Just days before she formally accepts her party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,

Vice President Kamala Harris is unveiling key policy proposals.

For that and more, we turn to the analysis tonight of Brooks and K. Part, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks,

and Jonathan K. Part, associate editor for the Washington Post. It's great to see you both.

So Jonathan, Kamala Harris,

as we mentioned, she's hoping to sharpen her economic message with a focus on cutting costs.

Your paper, The Washington Post, referred to it as an aggressively populist economic agenda.

She's talking about eliminating medical debt for millions of Americans, a cap on prescription drug costs, a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers.

Give us some of your top takeaways from the speech and her policy rollout.

Well, clearly, as we know from the polls, that the economy is either issued number one, two, or three for the American people. So it makes sense that she would use her first policy speech to focus on not just economics

and just a piece of economics, because she did say at the top of her remarks that there are a bunch

of other things that she's going to roll out later, but she wanted to focus on this very narrow issue,

which are issues that the American people say is top of mind for them, cost of living,

and everything that relates to that, whether it's drug prices or rents or grocery prices.

And so, you know, whether she will be able to fulfill a lot of these promises, that remains to be

seen.

A lot of it also has to do with the makeup of the next Congress.

But the thing that is top of mind for me is that not only is she using prices and consumer

prices and what the American voters are thinking of, where the economy

hits them hardest in the pocketbook.

This comes after the Financial Times University of Michigan Ross School of Business put

out a poll, I think it was on Saturday or Sunday just over the weekend that showed that

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