jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former president speak for 90 minutes at times trump taking credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well who perhaps has not workeds nearly as hard will not be taking your place on a school, college or at a university they re not going to be we re going by merit back to old merit stham built our country. trump s competitors in the meantime attacking him on multiple front seat nikki haley former south carolina governor said she expected trump s high poll numbers
fewer people died on the operating table when you do it that way. for generations this is how american society ran. if you were smart and work target could compete against anyone else in america. it was true. it was called the american dream. people moved here from all over the world to partake in that system. but there was a pearl about direct political problem with it. if you have a meritocratic society it s hard to play baseball text because race plays no part in advancement. group interests are irrelevant in a meritocracy. it may sound idyllic to you, the kind of country level event. but for the democratic party it was disaster. how do you get your odors to the pulse of they re not racially grieved? it s hard. so that the tail end of the civil rights movement, democrats introduced a new concept: they called it affirmative-action. the idea was to punish or reward americans based on the color of his cabin. ironically this was precisely the evil practice of the civil rights
plus, it works well.people fewer people die on the operating table when you do it that way.when you do it for generations. this is how american society ran. if you were smart and you worked hard, you could compete. i m pretty much equal footing against anyone else in america.. they tell you that was neverallh true, but it was true. it was called the american o dream. the re moved here from allver oe the world to partake in that system. but there was a political problem with it. if you ve gooutt a mérida kraddc society, it s pretty hard to play race politics because raced to plays no role in advancement. individual initiative is what matters. group interests are irrelevant in a meritocracy. now,group in that may sound idyc to you. it may sound like the kind of country you d want to live in, but for the democraticcrat party, it was a disaster.ic p get your voters to the polls if they re not racially aggrieved? it s harde of. so at the tail end of the civilo rights move
jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former president speak for 90 minutes at times trump taking credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well who perhaps has not workeds nearly as hard will not be taking your place on a school, college or at a university they re not going to be we re going by merit back to old
get into boarding school who then need to be the same groups who benefited getting into college, then graduate school, the same people who benefit from it in the professional work for us. if it was working you wouldn t need it at every step of the cascade? nobody makes a case for affirmative-action in the nba. nobody makes in the case for affirmative-action in the nfl because they know that would ruin basketball and it would ruin football. none of us would want to watch it. what we think it s any different when it comes to science or engineering? i ll tell you, that s exactly what s happening in our culture. we have an assault on meritocracy and an assault on excellence. i think it s an assault on the american soul. we need to put the merit back in america. we are at risk of losing the american dream unless we and affirmative-action which the supreme court has an opportunity to do right now.