Overview

• Harris told a packed Warner Theatre audience that traditional checks on President Trump have largely failed and that the public remains the only effective brake.
• In a conversation with Kara Swisher, she said if the Supreme Court is not a guardrail, then "just the people" serve as the legal check.
• She accused congressional Republicans of complicity and praised Democrats for defending Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at year’s end, a fight tied to the ongoing shutdown.
• Harris condemned HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for asserting a link between circumcision and autism, calling it pseudoscience and part of a broader assault on research and scientists.
• She warned the administration is operating relatively unchecked as part of a decades-long far-right project, and said she is concerned a politicized Justice Department could indict her, noting recent cases against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey.