next are watching us tonight, i am bill o'reilly. please remember the spin stops here, because we are definitely looking out for you. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," there is a lot of reaction from both the left and the right to donald trump's speech. democrats claiming that hitler may have written a speech. a new plan to fix america's employment crisis, we share that plan with congress and the president, he will be here to share that in just a moment. for now a full two months, how have republicans done with their unified control of both houses? so far they passed no major legislation, have not held a hearing for supreme court nominee neil gore , critical for

running the government. the senate has been in session for 57 days so far, they have already taken 22 days off. a massive two week break in april as well as well. what is going on up there. thank you for coming on, senator . we checked the record of the obama administration in its first couple months in office. in early 2009, obama had a democratic congress as you know. by march 1st, 8 years ago, the congress had passed the better pay act, the health insurance program, they signed an $831 billion still stimulus biy

had done an awful lot. this republican congress hasn't done much at all. why has not things been done question marks become democrats have been dragging their feet. especially on nominations. wilbur ross by 72 votes last night, he was confirmed. there is no reason to deny the president his cabinet other than just to burn up time and make it impossible to turn to other legislation. it is enormously frustrating that that's is the way the systm operates when people are determined to drag their heels heels. >> tucker: why so much time off then? why does the senate take so much time off? 40% of the days since its summit convened, congress had not been working. according to the senate calendar, you've only worked for ten days the entire month. if it's taking more time than expected, why not work more? >> we did not get a president

until january the 20th, that is five weeks ago, roughly. yes we were in session for most of that time. we did take a week to return home. i took a number of my colleagues to the border, thinking it was important with all the attention given to border security and trade and taxes and the like. to learn more about the important relationships, the economic relationship that we have with mexico because of bilateral trade. those are the kinds of things you do when we are not in session. i daresay it is not taking time off. >> tucker: i do not think you are lazy, i'm not suggesting that. there is a new government elected in november, they cannot govern because they can't get their people appointed. i've spoken to people at the cabinet level who say my guys are not going to get confirmed until the middle of the summer, until july. that is kind of a crisis so why not forestall the trip to mexico and get government installed? would that not be a better

course? >> many of the sub committees have not been nominated so there is nothing for the senate to operate on. i am hopeful that the white house will accelerate the nomination progress and get them to us. you are right, it is enormously frustrating to all of us but it is a combination of both obstruction on the democratic side and at least so far, the administration not getting the sub cabinet appointees to us for confirmation. >> tucker: you could drop the hammer, the democrats could do it, could you not? >> we cannot make the white house sub cabinet nominee nominees, we literally have been doing it under the senate rules. we can get to about three a week when they are obstructing as they are now. this is part of their relitigation i guess, or loss on november the eighth. they simply have not gotten

beyond denial and now anger, sooner or later they're going to have to reconcile that they lost to the election and then try to be productive. >> tucker: i am no phd in senate order but you could force this stuff. you could just do it, you have the votes, don't republicans have the votes to do whatever they want essentially? >> on confirmations, it takes 51 votes now thanks to harry reid but they have to affect the process by which it takes us an aggravating way long time. the most we have been able to do, given democratic obstruction is three a week. that is the reason for the slow pace. that's unfortunately the process. >> tucker: it does seem like there is an ideological component here. a lot of republicans in washington do not agree with them of the president's priorities.

i just wonder if any -- kate's law, that would set mandatory minimums for illegal immigrants reentering the country, that would revoke any chance of becoming a citizen for u.s. nationals engaged in terrorism -- you can kind of go down the list. it would prevent refugees from being settled in states if the governor opposes it. do republicans support those efforts? >> by and large we are supportive of the administration's positions but the bills that you mentioned of course died at the end of the obama administration, they have to be refiled and so they have to go through the committee process. modify the judiciary committee is delayed now, anticipating the confirmation of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. repeal and replace which will take place in the coming few weeks, that has been our focus

along with tax reform which we plan to do shortly after that. i share the frustration about this slow pace, part of that is built into the process. we hope to get some important things done. >> tucker: can we assure republicans that voted for trump that none of this is being slow walked? some of them are in your office, by the way. are you sure that your staff and the staff of other leaders on the republican side and the house are really supportive of this agenda? >> we are fully supportive of president trump and his agenda. we are doing our best to help him. we all understand he is governing, people thought he would bring change to the way washington operates. he already has. we fully support the president's agenda and we are working with him, have had lunch with the s,

the majority leaders of both houses. trying to get the president's agenda accomplished. we are on the path as we speak. >> tucker: your state voted for him in part because of the wall, you reported the other day saying you are not for a wall and of the people of texas are not for a wall. what that impression? why would you think your voters would not before that? >> the texas border and one reasons i took my colleagues to texas was to show them this 120s hundred foot cliffs where millwall is necessary. where infrastructure is important, barriers so to speak. it's really a combination of personnel, technology and infrastructure. we are working with the department of homeland security to come up with a plan to actually implement the president's goal of securing the

border. it is long overdue and i fully support that. we intend to try to make that happen. >> tucker: not to be a stickler on semantics but he said i want a wall, a big, beautiful wall. so why would you think voters in your state, exempting the cliffs, why would they not want awol too? >> i think they voted for border security, how they accomplish that, we are supposed to use our best judgment to try to accomplish that. it is political will. we know how to do it, the problem has been we have not had a president who actually believes in border security. we do now. we are fully trying to support and implement that effort together with interior enforcement. which represents people who come in and overstay, we don't do nearly enough to discourage tha that. >> tucker: so when your voters voted for trump, they were not voting for the wall he promised,

they are voting for republican senators to figure out how to secure the border? they did not really mean a wall when they voted for a guy who promised awol. >> him to accomplish that goal i think, i have to tell you, a wal is not going to stop illegal immigration if you don't have the personnel on the ground to catch them. the eyes in the sky. in order to protect them. there are places where a physical barrier is entirely appropriate. we ought to be putting them there. we ought to come up with the right combination that allows us to accomplish the goals efficiently and effectively. without wasting taxpayer dollars. >> tucker: senator cornyn, thank you for joining us. a fox news alert, leaders in the house of representatives has set the parameters for the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. according to a six page document, investigations will

seek to determine what ties if any existed between the russian government and the u.s. presidential campaign. as well as what actions the u.s. should have taken to prevent hacking. they haven't done anything you have to repeal obamacare, by the way. but it is good to know they are at least staying busy even if it is about obsessing over a topic that may or may not be relevant. mike rowe is here at next, he will share his plan to fix finances on capitol hill. president trump promised to put america first in his speech. many democrats responded to his promises by refusing to clap or stand, what we talked to one who went even further who said that hitler could have written parts of that speech last night. that will be next.

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>> tucker: mike rowe is a longtime host of "dirty jobs," and many other programs, what people actually do for a living here in america. the student loan crisis, the skills gap and vocational education in high school. he is the man, he joins us now. great to see you, mike. you have sent a series of letters to this president and the president before. what is the core problem? >> nobody really knows how to talk about the skills gap, that is the problem. there is a belief and a narrative in the country that says we can cure unemployment by creating more opportunity.

obviously there is some truth to it but the skills gap has nothing to do with unemployment, not really. the skill gap proves that opportunity alone is not enough to get people unemployed. really, neither is training. you can have all the opportunity and training in the world but if you do not have underlying appreciation for work, if you're not talking about jobs that people affirmatively aspire to, you will be pushing the boulder up the hill. tilting the windmill or whatever self-defeating metaphor makes the most sense to you. you have to be talking about jobs that are uniformly cared about in order to move forward. >> tucker: you can have a job available but if no one can do it, the job remains unfilled. >> 5.6 million jobs, 75% don't require four-year degrees. what people talk about why the skills gap exists, it is almost

-- how can it not exist? we took tech out of high school, at the same time we told an entire generation that their best hope for success was a four-year degree. the most expensive path becomes the best path for the most people. at the same time, all these other jobs which are linked to this very fundamental form of education are completely marginalized because we send a really powerful message. if you don't just take vocational technical training out of high schools and data be the end of it. that sets all kinds of dominoes in place. none of them are pretty and they all fall down. >> tucker: i hate being political but we are in washington, these don't happen without forces moving them to happen. there is a massive lobby field about a four-year education. do you think that has something to do with it? >> oh, god. look, the skill gap is not a mystery because it is a reflection of what we value. the cost of college is not a mystery. i believe for the same reasons.

yeah, there is a lobby but it is not just the washington lobby. it is parents who very rationally want something better for the kids. we have to figure it out. there are guidance counselors on the front line who are incentivized to push kids towards college as well. guidance counselors to often do not talk about the alternative careers which by the way, fun rude, higher education over here, alternative education over here. if you are not cut out for this. in 1,000 ways, we give kids dozens of cues and clues as to what success looks like. as a result, the jobs we are talking about -- these are important jobs such as have not been celebrated. that is why they are -- regarding student loans, 1.3 each billion dollars we told everybody that the best path for the most people was a four-year degree.

and well, of course. they borrowed until they borrowed no more. colleges compete with each other so the price goes up faster, faster than real estate, food, energy, health care -- never before in the history of western civilization has anything so important become so expensive so quickly. >> tucker: it much faster than inflation. we haven't adjusted our expectations based on reality. it's a pretty illustrative graphic here. obama outlining these problems, here is the letter you sent to president trump. you've basically scratched out the name of the president and sent the same letter. >> i found this old letter, i did exactly as you said. i wrote a little thing on facebook writing to my friends where i am going and why. it has been shared 8,000 times, people want to talk about this. the truth is, i do not know what else to do.

i came here in 2001, testified to the community of transportation. testified to the senate committee of national resources. what are you going to do, you know? that is what i mean. a lot of good people are pushing the boulder up the hill. but until and unless we change, i hate to sound like i am running for something, you are talking about hearts and minds of guidance counselors and parents. we can say all kinds of things on the hill. the perkins act is important, i hope it gets through this time. regardless, the real wet work it happens around kitchen table. if it is not a topic of conversation, that 5.6 billion number is going to be twice as big in five years because five years ago, it was 2.5 billion. it is just math. >> tucker: here is the last question, do you think we value working in a way we once did?

>> at the risk of being glib, if you really want to make america great again, you have to make work cool again. i know that sounds a little high school but that is where the action is. there is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to give the definition of what a good job is. that is up to us. if we disparage and malign an entire category of perfectly reasonable opportunities, then it is not the out of work worker who is going to pay the ultimate price. it is people like you and me who are addicted to smooth roads, affordable energy and indoor plumbing. >> tucker: i do not think that is a glib, i think it is deep. >> if you want to make the country great again, you have to make work cool. >> tucker: it confirms dignity. >> i should look into a camera and say this with all the earnest he i can muster. if you want to make america great again, you've got to make

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>> tucker: you can hardly expect democrats to be enthusiastic about a speech by the president but some may have gone pretty hard to lack far in their facility. for example, many declined to stand or clap when the president said all americans are created the same by god. trace gallagher. >> in his speech, president trump said democrats and republicans should unite. instead they stood and sat divided. the proof really is in the pictures. watch the republicans on the right-hand side of your screen, democrats on the left. >> my job is not to represent the world, my job is to represent the united states of america. >> if you look close, you may notice three democratic senators did stand for the president again and again, all three are

moderates in swing states facing tough reelection campaigns but other democrats were visibly critical of the speech, at times groaning, laughing, hissing, with the occasional thumbs down. new york congressman talked on his cell phone even when trump condemned the desecration of jewish cemeteries, dozens of democrats refused to stand. house minority leader nancy pelosi thought her colleagues listened with dignity. here is she reacted. >> and we will create tens and thousands of new american jobs. >> it appears democrats response was planned in advance. as lawmakers reportedly were advised by the party leadership on how to react. watch a little bit more.

>> america must put its own citizens first. because only then can we truly make america great again. >> and when the president finished, democrats ran for the exits and many cases quickly caught on television to of course criticize the president's speech. tucker. >> tucker: think you a lot, trace gallagher. president trump's speech was well received by a lot of people, even a handful of democratic commentators. one person was far from happy though, eric duster. he tweeted, did hitler dropped a part this speech? eric duster joins us from birmingham. i have known you a long time. you are a lawyer. i see what is happening to you as something that is very similar to what is happening to a lot of democrats in washington. you dislike trump so much, his

personal affect is so offensive to you that you cannot hear clearly what he says. you are possessed and it is affecting your judgment. >> that is the most ridiculous thing i've heard within the last 24 hours besides some of the lines in trump's speech. i did not totally dislike donald trump what i am disliking is his message and the things he says about people and the hatred he has incited in people and him not speaking out against their racial hatred that is done in his name, the attacks on muslims, blacks, jewish cemeteries -- he touched on a little bit in the last few days but not forcefully enough. that is what i am totally against. >> tucker: i don't plan to address your tweet, i think it is embarrassing to you but i want to get what you just said. >> no, you read it. >> tucker: i'm embarrassed to bring it directly to you because i think you are about that. you said trump's speech last night contained racial hatred.

i watched the whole thing. where was the race hatred? >> trump has had a message of racial hatred throughout his campaign, throughout his presidency, that is only a few weeks old. what he has done as he is treated racial divide between mexicans and americans, immigrants and americans. what he has done is created this divide and that was what i meant in reference to the hitler comment. he used immigration and racism as their base tucker: thought io stupid. i don't even know -- >> let me finish. >> tucker: please finish quickly. >> he was in alabama, there were rebel flags and people saying racial things to protesters. that was something that incited in his base. those are things i am speaking of, in reference to hitler. not saying he is hitler.

>> tucker: he was in alabama and there were confederate flags, therefore he is compared to hitler. last night -- >> no, that is a topic. he has had racial undertones throughout his campaign that he has never addressed. that is a shame on him. >> tucker: did you watch his speech last night? he opened the speech by saying there have been instances of racial bias and they are wrong and i disavow them. did you miss that or do you think he is lying? what should he have done exactly? >> i will give him a gold star and a cookie for that moment but we have to look at a person's actions, words are very cheap. it is very easy to say words. it goes back to action. >> tucker: what are you talking about? what has he done as an act of racial bias? >> will me talk about unfair

policing, jeff sessions gave a speech in the last two days where he is saying they're going to stop assuming police departments in reference to these things. those are the things we're talking about. >> tucker: we had a black president for the past eight years. we had an african-american president during the exact. were you saying racial bias the police department is out of control. i want to get to something specific the democrats son last night. >> you said it is out of control, i said jeff sessions gave a speech where he said he would stop suing police department. that is very concerning to me, as a civil rights lawyer. when the department of justice is being -- if they are not going to sue police departments and tell them to stop racial bias and stop unfair policing, that is a problem and very concerning. >> tucker: you have had eight years of an obama justice

department, and obama civil rights division, and that of bias according to you and other so-called civil rights lawyers has flowered and i am merely saying that if your real concern is racial bias and not just dumb partisanship -- i'm having trouble believing that -- you would have said something about the obama administration's failure to take that on over eight years in office. let me get back to last night -- >> i'm not going to let that comment hanging, no. under obama they took on civil issues she of racial bias. >> so in baltimore and ferguson were you clearly sell racial bias at work -- i do not remember you holding the president accountable for that. this is one of those cul-de-sacs that is not worth exploring. let me ask you a very discreet question about last night. trump gets up there and it says there are victims of crime by immigrants. and the second he says that, and

there is no dispute about that, democrats in the chamber -- members of congress booed him and barked at him. my question is, why? why is it offensive to note the truth, there are americans that have been harmed and killed by immigrants. why is that bad to note? whose side are you on if you are offended by that? >> it is not bad to note that but we also must note the violence that has been perpetuated by white nationalists. the charleston nine which he is not mentioned. the attack in candida, which he has not mentioned. he has not spoken out about white supremacists that have done very similar things that he is trying to blame on the immigrants. >> tucker: why would members of congress -- the charleston nine happened when obama was president. i just want to get to this one question. why would that make democrats mad that he said that? they were mad, they groaned audibly.

it was picked up on mike's. why would that annoy them so much? what is wrong with saying that? >> there is nothing wrong with saying that. he totally ignored white nationalists and white supremacists who are attacking people a weekly basis. >> tucker: >> tucker: this is to frustrating. >> you don't want to deal with the truth. >> tucker: the european union is trying to censor the speech of lawmakers, free-speech ending before our eyes? we will talk to a parliament member who will discuss censorship abroad. rtolli.

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>> tucker: well, free-speech continues to die a sad death. until now, members of the european parliament and brussels have enjoyed absolute freedom of speech as you would expect. but now the parliament has been given new powers, if the speech

is racist or xenophobic, it can be pulled from television. he represents yorkshire in the european parliament, thank you for joining us tonight. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: can you be specific as to which ideas you are banning? what are the standards for new ideas that are not allowed to be expressed and who decides? >> the parliament as a whole voted for this measure, it prohibits the use of racist and xenophobic language. and empowers the president as a fallback, a safeguard to be able to stop that. this is of course something that is quite on the face of it recoating in. they only lou are only likely to use this in an extreme

situation. what confirmed the parliament -- this rule was worked on by a working group with all the different party groupings from the left to the right, right across the spectrum. what they were worried about was what happens if in the european parliament, which is elected with representation, what happens if a group of members come in with banners and start saying things like all jews to the gas chamber or something like that. to get that message out to a wider public, that should not happen. nothing the president could do at the moment, now it there is this option of being able to say hang on a minute, this is not something that should be broadcasted. on the parliament to record, but it will not be broadcasted live. >> tucker: i do not think that anyone -- no normal person would defend an idea like that. it is appalling.

it can't be limited to that, it never is. what is the specific standard? what qualifies as racist or xenophobic? if i am opposed to immigration in my country, that is legitimate clinical point of view but that could also be viewed as xenophobic. who decides? >> the standard of discussion in europe on that would not normally classify that as being racist. to say you are opposed to immigration. if you said i am opposed to any blacks coming into my country or we are too full of jews, that would be racist or xenophobic. not saying if you are against immigration. >> tucker: so saying if you are finding ugly, this is an important thing. you are banning ideas from being transmitted, so how do we know which ones are banned? what is the standard or is it just the discussion of somebody and if so who is that person?

>> it is in the immediate -- the speaker of the parliament, who was elected by all members of the parliament, whose duty is bound to act in a reasonable and unbiased way. the decision can be subject to an appeal, to the bureau of the parliament. elected by the parliament with members from all the different political factions in the parliament. right across the spectrum. the immediate decision is the speaker. >> tucker: did anybody acknowledge that this is a totalitarian manager? would it be better to make a counter case? if you hear something wrong, isn't the european response to counter what you think is right? the most reasonable wind in the eyes of who is watching? >> until last week, when somebody ran with a news story

claiming it was totalitarian, i've never heard anybody of the european parliament claimed that this was a totalitarian measure. >> tucker: preventing people from expressing their views? >> they are simply forbidden -- the parliament may stop the transmission if they are using racist and xenophobic language. the way that would be interpreted, by definition, it is pluralism and the plurality of views. letting a variety of views being expressed. the standard of saying this is beyond the pale will be quite a high standard. you're not going to rule it out for any off-the-cuff remark. >> tucker: we will see. >> this is an organized group -- we will indeed see. we won't have willy-nilly some guy saying you can't say this or

or that. >> tucker: this is an authoritarian parliament that wants to fan ideas they disagree with. what about the ideas behind it? >> what we should not do is succor to those who want to spread hate speech, hate messages, demonizing particular races or religions. that is what we are targeting. there is no problem with that. this is a fallback safeguard provision in case an absolute necessity. >> tucker: it is also orwellian. up next, we welcome a journalist to spent two years as a hostage of his islamic radicals.

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>> tucker: not many men have stared islamic radicalism and its hairy, smelly and altogether unpleasant face. even fewer have done so and survived. one man who has is a freelance journalist who was abducted in 2012 by an al qaeda linked group in syria that is fighting the assad regime. after two years of multiple failed attempts, he was released in 2014. he was able to tell his incredible story to the world. he joins us from paris. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: yours is a remarkable story, i have always wondered, my first thought was two years is such a long time to be in captivity. did you find yourself identifying with the beliefs of your captors? >> no, not identifying. i tried to understand them.

they have an elaborate philosophy they are following. there libraries with information and text, what they were thinking and reading. and identifying? no. they are murdering people in the street. they employ children as torturers. destroying the society over there. no, i did not identify with them. >> tucker: how did you keep for doing that? good for you. so many accounts of people, their defenses break down after a while. yours did not. how? >> what they are trying to do is trying to make you like them. in that respect, yes, they want you to support their cause. they want you to love and respect them as individuals. because i knew what they were doing, i knew what they had done to me. i knew what they were doing to my fellow prisoners. there is no conceivable likelihood that i could respect or admire them for what they

were doing. of course not. >> tucker: what were they driven by? >> what are they driven by? this is a good question, some are interested in money, power, some of them love the guns. they're having a wonderful time during the jihad. this is a aspect of the jihad we do not look at. they have guns, the keys to the school pickup trucks. free food. some are off the street, they are constructing a real prison art up along go over there. for anyone they really do not like. an incredible axis of power for many young men who had none for most of their lives. this is a dangerous scenario unfolding over there. in those parts of syria that the government does not control. >> tucker: what is your view of the assad regime? >> the assad regime right now,

there are approximately 16 million people who are living in safety. schools function, universities, hospitals. it is not switzerland, is not a perfect society. they themselves recognize this but anybody who wants peace in syria, will acknowledge and respect the peace that they have in the moment and not try to degrade it or damage it somehow which the obama administration was doing that by sending missiles and all kinds of weaponry to the rebels. i thought it was disgraceful because it destroyed such peace as there was. >> tucker: the piece that was secured by the assad regime which is as you know denounced here is monstrous? >> hold on, there was a situation in which a rebel on cloth are not peaceful. of course not. they are being destroyed. it is a civil war. it is a civil war.

a minority of the population there, the majority of syrians are living in relative peace under the assad regime. yes, it is preferable to bombing and crucifixions in the street that we are seeing. the murdering and torturing and imprisoning of random people which is what they are doing. >> tucker: we do not have a lot of time left but give us an summation of how you got out when so many did not? >> this is a good question. there was a humanitarian intervention that was really carried out by -- i do not think the american officials had much to do with it, i've made freedom to think qatar. >> tucker: thank you for joining us tonight. an important update in a case of an american citizen who is facing a lengthy prison term for her alleged role in the cia operation that went wrong. we will tell you what happened,

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>> tucker: we want to bring you an update on an important story, several weeks ago we interviewed sabrina de sousa, who was on the brink of extradition to italy where she has been convicted in her role in the cia's abduction of an egyptian cleric. today she was about to board a flight to italy when her sentence was commuted by italian president. the commutation means de sousa can do community service instead of prison time. she is a free woman for the time being. the extraordinary help of the trump administration is being credited for blocking her extradition to italy. we will keep you updated. that is it for us tonight, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and

groupthink. stay tuned for "hannity," he is up next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," president donald trump's major address to congress is receiving a widespread praise including from his toughest critics. at that us tonight opening monologue. president trump's first address to a joint session of congress with a very big moment, in my opinion, he knocked it out of the park. he did so because he focused on his promises and key policy proposals. in a few months we will get reaction from laura ingraham and ann coulter. the commander-in-chief simply outlined all of the severe challenges, problems the country faces and laid