Biden Issues Warning For America, Harris Calls Political System ‘BROKEN' | TRENDING

Who's leading the Democratic Party? I'm just curious. There are lots of leaders. There's generally a leader of the Democratic Party. You know, like, oh, that's the leader of the Democratic Party. Who comes to mind? I think there are a lot of... I'm not going to go through names, because then I'm going to leave somebody out, and then I'm going to hear about it. But let me just... Let me say this. I think it is a mistake for us who want to figure out how to get out and through this and get out of it, to put it on the shoulders of any one person. It's really on all of our shoulders. The law matters. And the Constitution matters. I think a lot of Americans are starting to realize that under the pressure we're under now with this guy we have as president. Oh. Get ready, folks. This is just starting. I'm proud I've appointed judges doing their best to be independent, fair and partial, respecting the rule of law, and upholding the Constitution. I wish I could say the same for the executive branch, which seems to be doing its best to dismantle the Constitution. I'm being dead and earnest, man. Which seems to be... Seems to be what's going on. This is a time for people to... You know, I mean, look, we designed our democracy with three independent, co-equal branches of government. I mean, when you see that the president of the United States is trying to get rid of the Department of Education, and Congress has the role and responsibility to stand in the way of that, and they're just sitting on their hands, and then they go on recess because they don't want to deal with transparency? And the Supreme Court says... And the Supreme Court says that he can ignore a law that established it. Yeah, but the Supreme Court... We knew what they were doing. Remember, I talked about it in 107 Days. I don't put that in the book, by the way. This is an exclusive. This is an exclusive for The Stephen Colbert Show. But the Supreme Court basically gave whoever would be president... When I was in the campaign, I talked about... Immunity. We talked about... We're not surprised what the Supreme Court is doing, and God thank those members of the Court who write brilliant dissents and remind us of what the democracy and the rule of law is supposed to be. You know? You know, and they're doing it all too often with the help of a Congress that's just sitting in the sidelines and enabled by the highest court in the nation. The rulings they made. My God. Folks, in our lives, in the life of our nation, there are moments so stark that they divide all that came before from everything that followed. Moments that force us to confront hard truths about ourselves, our institutions, and democracy itself. We are, in my view, at such a moment in American history. Reflected in every cruel executive outreach, every rollback of basic freedoms, every erosion of long-standing established precedent, we've seen the laws, the law firms bowing to pressure, bending to bullies instead of staying rooted in justice and the law. Including some of the largest newspapers in America. We see the apparent greed some of our politicians express as while watching immigrants who are in this country legally torn from the arms of their families, dragged away in handcuffs from the only home they've ever known. Yesterday, you made an announcement that you're not running for the governor of California. Correct. You said you're going to sit this one out. Why are you sitting this one out? Are you sitting yourself for a different office? No, no. Listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people. But to be very candid with you, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family. Why is it then when we think we want to improve a system or change it that we're always on the outside unbended knee or trying to break down the door? Shouldn't we also be inside the system? And that has been my career. Recently, I made the decision that I just, for now, I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken. Kamala Harris, as you know, is not running for governor of California. She's not going to do it. What do you see in her political future, sir? Well, she can't speak. She can't talk. She can't do an interview. I thought it was a very strange campaign that we had. But, you know, I had two of them. We were up by, like, this massive number of points on Biden, and they said, let's change to Kamala. Nobody knew who Kamala was. Nobody knew her last name, Harris. But I don't know. I mean, she... I wouldn't call her a skilled politician. Would you? My friends, we need to face the hard truth of this administration. And that has been to ease all the gains we've made in my administration. To erase history, rather than make it. To erase fairness, equality, to erase justice itself. And that's not hyperbole. That's a fact. Look, folks. You can't sugarcoat this. These are dark days. But you're all here for the same reason. I left that prestigious law firm and the public defender's office years ago. It's because our future is literally on the line. We must be unapologetic of fighting for the future. To paraphrase... To paraphrase Frederick Douglass, there is no progress without struggle. And I would add, there is no progress without courage. None.