'Just quote him accurately': Jake Tapper live fact-checks Kamala Harris during speech

CNN’s Jake Tapper issued a live fact check of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris after she claimed at a Phoenix rally on Thursday that Trump would "do what he wants" whether "the women like it or not," falsely linking it to abortion.

"Now in America, one in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral," Harris said during her Thursday rally, according to Fox News. "And Donald Trump’s not done. Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? That he will do what he wants, quote, and here‘s where I‘m going to quote ‘whether the women like it or not.’"

"We must vote because this is the thing," she continued. "You know, there‘s a saying that you got to listen to people when they tell you who you are, and this is not the first time he has told us who he is. He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies."

Trump’s comment was instead related to the border and crime carried out by illegal immigrants under the Biden-Harris administration.

"Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls. Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office," he said at a rally, adding, "I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not. I'm gonna protect them."

Tapper responded as Harris was still speaking from the stage in Phoenix, "When Trump said he was going to do something for women, whether they like it or not, ‘whether the women like it or not,’ he was talking about protecting women, protecting women whether they like it or not. Certainly, you can take issue with the language, but he wasn‘t saying he was just going to do whatever he wanted, regardless."

Other members of the panel laughed, to which Tapper added, "I mean, but you take my point. He’s saying I’m gonna protect them, whether that women want me to protect them."

Democratic strategist Karen Finney replied, "Some would say that’s misogynistic—" to which Tapper cut it, "It’s not as she presented it."

"Look, ultimately, I think we have to be careful in these last days. We did this in 2016," Finney said. "He’s going to say something horrible, ridiculous—"

"So just quote it accurately," Tapper said.