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A TRUE BELIEVER: Kamala Harris bungles her way through explaining Dem failure to codify Roe V Wade

Kamala Harris said in an interview with CBS News that congress needs to act and pass a law guaranteeing abortion rights to American women

Vice president Kamala Harris responded with an incoherent answer in an interview, when asked whether Democratic presidents and congresses failed by not codifying abortion rights over the several years that Roe v Wade stood. "I think that to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled," Harris said.

Harris also said in an interview with CBS News' Robert Costa that congress needs to act and pass a law guaranteeing abortion rights to American women. The vice president said that women have been stripped of a 'constitutional right' after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. "I think all of us share a deep sense of outrage that the United States Supreme Court took a constitutional right that was recognized, took it from the women of America," Harris said. "We are now looking at a case where the government can interfere in what is one of the most intimate and private decisions that someone can make."

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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday, July 8, that aims at helping omen travel to states where abortions are legal. It is also designed to expand access to abortion pills through the Department of Health and Human Services. 

"We also need Congress to act because that branch of government is where we actually codify, which means put into law, the rights that again, we took for granted, but clearly have now been taken from the women of America," Harris said. However, the vice president dodged a question that asked her whether she believed past Democratic leaders had failed in not writing Roe v Wade into law. "I think that, to be very honest with you, I — I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believed that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled," she responded.

Harris did not echo calls from other Democrats who demanded that Supreme Court judges be impeached. However, she did say that she did not believe the justices who said that they felt Roe v Wade was a settled issue. "I start from the point of experience of having served in the Senate. I never believed them. I didn't believe them. It's why I voted against," Harris said.

"If you think about the Voting Rights Act, Congress acted, Civil Rights Act, Congress acted because where there was any question, especially through the courts or any other system, about the sanctity of these rights, we decided as a nation, we would put it into law. That's what we need to do with Roe and the principles behind Roe," Harris said, putting the onus to act on Roe v Wade on congress.

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This interview comes days after Harris came under fire for her speech in the wake of the Highland Park shooting. Many believed her remarks were incoherent. "We've got to take this stuff seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously," Harris said at the scene of the shooting. "The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this could happen anywhere [to] any people in any community. And we should stand together and speak out about why it's got to stop."