The next minute is yours. Thank you, judy, and i want to thank everyone here on the campus of Allen University. While i breathe, i hope, that is the motto of this great state in South Carolina. But it might as well be the theme of my entire life. I am the son of a teen mom i was , raised by grandparents, with a fourth grade and eighth grade education. I went to yale, i went to georgetown law school. I work on capitol hill, i worked on private sectors, and now i am a candidate for the United States senate. Excuse me if i pinch myself. I have lived the American Dream and spend my entire life fighting for others to make sure they do the same thing. We have been divided for too long. To me folks here in South Carolina lack the opportunity to tonight live the American Dream themselves. Tonight, you will probably hear from Lindsey Graham and he will scare you to vote for him, i hope tonight to inspire you to vote for me. Thank you, sir. Senator graham, you have one minute. Thank you very much for tuning in, thank you to Allen University thank you to everybody who has got me here. We are in difficult times. 2020 is the most incredible year. We have been a like no other time. Coronavirus has turned our state and our nation upside down. Mr. Harrison lost an aunt. The president of United States is in the hospital as i speak. We are going to get through this. When i was 21, my mom died and 15 months later my dad died and i was in charge of a 13yearold i made it, we have drug therapies that are working, mortality rates are going down. The vaccine is around the corner. This is a big choice election between me and mr. Harrison. ,apitalism versus socialism conservative judges versus liberal judges, law and order versus chaos. Thank you very much, gentlemen, thank you both for being here this evening. It is our hope and expectation to give our nation and our children and example of what civil discourse looks like and how to engage in passionate, but respectful debate. Senator graham, the first question to you and we will have mr. Harrison answer as well. In the last 24 hours, the list of Public Officials infected by covid19 has grown. People of faith and goodwill across our country are praying for everyone infected to make a full recovery, but it cannot be ignored or that many of the people who are infected attended large gatherings and completely disregarded the protocols put out by the cdc. The question is, how has politicization of the virus damaged our response federally and here in our state . Got thedent wilson spanish flu right after world war i. We live in such unusual times, i doubt if anybody attacked him. All i can say is that of the virus is a problem that came out of china, not trump tower. We are getting vaccines ready i think any month now. The drug therapies are working, the one thing i want people to know is that the virus is serious, but we have to move on as a nation. When a military member gets infected you do not shut down the whole unit, we are going to have a hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, it will be in safely. Ive got a job to do and the one thing i find, nobody asked me how are you doing when 200 people showed up not my house and broke my window. My liberal friends never mentioned the virus when people are roaming around the streets rioting and burning down top cars and breaking windows. It is a problem, it is a problem for the nation. It is something we are going to get through, but i promise you, we are not going to stop doing our job in washington. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, i promise you, we are going to get judge barrett on the court safely. Thank you, mr. Harrison, same question. This question is about the coronavirus, not judge barrett, not the Supreme Court. This has impacted me personally. My grand aunt gladys passed away this july in a nursing home, by herself. That is the story that so Many Americans are experiencing right now. Part of why we are experiencing it, no, we are not going to blame the president , we should not blame the president or anybody for the inception of this disease. Where blame it should come is how we handled this disease, whether or not we take it seriously. Tonight i am taking it seriously, that is why put this plexiglass up, it is not just about me, it is about people in my life. That i mother 700 50,000 people unemployed in South Carolina. We have had 3000 people die, lets0,000 infected take this issue seriously and do all we can to not only take care of ourselves, but each other. I want to ask a followup about the coronavirus and the impact here in South Carolina. Has askedcmaster south your line of schools to resume facetoface and structure. I have talked to parents and teachers who want to do the same if it is done safely, here is a concern, senator graham you and your colleagues i know you had a coronavirus test yesterday or today, you get your result in a matter of hours. Here in South Carolina, people are waiting days or sometimes more than a week to get results. We know how critical that is in terms of containing the virus. The question is, should we ask our teachers to return to class for five days face to face instruction without having access to widespread, Rapid Testing to quickly identify and contain those cases in schools . I think we should allow our parents to make a decision about what is best for their children. If a teacher does not want to go back to the classroom, i will not make them. I have supported legislation that increased unappointed benefits because people lost their job at no fault of their own, ive been trying to get our gloves, they were all in china back in america. And let american test outcome please make it here at home. One thing we are not going to do is shut the country down. We are going to open up safely. We are now getting back to business in South Carolina, shutting the country down has an effect of its own. Alcoholism, domestic violence, we are going to handle this virus. This issue about how to rebuild america, who do you trust, donald trump who gave you the best economy for the virus . Or do you trust liberal democrats . Let me tell you, the nightmares for our state, if the keep the house, take over the senate, and biden is pregnant president , god help us all. The most liberal agenda in the history of all american politics is coming out of the house to the senate, medicare for all. Takes away your private health care. Theyre going to stack the Supreme Court. Thank you very much. Same question to you, should we ask our teachers to return to facetoface instruction without having first having access to widespread Rapid Testing . As a father of two boys and one there is that is in first grade for the first time, it is hard. Teaching your kids from home is very difficult. Nobody has in appreciation of teachers that did not before the coronavirus, they better have an appreciation now. We need a strategy. A 50 state strategy. The failure of leadership, we are not blame anybody for the inception of this, but the failure of leadership. The senate failed to act. The white house failed to act. The governors failed to act. We need leaders who are going to step up and asked, we need testing here in South Carolina, we need to make sure we have a mandate for folks to wear their masks so we can bring down the transmission of this virus and then open our economy back up. Right now so many families have so many issues that they are dealing with. Unemployed000 people. Senator graham said over our dead bodies would we allow an extension of the unappointed benefit. Folks need that money, the Small Businesses me that money, but we need leadership in order to get things so necessary for our families to open back up. You, you have 45 seconds if you would like a rebuttal. I supported phase 3, but i said then if you pay people more not to work been to work, youre going to have a problem and it turned out to be true. It cunningham understands, has been really hard on hotels and restaurants to get back into business when you are paying people more to be unemployed than to be employed. I want to help people, i want to be responsible, i want to go back to school. We have passed a robust package, i am willing to do more, but ladies and gentlemen, this virus is going to pass. What kind of country are you going to have it liberal democrats win in the house, senate, and take over the white house . They are going to do away with Electoral College for new york and california to take your president. They are going to back this up in court, that is what is at stake. Followup,sk you a you say this issue is about paying people more when they are not working versus what they earned by going to their job. The governor said protocols are being put in place at the department of employment and workforce to make sure that the benefits are terminated for anyone who refuses to return to work. A lot of people we heard from want to understand why you are taking that position if we are putting protocols into prevent your concern . To run aam it helps business, my family runs a restaurant, a bar, and a liquor store. When youre paying 23 an hour not to work, it is hard to get people to come back and they get mad when you ask them to come back to work for 18 an hour. I saw this coming, Joe Cunningham understands that what we have done is you paid for people not to work then work. I have run a business, i know what it is like to compete with government, the one thing i can tell you for businesses in South Carolina, we have got to be generous with people who have been unemployed through no fault of their own. You cannot pay them more do not work then to work. I am for making my democratic friends do not understand that, i do, my family ran a business. He did not mention you directly, if youd like to respond, we will come back to it in response. I need to get to our panelists, my colleague bill sharps head of ucsc at charleston. Thank you gentlemen, gaddafi both with us here live, mr. Harrison, senator graham, good to see both of you. Senator, your Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on Amy Coney Barrett, the present president s nominee for the Supreme Court and there is a good chance that she will be confirmed. That would give the Supreme Court a definite tilt toward the conservative side. If she is confirmed and it seems as if she will be a that conservative tilt there is talk, could do away with roe v. Wade, the 1973 law which gave as you know, women the right to an abortion. If it does not do away with that and overturn it completely and might chip away at it. Mr. Harrison, senator graham, my question is does a woman in this country have the right to control her own body . Even if she wants an abortion . Moderator mr. Harrison . Mr. Harrison i believe she does. Men have rights to control their bodies and women should have equal rights to control their bodies as well. At the end of the day this is a hard issue. I believe it is between a woman, her doctor and her god. Politician should not be anywhere in it. We need to make sure that abortions should be rare. We should look at how we expand adoptions. How we have contraception and educate our kids. But at the same time we should be safe. If it is the law of the land which is at this time. What we need to do is look at health care. And particularly health care for women. Here in South Carolina we have some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. Two years ago here in South Carolina 14 of our 46 counties had no, zero obgyn. Many of our hospitals and some of our world committees are closing now. What are we going to do to tackle these disparities in health care that women and particularly minority women are experience in right now . Senator graham has a failed and 25 years to address these issues. Moderator senator graham . Mr. Harrison well, amy barrett is one of the most qualified people in the history of the nation to be nominated and she will get on the court as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee ive tried to be fair when it comes to judges and when president obama won, i recognize he won the election and i voted for sotomayor and kagan knowing that they were liberal justice. Heres what bothers me about this issue. My opponent, supported the filibuster of George Justice gorsuch and the [indiscernible] judge kavanaughs life. Amy barrett is going onto the court, she will decide roe v. Wade [inaudible] i am sponsoring a bill that would eliminate abortion on demand at 20 weeks. We are one of seven nations in the world that allows babies to be aborted at 20 weeks the fifth month of pregnancy and my opponent opposes that. This is a radical Democratic Party we are dealing with, amy barrett will be a thoughtful to liberalism and she will decide based on what the statute says and what the constitution says and she wont make things up. If you want conservative judges, i am your only bet in this race. Moderator from the state and Government Politics reporter, joe . Senator graham, you say youre moving forward with the confirmation because of how democrats treated justice kavanaugh. Mr. Harrison you said filling election. Previous norms for can firming previous norms for confirming judicial appointments, what should new rules be . 19 judges have been confirmed in an Election Year when the president of the party was the same as the senate and that is nothing unusual and we will have a airing beginning october 12 it will be done safely. Again, we can conduct a hearing safely but no democrat seems to say anything about a mom coming up into my yard and attacking republicans. Amy barrett will be treated respectfully i hope for following the norms of the community in terms of the opportunity to question her. I want to complement President Trump for sending over this virus and i hope she is not treated like this fine woman and i hope shes not treated like cavanaugh and yes yes seven children and all of that does not matter, what matters is will she apply the law to the facts and im looking forward to it. And one of my legacies as United States senator is that ive tried to be fair, not only to democrats when they appoint judges, ive been a leader on getting conservative judges on the screen court and the best is yet to come. Moderator thank you, sir mr. Harrison . Mr. Harrison sometimes listening to senator graham reminds me of playing monopoly with my son. He changes the rules every time he gets. Senator, you said use my words against me. You said it after the kavanaugh meetings. Not before the kavanaugh hearings. After the kavanaugh hearings. Your promise was that no judicial nominee should be considered or approved or what have you, in the last year of an election. And you even named President Trump when you said it. So this is my thing, my grandfather always taught me, a man is only as good as his word. Senator, how good is your word . You made a promise to the American People and you made a promise to the folks in South Carolina you would not be doing what youre doing right now, and that is the problem i have. I think the greatest heresy you could do as a Public Servant is to betray the trust of the people you took an oath to serve. And that is what you have done. Or the amount and stand up and say im going to do Something Else. But dont go and blame it on Something Else for flipflop youre making on yourself. Sen. Graham i said in august we will see what the market will bear. Miss barrett will be confirmed if the president has the 32bit. This is what i can say about judges, when president obama was president , i honor the fact that he won the election. I voted for two people i would not have chosen. And i watch as democrats try to destroy one conservative judge after another. Mr. Harrison encouraged the filibuster of judge the first filibuster in the United States senate. All i can say is amy barrett is highly qualified and im the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the president has every right to do this. If you are counting on mr. Harrison to vote for conservative judge or making mistake and you can count on me. Moderator he did mention your name, 45 seconds. Mr. Harrison listen, this is not about democrats versus republicans, it is about right versus wrong. If you establish a precedent, if youve established a standard, you should stick by it. One thing we have not seen with senator graham now and the Senate Republicans in control is this type of urgency to address the coronavirus. Covid19, right down right now theres a bill city on Mitch Mcconnells desk. This state is suffering, our businesses is suffering. There is not enough tests. The urgency is to push the Supreme Court justice even when they have two members of the committee who have covid. But they have not moved at all on addressing covid which is the number one issue right now. Moderator thank you, sir. Now to the anchor from myrtle beach. Good evening, i want to continue to talk about coronavirus. Tourism is the number one industry where i am from myrtle beach. The truth is we are coming off a bleak Summer