60 Minutes Host: “We Are Dealing with the Real World”

Kamala Harris Falls Apart on 60 Minutes After Host Peppers Her With Surprisingly Tough Questions Regarding Her Economic Plan and Tells Her: “We Are Dealing with the Real World” | HARRIS: My plan is about saying that when you invest in small business, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy.

WHITAKER: Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was, how are you going to pay for it?

HARRIS: Well, one of the things, I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share of taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations, and I plan on making that fair.

WHITAKER: But we are dealing with the real world here.

HARRIS: But the real world includes…

WHITAKER: How are you going to get this through Congress?

HARRIS: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about because their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.