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senator bill hagerty, tennessee republican kind enough to join us., if joe manchin wanted to become a republican would you welcome him? >> well, certainly we would, neil. we welcome taking back control of the senate. i'm sure leader mcconnell would like to become majority leader again. remember it is a 50-50 senate right now. this is not any type of mandate chuck schumer is seemingly acting as though he has. we're in a dead set 50-50 senate. the only reason they have control because they control the white house. of course we would be happy to have joe manchin -- neil: he could also become an independent, caucus with the democrats. >> yep. neil: there is that, how would you feel about that? >> well that is a possibility as well, neil, getting to the bottom of it, what we saw joe manchin listening to his constituents in west virginia the same way that i do, listen to my constituents in tennessee. they don't want this. the american public does not want this quote, build back better plan at a time we've got massive inflation. they want to pour more fuel

for the latest how the state is dealing with this, tennessee republican senator bill hagerty. for taking the time, how are things looking there? >> you were talking about the judge there in arkansas, come across the mississippi, we've been hit harder and we recorded three dead and thousands without electricity, neil. i was talking with my good friend of mine in tennessee, the barn was completely smashed and thank goodness he was in the home in the basement safe. enough people had early warning and i got a call in 3:00 in the morning and everyone is coming to the fore, praying that their neighbors are safe and the people in kentucky hit far worse and our hearts and prayers go out to them. neil: and we always talk about emergency response and this was fairly widespread. i'm just wondering as well whether we look at our response systems or they worked fine and this was like a once in a generation kind of confluence of events for which there could be little warning and little to do with that warning. >> well, the warning system worked well here in tennessee. our tennessee emergenc

i heard my republican colleague, senator hyde-smith and senator from -- bill hagerty from tennessee talk about the democrat bill. as far as i'm concerned, we put a proposal out there. and if the republicans are willing and want to come forward with proposals of their own, maybe involving election integrity that they think are important or maybe involving anti-voter suppression -- i don't know. but we've heard nothing but silence since our bill was put out into the public realm in early september. i want to make it clear now on the record they for one would be very willing and able to enter into constructive discussions with my republican colleague on what they would like in the bill. i'm tired of hearing it referred to a democrat-only bill. it's a democrat-only proposal, but now is the time for negotiations. and now is time for republicans to come forward and say, okay here is is the way we think we should do it. i think i'm speaking for my colleagues in the democratic caucus. i'm of course an independent, but i think this is a time when we ought to try to come together as two parties an

let's bring in senate republican senator bill hagerty. welcome. >> great to be with you, mike. k you. >> mike: here is what senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said on our program yesterday. >> they killed this bill in its current form, which would have been really, really bad for america. exactly the wrong kind of prescription for the rampant inflation that we are suffering from already. i would think all of them would be at risk for voting for this. this is not what the american people voted for last year, it's not what they want now. >> mike: is the leader correct, senator? >> he is absolutely correct. chuck schumer is talking about bringing this back and forcing his party to vote on this? already at least 51 senators are against it. it will not pass. he's going to force the more moderate members of his party to walk the plank. this is going to be very harmful for those members of his party who are going to have to face the american public because the american public does not want what's in this bill. they want to kill the oil and gas industry at a time where gas prices

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. >> bill: big hagerty from tennessee and former u.s.assador in japan says we should pressure the olympic committee to move the games out of beijing. that won't happen. it is too late for that. so it will happen. uncomfortable moment for the world. >> joe biden should have been pressuring for the last year. this is the winter olympics, not summer. winter olympics are a much smaller event. many fewer athletes. half a doenz countries in europe now that have the ski slopes and ice rinks they could host the games. we got done delaying one set of games for a year because of coronavirus. can the civilized world not demand we move these games? maybe we postpone the games but not honor the communist party of china for all of its crimes against its own people and the rest of the world? >> dana: do you think the biden administration would be able to rally enough allies to do that? >> right now they haven't rally many allies to do much of anything around the world but they should have been doing this from the very beginning of this year. >> bill: l

bill that reflected the views of both parties. and passed by the legislature by huge majorities. that's exactly what we ought to do here. i concur with my republican colleagues, senator hyde-smith and senator hagerty from tennessee, talking about the democrat bill. as far as i'm concerned, we've [inaudible] and if the republicans are willing and want to come forward with proposals of their own, maybe involving election integrity, that they think are important, or maybe involving anti voter suppression, i don't know. but we've heard nothing but silence since i've put out into the public realm in early september. so i want to make it clear on the record that i, for one, would be very willing and able to enter into constructive discussions with my republican colleagues on what they would like in the bill. i'm tired of hearing it referred to as a democrat bill. it's a democrat-only proposal but now is the time for negotiations. now is the time for republicans to say, hey, here's the way we think you should do it. i think this is a time when we ought to try to come together as to parties and work on a bipartisan proposal to deal with the issue of voter suppression and indeed if there are questions of v

senator hagerty, senator tim scott, senator rick scott, senator blackburn, senator hawley, senator cotton, senator boozman, and others who are likely to join. i'm going to make a few remarks about the bill. a number of my colleagues would also like to comment about my bill, so i will be yielding to them. and at the end of my colleagues' remarks, i will have a motion to make. madam president, as a result of the american rescue plan, working in conjunction with the budget control act of 2011, there are cuts scheduled to take effect in 2022 with respect to medicare and with respect to our farmers. medicare specifically, unless my bill passes and unless this body takes action, will be cut $36 billion. those medicare cuts will include, but they're not limited to, but they'll include cuts to cancer treatments for our elderly. those cuts would reduce laboratory fees and analysis that our seniors depend on every single day. for the reasons i just referenced, our farmers are also going to get cut unless we take action. specifically, the crop insurance programs on which our farmers rely. wewe're recovering from a pandemic, madam president, as we all know. now is not the time, in my judgment, to p