We start with a major announcement from Senator Kamala Harris.

I stand before you today to announce my candidacy

for President Alvin Aida's sake.

I compare my record to any prosecutor,

any elected prosecutor in this country

in terms of the work that I have done

to reform the criminal justice system.

Welcome to Deconstructed.

I'm Mehedi Hassan.

Another week, another Democratic player,

as their candidacy for President of the United States.

But while plenty of liberals have welcomed Senator Kamala Harris' announcement

that she's running and even dubbed her the front runner,

some on the left are pretty worried about her controversial record

as a prosecutor back home in California.

I have not seen any real evidence that she is who she says she is.

She says she's a progressive prosecutor that is not the case.

That's my guest, Laura Baselon,

law professor and author of a recent

damning and viral New York Times op-ed,

headlined Kamala Harris was not a progressive prosecutor.

I'm also joined to discuss the Harris record

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