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The Beat with Ari Melber

Harris slams Trump for ducking interviews and debates

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts The Beat on Tuesday, October 8th, and reports on the 2024 presidential candidates' media appearances, Bob Woodward's new commentary on Donald Trump, and Elon Musk campaigning with Trump. Juanita Tolliver, Melanie Zanona, Sarah Matthews, and Jason Johnson join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

I'm Ari Meller. It is Tuesday, exactly one month out from the election.

0:05.0

And I could tell you off top, one of the most common maggot talking points about

0:09.5

Kamala Harris that you've probably heard is taking a hard fall today.

0:14.0

Trump has been arguing that she wasn't doing any or enough press interviews,

0:18.0

and you'll remember when she first stepped up as the nominee,

0:22.0

it was a frenetic stretch where she launched a new

0:24.5

campaign, a convention, a fundraising operation, and picked a running mate.

0:29.7

All of that over several weeks faster than anyone in history because of the switch

0:34.0

and trouble and his allies had been hammering that

0:36.6

she wasn't doing interviews then or enough they've been hammering this line of attack

0:40.9

well the harder they come the harder they fall one and all as Jimmy Cliff famously

0:46.8

put it respect because that would apply right now this magga talking point is

0:52.3

taking a hard fall as Harris steps up to

0:55.4

journalistic interviews while Trump ducks them like on 60 minutes. And Harris

1:00.8

also leading a media blitz this week from classic forums like the view.

1:05.0

I haven't seen Trump on there recently to Howard Stern, which I'll get to in a minute,

1:09.0

to these new media podcasts where she's engaging with different independent media hosts and

1:14.8

there sometimes younger audiences.

1:18.1

So that talking point has taken a hard fall and here is just some of the Harris tour.

1:25.0

Kamala Harris has been a candidate for president for just two and a half months.

1:29.0

We are thrilled that joining us right now for her very first talk show appearance.

1:36.5

And Vice President, Alex, welcome to call her daddy.

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