WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris described undergoing a nine-hour vetting interview with a lawyer during the vice presidential selection process. "When I was being vetted for vice president, I had a nine-hour interview with a lawyer going through everything. My taxes, my professional record, everything," Harris said.

Harris noted that by the time such an interview occurs, the selection process has typically narrowed to about three individuals. "Having been in the position of both being the interviewer and the interviewee, it really as much as anything comes down to chemistry. Because by the time that that interview is happening, it's usually narrowed down to about three people. So all the vetting has been done," she said.

She described the final stage of the process as focusing on partnership and shared goals. "Then it's about sitting down and just deciding, because it is going to be a partnership. And it has to be where you feel that you can trust someone, you could work with them, you're doing it for the same reasons," Harris stated.

Harris previously served two terms as the district attorney of San Francisco, becoming the first woman elected to that position. She then served six years as the attorney general of California, where she was the first female, Black, and South Asian attorney general in the state. Following her tenure as attorney general, she served four years as a U.S. senator from California before becoming the 49th vice president of the United States.

No independent assessment of Kamala Harris’s claims was available.