I think that Donald Trump has really ruined many of us because he's ruined it all

because now we every interview is not supposed to be adversarial

there are times where the interviewer does have to get in the proverbial tale of the interviewee because they are not

answering the question you know lives are on the line like there are many many

many many things but like in general why does every interview have to be

adversarial I'm not saying we got to be buddy, but you don't have to have an attitude every single

way you ask a question. You don't have to, it doesn't have to be like, rah!

Hello, welcome to why Why Is This Happening with me your host Chris Hayes.

We've got just a few weeks until the election.

Kamala Harris, if you haven't noticed, has been doing a lot of media.

I'm talking to you on Wednesday, October 9th, which is the day that Hurricane

Milton is about to hit Florida.

It has not hit yet, but today the Vice President actually called into the

weather channel, she called into CNN to talk about storm preparations,

she's been on Colbert, she's been on the

View, she's been on the Call Her Daddy podcast. And it's interesting because there's a

lot of back and forth about her press strategy. Is she talking to media enough?

Is she talking to the right people?

Yada yada.

And it occurred to me that I don't actually really

know how to think about this.

Like I've been a journalist my whole life. as a journalist you just have one way of thinking about which is I want you to agree to an interview with me. That's it. There's no there's nothing more complicated than that. It's like I want you to say yes if I want to talk to you and I'm bummed if you say no and I'm going to try to hound you.

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