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IT SEEMS JOE BIDEN WAS TRYING TO
REACH PAST CONGRESS TO
REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENCE IN
THE COUNTRY.
>> I THOUGHT IT WAS A REMARKABLE
SPEECH AS DID HE IN HIS
INAUGURAL HE TALKED ABOUT WHITE
SUPREMACY BEING THE REAL THREAT
THE WORST TERROR THREAT TO
AMERICA.
>> HE IS REALLY TRYING TO BRING
THE COUNTRY TOGETHER.
IT WAS A MAKE AMERICA FEEL GOOD
NIGHT.
MAKE AMERICA FEEL PRIDE NIGHT.
STEVE: THERE YOU GO SOME IN THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA WASTE NOTHING
TIME HEAPING PRAISE ON JOE BIDEN
AFTER HIS FIRST ADDRESS TO
CONGRESS FOR REACTION, LET’S GO
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND THE
HILL MEDIA OPINION COLUMNIST JOE
CONCHA.
JOE, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> GOOD MORNING, HAPPY THURSDAY,
STEVE.
STEVE: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
NOT SURPRISING.
WHAT WAS SURPRISING WAS THE
CHANGE IN TONE OF MANY OF THE
SAME COMMENTATORS FROM LAST
YEAR.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS DONE WITH
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS,
MAN, THEY HATED THAT.
BUT THEY LOVED JOE LAST NIGHT.
>> SURE, I’M GLAD YOU PLAYED
MARTHA RADDATZ FROM WILL 2016
ELECTION NIGHT NEARLY ON THE
VERGE OF TEARS ONCE PENNSYLVANIA
WAS CALLED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.
LAST NIGHT MAKE AMERICA FEEL
GOOD AGAIN.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEBODY FEEL
THAT JUBILANT 2016 IN MY OWN
HOUSEHOLD.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER
AUGUST OF 2020, STEVE, WHEN VAN
JONES OF CNN CANDIDLY SAID THIS
BEFORE JOE BIDEN’S SPEECH AT THE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.
QUOTE: WE WERE PREPARED FOR IT
TO BE A TERRIBLE SPEECH, BUT AS
LONG AS HE DIDN’T EMBARRASS
HIMSELF, WE WERE GOING TO COME
OUT HERE AND PRAISE IT.
AND AS SURE AS THE SUN ROSE IN
THE EAST TODAY, CBS, MSNBC, ABC
ALL PRAISED IT AND CNN AND "THE
WASHINGTON POST" AND "NEW YORK
TIMES" JUXTAPOSED THAT WITH
SENATOR TIM SCOTT AND REPUBLICAN
REBUTTAL.
AS SURE AS BIRDS FLY SOUTH FOR
THE WINTER TIM SCOTT CHERNOBYL
PERSONALLY ATTACKED.
THAT HAPPENED.
ARE WE SURPRISED BY THIS ANY
MORE.
STEVE?
STEVE: YOU SET UP A SOUNDBITE WE
HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL.
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE G.O.P.
RESPONSE.
HERE IS SENATOR TIM SCOTT FROM
SOUTH CAROLINA.
>> I HAVE ALSO EXPERIENCED A
DIFFERENT KIND OF INTOLERANCE.
I GET CALLED UNCLE TOM AND THE
"N" WORD BY PROGRESSIVES.
BY LIBERALS.
JUST LAST WEEK A NATIONAL
NEWSPAPER SUGGESTED MY FAMILY’S
POVERTY WAS ACTUALLY PRIVILEGE.
THE BECAUSE A RELATIVE OWNED
LAND GENERATIONS BEFORE MY TIME.
BELIEVE ME, I KNOW FIRSTHAND OUR
HEALING IS NOT FINISHED.
STEVE: WELL, THE NATIONAL
NEWSPAPER HE WAS REFERRING TO
WAS "THE WASHINGTON POST" AND
THE HEADLINE ON THAT ARTICLE
APRIL 23RD WAS TIM SCOTT OFTEN
TALKS ABOUT HIS GRANDFATHER AND
COTTON.
THERE IS MORE TO THE TALE.
SO, JOE, WHAT WAS IN THAT
PARTICULAR REPORT?
>> IT WAS A FACT CHECK ON TIM
SCOTT’S ANCESTRY BASICALLY
SAYING WELL, HIS BLACK ANCESTORS
DIDN’T QUITE HAVE IT AS BAD AS
OTHERS AND WE WILL DIG INTO THIS
AS TO WHY.
YOU ASK THIS RHETORICAL
QUESTION.
WOULD THAT EVER HAVE BEEN DONE
TO A DEMOCRATIC BLACK SENATOR
LIKE A CORY BOOKER OR RAPHAEL
WARNOCK?
OF COURSE IT WOULDN’T.
AND TIM SCOTT LAST NIGHT, YOU
HAVE GOT TO HEAR THIS.
THIS WAS NICOLLE WALLACE ON
MSNBC WHO SAID THIS, QUOTE:
OPERATION WARP SPEED DIDN’T DO
ANYTHING TO GET A NEEDLE IN THE
ARMS.
SO A LOT OF DISINFORMATION FROM
TIM SCOTT.
WAIT A MINUTE, I’M PRETTY SURE
THAT THERE WERE THREE VACCINES
THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THIS
ADMINISTRATION INHERITED ON DAY
ONE GOING INTO THIS PARTICULAR
FOUR YEAR TENURE.
TO SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN
FACT CHECKING TIM SCOTT, IF YOU
ARE NICOLLE WALLACE WHO
APPARENTLY WAS A REPUBLICAN ONCE
BY ALSO SAYING THIS IS A SPEECH
DELIVERED FROM A PLANET WHERE
FACTS DON’T MATTER.
THAT’S VERY INTERESTING.
BUT, OVER ALL, YOU WANT TO TALK
ABOUT FACTS, IN TERMS OF
PRESIDENT BIDEN, HE TALKED ABOUT
HOW HE TRAVELED 17,000 MILES
PRESIDENT XI.
THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
HE SAID THE JANUARY 6TH CAPITOL
RIOTS WERE, QUOTE, THE WORST
ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY SINCE
THE CIVIL WAR.
WHY DON’T YOU TELL THAT TO
PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WERE AROUND
FOR PEARL HARBOR OR 9/11 THAT
WAS 20 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE LOST
LIVES IN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON
AND PENNSYLVANIA MORE THAN
3,000.
YOU ARE SAYING THAT THE CAPITOL
RIOTS WHICH WERE HORRIBLE ON
JANUARY 6TH EVEN REMOTELY
COMPARED TO THOSE TWO EVENTS.
COME ON, MAN, TO QUOTE JOE
BIDEN.
STEVE: INDEED.
YOU MENTIONED NICOLLE WALLACE.
WE HAVE ANOTHER MONTAGE OF
COMMENTATORS TALKING ABOUT TIM
SCOTT AND AS MUCH AS THEY LOVED
JOE BIDEN, THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE
REPUBLICAN RESPONSE.
WATCH THIS.
>> THE MESSENGER WAS GREAT.
BUT THE MESSAGE WAS NONSENSE.
[LAUGHTER]
THE SPEECH DELIVERED FROM A
PLANET WHERE FACTS DON’T MATTER
WHICH IS WHERE THE CURRENT
REPUBLICAN PARTY RESIDES.
>> I’M NOT SURE WHAT THE PURPOSE
OF THIS WAS.
I AM SHOCKED AND A BIT
EMBARRASSED FOR HIM.
THIS WAS A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
TIM SCOTT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO
MAKE HIS MARK ON CRIMINAL
JUSTICE REFORM AND THIS AIN’T
GOING TO DO IT.
THIS WASN’T IT.
STEVE: THAT WASN’T IT, SHE SAYS,
JOE.
>> YEAH, A LOST OPPORTUNITY I
BELIEVE IS WHAT JOY REID SAID
THE LOST OPPORTUNITY WAS THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
NOT ADDRESSING WHAT WAS -- IS
RIGHT NOW THE BIGGEST CRISIS
THAT IS A CATASTROPHE AT OUR
SOUTHERN BORDER.
DIDN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT THIS
MIGRANT SURGE WHERE WE HAVE
20,000 UNACCOMPANIED MINORS
CURRENTLY IN U.S. CUSTODY.
THAT WAS THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY
LAST NIGHT, STEVE.
STEVE: AND IT TOOK NEARLY AN
HOUR BEFORE HE EVEN BROUGHT UP
IMMIGRATION.
ALL RIGHT, JOE, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU, STEVE.
HAVE A GOOD ONE AND CONGRATS ON