WH Denounces Sexist, Racist Attacks Against Harris As Speaker Johnson Urges GOP Colleagues To Stop

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During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris.

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00:00What would the President say to those who have increased their attack on the Vice President

00:04based on the color of his skin, the gender, even using terms like lunatics?

00:09So look, there is something I do want to say about that.

00:13When you have the Speaker of the House, obviously he's a Republican, and this is something that

00:22you all have reported, set up a meeting to tell Republican leaders to stop being racist,

00:29to stop being misogynist, to stop being sexist.

00:32I think that says a lot, that they have to be told to not do that.

00:38But more broadly, I think it's desperate, I think it's disgusting, and I think it's

00:44a dog whistle.

00:47And we should not forget that she is the Vice President of the United States.

00:52She's the Vice President of the United States.

00:54She should get that respect.

00:56She's been doing this job with the President for almost four years.

01:00She's a former senator, and has been a critical partner in getting the economy restarted,

01:10in making sure that we deal with the pandemic.

01:15And to hear that is frankly disgusting.

01:17I have one more question to follow up on the real talk about the legal immigration system.

01:21Say that last part.

01:22I have one more question to follow up basically on what you said about the legal immigration

01:25system at the top of your remarks.

01:28There are around 200,000 American kids who came to this country at the age of maybe six

01:34months, two years, but they're all facing deportation as they age out at 21 years of

01:40age.

01:41Around 40 senators and congressmen wrote a letter to the administration that coming out

01:46with some legal mechanism so that they can stay in this country, that many of them are

01:50doing quite well.

01:51What would the President be doing for them?

01:53I mean, look, certainly we don't have any policy announcements to make at this time.

01:58But again, I talked about the bipartisan agreement that came together from the Senate where we

02:04negotiated a process to help the so-called documented DREAMers, and sadly, Republicans.

02:10And I've said this many times already at this podium today, which is that they voted it

02:16down twice.

02:17They voted it down twice.

02:20And as I said at the top, we are going to provide protection to more than 500,000 people

02:27and keep families together in the U.S.

02:29That is something that the President announced back in June, and that is something that we're

02:33going to continue to do.

02:35Look, the way to deal with a broken immigration system is to get legislative process done

02:43and move forward.

02:44We started that.

02:46Republicans voted it down twice.

02:49If we had a bipartisan option, that would have been the toughest and the fairest way

02:53to move forward in dealing with the immigration system, something we hadn't seen in years.

02:58And they voted it down twice.

03:00And so that is how we're going to move forward, is making sure Congress gets the work done

03:05that they need to.

03:06I know I think I have...

WH Denounces Sexist, Racist Attacks Against Harris As Speaker Johnson Urges GOP Colleagues To Stop

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