00:00Tonight, K-File investigates. In a new report you'll see first out front, the K-File team
00:06scoured Kamala Harris' tweets and statements going all the way back to 2017. And what they
00:12found was more than 50 instances of Harris slamming Trump's border wall. But now, new
00:19Harris campaign ads actually showcase that very wall.
00:24As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling
00:29weapons and drugs across the border.
00:32And on top of critical tweets, Harris also wrote in her 2019 book, quote, there was a
00:38bigger reason to oppose the border wall. A useless wall on the southern border would
00:42be nothing more than a symbol, a monument standing in opposition to not just everything
00:45I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built. How could I
00:50vote to build what would be little more than a monument designed to send the cold, hard
00:54message, keep out.
00:56So Andrew, I mean, you, you and you, you all have gone through, I mean, scoured an
01:01incredible amount of material. Tell me more about what you found.
01:04Yeah, that's right. We found more than 50 of those, those tweets criticizing the border
01:08wall before she used that in her ad. And I want people to take a look at just a few of
01:13what she said here. She called it wasteful, useless, a waste of taxpayer money, a vanity
01:19wall project, a wasteful border wall, a stupid wall, a medieval vanity project, and an unnecessary
01:26wall. And those are really just, I mean, there were more of this was like 10 or 50, but there
01:31was really, there was really a lot of this was the common refrain during the campaign.
01:34You read that quote where she said it was against everything that not only she stood
01:38for everything, America stood aboard, but and she brought this up a lot. Take a listen
01:42to just one instance of that in 2019.
01:46It's the president's vanity project.
01:48His multi-billion dollar vanity project called a wall is nothing more than a distraction
01:55from the fact that he actually hasn't focused on working people in America. He contrived
02:01a national crisis around his big distraction.
02:06All right. So you go through all of that, you've got all the tweets and yet all of a
02:11sudden in the ads, there's pictures of the wall. And then you went through to look at
02:15that wall. Like what is that specific wall that's in her campaign ads now? And you found
02:20something very interesting about this specific portion of the wall.
02:23And what's I think what's also really remarkable, this is like, I mean, you heard her talking
02:26about it there, the Trump's wall in his campaign during his presidency, there was really no
02:31greater symbol of Trump's presidency than the wall and the way that Democrats were attacking
02:35him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies. So we looked in that ad and that
02:39exact area of wall is in Sasabe or Sasabe, Arizona. And that is a portion of wall that
02:45was actually built by Donald Trump. It was built in an area where there was not previous
02:51wall is actually pretty controversial when they were building it at the time.
02:55She's using his wall that he built to say, look at what I did.
03:00And the other images of the wall, we weren't able to pinpoint, but there's there's telltale
03:05signs that that was a Trump wall because there's an anti-climbing plate on top that became
03:09popularized during the Trump years.
03:11It's really incredible reporting and important, right?
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