to check out the internet, and see what the liberals are saying about tim scott. vote tim scott.com is his website. they're going to crush the sky if they can. and jamie harrison, my opponent who raised $132 million is now the democratic national committee chairman. he's going after tim and a big way tonight. if you want to help him, go to vote tim scott.com, and to get what you can come in because the enemy of tim scott are going to do the same tonight. we need to have tim's back like you had my back. he said for a real challenge. as we don't count me. he's an amazing the times we been on the program we've been looking forward to 2022, republicans are a few seats away from taking back the house. if you want to talk about bellwether for 20 of 24, you have to look at the senatorial map of 2022. barta, georgia, north carolina, and new hampshire, wisconsin, ohio, and errors appear something interesting was said by the great senator, democrat kelly arizona on biden's speech. what i didn't hear was a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border. i'll continue hold

they are choosing to trend a racist slur from the left on tim scott and senator scott today asked abouton "fox & friends" says it is just more evidence of how the left operates. >> the intolerance so often comes from the left with words like uncle tim and the n word being used against me by the left and last night what was trending on social media was uncle tim. they doubled down on this concept of liberal oppression. it is stunning in 2021 that those who speak about ending discrimination want to end it by more discrimination. >> harris: will cain from "fox & friends" weekend co-host is with me now. before i jump in i want to put it in context for everybody. i don't know if the point has been made clear enough. when senator scott says they doubled down it wasn't an algorithm or process computer doing it making it trend. it was a human being who curated the information and hashtags to make them trend. why in the world would twitter allow that to happen? maybe senior management, who knows, put somebody in charge of making that happen? >> because -- i want to be very clear about this, harr

we must confront the history of discrimination. >> i don't think america is a racist country. >> tim scottfair game, the content on those speech but using the uncle slur meeting being subservient to whites. the backlash. boosting his political profile. >> kristin: thinks. senator scott clapping back tonight. >> i'm a black man. i am proud to be black. i happen to be a conservative's i came to the conclusion a long time ago that conservative policies and principles is the way that we set people free. the democrats are selling is that you are not free to be yourself. >> kristin: let's talk about this controversial with tonight's panel. we are asking them with figuring out how to pay for president biden's american families plan over the next 7 minutes. you can do that, right? richard fowler, paris dennard, steve moore. i would like to start where howard left off, essentially him saying that it's fair to criticize senator scott on the substance, the content of his speech. let's start there. senator scott saying he's essentially accusing liberals of using race as a political weapon. paris, do y

we know the tim scott bill is not written by tim scott. it is written by the gop. it's written by mcconnell and others. so thank you for playing that. >> so keith, what in the tim scott bill do you disagree with? just a rundown -- >> there's only one thing in it. there is only one thing in it. >> so there's a few things in it, keith. this is a column in "the washington post," so we're operating under the same base of information. marc thiessen talks about in his column today, the bill includes a number of democratic proposals including making lynching a federal hate crime, a review of the u.s. criminal justice system, collecting data on police use of force, barring the use of chokeholds by federal officers, withholding funds to police department that fail to report to the justice department when no-knock warrants are used. just to wrap up some of the provisions in that one. >> that's all in the democratic bill, plus more, like qualified immunity. and that is a huge sticking point, right? so if the dems have all that stuff in already, and who is pro-lynching? so, i

host: what did you think of tim scott's response? caller: i am a big fan of tim scott. i think he is a phenomenal american and represents his state well. i thought his response was incredible. we keep harping on sowing seeds of dissent and and divide, instead of moving together, and the ways that are not theatrical. they are let's come to the table and talk and make progress together. host: john is next to from point pleasant beach, new jersey. what did you hear tonight that you liked or did not like? caller: hey. first of all, thanks for taking the call. i really like your guys' show. i thought tim scott did an excellent job tonight. i am really proud to see a republican that isn't what a traditional republican is. republicans are reinventing themselves and tim scott is a good example of what republicans could be. i hope to see more of that. that is really all i have to say. host: was there an issue the president discussed tonight where you agreed with him or disagreed with him? infrastructure, coronavirus aid, american families plan, etc.? caller: yeah. i think there'

you can criticize tim scott all you want, say he's sold out, tim scott was lying or dishonest, but nationallyt. to me it was reminiscent of people referring to condoleezza rice as aunt jemima during the bush administration. from your viewpoint, what do you think about the fact that that was trending last night and do you find it as problematic as i did? >> yeah, i definitely found it problematic. but i think it's also one of those things where on social media the internal conversations that many black people have about tim scott and the republican party have now made their way to the public discourse. i mean, let's be clear. looking at tim scott's response, we know that he's carrying the water not just for the republican party and see two other black colleagues, but he did so under the trump administration. when he talks about growing up in a one-bedroom house, ask yourself, why, because your party doesn't believe in equality. ask yourself why your grandfather didn't know how to read, it's because your party defunds education. ask yourself why it is that you went to failing schools, because y

has been put under the microscope after the washington post published an article last week titled tim scottther in cotton. there is more to that tale is the piece suggests senator scott's ancestors are wealthier because they were landowners. senator scott responding, last night. >> a national newspaper suggested his family's poverty was actually privilege. believe me i know firsthand our healing is not finished. jillian: after the washington post published the piece, responded to a request for comment from fox news saying the fact checker piece acknowledges senators and scott may not have known his full family history of the historical records regarding lives are often scanned. officials -- official records to scott's official remarks and writings about his grandfather. he will be on "fox and friends" later this morning and you can hear more from him in the 8:00 hour. todd: that is not an apology, that is a horrible walk back is anything but i digress. produces shot me with a horse tranquilizer. having a child is environmental vandalism. >> for good reason. usually having a baby is seen as

but i think the clear star of the evening was tim scott. ink the issue is what senator scott said. and on the left, there is this kind of tolerance for treatment of an african-american who might be a republican conservative. you know, have we heard the left wing groups come out and announce the kind of language that was used? we heard black lives matter, for example? i don't think we have. and i think he also very powerfully, he said america is not a racist country. okay, thing most of us know that. so many of our leaders are afraid to say it and he said it and then he said we still have work to go. and when kamala harris was asked about it this morning, i think she said the same thing. and i think it's because he spoke the way he did. >> you know, it's interesting just to that point. one of the tweets about him calling him uncle tim was because he said america is not a racist country. kamala harris come as you pointed out, set exec with the same thing this morning. i didn't think anybody to eat the same thing about her. a couple of big item

and neither will tim scott. no one owns -- no black person owns the pain and agony of racism or discrimination, and i am sick and tired of anyone who uses at the wrong way. we have come a long way in this country, and i know we are going to go a lot further. >> harris: amen. and i know you served. i don't know how many people who know that. you served in the military, and you believe these principles. charles, you and i have talked about it before. to your core, you are willing to fight for them. >> charles: my father served in vietnam too. >> harris: kayleigh. >> kayleigh: thank you for your service, charles, but what you just saw was the template for the republican party moving forward. that was optimistic. it was helpful. it was a recognition of american greatness, despite our nation's founding. and when you contrast the two speeches, ask yourself with stomach this. which world do you want to live in? joe biden, where police are systemically racist, where he supports the filibuster, which has existed for quit

i love tim scott.aight forward, great candidate for at least vice president in 2024. to say this is not a racist country, sometimes there is evidence that there is plenty of racism to go around. >> bill: to be continued. >> dana: unemployment payments are making it hard for restaurant owners to find workers. how one restaurant owner is solving that problem next. ♪♪♪ banks can loan you some of it. newday can loan you all of it! the newday100 va cash out loan. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. cal: our confident forever plan is possible with a cfp® professional. a cfp® professional can help you build a complete financial plan. visit letsmakeaplan.org to find your cfp® professional. ♪♪ visit letsmakeaplan.org to find your cfp® professional. my garden brings u

nia just mending about tim scott may be having higher aspirations. he is saying -- mitchell mcconnell is saying tim scott is a future of the republican party. okay. this is a party where members were laying out plans for a caucus on anglo-saxon traditions earlier this month and they defended white insurrections but scared if black lives matter protesters stormed the capitol. so what gives here? >> yeah. i mean, this is a problem. until the gop confronts the facts of the insurrection and what led to it, it's going to be donald trump's party, right? that is the power and control that trump has over the party. one of the weirdest parts about tim scott's response when he painted president biden as the divider in chief and just totally ignored what happened in the insurrection. i see a lot of what tim scott was doing in that speech was quite trumpy. when he was coming out and saying we are not a racist country, i read that as tim scott jumping straight on into the culture war. listen. you had in that address joe biden composing trillion of new spending an

the article titled tim scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton, there's more to that tale,ks the raise questions over comments the senator has made about being an ancestor of slaves. ultimately, the piece did not debunk scott's past claims about his ancestry, and people are quick to note the suspicious timing of the report which was published roughly 12 hours after scott was tapped to make the republican rebuttal against the democratic president. congressman steve scalise defending the senator. watch. >> tim scott's e a wonderful person, a dear friend, but he's also a rising star. and there is nothing that scares the left more than a conservative african-american leader who's gaining respect martially on his own -- nationally, on his own not pushing the false narrative of the left, but talking about individual opportunity. >> and here's "the washington post" response to the backlash. quoting here, the fact-checker piece acknowledges that senator tim scott may not have known his full family history and that historical records regarding the lives of black marijuanas are often

as tim scott said, it's time to be joyful. hear joyful messaging about how far we've come in this. everybody is ready for that and to be able to breathe. thanks very much. marc thiessen, thanks to you. "back to blue" is available at foxnation.com. and more on uncle tim to tread before 11 hours. senator scott says he firmly believes that america is not a racist country. who would think that that would ever be a controversial statement in the united states? it is. >> this was standard republican padulum. this could have been delivered by tom cotton or mike lee. there's no racism here. america is not a racist country. rates are low. e newday lets you borrow all of your home's value. and you could take out $50,000 dollars or more. being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. my doctor said i could start on keytruda, so i did. with each scan, things just got better. in a clinical study, keytruda offered patients a l

instead, it was south carolina senator, tim scott. response and instead of vilifying america, senator scott, well, he used his own incredible inspiring life story to lift up everybody. take a look. >> from colleges to corporations, people are making money and gleaning power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. you know this stuff is wrong. hear me clearly. america is not a racist country. we are all in this together and we get to live in the greatest country on earth. the country were my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to congress in one lifetime. still one now, while senator scott made it very clear that america is not a racist country, he did talk about and acknowledge the racism that he faces regularly and described it as much of it coming from so-called "progressive" on the left in this country. take a look at this. >> i have experienced the pain of discrimination. i know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to bi

and tim scott dove into the culture war. he had good things to talk about. it was disjointed for him to dismiss racism when he is working on the police reform bill in the senate. there is a reason why there's so much interest in passing that bill. it's because everyone saw what happened to george floyd and realized that, yeah, racism is a problem in the country. and i like joe biden's answer, saying, you know, the american people, we're not racist, but we do have things to grapple with. that is the exact right tone. and when you just look at what tim scott is trying to do, he's trying to check too many boxes to still appease that trump base. and i don't see that as a future. it's just a different person saying the same things. >> well, a different person and, again, look, stating the obvious here, why would they pick tim scott, the only black senator, to give the response? i'm just saying. let's just be honest. we know why. thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> it is what it is. >>> joining me now, democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota.

so a lot of disinformation from tim scott.ere were three vaccines that president biden and this administration inherited on day one going into this particular four year tenure. to say something like that in fact checking tim scott, if you are nicolle wallace who apparently was a republican once by also saying this is a speech delivered from a planet where facts don't matter. that's very interesting. but, over all, you want to talk about facts, in terms of president biden, he talked about how he traveled 17,000 miles president xi. that never happened. he said the january 6th capitol riots were, quote, the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war. why don't you tell that to people who actually were around for pearl harbor or 9/11 that was 20 years ago, people lost lives in new york and washington and pennsylvania more than 3,000. you are saying that the capitol riots which were horrible on january 6th even remotely compared to those two events. come on, man, to quote joe biden. steve: indeed. you mentioned nicolle walla

senator tim scott, after senator tim scott's takedown of the biden agenda, he was swarmed with a wavedisgusting attacks with even the term uncle tim trending on twitter. it is repugnant, reprehensible, and you're responsible. but unfortunately, it is actually what we have come to expect from the far left partisan drones that fueled nothing but hate and rage for anyone who dares to question the prevailing liberal orthodoxy. and while biden's policy pitch last night was largely unimpressive, underwhelming, and quite frankly unworkable, believe it or not, there were a few moments where he hit the mark. like talking about lowering prescription drug prices and ending endless wars. but does not sound all a little bit familiar? yeah, biden's best moments last night or when he was again plagiarizing donald trump. yes, last night's speech was largely a dry humdrum list of bullet points and empty promises. but under the surface, there is an agenda set on grabbing power at all cost and never giving it up. they want concentrated control in washington so you have to surrender yourself to the washi

jillian: the topic of people -- uncle tim following tim scott suv rebuttal of donald trump's address twitter blocked the phrase uncle tim after hours of it circulating the platform following republican senator tim scott's rebuttal to the joint session of address to congress. encountered racism in his life. >> nowhere do i see common ground, discussions of race. i experienced the pain of discrimination. and pulled over for no reason, to be followed around the store on shopping. it is a different kind of intolerance. i get called uncle tom and the n-word by progressives, by liberals. >> reporter: after his address uncle tim appeared on twitter's trending topics. twitter on thursday morning after 11 hours of trending told foxnews it was, quote, blocking the phrase from appear in trends, saying it is so in line with the company's policies but it twitter spokesperson told me trends are determined by an algorithm tailored for users based on who they follow, their interests and location. twitter says, quote, identifies topics that are popular now, the hottest emerging topics of discussions o

here is what senator tim scott had to say in part of his response to the president. sen. ott: when america comes together, we have made tremendous progress, but powerful forces often pull us apart. 100 years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was the most important characteristic, and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior. today, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again. if you look a certain way, they are an oppressor. from corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power i pretending we have not made any progress at all. by doubling down on the divisions we have worked so hard to heal. we know this stuff is wrong. 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 try to use a painful past two dishonestly shut down the present. i'm an african-american who has voted in the south my entire life. i take voting rights personally. republican support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat,

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after democrats accused her of balkans of racism, tim scott says the left has lost their mind. we will have more of what he told fox with our panel coming up. to my class, and election overhaul in the state of florida. republican lawmakers passed a bill to seek to limit drop boxes and voting by mail. if we are going to tell you about that, karl rove to weigh in coming up next. ♪ ♪ i had the nightmare again, maxine. the one with the lollipop— no, the other one. where the children go to the candy store, but it's out of wonka bars... it's ok, wonka. there are proactive ways to help keep customers supplied and happy. they're called digital workflows. they've made us more productive. and reduce risk. in fact, and i don't want to sugar coat this... whyever not? everything should be sugarcoated! this whole factory needs digital workflows. digital workflows give employees what they need to perform at their best... very good, mckenzie! ♪ ♪ let's workflow it, wonka. the world deserves more chocolate. i shall be the judge of that. whatever your business is facing... let's workflow it. ser

connect some of those dots, like they did with tim scott.acism in the united states senate. let alone growing up, when his great grandfather, and his grandfather and father grew up in south carolina. so glenn kessler can take his privilege and just like fonzie said, he can sit on it. [laughter] >> harris: all right, i do want to get to this -- although i would like to say that again over and over. "the washington post" is getting pressed for their fact-check on senator tim scott's ancestry because it did not do the same on vice president kamala harris and the plagiarism claim here let's watch. maybe some of you will remember this from jimmy fallon. >> a very funny story. she's said what do you want? and this is how she would say it. she would say kamala, what do you want? and i would say freedom. >> harris: now, what's up with that, kayleigh? >> kayleigh: yeah, that is eerily similar to a story by reverend dr. martin luther king jr. in 1965. it is virtually identical to a story that he shared, and she has been saying that since 2004. one wou

tim scott. african-american. lived the arc of the problem, but, also, the ability to overcome the challenge and achieve greatness in life. senator tim scott checks those boxes. but if he is trying to appeal, and the party's trying to appeal, to people of color. and he says america is not racist. what is the net effect of him tonight? with that community. >> well, i have to say, i watched tim scott and just felt like i was living in an alternate universe. my eyes were big, my jaw was dropped. and i was quite surprised. but i think what tim scott was doing, tonight, was really testing some things out for 2022. and potentially, for him, as a presidential candidate in 2024. he bought into the big lie. he -- quite dangerous talking about like pulling himself up from the bootstraps. but the ironic thing is that he talked about how he was a poor child. and yet, in the chamber, when joe biden talked about how he was going to cut child poverty by 50%. republicans didn't clap or stand. so, it's clear that they wouldn't hav

unity 8 doesn't appear that there is much of that coming from the republican response of senator tim scott which is exactly what i wanted to ask you about kimberly in fact because he said senator scott just said the president biden is filled with empty platitudes i'm quoting here about his policies and plans are pulling americans apart so again not really saying that the president is uniting the country. and certainly there were a few things in joe biden speech that were specifically targeted towards conservatives especially when he talked about world america and the fact that 35 percent of rule america doesn't even have internet this is something that he wants to reach out recognize that there are people that are being left behind and we should point out when it comes to rule of america it's largely a white audience that he was speaking to so it appears that joe biden has made some efforts but according to tim scott they were the wrong ones i think we should also mention very quickly that what we're dealing with here isn't just an issue of division when it comes to race but it's a divisio

senator tim scott, a republican from south carolina, will be giving the republican rebuttal. it's a huge deal. when you have the opposing party give the rebuttal speech, it indicates the person giving it is someone that a party really does see as the future of the party, an emerging leader. you have to note he is the only black republican in the senate. i think that is key right now with a lot of the issues we are seeing across the country. he is spearheading the republican side of police reform talks. he has taken on a lot of what we've seen regarding on racial unrest in the party. he will also discuss the vaccine. he will credit the credit administration -- the trump administration and credit operation warp speed. he will also talk about how some of the past packages passed under the trump administration helped set up america and the economy to do better. conflicting of course with what the biden administration is going to say. >> and of course, tim scott has a major role in the republican convention -- had a major role in the republican convention this past summer. you hav

well straight after the president spoke republican senator tim scott gave his party's rebuttal lead dress attacking biden for empty words and broken promises president biden promised you a specific kind of leadership you promised to unite in nation to lower the temperature to govern for all americans no matter how we voted this was the pitch you just heard it again but our nation is storage for more than empty platitudes we need policies in progress that brings us closer together for 3 months in the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart and let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly hall good who's live for us in washington d.c. biden's speech was as we were talking about wide ranging covered a lot of ground sets a lot of goals as well what were the highlights that you picked. well it really comes down to 3 different plans one that's already been put in place in 2 that the president is proposing it's the american rescue plan that he passed shortly after with the help of congress to give direct payments to americans to help them deal with t

by a south carolina senator tim scott tonight it's a pretty good indicator of how biden's message is being received. we will go to congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich who is simply reaction from the right tonight. actually, good morning, jackie. you've been pulling some long hours today. >> it has been a long one. south carolina senator tim scott to come the senate's only black republican spoke openly about how racism has affected his life. at talking about being pulled over without cause or followed while he shopping. but he leaned into democrats for using race as a political weapon to shut down debate and sell every issue the way only one side wants it. >> from colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. the same filibuster that

that is what tim scott fts doing talking about racism. this wasn't -- this was a play to say remember the democrats make everything about race. they want to divide us up and turn every conversation into republicans are racist. we're fed up with that. that message is extremely

will say that you've got to understand that if twitter asked to remove abusive language targeting tim scottcomfortable with the idea to remove abusive language that targets people on the left as well. but anyway, getting back to the speech, thought senator scott did a fine job, dana. it is a difficult spot, as you said, to speak in the rebuttal speaking after the president of the united states in the grants setting and basically speaking in a room to a camera. his argument, though, to me was not that strong in that he was taking, you know, republicans do want to do something for people who are hurting and help with the job situation. biden spoke about creating job so all big socialism, big spending and the like. and i just don't think it rang true given there was no explicit plan how to help people much less how are you going to explain the fact that republicans didn't care so much about government spending under president trump. but the one less thing that i would mention to you that was raised earlier about him saying, this is not a racist country. i didn't have that thought, but true, i

start with tim scott, senator scott's speech that is a tough one to give.body knows it, it looked to me just about nailed it. your perspective own his performance last night? >> i am very good friends with tim scott. i served with the senator when he was in the house. i thought he gave an exceptional speech. it was conservative in it is nature and compassion that republicans would bring to the table. he was just pitch perfect in what he was saying in terms of tone, his substance and the fact that he actually had brought things to the table, for instance, on criminal justice reform but the reaction from those on the left is absolutely stunning. to see those those people who tried to project themselves, put themselves up as the most tolerant and compassionate people were the most vial against senator scott in their response. it was disgusting. brian: jason let's talk about the reactions we saw in different quarters. start with the media. we just played a couple of clips there of different members of the media reacting to the senator's speech. it looked to me

we know that the tim scott bill is not written by tim scott. it is written by the gop. it's written by mcconnell and others. so thank you for playing that. >> so what in the tim scott bill do you disagree with? just a rundown since we're focused on -- >> there's only one thing in it. there's only one thing in it. >> so there's a few things in it, this is the column in "the washington post." so we're operating from the same base of information. mark talks about in his column today, the justice act that tim scott produced incorporated what he said a number of democratic proposals, making lynching a federal hate crime, creating a national policing commission to conduct a review of the justice system, collecting data on police use of force, barring the use of choke holds by officers, withholding federal funds to state and local agencies that don't bar choke holds and withholding funds from police departments who don't report when no-knock warrants are used. that's some of the provisions in that one. >> that's all in the democratic bill plus more. like qualified immunity. an

i think with the leadership of tim scott and cory booker, i think the stage is set for us to do that. we have had very fruitful conversations. i know that senator is not is an honest broker. he is serious about getting something done and he is also committed to working with his colleagues and bringing those republican votes. i can't bring the republican senators along but i do have confidence that if they will follow tim scott's lead, that we will be able to get the votes we need in the senate. >>> president biden will unveil his plan to rebuild america's infrastructure when he goes before congress next week. it seems the price tag is going to be enormous so we will explain how he proposes to pay for it. that is just ahead. >>> plus, the president vows to drastically cut u.s. carbon emissions the next decade. we will speak with an energy expert what it will take to meet that goal. stay with us. yes. ( time after time continues to play softly ) start your someday with a ring from the neil lane collection.

and for me, tim scott is always been a guy who was so honest. is that he himself is been a victim of discrimination in this country stopped by police and the like. so he is working now on police reform. i think that is exactly the attitude to have. so i was in agreement after some thought, after being taken aback. one quick additional thought there kennedy, i thought this twitter slur, that was awful paired talk about how difficult it is to be a black conservative in the country. that really rebuild it in full flower to me. i would just say that everybody who said garrett, great, get that off of there we should also say that for people who want to harass people on the left with all kinds of ugly language in abusive talk. kennedy: there is no place for it. especially you cannot claim to be antiracist even that that is an ill-defined term. i had one person get mad at me on twitter today for the discussion we are having on outnumbered about tim scott. they said the token has spoken. even dick durbin called tim scott's placer form legislation a toke

gop's rising star, tim scott will offer the party rebuttal. calls for john kerry to testify under oath about what republicans are calling dangerous hypocrisy on iran. plus confidence in the cdc or not? we'll dig deeper into why some are saying its rules were based on flimsy science and sheer guesswork. hunter biden landing a speaking greg to talk about media pole polarization and fact news. critics say he should be the subject not the teacher. i'm edward lawrence in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. edward: president biden enveils his american families plan, $2 trillion for covid relief. that massive spending is more than $6 trillion. biden has not hit 100 days in office yet. let's dig into what the spending plan is, how it will be paid for. blake burman at the white house with his calculator. blake, break it down for us. reporter: there will be two major economic pitches for president biden two hours from now as he gives his first joint address before congress. the president in the lead in to this, white house in t

stuart: there you have it, she went right house, republicans senator tim scott. m? >> i will tell you this. she is the last person in america who should be lecturing the black community and especially tim scott on issues of racism but i guess because of the fact that she wore black face probably as an adult means she knows something about racism. what senator tim scott's inspirational message to the american people did was he was honest. we want honesty and transparency, people to connect, his story is a quintessential american story. he acknowledged there are times in his life he experienced racism. i experienced traces all this week, spent the better part of my morning sending reports to twitter to get them to deal with some of these racist things said about me for supporting senator scott but i will tell you this is our founding fathers understood that this country was going to be founded upon freedom. >> it took twitter 11 hours to take down the racist poets against senator scott, racist posts were posted about you, have they taken them down, are they still up

there's no question that when we heard from joe biden and then from senator tim scott that there are very different visions in terms of how to deal with many of america's problems overall it seems that this message was well received from joe biden with respect to some of the plaza that he's laid out for rebuilding the country but he also issued a call for congress to act as well and to that end i want to bring in a member of congress who was listening to the president's speech i want to introduce you to brenda laurent she's a democratic congresswoman from michigan 1st i want to get your reaction to the speech but but also i want to hear from you as a woman who has been called upon by the president as a member of congress to solve some of these issues whether it's race whether is dealing with guns or whether it's dealing with immigration is this the congress that's going to be able to take this on for the president. the song tonight was a leader you know the electricity that's usually in a room or the joint session of congress it wasn't there as it was only $200.00 of us there but wha

i'm senator tim scott from the great state of south carolina. you just heard president biden's first address to congress. our president seems like a good man. his speech was full of good words, but president biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. he promised you a united nation to lower the temperature to govern for all americans no matter how we voted. this was the pitch. you just heard it again. but our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. we need policies and progress that brings us closer to together, but three months in the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart. i won't waste your time with finger pointing our partisan bickering. you can get that on tv anytime you want. i want to have an honest conversation about common sense and common ground. about this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation and how we move forward together. growing up i never dreamed i would be standing here tonight. when i was a kid my parents divorced, my mother, my brother and i m

tim scott is a hero on this. if you ever want to hear an amazing group of floor speeches, and they so seldom mean anything, but tim scott did three floor speeches that i think helped educate the country as a conservative, republican senator, what he experienced from law enforcement intervention, and i think he truly can be a bridge on this issue if we lower temperatures and we start talking about how we can reform police systems, but also recognize that there's a lot of history here that needs to be completely -- >> of course, there does. there needs to be police reform. we all agree on that. at the same time, we can't have the white house at the podium every time there's an altercation, you know, say that it's systemic racism because it is not. >> sorry. >> there are instances of systemic racism and they need to be addressed. there are instances where a cop simply makes in a split second decision a very terrible call, and there are instances when the cop makes the right call, and it's a tragic outcome, and, you

tim scott, full disclosure, is a good friend of mine.are skeptical of him because he's republican and a trump supporter, tim scott is a black man first and he has lived experience of being a black man in the south. tim scott is having very serious discussions not only be cory booker and the white house, but his republican colleagues about qualified immunity. it's one of the main barriers that keeps police from treating black people properly on the front end during these encounters when they know they will basically be not held civilly liable because of qualified immunity nor criminally liable because it's hard to bring charges. i know tim scott is having real discussions about qualified immunity and that gives me hope for a real bipartisan bill. >> let me say this. everything i've seen at national action network, he's come through despite we may disagree political on those people. but you feel that tim scott can get some republicans to come with him on these issues in terms of police reform? >> i don't know. but i also don't know how man

we saw it last night with our senator tim scott.rrible things have been trending on twitter today. if those things had been said about a conservative or republican, they would have been banned, but if you stand for truth, if you stand for faith, if you stand for the right of the people of this country to keep and bear arms, to stand up for the principles of capitalism and free enterprise system, you are going to be attacked. you will enjoy it -- endure trials of many kinds. it produces a greater crowd of glory later. frankly i think we will see the glory of the lord in the land of the living. i do not think we will have to wait until evan, because my prince has already been vice president of the united states. and he is still out there fighting now as a former vice president. that is what he is here tonight. think about what kind of message that sends in the ruby red state of south carolina, the buckle of the bible belt, the vice president visits here to stand with all of you and i pray you will stand with him. the next four years a

tim scott bailed him out on the issue. in terms of space of the politics of race, scott will take heat. for what he said. even though he'll make the obvious point. you don't get to come at me and tell me i don't understand racism in america. that will take the energy away from biden and what he did or didn't do. his problem is you can't get any of this done. you can get a will the of it through on reconciliation. not without joe manchen. i think he's a false boogy man. east not the only one that has problem with the price tag. how does he navigate the politics to get it done. >> a very difficult position. joe biden needs to try to take the whatever momentum he has and the fact he has the real progressive liberal side of the party with him. he's got to charge it through. and push it through. as we know he has a limited time in congress to get anything done. specifically in washington now which certainly the most polarized i have seen it. we can go back and debate it over history. what he has to do is convince joe man chi the

tim scott. good man. his speech was full of good words by president biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. he promised to unite a nation, to lower the temperature, to govern for all americans no matter how we voted. this was the pitch, you just heard it again at our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. we need policies and progress that brings us closer together. but three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart. i won't waste your time with finger—pointing or partisan bickering. you can get that on tv anytime you want. i want to have an honest conversation about common sense and common ground, about this feeling that our nation is sliding off a shared foundation and how we move forward together. growing up, i never dreamt i would be standing here tonight. when i was a kid, my parents divorced, my mother and my brother and i moved in with my brother and i moved in with my grandparents, three of us sharing a single be

let's listen into senator tim scott from south carolina. >> good evening, i'm senator tim scott fromtate of south carolina. we just heard president biden's first address to congress. our president seems like a good man. his speech was full of good words, but president biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. he promised you to lower the temperature, to govern for all americans, no matter how we voted. this was the pitch. you just heard it again. our nation is starving her more than empty platitudes. we need policies and progress that brings us closer together. three months income of the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart. i won't waste your time with finger-pointing or partisan bickering. you can get that on tv anytime you want. i want an honest conversation about common sense and common ground. about the feeling that i nation's leading off the shared foundation, and how we move forward together. growing up, and never dreamed i would be standing here tonight. when i was a kid, my parents divorced. my mother my brother and i moved

and tim scott, look, tim scott has already said, he said this in an interview last year, tim scott sayslified immunity, getting rid of it is a nonstarter. he said i think god made me a republican and conservative black man to make a moment in these times. i don't think tim scott will offer much of anything. most of what the republican party has been saying is we need to collect more data, we need to give more money to police officers, it is a difficult job, black people need to learn to follow directions, even though it is a game of simon says, police tell them to do things and shoot them anyway. i don't expect much from tim scott. what he may do legislatively, he is a republican democrats can talk to. his attack on joe biden is that. he will say his speech doesn't accomplish anything, it is terrible leftwing nonsense, say it is attack on the police. tim scott publicly is always a cheerleader for the hard right of the republican party, even if privately he is a reasonable person when it comes to policy. >> appreciate you sticking around. thanks so much. >>> aoc speaks out on progressive

tim scott making another run for that. i want to play for you some sound from corey bush, a congresswoman who says they don't want to compromise. watch. >> we compromise on so much. you know, we compromise, we die. we compromise, we die, we compromise, we die. i didn't come to congress to compromise on what could keep us alive. >> dana: your thoughts this morning on that. >> well, it's very sad to see the violence across the country whether if it's the murder of george floyd, daunte wright. we need reforms in this country. we need to knowledge that. the corey bushes of the world radical left not only do they want the defund the police but abolish the police. i can't think of a worse idea as we see spikes in violence and violent acts and attacks against citizens and also law enforcement officers right now. it is a terrible idea. we know it is a terrible die and not good for our country. we should be investing more in law enforcement with better recruits and better training. we see that training or lack of training being an

trying saying that to tim scott? you can't do it. it won't work. >> harris: jason chaffetz always great to see you. thank you. be sure to tune into our special coverage tonight of president biden's address hosted by bret baier and martha maccallum. that coverage will begin at 8:5 p.m. eastern right before the speech and have full analysis after the speech wraps. tune in. a high profile democratic strategist says wokeness is a big problem for democrats. why he says the party needs a reality check and no one is willing to speak up. he has a loud voice. wait until we get to that. plus the feds launching an investigation into the louisville police department as officers are quitting. they're leaving in droves, record numbers. police officials around the nation are sounding the alarm. we covered it yesterday in our police special. we'll go deeper today. >> our profession is dying, our community is suffering and there won't be anybody left to take this job. the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% percent of your home's value. wit

visit petmeds.com today. >>> senator tim scott of south carolina is the republican of the moment. n verdict, senator scott says talks about reaching some bipartisan compromise are reinvigorated. senator scott is also now the republican party's choice to deliver the official response next week after president biden addresses a joint session of congress. responding to a president's big speech can be a thankless task. no matter what party you're in. still, the choice of senator scott is quite telling. every big issue and event plays into 2022 election strategy, and every big republican choice plays into the party's internal debate about the role of trump and trumpism going forward. let's discuss. here to share their insights, former republican congressman mia love of utah, and political anchor errol louis. let me start with you, whether it's a democratic press or a republican president, this is often a thankless task. the president gets an hour, you get a couple minutes. what did you make of the choice of senator scott at this moment? >> well, i have to tell you, it was a sigh of reli