{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-senator-scott-hosts-foxs-brian-kilmeade-in-charleston-for-day-in-the-life-episode/", "ICYMI: Senator Scott Hosts Fox\u2019s Brian Kilmeade in Charleston for \u2018Day in the Life\u2019 Episode", "2021-11-12", "2021", "2021-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 This week, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) hosted Fox News\u2019s Brian Kilmeade in Charleston, S.C., to film a special, two-part episode on what a \u201cDay in the Life\u201d is like in Sen. Scott\u2019s hometown.\n\nPart one featured a sit-down conversation between Sen. Scott and Kilmeade on how Sen. Scott entered politics and how he views the progress the country has made.\n\nClick to watch part one\n\nOn how race played into his election \u2026 \u201cI\u2019m not called to serve [only] Black people \u2014 I\u2019m just called to serve Americans. I think it says a lot about our country and it says a lot about South Carolina that they chose me \u2026 to be their senator. I like talking about the evolution of the southern heart. Because the state I live in is not the state that my grandfather was born in. \u2026 We have evolved so much in so little time that access to real opportunity \u2014 being judged by your character and not your color \u2014 is my reality.\u201d\n\nOn the way out of poverty \u2026 \u201cI\u2019ve seen the government come in with good intentions to help people, but it just made you a little more comfortable in your poverty [and never provided] an escape route. We on the Right? We provide the escape route.\u201d\n\nPart two featured the men exploring various sites in Charleston, including the impoverished neighborhood where Sen. Scott grew up, and discussing his personal story.\n\nClick to watch part two\n\nOn his childhood and learning personal responsibility \u2026 \u201cAt 13 years [old], I started working at a gas station checking oil and pumping gas \u2026 I worked at a movie theatre, [and] I sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door. One of my mentors \u2026 prepared me for a future that I could not see. \u2026 One of the most powerful weapons he gave me was individual responsibility. And as a kid who thought that sports was the only way out of poverty, he started saying \u2018have a backup plan.\u2019\u201d\n\nOn gratefulness for his mother \u2026 \u201cThe most exciting part of this journey is watching [my mom] experience the fullness of America \u2014 watching her travel with me around the country. People come walking up to talk to her and thank her for the way she raised me. That probably means more to me than anything else.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-senator-scott-hosts-foxs-brian-kilmeade-in-charleston-for-day-in-the-life-episode/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4821281656622887, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}