Kamala Harris Cracks Open a Miller High Life With Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Show’

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Michaela Zee Vice President Kamala Harris returned to CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night, marking her first late-night appearance since accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in August.

After a daylong media blitz, Harris cracked open a can of Miller High Life with host Stephen Colbert in front of his studio audience in New York City. “The last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug [Emhoff],” Harris said, before repeating the lager brand’s slogan, “The champagne of beers.” During the taped interview, Colbert asked Harris about revelations from journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “War,” including former President Donald Trump reportedly having as many as seven phone calls with Russian president Vladimir Putin since leaving office. “Yeah, so I heard about it today.

I haven’t read it. But look, I said even at the debate, Donald Trump – he openly admires dictators and authoritarians. He has said he wants to be a dictator on day one if he were elected again as president,” Kamala said. “He gets played by these guys.

He admires so-called strongmen and he gets played because they flatter him or offer him favor. “The commander-in-chief of the United States of America must stand strong and defend the principles that we hold dear.