Kamala Harris shuts down Bret Baier as he performs MAGA hits in Fox News interview

In a contentious interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Fox News host Bret Baier wasted no time in pestering the vice president with a long list of topics that former President Donald Trump often raised during the campaign.

Immediately after the interview began, Baier began by asking, “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your government has released into the country in the last three and a half years?”

Harris began a carefully worded answer, but Baier kept interrupting her before she could finish a sentence.

“It is a rough estimate that 6 million people were released into the country,” emphasized Baier.

“Let me finish for a second and I’ll get to the question, I promise you,” said an irritated Harris. “I was just starting to answer.”

Harris deflected by blaming Trump for the failure of the bipartisan border security bill, which was rejected in Congress in May. But Baier also pressed Harris on the deaths of Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley, three murder victims whose alleged killers crossed the border during Biden’s presidency before the bill was negotiated.

He then played a clip in which Nungaray’s mother blames the Biden-Harris administration for her daughter’s death.

When asked if she owed her families an apology, Harris replied: “I am so sorry for your loss. I’m so sorry for your loss. Sincerely.”

In a strange twist, Baier then questioned the vice president about her policy on gender-affirming surgeries for federal prisoners and played a Trump campaign ad that accused Harris of supporting “taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery for prisoners.”

Harris accused her rival’s campaign of throwing stones into glass houses, noting that this policy had already been practiced during the Trump administration.

“I will abide by the law. And it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed. You probably know that there is now a public report that these surgeries were available to people in the federal prison system out of medical necessity under the Donald Trump administration.”

Baier noted that the Trump campaign denies that gender confirmation surgeries took place during his presidency. In 2022, a judge’s order paved the way for the first federal prisoner to undergo gender-affirming surgery after a four-year legal battle.

Harris declined to answer whether she would continue to support funding for transgender care for federal prisoners, instead accusing the Trump campaign of focusing on an issue that is “really pretty distant.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, which represented the first inmate, said about 1,200 additional federal inmates needed gender-inclusive care. According to the most recent data from the Bureau of Prisons, there are currently 158,892 federal inmates.

Harris notably refused to respond to Baier’s comments when she noted that President Biden’s “mental faculties” were declining, instead repeatedly insisting, “Joe Biden is not on the ballot. And Donald Trump is.”

Harris spent most of the interview trying to sell the Fox host on the idea that Americans are ready to move on from Trump. When Baier pointed out that Democrats have held the presidency for three and a half years, she explained that she wanted to “put behind us the last decade in which we were burdened with the rhetoric of Donald Trump.”

But Baier seemed to point to Trump’s popularity with the Republican electorate as evidence that this was not the case. “Why, if he is as bad as you say, is half of this country now supporting this person who could be the 47th President of the United States?” This was later followed by the question: “Are they misguided, the 50%?” Are you stupid?”

“Oh God, I would never say that about the American people,” Harris said, before pointing to Trump’s recent comments about using the military against Democrats — who he called “the enemy within.”

Baier played a clip at a town hall event the same day in which Trump dismissed that criticism and instead accused Democrats of threatening him with “false investigations” and “weaponizing the government.”

But Harris was outraged. “Bret, I’m sorry, that’s not what he said about the ‘enemy within,’ what he repeated when talking about the American people,” Harris said. “That’s not what you just showed.”

“Here’s the bottom line: He repeated it many times,” Harris said after further back-and-forth with the Fox host. “You and I both know that, and you and I both know that he has talked about using the American military against the American people. He has spoken about persecuting people who participate in peaceful protests. He talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.”

The two continued to argue past each other for the rest of the interview. “I hope you were able to say what you wanted to say about Donald Trump,” Baier said as he tried to end the 30-minute interview.

The two continued to argue past each other for the rest of the interview.

“I hope you were able to say what you wanted to say about Donald Trump,” Baier said as he tried to end the 30-minute interview.

“There is more to say. I have a lot more to say,” Harris interjected.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.