Panel loses it after GOP lawmaker claims fuel and prices 'feel good'

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Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller, MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace, and civil rights activist Al Sharpton did not hide their confusion after U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) tried to claim the economy was “firing on all cylinders” and feeling great.“The fact of the matter is that all of the cylinders are kicking. It is good news. You can even feel in our environment how good things are getting,” Scott told Fox Business Thursday. “Gas prices continue to come down, which means that your groceries will come down a little bit as well. We've got a lot of good signs in the economy.”It was a response that Wallace called “detached from reality” with gas prices spiraling up $1 just in the last week.Sharpton appeared stunned into silence, while Miller kept demanding the date of Scott’s interview.“When was that crap from, Nicole? When was that clip from?” sputtered Miller.“That's from yesterday,” Wallace answered.“Yesterday?”“If it's enough for Republicans, for Tim Scott to lie to their faces, then I don't know what to tell them. But the problem politically for Republicans is that over and over and over again … Republicans know they've been suckered,” said Wallace. “Trump's voters know they've been lied to. The jig is up and there is finally, after nine years, a cumulative impact of lying to your base about releasing the Epstein files, lying to your base about the client list Pam Bondi talked about on Fox News, lying to your base about not getting America into forever wars in the Middle East, and lying to your base about the price of things, when the gas prices are literally in glowing lights on every corner.”Miller agreed.“It's one thing to be lied to about the election being stolen, right? Because the, the voters, the MAGA voters … lives [weren’t] really affected by it. This is different when people are paying,” said Miller, a podcaster at The Bulwark. “The upper Midwest got particularly hit particularly hard. I think in Indiana, the gas prices increased a buck just over the last week. If you're a MAGA voter in Indiana and you're turning on Fox Business … and Tim Scott is on there and he's saying ‘gas prices are coming down,’ that is a lot. That line doesn't work because you're like, ‘no, I just was there, I just paid for it.’” - YouTube youtu.be

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Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller, MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace, and civil rights activist Al Sharpton did not hide their confusion after U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) tried to claim the economy was “firing on all cylinders” and feeling great.“The fact of the matter is that all of the cylinders are kicking. It is good news. You can even feel in our environment how good things are getting,” Scott told Fox Business Thursday. “Gas prices continue to come down, which means that your groceries will come down a little bit as well. We've got a lot of good signs in the economy.”It was a response that Wallace called “detached from reality” with gas prices spiraling up $1 just in the last week.Sharpton appeared stunned into silence, while Miller kept demanding the date of Scott’s interview.“When was that crap from, Nicole? When was that clip from?” sputtered Miller.“That's from yesterday,” Wallace answered.“Yesterday?”“If it's enough for Republicans, for Tim Scott to lie to their faces, then I don't know what to tell them. But the problem politically for Republicans is that over and over and over again … Republicans know they've been suckered,” said Wallace. “Trump's voters know they've been lied to. The jig is up and there is finally, after nine years, a cumulative impact of lying to your base about releasing the Epstein files, lying to your base about the client list Pam Bondi talked about on Fox News, lying to your base about not getting America into forever wars in the Middle East, and lying to your base about the price of things, when the gas prices are literally in glowing lights on every corner.”Miller agreed.“It's one thing to be lied to about the election being stolen, right? Because the, the voters, the MAGA voters … lives [weren’t] really affected by it. This is different when people are paying,” said Miller, a podcaster at The Bulwark. “The upper Midwest got particularly hit particularly hard. I think in Indiana, the gas prices increased a buck just over the last week. If you're a MAGA voter in Indiana and you're turning on Fox Business … and Tim Scott is on there and he's saying ‘gas prices are coming down,’ that is a lot. That line doesn't work because you're like, ‘no, I just was there, I just paid for it.’” - YouTube youtu.be

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