“Wow” Moment: The Veep Explains Ukraine

BUCK: Kamala Harris is the vice president, and she’s had some real moments in the last year or so. I think, Clay, before we go to this one ’cause this may be your number one, what is your, so far, favorite Kamala Veep moment? Do you have one that comes to mind?

CLAY: The clip that we’re about to play I think may be my favorite. The looking at the moon video that she did with the kids was pretty insanely awkward.

BUCK: Yes! (laughing) The kids that were actors who were paid?

CLAY: Yes, paid actors.

BUCK: My favorite one was so far, although this is getting up there. This might be the number one that we’re about to play for you.

CLAY: I think this my favorite, we’re about to play.

BUCK: My favorite was when she looked at Lester Holt, like, “We’ve been to the border. Listen, madam, vice president, you haven’t been to the border.” “You can’t do that. I have to pretend to care about the truth here, somewhat.” Here is the latest. Kamala was asked on a radio show to please explain the conflict in Ukraine, and I want all of you to listen in ’cause, oh, she explains it.

BUCK: Yeah. There you go, Clay.

CLAY: If you teach kindergarten — I have a first grader — I would not be that dumb in the way that I was talking to him, and I haven’t been, to explain what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine. But to me this is indicative of Kamala Harris’ inability, one, to be a decent communicator. But, two, her belief that everyone in America is an imbecile.

Because “layman’s terms” doesn’t mean talk to me as if I have an IQ of eight. It means talk to me in a way that can make sense of why it matters, and I don’t know… How many people in America don’t understand that Russia and Ukraine are different countries and that they neighbor each other? Is that really how far back we have to go to explain this situation?

BUCK: Also Kamala’s only going to speak about it in layman’s terms because she’s not even remotely a foreign policy expert. So just ask her to explain it you’re gonna get a pretty baseline, but she decided to go even below the standard baseline —

CLAY: We’ve got a lot of elementary school teachers, I bet, who either in the past or currently listening, I guarantee you that even they are, like, “Man, that’s a level of dumb, dumbing down a complex story,” which you have to do for young kids that even they would say, “Yeah, that’s a little bit too much for even young kid audience.”

BUCK: Last time I checked — we have to go back and look at this — when we did our who’s more likable, Kamala or Hillary poll, when you put that out on Twitter, I saw that about 50-50.

CLAY: It finished dead even 50-50. Like, 50,000 people voted, and 50% said Kamala, 50% said Hillary, which makes it a perfect poll questions because anytime you think of a poll question that can end up 50-50, that is the perfect debate topic.

BUCK: It was remarkable to see how people really were flummoxed. They couldn’t come… Usually you have a debate, a poll question and people are very strongly on one side. A lot of people said, “Ah, if I have to pick, I guess, I don’t know,” kind of a coin-flip attitude to the whole thing. And here’s Kamala Harris on whether they, the Democrats, can course correct for the midterms. Play it.

BUCK: Oh, okay. So now they’re gonna appeal to bipartisanship? Come on, Clay. Unity? Joe Biden is the unity president again? I’m gonna hurl.