Shes the 1st black woman to become a u. S. Vice president ial pick the time of increasing racial tension what role will come along how was played and what she helped joe bidens bid for the white house this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. U. S. Senator coming to harris has joined george bidens president ial campaign bidens choice of a black woman of indian descent as his Vice President comes at a crucial time for the United StatesPresident Donald Trump is facing mounting pressure over systemic racism and Police Brutality has also been accused of mismanaging the covert 19 pandemic and during the 1st Campaign Event together biden and hire us went after president s track records they said trump has failed to lead the nation and run the economy into the ground well bring in our guests in a moment 1st this report from my county washington. Harriss life is about to change now in the media spotlight as she leaves her home in d. C. On her way to appear with joe biden my fellow americans and limited use to you for the 1st time your next price pressure United States comma parents problem or florida or comma harris had built a reputation as one of the most formidable voices in the senate and she went straight on the attack against a president who she says has failed the country during this time of pandemic and whom she accuses of responsibility for the fact that an american dies of cope at 19 every 80 seconds this virus has impacted almost every country but theres a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation its because of trumps failure to take it seriously from the start earlier there were harsh words from joe biden about President Trumps response to his nominee as Vice President has already started his attacks calling karma quote nasty. Whiny about how shes quote mean to his appointees its no surprise because whining is where donald trump does best better than any president American History is anyone surprised entreprise a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board President Trump says he did not watch the briefing but again expressed surprise dead joe bidens choice of someone who sharply attacked him during the Democratic Party president ial primaries she said horrible things about him horrible things. And she mocked him openly mocked him thats why i thought there was a very risky back because im sure there will be played back not necessarily by me but others will be played back there would be president and his running mate have now got their Campaign Underway a campaign that in this time of social distancing and mitigation measures will be very different from any of the 55 year old has run before mike hanna aljazeera washington so senator kamler harris she was born in Oakland California to an indian born mother and jamaican born father harris was 1st elected as District Attorney of San Francisco into 1003 and 7 years later she became californias attorney general in 2016 harris was elected to the United States senate and last year she joined the race for the democratic nomination for president before dropping out in december for lack of support harris became a leading voice in Justice Reform while in the senate and the in the wake of George Floyds death but her critics say she didnt do enough to investigate Police Shootings while she was californias attorney general. Lets bring in our guests in Sandy Springs georgia we have republican analyst general king in stand poor minnesota richard painter who served as chief ethics lawyer for president george w. Bush and is now professor at university of Minnesota Law School in woman turn we have Trevor Hunnicutt a Political Correspondent embedded with the Biden Campaign for the Reuters News Agency one welcome to you all sandy lets go to the very heart of the matter here by pickin kamler harris as his running mate is biding betting for black voters. Absolutely i feel that buying things sent this is going to bring in black voters but lets just be clear you know kemal has rang in like voters in her own race she had to drop out or be hit 2020 and so my concern with this is that i dont think that the process in which he chose her is one of honor i think its one thats a bit insulting im so come our harriott is a woman who put it seemed a 100 people in prison who are having marijuana when she got there she goes oh i have an interview and jokes about smoking marijuana herself and work to connect the black this is who she is and she accuses him of being a segregationist she accuses him of where she says she sides with the women who were to use him raping them so and now is the new the great guy and hes exactly who we need for the country this is not convincing to anyone and i think at the end of the day we i see why he chose her in the sense that he was pretty much blackmailed into choosing her because he was told if he doesnt choose a black woman that he wont win this race and that he will not have the support of any of the people in that unity which i mean i understand but its not been im not impressed i see your point lets go to richard lets put it this way richard was the National Debate about racial inequality deciders of him by his pick for miss harris. I think shes a very good choice for a lot of reasons i believe she will be a leader in our such a struggle for racial party the right steps but she was a very competent effective prosecutor in california and its amazing to hear republicans complain about that too many people generate all of her drugs which is exactly what dr oz and bush and. Shoes and bury the prosecutor feels too independent such as myself i was republican 30 years a got out of the Republican Party because of that leadership donald trump and come irises someone is right the middle road and appeals to me and tenets because she was a very much a law and order attorney general in california and shes an excellent prosecutor and shes are weighing in of course on whats going on with the trump ministration and all the corruption as for the allegations against joe biden the only person made allegations against joe biden or any serious as somebody whos written letters basically saying that shes in love with Vladimir Putin i mean thats its laughable to be to hope that this is so a bottom line is we need to focus on a couple of 19 attack 150000 americans and then with corruption in our Justice Department we have a lot of very serious bro in this country well talk about those in detail trevor now winning black voters is one thing but ensuring significant black voter turnout in the election i think this is going to be the biggest challenge facing by then and harris. Oh youve youve youve hit the most important topic there i mean there is no guarantee that by adding harris to the ticket that is that it changes anything in terms of turnout and its important to remember that when Hillary Clinton lost she was the democratic nominee in 2016 when she lost one of the main reasons that that happened is that we saw in this country the 1st decline in black voter turnout in 2 decades and it was a decline of about 5 percent but thats really one of the things that made it difficult for her to win because she really needed and a number of votes in critical states that she just she didnt have and so thats really the big question for provide is how can he get how can he get those numbers up how can he get that excitement up and the campaign is really hoping that not just with with black voters but with with women who shes shes polled well with even republican she polls better than biden with republicans but just in general shell excite. More voters and get more people out to the polls gentle if you look the other by then how is tickets are one hand versus trump and stick it on the other with biding fairy eloquently ticket ating the problems the United States of america is facing and this this should be a source of major concern for the republican establishment. No not in our and before i answer that question i want to respect and let it be our richard when you stated that republicans like the people in jail were have issued a lot of people when were looking at a president who as of today i think theres a mouth that an 1000 individuals have been released under the 1st acts that actually we are now correcting them the state and democratic leader joe biden from the 1904 crimea we had a nice week with the proper perspective and as of right now i dont think that the Republican Party needs to be concerned at all and i think were in a good place i think that in the day when i look at joe biden i dont see someone whos changing in the president ial you know who youre going to get in the you like him or you down your personality in the strong wind and sometimes arrest people the wrong way but he sticks to it and he said what he said what he said and when it comes to these 2 individuals a lot and they say whatever they need to say in order to get what they think is going to harness support richard lets talk a little bit about some of the challenges that biden and harris might face in the near future theres absolutely no doubt in the mind of many people that Bernie Sanders the progressives have in a way or another shaped govern ised the momentum of the Democratic Party over the last few months for many progressives those on the left they dont seem to be pretty much excited about the potential for 2 moderates leading the nation well and know that may be true but of course i dont know but theres a left over republican in the center of the political spectrum and they buy america that there is strongly appeal to those of us in the center of the political spectrum oh no we want law in the water you know our country are we brought the experiments prosecutor is Vice President as an excellent choice we want a president Vice President one of the United States not the back pocket of land in the pool would invite foreign country to interfere in our elections we just got. Lets go on for years and moderates and conservatives are absolutely furious because one of my good friend in law School Classmate church hunt was leading the effort to get donald trump out of office and many many people are more conservative than i am to see the Us Administration as a threat to our National Security so that thats going to be the main issue not when it was stories that can make up a biden and harrison and pretending no brainers when theyre not ok trevor youll be on the campaign trail covering the story as it evolves in different parts of the United States of america is it wise to say those who convince biden to pick a camel or harris were looking into red and purple states places like florida North Carolina i was so and georgia as places where she could tilt the ground in favor of the democrats. Absolutely so the by my Campaign Sees themselves competing in a wider set of states than they initially thought they think that the response to trumps Coronavirus Response has given them more places including more conservative states and they once thought that they could win texas georgia ohio its a little bit hard to tell whether some of that is posturing or whether they actually believe that but what they are going to do is make trump think that he has to compete in all of those states and they think that kamel heiresses is really going to be helpful to them there she polls with women we just did a poll she polls with women better than then joe biden does she pulls with republicans better than biden does. She polls with Younger Voters a little bit better than biden does and nearly 9 out of 10 democrats like her as the Vice President ial nominee and so when you begin to think about how theyre how that how if democrats pull this off if theyre able to win its going to take women women are the largest segment of the voting base here its going to take black voters the most loyal constituency within the Democratic Party who are big big part of states like georgia michigan so so so really if shes able to kind of help put back together that what they call the Obama Coalition the group of voters that put obama into office twice then been really thats what they ate what they think is a winning mixture all right general i understand when you say that you dont see how she can defeat along with biden trump and paris but look at your country never before has the us been so polarized the way it is never before has this debate about racial inequality and racism shaped of the debate to the point where black lives matter has become the talk of the town and suddenly you have camel harriss along with biden a vest critical moment for the United States of america dont you see that as a wake up call. Of that this is the beginning of the end for the trump legacy not an r. So heres the thing i think a lot of people are understanding that whats happening in the black lives Matter Movement not necessarily the message but the movement is not what were in support of were not in support of a marxist mentality or a marxist regime that concept and destroys communities and it or at least condones individuals who do it in destroy community and were all about making sure that we obviously address the topic of Police Brutality which lets be clear when the george lloyd he hit and everyone was a part of this in the our experience emotionally we were all on the same page no matter what the color of your skin we saw our recent reconciliation moment when that moment instead of continuing to have peaceful protests we allow individuals to come in hijack the movement and then we have people who are leaders of the black lives matter who are so proclaimed march so this is not causing any type of unity at odd anything this is what creating that the vision so i think whats happening is that people are realizing that what they thought was going to occur as a result of its not whats happening and we might as well stay with you know richard want to model when it becomes more about bigger issues very complex issues dont you think other democrats would be grappling with convincing people particularly those on the left those asking for the Police Budget to be defended those are seeking for more robust approaches when it comes to the economy criminal justice and all that stuff. Want to be convinced that biden and harris other of the right pick for this i dont notice any prominent politicians certainly not my home state of minnesota sent me i dont defund the police d we just need a Better Police that part let me explain what happened here in minnesota we had a police chief who was running around just ripping cops for trent t. Shirts and encouraging Police Officers to have racist attitudes to endorse political extremism and pushing back very hard and lead the democrats with those 2 because of the influence of the police union pushing back very hard on any investigation of the Police Officers in minneapolis in a very violent culture there are among some of the us a lot of very very good officers that situation blow up and we had protests in the streets most of them peaceful our governor knew how to handle the situation we did not meet donald trump saying that he was going to send his parachute in a minute so that we made it very clear that he did that we have are trying to gently collect and the way donald trump has addressed this National Crisis is very very dangerous this is very similar to what happened in germany i 932 when they sent and federal troops and oppression and then hitler took over the next year and our state can handle our own civil disorder we took care of it we didnt need donald trump they dont need him getting his agents and there are in Portland Oregon wrapping people up the streets and lobby at park what does he do he beats up protesters Peaceful Protesters pepper sprays them so he can go hold up a bible outside a church and thats a church i worship there when i was in the Bush White House and the bishop of that diocese made it very clear that he was not welcome doing that and they did beat up those protesters in order to bring up a Political Campaign photo op to peel the bar right way americans are going to tolerate this if we are to learn lessons from the. 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