Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) faced questions on Sunday about Vice President Kamala Harris flip-flopping on policy issues, particularly now that Harris has replaced President Joe Biden in leading the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket for the White House.

CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Butler, who succeeded the late Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) last year, during a “State of the Union” interview. Harris is a former U.S. Senator and attorney general from California who ran for the presidency in 2020 before dropping out and becoming Biden’s running mate.

Sen. Laphonza Butler on Kamala flipping her views on several issues:

“I think that voters should think that she’s a human being who learns new things every single day.”

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“In the 2020 primary, the vice president praised the Defund The Police movement, and now she says she doesn’t support defunding the police. She called for decriminalizing crossing the border illegally. Now she supports President Biden’s policies for clamping down at the border,” Bash said.

“She supported Medicare For All at one point, eliminating private insurance, and her campaign says she doesn’t support that now. She’s reversed herself on a fracking ban. What do you think that voters should think when she’s reversed herself on several issues just in the last four years?” Bash asked.

“I think that voters should think that she’s a human being who learns new things every single day and is — has the ability to take the time and effort to hear the concerns of all people,” Butler replied.

“I think that they should be certain that she is a fighter and a leader who’s going to do the work on their behalf to ensure that there is an economy that ensures that no one is left behind, that there is a climate — that we’re going to continue to address the climate crisis in a way that ensures that there is an Earth here for young people and for next generations of leaders,” the senator continued. “I think that they should absolutely believe that she is a leader who cares about people and who’s going to put them first, as she has done her entire career.”

Bash pressed again. “So no concern about flip-flopping?” she asked.

“No, no concern about flip-flopping,” Butler said. “This is a part — our country changes every single day. The conditions of our country changes every single day. The vice president has been consistent in her values, and there are lots of different ways to solve the challenges that are in front of us. We have got to make sure that we have a candidate who is listening, who — and a leader who, frankly, again, puts the people first.”

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said during an interview over the weekend that it was time for the Islamic Republic of Iran to be held directly accountable for the terrorist attacks that its supports throughout the world.

Mullin made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash when asked about what his level of concern was over the rising tensions in the Middle East.

“Tt’s already been escalated,” he said. “At this point, what they need to know is that it’s not peace through appeasement. It’s peace through strength. And there should be no daylight between us and Israel right now. Israel had the right to do what they did. They took out the leader of Hamas that was — that Tehran was aiding and abetting and was harboring, obviously. He was there.”

“This is no different than us going after Osama bin Laden when he was in Pakistan,” he continued. “This is the organization that attacked them on October 7 that Iran has funded. And we have known that, that they’re funding a terrorist organization. And for them to go out and take the leader out, they have every right to do that.”

He said that the fact that the Biden-Harris Administration was trying to create some separation between the U.S. and Israel showed “weakness.”

“If President Trump was in office, this wouldn’t even be an issue,” he said. “And I mean that, because they were afraid of President Trump. They knew that he had — he led peace through strength, not peace of appeasement, and that his word meant something. There would be no daylight between us and Israel if President Trump’s administration was in place.”

He added that since Iran feels emboldened by the Biden-Harris Administration that “you’re seeing the snake raise its head, and the snake is Iran. And that head needs to be cut off.”

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): “You’re seeing the snake raise its head, and the snake is Iran. And that head needs to be cut off.” pic.twitter.com/fihmIXhTYL

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