Harris says Trump would 'surrender' over Ukraine

US Vice-President Kamala Harris was pressed connected issues including the Middle East, Ukraine, weapon ownership and migration during a one-on-one interrogation with CBS News' 60 Minutes.

The recorded interrogation comes arsenic Harris ramps up media appearances connected a bid podcasts and TV networks amid disapproval that she has made precise few.

Donald Trump besides was invited for an interrogation connected 60 Minutes, but declined.

There is little than a period to spell earlier Election Day successful the contention for the White House betwixt the Democrat and her Republican opponent.

The interrogation connected CBS News, the BBC's US partner, aired Monday nighttime aft some Harris and Trump appeared astatine events to commemorate 1 twelvemonth since the 7 October onslaught connected Israel.

Harris declined to hold erstwhile asked by newsman Bill Whitaker whether Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu is simply a "strong ally" of the United States, aft caller nationalist disagreements betwixt the White House and Jerusalem.

"The enactment that we bash diplomatically with the enactment of Israel is an ongoing pursuit astir making wide our principles," Harris said.

"I think, with each owed respect, the amended question is, bash we person an important confederation betwixt the American radical and the Israeli people," she continued. "And the reply to that question is yes."

In a much tense moment, Harris besides was pressed to support her migration record, which has been heavy attacked by Trump and Republicans.

Mr Whitaker asked her whether it was a “mistake” to loosen borderline restrictions enactment successful spot by Trump, fixed that the Biden-Harris medication re-enacted restrictions 3 years aft taking power of the White House.

“It's a longstanding problem. And solutions are astatine hand. And from time one, literally, we person been offering solutions,” she said, blaming Trump for pressuring Republicans successful Congress to torpedo a borderline woody that would person accrued migration enforcement.

The newsman responded: “What I was asking was, was it a mistake to benignant of let that flood to hap successful the archetypal place?”

Harris replied that the “the policies that we person been proposing are astir fixing a problem, not promoting a problem” and said that she and Biden person “cut the travel of amerciable migration by half”.

On Ukraine, Harris said she would not beryllium down with Russian President Vladimir Putin unless Ukraine was besides astatine the table.

She slammed Trump's position, saying: "He talks about, oh, helium tin extremity it connected time one. You cognize what that is? It's astir surrender," she said.

If Trump was inactive president, she said, "Putin would beryllium successful Kyiv close now".

She besides was asked astir her economical program and however her medication would money immoderate of its plans, which could adhd $3tr (£2.3tr) to the US nationalist shortage implicit the adjacent decade.

"My economical program would fortify America’s economy. His would weaken it," she said, adding that her program relied connected "strengthening tiny businesses".

Asked again however she would wage for it, Harris responded that she would rise taxes connected "the richest among america who tin spend it".

On Monday, a caller investigation by non-partisan radical the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, recovered Trump's proposals would summation the US nationalist indebtedness by treble the magnitude of Harris's.

Trump would adhd $7.5tn and Harris would adhd $3.5tn, the radical said.

The deliberation vessel warned that neither was addressing the country's increasing $35.6tn debt.

In her interview, Harris besides discussed owning a firearm, revealing that her pistol is made by Austrian institution Glock.

"I've had it for rather immoderate time," she said, noting that her "background is successful instrumentality enforcement".

Harris, a erstwhile territory lawyer successful California, laughed erstwhile asked if she had ever fired it, saying, "of people I have, astatine a shooting range."

Also speaking connected the aforesaid programme, Harris's moving mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, criticised Trump for his comments connected his opponents and migrants.

"They're dehumanising, they spell beyond weird because, I said this, it becomes astir dangerous. Let's effort to statement argumentation successful a existent mode and let's effort to find nonsubjective information again."

He besides defended his grounds of making mendacious statements astir his subject work and travels successful Asia successful the 1980s.

Walz described himself arsenic a feline "telling a story, getting a day wrong", alternatively than a "pathological liar" similar Trump.

"I volition ain up to being a knucklehead astatine times, but the folks closest to maine cognize that I support my word."

Trump besides was invited to 60 Minutes. He accepted, but aboriginal changed his caput and declined, according to CBS.

Trump's run disputed that helium ever agreed to beryllium interviewed. His spokesman, Steven Cheung called it "fake news".

During his 2020 statesmanlike campaign, Trump walked retired of his interrogation with CBS presenter Leslie Stahl aft increasing frustrated with questions astir Covid-19.

Earlier connected Monday, Harris commemorated those mislaid connected 7 October by planting a pomegranate histrion successful the plot of the Vice-President’s residence successful Washington.

“A awesome of anticipation and righteousness… to punctual aboriginal vice-presidents of the United States not lone of the fearfulness of October 7th but the spot and endurance of the Jewish people,” Harris said.

Former President Donald Trump donned a achromatic yarmulke arsenic helium visited Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, the last resting spot of Rabbi Schneerson successful Queens, New York connected Monday.

The tract is considered the holiest Jewish tract successful North America, according to immoderate Orthodox Jews.