Fox News host Dana Perino clashed with Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Ian Sams on Friday over Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of interviews and interaction with the media.

Perino asked if it’s a “risk” to put “all your chips” on the Sept. 10 debate since Harris has otherwise mostly avoided taking questions from the press.

“Is that a risk to put all your chips on one debate when she hasn’t really been able to do any sort Q&A with anybody except in debate prep?” Perino asked Sams.

“I reject that. She sat down with Dana Bash for a long interview on CNN that aired just a week ago,” Sams shot back.

“One interview in 47 days,” Perino said.

Sams touted interviews the vice president did before becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

“I know you guys are just now paying attention to her now that she’s the presidential candidate, but she’s done about 90 interviews this year as the vice president and maybe people weren’t paying attention or listening. She’s taken questions from reporters on the campaign trail,” he said, earning a “come on” from Perino.

“First of all, she hasn’t done a lot of interviews and saying debate prep’s going well, yelling that to the pool is not taking questions,” Perino said.

The Fox News host added that Harris has managed to avoid hard questions on positions she’s flipped, while Sams claimed she addressed most of those, like fracking, in the Dana Bash interview on CNN.

“Do the American voters not need to hear from her directly? She wants to be the commander in chief. We’ve paid attention to her, you guys didn’t like that either,” Perino said.

“It’s funny because it’s like you’re acting like she’s in the witness protection program. She’s been traveling across the battleground states, talking to thousands of people in packed arenas, arenas that are much more packed than what President Trump is speaking to,” Sams said.

“Scripted speeches are great but it’s different from doing an interview,” Perino responded.

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