A panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” blasted Fox News anchor Bret Baier for asking Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris real questions during his bombshell Wednesday interview with the vice president.
The “Morning Joe” panelists argued that President Donald Trump “would never be treated that way.”
The car crash interview has widely been panned a disaster for Harris and the Democrats as Election Day looms.
Harris sat down for a rare interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Wednesday night.
It was the first time Harris had sat for an unscripted interview on a non-friendly network.
The only interviews with Harris released so far have been pre-planned, pre-recorded, and deceptively edited.
During the Fox interview, Baier pressed Harris with hard-hitting questions on illegal immigration at the Southern Border, illegal alien crime, transgender surgeries for minors, and whether she would be a change candidate.
He also stumped Harris by asking when she first noticed President Joe Biden’s mental decline.
“Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist said Trump would never have received these types of questions during a Fox News interview.
However, Geist was forced to acknowledge that the questions Harris was asked were fair.
“I think on the other side of it, we can talk about Bret Baier’s performance and the fairness or unfairness of some of the ways he pursued those topics,” Geist began.
“The other side of it is that Kamala Harris went on Fox News and took all those questions and hung in there and kept her calm and didn’t attack the interviewer or whine that things were unfair.
“She talked about policy and gave answers to tough questions.
“But the tone was set right from the outset with a series of questions of immigration, where the Vice President of the United States wasn’t really given an opportunity to respond.”
“It goes without saying that Donald Trump would not be given the same treatments, talked over, not allowed to finish those questions.
“It doesn’t mean the topics weren’t fair, there were a lot of things that the viewers wanted to hear from Kamala Harris, why do you have different positions now than you did in 2019, how are you going to fix the immigration crisis?
“All fair questions, but Donald Trump obviously would never be treated that way on Fox News,” Geist continued.
Over 2 million illegal migrants have been encountered by Border Patrol in the 2024 fiscal year, and nearly 100 individuals on the U.S. terror watchlist have been released into the U.S. during the Biden-Harris administration.
Baier asked Harris point-blank if she owed the family members of those murdered by illegal immigrants an apology.
The vice president said she is “sorry for [their] loss” but refused to apologize for her failings at he border.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski accused Baier of rudely interrupting Harris.
Brzezinski claims Baier was allegedly trying “distract” from the issues and said the questions sounded like they came “from a Trump campaign ad.”
She accused Baier of being “obsessed with transgender surgeries,” a question which Harris did not give a clear answer to.
“When Kamala Harris realized the host was not going to let her speak, the only way the vice president could give Fox viewers an opportunity to hear what she had to say was to talk back over him,” Brzezinski said.
“Was he making sure that happened?
“I personally think absolutely. Did she do well in this environment?
“Of course, she was great.
“She’s a former prosecutor, attorney general, senator, and current vice president.
“She’s fine with a situation like that and even flourishes …
“There were times she was shaking on immigration and he kept coming after her, but the questions sounded like they came from a Trump campaign ad.”
However, it was clear to anyone who watched the interview that Baier was simply pressing Harris for straight answers as she repeatedly attempted to dodge his questions.
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Harris’s recent media blitz has mostly consisted of interviews with friendly outlets, including “The View,” “The Howard Stern Show” and MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.
The vice president’s only real interview so far has been with Baier.
CBS News’s Bill Whitaker asked some tougher questions on “60 Minutes.”
However, the “60 Minutes” interview was deceptively edited to help the Democrats before it was broadcast.
During the only presidential debate between the two current candidates on September 10, Trump was met with extreme hostility from ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Trump was “fact-checked” by Muir and Davis several times while many of Harris’ false claims were left uncorrected.
Harris repeated the hoax that Trump called Neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people” following the Charlottesville riot in 2017.
She also falsely claimed that Trump wants to ban in vitro fertilization (IVF) and that he supported The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
Harris was not “fact-checked” once by ABC.
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