there was a lot of hope riding on tim scott to work with corey booker to come up with police reform. so the personal biography, and the sunny outlook has to translate into policy if things are going to change, and politically he can ride pretty far, but we have to wait to see what he has to say today. >> one thing that he said, congresswoman, is the republican response to biden's speech in 2021 and his run for congress, and he declared that america is not a racist nation. let me play this for everybody. >> hear me clearly, america is not a racist country. it is backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it is wrong to use our past to shutdown debates in the nation. >> so how does that message play with the voters when you are running against donald trump in the republican primary? >> well, i think that first of all the senator has done everything he could to try and say and color, faith, sexual orientation is another way to divide this country, and so all of us here talking on this panel can be one. we can be one without being the same. and we can l