free speech and individual rights it's what's more working against their own spouse beliefs tennessee republican lawmakers what university athletes to be punished for protesting at sporting events after the wave of summer protests in the wake of the george boyd murder students in particular are organizing in protesting in solidarity with black lives matter college athletes are no exception particularly in sports that both large amounts of black participation like but ball in basketball. every single g.o.p. member of the tennessee senate signed a letter after the men's basketball team at east tennessee state university milt during the national anthem the republican delegation the state senate is asking the university to implement policy banning athletes from protesting at all. e.t.a.'s you coach jason say defending his team said many of us don't know the same sacrifice fear pain and loss that people of color have had to endure over 400 years he said his team is a daily reminder to me that some things are bigger than basketball. and turning to professional sports golf in p.g.a. champion tiger wood

eric: but tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn wants china out of our children's classrooms.he says they are teaching our kids the wrong lessons. they want to make certain that they are causing children today to be more friendly to the socialist, marxist ideas that they espouse in the chinese communist party and that these children will grow upping being more friendly -- up being more friendly and accepting a chinese communist party propaganda or chinese culture. eric: both blackburn and peterson believe american students should be able to learn mandarin and chinese culture if they want to but not to be taught by what beijing decides. >> american students do need to learn chinese. they need exposure to chinese culture but not on the chinese government's terms. confucius classrooms are an inappropriate tool, and it's time to let them go. >> i think it's important that we separate the chinese people from the actions of the chinese communist party. and as we know that they have pushed forward with trying to expand these institutes, and we know they're very frustrated with us tha

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i want to bring in tennessee republican congressman mark green.gressman green, say what you will for president trump, i saw efforts by him to reach out to constituents. he mentioned black voters and welfare of black people many times, hispanics, others, it did make a difference and during the same period we saw massive inflows of money into the democratic party from the richest people in this country whether wall street, hedge funds, hollywood, athletes. so feels like there is certainly some kind of major change going on here? >> well, i think, charles, of course always, thanks, love being on your show. i think it is really an issue for us at least how we're communicating. we've always been for workers. it's about communicating that if you lower the corporate income tax you create this huge demand for labor that winds up raising the salaries of the average working person in america. so we've always been about that. now we're just figuring out how to communicate it a little better. the democrats on the other hand -- union folks, used to be for work

. >> bill hagerty is the new republican representing tennessee. he served as an economic advisor to george h w bush and a 2017 president trump appointed him to be u.s. ambassador to japan. host: bill hagerty, republican of tennessee, thank you for giving us your time. sen. hagerty: nice to be with you. host: you grew up in gallatin, tennessee, what was that like for you? sen. hagerty: a small farm in rural tennessee, in the county seat. my mom was a hard-working career schoolteacher and my dad was in the road construction business. we had a small farm where i raised cattle and pigs as a kid. i was an eagle scout, learn the value of hard work at an early age and work my way through college shoveling asphalt on road crews. work is no stranger to me. after i graduated, from college here in tennessee, i attended vanderbilt university, my life changed significantly. i was hired by the boston consulting group and what on to have a career i could have never dreamed of as a small town kid from gallatin, tennessee. host: what was that career? sen. hagerty:

. >> bill hagerty republican of tennessee thanks for giving us your time. you grew up in gallatin tennessee if i'm correct. tell us what that was like and what was the: experience like ae you? >> we had a small farm in tennessee but i grew up like so many tennesseans. my mom was a career schoolteacher all of her life and my dad was in the construction business. we have a small farm. we raise cattle and hogs as this kid. i learned the value of hard work at an early age and worked my way through college shoveling asphalt on the road. work is no stranger to may end after i graduated from college here in tennessee i went to vanderbilt university. my life changed significantly. i was hired by a firm and went on to have a career that i could have never dreamed of as a small-town kid from galston tennessee. >> what was that career? >> the boston consulting group have officesd all over the word that i ended up working on five continents for large fortune 500 corporations are they sent me to tokyo japan for three years during now period so wonderful foundation again

congressman chuck fleishmann, tennessee republican, sits on the house appropriations committee. a point you raised, why be so generous with stimulus if the economy is doing just fine and these latest stats, back up in rates seeps to attest what you said weeks ago but they're still going full speed ahead with this plan, $1.9 trillion plan, right? >> neil, unfortunately, you're right. this has been a politicized bill. this is a bill that 90% of it doesn't deal with covid relief. i had hoped when i listened to president biden's inaugural speech, he was talking about working together and unifying those were empty words. this is empty rhetoric. this bill is a cram-down by the left. it has got biden, pelosi, schumer's political priorities there. it is unnecessary in its current form. i think it is detrimental in its current form. i wish we could stop it but unfortunatelyth using budget reconciliation and it is cram-down. neil: what is interesting too? i know democrats want to push, we'll leave the senate parcel parliamentarian to break the tie whether the measure in the senate can inc

joining us is tennessee republican and member of senate judiciary and armed services committee, marsha blackburn. on saturday you heard mark meredith's report there. i want to get your reaction to the president saying that former president trump should be denied classified briefings. >> more of the double standard, double speak hypocrisy that is coming from the biden administration and, griff, this is one of the things that will remind people why they did not want more of obama-biden in electing hillary clinton, why ne they elected president donald trump. and they say, should john brennan, should james comey, should others stop receive access to classified information? should former president obama stop receiving these briefings, security briefings? but you know, they've got a double standard and they're doubling down on their double standard. >> so the briefings. i want to turn to the issue that for millions of students and parents across the country, it has become a boiling point and that is the reopenings you see in chicago, in philly, elsewhere, schools not reopening because of the

bring in republican congressman mark green from tennessee. een, i read an interesting stat. republicans offered 286 amendments and democrats took two. is that what bipartisanship looks like these days? >> unity everybody is talking about, that's it, two amendments. crazy. charles: yeah. so listen, it's going to happen and then of course you know there have been whispers of $3 trillion in stimulus, infrastructure. let's be honest, after what happened in texas that will be an easier sell so you know what do you tell folks about all of this spending that i'm sure a lot of it you think is overdone? >> there is no doubt, we still have a trillion dollars from the cares act that hasn't been spent yet. all of these, you take the stimulus checks to individuals, only, 15% actually goes to spending. most of it goes, going to go into the market really because rates are so low, powell reaffirmed they will be low and we're talking about negative downstream effects of that. one of the things liberals often forget are the secondary, tesh airplanery, effects s

>>that's what our focus is not republicans like tennessee senator bill haggerty say the biden administration needs to put a bigger emphasis on helping schools and teachers we need to get schools open now. >>it's going to be good for our kids going good for america and to the extent we don't get this done. we're setting an entire generation behind reporting in washington, i'm basil john. >>and still ahead on the kron 00:00am morning news, some east bay residents are headed back to school this week. how one school district is using a hybrid learning model to make that happen. >>welcome back to the kron 4 morning news now let's get another check of the weather with john stray bulge on. i'm happy about the weather now, but maybe later the might yeah, it's a little bit of for everyone today feel like the dry weather. take advantage of this morning because conditions out there right now our drive pretty inviting to get outside and get some errands done. >>later today, we're seeing something we need but that might interrupt your plans this afternoon which is that rainfall that have been talking abo

. >> the republican representing tennessee's first congressional -- first congressional district. the first in her family to graduate high school and college, she owns a pharmacy with her husband. her 2020 arm -- or 2020 run for office was her entry into politics. >> why did you decide to run for this seat? >> i looked at our nation and i feel we are at a tipping point. i have a son and two grandsons. i've mentor young people for over 24 years. i feel for the future of our families. that is the reason i raise my hand and said pick me. protect the country. from socialism as a viable option. that is a problem. i needed to step up and step in and see if i should do something to take our country back to the traditions and the approach our forefathers thought would work. it has worked, all these years. >> dear member you dashed your over the moment you decided -- do you remember the moment you decided to run? >> i do. i've got to congress for over 25 years to talk to congress and senators about my profession. for the profession i have a license to do. i understood how valuable words ar

host: rose in nashville, tennessee. republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. have two comments. one is about covid relief. i know people, myself included, are retired on social security, and we are still waiting for our paper check for the $600 we have never gotten. that is my comment on that. i do not know -- if the rs, if we owe the irs money they would find a way to get it from us, it seems like they are very slow in getting the paper checks out. we are all seniors. it is very slow on getting these paper checks out to us. that is my comment on that. as far as the minimum wage, what nobody has brought up this morning that i have heard is that when the wages go up, the state and federal withholding is going to come out. that is going to be higher. how is anybody going to be better off, especially -- the former congressman said about the cost of labor and goods is going to go up. that is true. i noticed when i was working that if i worked overtime i would think i was going to be making all this money, and then when my check came, by the time it bumped me into

yesterday i interviewed senator marsha blackburn, a republican from tennessee. has deep concerns about whether the united states can afford to take on $1.9 trillion worth of stimulus, but the bottom line here is that for republicans who might be more in the middle and willing to have more economic stimulus within the next six weeks, that is actually an easier vote for them than voting to convict former president trump in the trial next week. tom: lisa, i know you want to pick it up your, but what i find amazing here is you have russia blackburn on the same page -- you have marsha blackburn on the same page as the washington post. lisa: the idea of what is the correct size in order to actually solve the immediate problems versus stimulate the economy? kevin, this goes to the heart of the question i wanted to ask, if the democrats go it alone, does that take any additional stimulus, true stimulus, infrastructure spending, etc., off the table later in the year because they won't be able to get the bipartisan support? kevin: yes in the sense if they have to get throu

it's the federal government's responsibility that every state, whether it's tennessee, massachusetts, or california has republican form of government. not an oligarchy, not despotism, but a republican form of government. charles sumner, the senator from massachusetts said that clause that section of the constitution is a sleeping giant, never until this recent war awaken, but now it comes forward with a giant power. there's no clause in the constitution liken. there is no other clause that gives to congress such supreme power over the states. they think this is something andrew johnson would hate, talk about using this clause in the constitution to get federal power government power over the states. and he does hate it. congress decides to use it. congress uses that clause to pass in 1867 in military reconstruction act. five former confederacy's, five former military districts, with five different generals in charge. civilian governments put in place under andrew johnson after the war were not republican law. the way they were treating african americans and unionists meant that these states weren't republican, at

>>that's what our focus is not republicans like tennessee senator bill haggerty say the biden administration needs to put a bigger emphasis on helping schools and teachers we need to get schools open now it's going to be good for our kids going good for america and to the extent we don't get this done. >>we're setting an entire generation reporting in washington, i'm basil john. >>here at kron 4 we're always tracking local stories, here's a look at what is happening in your neighborhood right now we'll start in san francisco where police have arrested a man they say kidnapped 2 kids while their father was delivering a meal through doordash 25 year-old early nobody romero was arrested tuesday. morning he is charged now with kidnapping auto theft and robbery police say the jeffrey fraying the father was delivering orders in his minivan on saturday night with his 4 year-old daughter and one year-old son in the vehicle. fang left the van running as he jumped out to drop off a food order and when he returned from the delivery he says that he saw a stranger driving off with his minivan the kids in

of black lives as being less -- host: let's go to terry, who is calling from new bern, tennessee, on the republican line. go ahead, terry. caller: yeah. i just wanted -- everybody getting ready for this new president, you wait and see. trump has the gas prices down around two dollars. everybody wait and see this new president, gas is going to be around five dollars to $10. all you democrats out there, you just wait and see. just wait and see. all i gotta say. go ahead. you like five dollar gas, go ahead. all i gotta say. host: let's go to larry, who is calling from memphis, tennessee, on the democratic line. good morning. caller: thank you very much for having me today. only thing i wanted to say is i just cannot believe that pence would still be cozy buddies with trump when he just left him high and dry. not about to say he threw him under the bus, but he just left him hanging. on the same token, can you imagine went black lives matter went to the capitol, they had everything from dogs, god, fbi, cia, everybody out there. when these people, proud boys and all them old people and all this, when the

let's move on from that and bring you republican from the great state of tennessee marsha blackburn.ery much with you on this. how are you going to do it? >> first of all i am very much with you on that monologue that you just had. when it comes to the paris climate agreement reentering that why would you take taxpayer dollars and pay for this when you know that 400,000 americans, with loss of their jobs and around those 400,$000. if they want to look at doing this again, let john kerry sell his jet, taxpayer dollars should not be used to enter an agreement that was going to adversely affect the taxpayers, make them pay for this when it is going to cost them jobs, makes no sense. stuart: if your bill fails and there's no saying it is guaranteed to succeed but if it fails then we are going to be shelling out tens of billions of dollars and there's nothing you can do to stop it. >> there are always things we can do that will highlight what is going on and in a couple years we might have the ability to stop that if there is not public awareness about what this does. but how adversely im

government's responsibility to make sure that every state, whether it's tennessee, massachusetts, or california, has a republican form of government. not oligarchy, not despotism, but a republican form of government. and charles sumner, senator from massachusetts, said that that clause, that section of the constitution is a sleeping giant. never until this recent war awakened. but now it comes forward with the giant's power. there's no clause in the constitution like it. there's no other clause which gives to congress such supreme power over the states. you think this is something andrew johnson would hate, talking about using this clause of the constitution to give power to the federal government over the states. and he does hate the way congress decides to use it. congress uses the clause to pass in 1867 the military reconstruction acts, divides the former confederacy into five different military districts, puts generals in charge, and said that the government -- civilian government put into place under andrew johnson after the war were not republican in form. but the way they're treating african-americans and

if johnson had simply been the democratic vice president-elected on a republican ticket as he was in 1864. the pugnacious tennesseeernor, the courageous united states senator, the vice president stoked to the gills on liquor saw that the secretary of state had to pull him down by the coattails would have gone down to fame as with william wheeler, hannibal hamlin. nobody could have predicted that somebody would have shot abraham lincoln. i do not criticize -- of course, i don't, no, not me. i do not criticize johnson in every way. he was brave, patriotic, he was incorruptible, but his idea of how to reconstruct the union was that presidents should do it by executive action and that it was none of congress's business and a very good reconstruction could be made simply by ignoring the former slave's rights beyond a simple mere freedom out there. and so, when congress tried to put through a civil rights bill, johnson vetoed it and when it tried to pass a bill to provide aid to refugees and freedmen, andrew johnson vetoed it. and when they proposed a 14th amendment, johnson tried to veto it. as a result of this, congre

republican counter proposal. >>but what's still not included state local sunday, what they're trying to do is bail out states like. >>nancy pelosi's california chuck schumer's new york at the expense of states like tennessee biden's proposal of 350 billion dollars in additional direct aid is a nonstarter for republican senators bill haggerty and bill cassidy i've been an advocate for state and but that is absurd and that is wrong cassady wants to know why states like california whom he says will finish the year with a surplus are still on track to get billions all you can do is continue to point out facts and hope convince democrats want to pass biden's plan by the end of the month and are prepared to do it without republicans their budget reconciliation, a simple majority vote this will not be a bipartisan effort whatsoever in washington, i'm jessi tenure. >>on the kron 00:00am morning news, the battle over a black lives matter face mask, popular restaurant is now defending itself gets accusations from the former says the police were unfairly attacked we'll have that story coming up next. >>welcome back to the kron 4 morning news let's get another check of the weather with john trouble this morning. john

all if johnson had simply been the democratic vice president elected on a republican ticket, as he was in 1864. but the tennessee governor, the courageous united states senator, the vice president on inaugural address so much that the secretary of state at the pump down by the coattails, along with such notable words as gary colbert, william wheeler, animal hamlet, and old ridge gary, vice presidents all i might add. nobody can forget an assassin would've shot abraham lincoln, and in the place of the great emancipator, make a lifelong slave holder president of the united states. no i do not criticize johnson in every way. he was patriotic, he was incorruptible. his idea of how to reconstruct the union was a president should do it by executive action and that it was none of congress'business, and then a very good reconstruction could be made simply by ignoring the former slaves rights beyond a simple mere freedom out there. and so, when congress tried to put through a silver rights bill, johnson killed it. and when they put through a bill to provide aid for refugees, johnson vetoed it. and when congress proposed

the biden administration put forth a 1.9 trillion-dollar package republicans pushing for 600-billion-dollar package joining me tennesseewmaa the timing is so intoing the most egregiously power grab over 40 executive memos, executive orders what should have been first set of calls, calls to republican senators to work with them on funding for covid relief has been his last set of calls. and everyone wants to see money for vaccines money for research, but to spend another 1.9 trillion dollars that is not targeted that is not timely, that is not temporary, is -- is not something that many of us are not interested in seeing done. and i have to tell you i think there's debate as to whether it is biden, or bernie, in charge of this spending process, because what the democrats would like to do is push this through reconciliation and thereby not have to work with republicans. >> that was next question senator can you do anything about it look you are in minority, they are in majority in the house as well. bernie sanders is the chairman of the budget committee. in the senate. the can you stop this or are they going to roll over

tennessee. learns how to read and write and becomes a spokesman for poor whites. and of course poor whites would be needed for the war effort. he had opposed the republican lincoln in 1860, but his love of the union made him loyal even when tennessee seceded causing lincoln to choose him as vice president in 1864. now as president he's committed to follow lincoln's policy rather than stevens of revenge, confiscation, disfranchisement. you can see in world war ii you're going to have unity in times of crisis and war. you need to have north and south reconcile and jack sewngen democrats and lincolnian republicans come together. the very first scene johnson is a fugitive and he has a shackle on his leg and he has to have that cut off. he keeps the shackle all of his life. and when stevens comes in when he's president and offers to help him, i'll help you win the next election if you support radical reconstruction he says, and johnson replies, pulls out the chain and says i've been chained before. and then he promises that he's going to free southerners just as lincoln freed the slaves. you can imagine the naacp wasn't so happy with this and they protested.

i'm joined by republican senator marsha blackburn of tennessee.ator blackburn there are at least a half a dozen items that left me speechless in the last day or so. this is not a rescue bill. it is a whole lot more. your thoughts? >> it's a lot more than a rescue bill. our covid funding that should be targeted timely and temporary. but what they're trying to do is bail out the blue states. you have got about $50 billion for new york, $27 billion for california. the bay area rapid transit is going to get millions and millions and millions of dollars. so what the democrats are doing with their bill is rewarding incompetence. they are rewarding people that have been taking the taxpayers money, spending it fast, loose, running up a lot of debt. this bill has got to go through the senate parliamentarians. it has got to go through the byrd rule and the byrd bath as they say. we'll see what they say has to be pulled out of it. charles: right. you know, to your point, not only rewarding these states to your point, it feels like it is emboldening them to d

of black lives as being less -- host: let's go to terry, who is calling from new bern, tennessee, on the republican line. go ahead, terry. caller: yeah. i just wanted -- everybody getting ready for this new president, you wait and see. trump has the gas prices down around two dollars. everybody wait and see this new president, gas is going to be around five dollars to $10. all you democrats out there, you just wait and see. just wait and see. all i gotta say. go ahead. you like five dollar gas, go ahead. all i gotta say. host: let's go to larry, who is calling from memphis, tennessee, on the democratic line. good morning. caller: thank you very much for having me today. only thing i wanted to say is i just cannot believe that pence would still be cozy buddies with trump when he just left him high and dry. not about to say he threw him under the bus, but he just left him hanging. on the same token, can you imagine went black lives matter went to the capitol, they had everything from dogs, god, fbi, cia, everybody out there. when these people, proud boys and all them old people and all this, when the

. >>> after pete buttigieg's confirmation on tuesday, one of the republicans who voted against his confirmation, tennesseehaggerty, cited buttigieg's plans to use the department for social, racial and environmental justice causes in his reasons for voting against the confirmation. pete buttigieg is back with me. i hope you plan to do what you were accused of. do you? to use your position for -- >> absolutely. i thought that was something that everybody could get on board with. look, why would we want social, environmental or economic or racial injustice to be attached to our transportation policy? this is a chance to get it right. look, every time you are spending taxpayer dollars, every time you are shaping american lives, you have to be thinking about whether that's being done in a way that's just or unjust. at this moment, where the country is wrestling with these issues, that should be part of even the most mundane decisions, because it affects every part of life in this country. >> yeah. let's talk quick will airlines. we talked about trains. there are furloughs happening, layoffs. the airline indust

i want to show you a tweet from former tennessee senator bob corker yesterday. seven republicansoining the democratic caucus, i applaud the seven republican senators voted to convict for their courage today. john cornyn said the january 6 attack was horrific and appalling. those who plan to participate should be prosecuted to the full 610 of the law. i agree with speaker pelosi, a 9/11 investigation is called for to prevent this from happening again. but here's what the majority leader chuck schumer had to say about republicans who voted to acquit. [video clip] >> january 6 will live is a day of infamy in the history of the united states of america. the failure to convict donald trump will land as a vote of infamy in the history of the united states senate. five years ago republican senators lamented what might become of their party if donald trump became the nominee. look at what happened. look at what republicans have been forced to defend. look at what republicans have chosen to forgive. the former president tried to overturn the results of a legitimate election and provoked a

conservatives are getting bolder every day as they policed women's bodies in tennessee a new effort to restrict abortion is making waves to republican state lawmakers senator mark poti and representative jerry sexton sponsored legislation that would in effect allow a father to deny an abortion without the consent of the pregnant woman. the bill if passed would give a man who impregnates a woman the power to halt any effort to proceed with an abortion by petitioning the court for an injunction against the pregnancy germination be mindful that tennessee already has one of the country's most prohibitive abortion laws on the books to see governor bill leak tweeted abortion isn't health care and just last year signed an emergency order restricting abortions in nearly all cases but his biggest hit came last july when we find into law a heartbeat bill banning abortion if a fetal heartbeat could be detected that's as early as 6 weeks the controversial bill also made it a class c. felony for doctors to perform the procedure in addition to applying pressure to providers by saying women had to hear the heartbeat of the fetus see the ultrasound

our coverage monday on c-span, a discussion on donald trump's influence on republicans and the future of the party. later, tennessee governor bill lee's state of the state address, a house hearing on how to deal with domestic terrorism in light of the january 6 attack on the capital. on c-span to come alive at noon eastern, a virtual interview with adam gentles and whose book argues the modern senate is politically dysfunctional and the senate is in later in the afternoon with a vote scheduled at five: 30 eastern on the confirmation of dennis mcdonough to be veterans affairs secretary . monday night, a hearing with medical experts on the development and distribution of the covid vaccine. >> president biden met with house democratic leaders to talk about his economic proposal and a january job numbers. he stressed the urgency of passing his coronavirus relief package. we are going to be talking about the recovery package, but you saw the jobs report. only 6000 private sector jobs have been created, and at that rate is going to take ten years before we get to full pres. biden: we are going to be talking about the rec

senator marsha blackburn, republican from tennessee will join us now.ch i think is coming down the pike at us? do you think we'll need any regulation? >> i tell you the message from wall street from republicans is this, we long favored a deregulatory environment. i don't think we should be micromanaging what is happening with the hedge funds. likewise, to main street i would say this. if a app that you're using tells you that the service is free then you use might be the product. but we want everyone to have equal access to the marketplace. when it comes to gamestop and what has transpired, you know, stuart, i think they are going to be plenty of potential heroes, villains and lessons in this. it's too early to know who was at fault or if there was fraud committed but the sec is investigating as are the house and senate committees. janet yellen is going to convene a meeting of stakeholders and we will see what this yields us as we move through this process but again, let's make certain that everyone, main street, and wall street, have the access to the

. >> tennessee governor billy delivered his state of the state address in nashville. the republican governor spoke about his states response to the covid-19 pandemic in the state economic strength despite the coronavirus. >> mr. sergeant at arms, and by the members in and close the doors. pursuant to house joint resolution 37, a joint convention for the governors state of the state address will come to order. mr. speaker sexton. >> thank you lieutenant governor mcnally. senator johnson you are recognized. >> take you mr. president. i moved to dispense with the call of the role of the senate, that's your line, sorry. [laughing] >> i know i am new. i know i am due. without objection to roll call of is dispensed with. leader lambert, your recognize. >> thank you, mr. president. thanks and about to dispense with roll call of the house of representatives. >> without objections of call of the house of representatives is dispensed with. members of the general are simply come get a resounding welcome to the 50th governor of the great state of tennessee, the honorable bill lee. [applause] >>

tennessee, it is escaping, bill hagerty. it fell out of my mind. a lot is going on. we were talking about the fact this new republicanarty, this new coalition is really focused on the working men and women, forgotten men and women. we are focused on the actual workers. minority leader mccarthy: that is exactly true. a new poll came out and it literally says the republican party grew with lou collar workers, because it was the forgotten men and women that donald trump listened to the voice no one else would listen to. and we are never going to forget those people. that is what we are focused on. look at what happened this morning at 2:00 a.m.. nancy pelosi put about a $2 trillion bail in. there was a vote on the floor. she put a tunnel in silicon valley that has nothing to do with covid into the bill we wanted to take that gas into the bell. we wanted -- -- that has nothing to do with covid into the bill. we wanted to take that money to put the kids back to school. democrats voted for it. it is a clear fight, who is standing for the american public and who is standing for corporations? it is the republican party today

republican counter proposal. >>but would still not included state mobile sunday what they're trying to do is bail out states like. >>nancy pelosi's california chuck schumer's new york at the expense of states like tennesseeen's proposal of 350 billion dollars in additional direct aid is a nonstarter for republican senators bill haggerty and bill cassidy i've been an advocate for state and but that is absurd and that is wrong cassady wants to know why states like california whom he says will finish the year with a surplus are still on track to get billions all you can do is continue to point out facts and hope convince democrats want to pass biden's plan by the end of the month and are prepared to do it without republicans their budget reconciliation, a simple majority vote this will not be a bipartisan effort whatsoever in washington, i'm jessi tenure. >>5.51 i happening today brings back such fond memories my dad was a cpa field 1040. i can't feel around like a the irs is going to start processing your 2020 returns. so you need to get movement, however, the pandemic means that. >>perhaps you might be expecting some money or perhaps you might have to pay some money differently than just owning years past

hero was democrat andrew jackson, and he had opposed the republican lincoln in 1860 on his love of the union made him loyal even when tennessee succeeded causing lincoln to then choose him as vice president in 1864. now, as president is committed to following lincoln's policy rather than stevens of revenge, confiscation, disenfranchises. you need to have north and south and which johnson was trying to do, if democrats republicans and ling corny and democrats coming together. now of course african americans were needed for the war effort as, well been and their plate was appropriate for the film. in the very first seen, johnson, his runaway apprentice, he's a fugitive, he has a shackle on his leg, and he has to have that cut off. so he's a fugitive shackle cut off on his leg before away. he keeps the shackle all of his life, and then when stevens comes in, when he's president and offers to help him. all help you win the next election if you support radical reconstruction, and johnson replies, he pulls out the treaty, it says i've been chained before. a promises he's gonna free southerners just is lincoln freed the slaves. so y

senator big supporter of donald trump he was seen with several other republican senators the likes of marsha blackburn from tennessee and others saying that there are different standards for impeachment in the house compared to the senate that sounds like a talking point that is being prepared so they can go out and see look at the house impeached him but there are different standards here in the senate therefore we have decided not to impeach donald trump it is about facing the bases about a lot of these people going back home and saying yes i voted for donald trump which will protect them with the base but then if they're confronted by people who aren't trump supporters be the democrats or republicans who are disillusioned and we knew there were many of them. in the last election they can say well the reason i didn't vote was because constitutionality lack of joe process 1st amendment right different standard in the house and the senate it is all about political protection for what goes on from here over all the case made by the democrats. was probably a bit thin but we knew it was going to be because they've take

joining us now, former republican senator bob corker of tennessee.ed to talk to you since you've showed up at an event in your state and looked like it pained you to say it, he hasn't displayed the fitness for the office you held and what did you mean then and did you see this coming? >> good to be with you. took a two year sabbatical after leaving the senate two years ago, january 3rd and except i did step back after the election. good to be with you. look, i'm in turn the page mode. we've been through all that we've been through and as adam was mentioning earlier, i really think we've got to start focusing on policy issues and moving ahead. you know, as you know, having served in the white house, when you have the leader of the party being a certain way, the party unfortunately can adopt that way and that's no longer the case. the standard bearer for the democrats is president joe biden but the republicans don't have one. it's time to have a debate about who we really are and talk about policy issues instead of reliving things that aren't true, con

unity and american democracy, joining us the three co-chairs of the project, former republican governor of tennesseeers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt university jon meacham, he occasionally advises president joe biden. you are visiting professor at vanderbilt, we can vote you out at any moment. be ready, here. >> willie, i want to jump off here and say that the chancellor asked me to be sure i pointed out to you there's still a naming opportunity for the project on unity and democracy. >> how much, john? >> and we think the willie geist project has a certain resonance that would bring in a lot of young potential sports broad casters. >> i think it lends a certain gravity to the project. i'm on board and we'll talk about my price very shortly here, john. >> it does. willie, i have an idea. i know somebody who's really, really rich. and he went to vanderbilt. then he went to oxford. senator john kennedy, who last night was talking about the tuna tartar crowd, but he's worth at least $7 million, really rich, went to oxford, maybe, willie, he can do it. >> he's a man of the people, afte