‘She spanked his a**’: Harris ‘owns’ Donald Trump in first debate

IT EFFECTIVELY AND FIRMLY AND NOT EVERY MOMENT BUT AT KEY MOMENTS WHICH I THINK THEY DESERVE CREDIT FOR. MICHAEL STEELE, YOU ARE QUITE ANIMATED WHEN I SAW YOU IN THE HALLWAY EARLIER ABOUT . >> I WAS TRYING TO BE GOOD. >> I AM GOING TO SEE WHAT YOU TELL ME YOU THINK OF THE DEBATE THAT YOU TOLD ME IN THE HALLWAY. WHAT WAS THE KEY MOMENT? >> SHE SPANKED THAT ASS. I AM SORRY THAT IS WHAT SHE DID. SHE WALKED ON THAT STAGE AND IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU DID NOT REALIZE HAPPENED UNTIL 20 OR 30 MINUTES INTO THE DEBATE T. IS WHAT EVERYONE HAS TALKED ABOUT. FOR ME IT WAS THE PIVOTAL MOMENT OF THE DEBATE WAS WHAT THEY WERE INTRODUCED AND DONALD TRUMP CAME OUT AND IF YOU WATCH, GO BACK, I TELL EVERYBODY TO GO BACK AND WATCH THIS. HE COMES OUT, HE GOES DIRECTLY TO THE PODIUM. USUALLY YOU GO TO THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR TO GREET YOUR OPPONENT. HE WENT TO THE PODIUM. NO INTENTION OF SHAKING HER HAND. SHE WALKED ACROSS THE STAGE. RIGHT INTO HIS SPACE, STUCK HER HAND OUT AND SAID KAMALA HARRIS. FIRST OFF, I AM SAYING MY NAME SO YOU GET IT RIGHT WHEN YOU SAY IT, WHICH HE NEVER SAID ONCE DURING THE ENTIRE DEBATE. TWO, HE NEVER LOOKED AT HER DURING THE ENTIRE DEBATE. AND THERE WAS A THIS POINT ABOUT 20-30 MINUTES IN WHERE THAT MOMENT, FOR ME, HIT AND RESINATED BECAUSE SHE OWNED THAT STAGE FROM THAT VERY FIRST MOMENT. VERY MUCH TO WHAT MOLLY WAS JUST SAYING, WHAT SHE DID WAS SHE PROSECUTED WHEN SHE NEEDED TO PROSECUTE AND ALL OTHER TIMES SHE WAS PRESIDENTIAL AND HE LOOKED SMALL, HE LOOKED WITHERED, HE LOOKED BEATEN. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY HE LOOKED AND THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A BIGOT ON A STAGE WITH A WOMAN HE CAN'T CONTROL AND SHE GAVE HIM NO QUARTER FOR THAT. SHE GAVE HIM NO ROOM. EVEN IN THE ONE MOMENT WHERE SHE TALKED WHILE HE WAS TALKING AND YOU KNEW IT WAS THE MOMENT HE WANTED AND HE REHEARSED IT AND SO ANXIOUS TO SAY IT WHEN HE LOOKED AT HER, AND GOES "I'M SPEAKING." "I'M SPEAKING." [ LAUGHTER ] >> DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? >> HE WAS FEELING CLEVER. >> HE WAS FEELING IN HIS OATS. HE WAS CLEFFER AND THERE WAS NOTHING. YOU COULD HEAR COLLECTIVE, WHAT DID HE JUST DO ACROSS THE COUNTRY. EVEN AMONGST HIS OWN PEOPLE. SO, I THINK TONIGHT WAS DEFINITIVE FOR HER. TONIGHT KAMALA HARRIS SHOWED THAT SHE WAS NOT JUST A VICE PRESIDENT, THAT SHE WAS, IN FACT, READY TO BE PRESIDENT. ON FOREIGN POLICY, ON THE ECONOMY, ON DOMESTIC SOCIAL ISSUES, ON ISSUES SENSITIVE ISSUES AROUND ABORTION AND RACE. SHE HAD A PRESIDENTIAL VEIN THAT POPPED OUT FOR THE COUNTRY TO SEE AND ALL TRUMP COULD DO IS STAND THERE AND LOOK AT THE FLOOR, SULK, POUT, AND ON TWITTER, THE ONLY THING TO COMPLAIN >>> HI, FROM NEW YORK, I AM JEN PSAKI. THANKS FOR STICKING WITH US FOR ANOTHER HOUR OF SPECIAL COVERAGE FOLLOWING THE FIRST AND SO FAR ONLY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN OF COURSE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. OVER THE COURSE OF 90 MINUTES, ONE CANDIDATE, KAMALA HARRIS, ABSOLUTELY ON THE OTHER GUY ON THE STAGE. SHE TALKED ABOUT ISSUES PEOPLE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT LIKE THE ECONOMY, ABORTION RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ITSELF WHILE THE OTHER GUY, DONALD TRUMP, SEEMED UNPREPARED, QUITE GRUMPY AND OFTEN INCOHERENT. AT TIMES THE VICE PRESIDENT COULD DO NOTHING BUT LAUGH OR STARE AGHAST AT THE RANTING AND RAVING FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STAGE, THE KIND OF RAMBLING FREE ASSOCIATION THAT MANY AMERICANS HAVE NOT HEARD SINCE TRUMP LEFT OFFICE NEARLY FOUR YEARS AGO. WHAT'S MORE, THE EX-PRESIDENT PROVED ONCE AGAIN THAT HE HAS THE IMPULSE CONTROL OF A TODDLER. OVER AND OVER AGAIN, HARRIS LAID RHETORICAL TRAPS FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, TRUMP TOOK THE BAIT. >> I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING HIS GET TO TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION A LOT TONIGHT EVEN WHEN IT IS NOT THE SUBJECT THAT IS BEING RAISED. >> IN THIS RING FIELD THEY ARE EATING THE DOGS. THE PEOPLE THAT CAME IN. THEY ARE EATING THE CATS. THEY ARE EATING -- THEY ARE EATING THE PETS OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE. >> YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE IS THAT PEOPLE START LEAVING HIS RALLIES EARLY OUT OF EXHAUSTION AND BOREDOM. >> SHE SAID PEOPLE STARTED LEAVING. PEOPLE DON'T GO TO HER RALLIES. >> DONALD TRUMP WAS FIRED BY 81 MILLION PEOPLE, SO LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT AND CLEARLY, HE IS HAVING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME PROCESSING THAT. >> YOU NOW IT KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU LOST IN 2020? >> NO. >> I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THAT I HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD LEADERS ARE LAUGHING AT DONALD TRUMP. >> VIKTOR ORBAN SAID THE MOST RESPECTED, MOST FEARED PERSON IS DONALD TRUMP. >> YOU SAW A BUNCH OF IT THERE. WE WILL PLAY MORE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE NEXT HOUR BUT TRUMP PRAISED DICTATORS, REFUSED TO SAY HE WILL NOT SIGN UP A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN, A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRANTS HANDING DOWN YOUR PETS FOR DINNER. HE PRAISED THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTIONIST AND REPEATED HIS BIG LIE OF A STOLEN 2020 ELECTION. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, ON THE OTHER HAND, LOOKED FORWARD. >> AS A PROSECUTOR, I NEVER ASKED THE VICTIM OR A WITNESS, ARE YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT? THE ONLY THING I EVER ASKED YOU -- THEM, ARE YOU OKAY AND THAT IS A KIND OF PRESIDENT WE NEED RIGHT NOW, SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT YOU AND IS NOT PUTTING THEMSELVES FIRST. I INTEND TO BE A PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS, AND FOCUS ON WHAT WE CAN DO OVER THE NEXT 10 AND 20 YEARS TO BUILD BACK UP OUR COUNTRY BY INVESTING RIGHT NOW IN YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> IN CASE YOU DID NOT SEE THE TOTALITY OF THE DEBATE, I CAN TELL YOU, DONALD TRUMP DID NOT OFFER A COMPETING VISION FOR THE FUTURE, MAYBE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE A VISION FOR THE FUTURE. HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE, AS HE CLAIMED, CONCEPTS OF A PLAN. AGAIN, SOMETHING HE ACTUALLY SAID. ULTIMATELY WINNING A DEBATE DOESN'T MEAN WINNING AN ELECTION. JUST ASK JOHN KERRY AND HILLARY CLINTON. THEY WANT ALL THE DEBATES. THEY DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION, BUT IF YOU ARE ON YOUR FENCE TONIGHT, NOT SURE WHO TO VOTE FOR THIS NOVEMBER, IT'S DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW DONALD TRUMP MADE CASE IN THIS DEBATE THAT HE SHOULD BE THE NEXT COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WON OVER AT LEAST ONE PENNSYLVANIAN. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DEBATE, SHE AND TIM WALZ RECEIVED THE COVETED TAYLOR SWIFT ENDORSEMENT. QUOTE, I AM VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS BECAUSE SHE FIGHTS FOR THE RIGHTS AND CAUSES I BELIEVE NEED A WARRIOR TO CHAMPION THEM. I THINK SHE IS A STUDY-HANDED, GIFTED LEADER AND I BELIEVE WE CAN ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH MORE IN THIS COUNTRY IF WE ARE LED BY CALM AND NOT'S -- CHAOS. SIGNING HER POST AS A CHILD WAS CAT LADY. JOINING US OR MICHAEL STEELE, SIMONE SANDERS TENDS HIS AND ALECIA MENENDEZ. ALSO JOHN FAVREAU, WHO WAS WITH US REMOTELY. JOHN, LET ME START WITH YOU BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY GOOD MOMENTS. IF YOU ARE THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO PUSH WHERE, WHAT IS ON A T-SHIRT, IT BECOMES A NAP, BUT THIS IS ALL ABOUT ULTIMATELY NOT WINNING THE DEBATE, WINNING THE ELECTION. WHAT WOULD YOU, IF YOU ARE ON THE CAMPAIGN, PULL FROM TONIGHT TO PUSH OUT AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE WITH MONEY BEHIND IT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? >> YOU JUST MENTIONED THIS, BUT I THINK THE LINE WHERE HE SAID I DON'T HAVE A PLAN, I HAVE THE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN. KAMALA HARRIS PROSECUTED THE CASE TONIGHT MANY TIMES WHERE SHE SAID TO DONALD TRUMP LIKE WHAT SHE SAID TO THE AUDIENCE, WHICH IS BETTER THAN TALKING TO DONALD TRUMP, SHE SAID TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME HE DOESN'T HAVE A PLAN FOR YOU. HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU THAN SHE WOULD TALK ABOUT HER PLANS FOR THE ECONOMY AND LOOK, WE ARE GOING TO PLAY ALL THE REALLY FUN MOMENTS WHERE SHE BAITED HIM AND THAT'S GOING TO BE GOOD FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR SO BUT I DO THINK THE REAL DAMAGE SHE DID IS EXPOSE HIM AS SOMEONE WHO JUST REALLY HAS NOT THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO DO FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS BECAUSE HE ONLY THINKS ABOUT HIMSELF AND SHE LAID OUT HER PLANS WHEN IT WAS ON THE ECONOMY, BRINGING DOWN COSTS, PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS -- DONALD TRUMP HAS PARTICIPATED IN SEVEN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, COUNTLESS PRIMARY DEBATES AND HE HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN AS BADLY AS HE WAS TONIGHT BY KAMALA HARRIS AND THAT TAKES SO MUCH PREPARATION ON HER BEHALF, LIKE SHE REALLY PREPARED FOR THIS DEBATE. SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS GOING TO DO. SHE CAME WITH A PLAN. SHE MADE THE WHOLE DEBATE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WHEN SHE COULD'VE BEEN ON THE DEFENSIVE AND HE COULD'VE PUT HER ON THE DEFENSIVE SO SHE REALLY EXECUTED THE PLAN THAT SHE CAME WITH BUT ALSO, HE HAS JUST REALLY LOST A STEP. HE WAS RANTING AND RAVING IN 2016 WITH HILLARY CLINTON AND HE WAS LYING ALL THE TIME, BUT HE DID MAKE SOME SORT OF SENSE THEN AND TONIGHT, THERE WERE JUST LIKE LONG STRETCHES WHERE HE WAS COMPLETELY INCOHERENT AND YOU CAN EVEN FOLLOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. >> IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT. I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY THAT I THINK SHE -- DONALD TRUMP HAS DEBATED A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF REPUBLICANS. DEMOCRATS, TOO, OF COURSE. THAT WAS THE BEST ORCHESTRATED DEBATE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP THAT WE HAVE SEEN HANDS-DOWN. SIMONE, YOU KNOW THE VICE PRESIDENT BETTER THAN ALL THE REST OF US. YOU HAVE'S AFTER, PROCTOR, BEEN PART OF THE DEBATE REPS. WHAT IS THE MOMENT YOU WERE WATCHING TONIGHT WHERE YOU THOUGHT LIKE YES, THAT IS LIKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE AND WHO SHE IS AND WHAT SHE'S CAPABLE OF? >> DEBATES ARE PART POLICY PART PERFORMANCE, EVERY DEBATE IS AND I THINK SHE HAD THE MARKS ON POLICY AND PERFORMANCE. PEOPLE ARE LIKE OH, SHE WON, HE LOST IT I THINK FRANKLY AS YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GRADED DEBATE, THE QUESTION IS, DID YOU DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO DO WHEN YOU'RE IN THE PREPARATION TALKING ABOUT THE DEBATE, AND DID SHE COME ACROSS CLEAR AND STRONG? CHECK. YES. DID SHE GET HER POLICY POSITIONS OUT ON WHAT SHE BELIEVES ON THE ECONOMY, WHICH IS IMPORTANT TO VOTERS ACROSS THE BOARD, NOT JUST THESE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE. BLACK VOTERS, YOUNG PEOPLE, WOMEN OF EVERY RACE. EVERYBODY CARES ABOUT THE ECONOMY. YES. DID SHE ADEQUATELY COUNTER THE LIES? YES, ABSOLUTELY YES. THERE WAS MORE SHE COULD HAVE SAID BUT THEN SHE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE NOTHING ABOUT HER OWN POLICY. DID SHE FIND MOMENTS TO TURN TO THE CAMERA AND SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME AND LET THEM KNOW HEY, FIND YOUR CAMERA , YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THAT'S WHAT YOU GOT TO DO. YOU'VE GOT TO FIND A CAMERA AND TALK TO THE CAMERA. YES. DID SHE BAIT DONALD TRUMP INTO A BACK-AND-FORTH? ABSOLUTELY. DID SHE MAKE HIM LOOK UNHINGED AS SHE LOOKED IN CONTROL? ABSOLUTELY. WAS DONALD TRUMP HAVING HER CONVERSATION TONIGHT? ABSOLUTELY BUT DEBATES DO NOT WIN ELECTIONS. THEY CAN INFLUENCE THEM FOR SURE AND I AM VERY HAPPY JACOBSON DRAFTED THAT FOCUS GROUP RIGHT AFTER BECAUSE THERE WERE PEOPLE TEXTING LIKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE VOTERS AND THAT'S MOST PEOPLE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. IF THE ELECTION WERE HELD TODAY I DO NOT THINK VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WOULD WIN IT. I THINK SHE CAN ABSOLUTELY WIN IN NOVEMBER BUT A MONTH AND HALF AGO, JOE BIDEN WAS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE SO THERE IS WORK THIS CAMPAIGN AIDES TODAY. THE CAMPAIGN KNOWS THEY NEED TO DO THIS WORK AND THE VICE PRESIDENT KNOWS THEY NEED TO DO THE WORK. THAT IS WHY SHE CONTINUES TO SAY SHE