MSNBC host defends Harris avoiding policy questions: She's 'not running for perfect'

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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle went to bat for Vice President Kamala Harris, insisting she doesn't have to address policy questions from the press because "she's not running for perfect, she's running against Trump."

On Friday's installment of "Real Time with Bill Maher," Ruhle rushed to defend Harris after host Bill Maher torched the VP's recent comments laying out her plans for a post-war Middle East, suggesting it was hollow.

"She is in a tricky position because Joe Biden is currently the commander in chief and she's the VP," Ruhle told Maher. "So it's very difficult for anybody in her position to kind of thread this needle and say, 'Here's what we should do, here's our plan' when he's the current commander in chief."

"She's in this weird space of like an improv show, of like a ‘yes, and,’ 'Yes to what he's doing and I think we should do this,' So it's especially tricky."

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Fellow panelist, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, turned to Ruhle with an "honest question," asking whether Harris was being "vague" for political reasons or "does she simply have no idea?" Ruhle insisted that wasn't an "honest question" since she'd never say Harris has "no idea."

"I'm an undecided voter. I'm never gonna vote for Trump, but I'm not sure I want to vote for Kamala," Stephens told Ruhle. "And my fear is that