OAN Staff James Meyers
8:16 AM – Tuesday, October 29, 2024
The most popular podcaster in the world claimed he turned down an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris after her campaign made several demands, but insisted he hopes it can still happen.
Joe Rogan said the veep’s team had wanted him to travel to her and for their talk to last for only one hour.
“They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,” Rogan said in a statement on X, adding that the Harris campaign “has not passed on doing the podcast.”
“My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.”
The announcement comes after last week 45th President Donald Trump sat down for a three-hour, in-studio interview on his “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast last Friday.
The highly-anticipated interview has already surpassed over 37 million views on YouTube since airing.
In the meantime, Rogan’s refusal to compromise with Harris’ team followed reports he’d been in negotiations with her for several weeks, but her team chose not to go through with it.
Additionally, Rogan confirmed that he was still talking to Harris’ team during his chat with Trump but didn’t elaborate further.
Trump took advantage of the opportunity, criticizing the idea of Harris sitting down for a three-hour interview, which is a usual timeframe for guests on Rogan’s show.
“Can you imagine Kamala doing this show? She’s be laying on the floor” Trump started. “If she did this kind of an interview with you, I hope she does, because it would be a mess. She’d be laying on the floor. Comatose. She’d be saying, ‘Call in the medics’.”
Rogan responded, saying: “I could imagine her doing this show. She was supposed to do it. And she might still do it. And I hope she does. I will talk to her like a human being. I would try to have a conversation with her.”
“I think we’d have a fine conversation. I think I’d be able to talk to her. I wouldn’t try to interview her. I’d just try to have a conversation with her and hopefully get to know her as a human being. That was my goal. Having her on, trying to get her to express herself,” he added.
Instead, Harris has made appearances on the soft-ball programs including the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, ABC News’ “The View,” “The Howard Stern Show,” and CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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