>> you have to remember who tim scott is. tim scott from north charleston, he knew those folks who were killed in mother emanuel in june of 2015. he especially knew one of the reverends there. so he knows the reality of what it means when white supremacy meets violence. it came to bare here in that church when nine people were killed. it's not surprising he has spoken out. what is surprising in some ways to see him evolve in such a way. if you think about who he was when he first got into congress, he wasn't someone who really spoke out on race. in many ways, it was the bargain black republicans have to make. they don't speak out publicly on race and when they do it's condemning democrats. so now he's in this position post what happened in charleston and in this environment where you have a president who spoke after charlottesville saying nazis were on the same moral plane as the folks anti-nazis. i think we're going to see more from tim scott. you have seen a similar evolution from mia love. she also was in some ways relucta

yeah, tim scott came out. he's the one black guy. he's the one black senator. he comes out, he says it. >> maybe people just don't know that they are racist. >> please. please! >> in the situation that you're talking about, i think sometimes people have a wake-up call, and it's a slap -- not a slap in the face. it's a punch in the face, and they don't realize it. i think steve king knows exactly what he's doing. >> look, what happened was -- look, let's be honest for a second. i feel like you right now. i do. i feel like we just switched positions here. look, this is what's changed. these guys used to keep their mouths shut, or they used to be pushed out to the fringe and they stayed there. tom tan cray doe, steve king. he's been pushing this stuff for years. what's changed is it's now mainstream in that party. >> i was talking about -- you talked about the analogy if i was sitting at the table. >> no, the journalist, i'm with you on that. but these guys, come on, man. he knows what he's been selling. just nobody what's buying it until donald j. trump went and

but to steve king, i don't understand -- bravo to tim scott. the only one to actually write about it. other people have spoken out about it. >> and -- >> but there's no teeth. they don't do anything. >> and proof of the value of diversity. >> exactly. >> remember when we were talking about another media figure sitting at a table and said something that was racially stupid and you made a good point, you said, you know, you're sitting at a table with people that aren't sensitized to it. if i had been at the table, i would have set it straight like that. that's what diversity does on one level. when you have people with different experiences and different feelings and insights you come to better consensuses about this. yeah, tim scott came out. he's the one black guy. he's the one black senator. he says it. >> maybe people just don't know that they are racist. >> please. >> but in the situation you're talking about, i think sometimes people have a wake up call and it's a punch, it's a slap -- not a slap in the face, it's a punch in the face and th

it fell on tim scott to stand up. as to issues of race, and as the senator noted in that op-ed in the post yesterday, there are very few willing to call a spade a spade. while we have seen additional backlash at this moment. and national reviews against steve king and other folks. this is very low-hanging fruit. and steve king has been open and clear about who he is and what his beliefs are for years. and it was laid out and it takes something this explicit for a lot of republicans to acknowledge who he is and what he believes speaks to how reluctant most republicans are with that knowledge. that there's a sizable portion of their base, even their supporters, even their elected officials who old really racial discriminatory beliefs. >> we know they don't speak up against them. wesley, thank you very much. very good point. >>> former new york mayor michael bloomberg has not said if he will run for president in 2020, but he said, if he did, he would self-fund his campaign. "forbes" estimates he is worn $44 billion spent

where is tim scott to talk about this policy? this is the ethnic cleansing policy of the united states. where is tim scott on that? where iserne everyone on that. language is the only thing these people are willing to police. they're not willing to police the actions or the policies. >> all right. when we come back, the government shutdown confirmation hearings for the president's pick who the next attorney general is set to kick off on tuesday. how the revelations could effect bill bar r's nomination, next. bill bar r's nomination, next. is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. all with guaranteed great taste. the upside- i'm just getting started. boost® high protein be up for life. red lobster's new weekday five days.s here: five deals. for fifteen dollars get a different deal every weekday til six pm like endless shrimp monday admiral's feast tues

tim scott as the only black republican senator spoke out. but by and large, the republican party is still in a position where it condones this type of behavior from the very highest levels. as we just talked about, i mean, the president of the united states has a history of continuously making these racially charged and provocative comments. and what i hear republicans saying very privately is they wonder if two things might happen sometime down the line. and both of these have antecedents in the modern history of the republican government, the decision by william buckley go to go after the john birch society and the decision by barry gold water and other leading capitol hill republicans to tell president nixon he wasn't going to survive impeachment. if things continue to get very bad for the president as we've seen, you wonder if those two similar things might happen with trump, but can one happen without the other, i don't know. >> i'm glad you mentioned the tim scott op-ed. it went under the headline why are republicans accused of racism.

that is not rhetoric from tim scott. he actually did it, i was at the table. this is what republicans i think need to come to grips with and this is advice that i got from a democrat. luis gutierrez's who told me this. people will vote for you if they don't like you. they will never vote for you if they think you don't like them. the policies, the new generation of republicans, they are doing great but we have to be very mindful of the rhetoric that we use in the rhetoric that we condone on the republican side or we will continue to struggle in communities of color in this country electorally. >> martha: what do you see when you look into the eyes of the boy from covington high school and the native american elder? >> i see what happens when the media decides to make something viral -- they could have picked a lot of things that happened over this weekend including lots of examples of my fellow citizens being kind and generous and considerate to one another, that doesn't go viral. it doesn't make the news. i don't know either of the people in this video, i cou

one, i know that you said that tim scott's op-ed really resonated with a lot of people, and that may have changed some minds. >> i think so. >> the other thing is you were in the house, right? you were in congress. what did people say about congressman king behind closed doors? no one talked about this because it's not like this just happened yesterday or last week. he's said many things before. >> yeah. i think there's so many people that would cringe, that would just say, you know, how is he getting elected? how does he continue to get elected? obviously if it were up to the conference and the conference were voting, you know, they were his constituents, there would be a different sentiment out there. i don't think he would be a member if it was left up to -- >> but why didn't people say anything, then? >> well, you know, it's a question i asked. but i think better late than never. i think the conference is at this point saying, look, this is way too much. we can't do this. i heard congressman stewart get on, who is a representative in my state, get up and say, too many times is ju

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from south carolina senator, tim scott, the one black republican member of the senate caucus. he wrote an op-ed saying quote some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism. it's because of our silence when things like this are said. and remember the republican party shut down of the government is over steve king's signature policy idea, building a wall. in fact he called it the king wall on the house floor in 2006. >> i'm going toing do the 2:00 drill on the king wall. i say we need a few other things on top of the wall and one is to put a little bit of wire on top to provide additional incentive to go over the top and we could truify it to be a discouragement to fool around. we do that with livestock all the time. >> do that with livestock. assistant professor at harvard kennedy school. and national reporter for "washington post." i thought of the title of your book today as i read the op-ed from tim scott in the washington post. i thought it was basically saying look, this is the kind of reason people associate us with terrible ideas. >> absolutely

i thought of the title of your book today as i read of the op-ed from tim scott. in "the washington post." you know i thought it was a good op-ed saying look, this is a kind of reason people associate us with some terrible ideas. >> absolutely. and it was trying to get at the heart of an issue playing through the republican party in part that silence speaks volumes. calling out racism is not hard, it's not difficult. it's the right thing to do and republicans when it's been seen, have been adept at calling out rac racism. rhetoric is easy to call out, but policy is something entirely different. and so what tim scott, it was a good attempt and a laudable attempt, but it completely sidestepped the issue of policy. steve king's policies are in effect. they are not fringe. they are mainstream. he has a place in the oval office. and i think that is the issue we should be focusing on right now. >> you have done great reporting on steve king. there are sort of steve king, like steve king racist explosions every six months or so. and then we get a little version of this.

>> i applaud tim scott for what he did. i don't know that the president is going to make a statement or a comment on it. i think steve has been wrapped on the hands for saying what he said. i think the biggest mistake he made -- >> he's been doing this for years. >> -- was doing a "new york times" interview alone, you know, without aides. >> but he's been doing this for years. don't you think you should do something about it? >> but chris, you know i'm not one that conflates every so-called racial incident as racism, as such. i abhor white supremacy. white nationalism gives me a little bit of cause. >> a little bit of cause? >> -- that are not afraid of the term nationalism. i have many american nationalists. >> how does white supremacist, how does that phrase become offense i have? he said that! when did this phrase become offensive? you don't have a problem with that? >> that's -- i do have a problem with that. and that's why i said that steve should never have gone into a "new york times" interview -- >> oh, yeah, becaus

or do i go out, lindsey graham, tim scott, do i send out for about 1,000 hamburgers. big macs. so we actually did, we have big macs, quarter pounders with cheese, we have everything that i like that you like. >> that i like, that you like. needless to say -- >> that beautiful table and all that plastic clam shells. >> they had no complaints about the fast food. it included pizza and fries to go along with more than 300 burgers. >> can we just look at that for a minute? >> i've been thinking a lot about this as you can imagine. this is what kept me up at night. and pizza is the only part of that table that travels well. as much as i love some burger king, wendy's, mcdonald's, that is nasty after about 15 minutes sitting on a table. >> i don't know. the young men dressed up in their suits with the candle an bra and fast food. and you are sports guy. i thought that theyan bra and fast food. and you are sports guy. i thought that they -- their bodies are their temples. >> these kids today eat like kings. they have training tables that rival the white house's own. i don't mean burge

>> that's what tim scott asked? he goes, uh -- >> the argument is its nonsensical. >> it implies a rejection of white nationalism. >> exactly. >> i have noticed since trump got elected that when there is an opportunity to condemn somebody who is spouting things that have been similar to the president, the party jumps on it. it's almost like it's a -- every condemnation of him doesn't work but we're not going to let anybody else pull that off. is there something to that? >> i see the argument you're making. it has more to do with being in the minority in the house of representatives. it's always easier to cast out bad seeds. it's always easier to be a little more pure. >> do you buy that? that it's easier to back somebody that you don't like? >> i think it does mean that you don't have anything to regret, right? so you get them out now so that on the off chance that you were ever able to recover the majority again, you don't have them as part of your party. >> we're building for a future majority that does not includ

. >> i think he would align himself with remarks that tim scott made. the censure idea, you know, i'm open to it but i think there's a question. if you censure steve king how do you not also censure the president, for example. i think it opens up a door. i would like to see more specific action from house leadership stripping him of those econocommittee assignment. it is absurd he sits on a economy that deals with civil rights, immigration and border security. it is a very specific action coupled with all of the republicans saying we will not support you with financial resources. we will not endorse you. it would be far more effective. >> you know what's weird in this town the kinds of offenses that lead to people resigning because suddenly nancy pelosi or the republican leader or the tickle fights. there is the guy that showed up shirtless on some dating web site. they get chased out. it happens. steve king has been say these things far long time. for ted cruz to have done that is still problematic. he also said we should have an electrified fence on t

but that's not really what tim scott is getting at. what he's saying, the republican party needs to drum this guy, if not formally out of the republican party, at least put him so far out of the margin that there will be no mistake what the republican party stands for by characters like him. by the way, this is long overdo. this conversation needed to happen a long time ago. the republicans have treated him kind of like the embarrassing relative that you sort of keep off to the side. and you don't want to be associated with him. but that ship has sailed. i think tim scott has very accurately and commendably calling the party on this. if you're going to have somebody hanging around using your labor, you've got to decide publicly to say this is not what we stand here. >> errol louis, good to have you. >> thank you, victor. >>> she's not out. the supreme court says the notorious rbg is getting better after surgery. she will miss oral arguments next week, but what does that mean for the supreme court really? that's next. one hour pickup or

scott. article he wrote was a reminder that there has to be common ground we all seek and trying to bring the station back together and i think him for his leadership in putting out the fact that congressman king crossed that line. >> senator murray. >> as you all know were 25 days into this completely unnecessary and absolutely absurd trump shutdown. twenty-five days of workers not knowing where their next paycheck will come, 25 days of families gathered around the kitchen table trying to figure out which bills to pay and which to let slide. twenty-five days of trash piling up in our national parks, lines at airports, small business owners who are waiting for their phones to come through, 25 days of chaos and dysfunction caused by this trump shutdown of people across country are paying attention and they want it to end. democrats are united in our position could not be clearer and it cannot be stronger. we are on the side of anyone who thanks government should not spiral into chaos just bec

or do i go out, lindsey graham, tim scott, do i send out for about 1,000 hamburgers. big macs. so we actually did, we have big macs, quarter pounders with cheese, we have everything that i like that you like. >> the hungry tigers had no complaints about the fast food that includes piles of pizza and fries to go along with more than 300burgers. i guess the season is over, flight so they can splurge. >> and the team is loaded for next season. they will be just fine. if you have the choice between wendy's, burger king, mcdonald's, would is your national champion? >> i'm a traditionalist. mcdonald's. everything else is really just an imitator. >> wendy's, man, all the way. >> quarter pounder with cheese. maybe two. >>> all right. there are big ramifications for today's brexit vote. wi how will the uk exit the eu and will theresa may keep her job? yeah, uh...for the team. the team? gooo team... order online pickup in an hour. and, now save $250 on a lenovo 2-in-1 flex. at office depot officemax. and, now save $250 on a lenovo 2-in-1 flex. the latest inisn't just a store.ty it's a sa

>> i think tim scott actually was judicious. i think tim scott knows that the good people of the fourth district of iowa and northwestern iowa have sent him to washington four times now, so they have listened to him and decided they want him here. before you begin to even partially undo their decision and partially undo an american election, you ought to tread very carefully. note the following. first of all, mr. king is 1/435 of one-half of one of our branches of government so he's not an enormous figure in american life. second, those people i just mentioned in the fourth district of iowa gave him a 23-point margin of victory in 2016 and a 3-point margin of victory in 2018. it looks to me, the untutored eye here, that the political market is working. they have listened to him and they have decided they decreasingly approve of what he's saying, so why don't we let them have another bite at the apple in 2020. >> just a little pushback. he's 1/435, but he is also the king maker for people who want to run for president on the repu

but this is something that i think tim scott took a big lead on. se cup wrote passionately about. and i think people are rallying around. you can't have a republican party or any party in the western democracies to allow nativism, white supremacy and get a foothold and keep growing unchallenged. >> and yet he doesn't fear backlash he says. >> he's right not to fear backlash, i think van is overly generous. i am appalled. not just by this language, of course i'm appalled. i grew up in new england. my generation never saw this, that didn't mean it wasn't there. this is anathama to me, and we've known who steve king was for a long time, but it's not strong enough just to condemn it. that's baseline. for republicans to make a difference and to say, this has no place, not just in national discourse, but in congress, in our party. i have asked for each one of them to say, he needs to resign. he needs to step down. that doesn't mean he automatically does. democratic elected, nine times. which is unfortunate, but that's our system, at least they're on record saying, you don't just get to

>> i don't know, tim scott, south carolina. somebody from the inner cities, who knows black colleges, who knows hip hop, who knows the black churches, you know, somebody. primaryeed a republican for 2020 in new hampshire, and in iowa, and in south carolina. you have trash and stuff around the smith tony and. they have got to be kidding me. this is america, this is d.c., and they need to start treating us with respect. steve: you mentioned politics, just a quick reminder that senator elizabeth warren is scheduled to be in iowa this weekend and will be covering her visit. we learned that fully and castro -- julian castro who served in the obama administration, will officially announced whether he will run or not on january 12. he announced an exploratory committee a few minutes ago. we hope you follow all of this on our website at span.org. c-span will give you a front row seat. on the democrats line, good evening. hello, you are on the air. we will go on to a in allen park, michigan. go ahead, jim. caller: good. i will just leav

. >> republican senator tim scott wrote in the washington post, quote, some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism. it is because of our silence when things like this are said. this is far from the first time that king has made controversial remarks. there was the tweet about not being able to, quote, restore our civilization with someone else's babies when discussing refugees in 2017. in 2008, king said that terrorists would be, quote, dancing in the streets because of barack obama's middle name. which of course is hussein. 2013, for every child among undocumented immigrants who is a valedictorian. there's another 100 out there who way 130 pounds and have calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. for years these remarks have carried few political consequenc consequences. he has enjoyed his role in king maker in iowa. freedom summit drew many republicans who ran for president in 2016 and they lined up to praise him. >> i want to thank citizens united and my good friend steve king for putting this on. >> i want

brian: and you interviewed tim scott. he's in there a lot. mark: he is in there and it's really interesting because the first african-american senator is hiram reynolds, who comes in for reconstructions. the second one is blanche k bruce, and he believes in 1881. the next african-american center -- senator elected is edward brooke in the 19 late 60's, but the next african-american senator from the south is tim scott, 130 years after blanche k bruce served. so we track the senate and their role in the jim crow years, the anti-lynching. it's a reflection of the country, and always has been. brian: joe biden, 36 years in the senate, he was elected when he was 29, sworn in when he was 30, left in 2009. here he is in the work hearings. >> if they had evidence of a crime that's being committed -- >> how are they going to get evidence -- >> wiretap. >> wiretapping? >> legal wiretap. >> you're saying they're going to authorize a legal wiretap to find out if people are using contraception? >> unbelievable. mark: we used that hearing as the way to show

why did i work with tim scott on the opportunity zones? because capital is lazy. every mayor here knows you have investment worthy projects, but you can't attract institutional capital. you can't get developers to come. and so we pass what will end up being the most powerful economic development legislation coming out of washington in decades because now that everyone here has a shot at having an opportunity zone, i have been meeting with people all over the country in baltimore. prudential financial is going to be making its first opportunity zone investments in converting a loan standing brownsfield site into a vibrant area. in alabama, a vacant public school in the opportunity zone is redeveloped into a $12 million state of the art memory care center. and hbcus launched a black college focused opportunity fund that will invest in mixed use properties near hbcus. we can do impossible things in america. >> [applause] senator booker: there is no problem in this country that we can't address. the problem is not can we, it's do we have the collective will ? and that

. >> now the chief of staff to south carolina republican senator tim scott talks about how women can leverage their power and lasting change within the organizations. he spoke at the women's rules summit in washington dc. >> good morning. what an incredible video. about one woman who used her power to make change and that's what the topic of our panel is about. i'm a editorial director at politico and from canada which is our latest geographic expansion, very exciting and part of a growing global enterprise and with me today we have women from business, from sports and from the arts to talk about using your own power to impact change. over the last couple of years of working on women's rules we've had a couple of the questions that have been driving our journalistic inquiry of women rule and that is how women get to seek power and what difference do they make once they are there? this conversation is about that difference making with people who know all about sitting in seats of power. so the topic today is how do you leverage your power to make lasting impact whether it's your own o

. >> reporter: tonight south carolina senator tim scott, the only black republican in the senate, calling out king. >> when i have to hit it makes it far more difficult for us to sell the conservative brand. >> reporter: and writing in "the washington post," some in our partnd republicans are constantly accused of racism. it's because of our silence when things are like this are said. house speaker nancy pelosi condemning king's comments too. >> is he fit to serve iowa? >> he said terrible things. terrible things have been said by people in this administration. >> i've been in bigger fights than this one. >> reporter: king already has two primary challengers. one of whom told the des moines register yesterday i won't embarrass the state. garrett haake, nbc news, the capitol. >>> overseas tonight, there is new confusion over president trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria. after a new announcement today. our richard engel who has spent time with u.s. troops in syria has the latest. >> reporter: tonight the u.s. military says its withdrawal from syria has begun. but u.s. military offic

there is a difference, tim scott, i asked on your world, my weak day show on fox news, whether or not the congressman should resign? >> i don't think he should resign. his voters elected him and i think he has, without any question, the power of his office. i think what should happen, however, is he should take a step back from the damage he's doing to the country and frankly, to our party. instead of me talking to you today about the fact that the republican party has led to the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for african-americans in the history of this country. instead of the opportunities and legislation that will bring real relief to 31 million americans living in distressed communities. instead of having a conversation today about the fact that our-- my party has led to the strongest criminal justice reform that has-- will have a positive impact disproportionately on people of color, instead of having that conversation and instead having a conversation about polarizing comments that conflate racism and conservativetism that's bad for our country and our party. >> do you t

but the senate's only african- american republican, tim scott, said more of his colleagues need to speak up. "some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism," he wrote. "it is because of our silence when things like this are said." a couple of republicans are already lining up to run against king for congress, and iowa's republican governor says she won't endorse him, but, jeff, the next election is nearly two years away. he just won reelection a couple of months ago. >> glor: nancy, thank you very much. florida's governor and clemency board today granted pardons posthumously to four black men. they were accused of rape in a case now seen as a shameful example of racial injustice. here's manuel bojorquez. >> it never happened. >> reporter: it took 70 years for this day to come. >> his only crime was to be black. >> reporter: for decades, the case has been called an injustice. when a white woman claimed she was raped by four young black men outside groveland in 1949, the klan torched black neighborhoods. four men were falsely accused, one killed by a mob, the ot

todd: tim scott saying they are the ones using identity politics to influence the american people. >> we are in the midst of the shutdown and what are the tactics of the left, to make the wall immoral. talking about racism conflated with protecting our country. common sense suggests, 1950 miles of border, 700 miles of natural border. what do you do? find a way to strengthen border security which includes barriers, more bodies, patrol officers and at the same time technology but instead of having that conversation the left because of their focus on identity politics is trying to scare people into not supporting our president as relates to providing resources to protect our nation, to be a nation we have to have strong security at our borders. todd: today is the 27th day of the partial shutdown, the longest shutdown in history. carley: republicans firing back against nancy pelosi's request to postpone the state of the union address. democrats citing comes security concerns during the shutdown. todd: anita vogel with how the trump administration is responding. >> reporter: two week after

senator tim scott, the only republican in the senate wrote in the washington post quote ", some of the party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism." jeb bush calls for primary challenge for a primary challenge to the congressman. house minority leader kevin mccartney says steve's language is reckless and wrong and has no place in our society. here lies a problem for mccartney and the gop. steve king's language may have play no place in society but as of now, it does have a place on the house floor. representing the republican party. and as long as some in leadership are willing to treat him or condemn his language as they continue to court his vote on legislation. steve king and his racism is here to stay. we'll be right back. in h ore. the most common side effects are pain, redness or swelling at the injection site and constipation. talk to your doctor about aimovig. and be there more. acidic foods can your enamel is very precious. wear away your enamel. your tooth is going to look yellower, more dull. i recommend pronamel because it helps protect and strengthen your

scott, the only black republican senator. attacking both king as well as republicans reactions to him, and one thing i want to point out here, some in our party wonder why republicans are con starntly accused of racism. it's because of our silence when things like this are said. he wasn't the only one who reacted like that we also heard from house republican leaders, jeb bush as well as iowa senator joannie ernst. she tweeted this out today. i condemn steve king's comments on white supremacy. they are offensive and racist. we are a great narks and this decisiveness is hurting everyone, we cannot continue down this path, if we want to continue to be a great nation. representative king has a long history of using white nationalists in deeply anti-immigrant rhetoric. just to rattle off some of the few things that happened the last couple years, he endorsed a white nationalist for mayor. he asked what minorities had contributed to civilization. he suggested electric border fences. and he predicted hispanics and blacks will be fig

. >> senator ted cruz -- >> tim scott. >> the only african-american republican in the u.s. senate penned a very powerful op-ed basically saying what kirsten just said. the reason people talk about the republican party and ask whether they are a racist party is because when faced with discrimination and racist statement frs ts is for too lon. >> ladies, thank you very much. and as new headlines emerge over the weekend about the president's relationship with putin, he was on quite a tweet storm from within the white house walls going after elizabeth warren, jeff bezos, e even called into fox news an made sefl dubious claims. we'll talk b about this interview, next. ultimate feast time it'sat red lobster.r own pick four of ten favorites to create the ultimate feast you've been dreaming of. like lobster mac & cheese. or tender snow crab. so hurry in before new create your own ultimate feast ends. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ about 50% of pe

tim scott, senator from here in south carolina, i think was eloquent in his condemnation of steve's remarks. the bigger question is what romney raised. romney said his comments aren't appropriate for polite company. are you kidding me? what's interesting about that is where is the outrage when donald trump says crazy things or racist things? where is the outrage when maxine waters says, let's go after the kids of cabinet members. where is the outrage when a recently elected senator from mississippi says put me on the front row of the lynching mob. what you can't have in politics is selective outrage. we say we are outraged at this but we'll turn a blind eye to all this other. what i find a little bit wanting, if you will, is romney's comments in light of his quietness with the exception of the recent op-ed on trump. a lot of other people in congress have given trump a complete blank slate, no, we're not going to comment there. but we'll go and take from committee assignments and others, steve king who made wrong comments. everybody can agree on that. but you can't have selective outrage whi

and i said you guys aren't into salads or do i go out - lindsey graham and tim scott - do i go out and send out for about 1000 hamburgers? big macs. so we actually bought 1000 burger king all american companies. burger king. wendy's and mcdonald's. we have big macs, quarter pounder with cheese. we have everything that i like that you like. and i know no matter what we did there's nothing you can have that's better than that. >(grant) so burgers, (grant) so burgers, (grant) so burgers, pizza and salads... were pizza and salads... were on the menu... president trump became well-known for his love of fast food during the 2016 election.some of his favorites included mcdonald's and kentucky fried chicken.(vicki) white house visits have long been a tradition for championship teams and athletes, but some teams have declined the visit after president trump took office... (grant) none of the four n-c-a-a men's and women's basketball champions have visited the white house under trump, nor have the two-time nba champion golden state warriors. we'll be right back...we'll be right back... (vicki) a

mix three best friend or tim scott, lindsey graham and trey gowdy. and we are all three native south carolina ends so if you want to be the president, don't you think you would have reachet to one of those three and said, hey, can you help? he didn't call lindsay, he didn't call to me and he didn't talk to me. i don't know where the reporting is coming from. nick would be great, but the notion that nick is trying to get out of his current job, why not ask two u.s. senators and he hasn't done it. >> trey: i barely got in college, i can't run one. >> martha: trey gowdy, thank you very much, sir, good to see you tonight. this monday night, let me know what you think, tweet @marthamaccallum, @thestoryfnc, carlson is coming up on washington, d.c. and we will see the draft from the president. see you then. ♪ >> tucker: a good evening and welcome to the "tucker carlson tonight" ." the battle of the congress and border wall is still ongoing as you know now until its third week. large swathes of government remain shut down and trash remains on the ground. t

with us is south carolina senator tim scott on this issue of whether a national emergency would be warranted here to get this wall started. what do you think, senator? welcome. >> thank you, neil. happy new year's. i think -- there's no doubt if we have the emergency funding, if we take that route, you may end the shot down but you don't begin construction on the barrier. this goes straight to the courts, which is not good news for those of us that believe that border security is synonymous with national security. if we want to continue to move forward on getting the resources necessary to build the barriers, the emergency funding is not the next best option. the best option is nor the democrats to do what they did in 2006 and what they did in 2013 and 2014 and what they did in 2017, is to offer opportunities for us to have the resources necessary to spend money securing our border so we can secure our nation. >> neil: even if that were the case and looks like that would be a herculean leap for that, but they might entertainment if it's coupled with doing something on the daca front, the ill

. >> bob, tim scott, the only african-american senator wrote in the "washington post" about steve king's latest comments. they wonder why republicans are accused of racism. is it because of our silence when things like this are said? they did denounce the comments, some of them did. does there need to be more done to make the point? when i was hearing what you said, what you are saying is, this is not okay. i don't want to have people confuse a deeply red district with because it's red it's racist. that's what you were worried about. that is what can happen if other republicans don't speak out. >> without question. that's why you are seeing a lot of people speak out. me included. that's why i decided to tweet. it's not just the red district, it's the association for the family leader. we have had him at our events. i don't want that to represent who we are. that's not the face you want to have. these comments like you mentioned, steve said a lot of inflammatory comments before. this got a lot of attention. why? because it was out from the curtain, on public stage chl. i think it took him

south carolina republican senator tim scott published a skating op-ed on his party's softened response to king's actions and others like it in the past. he write, quote, when people with opinions similar to king open their mouths they damage not just the republican party and conservative brand but our nation as a whole. some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism. it is because of our silence when things like this are said. >> the 2020 democratic presidential field is beginning to line up with a few more additions over the weekend after much speculation. former housing and urban development secretary julian castro announced his bid for the presidency on saturday. >> when my grandmother got here almost 100 years ago, i'm sure that she never could have imagined that just two generations later one of her grandsons would be serving as a member of the united states congress and the other would be standing with you here today to say these words, i am a candidate for president of the united states of america. >> and as the grandson of mexican immigrants julian ca

there was also this reaction from republican senator tim scott and mitt romney. >> for me it's not about the republican party. steve king's comments is ant s anti-thetical to the american spirit. >> steve king's comments are reprehensible. they should have no place in the united states congress. he ought to resign and move on and let someone else who represent american values take his seat. >> many republican senators heard condemned king throughout the day the president who is a consumer of news had this response early yesterday morning. >> i haven't been following it. i really haven't been following it. >> and president trump's daughter ivanka is said to help lead the process of selecting the next wiretap of the world bank. avan okay will aide steve mnuchkin and mick mulvaney in the decision-making process. any nominee will need approval from the world bank's executive board of directors stating the candidate must be committed to multi-nationalism. the white house says ivanka is not currently a candidate for the position, contrary to reports from last week. the world bank's former pres

governor tim scott made a really, really powerful statement today in the op-ed in "the post" condemning these words. >> not only would i support a censure vote, democrats control the house, i think a censure vote would easily pass the house of representatives. >> eleanor holmes norton, thank you so much for being with us, and really appreciate your time tonight on a variety of subjects. >>> let's check in with chris cuomo to see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time" in the next hour. >> what we've learned from "the new york times" really falls into what we're getting very deep into on the show tonight. we've had three aspects of the mueller probe come to light in the last few days, and they all worked together. we've learned that the probe is looking at public statements of the president as probative in their criminal case of obstruction of justice. that will be surprising to many people, that the president's public statements may count in that case. that goes along with what "the new york times" just told us now. and the big point here is that we always knew about the criminal ca

king made those comments in a recent interview with "the new york times" but senator tim scott, the gop's only black senator, countered in a "washington post" op-ed. he writes, king's comments are not conservative views, but separate views that should be ridiculed at every turn possible. cnn national correspondent kristen holmes joins us right now. congressman king has since pushed back against being labeled a white nationalist. >> that's right, fred. congressman king taking to the house, denying that he was a white nationalist, or supremacist, but only after he received this major blowback from members of his own party. you mentioned of course senator scott's blistering op-ed. we also heard from iowa senator joany ernst. jeb bush, as well as house republican leadership. all denouncing these comments. take a look at how steve king explained his rhetoric. >> "the new york times" is suggesting that i am an advocate for white nationalism and white supremacy. i want to make one thing abundantly clear. i reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define. further, i condemn anyone that

i said you guys aren't into salads or do i go out to lindsey graham and tim scott, do i send out for about 1,000 hamburgers? big macs? so we actually bought 1,000. burger king all-american companies. burger king, wendy's and mcdonald's. we have big macs, quarter pounders with cheese, everything that i like that you like. i know no matter what we did, there's nothing you can have that's better than that, right? >> donald trump welcoming the clemson tigers to the white house today. and that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week together. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. . good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight on all in -- >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. >> is the president of the united states working for russia? >> i never worked for russia. >> tonight, "the washington post" reports donald trump hid details of talks with putin and confiscated interpreter's notes. >> i said to

i want to bring in republican senator tim scott of the great state of south carolina. senator scott sits on the senate banking and finance committees. great to see you today. think of her being with me. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: this committees are important for us to talk about right now, because the president is in a place where they are feeling the stranglehold the partial government shutdown because their checks have stopped. checks meant to soften the blow of the tariffs. tell me more. >> well, to cope pieces of good news. 1, on china, we are making significant progress. that will reset the negotiations. not only for this year but for decades to come. they must level the playing field for the american spirit to continue to thrive throughout this world. i think it will happen, number one. number two, the democrats can come back to the table, come back from puerto rico and stop negotiating. just a few years ago, they proved 350 miles of barrier. we now have a chance to fund it. let's get back to work and put 800,000 federal employees back to work today by hav