BEFORE THAT SLAVERY HAVE HAD A COST AND WE HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. >> John: CONGRESSMAN, ALWAYS GREAT TO SEE YOU, HAPPY FRIDAY, LETāS FIRST OF ALL START WITH THIS, SINCE JOY BEHAR DOESNāT SEEM TO THINK A MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RACIST COUNTRY AND SYSTEMIC RACISM, DO YOU BELIEVE A, THAT THERE IS SYSTEMIC RACISM IN AMERICA AND B, DO YOU BELIEVE THE UNITED STATES IS A RACIST COUNTRY? >> ITāS GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. ONE, THEREāS NOT SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES. TWO, THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY, AND THREE, WHY ARE WE EVEN LISTENING TO JOY BEHAR, WHO IS SHE? I DONāT NEED HER TO TELL ME ABOUT WHATāS RACIST AND WHATāS NOT. SHE ALREADY HAD HER OWN ISSUES WEARING BLACK FACE, I KNOW THE VIEW HAS GIVEN HER A PASS BUT IāM NOT. IāM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE ITāS RIDICULOUS. YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE HER, THESE WHITE LIBERALS WHO LOVE TO DEMEAN A BLACK CONSERVATIVE BECAUSE WE DONāT GO ALONG WITH THEIR IDEOLOGY AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING. THE LEFT LIKES TO TALK ABOUT BEING TOLERANT. ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF SENATOR TIM SCOTT WHICH WERE ACTUALLY QUITE PROFOUND INSTEAD OF JUST RUNNING BACK TO YOUR CORNER AND DIGGING OUT THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOUR NEXT TALKING POINT IS GOING TO BE. THEY CONSTANTLY ARE DOING THIS, ITāS DISGUSTING AND OUTRAGEOUS, IāM NOT LISTENING TO JOY BEHAR OR ANY OTHER MEDIA PUNDIT BECAUSE THEY HAVE PROVEN THEY DONāT TELL THE TRUTH ANYWAY. >> John: I WONDER WHY YOU ARE SUGARCOATING AND NOT TELLING US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK. TALK ABOUT INTOLERANCE ON THE LEFT, A SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTATOR WHO IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED PREPARE THIS IDEA INTO THE TRENDING SECTION OF TWITTERāS SIDE OF TIM SCOTT "WHEN UNCLE TIM SCOTT SAYS AMERICA IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY, HE IS FULLY AWARE HE IS SPEAKING IN BAD FAITH, THE PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT WHITE SUPREMACIST." SO TIM SCOTT DID SAY IN HIS RESPONSE THAT AMERICA IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY WILL LISTEN TO WHAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS SAID THE VERY NEXT DAY. >> I DONāT THINK AMERICA IS A RACIST COUNTRY. >> John: A LITTLE TINY BIT OF CRITICISM FROM THE SAME BUT NO ONE ACCUSED HER OF PROTECTING WHITE SUPREMACIST, CLEARLY A DOUBLE STANDARD AT WORK. >> OF COURSE THEYāRE NOT GOING TO ATTACK HER, SHE IS A LIBERAL AND SUPPORTS THEIR IDEOLOGY. THIS FUND IN OR WHOEVER THEY ARE, NO ONE CARES WHAT HIS NAME IS, I DONāT CARE, I WILL GUARANTEE YOU THIS, HE WOULDNāT SAY THAT TO ME DIRECTLY IN MY FACE BECAUSE HEāS A TWITTER COWARD AND WE HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS IN AMERICA TODAY. THEY LOVE TO GO TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND PONTIFICATE BUT NOT GET INTO THE ARENA AND ACTUALLY DEBATE THESE IDEAS. THE LEFT ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT THEY WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ON RACE, LETāS HAVE IT, LETāS DO IT MAN TO MAN, SIT DOWN AT THE TABLE AND GO THROUGH IDEA AFTER IDEA. THEY WOULD RATHER TAKE APART BLACK CONSERVATIVES BECAUSE WE ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE SCRIPT, WE DONāT FIT THE NARRATIVE AND WE HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT FOR AMERICA. THE REASON IāM SO UPSET ABOUT THIS IS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE CALM AND EXPLAIN THESE THINGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT DEMONIZE THEM BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL VIEWS THEY HAVE. >> John: ON THE POINT YOU MAY JUST A SECOND AGO, THE FACT THAT SENATOR TIM SCOTT IS GETTING HAMMERED SO HARD FROM THE LEFT AND FROM PROGRESSIVES, IS NOT AN INDICATION THAT THEY WERE AFRAID OF HIM? ARE THEY AFRAID OF YOU? >> OF COURSE THEY ARE. THEY WERE AFRAID BECAUSE THE MORE THAT OUR VOICES ARE HEARD AND WE ACTUALLY TELL PEOPLE THE WAY WE VIEW AMERICA AND THE WAY THINGS ACTUALLY ARE IN AMERICA, ITāS MUCH HARDER FOR YOU TO PUSH HER RADICAL AGENDA IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE THE COUNTRY. THATāS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT AT THE END OF THE DAY. SO TIM SCOTT IS A THREAT TO WHAT THEY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH, HE IS A THREAT TO PASSING THINGS LIKE HR ONE, HE IS A THREAT TO THE MASSIVE SPENDING JOE BIDEN WANTS TO DO, HEāS A THREAT TO THINKING POLICE ARE OUT TO GET BLACK AMERICA, HEāS A THREAT TO ALL THESE THINGS SO ITāS IMPORTANT THE SENATOR CONTINUES TO STAND STRONG, I SUPPORT HIM AND THAT, MANY OTHERS LIKE US WHO WILL CONTINUE TO STAND STRONG BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO FOLD TO WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA THINKS BECAUSE THEY DONāT LIKE OUR IDEAS ANYWAY. >> John: THE OTHER TOPIC IS THIS PROPOSED RULE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO GIVE FEDERAL GRANTS TO SCHOOLS TO TEACH ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY, MITCH McCONNELL SENDING A LETTER TO TO THE EDUCATION SECRETARY SAYING "THIS IS A TIME TO STRENGTHEN THE TEACHING OF CIVICS IN AMERICAN HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS AND INSTEAD, YOUR PROPOSED PRIORITIES DOUBLE DOWN ON DIVISIVE RADICAL AND HISTORICALLY DUBIOUS BUZZWORDS AND PROPAGANDA." WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS WHOLE IDEA OF TEACHING ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORIES IN AMERICAāS PUBLIC SCHOOLS? >> FIRST OF ALL, I DONāT SUPPORT IT. WHAT THE GOVERNOR ACTUALLY SIGNED ABOUT IT BEING THIS TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS BUT TO A BROADER POINT, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO AUTHORITY IN TELLING STATES AND LOCALITIES WHICH SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL. WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, IT IS NOT THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NO MATTER WHOāS IN CHARGE TO BE TELLING LOCALITIES AND SCHOOLS AND STATES WHICH SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN CLASSROOMS. I DONāT SUPPORT THIS, ITāS NOT THE PROPER ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. >> John: AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, TAKING MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AS ALWAYS, FROM THE GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA, GOOD TO SEE YOU TODAY AND HOPE YOU
Biden gave a speech mostly about class issues and Republicans went right back to talking about race.