Candidate and considered one of the best orators of his time. You to the front page of todays New York Times, headline there, Kamala Harris joins in ticket. Biden ticket. A 55yearold daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants. That picture of her on the front page of the New York Times. We are getting your reaction to joe biden making his vp pick. The lines are open. Epublicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 debbie, flint, michigan. Democrats. You are up. Caller i think it is a great pick. Picking Kamala Harris is a not to the law and order crowd. I am a retired paralegal. I think that joe may have done this to kind of put a damper on the defund the police. I dont think any of the moderate democrats believe that. Kamala harris wants them to all wear the body cameras. I think that is a great idea. John, one more thing. You hear a lot of republicans pointing out people talking about defunding the police. I agree, the fund is not the proper word for it. However, the republicans have sat by and watched donald trump defund the epa, defund the consumer action bureau, defund the pandemic office. He has defunded the state department by not putting people in there. Thes essentially defunding Inspector General positions by firing them. Great pickk it is a for joe. I think a lot of people do not believe in defunding the police. I live in flint, michigan. We dont have horrible crime, but we still have crime. Theyve gotten that largely under control. I think flint, michigan, a lot of people ought to come to flint and see how we live here. We get along better than these it is more like 20 black and 80 white. Host that is debbie in flint, michigan. Bedford, texas. Republican. Her thoughts on the pick . I really love cspan and i really want to tell you why. It is because of cspan that i have seen Kamala Harris legislate in the senate and im thankful for that, because even though she is a democrat i know who she is. She is a good person and you guys do a great service. Met tony, since you gave the opening, Kamala Harris appearing on cspan 195 times. That is how many times she is in our Video Library. We open that up for anyone to view a special page highlighting her appearances at cspan. Org. Caller do you know who else is . All of the other people who represent our government. Thank you, cspan. I dont need snapshots from the internet or fox or any of the news channels when i can get cspan. Thank you. Host thank you, tony. Appreciate that. Helen. Reidsville, north carolina. Independent. Caller ive got several things i want to comment on. , i think sometimes you let people talk way too long and deprive other people of their opinion. I would also like people to know agreement withan Kamala Harris when that nondisclosure agreement of something that happened, i think when she was out in california. This woman will do and say anything to get elected. Does when that she she was working in california is just absolutely pathetic. Host what is an example where you think she flipflopped . About, well, she talks you know, the police and then now they want to, oh, it is not defunding the police. Humiliated mr. Kavanaugh in the hearings. Her own daddy made a remark about her. I would like for people to find out about this disclosure agreement she signed. Dont let people talk so long, sir. You asked a question, let them answer it and go on. Some people go for five minutes. You are depriving other people to voice their opinion. Thank you and you have a good day. Host you have a great day too, helen. It comes to Kamala Harris policies, the headline from the times today, she is aligned with biden, that is left of center. You were talking about policing and justice issues. This is what they had to say. Ms. Harris released plans outlining her vision for criminal Justice Reform and how to stand up for black america. As part of those plans, ms. Harris called for ending mass incarceration, cash bail, and the Death Penalty, creating a , making attending historically black colleges free for students. Stand on Capital Punishment has drawn scrutiny as San Franciscos District Attorney ms. Harris, as attorney general she appealed this decision, declaring californias Death Penalty law unconstitutional. Perhaps the most memorable moment of her Campaign Came during the first round of the democratic primary debates when ms. Harris confronted mr. Biden about his recollections of working with segregationist in the senate. Up about hered personal history with school busing. [video clip] there was personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their thetation and career on segregation of race in this country. Butit was not only that, you also worked with them to oppose busing. It was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. And she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me. So, i will tell you that on this subject it cannot be an intellectual debate among the crowds. Have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly. As attorney general i was proud to put in place a requirement that all of my special agents would wear body cameras and keep those cameras on. Biden namedday joe Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election. Taking your phone calls, getting your thoughts about that news. Sherry, dallas, texas. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller i love the idea that biden chose harris. This is wonderful. It is time for a change and a change is coming. Think this makes people any more likely to vote for joe biden . Do you think this changes the dynamic of the race . Caller yes. He get that not only do more votes for black people, but he get votes for white people, men, young people who are coming out of high school excuse me, coming out of college. I think this is an awesome decision overall rate i am overwhelmed with the decision they made. This is great. You can really tell that times are changing. And it is time for times to change. Host i should note that joe biden and Kamala Harris set to appear today in wilmington, delaware. We are expecting to see that event at some point today. Cspan. Org for listings and timings on that. , republican. Lorida good morning, you are next. Caller good morning. How is it going . Host going well. Caller the first thing i would like to say is, the democratic devious the party of tactics and subterfuge. All they want to do is get in power. What they charge the conservative party and the principles is that they are guilty of what they are attacking us for. Because joe biden is a racist, Kamala Harriss antipolice. She was an attorney general, so it seems to me that they are getting everything backwards. They want open borders. Down in california this is , they the high school had a meeting for parents. And the parents who could not speak spanish had earphones on to interpret the meeting that was held in spanish. I think this country is going to the dogs. Anything goes is what the Democratic Party stands for, as long as they get in power. It is sad because this country was not built on those kinds of machinations that they are putting in place right now. Host sean is next. Baltimore. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to say that i am extremely disappointed in this pic. Im so disappointed to the point let me just say, i am a black trump. Does not support this might make me support from. Im tired of the pandering. Kamala harris is farleft. It is ridiculous. This pic really angered me, what sheid you hear said about health care . She wanted to get rid of insurance. Then she went back on it. He knew with the question was. He wanted to get rid of insurance. She wanted state run insurance. Also, she hates school choice. I am for school choice. I like public schools, but i think in the black community, in the hood, we need school choice. Kavanaugh, treated that was ridiculous. Im not saying kavanaugh is in a , ite, but at the same time was no type of evidence. They couldnt prove he did do it, so if you didnt like the man, just vote no and keep it moving. Host who would you have liked to have seen . Caller maybe jennings. What made me mad about joe biden was, why did he get pushed into this corner saying, hey, when they ask him about, are you going to pick a woman . He could have said, im going to pledge to pick the best candidate. It is getting crazy. Im getting tired of the democrats, im getting tired of the last left. Left thinks they can talk for black people. 81 of black people want police. Let me tell you, i used to be all for democrats but it is really, these leftists, the democrats will not condemn anti fa. These people are out of their minds. They need to look at what happened to the soviet union. They need to look at cuba. It is bananas. Woke,woke folks, they are but they dont know what malcolm x said about the white liberals. I see it happening. My whole point is, Kamala Harris it. Joe biden, i cant do im not voting joe biden. I cant say im going to vote for trump. I most definitely im not voting democrat. Host that is sean in baltimore. Sean said he could have seen himself supporting val demings. Here is a few of her tweets from yesterday after the harris pic was announced. A girlings writing, for who grew up poor, black, and female and the south, to be considered has been an incredible honor. She writes, to see a black woman inated promises to ticket restore americas faith that we can defeat covid19 and restore honor and integrity to the white house. And expand access to health care and opportunity for all. Some of the comments from val demings. She had several more tweets yesterday. Charles is in north carolina, a democrat. What did you think of the pic . Caller i thought the pic was pretty good. I think she will do a good job. But to comment on the guy who just talked about, he might not vote, ive never seen anything so sickening to hear. Weve got a man of the white house doing whatever he wants to do. Then you find people trying to do the right thing not saying she is perfect, but we know what we got in the white house. Saying youre not going to vote, that is stupid. You want to put the same man back in there doing the same thing even worse than what he is doing now, then you were going to say youre not going to vote . Dont go vote. You dont need to be here. If you cant pass judgment on right and wrong and you see trump doing wrong, but you want to say you dont want to go vote. Please, dont do that. , ifard another person say it picked a black woman, what is wrong with a woman . Theres nothing wrong with a woman helping to run the country. Maybe that is what is needed, heaven helpaid me, then joe biden picks a black woman. It shows that it is not like it used to be. Republicanske the have, just white folks on the ticket. Joe biden shows that we can be diverse and have blackandwhite working together. Host that is charles in north carolina. In pennsylvania. Go ahead. Caller hello. A collar on the earlier segment the tape ofou show harrissi gabbardkamala during the primary debate. You are always quick to pull up those, but i havent seen it yet. Are you going to show that . Host i dont have it at my fingertips, but explain why you would like to see it and what you think it shows about Kamala Harris. Caller i think it is a good tape to show. People need to see it. Host why do you think people need to see it . Caller Tulsi Gabbard lays out everything that anyone needs to know about Kamala Harris. This is jim, brownsville, oregon. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. It is amazing, and im so happy about the pic. Thist think trump and administration is happy, that is for sure. Just got off, by this lastrior to gentleman made it so clear. Those guys are so afraid of harris because harris is going that thisre administration answers the question as to why he cannot say anything bad about putin but can say everything bad about the people running against him, his own intelligence agency. What is it about him . What is it with him and putin he cant say anything about this man . He is scared to death of him. What does putin have on him . Look, over 160,000 people are dead. Most of them are senior citizens. They are still dying because of what this man did not do. You know . Who wants him back in the office . Why would anyone put this person back in the office . He is not for america. He is not for our democracy and he calls people nasty and say, people hate america. He does nothing for america. It is all about himself. How can we put this man back in the office for another four years . Going to be great to have someone in the office now that people treat black people and who loves america. That is going to be wonderful to see again. Seen this who haven;t in so long, theyre going to realize how terrible this president has been. Please, america, please do not put this man, this administration pens, none of them dont put them back into office. Another four years, we will not have a democracy. This morning i told the previous call it that i did not have that clip. Of Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard. I do now. Thanks to my producer. Here is that clip, about 40 seconds of it. [video clip] im deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples the site, but she put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences. She used them as cheap labor for california. [applause] place thatsystem in impacts poor people in the worst kinds of ways. Host the august 2019 democratic debate that cnn debate. To your phone calls. This is john in jonesboro, georgia. Republican. Your next. Caller good morning. Doesntler from oregon know his politics, i can assure you of that. Trump has been the best president we have had since lincoln. Blacksdone more for the than obama and biden ever did in eight years. Im going to tell you right now, the reason that he didnt pick susan rice, she has got too much baggage. Especially when it comes out atet she was in on the spyg on the trump campaign. Das harris was the worst that the state of california ever had. She locked up more blacks in one year than any other district gave themnd she sentences way beyond what it called for. Georgia,t is john in mentioning President Trump. President trump discussed the Kamala Harris pic yesterday at his press briefing. Here is what the president had to say. Concerned,s kemal is she is a big taxrazor raiser. She has got a lot of difficult things that she is going to have to explain. Plus, she was very, very nasty to one of the reasons that surprised me she was probably nastier even than pocahontas to joe biden. She was very disrespectful to joe biden and it is hard to pick somebody that is that disrespectful. She said things during the debates, during the democrat primary debates that were horrible about slippage of. Sleepy joke. Host that was President Trump at the white house. For more from senator Kamala Harris you can go to our website at cspan. Org. Some 195 appearances in the Video Library that you can browse. Among them, the senators comments shortly before the chambers final vote on the impeachment trial of President Trump back in february. This is senator harris. Justice in this trial as yet another example of the way that our system of justice has worked , or more accurately, failed to work. He is the thing. Frederick douglas also told us struggle,here is no there is no progress. He went on to say that power concedes nothing without a demand. And he said it never did and never will. To wrestle power away from the few people at the very their power, the American People are going to have to fight for the voice of the people and the power of the people. We must go into the darkness to shine the light and we cannot be deterred and we cannot be overwhelmed and we cannot ever. Ive up on our country we cannot ever give up on the ideals that are the foundation for our system of democracy. We can never give up on the meaning of truth, justice. It is part of our history, our past, clearly our present, and makeuture that in order to these values real, in order to make the promise of our country real we can never take it for granted. There will be moments in time and history where we experience incredible disappointment, but the greatest disappointment of up. Will be if we give fighting ever give up for who we know we are. Bemust always see who we can , unburdened by who we have been. That is the strength of our nation. Host that was senator harris on the senate floor back in february of this year. Back to your phone calls this morning. This is ruth in illinois, an independent. Good morning. Caller good morning. On Kamala Harris, she said if she became president she would write an executive order to take our guns away. And she wants health care run by the government. And if you have private health care, she will take that away. It will be all government. Should haven , but for onlyher one reason she didnt give the rest of the story on biden on the bussing. Why he did not want the bus was because he was afraid his kids would grow up in a segregated jungle. That is Kamala Harris and joe biden. Host and that is ruth in illinois. When it comes to gun control measures, the New York Times story, taking a deep dive into senator harris policy issues takes a look at gun control saying, ms. Harris also has committed to using her executive an arrayput in place of guncontrol measures like mandatory background checks and more stringent galatians of gun manufacturers. She also promised to close a loophole that allows some domestic abusers to bu