CNN’s Juliette Kayyem: Kamala Harris Was a ‘Flow Czar,’ Not a Border Czar

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>> All.
>> And her name.
>> Was her name.
>> Was.
>> She dropped the biggest bomb of them all. I mean, let me just read this. This part where she talks about the border czar narrative. She says it seems as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more. When Republicans mischaracterized my role as border czar. No one in the White House comms team helped me to effectively push back and explain what I had really been tasked to do. Instead, I shouldered the blame for the porous border, an issue that had proved intractable for democratic and Republican administrations alike. No one around the president advocated give her something she can win with.
>> She I just because looking on the outside and someone who does homeland security, she was never the border czar. She was the mag. She was the flows czar. She was to look at.
>> Flow across.
>> The border.
>> Czar, because.
>> If you know the field, there‘s a difference between flow and enforcement. And so so let me tell.
>> You this.
>> But let me ask.
>> You, this got.
>> Stuck with DHS bad narrative, and I agree with her.
>> I also think she outranks the cabinet. Okay, so in what world? Why is that distinction even a distinction in a White House? I‘m not understanding.
>> I mean.
>> If you are president and you understand that immigration is the country looks at immigration as a whole issue and they don‘t care about the root causes.
>> I agree.
>> With you. I agree with you there.
>> But I wasn‘t.
>> I wasn‘t supportive.
>> Of the Biden Administration.
>> I just.
>> Think that, I mean.
>> From a policy.
>> Perspective that feels like, okay, that makes sense. But from a political perspective that never made any sense.
>> I am with you, but also from an operational perspective, the the, the Biden Administration finally changed six months before the election. But there were Democrats very critical of them as well, because they had gotten it in their head that it was just like a Fox News narrative about the borders, the the you cannot have a country that even if who‘s experiencing immigration is out of control and and Trump walked into that