‘SNL’ Cold Open: Harris Outmatches Bret Baier, Who Won’t Stop Interrupting
Saturday Night Live covered a lot of the past week’s attention-grabbing political moments in its cold open: Kamala Harris’ interview with an interrupting Fox News host Bret Baier, Donald Trump’s hard time persuading Latino voters to support him, and the former president’s abandonment of a brief question-and-answer session during a town hall to instead bob his head to music for forty minutes.
In her sit-down on Fox, Harris (Maya Rudolph) called out Baier (Alec Baldwin) for showing the wrong clip of Trump, in effect sanitizing his threats about using military force on the “enemy from within,” which he said includes prominent Democrats like Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. The clip that Baier asked Harris to react to was actually of Trump (James Austin Johnson) making one of his tangential ramblings at an all-female town hall–the one filled with his supporters, which Fox didn’t disclose.
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“With all due respect, that is not the right clip,” she told the Fox host, who then played another clip he claimed was the correct one. Yet this one, too, was off the mark, as it was of Trump walking around on stage listening to “YMCA.”
“I think he makes a pretty compelling argument,” reacted Baier, who later made persistent efforts to bait Harris into insulting Trump’s supporters.
Harris didn’t bite, and got back at her interviewer by simply saying the words “abortion,” “uterus,” and “menstration,” triggering involuntary exclamations of horror by Baier.
Towards the end of the opener, Trump was shown answering one man’s question at a Univision town hall, telling him at one point that the Jan. 6 insurrection was a “day of love.”
“No one died, except for the few that did. And so now that I’ve got your vote…let’s dance!”
Baier wrapped up the interview by asking Harris why Americans should vote for her. He then interrupted her answer seven times in about 30 seconds, even about something entirely unrelated: whether she was excited about the fantasy film Wicked being released next month.
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