The joint interview airing on CNN on Thursday will be the first time Harris sits down with a traditional news outlet since entering the presidential race 39 days ago. Here is what to know about the interviewer, Bash, ahead of the highly anticipated interview.

Who is Dana Bash?

Bash is CNN’s chief political correspondent, the host of CNN’s Inside Politics, and a co-host of CNN’s State of the Union alongside Jake Tapper. She has co-hosted multiple CNN presidential debates in the 2020 and 2024 cycles, including the June debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

What is Bash’s history with interviews and debates?

Bash has made headlines for some of her interviews and her recent handling of the Biden-Trump debate in June.

After the debate, Bash was praised for her handling of the high-stakes event by both sides, with Trump saying she was “very fair” when discussing the debate earlier this week. One unusual moment that caught the attention of people online was when she appeared to gesture one of the candidates toward Tapper when he was asking Biden a question.

Bash recently interviewed Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), in a solo sit-down for CNN this month.

In the interview, Vance pushed back on the “weird” label Harris and Walz have given the Trump campaign and argued it is a projection. He touched on various other topics in the sit-down, which was aired on State of the Union earlier this month.

What is Bash’s history with Harris and Walz?

Bash has moderated one debate that Harris was a part of, and has conducted numerous interviews with the vice president.

During a 2019 CNN Democratic primary debate, Bash asked Harris about her healthcare proposals, which some of her opponents, including Biden, had claimed were turning into a “confusing pattern of equivocating.”

Harris had supported eliminating private health insurance but then changed her plan to include private health insurance.

Since being elected vice president, Harris sat down with Bash in April 2021, when she claimed she was the last person in the room on the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in August of that year. The interview later resurfaced after the chaotic withdrawal. The interview Thursday will air one day prior to the anniversary of the completion of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Bash also got the first interview with Harris after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022, when she said the White House would “do everything” to ensure access to medication abortion. In the interview, she also said Biden would be seeking reelection and that she would be his running mate. Biden ended his reelection bid last month, and Harris has since risen to the top of the Democratic ticket.

Walz appeared on State of the Union with Bash in May. During that appearance, Bash asked about the then-Biden campaign — months before Biden dropped out of the race.

Bash has offered insight into the two candidates while on her CNN shows.

During CNN’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention last week, Bash cited Walz as an example of how Democrats were trying to pitch male leaders who are not “testosterone-laden.”

“But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, gun-toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out at the RNC,” Bash said. “Or might want to listen to that, but also, in addition, understand that it’s OK in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman. And that’s something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base.”

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During an episode of Inside Politics last month, Bash also claimed Harris “was not and is not the border czar,” a reference to Harris being appointed authority over border policy, specifically the root causes of migration into the southern border, in 2021. The unofficial title was regularly used in the media to describe Harris’s role.

The Harris and Walz interview with Bash is scheduled to air Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on CNN.