"She is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you'd want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake," he said at an Atherton, California, fundraiser for his Democratic Party Thursday.

"She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country - Kamala Harris is here," Obama added amid applause, according to a transcript provided by the White House.