South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott opens up about RNC speech, President Trump's policies.
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Caller our family went from
caller. Our family went from
cotton to Congress in one
lifetime
and thats. Why? I believe the
next american century can be
better than the last.
There are millions of families,
just like mine all across this
nation, full of potential seeking
to lives. American dream
and im here tonight to tell
that you supporting the
republican ticket gives you the
best chance of making that dream
a reality.
Brian. He was supposed to be the
headliner and man he knocked it
out of park.
South Carolina, Senator TIM Scott
wrapping up night of Rnc, making
his case for President Trump as
the best choice for Americas
future.
He joins us now
senator. What did you hope to
accomplish with your speech and
how were the reviews coming in
about it, because what im
hearing from almost every
channel is rave reviews,
it
was certainly a blessing to
be part of the Trump team. Last
night
we have an amazing country.
I love America,
and today is my grandfathers,
99th birthday.
I think about all the lessons I
learned from that amazing man.
One of the lessons he taught me
to was to lean in to my country
and lean in to what I believe
in,
I think without any question.
President Trump has kicked off
this convention by leaning in on
the american family, wanting
them to be passionate and to be
expectant about whats possible
in our future and thats. One of
the reasons why I wanted to talk
about the next personal century.
If we have the right policies
and the right person leading the
country,
we will break in to a full speed
ahead approach, a warped speed
ahead, because the best is yet to
come.
Brian, you know from
Charlottesville to the civil
unrest we are seeing here to
George Floyd,
the president, and you two have
connected on some of the most
critical moments over the last
three and a half years,
whats the president, like behind
the scenes, because a lot of
people seem to have a knee jerk
reaction like Bernie Sanders and
say he is the most racist
president we have ever had and
thats, certainly the impression
I got from watching the Dnc last
week.
What do you know?
Brian? Let me say this: first,
a racist president does not
provide the highest funding for
Hvcus in the history of the
country, and he certainly does
not make that funding permanent.
A racist president does not take
opportunity zones and provide up
to seventy five dollars billion of private sector
dollars for the most distressed
people in the country.
A racist president simply does
not create seven million jobs and
make sure two thirds of those
jobs go to African Americans,
Hispanics and women,
but behind the scenes, maybe
just as important as those
policy positions, because you see
the heart from whence it comes
behind the scenes sitting with
the president talking to the
family members who had lost
their family member because of
an interaction with the police
watching the President be
patient and listen and hear what
they were saying, feel their
pain and pandemic. Theisman with
them was one of the most
remarkable experiences I have
had in the lifetime.
Our president sat there for
other an hour and listened to
the victims, families and thats
the president, a heart of what it
makes to be a good president,
Brian. By the way, there were no
cameras there,
you told me that offline you
were moved by how the president
moved and was a listener,
real, quick, another situation now
in Wisconsin,
as we try to get to the bottom
of this and the victim recovers
with seven bullet wounds.
Whats your message.
My message is: we need to get
to the bottom of it.
The good news is, we have body
camera footage that will help us
out, or at least video footage to
help us out.
Most importantly, pray for the
family
lets be patient for all the
facts to come out so that we
make a strong and clear
determination about all the
facts.
This is a hard thick to ask in
this country today,
but it is necessary to know
exactly what were talking about.
First
Brian Senator its hard for me
to watch that speech and not
think about two thousand and twenty four.
Are you thinking about that
right now
running for president?
Oh, no, absolutely not!
Im thinking about two thousand and twenty and
making sure that we have another
four years of Donald Trump,
Brian, okay,
but youre not ruling it out,
im, not ruling it in
im, just ruling in the fact that
we should spend every waking
moment protecting this country
by reelect. The President Donald
Trump
Brian Quick turn around. You are
indeed a morning person and a.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-25.