Is Kamala Harris Being Set Up to Fail?
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🗓️ 8 June 2021
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Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly urged the Biden administration to give her a portfolio -- a clear way to contribute to the work of the White House while also building her political reputation. But now that she’s been tasked with the immigration crisis and the protection of voting rights, is she getting more than a vice president alone can handle?
Guest: Edward-Isaac Dovere, reporter for The Atlantic.
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| 0:00.0 | Now to Vice President Kamala Harris' first international trip since taking office, going to Latin America. |
| 0:09.8 | If you flip on the TV this week, you're going to hear a lot about Kamala Harris. |
| 0:13.9 | On the road, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived. |
| 0:17.1 | Right now she's in Guatemala to address the migrant surge at the southern border. |
| 0:22.3 | After being stuck in D.C. during the pandemic, the vice president is on her first international |
| 0:27.5 | trip, meeting with the leaders of Guatemala and Mexico to talk about how to prevent the flow of |
| 0:32.7 | migrants north into the United States. Going to Latin America on a major mission to reduce the flow of migrants to the U.S. |
| 0:40.3 | border. |
| 0:41.1 | This is all part of her new role on immigration. |
| 0:44.4 | But it's hard to know what to call this job. |
| 0:47.0 | She's not the borders are. |
| 0:48.5 | She's not fixing the Kafkaesque bureaucracy immigrants face when they come to this country. |
| 0:57.7 | When aristocracy, immigrants' face when they come to this country. When this was announced, her new role, they said she's in charge of the border. |
| 1:03.7 | Right. And that was a mistake. |
| 1:08.1 | Isaac Dover has been following Kamala Harris' life as a politician for a long time now. |
| 1:14.9 | That was not how Joe Biden had conceived of it, but that was what came out and that now months |
| 1:21.5 | later continues to haunt her, and I assume we'll continue to be a problem for her. So this is like |
| 1:26.6 | a foreign policy assignment. Yes, and it's like this be a problem for her. So this is like a foreign policy assignment? |
| 1:28.3 | Yes. |
| 1:28.8 | And it's like this is a really complicated issue. |
| 1:31.1 | You take this piece of it. |
| 1:34.9 | But there were some issues that happened right out of the gate. |
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