Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson Pier Morgan takes to Tucker Carlson to make a case on Meghan’s Republicans and says Gaetz’s days in Congress are numbered. Gaetz says he will not resign again. spat with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson
Asa HutchinsonOvernight Health Care: Biden says US still has a ‘life and death race’ with virus | White House excludes involvement in ‘vaccine passports’ from Arkansas lawmakers dominate Hutchinson veto over transgender bill Arkansas lawmakers dominate Hutchinson veto over transgender youth bill The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden, McConnell agrees on vaccines, clash over infrastructure MORE (R) on the governor’s decision to veto a bill passed by the state legislature that would block health care for transgender youth in the state.
Carlson, before interviewing Hutchison, argued that the bill would put an end to services that he believes amount to ‘chemical castration’ of children and facilitate ‘gender redistribution procedures’.
“If it was a bill that merely banned chemical castration, I would have signed the bill,” Hutchinson said. “But as you know, Tucker was generally wide. It was extreme. It went much further than you just said. ‘
Hutchison protested the bill this week, saying it would ‘create new standards of legal interference with doctors and parents as they deal with the most complex and sensitive issues concerning young people’, and therefore he cannot support it.
Hutchison said “difficult decisions” occur for families when it comes to seeking health care for transgender children, but from a policy point of view he says he reflects “William Buckley and Ronald Reagan” and a Republican Party’s view of a limited government.
With these principles in mind, Hutchinson said, he voted for the bill.
“Tucker, you are a Conservative, you have a good background in it. Where do we get back to the limited role of government that we do not have to call ourselves in every position of society?” asked the governor. “Let’s limit the role of government. Let our parents and doctors make decisions.”
Carlson presses Hutchison again, asking rhetorically, “Why don’t we let 18-year-olds drink beer in Arkansas? Why don’t we allow them to get tattoos? Why don’t we let 15-year-olds get married?”
Hutchison shot back that the elected leaders of the state do not always “express the right judgments for parents and doctors on the sensitive issues.”
He later said he was opposed to the bill not raising existing transgender children, who would then run the risk of losing their health care.
“I do not think it treats those children or their parents or their health care providers fairly or equally,” Hutchison said.
“All right,” Carlson ends the segment. “This is the Conservative position.”