Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes

In a wide-ranging sit-down with "60 Minutes" that aired Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris defended her policy reversals on issues such as fracking and criticized former President Donald Trump for backing out of the interview with the CBS program.

Harris said, as she did in a previous interview with CNN, that shifts in her positions on a fracking ban and Medicare for All, both of which she says she no longer supports, came after hearing from Americans across the country in her travels as vice president.

"What the American people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus, where we can figure out compromise and understand it's not a bad thing, as long as you don't compromise your values, to find common sense solutions," Harris told "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker. "And that has been my approach."

Trump initially agreed to be interviewed, according to CBS. He changed his mind and only Harris, and her running mate Tim Walz, appeared on the program, in a break with more than half a century of tradition.

"Unfortunately last week, Trump canceled," CBS correspondent Scott Pelley said in the program's introduction, adding that the campaign offered "shifting" explanations. One of the issues Trump's campaign raised was that CBS would fact-check the interview, Pelley noted.

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