Things were highly entertaining when Fox News Channel host Bret Baier hosted an important, long-form and unscripted interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. For one, there was her shouting about “democracy,” and the allegation by Baier that it was going so badly for Kamala that her staffers were begging her to end it.

Adding to the fun was an incident in which Baier tried to press her on a simple detail that shows the magnitude of the border crisis, putting its immense scale in stark relief. That detail is the question of how many illegal immigrants the Biden-Harris Administration has released into the United States over the last three and a half years.

Pressing Kamala on that question during the interview, Baier asked, as Kamala tried to dance around giving an answer, whether it was one million illegal immigrants released into the country, three million, or, as many suspect, far more. Kamala refused to answer, bringing Baier to note that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that 85% of illegal immigrants caught at the border have been released into the country.

Harris freaked out in response, snapping at him, “I’m not finished! I’m not finished!” Baier, responding to Kamala’s outburst and trying ot finish the question, told her, “It’s a rough estimate of six million people have been released into the country. And let me just finish. I’ll get you the question, I promise you.”

Pressing on yet further despite the outburst, Baier said, “When you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies, most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation, either in the U.S. or in Mexico. And you switched that policy, they were released from custody awaiting trial.”

Baier then continued on much the same track, asking Vice President Harris, “So instead, included in those were a large number of single men, adult men who went on to commit heinous crimes. So looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ at the beginning of your administration?”

Once again, Kamala didn’t answer. Instead, rambling, she said,  “At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress before we worked on infrastructure, before the Inflation Reduction Act, before the Chips and Science Act, before the bipartisan Safety Communities Act, the first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system.”

Baier, fact-checking her and explaining what was actually going on with that bill, said, “Yes, ma’am. It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. It was essentially a pathway to citizenship.” Harris then tried to interrupt him, but Baier again pressed on regardless of her interjections and noted that, despite controlling both houses of the national legislature and the presidency, the Democrats refused to take up the bill, debunking her point about it.

Watch their spat over the border and interruptions here:

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