\u2019ve been to the border. We\u2019ve been to the border,\u201d Harris said emphatically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t been to the border,\u201d Holt said, skewering her attempt to hide behind the actions of others in the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I haven\u2019t been to Europe,\u201d Harris said, cackling. \u201cAnd I mean, I don\u2019t understand the point that you\u2019re making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media have reached such a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\">level of sycophancy<\/a> that Harris couldn\u2019t foresee the possibility of facing an inconvenient question. Thus, Harris treated the act of asking the person President Biden has personally tasked with tackling the border crisis about whether she\u2019ll observe the problem firsthand as though it were as irrelevant as asking her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/get-ready-for-4-years-of-media-sycophancy\">why<\/a> she wears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-fawn-over-kamala-harris-shoes-trashed-melanias\">Converse sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.9310344827586\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe have to deal with what&#8217;s happening at the border.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> Kamala Harris spoke exclusively with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LesterHoltNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LesterHoltNBC<\/a> on her first trip overseas, how the administration is addressing the immigration crisis, and if she plans to visit the southern border herself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sA4We7peeR\">pic.twitter.com\/sA4We7peeR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1402224936136187907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Holt\u2019s questions were professional and appropriate, but not particularly harsh. While NBC will air more of the interview this evening \u2014 so there\u2019s no way to know if he raised the Biden administration\u2019s failed border policies \u2014 no one can be adequately informed about the border crisis without that added context.<\/p>\n<p>A full-fledged segment on the immigration crisis would note that, years before Kamala Harris traveled to Central America to address any \u201croot causes,\u201d President Donald Trump hammered out international agreements that addressed the problem at the source \u2014 and was viciously attacked for it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump required so-called \u201casylum seekers\u201d (who were largely <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Law\/More-FirstHand-Evidence-Emerges-Debunking-Asylum-Seeker-Myth\">economic migrants<\/a>) to apply for asylum in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-breaks-guatemala-central-american-nation-ryan-saavedra\">closest safe country<\/a> \u2014 often Guatemala or Mexico \u2014 rather than coming directly to the United States. Mexican asylum seekers also had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/large-number-of-migrants-arrive-at-u-s-mexico-border-wearing-biden-t-shirts-please-let-us-in\">remain in Mexico<\/a> under the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP).<\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/u-s-signs-asylum-deal-honduras-could-force-migrants-seek-n1058766\">covered<\/a> these policies in 2019 by saying, \u201cThe Trump administration \u2026 could force asylum-seekers to seek protection in one of the most dangerous countries in the world instead of the United States.\u201d Vox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/9\/26\/20870768\/trump-agreement-honduras-guatemala-el-salvador-explained\">accused<\/a> the president of \u201cdismantling the asylum system as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration promptly parroted that line. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/immigration-expert-blasts-biden-admin-over-claims-on-border-crisis-an-offense-to-human-intelligence\">claimed<\/a>, \u201cWe do not have the capacity now to address the asylum seekers\u2019 claims \u2026 because that system was dismantled in its entirety by the prior administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its desire to repeal the entirety of the Trump administration, Biden-Harris officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senator-to-unveil-bill-to-reinstate-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-as-border-crisis-worsens\">repealed<\/a> MPP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-centralamerica\/biden-administration-suspends-trump-asylum-deals-with-el-salvador-guatemala-honduras-idUSKBN2A702Q\">suspended<\/a> Trump\u2019s \u201csafe third country agreements,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-revives-catch-and-release-to-avoid-housing-illegal-immigrants-amid-border-surge\">reinstated catch-and-release<\/a>. Campaign promises to lavish \u201cfree\u201d healthcare on all illegal immigrants spurred a predictable wave of illegal border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>The number of illegal immigrants crossing the border has increased by more than 100,000 <em>a month<\/em> since the beginning of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">453,090<\/a> illegal immigrants have entered the United States since February \u2014 not including those who crossed the border the first 11 days of the Obama-Harris administration.<\/p>\n<p>The border crisis has exploded to such a degree that even MSNBC can no longer deny its proportions or provenance.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Gabe Gutierrez reported from an illegal immigrant tent camp in Reynosa, Mexico. \u201cSomething we\u2019re hearing over and over again,\u201d he said, is that illegal immigrants are \u201chearing from smugglers that they will be allowed to stay in the United States. Of course, that\u2019s not really the reality here. But the change is policy is being exploited by these human smugglers,\u201d who ply their trade in concert with international drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Would-be immigrants pay human traffickers \u201cup to $11,000, funded by American relatives, to be able to make this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s guest host Chris Jansing called Gutierrez\u2019s report, and its images, \u201cpowerful and devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris, who reportedly greeted the news that she had to handle the border crisis with sheer \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9642261\/Kamala-Harris-team-panicked-Biden-gave-border-assignment.html\">panic<\/a>,\u201d has no interest in discovering how powerfully such images could devastate <em>her<\/em> image if she were caught in the same frame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/why-is-everything-infastructure-cnbc-host-grills-pete-buttigieg-on-american-jobs-plan\">\u201cWhy Is Everything Infastructure?\u201d: CNBC Host Grills Pete Buttigieg On American Jobs Plan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the \u201cToday\u201d show this morning, Lester Holt asked Vice President Kamala Harris one serious journalistic question and achieved greater tactical surprise than the Israelis during the Six Day War.A &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279651,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1133041460.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala Harris Just Showed How Unprepared She Is Once The Media Starts Asking Tough Questions","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1133041460.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala Harris Just Showed How Unprepared She Is Once The Media Starts Asking Tough Questions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557193","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}