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Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States, having taken office on January 20, 2021. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. A member of the Democratic Party, Harris previously served as a U.S. Senator from California from 2017 to 2021, where she was known for her work on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration. Before her tenure in the Senate, she served as the Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, focusing on consumer protection and civil rights.

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Aug 11, 2020

America is crying out for leadership. Yet, we have a President who cares more about himself than the people who elected him.

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Aug 10, 2020

I waited to get married. And I think that one should marry somebody who will be your best friend and with whom you can laugh and be comfortable. And that's who he is.

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Aug 10, 2020

I have decided that I am with great enthusiasm, going to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States. I believe in Joe, I really believe in him and I've known him for a long time.

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Aug 10, 2020

Has the President or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone yes or no please, sir.

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Aug 10, 2020

I feel a sense of responsibility to stand up and fight for the best of who we are. And I'm prepared to fight and I know how to fight.

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Aug 10, 2020

I intend to fight for truth and transparency and trust. I intend to fight.

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Aug 10, 2020

So let's remember, in this fight, we have the power of the people. We can achieve the dreams of our parents and grandparents. We can heal our nation. We can give our children the future they deserve. We can reclaim the American dream for…

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Jun 22, 2020

We are talking about the need for a new national standard for use of force so that instead of asking when there's excessive force, was that force reasonable, we should be asking, was it necessary?

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Jun 22, 2020

Certainly there's a way for something to be done if everyone approaches it with an earnest desire to actually meet this moment and implement the reforms that we know we actually have available to us.

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Jun 22, 2020

Senator Kamala Harris joins us to talk about whether Congress can reach a deal on police reform and talk of her as a potential vice presidential nominee for Joe Biden.

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Jun 22, 2020

But instead, in many cities in our country, one-third of the entire city budget is spent on policing. That's actually just not a good return on investment for taxpayers.

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Jun 22, 2020

And what we need right now is leaders who are prepared to deal with the fact that these are long standing grievances that are rooted in fact.

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Jun 22, 2020

Part of the frustration that we've had is that the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is putting this Republican bill up for vote tomorrow without any meaningful process.

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May 26, 2020

Donald Trump is not a leader. He's not a leader. And he has proven that over and over and over again, real leadership that this moment of crisis would be to have genuine sympathy and empathy and, and, and compassion for the loss.

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May 26, 2020

It was a California mayor and London Breed, it was a California Governor and Gavin Newsome. It was a California leader and Eric, our city and I could go down the line of the folks who took on the political courage, even when it was…

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May 26, 2020

I'm sick, frankly of mourning, the failure of Donald Trump's leadership because we never had it so we really don't have much to mourn because we've never had it.

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May 26, 2020

It is tragic Anderson, 100,000 lives, 100,000 souls just within the last less than 100 days.

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Apr 14, 2020

We can't have debt collectors trying to take those checks before they get to the folks who need to feed their children.

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Apr 14, 2020

We have had an abject failure of leadership from Donald Trump. And I'm frankly tired of sitting around waiting for him to act like a President or be a President.

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Apr 14, 2020

In the SNAP program, there's a card. It's called an EBT card, and essentially it's an electronic card. And we can transfer the relief to them electronically, so they don't have to wait for the check to come in the mail, which for so many…

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Apr 14, 2020

We need to have a - an honest, transparent examination of what our government has done in success but also in failure of the American people.

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Apr 14, 2020

Let's not talk about the other guy in the White House who is not leading. Let's talk about these profiles in leadership which are going to take us where we need to go which is to at some point get back to normal and be healthy and be safe.

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Apr 14, 2020

Later, California U.S. senator and potential presidential running mate, Kamala Harris, on what her state may look like as it emerges into a very different kind of normal.

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Apr 14, 2020

He is doing it on purpose so this would be the lead question to deflect from the fact that he has failed to be a leader during a pandemic, a public health crisis, an economic crisis facing our country.

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Oct 17, 2019

I think the range includes not only abuse of power and perhaps misstatement and mischaracterization of his role and responsibilities, but I also really do wonder just instinctively whether there's been bribery associated with Giuliani's…

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