Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 10, 2022


Ep 658 ｜ Cheap Insulin Propaganda & Redeeming America ｜ Guest： Senator Tim Scott


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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. All right, today we are talking about Republicans
00:00:06.460 voting against a price cap on insulin. Is that really true or is there more to the story?
00:00:14.300 We will also be talking to Senator Tim Scott. You're probably seeing his name in the news
00:00:19.960 right now. He's got a lot to say. As always, this episode is brought to you by our friends
00:00:25.720 at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie for American Meat Deliver. That's
00:00:30.900 goodranchers.com slash Allie. All right, I first want to talk about the thing that you guys have
00:00:45.720 been messaging me about, which is this headline that the GOP blocked an insulin price cap. So
00:00:54.120 this is the same kind of deal that we talked about a couple weeks ago when you were hearing
00:00:58.580 that Republicans blocked access to birth control and that they also tried to make it illegal to allow
00:01:08.700 gay people to get married. We debunked those claims. Then we're going to debunk this claim now.
00:01:15.340 Always when you hear something that is too good to be true for the other side or too bad to be true
00:01:20.660 about Republicans, there's always another side of the story. And that's probably true in general,
00:01:26.580 but particularly when it comes to things that Republicans do simply because the media
00:01:31.220 leans so far to the left that you can almost always bet that they're not telling the full story in their
00:01:38.260 headlines. And a lot of you are seeing these posts shared on Instagram, these graphics saying
00:01:43.940 Republicans voted against making insulin cheaper. They hate diabetics. They're not pro-life. All of
00:01:50.760 this stuff, of course, but it's missing a lot of context and it's missing a lot of explanation.
00:01:55.860 So let me tell you how the Hill describes what went down and why people are talking about Republicans
00:02:02.400 voting against this price cap. So their headline is Democrats failed to overrule parliamentarian
00:02:07.020 on insulin price cap as GOP votes no. So Senate Democrats fell short of an effort Sunday to
00:02:14.180 overrule a decision by the parliamentarian that effectively struck down a proposal sponsored by
00:02:18.680 Senator Raphael Warnock to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 a month for people not covered by
00:02:26.280 Medicare. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, the ranking member of the budget
00:02:30.740 committee, sought to enforce the parliamentarian's ruling that Warnock's cap on insulin prices
00:02:34.800 violated the Byrd rule because it would set prices in the commercial market and therefore
00:02:39.580 couldn't pass with a simple majority vote. Senate Democrats insisted on a vote to waive the
00:02:43.820 procedural objection to put Republican senators on record, including Senator Ron Johnson,
00:02:49.240 Republican from Wisconsin, the most vulnerable member of the GOP conference, on the record as
00:02:53.660 opposing a popular proposal to rein in insulin prices. So they broke the rules. They broke the
00:02:59.360 budgetary rules. They broke the procedural rules. And the parliamentarian of the Senate tried to enforce
00:03:07.460 that rule. And Democrats tried to overrule it to make sure that they could get Republicans on the record
00:03:12.720 voting against the price caps on insulin. Why? Because it is politically advantageous to them. Of course,
00:03:19.500 this goes both ways. Republicans do this to Democrats. But you never see the widespread vitriol
00:03:24.740 when an amendment or any kind of bill is pushed by Republicans that the Democrats vote no on. You
00:03:34.120 just don't see the mainstream media reporting on it the way that they report negatively on Republicans.
00:03:39.700 You don't see those flashy Instagram graphics going around saying, wow, how terrible it is
00:03:44.560 that Democrats voted against this. There are a lot of amendments that that Republicans tried to add to
00:03:51.360 this latest so-called inflation reduction act that were turned down, that were blocked
00:03:57.660 by Democrats. Amendments to secure our border, amendments to try to protect American manufacturing,
00:04:05.320 to try to limit new audits by the IRS to people who make a significant amount of money rather than the
00:04:14.020 IRS going after working class people. And Democrats voted against all of those things. And you probably
00:04:19.120 didn't even know that unless you are paying attention to conservative media, because again,
00:04:23.340 you just don't see the widespread mainstream reaction to the Democrats votes that you see to
00:04:29.000 Republicans votes. Now, some Republicans, many Republicans do actually oppose price caps as a rule,
00:04:37.800 as a principle, because they believe that it is actually just going to push the cost somewhere else.
00:04:45.980 So it's not actually going to lower the cost. If you artificially say, which is what a price
00:04:50.820 cap is, it's an artificial limit of how much something can cost. So if the government says
00:04:56.040 you can only charge this month, well, the companies, including insurance companies, they're going to
00:05:01.120 find another way to make up for that money. And the Washington Post, to their credit, actually does
00:05:06.660 report this, even if their headline leans left. So the Washington Post says this,
00:05:11.640 many Republicans have opposed a $35 cap, saying the measure did not address the root problem of
00:05:17.640 skyrocketing insulin prices. Instead, they said it would force insurance companies to pass on the
00:05:23.780 cost through premiums, which is absolutely true. And so it might seem like you are paying less when it
00:05:30.640 comes to insulin, but you are actually going to end up paying the same because the insurance companies
00:05:35.580 are just going to shift that cost around. National Review has an article that discusses price caps
00:05:44.060 on insulin and why competition in this market, not price caps, are actually the answer, and therefore
00:05:50.220 why Republicans are actually right to vote against the price cap, even including consideration of the
00:05:58.640 fact that Democrats broke the rules and all of that. Even without that, Republicans would be correct
00:06:03.860 to vote against something like this because ultimately it doesn't make a positive difference
00:06:07.780 in the lives of people who have diabetes and need insulin.
00:06:21.480 So here's what National Review says. The Insulin Act aims to tackle this problem by capping the price
00:06:27.180 of insulin at $35 a month. Insulin affordability is a worthy goal, but the Insulin Act puts a band-aid
00:06:33.320 over a bullet hole. Any legislation aimed at reducing insulin prices will be ineffective
00:06:39.780 until legislators enact a structural overhaul to remove the administrative bloat surrounding
00:06:45.440 insulin production. The big three insulin producers have been protected from biosimilar competition,
00:06:51.800 allowing them to halt innovation while raising prices. So again, big government is actually the
00:06:56.360 problem here, not the solution. Like generics, biosimilars are created to mimic another drug called the
00:07:02.140 reference drug. The primary difference between the generics and biosimilars is that generics can be exact
00:07:06.740 copies of the reference drug because they are mimicking chemical compounds, while biosimilars can
00:07:11.420 only be highly similar since the reference drug is made of a living organism. And so this is being
00:07:18.200 restricted when it comes to insulin producers. National Review's argument, which I happen to agree with,
00:07:24.700 is that we must allow competition in the market. Anyone who has taken a basic course on economics,
00:07:30.740 or if you've read anything by Thomas Sowell, you know that an increase of options, an increase of
00:07:36.400 competition is going to lower the prices. Of course, that's how you compete. But if you don't have any
00:07:41.740 competition, and so people with diabetes have to rely on these three products, these three companies to get
00:07:49.020 the insulin that they depend on to survive, then of course, they are going to pay anything. And these
00:07:55.100 companies know that they can charge anything because you rely on them for your life. So you increase
00:08:00.800 competition, you allow for these competitors to come in and to offer similar or replicas of the product,
00:08:09.840 and you will lower the prices. So that is why in principle, many Republicans vote against price
00:08:15.800 controls, not just when it comes to insulin, but in this case, when it comes to insulin. Now,
00:08:21.200 when Trump was in office, he tried to lower the cost of insulin. This is according to the Washington
00:08:26.800 Post. In 2020, President Donald Trump claimed that he had drastically lowered the price of insulin.
00:08:31.360 Insulin, it's going to, it was destroying families, destroying people, the cost, Trump said in a
00:08:35.480 debate. I'm getting it for so cheap. It's like water, very Trumpian statement. Trump signed an
00:08:41.560 executive order to lower the price of insulin as one of his final health care acts.
00:08:45.520 And we'll link that executive order. You can read it for yourself. The ruling was narrow,
00:08:50.300 experts said, and would have lowered the cost of insulin for certain patients who go to certain
00:08:53.920 federally qualified health centers. Okay, but maybe you say something is better than nothing if you
00:08:59.800 agree with the logic of his executive order. Well, that was rescinded by the Biden administration
00:09:04.640 as soon as he got into office. So that was apparently lowering the cost for some patients. And as soon as
00:09:10.340 Biden got into office, the Washington Post said, uh, he rescinded the executive order.
00:09:18.320 So there we are. That's the truth of it. That's the context of it. There are a lot of different
00:09:24.620 reasons why Republicans may oppose it. Of course, this is a political gimmick as Democrats often do,
00:09:29.660 as both parties often do, but more successfully and effectively and loudly Democrats do is try to
00:09:34.740 hold Republicans to a vote that they know that they can't support because it's not a good piece
00:09:40.400 of legislation. And then they get shellacked in the media for not supporting something. And the easy
00:09:48.860 headline and the easy kind of piece of emotional manipulation is simply, well, Republicans don't
00:09:55.640 want diabetics to be able to get their insulin. And so always, again, when something seems too good
00:10:01.220 or too bad to be true, you dig into it and you ask questions. Is this really true? What really
00:10:06.420 happened here? And that's not always easy to find. I was trying to figure this out last night because I
00:10:11.460 have been around long enough to know that there was like more to the story. And I was trying to figure
00:10:16.620 out, OK, what really happened? I had to ask people on Twitter, what's the truth about this? And
00:10:21.400 thankfully, I got a lot of responses and people pointing me in the right direction. But, you know,
00:10:26.940 if I'm doing this as a job and I find it difficult to find the truth behind these kind of scandalous
00:10:33.080 headlines, then I understand that it's hard for you, too. But of course, that is part of why I exist
00:10:37.460 to kind of help you break that down. All right. News. There's so much news. News that we are not
00:10:43.980 going to be able to get into today is that a sitting congressperson was his phone was taken by the FBI
00:10:54.480 is Scott Perry, Congressman Scott Perry. He is apparently under investigation for a possible
00:11:04.040 connection to January 6th. And what they're saying was an attempt to overturn the results of the
00:11:10.280 election. I mean, on the heels of what happened to Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago home, which we
00:11:16.100 talked about yesterday. I mean, this is kind of scary stuff. This, again, seems like a weaponized DOJ.
00:11:22.240 And I'm interested to know what Republicans are actually going to do about it. We're not just
00:11:27.540 talking about grandstanding. Like, what are you actually going to do about it? Now, Senator Tim
00:11:32.400 Scott from South Carolina, he is on the show today. However, however, this interview was filmed last
00:11:42.820 week and it was focused on his book. Now, Senator Scott is in some hot water for comments that he made
00:11:51.220 on CBS about the investigation and about or about the the raid on Trump's home and about the DOJ.
00:11:59.940 So here he is saying that this is about the FBI. This is going to raise more questions. In my opinion,
00:12:05.820 we need to let this play out and see exactly what happens. But we should all have been stunned and
00:12:10.460 surprised and shocked at what happened yesterday. The real question is, A, what is the Federal
00:12:16.220 Records Act? And B, what are we talking about? It has to be something of incredible magnitude
00:12:23.280 for at least my side of the aisle to say that was warranted. Without that, I think we're going
00:12:29.520 to find ourselves in a very big mess as it relates to the credibility of the FBI.
00:12:35.820 So you don't have any concern that they're going to find anything at the Mar-a-Lago site?
00:12:38.980 Well, I think we should really, as opposed to rushing the judgment, the most important thing
00:12:43.160 that we can do is let it play out. So as you can imagine, a lot of conservatives are giving a
00:12:46.940 negative reaction to that. It might seem like it's an innocuous statement, but I think a lot of people
00:12:51.820 are looking for Republicans to say, this is too far. This is too much. There is politicization of this
00:12:58.080 and we need to investigate the investigators. We need to rein in the power of the DOJ, the power of
00:13:06.160 Merrick Garland, the power of the FBI, and ensure that it's not used as a political weapon. At the
00:13:13.140 very least, I think that is what people are looking for when it comes to Republicans. Because when you're
00:13:18.940 looking at a red wave in November, there's not much point of a red wave if you feel like the
00:13:25.520 Republicans who are in charge are not fighting on your behalf and fighting against the corruption
00:13:29.520 that you see as a threat, not just to the potential Republican nominee in 2024, but also against
00:13:36.440 you. That's what we talked about yesterday, that what happened to Trump is a reflection of what I
00:13:41.440 think the federal government that has been weaponized by progressives wants to do to you,
00:13:47.380 especially with all of their new IRS agents. And so I think that's what people were looking
00:13:52.260 looking for Senator Tim Scott to say. Now, I'm very thankful that Senator Scott came on my show and
00:14:01.820 that he is promoting his book. I wish that I had him on actually live today because I would have
00:14:07.180 asked him about this. I would be really interested to hear his further explanation and what was meant
00:14:14.680 by the comments that he made on CBS. Unfortunately, I don't have that opportunity, but it's still a great
00:14:19.420 interview. It's still really, his book that we're talking about is still really fascinating. I think
00:14:25.120 you're going to like what he has to say.
00:14:38.420 Senator Scott, thanks so much for joining us. I'm so excited to talk to you today.
00:14:43.380 Thank you. It's good to be with you, Allie.
00:14:44.820 Yeah. So before we get into your book, I just kind of want to get your analysis on the state
00:14:50.660 of the country. 85% of Americans, according to a poll published at the end of June, say that the
00:14:56.520 country is headed in the wrong direction. 92% of our party Republicans, 78% of Democrats. So we might
00:15:03.840 disagree on why the country is headed in the wrong direction, but we do agree that it is not going the
00:15:08.740 right way. Why do you think that is? And do you think we can turn it around?
00:15:12.920 Well, I'll start with the latter first. We could absolutely turn it around. I think we'll start
00:15:18.080 turning it around in November of this year when we take majority in the House and the majority in
00:15:23.380 the Senate. Without any question, elections have consequences. And one of the things that people
00:15:29.300 are feeling, especially on the left, is buyer's remorse. The bottom line is a simple one that when
00:15:34.100 you look at the state of our economy, when you understand and appreciate the negative impact of
00:15:39.440 inflation. And when you go to the gas pump and you realize, oh my gosh, under President Trump and
00:15:45.780 the Republicans, it was $1.99 in South Carolina. Now it's almost $4 a gallon. Something is really
00:15:53.180 wrong. You look at the global stage and you come to the conclusion, especially on the right, and I
00:15:59.280 believe on the left as well. My goodness gracious, can President Biden not get it right somewhere
00:16:05.900 around the world? And the answer is, no, he can't, nor has he. And so whether you're suffering buyer's
00:16:14.380 remorse on the left, or if you are on the right and you're saying, yeah, this is exactly what you
00:16:20.480 should expect from this administration. When you add $4 trillion of spending, and yet the average
00:16:28.600 person in our country has less money for their own priorities, this is a terrible consequence of
00:16:37.020 bad leadership, bad policies, and the combination makes bad politics in November for the Democrats.
00:16:44.080 Good news, the cavalry is coming. November is going to be the start of something brand new in this
00:16:51.600 country, and I'm excited to play a role in that. Yeah. Tell us what that looks like if and when
00:16:56.560 Republicans take the majority in the House and the Senate, what are the priorities for turning
00:17:01.280 the ship around? You know, think about one of the most important issues that we face today,
00:17:06.500 the issue of education. A good education is the closest thing to magic in America. One of the things
00:17:13.940 that we learned in the Commonwealth of Virginia just last year, last election cycle, is that parents
00:17:19.420 are a necessity in education. We should be the party of parents. We should literally stand up
00:17:26.060 and shout from the mountaintops that we are here on behalf of parents because we want parents back
00:17:32.780 in charge of their child's education. We should do what we did from 2016 to 2020. We passed the most
00:17:39.020 inclusive economic packages the country's ever seen. One of those was, of course, the 2017 tax cuts.
00:17:46.720 Another example were the opportunity zones that I helped to pass through. Another one was the work
00:17:52.740 that we did on education on HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities. What we proved to
00:17:58.380 Americans is that the Great Opportunity Party, we lead from the front. We take all of America into
00:18:05.780 consideration and we pass policies that help our rural voters and our rural constituents, as well as
00:18:12.520 those suffering and marginalized communities in big blue cities. We are the engine that makes America
00:18:19.160 great. Hmm. And a lot of people are hungry for that. They're hungry to see that come to fruition.
00:18:27.940 And they're hoping that everything that you are talking about will be manifested. But as we just
00:18:35.160 talked about a couple minutes ago, a lot of Americans are feeling pessimistic. Maybe they're even feeling
00:18:40.320 hopeless. And that's a lot of what you talk about in your book, why Americans should not feel
00:18:45.620 hopeless. That America is, has been a story of redemption. And from your perspective, it still is and can be
00:18:53.740 that we still have a long way to go and the road ahead can be really good and unified. I got to say, it's hard
00:18:59.540 for me to see that way forward sometimes. So tell us about this book and the picture that you paint for us.
00:19:06.040 Well, one of the things that you just said is so important is that we should see America as the solution,
00:19:11.780 not the problem. One of the things you'll learn in the book, my book, America Redemption Story,
00:19:17.700 you'll learn about the keys to overcoming the greatest obstacles and turning those obstacles
00:19:23.660 into opportunities. You'll learn about how failure can actually lead to your greatest success.
00:19:29.740 And you'll learn about the fact that problems sometimes are disguised for real promise that is
00:19:36.840 in your future. What we've seen as a country is we've seen America struggle with our greatest
00:19:42.740 challenges and our greatest sins. And as a result of our challenges and our sins, we have actually
00:19:48.900 rose to be an even better nation. We are the city on the hill. We are that bright, shining light,
00:19:56.360 the beacon that hope is eternal on earth. If we do the things that are necessary as individuals
00:20:04.480 to make for a better nation. And it's one of the reasons why you and I as conservatives,
00:20:09.500 we know that the bedrock of this nation is a Judeo-Christian foundation. The story of redemption
00:20:15.520 is a story of faith, but it's not just my faith in the good Lord. It's also my faith in America.
00:20:21.120 It's my faith in my fellow Americans. The truth is that we as a people can do all the things expected
00:20:28.580 and even more. We are an exceptional people, but we need to know how that happens.
00:20:33.540 Yeah. Tell us a little bit as you write in your book and as I've heard you talk about before of
00:20:38.600 the story of redemption in your own personal life. Tell us about your upbringing and really
00:20:43.080 what started to shape you as a young person into the person, the senator that you are today.
00:20:50.540 Yeah. One of the most important parts of my upbringing was when my parents got divorced,
00:20:56.820 we moved in with my grandparents. We small house, 700 square feet, North Charleston, South Carolina,
00:21:03.420 mired in poverty and hopelessness. But my grandparents were resilient. The most important
00:21:10.000 lesson I learned in my young formative years was the power of freedom and the power of choice.
00:21:17.600 My grandfather chose to set for me and my brother, an example of a man reading the newspaper every single
00:21:24.620 day because he understood the power of being informed. I saw that one day, I saw it a thousand
00:21:32.140 days while I was in that house. Unfortunately, what I learned 15 years later was that my grandfather
00:21:38.600 could actually not read, but he was willing to set the example that all things are possible
00:21:45.920 to those who actually invest themselves. And he was denied that opportunity as a young person,
00:21:51.900 but he wanted to never be a victim. He wanted us to never be victims. He wanted us to carpe diem,
00:21:58.500 to seize the opportunities of the day. And a major part of those opportunities was the opportunity of
00:22:04.300 education. And so I'm a passionate believer in quality education in every zip code in this country.
00:22:12.220 Another thing that you will find in the book, America Redemption Story, is how my mother shepherded
00:22:18.900 me through some really hard times that as a woman who works 16 hours a day, three days a week,
00:22:25.340 eight hours a day, two days a week, she felt like it was her responsibility to prove to her two sons
00:22:31.420 that there is dignity in all work. It is a lesson that we need today, perhaps more than we have
00:22:39.040 in any other time in my lifetime. The muscle of work has atrophied in this country,
00:22:45.180 and we need to restore our faith and confidence that you can earn it.
00:23:00.900 You talk about in your book that two things helped define you and helped shape you,
00:23:06.440 buck teeth and football. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
00:23:09.560 Yes, yes, ma'am. Well, football was the fun part of the story, and buck teeth was the tougher part
00:23:15.640 of the story. But let's talk about the buck teeth first. As a high school student, I had two front
00:23:22.700 teeth that did not like each other. One was going to the left, Allie Beth, and the other one was going
00:23:27.640 to the right. And I will tell you that it is very uncomfortable having two front teeth that don't
00:23:33.120 like each other. Hence, my nickname in high school was teat. My friends weren't very smart. They
00:23:38.400 couldn't say teeth. They just called me teet, T-E-E-T. And a part of the challenge of being
00:23:44.080 teased on a consistent basis is it does lower your self-esteem. It does have an impact on how you see
00:23:52.080 yourself. But once again, the pain of my past became the promise of my future. And I ran into a guy,
00:23:59.680 Dr. Monty S. Harrington, who was an orthodontist. I walked into his office and he said,
00:24:06.800 oh my, I think we can help you. Thank God he was right. And because of Dr. Harrington,
00:24:15.340 I sit here with a smile that I'm proud of. I look in the mirror and I'm so thankful that people who
00:24:21.320 didn't even know me that well were willing to offer me a hand up and not a handout. He said,
00:24:29.740 how much can you afford? And I gave him an amount. And he says, you owe that every single month.
00:24:35.600 But with that small amount, I will do the work up front. Had it not been for good Americans like
00:24:41.420 Dr. Monty S. Harrington, I would not be sitting here as a United States senator.
00:24:46.880 Football was my dream of buying my mom a house, of getting out of poverty and making something of
00:24:54.020 myself. My senior year, I had a major car accident that took away six or seven weeks of my senior
00:25:01.160 football season. The good news, once again, failure leading to success. The good news is
00:25:06.860 it was my freshman year in college at an FCA meeting that I found that football should only be
00:25:15.140 my game and Jesus should be my life. And it was that experience that was born out of pain and misery
00:25:22.800 that made me understand the value of giving before receiving of sowing before reaping and believing
00:25:31.340 that all things are possible. There's a lot that you're talking about that you write about in your
00:25:36.180 book, a variety of different trials and adversity that you endured that seems to parallel the fight
00:25:43.420 that you have had as a senator. Of course, all Republicans face hostile media to some extent.
00:25:51.600 You get a lot of different kinds of opposition. I remember there was an article a couple years ago
00:25:57.160 that came out about you basically saying that you don't have a genuine black experience or that
00:26:02.360 maybe you don't really sincerely know what it's like to be a black person in America. I'm sure that
00:26:08.900 you've gotten a lot of criticism like that that we haven't even seen publicly because it hasn't been
00:26:14.080 published. So tell me what that's like. I mean, how do you face and respond to that kind of such
00:26:21.720 personal and wrong criticism? You know, Ali, it is painful to be ostracized by parts of your own
00:26:30.360 natural community. But the truth is that it's the love of the Lord really has been able to heal my
00:26:37.820 wounds and help me understand that people who don't know you, their opinion doesn't matter nearly
00:26:43.240 as much as we sometimes give it credit for. And so my job as a believer, as a Christian,
00:26:51.040 is to Matthew 5, 40 for them, which is love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you,
00:26:57.100 and move on. I believe in the extra mile, so I have to give them an extra heaping of grace.
00:27:03.360 I believe in forgiveness, so I have to actually forgive according to Matthew 6.
00:27:07.260 So for me, what I've learned is to literally live out what I say I believe, because so often
00:27:14.000 it is frustrating to hear the comments and the negativity that comes from the left who want to
00:27:20.960 make me a caricature of a person so that they can have a heel in the story, someone who is responsible
00:27:28.560 for the things that go wrong. But here's, Ali, what they don't want the public to know.
00:27:33.940 What they don't want the public to know is how the Great Opportunity Party, the GOP,
00:27:40.480 delivered the highest level of funding in the history of historically black colleges and universities.
00:27:47.900 What they don't want the public to know is that it was our party, the conservative party,
00:27:53.680 that produced opportunity zones that led to the highest level of investment in the private sector,
00:28:00.160 perhaps in the history of our country, almost $75 billion committed. What they don't want you to
00:28:08.820 know is it's our party that led to more research, more development around sickle cell anemia,
00:28:16.040 a blood disorder that impacts African Americans nearly exclusively. They don't want you to know
00:28:22.240 that our party literally led to the most inclusive economy in the history of the country. They're
00:28:29.240 afraid of who we are when we are just being ourselves.
00:28:34.660 Right. Well, final question that I have for you. I saw this published online. It says,
00:28:39.660 a publisher, this is Posting Courier, publisher admits error, says Tim Scott did not okay a line
00:28:45.440 in book about the presidential bid. So what exactly happened there?
00:28:51.220 You know, I don't know. Honestly, the publisher made the decision not only to announce something
00:28:58.000 that I'm completely unaware of and announce it in the wrong year in 2022, as if there's something to
00:29:04.260 run for in 2022, except for, of course, my reelection. And so I think they may have just
00:29:09.740 been dreaming of a future that I have not been made aware of. And they conflated that with my
00:29:14.620 reelection in 2022. Well, there may be a lot of people that are dreaming up that future or looking
00:29:20.700 forward to see what's ahead for you. So thank you so much, America, a redemption story. I'm guessing
00:29:27.360 you can get it wherever books are sold. Highly, highly recommend people go out and get that right
00:29:33.260 now. Thank you so much, Senator Scott, for taking the time to talk to us today.
00:29:37.700 Absolutely. Thank you for your investment of time. And thank you for standing for truth
00:29:41.280 and the gospel way. Yes, sir. Thank you.
00:29:44.620 All right. I hope you enjoyed that little conversation. Again, I wish I could have asked him
00:29:59.960 about everything that is circulating in the news with his name right now and some of the pushback
00:30:05.200 that he has gotten next time. Maybe he'll come back on and we'll be able to discuss that.
00:30:09.120 But I wanted to end on a lighter note. I saw this video on Twitter. I thought that it was so sweet.
00:30:16.440 If you're just listening to this, this is like a little league or maybe a high school, middle school
00:30:24.140 baseball game. And the pitcher accidentally hits the batter in the head with a ball. He's all shaken up
00:30:33.380 from it. And then the batter comes and comforts the pitcher to try to kind of calm his nerves so he can
00:30:40.800 keep playing the game. I thought that this was a really sweet moment. Here it is.
00:30:44.880 Wow, that is a tough kid right there.
00:30:58.260 So this is really cool because as a pitcher, Bubz looks shaken up right now because of what he did.
00:31:23.160 And look at Zay Jarvis. This is such great sportsmanship. He wants him to know that it's
00:31:28.000 okay, that he'll be fine.
00:31:30.160 Hey, look at me. Look at me. You're all right. Amazing.
00:31:35.040 You're all right? Look at me.
00:31:43.620 I'm crying. Oh my gosh, what's wrong with me? I thought that was so sweet. I thought that was so
00:31:48.840 sweet. And I know some people were giving these boys a hard time. It was the little league
00:31:53.140 World Series, by the way. And I think I saw like Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports saying like,
00:31:58.480 this is stupid. You know what? I don't care. I think, of course, it is so important to have
00:32:05.140 tough masculinity for boys and men to have a good fight to fight, to have a family and community
00:32:11.740 to protect, for them to be courageous and strong. But that doesn't mean being emotionless.
00:32:17.520 That doesn't mean being callous. That doesn't mean being void of compassion. Actually, we need
00:32:23.840 men, yes, with the tough exterior, but also with a soft heart. And you know when to display and
00:32:30.400 demonstrate that soft heart. And so I loved that. Hey, good job to the mama of the boy that comforted
00:32:38.540 the picture. If I were her, I would be super proud. I just thought that that was so sweet. Guys,
00:32:44.220 there is still goodness in the world. There is still reason to rejoice in the good things that
00:32:52.140 God allows us to partake in. There is still always the opportunity to be kind and to show gentleness
00:32:59.900 and to show compassion. And so let us take every opportunity to do that and to simply do the next
00:33:06.500 right thing in faith. Because when all of these scary things are happening in the world, when it feels
00:33:11.360 like everything has come crashing down, God is still sovereign and he still calls us to the next
00:33:16.800 right thing. So good on those boys for demonstrating compassion and good sportsmanship. We'll be back
00:33:22.360 here tomorrow. We'll be with Jennifer Law, who is one of your favorite guests. She is an expert on
00:33:26.740 surrogacy and the reproductive industry. There have been lots of stories going on that involve that
00:33:32.060 subject. And so we're going to dig into it tomorrow. You're going to love it. I will see you then.
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