UN aims ‘to bring multilateralism back’ as it adopts Pact for the Future
UN member countries adopt blueprint for the future to tackle wars, environmental threats and technological challenges facing humanity. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a “Pact for the Future”, which UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a “step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism”. The pact, which also includes an annex on working towards a responsible and sustainable digital future, was adopted without a vote on Sunday at the start of a two-day Summit of the Future. The agreement came after some nine months of negotiations. “We are here to bring multilateralism back from the brink,” Guterres told the summit. As an opener for the annual high-level week of the UN General Assembly, which begins on Tuesday, dozens of heads of state and government had gathered for the adoption of the pact. Leaders pledged to bolster the multilateral system to “keep pace with a changing world” and to “protect the needs and interests of current and future generations” facing “persistent crisis”. “We believe there is a path to a brighter future for all of humanity,” the document of the pact said. The UN chief has long pushed for the pact, which covers themes including peace and security, global governance, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations. It lays out some 56 broad actions that countries pledged to achieve. The adoption of the pact, however, faced a brief delay when Russia’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Sergey Vershinin, introduced an amendment, emphasising the “principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of states”. Russia’s objections were backed by allies Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Nicaragua and Syria, but its amendment was overwhelmingly dismissed in a motion to take no action. “It was somewhat irritating that, in the end, Russia once again tried to stop the whole process,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, co-sponsor of the text. Despite criticism of the pact, it is still “an opportunity to affirm our collective commitment to multilateralism, even in the difficult current geopolitical context”, one diplomat told AFP news agency, emphasising the need to rebuild trust between the Global South and North. “This pact gives us hope and inspiration for a better future,” said Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, who has been a keen advocate for the Global South at the UN through his country’s membership in the Security Council. Developing countries have been particularly vocal in demanding concrete commitments on the reform of international financial institutions, aiming to secure easier access to preferential financing, especially considering the impacts of climate change. “This [existing] approach to governance reinforces the notion that it is acceptable to have first-class and second-class citizens,” said Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley. The pact and its annexes – a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations – are nonbinding. This has raised concerns about implementation – especially as some principles, such as the protection of civilians in conflict, are violated daily. Adblock test (Why?)
Does the Israeli military have a clear battle plan?
Almost a year into its war on Gaza, Israel is fighting on multiple fronts in the region. Israel targets Al Jazeera Media Network yet again, this time in the occupied West Bank. During a predawn raid on Sunday, the military issued an order to close the channel’s bureau in Ramallah for 45 days. The Israeli government has already banned Al Jazeera from reporting within Israel. And with no let-up in its bombardment of Gaza, the military is also expanding operations in the occupied West Bank and across the border into Lebanon. There are also reports Israel is planning to issue mass evacuation orders in northern Gaza, similar to what it did in the first week of the war back in October. What’s the real objective behind this plan? Does Israel intend to reoccupy Gaza? Presenter: James Bays Guests: Daniel Levy – President of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli negotiator Meron Rapoport – Award-winning Israeli investigative journalist Ilan Pappe – Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Adblock test (Why?)
Chuck Schumer calls out Republicans for ‘wasting time’ as tentative funding deal is announced
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took a swipe at his Republican colleagues for “wasting precious time” after his GOP counterpart unveiled a plan to avoid a government shutdown. The bipartisan plan was announced by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., earlier on Sunday. The tentative agreement maintains government funding until Dec. 20, with the House likely to vote on the bill as early as Wednesday. The agreement – which still needs to be voted on in order to be implemented – comes after weeks of uncertainty about whether a government shutdown could be avoided before the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. The hypothetical government shutdown would begin on Oct. 1. In a statement released by Schumer on Sunday evening, the New York Democrat accused Johnson of “follow[ing] the MAGA way.” HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN: WHICH CANDIDATE HOLDS THE EDGE ON THIS CRUCIAL ISSUE “Over the past 4 days, bipartisan, bicameral negotiations have been underway to reach an agreement that maintains current funding through December 20 and avoids a government shutdown a month before the election,” Schumer’s statement read. “While I am pleased bipartisan negotiations quickly led to a government funding agreement free of cuts and poison pills, this same agreement could have been done two weeks ago.” Schumer referred to Johnson’s attempt to try passing a more Republican-friendly continuing resolution (CR) that would have extended funding for another six months, despite the awareness that many Republicans would not support it. The CR failed by a narrow 202-220 vote last week. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP 2024 SHOWDOWN “Instead, Speaker Johnson chose to follow the MAGA way and wasted precious time,” Schumer said in his statement. “As I have said throughout this process, there is only one way to get things done, with bipartisan, bicameral support.” Johnson also attempted to pass the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a Republican-backed bill that would require proof of citizenship in the voter registration process. The Republican leader’s funding agreement, which is closer in line with what the Senate Democrats wanted, is expected to anger the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. The bill also includes $231 million for the U.S. Secret Service with conditions that the agency cooperates with congressional investigations. The bipartisan deal made on Sunday excludes any agreement to pass the SAVE Act. Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Government shutdown narrowly avoided after Republicans and Democrats make funding deal
The U.S. government will be funded for another three months, thanks to a bipartisan funding agreement reached on Sunday that will avoid a government shutdown. The agreement will maintain funding until Dec. 20, with the House likely to vote on the bill as early as Wednesday. The development was announced in a press release by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Over the past 4 days, bipartisan, bicameral negotiations have been underway to reach an agreement that maintains current funding through December 20 and avoids a government shutdown a month before the election,” Schumer’s statement read. HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN: WHICH CANDIDATE HOLDS THE EDGE ON THIS CRUCIAL ISSUE WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP 2024 SHOWDOWN “While I am pleased bipartisan negotiations quickly led to a government funding agreement free of cuts and poison pills, this same agreement could have been done two weeks ago.” The bill also includes $231M for USSS with conditions that agency cooperates with congressional investigations. This breaking news story is developing. Check back with us for updates.
National security chiefs on letter backing Kamala Harris include many who signed infamous Hunter Biden doc
Nine high-ranking former national security and military officials who signed a letter Sunday endorsing Vice President Harris’ run for the Oval Office also signed a letter nearly four years ago dismissing Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, Fox News Digital found. A group called the National Security Leaders for America, which bills itself as a bipartisan group of former senior military and national security leaders, published a letter Sunday endorsing Harris for the White House. A total of 741 former high-ranking national security officials signed the letter. Fox News Digital pored through the list of signatories and found nine of the former national security chiefs who endorsed Harris also signed a letter in 2020 discounting Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation – before media outlets authenticated the laptop after the 2020 election and the FBI ultimately cited the laptop as legitimate in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial earlier this year. The signatories who signed both the 2020 letter and the endorsement of Harris include: former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper; former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden; former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta; former CIA Director John Brennan; former Acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin; former CIA chief of staff Laurence M. Pfeiffer; former Department of Defense chief of staff Jeremy Bash; CIA chief of station John Sipher; and former National Intelligence Council Chair Gregory Frye Treverton. TRUMP CIA CHIEF KNEW ABOUT INFAMOUS LETTER DISMISSING BIDEN LAPTOP AS PROPAGANDA BEFORE PUBLICATION: REPORT Ahead of the 2020 election, the New York Post published a bombshell report on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP RE-EMERGES AS MEDIA EMBARRASSMENT AS IT BECOMES KEY EVIDENCE AT GUN TRIAL Fifty-one former intelligence officials, however, soon after released a statement on Oct. 19, 2020, discounting the laptop as having “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” in a bid to discredit the New York Post’s report at the time. The laptop came into public view after the first son left it at a Delaware repair shop ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The former military chiefs’ 2020 letter played a key role in many media outlets turning their backs on reporting on the laptop as legitimate, as well as providing President Biden with political ammunition to downplay the laptop during his debate against former President Trump during the last election cycle. Liberal media outlets, however, changed their tune in 2022 after newspapers such as the Washington Post and New York Times authenticated thousands of his emails on the laptop. The laptop also re-emerged this year when the first son faced a criminal trial in Delaware over his purchase of a firearm in 2018 while he was reeling from a crack cocaine addiction. The trial, which found Hunter guilty on all counts, formally entered the laptop into evidence and was confirmed by the FBI as legitimate. FLASHBACK: MSNBC, CNN, CBS TOLD VIEWERS HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY WAS RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION VIDEO GOES VIRAL OF DEMOCRATS, MEDIA MEMBERS DOUBTING HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP The former chiefs’ 2020 letter made headlines again this year when a joint report released by three House panels alleged that active CIA contractors “coordinated” with the 2020 Biden campaign just weeks ahead of that year’s election “to discredit serious allegations about Biden family influence peddling” connected to Hunter’s laptop when the 51 former intelligence officials released a statement dismissing the laptop. Fast-forward to Sunday and the 2024 election, the letter endorsing Harris and signed by hundreds of former national security leaders, including nine from the 2020 letter, lauded her as “prepared and strategic” while slamming Trump as “impulsive and ill-informed.” 5 TAKES ON THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP THAT HAVE AGED POORLY “We are former public servants who swore an oath to the Constitution. Many of us risked our lives for it. We are retired generals, admirals, senior noncommissioned officers, ambassadors, and senior civilian national security leaders. We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. We are loyal to the ideals of our nation—like freedom, democracy, and the rule of law—not to any one individual or party,” the letter published Sunday endorsing Harris reads. “We do not agree on everything, but we all adhere to two fundamental principles. First, we believe America’s national security requires a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief. Second, we believe American democracy is invaluable. Each generation has a responsibility to defend it. That is why we, the undersigned, proudly endorse Kamala Harris to be the next President of the United States,” it added. National Security Leaders for America president Rear Admiral Michael Smith, USN (Ret.) defended the nine signatories in comment to Fox Digital on Sunday evening, arguing the 2020 letter was “well-reasoned but ultimately incorrect.” “One well-reasoned but ultimately incorrect assessment does not undermine a lifetime’s worth of public service. Their assertion that former President Trump is uncommitted to democracy and unprepared to be Commander-in-Chief is well-founded, as is their assessment of Vice President Harris as a strategic and knowledgeable leader.”
Columbia’s interim president apologizes to protesters who occupied campus for ‘hurt’ caused by NYPD
The interim president of Columbia University kicked off the new school year by apologizing to anti-Israel protesters on campus who were “hurt” by the NYPD when they worked to clear the agitators who descended on the campus last year. “I know that this is tricky for me to say, but I do understand that I sit in this job, right. And so if you could just let everybody know who was hurt by that, that I’m just incredibly sorry,” interim university President Katrina Armstrong told student newspaper The Columbia Spectator in her first interview with the outlet since she was named interim president. “And I know it wasn’t me, but I’m really sorry.… I saw it, and I’m really sorry.” Armstrong became interim president of the elite school last month when Minouche Shafik stepped down as president amid ongoing condemnation of her handling of campus protests last year that often turned violent. Agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide last school year to protest the war in Israel, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they don’t feel safe on some campuses. IVY LEAGUE ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS’ PROTESTS SPIRAL INTO ‘ACTUAL TERROR ORGANIZATION,’ PROFESSOR WARNS Columbia’s campus was notably rocked by student and outside agitators demanding the school completely divest from Israel amid the ongoing war in the Middle East. Agitators and pro-Hamas demonstrators stormed the university’s Hamilton Hall at the end of April, occupying the building for nearly 24 hours before members of the NYPD were granted permission by the university to take it back from the protesters. The officers were overwhelmingly dressed in riot gear to carry out the operation, and “used electric saws, stun grenades, and other tactical gear to sweep” the building, according to the student newspaper’s report published Thursday. COLUMBIA RABBI TELLS JEWISH STUDENTS TO LEAVE CAMPUS, WARNS THAT SCHOOL, NYPD ‘CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY’ During the widespread campus protests last school year, the NYPD also swept a tent encampment housing the protesters, which was dubbed the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” before the university dismantled the encampment in May. NYPD SHARES GLIMPSE INTO RAID REMOVING ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS FROM COLUMBIA’S HAMILTON HALL All in, the NYPD arrested about 200 protesters on Columbia’s campus last school year. “As we face anything, we have to be very committed to the principles, and our principles are our students and are enabling an environment where people can have freedom of expression, and we support debate, and we do those things,” Armstrong said. “We have to be committed to our principles in terms of ensuring that our academic activities can continue. And so I think we have to be very clear about that, because that’s the commitment I made to our students and to our professors.” STEFANIK ACCUSES COLUMBIA PRESIDENT OF ‘PRO-TERRORIST’ PROFESSOR ‘COVER-UP,’ WARNS OF POTENTIAL FELONY Members of the Jewish community on campus ripped Armstrong’s apology in comments to the New York Post. “Why is she apologizing? An apology sends the message that there shouldn’t be consequences for breaking the rules,” Ari Shrage, cofounder of the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, told the New York Post, calling the remarks “tone deaf.” “This is exactly the opposite of what Columbia needs now.” “Instead of apologizing to the antisemitic protesters, [Armstrong] should be apologizing to the Jewish students for failing to protect them from relentless discrimination and harassment,” student Maya Cukierman, 19, told the outlet. HILLARY CLINTON CONDEMNS ANTI-ISRAEL CAMPUS PROTESTS, SAYS ‘OUTSIDE’ GROUPS INFLUENCED STUDENTS: ‘NASTY’ Columbia Law School graduate Rory Lancman added that Armstrong kicking off the new school year by apologizing is an “ominous sign for Columbia’s dwindling cohort of Jewish students.” A Columbia University spokesperson told Fox Digital on Sunday when asked about Armstrong’s comments that, “From day one, Interim President Armstrong has been focused on engaging with and listening to a wide range of students and communities across the university and has heard about the harm they experienced last academic year.” “Dr. Armstrong gave a wide-ranging interview with the student newspaper that in part focused on the impact of the past year, and just as she has as done while speaking to many groups across our campus, she recognized their pain and reiterated how sorry she is to all students who are hurting. She remains committed to ensuring everyone at the university feels safe and respected as we rebuild and heal this year.”
Chicago gangs clash with Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members: ‘Blacks against migrants’
Venezuelan migrants moving into Chicago’s South Side have caught the attention of the city’s gangs, with some fearing an impending turf war between local gangs and their Venezuelan counterparts. “When the black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames and there will be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it when the bloodshed hits the streets. It’ll be blacks against migrants,” Tyrone Muhammad, a former Chicago gangster who did 20 years in prison and now runs a violence prevention program, said in a report for the New York Post. The comments come as Chicago has seen an influx of Venezuelan migrants, according to the report, including members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang. CAUGHT ON CAMERA: FENCE-CUTTING MIGRANTS BUSTED BY FEDS With the arrival has come a rise in crime, locals told the New York Post, while some Venezuelan gangsters have started to encroach on the territory of the city’s local gangs. “There’s been a lot going on with (the migrant gangs) that nobody’s even hearing about,” Zacc Massie, a local Chicago gang member, told the New York Post. “They be moving in our own territory and robbing people but they don’t get arrested like we do. I actually talked to one on the translator app. He told me all the things he got going on; how they helped him get a car, an apartment, (EBT) card, all this stuff. They giving them thousands, we get maybe $400 a month. And they don’t even have Social Security numbers!” Sources from local Chicago gangs told the New York Post that members of the Venezuelan gang are often heavily armed and have begun spilling into areas traditionally controlled by local gangs. EX-BORDER PATROL CHIEF RIPS BIDEN ADMIN FOR ALLEGEDLY SUPPRESSING INFO ON MIGRANTS WITH POTENTIAL TERROR TIES Local gang member Corey Rogers told the New York Post that Venezuelan gangsters will often be seen “showing the flag,” a slang term for brandishing their firearms. He also showed the outlet text threads that featured local gang members threatening turf wars with the newcomer gangsters. “What bothers me is that the Venezuelans are united,” Rogers said. “The black gangs are too divided and they take each other down.” Others shared concerns about the possibility of increased violence, telling the New York Post that things had actually improved in the city before the influx of migrants. “It’s still violent down here but it’s calmed down a lot,” one gang member told the outlet. “Back in the day we’d get shot if we went over there. It’s calmed down a lot. The last thing we need are the Venezuelans.” The Chicago Police Department did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
Unearthed video reiterates Harris’ previous support for fracking ban
A 5-year-old video of Vice President Harris touting her support for a fracking ban resurfaced on social media over the weekend, highlighting an issue that has plagued the vice president in her run for the White House. “Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our world today. That’s why I am committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all,” Harris said during a September 2019 appearance on the “Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon. Harris, who at the time was a California senator and running for the Democrat nomination for president, had touted her support for such a ban at other points in the campaign, including a CNN town hall earlier in the same month when she said there is “no question” that she was “in favor of banning fracking.” NBC’S CHUCK TODD KNOCKS KAMALA HARRIS’ ‘MISTAKE’ OF AVOIDING PRESS: ‘ANY FUMBLE’ WILL BE ‘OVERLY SCRUTINIZED’ During her appearance on the “Tonight Show,” which was unearthed by conservative commentators over the weekend, Harris also expressed support for a Green New Deal, a controversial proposal popularized by progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. But the issue of a fracking ban has been the most sticky for Harris during her presidential campaign, with the vice president reversing her stance and vowing not to pursue a ban on fracking during an interview with CNN last month. “What I have seen is that we can grow, and we can increase a clean energy economy without banning fracking,” Harris said. KAMALA HARRIS GRANTS FIRST INTERVIEW TO CNN AFTER WEEKS OF AVOIDING PRESS, TO BE JOINED BY TIM WALZ The issue of a fracking ban is of even more importance in the vital swing state of Pennsylvania, a state where the method of natural gas extraction is a source of employment and enjoys broad support. Harris currently holds a narrow lead of less than one point in Pennsylvania, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, coming in at 48.3% support to former President Trump’s 47.6%. Trump has seized on Harris’ previous push for a fracking ban in recent weeks, arguing during the debate last week that “fracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one” if she is elected president.
Trump vows tough approach to sanctuary policies
Former President Trump unveiled a new policy proposal, promising to eliminate sanctuary cities throughout the country. “Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country,” Trump said during a Saturday rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. The comments come as Trump has continued to hammer Vice President Kamala Harris on border security, noting her role in being appointed the “border czar” before the administration oversaw record-setting illegal crossings during President Biden’s first three years in office. ELECTION BOARD IN CRUCIAL SWING STATE ISSUES CONTROVERSIAL RULING REQUIRING HAND COUNTING OF BALLOTS So-called “sanctuary cities,” or jurisdictions that have limited their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, have become controversial in recent years, with critics arguing that the existence of the cities incentivizes illegal border crossings and hampers ICE’s ability to take custody of migrants accused of committing crimes in the U,S. Trump vowed to tackle that issue during his rally Saturday, telling the crowd that he would “ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide, and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate” with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. BIDEN ADMIN’S USE OF BORDER PAROLE REVEALS EYE-POPPING NUMBER OF MIGRANT ARRIVALS IN US The former president also doubled down on promises to deport all illegal immigrants living in the country, starting with those who pose a danger to public safety. “As soon as I take office I will surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing – which is a lot of them – to turn over criminal aliens, and we will hunt down and capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored,” Trump said. “We will get them out of North Carolina and send them home where they belong.” North Carolina is one of seven critical swing states that figure to play an outsized role in this year’s election. Trump, who narrowly won the state in both 2016 and 2020, currently holds only a 0.1 percentage point lead in the state, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, the narrowest margin of all seven swing states.
TikTok creator roasts Oprah, Harris for featuring her in town hall interview: ‘I do not support Harris’
A TikTok creator who was featured in Oprah Winfrey’s town hall interview with Vice President Kamala Harris last week slammed the use of her video without permission, mocking Harris and vowing she will not vote for her come November. “So I got my four seconds of fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and of all people to be her guest, let me show you who it was,” a TikTok creator behind the account Blaire_Allison said in a video posted Saturday. The TikTok then showed a clip of Winfrey’s town hall-style interview with Harris that aired Thursday evening, featuring various people describing how the cost of living is strangling average Americans’ pocketbooks, including a video from Blaire Allison posted in November 2023. “I don’t understand how people are affording life right now,” Allison said in the featured clip. KAMALA HARRIS PANNED ONLINE FOR DELIVERING RAMBLING REMARKS DURING OPRAH EVENT: ‘UNBELIEVABLE CRINGE’ The TikTok creator launched a rebuttal to the clip being aired by imitating Harris to underscore she does not support the Democratic vice president’s run for the Oval Office. “To my Americans: Let me make something perfectly clear, OK? I do not support Harris for president,” she said, mocking and imitating Harris’ often roundabout way of speaking. “OK? I want to be unburdened by who has been in the White House the last three and a half years. OK? As I stand here today, on this stage, standing on this stage today, the day after yesterday, I just want you to know, OK, how I stand and how I stand today is that I do not support Harris for president.” The TikTok slamming Harris has racked up more than 2 million views on X, with over 100,000 views on the original TikTok as of Sunday morning. HARRIS SHIFTS KEY POSITIONS ON BORDER, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AS CAMPAIGN PROMISES ‘PRAGMATIC’ APPROACH In a follow-up TikTok, the content creator stated that Winfrey’s team did not secure permission to feature her original video, noting she had “no clue that clip would be shared while she interviewed Kamala Harris.” “I have made it very clear that I don’t support Kamala Harris, at all,” she added. The creator told Fox News Digital via email on Sunday that she is a “very patriotic American and I don’t believe Harris puts Americans first, nor has established a plan on how she will improve Americans livelihoods,” and will consequently not vote for Harris come November. “I was disappointed that such a well known talk show such as Oprah Winfrey didn’t even notify me they were using my clip, which didn’t allow me time to watch the footage until people in my community notified me,” she added. OPRAH WINFREY TO JOIN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS FOR TOWN HALL Blaire Allison’s original video from November that was featured in the town hall focused on how the cost of living was affecting people on average salaries, including teachers and minimum wage workers, with the TikTok creator saying inflation and cost woes “really p—es me off.” “How are people affording life right now? How are people tackling this cost of living on the average American salary? I just watched a TikTok of a teacher who makes a teacher’s salary. I don’t know what state she’s in, so I don’t know how much she makes. But her one-bedroom apartment is $2,000 and when she spends $2,000 on that one-bedroom apartment, it doesn’t even come with the washer and dryer, so she has to go pay an additional $2 every time she wants to use the washer and dryer,” she said in the video that was posted to her TikTok account on Nov. 6, 2023. GUTFELD: OPRAH WAS TRYING TO MANAGE THE ‘TRAIN-WRECK’ WITH KAMALA HARRIS CNN COMMENTATOR SLAMS HARRIS AFTER OPRAH WINFREY SIT-DOWN: ‘WHEN HAS SHE SAT DOWN WITH ANY HOSTILE MEDIA?’ Social media commenters shared the TikTok creator’s rebuttal to the Winfrey interview posted this weekend, celebrating how she “savages” Harris and adding that her response to Harris was “hysterical.” Harris spoke with Winfrey at the “Unite for America Rally” on Thursday, which was a livestream event featuring several celebrities as well as questions and stories from citizens across the country. HARRIS TELLS OPRAH ANYONE BREAKING INTO HER HOME IS ‘GETTING SHOT:’ ‘PROBABLY SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT’ Harris has overwhelmingly avoided the media since announcing her run for the White House after President Biden dropped out of the race in July amid mounting concern over his mental acuity and age. As of Sunday, Harris has gone 63 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference. After weeks of pressure to hold a sit-down interview, Harris ended her interview drought last month in Georgia when she was joined by running mate Tim Walz for a pre-taped piece with CNN’s Dana Bash. She’s done more interviews since, including this week with the National Association of Black Journalists, and speaking with Winfrey on Thursday. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign and the group that organized the Unite for America Rally regarding the TikTok creator’s rebuttal video, but did not receive replies. Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.