"Nearly three weeks ago, on an airport tarmac in Detroit, Eugene asked VP KAMALA HARRIS about plans for a sitdown interview."

Eugene Daniels, Rachael Bade, Ryan Lizza report at Politico.

Harris gave him a deadline: “I’ve talked to my team,” she said. “I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.”

That’s four days from now, on Saturday. Of course, “scheduled” doesn’t mean the interview will happen by then....

And "want" doesn't mean she's promising to fulfill her wants... or ours. 

Harris campaign staff have been asking reporters who they think she should talk to. Behind the scenes, TV producers from big name anchors have been calling the campaign to pitch their talent as the person she has to do it with.

That's a good way to make people feel included and to create a sense that there is progress. We're going forward, not back, but ever forward... collecting names, collecting dreams... wishes and dreams... what do you want and what do you want... who's your most favorite best-ever big time anchor that in your dream-of-all-dreams interview you see Kamala Harris — the woman who talks to no one — talking to? 

Harris has had a light schedule since accepting the nomination Thursday in Chicago....

She's resting, perhaps. Listening to music. Laughing. Hasn't she done enough?

The Politico writers brainstorm about how to participate in the massive enterprise of imagining who should do the interview and how one might sell the campaign on that name.

They've got 7 names of individuals associated with Harris who might be the target of this pitch. I was going to write "individuals in the Harris camp," but the Politicos writers are using the word "camp" to refer to subgroups — "Campaign chair JEN O’MALLEY DILLON and senior advisor DAVID PLOUFFE represent another camp."

This made me wonder if Harris is running her own campaign: "But unlike Biden, Harris herself doesn’t have the same deep history with the journalists now wooing her." And that dredged up an old memory: Remember when Barack Obama, first running for President, was asked if he'd ever run anything, and the example he gave was that he was running his own campaign?

What if Harris is not even running her own campaign? Who thinks that she is? I get the impression we're being asked to just vote for the Democratic Party as a generality. And in that case, what is the meaning of this interview we're asked to think about or perhaps even — some day — watch? It's meaningless.

And maybe these Politico reporters agree with my impression. They ask "What’s the goal?" and then write this, which seems more like an answer to the question Is an interview really worth the risk?

There has been considerable debate in Harris world about the purpose and timing of the interview. The main narrative in the political press is that Harris needs to do a lengthy serious interview with a brand-name news anchor who will push her on issues.

Harris herself has expressed disagreement with that view, we’re told by two people, telling some Democrats she doesn’t need a big showy interview....

Then why haven't you been doing little, casual interviews all along? And why are you making such a huge deal out of this one interview? Do interviews! Just do them! Do little press conferences! Do anything unscripted! This is too much like the problem we just had with Biden. We feel as though you're not talking to us because you can't.