“Stupid & Unnecessary” - Chris Cuomo BLASTS Trump For Questioning Kamala Harris’ Race

I do not believe there's going to be a big swing and I do think Trump hurt himself with what he did at the nabj at the black journalist conference when he questioned whether she was Indian or black or whatever that was I think that was stupid and cheap why do you think that because it was stupid and cheap uh that's why the it played to a fundamental ignorance that we have to be better than here okay everybody knows that you can be of mixed race everybody knows this even from ethnic identity when people are Irish and Italian right they'll they'll talk about that about how oh that's my Irish side that's why I like this and oh my Italian side that's why oh my God Chris okay let's play the clip and then go ahead Rob play the clip this is what Chris is talking about including Republicans on Capitol Hill have labeled vice president kamla Harris who is the first black and Asian-American woman to serve as vice president and be on a major party ticket as a Dei hire is that acceptable language to you and will you tell those were Republicans and those supporters to stop it how do you how do you define Dei go ahead how do you define diversity Equity inclusion okay yeah go ahead is that what your definition give me that is that that is Give me a definition then would you give me a definition of that give me a definition of that sir I'm asking you a question Define it Define the Define it for me if you want I just defined it sir do you believe that vice president kamla Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman well I can say no I think it's maybe a little bit different so uh I've known her a long time indirectly not directly very much and she was always of Indian Heritage and she was he's right only promoting Indian Heritage I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black so so I don't know is she Indian or is she black she is always identified as a black colge I respect either one but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way you're saying she's not playing identity politics no that's not what I said I said that she's biracial she has always been biracial he does not know her I don't even know why he pronounces the word black that way black black like what is it is he having a hard time saying it or is is it an Affliction um it was stupid and unnecessary and he got himself in a lot of trouble and justifiably so see I this is the part that I that I think you know folks on your side who I don't have a side the side is the TDS side that that you just don't like this guy right folks from that side so I can't dislike somebody and not have a sickness no no but but hear me out for for me if let me let me flip it on you you know why RFK was attractive to me and and some people at one point are like on the Trump side you know I can't believe you keep talking all these good things about RFK and da d d what side are you on I'm like I'm on the side of a guy that's willing to go and talk to anybody and everybody that's why criticize the santis I moved to his State because of him I'm in Florida because of him and I criticize him so much that everybody eventually is like well you know the Santa dropped this campaign because of you so you know how many times I do you know how many places I go to and they're like you know what you're the reason the scientist you didn't have to ask him that question I said I was asking him the question for him to have some levity and show the fact that he has sense of humor just the same one when Fallon asked Trump is that hair real or not he played with says listen here's the only thing I you play with it but if the people in Rhode Island when I'm going to this fundraiser see my hair is messed up they have to know it's messed up because Jimmy Fallon messed it up boom he won people over and the SST couldn't do that so for me I agree with that the fact that Trump has the brass to go to this event do you think kamalo would ever go to Turning Point USA do you think Cameo would ever have the brass but do you think she has the brass to sit across the table from a Charlie Kirk asking those questions no what are the chances of that Happ but I don't think Charlie Kirk is the equivalent of nabj by the way give me the equivalent of nabj I guess You' go to CPAC okay do you think she'll go to CPAC even though it's not a journalist organization do you think she she would go to CPAC uh never she wouldn't go to me hell no if you're afraid of sitting down with a turning point USA or a CPAC or any of that stuff I don't want you negotiating on behalf of me with all the other guys I'm fine with that it's not just that he went it's what did he do when he went there and by the way it wasn't even the right answer to the question here's what he should have said you shouldn't be asking me this question about whether or not all she is is a diversity hire you should be asking you know you should be asking Joe Biden because Biden saddled her with this he said I'm picking a woman yep and what he should woman of color well then later it became that right he said that about uh Supreme Court Justice which is again wrong he shouldn't have done it that way at least he was being a transparent about it he should have picked Harris if that's who they wanted to pick and then said I'm picking her for this reason this reason this reason and it matters that it's a black woman it matters to me that would have been proper and just and you wouldn't have saddled her with just being uh race and gender so that's the answer that Trump should have given but instead he pivoted to what he thought would be more helpful to him and hurtful to her which is otherizing her and I think it just made him seem really out of touch because if you don't know that being biracial is a thing then I don't know who you're catering to so yeah it's good that he showed up it also showed who he is I actually agree with Trump for the most part and I and I sort of agree with you and I'll tell you why she was a Dei hire period full stop when Joe Biden announced who he is whose running rate is going to be he said I am picking a woman of color I actually literally think he said a black woman where I think Trump messed up should look it up he find that yes but hold on let me ask this question but where I think he messed up was getting in the weeds that is she black is she Indian is she black no one cares about that they care about the fact that she's actually unqualified that that she was anointed the Presidential nominee she wasn't there and this was also a month ago when he didn't really know how to attack her I actually think he's doing a good job of calling her comrade Kamala and you even talked about how he uh took some shots at her economic policies and the borders are thing let's it's undeniable so the point is I think you got to get away from the identity politic think the black the Indian doesn't nobody cares she's unqualified The Border's a mess her economic policy is a nothing Burger that's where he needs to go how do you think Trump should attack kamla Harris look what what I want to see him do will not be the best way for him to win the election okay because what wins the election in our current environment especially in a grievance election is here's why she's worse here's why you should be afraid of her here are her deficiencies I believe that that may help him win the election but we all lose if you can get to a place where it is a battle of who's going to be better for you not because this person is going to destroy democracy or take away gender but because I actually believe that this tax cut can be done that they're going to offset it in a way where it doesn't balloon debt and that's going to be cool for me it's going to be put money in my pocket I like these ideas I want to flip it where you know what I don't really like her him but that's going to be better for me if we can get to that that would be awesome um but it doesn't work as well Adam it just doesn't when you do ad buys okay I've been in the room when you're doing the adby the ratio is at least 5 to2 negative to positive proposition ads positive proposition is uh Ellsworth and uh snik are uh for you and for your families and we're going to give this that's a positive proposition at five to2 is if you vote for The Other Side watch your dog die in his sleep that's what works so do I think Trump should be playing with her race hell no I think it's offensive and unnecessary what he should be saying is Biden said that about her don't call don't say it's on me to call her Dei hire he did it and let me tell you something she better be saying why she let the Border become a sponge for a legal entry that's to me what I would want to hear but I don't think we're going to get there because it doesn't work as well let me let me read a couple things here okay you kamla Harris was about to give the first interview right her and uh Waltz and you know the her campaign they're saying well you know uh the only people that claim that they're worried about you know her doing interviews or not or only pressing insiders the arrest of the people nobody else gives a however what's weird about this entire story is what New York Times keeps doing Joy is not a strategy all this stuff and then next thing you know this other story comes out New York Times turns on kamla Harris and slams her as phony the New York Times criticized kamla Harris describing her as weaken phony with Patrick Hy stating Harris can't Coast on Joy and Rich Lowry accusing her of failing to secure the Border or address inflation while showing more concern for the party lines and economic reality for working Americans media Outlets have shifted from praising Harris to expressing serious concerns with the Wall Street Journal time I'm going to come to you here James Freeman noting she deserves more than her share of the blame for providing the crucial tiebreak in Senate votes for spreading schemes that fueled inflation and the hills Derek Hunter calling her an empty pants suit basking in the flow of positive media coverage and unburdened by accountability Tom what's going on with New York Times and Kamala there's a couple things going on with the New York Times uh below the surface uh we know we know about the family we know about the ownership and Harris's position in Israel and I don't want to dive into this is doesn't help her but also there are islands as they say there's rocks in the creek you know you step on the rocks to cross the creek and there's rocks in the creek with all of these organizations where you do have moderate reporters not a lot of them and they may be the Island In The Stream but they're reaching out and saying time out if you're not going to sit down and have what they call an adversarial interview so we can have a real inspection and we'll put all 12 minutes up to to be viewed then what are we doing here if you can't articulate your position to me then what are we doing here the other part of it is you have to remember these Outlets are in it for profit they need articles that people read so they can sell ads there is a economic side to this as well and whether it's a hit piece or it's a we have the first exclusive interview we have the exclusive comments about you know what she's going to do for you know the daycare for people it says it's coming out but I think the New York Times standing front and center and saying listen this is kind of phony it's been where are we at 40 days is today 40th day was 39th yesterday today's the 40th Day that she hasn't had a legitimate sitdown interview I think we're up to 40 um and she stumbled into a classroom and talking about teamwork which look horrible uh she had isolated by one reporter a couple days ago tried to ask her one thing and she answered it in terms of Selma and a and an anniversary of um civil rights in Martin Luther King and it's like what are you doing so it's clear why they don't want her out there but when the New York Times comes out forward like this and they have a reporter doing it I look at that and I say good for the New York Times you should be calling it out well let me ask this question though and and Chris you're in the space so maybe you know uh uh see what position you will take New York Times is owned by who can you pull up who owns New York Times Rob pull up who owns New York Times the Sha of Iran was very critical of the media of Iran saying uh uh who's the owner of it zoom in a little bit just type Rob just type in who owns New York Times that's all you got to do just come on Rob who owns New York Times okay it's the family Arthur o SS salsberg third generation of sbers salsberg is from Israel right so you have an organization that they've owned New York Times for a while so Tom do you do and and and Chris maybe this is a position for you as well do you think Kamala deep down in inside is a person who would be pro- Israel defending themselves or do you think she's more Pro Palestine and whatever your answer is to that do you think that has any impact on New York Times not supporting I I don't know the answer um I think that her position on what's happening in the Middle East is probably going to be too nuanced for both sides I believe it had something to do with not picking Shapiro I could be wrong a lot of Democrats tell me I'm wrong um but the idea that she met Shapiro and they didn't get along doesn't make sense they knew each other so that doesn't work for me um why Shapiro wasn't seen as as safe a choice as walls right because that was the word walls was a safe Choice um why wasn't Shapiro a safe choice they need Pennsylvania a lot more than anybody even knows what state walls is governor of so Minnesota but the uh even Reagan lost Minnesota right well only and only Minnesota Walter Mondale um but I think that position is a problem for her with uh a lot of Voters I think it's a problem within the party uh because everybody who is what you call Pro Palestinian which is not the POS I don't Define the position that way but if you do they're almost exclusively Democrats so she's got to deal with that um is that affecting the times coverage I don't know um I think it's easy to criticize the times I think it's easy to criticize the Harris campaign um not doing interviews of of course I wanted to do an interview every 10 minutes have they waited too long here's the truth no and here's why this is what they're being told this is the way the political team is seeing it and I I know this as a matter of fact yeah the trend is your friend the numbers are moving the right way we do nothing to inject risk that means that they think Harris is going to screw up the interview no they mean we don't need to do it right now yeah but Trump does all these things he's a different animal he has a different strategy and he is bulletproof there is nothing he can say that's going to hurt his base they will not move away from him it doesn't matter even that ugly stuff that he said the other day uh with the the thing he retweet he reposted on truth with um Hillary Clinton and Harris and the Ugly sex act reference that he made it won't hurt him it would kill anybody else Harris and Clinton it like har is that what you I didn't know that no is that true you no that is not true but the anyway the the point is this Rob can you go to snow and and search have kamla Harris and Hillary Clinton hook I didn't know that when when she does this interview the mistake that's being made look I know Dana Bash is the real deal and while I'm jealous she got the interview uh I cannot criticize who got the interview but they should have done it live and they should do it live and they should just have it out there I just suck he posted that yeah he didn't post that he reposted it or whatever you call rru rru what is it called how uh funny how impacted both of their careers differently now to me to me that disqualifies you from being my leader that's the thing that disqualified you all the things hug there's a huge list of them but I'm just saying I want the best of us okay I guarantee you if Patrick were running any kind of thing that we we were a part of he doesn't do that why cuz he's thinking about how it reflects on the organization TR Trump should be the same way he isn't and I don't like it but but when she does this interview it will absolutely not satisfy anybody okay and they know that so doing an interview was never going to be satisfying what she needs to do and they should be pushing for and I think this is fair do what Trump does when he has his rallies have your rallies take questions at every rate rally take questions at every rally and make your case she needs to there are members of her own party who came up to me at the DNC elected leaders ones you know who are giving me different answers about what she's going to do with Iran about what she's going to do with salt uh state and local taxes with uh some of the big blue states that Trump punished they were giving different answers not because they were trying to con me they don't know the position so she has to do much more she has to do better the you haven't done an interview is a little bit of a boogeyman even though I'm in the media and I'd love for her to do a lot of interviews um Trump hasn't come on news Nation Harris hasn't come on news Nation why because yes he does a lot more and he goes more places but he's selective also he wants him to be patting him on the back I I think he it's not about selecting I don't why hasn't he done news Nation cuz you and him had a few not me he doesn't have to be me to who who you've got Leland V you've got Dan Abrams you've got Elizabeth Vargas you've got a whole host of there there's a part there's a part of him as well that uh you're talking about RFK not giving up the job until the last week of October to negotiate that whole thing you know what this guy this guy wrote a book called The Art of the deal okay he knows if he comes to news Nation how much sudden overnight Limelight and ex acceleration and growth he's going to give news Nation he's very aware of that he's going to use his leverage to get everything from you guys before he comes to you what are you going to offer to him if he comes to news Nation it has to be a legit independent voters I think he I think if knowing Trump the way he is he'll go to anybody that's independent voters there's got to be more than that what else are you going to provide him what what terms is it going to be what's going to happen that's Trump listen see here's the nice thing about me and again it doesn't have to be me okay I never asked to moderate debates I wouldn't want me moderating a debate and I don't like the format for me I think debates should have no moderators anyway here's what I would do if if it were me I'll tell you what i' do I'll give you the whole hour of the show we'll talk about only about what you want to talk about okay and uh we'll take no breaks I'll talk to you for a whole hour the conversation goes wherever you want I don't need to dictate or direct the conversation what do you think matters right now what do you want people to know know here's what I want them to know and then I'll start the conversation from there and we'll go at it and I'll tell you what I would guarantee you 100 grand every time I say something that you deem insulting of you he doesn't need that 100 Grand he's he's doing fundrais he'll take it by the way the guy's not known for shying away from money he's doing fundraisers with 13 people you know 25 people collect I'm not saying I would pay Trum I'm saying you need independent voters they're going to decide the election no for you to that's that that's what you call like my sons Ed the word reach that's what you know you're reaching because you're trying to say that Trump's not going on all Outlets no I'm not no I'm not I'm saying he didn't come on this for example has come on us having us doing an interview with Trump right hasn't happened yet or or what do you call it should okay hasn't happened yet there's two c two guys in this camp that they have a problem with an article that was written uh from our end and there's a feud between that part whether he does or not and we never do anything and whether or not some guys blame one guy with Rogan I still think the Rogan podcast interview between him and Trump's going to happen the fourth week of October to the first week of November I think it's going to be dropping somewhere between the 25th and November 3rd I think the interview with Rogan and Trump will happen at that time and I think it'll be a shift and I think the closer it is to October 31st November 1st November 2nd November 3rd the better it's going to do and the more influence it's going to have I think it'll be explosive when he does that but guess what for me I don't care if we ever do anything like my the thing with the Santa for me was I don't care if the stist ever came here go everywhere else I don't care if we NE my life is not predicator based on me doing an interview with President Trump or any of this would I love to do an interview with Putin absolutely would I love to do an interview with Ahmed NAD from Iran seeing what the hell is going on in Iran absolutely would I love to sit down and talk to Trump would I love to sit down and talk to Maduro would I love to sit down and talk to all these guys yes but it's not predicated on that that's a bad group you just put him in it's no it's not about them no for me it's world leaders I know but there are a lot of other world leaders that you didn't pick who do you want Justin Trudeau he would never do anything the guy doesn't have the brass to sit would I love to sit down with Trudeau yes would I love to sit down with you know Jimmy Jimmy Carter's number one on my list most people don't even know this Carter but the point I'm making the point the point with with me is this guy is the is the face of somebody that's willing to go and sit down with everybody but let me go back agree that's why I don't like he has new news Nation but I agree with you he is way more accessible he's he's he's in that area you got to respect the fact I am giving do me a favor Rob let's go to this next story and and by the way a part of it for me that I think is a fair question to ask is the following okay is if New York Times and a media gets criticized on who owns them okay this is a topic that's come up a lot more I come from a place of Iran where the Sha was very critical of the media in the US the fact that it was controlled a lot by Jews not Israel he says I don't even think this is good for Israel that it's controled this way and this is when the Middle East was the most at peace is when the Sha was there and they were powerful and there was no Wars there was no half a million people that died in the 80s between Iraq and Iran when when sha was there there was no Wars and bullying going on they knew he had one of the strongest militaries and they didn't want to mess with him however the only question to be asking is is the position of becoming a president going up is it that powerful that a comma has to be seen favorably because of the media's control by so many folks on the on the Jewish side on the media side that if if there's any thoughts there it's going to be that first before politics that is a fair question that a lot of people are asking where New York Times maybe doesn't feel comfortable yet that you don't pick Shapiro why wouldn't you pick Shapiro why wouldn't you go after him this is going to play very important role where the New York Times going to get over it fairly quickly because they're going to be like look as much as we can't stand Kamala Harris and she's not our candidate we cannot stand Trump so guess what we all got to get in line and support Kamala at all cost that's what's going this is a case study for me the 2024 case study for me is to really find out the amount of power the people people who own media companies have that they can cause a person like Kamala to say wait a minute I screwed up you shouldn't have done that you lose your route um I don't know but we're going to find out I don't know that it works that way I also think we have to rethink the Trope that Jews control the media because if they control the media why are they getting their ass kicked on the narrative in this country the way they are I have never seen deference to a terror organ organization like what we see in our coverage with Hamas I have never seen Americans take the side of a terror organization as we see with Hamas if the Jews are in control of the media I don't understand why Israel is in such a dog fight for fairness in the reporting they call it a genocide what's going on there on a regular basis by by what definition would you ever call it that so if the Jews control it there must be a lot of self-hating Jews because the narrative uh has not been overweighted in favor of Israel and what I say to people very often when they're saying yeah but look at it look at it if Hamas or Hezbollah or any of the proxies for Iran had done to us what they did on October 7th what do you think Gaza would look like today land would be cheap brother because it would be raised if they did that to us 9/11 we went into the wrong country and killed hundreds of thousands of people for years so the idea that we've never seen anybody do what Israel is doing here is demonstrably false the idea that they're controlling the narrative because they control the media is demonstrably false what Harris's position on it you are right to put a question mark next to it how much it affects the election I think it loses to immigration and our economy yeah I again for me it's purely case study side to see how the reaction is going to be because when you follow the story Rob but I think it affected the Shapiro thing everybody tells me I'm wrong it had nothing to do with it I think he was told you got to back off on that you got to back off a little bit on that where you are and I think that's unacceptable to him I do you think she really picked the VP or do you think somebody else picked the VP you think she has that kind of power to pick the VP oh yeah yeah yeah you think she has that kind of power to Pi absolutely you got to have you got to have the good fit now I'll tell you what I think she had more hand in who to pick than uh Biden did in picking her I think that uh picking Harris was a big give to Obama and um Biden needed it because this idea that they're buddies and Bros is a very strained reality did you see this time this morning new uh uh candidates Outsiders are wanting can you even come can you come in this late two candidates are running for office this late I don't know if that's even POS Rob this is a what story's talking about this what channel is this uh let me pull it up hang on one second why would why would New York Post and New York Times talk about these two candidates last I don't even can you pull up the campaign on what their slogan is pull up their campaign on what their slogan is here we go the latest campaign zoom in Rob zoom in elor s 2024 shut up you little well played guys well played Rob can you do me a favor and play the clip where people know where this is coming from by the way can can you have ever Lu I a joke if that shirt exists and I don't get one in an extra smedium before I leave I'm going to be very disappointed guys that shirt is here I'm wearing it I'm wearing it you give it to me I'm wearing it right now you got to be kidding this guy's getting naked on camera right here what is happening right now ladies ladies don't look look away You're might going to rob go to my Twitter account it should be on there right there if you just go on my Twitter this is 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