Harris deflects on border, Iran and Biden decline during bad-tempered Fox News interview

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris angrily dodged questions on border policy, Iran and President Biden’s fitness for office in an contentious interview with Fox News host Bret Baier — as more polls showed her losing the initiative in the race for the White House.The 26-minute interview with the Democratic nominee kicked off with a tense grilling by Baier on immigration policy — with Harris repeatedly refusing to say that terminating former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy was a mistake.Baier’s first question schooled Harris about the effects of the current administration’s more permissive policies, which allow many illegal border-crossers to await asylum rulings inside the US, before asking how many migrants had been allowed into the US after crossing illegally.When Harris declined to offer a figure, Baier said “it’s a rough estimate of six million people released into the country” before pressing her: “Looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ at the beginning of your administration?”Harris began to deploy standard campaign-trail talking points, insisting that the administration’s “first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system.”Baier interjected, “it was essentially a pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants already in the country.“May I finish responding, please? But you have to let me finish, please,” the veep said sternly.“You had the White House and the House and the Senate and they didn’t bring up that bill,” Baier said.“I’m in the middle to responding to the point that you’re raising and I’d like to finish,” she reprimanded.We recognized from day one … it is a priority for us as a nation … and our focus has been on fixing a problem.”Baier noted that the bill cited by Harris would have allowed 1.8 million asylum-seekers who illegally crossed the border into the country each year a...