Vice President Kamala Harris gave an interview on Sunday’s installment of 60 Minutes and couldn’t help but laugh at the border crisis and the United States’ “broken immigration system.”
The rest of the interview wasn’t much better.
CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker told Harris, “Most Americans say that they don’t think you’re doing a good job on the border, you and the administration. The number of people trying to cross the U.S. southern border is at an all-time high.”
Harris laughed and blamed the “root causes” of illegal immigration for the border crisis.
“It’s no secret that we have a broken immigration system,” Harris said laughing.
“Short-term, we need a safe, orderly, humane border policy. And long term, we need to invest in the root causes of migration. But the bottom line, Congress needs to act.”
Harris has long faced criticism for overusing the phrase “root causes.” In December 2021, she used the phrase “root cause” 14 times in a 21-minute speech.
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The only tough question that 60 Minutes offers to Kamala, and she can barely stop herself from breaking into a cackle.
15-second mark is when the magic happens.pic.twitter.com/QcnX2RSv0y
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Harris later laughed off the Biden administration’s unpopularity.
Whitaker asked, “A recent CBS poll found that at the beginning of President Biden’s term, 70 percent of young people — people under 30 — said he was doing a good job. Now, it’s now it’s less than 50 percent. Why is that? What’s going on?”
Harris said the problem was just P.R.
“If you poll how young people feel about the climate and the warming of our planet, it polls as one of their top concerns. When we talk about what we are doing with student loan debt, it polls very high. The challenge that we have as an administration? We have to let people know who brung it to them. That’s our challenge,” Harris said.
“But it is not that the work we are doing is not very, very popular with a lot of people.”
CBS News concluded, “She blames the disconnect, in part, on lack of media coverage.”
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They also discussed the Israel-Hamas War and the re-election campaign.
Harris denied any intention to send U.S. combatants into the Gaza Strip, and she described Biden as “very much alive and running for re-election.” High praise!
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