neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. ., ~ , ., neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. your - neil degrasse tyson, welcome to hardtalk. your day i hardtalk. thank you. your day “ob as hardtalk. thank you. your day job as being hardtalk. thank you. your day job as being an hardtalk. thank you. your day job as being an astrophysicist, | job as being an astrophysicist, but you also one of america s leading champions for science. so you tell me why there appears to be such a strain of scepticism among so many americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. i americans toward the basics of scientific knowledge. scientific knowledge. i don t have a good scientific knowledge. i don t have a good answer- scientific knowledge. i don t have a good answer for- scientific knowledge. i don t have a good answer for thatj have a good answer for that anai poked around in the ether for what could be behind it and i m going to give what sounds like an easy sort of copout answer, a
feenstra for congress.com. listen, this would affect you. when leader mccarthy was asked if king should resign, he said the voters of his district make those decisions. hugh would that happen other than your race in 2020, or is there some sort of a mechanism for a recall? well, there is not a mechanism for a recall. again, he s got to decide what he wants to do. does he want to step aside and allow somebody else to have the opportunity to have a new face in congress? i just look at it and hope he makes the right decision. do you believe that congressman steve king is racist or holds racist views? i think that his actions and his comments, they speak for themselves. and each voter has to make that decision as we move forward. but that s not an answer. i mean honestly i think that s a copout answer. do you believe it or not because sure. i ll tell you this. i think that what he said what s abhorrent, and there s no place for those type of comments in
congressman steve king is racist or holds racist views? i think that his actions and his comments, they speak for themselves. and each voter has to make that decision as we move forward. but that s not an answer. i mean honestly i think that s a copout answer. do you believe it or not because sure. i ll tell you this. i think that what he said what s abhorrent, and there s no place for those type of comments in our society today. there s no place for that in our nation. mm-hmm. why do you think he keeps getting re-elected, then? well, i think over the last 16 years, there was a difference in congressman king than there was in the last several years. and that has changed, and that s what has really pushed me to get in the race and to run. mm-hmm. after the last election, after some things that came out in the last election, i think everybody saw in the fourth district that maybe it s an opportunity to now have a fresh face, a new opportunity for a good fiscal conservativ
refused to given him a chance to get a hearing and they did support president trump s nominee and justice gorsuch is now sitting on the supreme court. it s been an eventful 100 days. it s as frustrating as you would expect, but not more so. his is your 100 day mark. what grade do you give him? much of the enthusiasm albeit in the markets or small business is about promises and the idea of deregulation, but none of which details what we ve seen. it s a comeout. an incomplete. nope. you have to give a grade. incomplete is a copout answer. probably a c. it s a c because we don t know. you could elevate the grade and say it s a helluva lot better than a c. the other thing, there s two accomplishments he would have. one would undoubtedly be the supreme court. two, i would be curious of your take on this, i believe a lot of
washington post assistant editor, david swerdlick. matt, in effect, president obama picking two fights here, one with hillary clinton, at least throwing a jab that way, but at donald trump saying, listen, if i d gone up against you, i would have taken you down. yeah. i would have been able to keep that what a good political athlete should believe. yeah. whether it s true or not. is it true? one of the counterfactuals, would joe louis beat muhammad ali? they re both heavy weights. i think very clearly barack obama is a much more charismatic, more talented politician than hillary clinton so my copout answer i think, though, is this. if it s 2012, i think barack obama would have been re-elected and would have beat donald trump. by the time you get around to 2016 as donald trump s tweet said, you have things like isis, look at the brexit vote, i think things were trending in donald trump s direction. i m not so sure barack obama would have beat him. angela rye, do you t