The next is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina that aired Sunday, January 30, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Democratic Whip Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina. Good morning to you Congressmen. You have been vocal in your endorsement of Federal District Choose Michelle Childs the White Home acknowledged she's being checked out. Senator Graham simply gave her a glowing suggestion. Have you ever spoken to President Biden about her?
HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP JIM CLYBURN: Sure, I did it a number of months in the past. I've not spoken to him lately about her, despatched him or despatched the White Home a letter 13 months in the past.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
REP. CLYBURN: And he and I've been speaking about it for a number of months.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You and I are going to speak about her and the entire course of extra in only a second. However I've to hit this fast industrial break and we'll have an prolonged dialog on the opposite aspect of it. So stick with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome again to Face the Nation. We proceed our dialog with Democratic Whip, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina. Good morning. Thanks for sticking with us by way of that break.
HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP JIM CLYBURN: Thanks.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You had simply shared that you simply'd spoken to President Biden months in the past with Michelle Childs, a candidate we all know for this potential spot on the Supreme Courtroom. Extra broadly, you have been the person who actually exacted this promise in the course of the marketing campaign from President Biden. What do you assume placing this sort of range on the courtroom the primary black girl does for the nation?
REP. CLYBURN: Effectively, it says to each little baby up there rising up underneath reasonable circumstances, needing your entire neighborhood assist elevate it, getting scholarships to go as much as faculty as a result of she could not afford to go in any other case, going to public faculties since you did not get a suggestion from one of many large personal faculties. It says to them, you have bought simply as a lot of an opportunity to learn from the greatness of this nation as everyone else. As you most likely know, I've made it the motto of my service; making America's greatness accessible and inexpensive for all Individuals. And that is what this may do. That is the type of dialog I had with candidate Biden means again when he was working for president. Actually, we had these conversations when he was serving as vp that he got here up underneath modest circumstances- Scranton, Pennsylvania, then in Delaware. And look, he ought to have as a lot alternative as everyone else.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
REP. CLYBURN: That is one of many issues that drawed me to him.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Effectively, we all know the president has stated he'll make his choose public by the top of February. That matches proper properly with that March 1st State of the Union deal with. As Whip, what else are you going to have the ability to ship to the president to- to form of announce that date? Are you able to revive any portion of construct again higher, which is totally stalled in the intervening time.
REP. CLYBURN: I hope we will. It is doable the opponents of the large bundle have talked about issues that they will help. As an illustration, baby tax credit score. Joe Manchin has made it very clear that if we have been to meet- make it means examined that he may conform to it. So that is the means check it. He is already stated that he agrees with us closing the so-called protection hole, in order that these people who find themselves eligible for Medicaid or in states that cannot- didn't broaden the Medicaid, that they may have well being care. So if we will do these issues, let's do them. I am not-
MARGARET BRENNAN: By March 1st?
REP. CLYBURN: I am sorry?
MARGARET BRENNAN: By March 1st?
REP. CLYBURN: Sure, we will try this by March 1st. You are able to do it subsequent week. We return all this week. We return on Tuesday. What I am speaking about may very well be carried out in a number of days, if not a number of hours.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will probably be waiting for that. I wish to ask you about one thing
REP. CLYBURN:I did not say I used to be going to be carried out. (LAUGHTER) It may be carried out.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Effectively, we are going to watch you to see if it really will probably be carried out, sir. You have repeatedly stated that black girls are the spine of the Democratic Celebration. And you've got talked about this Supreme Courtroom nomination because the type of issues that Democrats might have. You understand, the failure to get voting rights laws handed, the failure to agree on a police reform invoice. Do you're feeling that Democrats want this nomination and that it's going to make a distinction going into the midterms, given these different guarantees weren't delivered on?
REP. CLYBURN: As- I actually do consider that. I believed that two years in the past, it's why I suggested then Candidate Biden to place that into his marketing campaign. And also you recall the primary time he ever stated that was on the South Carolina debate the twenty fifth of February-
MARGARET BRENNAN: I keep in mind I used to be there.
REP. CLYBURN - 0f 2020. OK. Effectively, I suggested that. Now lots of people advised him to not do it. However his guts advised him as he advised me, while you develop up with the type of expertise the 2 of us have had, then your guts telling you some issues, and generally folks didn't have these experiences they'd not really feel. So he did it, and it made all of the distinction on this planet and it is nonetheless making an enormous distinction.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Effectively, speaking about these midterms and the necessity for a win right here, I wish to ask you about Jamie Harrison, the pinnacle of the Democratic Celebration, proper now. I do know he labored for you for years on Capitol Hill. You are near him. You are a mentor. He is reportedly contemplating leaving that job forward of the midterm races due to disagreements with the White Home. Do you assume the DNC wants new management?
REP. CLYBURN: I don't. I believe he's precisely what we want for this occasion at this explicit juncture. I additionally know he like all of us on this enterprise. He has his detractors. I've mine. It doesn't suggest that he's fallacious or they're fallacious. It signifies that folks have totally different approaches to doing issues. And so Jamie Harrison is there. He won't ever run. He believes in preventing reasonably than switching.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You might be being very diplomatic in your reply there. Again in November, you advised the AP, "Jaime Harrison is aware of how one can do the job. I concern he will not be allowed to do the job. He is being hamstrung by individuals who by no means ran for something." Who're these folks whose standing in his means?
REP. CLYBURN: I am not going to call these folks, I believe it is not-
MARGARET BRENNAN:Is it the White Home?
REP. CLYBURN: No, I am not saying who it's, I'm saying that every one of us, I had the identical downside each time I run for election, speaking to my grandson simply yesterday, telling me what he thought I must do now. I stated now, when is the final time you have been out asking anyone for his or her vote? So we don't essentially consider in all the consultants and the individuals who run issues. Jamie Harrison ran a really bruising race with the gentleman you simply had on right here. He is aware of what it's to run. He is aware of what it's to lose. And I am the identical means I misplaced thrice earlier than I bought elected. So I do know what it's to lose an election and I do know what's to return again from the election. So Jamie Harrison is simply what we want.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All proper, congressman, thanks on your time at present.
REP. CLYBURN Thanks very a lot for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll be proper again in a second.