i'm going to ask white house press secretary karine lapierre what she thinks about this. next. >>> vice president kamala harris was asked to respond to nikki haley's comment saying this country has never been racist. today on "the view." watch. >> when i think about it, i think we all would agree that while it is part of our past and we see vestiges of it today, we should also be committed collectively to not letting it define the future of our country. >> just to remind you, this is what she was responding to. >> we're not a racist country, brian. we've never been a racist country. our goal is to make sure that today is better than yesterday. >> this comes on the heels of haley flubbing the answer to a very simple question. what was the cause of the simple war? >> i think the cause of the civil war was how government was going to run. the peoples and what people could and couldn't do. note the lack of the word slavery. and maybe it's more nuanced, it seems. joining me now to look at this and more, white house press secretary karine lapierre. >> i appreciate it. thank you