Talk show hosts Charlamagne and Stephen A. Smith went after former Vice President Kamala Harris’ statement that America’s “system is broken” — especially since she has been part of that system for years.

Harris appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last week after months of being out of the public, Fox News reported.

Harris talked about no seeking the governorship of California.

“Just for now, I don‘t want to go back in the system. I think it‘s broken,” she said.

One of the criticisms of her presidential candidacy was her failure to come up with ideas, especially those that would differentiate her from then-President Joe Biden.

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“I personally believe there’s no way in hell she’s going to win the presidency in 2028. I don’t think that she’s going to be the candidate. I think her time – she had a chance at that. It didn’t get done and that’s where I’m at with it,” Smith argued. “What about you?”

“Kamala is a friend, man. I’ve been supporting Kamala for a long time,” Charlamagne said. “But I can’t sit here and say I disagree with you. I think that she should do whatever it is that she wants to do, but when I heard her say that, you know, ‘The system is broken’ and she wants to take a step back from the system – her whole career has been the system.”

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“It made no sense!” Smith replied.

“Yeah. Her whole career has been the system. I just don’t see how now, you know, she’s going to take a step back away from the system,” Charlamagne said.

Smith said the interview was another mistake from a “career politician.”

“You’ve been there practically all your life,” he said. “You’ve been an attorney, a state attorney general. You’ve been a prosecutor. You’ve been a senator. You’ve been a vice president. My God, you’ve been a part of it. And now you’re saying it’s broken? That means you couldn’t do but so much to fix it when you was in it.”

Charlamagne then said a broken system is nothing new.

“The system was broken long before Donald Trump, you know, got into office,” he said.