-Kamala Harris' comments
from her radio interview
with "The Breakfast Club"
are sparking controversy.
-Have you ever smoked?
-I have.
-Okay.
-And I inhale -- I did inhale.
It was a long time ago.
-Harris explains her pro-pot
stance and admits
that she indulged in
the substance while in college.
Then, this exchange happened.
-What does Kamala
Harris listen to?
-What were you listening
to when you was high?
What was on?
What song was --
-Was it Snoop?
-Oh, my goodness.
Oh, yeah, definitely Snoop.
Uh-huh.
Tupac for sure, for sure.
-Tupac.
-People quickly jumped on
what they saw
as a contradiction,
given that Tupac and Snoop Dogg
were not producing music
while she was in college.
Harris graduated from Howard
University in 1986 and later
got her JD from the University
of California in 1989.
Tupac's debut album,
"2Pacalypse Now,"
came out in 1991,
and Snoop's first album,
"Doggystyle," followed
a few years later in 1993.
So if you're just listening
to this piece on the radio,
it sounds like Harris' memory
is mixed up,
or maybe she lied about
what her stoner jams
were in an attempt to sound cool
at a time
when more and more Democrats
and even a few Republicans
are on board with legal weed?
-You know, I'm not big
into marijuana.
I've smoked it twice in my life
when I was very young,
and the result for me was
that I did a lot of coughing.
-I made bad choices.
I got high without
always thinking
about the harm that it could do.
-Well, you know,
like most Americans
over the last 10 years,
people's opinion on this issue
have evolved.
-I experimented with marijuana
a time or two,
and I didn't like it and didn't
inhale and never tried it again.
-So, 40 years ago, I smoked
marijuana, and I admit it.
I'm sure that other people
might have done it
and may not want to say it
in front of 25 million people.
My mom's not happy
that I just did.
-But when you watch Harris'
whole interaction on camera,
the situation plays out
very differently.
DJ Envy asks Harris
what she listens to.
-What does Kamala Harris
listen to?
-Charlamagne then asks
a separate question
as an aside to the senator.
-What were you listening
to when you was high?
-Harris politely laughs,
but, then,
makes eye contact with Envy.
-What was on?
What song was it?
-Was it Snoop?
-Oh, my goodness.
Oh, yeah, definitely Snoop.
Uh-huh.
Tupac.
-So it's implied that
she's answering Envy's question
about what she listens
to in general
rather than specifically what
she listened to while stoned.
Harris has been accused
of pandering
because of the way
this played out,
and it's not the first time
a politician
has been put in
that position on the show.
-What's something that you
always carry with you?
-Hot sauce.
-Really?
-Yeah, yeah.
-Really?
!
-Are you getting in formation
right now?
-Hot sauce?
-So, while Harris was trying to
make her position on pot clear,
she found herself
in a pretty sticky situation.
-Listen, I think that it gives
a lot of people joy,
and we need more joy.
-We need more joy
in this world.
