Republican Sen. Tim Scott says the left's troubling bullying of the attorney general was helpful to the Republican cause.
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Were confused and if you want to
see rudeness defined, maybe you
should take a look at this.
Youve only got two minutes,
sir,
that they recognized
yeah. This is a hearing. I
thought I was the one that was
supposed to be heard.
I gave instructions.
Im answering your question
you to let him answer
youre not taking. We were
making narrow.
Would you restore my time
because the witness is speaking
over me?
Mr Barri just asked for a
yes or no
im starting to lose my temper.
I am aware of protestors in
federal governments.
I control it.
You answered the question.
I have another question for you
on June 19th.
Actually I need to answer the
question.
Mr attorney general, you did
answer the question.
You said under penalty of
perjury. I want to answer the
damn question.
It was a learning moment,
Brian. They are going at Trump
through Barr.
This is about the election and
whats at stake. Isnt. It
absolutely theres, no
question about it.
This is what we should. First
notice, we have the right ag at
the right time.
Attorney General Barr was
undeniably powerful. They were
afraid of his questions. Frankly,
the Democrats were filibustering.
The answers to their own
questions.
That is obvious. It is amazing
to watch
all around the country. People
got to see chaos in Congress run
by the Democrats. Do you want
chaos, chaos around America
runed by the Democrats? Of
course, you dont, so
yesterdays hearing was only a
snipped of whats to come if
they gain control and thats. Why
our voters around the country
wont let that happen.
Ainsley yeah Republicans have
said they sounded like angry
bullies. They were rude,
inflammatory wouldnt. Let him
answer the question.
It was all for show and not for
substance.
What are your republican friends
saying about it that were there
in the room
TIM? It was embarrassing
talking to the folks that were
watching the hearing. Barrs
answers were actually very
clear, very concise and direct.
He was not going to be bullied
and that was a powerful
statement as well.
The challenge, of course, is the
Democrats. They didnt want to
hear an answer to a question and
the other thing I want to ask
you all what happened to police
reform.
If the Democrats were so serious
about police reform, you have the
top cop in America in a hearing
for five hours, and they did
everything except for talk about
the issues that are impacting
minority communities.
Instead of having that
conversation, they decided to
play politics with Americas
future to play politics with
Americas minority communities.
They had no idea at all that
they would present to attorney
general about performing
attorney general, its quite
troubling and frankly, helpful to
our cause.
Steve lets talk about what
Washington is trying to deal
with and thats more rescue
package for the pandemic, and it
sounds like Democrats and
Republicans are far apart, but
there are republicans who are
not on board because they dont
think we have the money to spend.
Even though this is a time of
national consequence and a lot
of people are really hurting
theres. So many people senator
in the restaurant industry, who
you know they havent- had a
paycheck for months from their
employers. So you have got an
incentive in the heals act. Can
you explain how that would work?
Because we have a lot of viewers
who are interested in it?
Senator here is the key:
we have to have incentive base
economy. We have to find ways to
encourage investment in
Americas economy that produces
results.
What we are doing increasing the
deduction for businesses when
they eat out. That means that,
instead of having fifty percent deduction,
you can have a one hundred percent deduction.
What does that translate to
more jobs and more hours in the
restaurant industry?
One out of every four jobs in
April that was lost were lost in
the restaurant industry.
That translates five point. Five million
Americans lost their paychecks
because the because of the
shuttering of restaurants,
Steve Senator, would that be
temporary or forever, because
there are a lot of businesses
that would go. Hey sounds good
to us,
senator! Yes, it is temporary
through the end of twenty twenty.
What we want to have is have
temporary and targeted relief
because of the pandemic.
We dont want to have a
permanent policy position that
blaze into two thousand and twenty one and beyond,
because frankly, I believe that
we are very close to a vaccine
and we are going to have the
most amazing two thousand and twenty one. If we maintain
control of the White House and
the Senate,
we will see a robust economic
recovery. Therefore, what we are
doing today should end at the
end of the pandemic.
Brian senator shows that you
have a business background
because youre worried about the
restaurants.
You also have to worry about the
gyms, all the business owners,
small margins. They have been
shut down with no hope at the
end of the tunnel. Yeah no
hope, because not even in a
phase
meanwhile part in New York in
New York, theres no gyms, because
the governor feels, though he
wants to control every aspect of
this and being the numbers are
down now. One thing he wants to
do is crack down on this.
I dont know if you have a
monitor there. Over the weekend
there was a drive in concert and
evidently in South Hampton Long
Island, and they got out of the
car and they were tight next to
each other
hes going to go and find out
who they are and get the
organizers.
I think hes going to look to
put them in jail. Is that the
right approach
senator thats, a terrible
approach?
How about equal application for
the law,
equal application of the law?
You cant go after a House party
when you have thousands upon
thousands of people in your
streets without masks on
if youre really concerned about
public health, you go to where
the largest crowd is gathered
and you implement and enforce
mask ordinance
thats, not what hes trying to
do
hes, picking and choosing
winners and losers, and that
sounds like what Democrats are
doing all of the time.
Brian im pretty sure they
werent social distancing in the
middle of shutting down the
highway,
no problem there. But if you go
forget God forbid, you have
want to have a good time and get
overzealous. He will look to
video and put people in jail
senator. This is the scariest
thing that we could see in
America is when those in power
pick and choose who they want to
target
thats exactly the wrong thing,
its exactly what lead to chaos
and anarchy and thats. Why we
are seeing so much of it around
the country
is that the Democrats and
liberals are literally picking
and choosing who to enforce the
law upon.
That is a dangerous time, and
sooner or later it gets very
dangerous for the most
vulnerable people in this
country. Those who are not in
power
thats why they consider
leadership. The swamp,
Ainsley, all right, senator.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-01.