"Obama Reportedly Pulling All the Strings": Bartiromo Blames Former President for Harris' Rise

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00:00A quick break, and then Obama reportedly pulling all the strings from four years of the Biden-Harris

00:05administration to the meteoric rise of Kamala.

00:08Peter Schweitzer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute with a deep dive

00:11into who is running the show and Harris' career in politics from the San Francisco Bay Area

00:17to Washington, D.C.

00:18He's next.

00:19Stay with us.

00:20Welcome back.

00:21The political rise of Kamala Harris within the Democrat Party will be on full display

00:24at next month's DNC convention in Chicago, when she is expected to receive the official

00:29nomination.

00:30Just 20 years ago, Kamala became district attorney in San Francisco after defeating

00:34her former boss, Terrence Hallinan, in a runoff with the backing of former San Francisco mayor

00:40and assembly speaker Willie Brown.

00:43From there, she became California attorney general, U.S. senator, and finally vice president

00:47of the United States.

00:48Join me now with more on the political rise of Harris as the president of the Government

00:51Accountability Institute, Peter Schweitzer.

00:53Peter, good to see you.

00:55Thanks so much for being here.

00:56What's your take on Kamala's rise throughout the party?

01:00And what can you tell us about Obama and his influence here?

01:04Yeah, great question, Maria.

01:07Look, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have known each other before he was a U.S. senator

01:12and before she was actually the district attorney in San Francisco.

01:16So there's a long history there.

01:18And if you look at Kamala Harris's rise in politics, there are a couple of things that

01:21stick out.

01:22One is the fact that she is loyal to those who put her there.

01:26And number two, she's prepared to do the bidding of the money people that put her there.

01:31When she was San Francisco district attorney in 2003, she ran against Terrence Hallinan.

01:37Terrence Hallinan was a progressive.

01:39The problem for Willie Brown is he was investigating Willie Brown's friends on fraud and a series

01:45of other charges.

01:46Willie Brown didn't like that, so he put his political machine and his money behind Kamala

01:52Harris.

01:53Kamala Harris won that race because of Willie Brown's help.

01:56And what did Kamala Harris do when she became district attorney?

01:59She dropped all those cases, those criminal cases, against Willie Brown's political allies.

02:05So this is a lesson that she knows how to wield power.

02:10And by the way, she was campaigning for Barack Obama in 2003 before he was in the U.S. Senate

02:16And after he won that Senate seat from Illinois, he actually went out to San Francisco and

02:21raised money for Kamala Harris.

02:23So there is a tight bond there.

02:25And that's why I think there is considerable evidence that Barack Obama is the one that

02:29essentially instituted this coup and saw to it that Joe Biden was kicked to the side and

02:35Kamala Harris would be the nominee.

02:37What about this Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist, reporting that's suggesting that

02:43Obama threatened Joe Biden with the 25th Amendment if he didn't step down.

02:48Tell us about that.

02:49Yeah, so I think you have to understand about Barack Obama.

02:53This is the way that he operates.

02:54You know, he's a very smooth politician.

02:57But go back and look at state Senator Alice Palmer.

03:00She was the one in Chicago that was Barack Obama's mentor.

03:04She's the one that introduced him to Bill Ayers, to all the big money people in Chicago.

03:08What did Barack Obama do?

03:10In 1996, he got her kicked off the ballot because he wanted her Senate seat.

03:16And he took her Senate seat.

03:18So when you look at the current context today, what you see is a couple of things.

03:23The money, the big money in the Democratic Party.

03:25Who is the chairman of Joe Biden's finance committee for his campaign?

03:30It was Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was what?

03:33The chairman of Barack Obama's finance campaign.

03:36So the big money people in Democratic Party are Obama people first instead of Biden people.

03:41The second thing to understand is look at the center of gravity in the White House itself.

03:45Yes, you've got Steve Ruscetti and a couple of close aides around Joe Biden.

03:50But this is essentially Barack Obama's White House.

03:53So remember that picture from just a couple of years ago when Barack Obama visited the

03:57White House.

03:58Everybody's crowding around Barack Obama.

04:01And there is the actual current sitting president, Joe Biden, off by himself.

04:05So the center of gravity was there.

04:08And when Barack Obama started, the first one, really, who started questioning whether Joe

04:12Biden could win, immediately, like a light switch went off, you saw all the whispers

04:18coming from White House staff reporting these stories about how Joe Biden was not always

04:23there and should be replaced.

04:26So in my mind, there's lots of evidence and his fingerprints are all over this.

04:29OK.

04:30Specifically, did Obama threaten Biden with the 25th Amendment that they have gotten the

04:37OK from the cabinet that they will push it forward if he doesn't step down?

04:41Did they threaten Biden to say, you better get out?

04:43Otherwise, we're doing it this way.

04:45Yeah, that's what Schumer Hearst is certainly reporting.

04:48I don't have that same evidence, but it would certainly fit the pattern for Barack Obama.

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