Harris Expresses “Frustration” with Recent Interview When She Was Asked Who “The Real President” Was

Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her “frustration” with a caller interrogation on Comedy Central’s Tha God’s Honest Truth. The show’s host, Charlamagne Tha God, had asked her wherever the “pushback” was connected Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), who withdrew himself from negotiations and efficaciously killed the Build Back Better bill.

“Injustice,” Harris said to CBS’s Margaret Brennan, explaining her “frustration” with the question. “I don’t similar unfairness. And that is 1 of the things that volition benignant of cause maine to say, ‘OK,’ you know. Some things are reasonably innocuous, but unfairness successful a mode that tin beryllium hurtful to someone, you know, that’s wherefore I became a prosecutor.”

The interrogation took spot connected December 17.

During the interview, Charlamagne Tha God said Manchin’s absorption to the administration’s docket is “hurting Black radical successful particular.”

Harris responded by pointing to Republicans successful the Senate, who she said are “consistently and unanimously lasting successful the mode of progress.”

When asked who “the existent President of this country” is, Manchin oregon Biden, Harris said Charlamagne Tha God was “talking similar a Republican” and said, emphatically, that the President of the United States is Joe Biden.

“C’mon Charlamagne, c’mon it’s Joe Biden. No nary no nary no … nary no no, it’s Joe Biden, and don’t commencement talking similar a Republican astir asking whether oregon not he’s President,” she said astatine the time. “And it’s Joe Biden, and I’m Vice President and my sanction is Kamala Harris. And the world is due to the fact that we are successful office, we bash the things similar the kid taxation credit, which is going to trim Black kid poorness by 50%—on way to bash that.”