MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, and even as their conversation went to air, Ruhle was already making excuses for the presidential candidate and her consistent inability to give clear answers about any of her policies.

Ruhle told fellow MSNBC host Chris Hayes, “One could watch and say she didn’t give a clear and direct answer. And that’s okay, because we’re not talking about clear and direct issues.”

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Ruhle: "One could watch and say she didn't give a clear and direct answer. And that's okay, because we're not talking about clear and direct issues."

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Harris became the Democratic Party’s candidate — largely by default — when President Joe Biden was effectively forced out of the contest by prominent members and large-dollar donors within his own party. But since leap-frogging to the top of her party’s ticket — despite never winning a single primary vote on her own merits — Harris has rarely taken questions, and even more rarely, attempted to answer them.

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Her attempts on Wednesday appear to have fallen flat, judging from Ruhle’s rapid attempts to run cover for her, and several video clips of her answers suggested that she was delivering more of the same rambling, unintelligible non-answers that have marked her tenure as vice president.

When asked how she intended to fight price gouging — which she has promised to do despite having no evidence that it is actually happening — without implementing Soviet-style price controls, she pivoted.

“So, just to be very frank, I am never going to apologize for going after companies and corporations that take advantage of the desperation of the American people,” Harris said, but made no real move to answer the question. Instead, she rambled some more about disasters like weather-related events or the COVID pandemic and repeated her promise to prevent price gouging.

“Yes, I’m going to go after them, yeah, I’m going to go after them, and that’s part of a more comprehensive plan on what we can do to bring down the cost of living, including housing, including the everyday needs of the American people,” she continued.

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Kamala fails to explain how she plans on tackling "price gouging" without implementing price controls.

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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 25, 2024

Ruhle’s interview, as MSNBC’s Public Relations team noted when they announced it, marked Harris’ first solo network appearance since becoming the candidate. She did one pre-recorded interview with friendly CNN anchor Dana Bash, but her running mate Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) had been by her side for that. Prior to landing the interview, Ruhle argued on comedian Bill Maher’s show that it didn’t matter whether or not Harris ever answered any real policy questions, arguing that what truly mattered was that she was not former President Donald Trump.

Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter actress Riley Keough opened up about finishing her late mom’s memoir, calling the experience “incredibly painful.”

During an interview with People magazine, the 35-year-old star talked about fulfilling her mom’s last wish by completing Presley’s memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown.” Lisa Marie died in January 2023 at the age of 54 from complications from prior bariatric surgery.

“Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected,” Riley explained.

“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was,” she added. “To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life.”

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“I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive,” Riley continued.

The actress said in order to finish her mom’s memoir, she listened to hours and hours of memories her mom had recorded on tapes of her life as the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, her romantic relationships, motherhood to Riley and her brother Benjamin, who died in 2020 at the age of 27, and later as a grandma to Keough’s daughter, Tupelo.

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“The tapes are an incredible portrait of the force of nature that she was,” Riley said. “Depending on the day and her mood, she can sound locked-in or distracted, vulnerable and open or annoyed and closed off, hopeful, angry, everything. You hear her in all her complications.”

“I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family,” she added of the book. “[My mom] wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, to know that they’re not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that’s mine.”

Priscilla confirmed Lisa Marie’s death on January 12, hours after she was rushed to a hospital, as previously reported.

“My beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” a statement from her mother read. “She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment.”

“From Here to the Great Unknown,” by Keough and Presley, comes out October 8, the outlet noted.

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