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  2. 21 CREW: [inaudible] 2 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Coming 3 through, coming through. 4 CREW: Hey. 5 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 6 Hi, everyone. Well, welcome to mi casa. 7 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Ah, thank you. 8 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Hi. Hi. 9 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Hello again, Madam 10 Vice President. 11 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: How are 12 you? 13 MR. BILL WHITAKER: How are you today? 14 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: It's 15 good to see you, Bill. Very well, thank you. 16 Very well. 17 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Very good. Thank 18 you for welcoming us here. 19 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Hi, 20 everyone. Hi. What a crew. 21 MR. BILL WHITAKER: What a crew. 22 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 23 MR. BILL WHITAKER: It's a big day. 24 Please -- 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Please,
  3. 31 yes. 2 MR. BILL WHITAKER: You've got some 3 beautiful artwork here. 4 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I would 5 love to -- You haven't been here. 6 MR. BILL WHITAKER: For the Christmas -7 - 8 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Except 9 the Christmas -- right. I have to show you, I've 10 -- you know, I have -- So little known, maybe, 11 part of my background is I attended a fine arts 12 school for a period of time. And even just 13 growing up, we would go to the California Academy 14 of Arts on weekends. Anyway, I love art. And so 15 when I came in as Vice President, I partnered 16 with FAPE, which is a non-profit that helps 17 supply art around the world for embassies. And I 18 sat down with the curator, and gave them an idea, 19 and including with the Baltimore Museum, gave 20 them an idea of what I'd like. 21 And so, you know, normally in this 22 house, it's a lot of art which is like scenes of, 23 like, pastures with sheep. 24 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Instead,
  4. 41 I brought, like, Carrie Mae Weems. Are you 2 familiar with her? 3 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Yeah, yep. I am 4 indeed. 5 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: And 6 then, do you know Fred Wilson? 7 MR. BILL WHITAKER: I don't know Fred 8 Wilson. 9 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. So 10 that chandelier -- 11 MR. BILL WHITAKER: That's a beautiful 12 piece. 13 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: -- that 14 chandelier, I begged him. He does big 15 installations. And I've had many a world leader 16 in this dining room, and they'll walk by it, and 17 they'll say, oh, is that Venetian? And I tell 18 them, actually, no, it's Harlem. 19 So Fred Wilson, who is a Black man who 20 lives in New York, did that piece. It's all on 21 loan. 22 And that's Ed Clark. Do you know who 23 Ed Clark is? 24 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: That's
  5. 51 Ed Clark. I've got some Sam Gilliam, and he -- 2 You know, I'm so sorry that -- He knew it was 3 here. He was alive when I first came in, but it 4 was at the height of COVID, and then he passed. 5 But his family has come to see it, but he was so 6 happy that his art was in this house. 7 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Yeah. 8 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: So 9 anyway, it's all on rotation. And like that one, 10 I'll show you, is a young Black woman from North 11 Carolina. She is -- 12 MR. BILL WHITAKER: That's -- 13 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: So 14 Carmen Neely is her name. 15 MR. BILL WHITAKER: That's stunning. 16 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Yes. 17 She's really -- And so, you know, all the people 18 like you, who come in the house, who are such, 19 you know, opinion leaders, to be able to showcase 20 all of this for people to see -- And then, you 21 know, these world leaders, they'll say, that's 22 American art? Yes, it is. 23 MR. BILL WHITAKER: How about that? 24 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Yes, it 25 is, you know?
  6. 61 MR. BILL WHITAKER: How about that? 2 Yeah. 3 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Anyway. 4 Okay. 5 CREW: Bill, we'll do slate when you're 6 ready. 7 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Yes. 8 Yeah, do whatever you want. You know I have no 9 pride about this stuff. Okay. 10 CREW: [inaudible] 11 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: No, 12 whatever you need to do. 13 CREW: Hang on. 14 CREW: Thank you. 15 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 16 CREW: Is everybody's cell phone on 17 silent? 18 CREW: Mm-hmm. 19 CREW: Ready to slate, folks? 20 CREW: Slating. 21 CREW: [inaudible] you good? 22 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 23 And then, you know that mold is at an all time 24 high today. 25 MR. BILL WHITAKER: I did not.
  7. 71 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Which is 2 the one thing I am allergic to. 3 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Yeah? 4 CREW: [inaudible] 5 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: That's 6 okay. Pollen is down. 7 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Mold is up. 8 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Mold is 9 up. 10 CREW: That's it. Just take them off. 11 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: You know 12 how I know that, as a matter of fact? Because I 13 was watching CBS this morning. 14 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Oh, right? 15 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: And they 16 had a little streamy thing. 17 MR. BILL WHITAKER: There you go. 18 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Now that 19 I think about it. 20 MR. BILL WHITAKER: You learn something 21 new every day. 22 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Indeed. 23 CREW: [inaudible] I'm going to just 24 snap it once. Good? 25 CREW: Yep.
  8. 81 CREW: Coming around. Don? 2 CREW: Yeah? 3 CREW: Got it on both? 4 CREW: Okay, so we need to clear the 5 background. 6 CREW: You good, Don? 7 CREW: Yes. 8 CREW: Thank you, Tim. 9 CREW: Thank you. 10 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: No 11 problem. Just do what you need to do. 12 CREW: [inaudible] 13 CREW: Everybody set? 14 CREW: Rolling, perfectly happy. 15 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Everybody happy? 16 CREW: Looks good. 17 CREW: [inaudible] looks great. 18 MR. BILL WHITAKER: You good? 19 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: I'm 20 good. 21 MR. BILL WHITAKER: All right. 22 Well, Madam Vice President, I want to 23 thank you for doing this, and thank you for 24 inviting us into your home. 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Of
  9. 91 course. Of course. 2 MR. BILL WHITAKER: We're going to be 3 running this on the anniversary of the Hamas 4 attack on Israel. 5 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Yeah. 6 October 7th. 7 MR. BILL WHITAKER: So let's just start 8 with Israel. 9 CREW: Hang on one second, Bill. 10 MR. BILL WHITAKER: Yeah. 11 CREW: Sorry, we had someone in the 12 background, and I'm afraid you're going to have 13 to re-ask that. 14 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay, 15 whoever's in the dining room? 16 WOMAN: It was me. Sorry. 17 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 18 MR. BILL WHITAKER: So yeah, just to 19 start with Israel. 20 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Okay. 21 MR. BILL WHITAKER: The events of the 22 past few weeks have pushed us to the brink, if 23 not into an all-out regional war in the Middle 24 East. 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Mm-hmm.
  10. 101 MR. BILL WHITAKER: What can the U.S. 2 do at this point to stop this from spinning out 3 of control? 4 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Well, 5 let's start with October 7th. Because obviously, 6 what we do now must be in the context of what has 7 happened. And as I reflect on a year ago, and 8 that 1,200 people were massacred, young people at 9 a festival, at a music festival, 250 hostages 10 were taken, including Americans, women were 11 brutally raped. And as I said then, I maintain 12 Israel has a right to defend itself. We would. 13 And how it does so matters. 14 And as we fast forward into what we 15 have seen in the ensuing weeks and months, far 16 too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. 17 And we know that, and I think most agree, this 18 war has to end. And that has to be our number 19 one imperative, and that has been our number one 20 imperative. How can we get this war to end? 21 Well, critical elements of that are we have got 22 to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done. 23 We have to -- we have to get aid in. We have to 24 lay the path toward a two-state solution. I do 25 believe that we must maintain that as an
  11. 111 objective, no matter how out of reach it seems at 2 the moment. And the work that we have to do is 3 also pay attention to what is happening every day 4 in the region, and put U.S. resources into 5 everything we can do, diplomatically and 6 otherwise, to de-escalate what is happening in 7 the region. 8 MR. BILL WHITAKER: We supply Israel 9 with billions of dollars in military aid. 10 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Mm-hmm. 11 MR. BILL WHITAKER: And yet Prime 12 Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own 13 course. The Biden Administration, the Biden-14 Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to 15 a ceasefire, he's resisted. You urged him not to 16 go into Lebanon, he went in anyway. He has 17 promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, 18 and that has the potential of expanding the war. 19 Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister 20 Netanyahu? 21 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Well, 22 let's start with this. On this subject, the aid 23 that we have given Israel allowed Israel to 24 defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that 25 were just meant to attack the Israelis, and the
  12. 121 people of Israel. And I think that is the most 2 recent example of why what we do to assist in 3 their defense around military aid is important. 4 And when we think about the threat that Hamas, 5 Hezbollah presents Iran, I think that it is 6 without any question our imperative to do what we 7 can to allow Israel to defend itself against 8 those kinds of attacks. 9 Now, the work that we do diplomatically 10 with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing 11 pursuit around making clear our principles, which 12 include the need for humanitarian aid, the need 13 for this war to end, the need for a deal to be 14 done which would release the hostages, and create 15 a ceasefire. And we're not going to stop in terms 16 of putting that pressure on Israel, and in the 17 region, including with other leaders in the 18 region, including Arab leaders. 19 MR. BILL WHITAKER: But it seems that 20 Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. "The 21 Wall Street Journal" said that he -- that your 22 administration has repeatedly been blindsided by 23 Netanyahu, and in fact, he has rebuffed just 24 about all of your administration's entreaties. 25 VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Well,
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