side of the coin was millions of people who are going to actually lose their health care coverage. tucker: i don t know if the tax cut is the centerpiece. it certainly component. it s an odd place to put the tax credit in my view. tucker: i appreciate that, joe. let me ask you about the judge here. there always think i agree with people on. i m sure you have lots of reasons to bring it up, but let me into the week mack meat of what i want to talk to you and that is the supreme court nomination. i am sure you do not agree with a lot of the beliefs the judge has but the core question is, can he interpret the constitution faithfully? i m figuring out what exactly your problem is with this guy. here s a letter that you sent to democratic members of the senate. you said he has an extreme ideological agenda supported by some of the most dangerous ultraconservative and white nationalist groups. what does that even mean? i think this means that neil
side of the coin was millions of people who are going to actually lose their health care coverage. tucker: i don t know if the tax cut is the centerpiece. it s certainly a component. it s an odd place to put the tax credit in my view. i appreciate that, joe. let me ask you about the judge here. there is always things i agree with people on. i m sure you have lots of reasons to bring it up but let me get to the meat of why i want to talk to, the supreme court nomination. i am sure you do not agree with a lot of the beliefs the judge has but the core question is, can he interpret theou constitution faithfully? i m going through your materials to figure out what your problem is with this guy. here s a letter that you sent to democratic members of the senate. you said he has an extreme ideological agenda supported by some of the most dangerous ultraconservative and white nationalist groups.
just to look at that alone, we see that we re not faring well. definitely not in the likelihood or the likeness of what he has been talking about and touting as if part of that is his legacy. definitely not a good part at all. ainsley: tim scott, a senator from south carolina. he said he wants to work with donald trump to improve race relations in our country. what can they do together to improve the problem here. yeah. you know, shortly after trump was elected, tim scott bravely talked to, you know, people on, in the news to tell them that he was willing to go on a listening tour, go to ohio, go to these inner-city, frankly democratic-controlled cities where african-americans are hurting, and they want change. and i think part of that is that they just want someone to listen to them and tell them that you know, they re going to be heard and they re going to have their,
environment i work here, and i have people on, where you find people spreading rumors, saying terrible things about you, jumping on you when you have a fall. it s risen, and it s personal, and it hurts, and yet people go into this business facing it because there s still some scum around to be honest, who really deal in this stuff. they deal in dirt on people. accusing a guy you have jewish, it s irrelevant, we have no religious test in this country. that s a fact of our constitution, and yet some character pushing the story thinking it s going to hurt the guy, it doesn t shock me it s a little out of date, but doesn t shock me. i think what s important is if we want decency in public life, we have to be decent. if we want courage in public life, twoef bring courage. if you know, there s this great quotation from ralph waldo emerson that what you do thunders so loudly that i can t hear what you say.
happening is secret waiting lists putting people on. people were being denied care. people were dying because of secret waiting lists. why didn t how did these concrete secret lists come to light? why didn t president obama know about them? why didn t president obama act on it. i don t know why congress didn t know. they came to light from pretty strong whistle blowers came forward and said this is happening at the v.a. and the dam broke. congress is on top of it and bringing it to the attention of the howard k. stern people. look, general shinseki is a great guy. a hospital administrator to come in or the ceo of a company. somebody who knows how to fix a backlog and get this done. just doesn t have to be someone who has a military background. how about eric holder the attorney general of the united states convening a lot of grand juries because when you start fooling around like that, and when you start falsifying records for bonuses, you are stealing money from the taxpayer