Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” complained Thursday that Republican nominee Donald Trump “would never be treated” the way Vice President Kamala Harris was during her interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier.
Harris sat down for a rare interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Wednesday night where she got pressed with hard-hitting questions on illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, transgender surgeries for minors and whether she would be a change candidate. Co-host Willie Geist said Trump would never have received these types of questions during a Fox News interview, while noting that the questions 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.
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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, to which the vice president said she is “sorry for [their] loss.”
Brzezinski accused Baier of rudely interrupting Harris to allegedly “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.”
Harris’ 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 hard-hitting interviews have been with Baier and CBS News’ Bill Whitaker on “60 Minutes.
During the Sept. 10 presidential debate, Trump got fact-checked by ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis several times while many of Harris’ false claims were left uncorrected. Harris falsely claimed that Trump called Neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people” following the Charlottesville riot in 2017, wrongly said he wanted to ban in vitro fertilization (IVF) and that he supported The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
