right here, we're definitely looking out for you. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," just days ago, a hideous crime was allegedly committed in washington, d.c., suburb of rockville, maryland. a 14-year-old girl, a ninth grader at rockville high school was reportedly dragged into a bathroom and violently. henry sanchez million live in this country a few months ago. sanchez is 18 years old and in this country illegally. instead of them deported back to his country of origin, he was placed in the ninth grade and educated at taxpayer expense. this is insanity of course, a sign of a sick civilization at war with itself.

a strong country enforce its laws and protect its citizens, that's job one. in the u.s., too often we ignore our own laws and instead allow ruin to be visited on our own people. some people in rockville fed up about this, a meeting today at high school with protest outside by angry residents. we had a reporter there, we'll tell you more about what happened in just minutes. apparently the outrage does not extend to the leaders though, the town won't call itself a sanctuary city but it is in fact wanted follow sanctuary policies and top officials there don't want to think about the connection illegal immigration might have to this crime or others like it. montgomery county school superintendent jack smith said this. >> were not going to paint all students who speak another language, all students of a skin color, all students of a religion with a broad brush because of a really terrible incident. so i'm saying no to knights. we're going to take care of our

students. we are going to take care of this student who experienced this trauma. what we are not going to accept is people who say that 25,000 of our students shouldn't get to go to school because they speak another language. >> tucker: and other word, diversity is our strength, move along, racist, shut up, thanks, jack. thankfully that governor larry holden does not suffer from the same mental block. >> my biggest concern lines with the montgomery county school system. their lack of cooperation, lack of information there providing. not only have they refused to provide any information to us but they refused to provide to the state board of education who specifically requested more information. a >> tucker: it came up at the white house briefing today and press secretary sean spicer had this to say. >> i think part of the reason that the president has made illegal immigration and a crackdown on such a big deal is because of tragedies like this.

>> tucker: zeke: as a democrat on the city council of city of baltimore, he joined us now thanks for coming on. this yesterday as it happens, you sponsored a resolution which passed on the baltimore city council which demanded that federal immigration authorities stop enforcing federal immigration law in the city of baltimore. why given what just happened is that a wise idea? these guys had been picked up in suburban washington in rockville, this never would have happened? what would you encourage that policy in your city? >> tucker, i am incredibly proud to serve the citizens of baltimore. it's a welcoming city and the reason i introduce to resolution was not to tell ice not to operate but to only target violent criminals such as the young people who allegedly perpetrated this crime. there is no place in our country for this sort of sexual violence. i condemn it full heartedly but

the vast majority of immigrants in our community are peaceful, they pay taxes and they contribute. >> tucker: okay, but we only do they were violent criminals after they had a ninth grader. the fact is that at least one of them possibly both that at least one of them was in violation of the law already and because a lot of your state refuses to enforce federal immigration law he. out of the country before he this girl. >> if he had committed a crime it absolutely would've been better. what concerns me in addition to this type of crime is also what i've seen ice due in southeast baltimore where i represent. just recently a father what was arrested after dropping off his son at school, he has no criminal history, his only history is violating his status and returning to his country. he escaped violence in honduras,

just the same way that my great-grandmother escaped escaped violence and persecution in austria and we welcome him here. immigrants built the fabric of this country and baltimore is a place that will continue to welcome them. >> tucker: it's pretty unbelievable that you would compare federal immigration authorities to the would you just in effect did and he did it explicitly yesterday when their enforcing laws that would have prevented this heinous crime. would you say that to the parents of the girl who was ripped? these are these americans were enforcing immigration laws, why would you say some thing like that? >> i extend my full sympathy to these parents, what they've been through is horrific. to trust their crime out publicly is kind of shameful, tucker. if the politics you are engaging in is this sort of willie horton style race baiting, dog whistle where we don't blame entire

groups of people for the heinous acts of a few. were not after dylan roof murdered nine people in a church for south carolina we don't say all white people are terrorists. >> tucker: slowdown. i'm not saying all hispanics are terrorists i'm not saying anything like that. you're the one who explicitly compared federal immigration authorities to, who is using the dog whistle here? who is making statements? they are what to mark your calling fellow americans citizens federal law for -- >> what i'm doing is comparing the plight of my great-grandmother who came here from austria to escape hitler's gas chambers is the same fate as my honduran neighbors who come here escaping violence from their country and just want to build a better life. >> tucker: that's not what you're saying, let me read you a

quote, this is from yesterday from the city paper from baltimore. said he likened the reason raid to what nazi germany did before the holocaust. for the fifth time, your accusing americans, your fellow american citizens of law enforcement officials are behaving like. don't you think that's a little over-the-top, speaking of dog whistles. >> tucker again, what i'm saying is when the statue of liberty proclaims give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, she is calling both to my great-grandmother as well as to my honduran neighbors. i'm not comparing ison to. what i'm doing to say these are people who have been persecuted back in their home country and if they want to come here and build a better life in baltimore emma we welcome them. >> tucker: but you are comparing them to. the truth is baltimore has a lot of problems. it's got one of the highest crime rates in the united states but some of those crimes are committed by people who are here

illegally, illegal aliens as you know. three years ago, one of them a 9-year-old girl as you became a sanctuary city as you know. you have something like ten murders in last week. you're spending your time and telling law enforcement not to enforce the law. how does that help the immigrants who claim to care fo for? >> here's the real story about baltimore. we are a city rebuilding at the resilience in my city is incredible, just because people like you go on tv and bash us doesn't mean that baltimore has to take it. i am proud to represent -- >> tucker: i'm not bashing it, do you know what do you have any sense of what the murder rate question which will support written your city, what do no? >> last year we had over 300 homicides, each one is tragic. i completely agree with you i was a teacher in west baltimore but for became a city council person. i will say that our school system is struggling, our law enforcement is struggling. but it is not the fault of immigrants and in fact, what we

face for a very long time is it depopulation the immigrant community, particularly the central american community which you could just bash on your show has come here and rebuild. >> tucker: i'm not bashing the central american community, it's completely false. my only concern is for the people who are already here. it doesn't make a school better when people move and who don't speak english, is it good for the kids in the school, doesn't improve the education, is it fair to the taxpayers, have you thought about that? >> greatest asset in our city is our diversity. i was joined by an amazing group of immigrant youth yesterday. >> tucker: slowdown. that doesn't mean it emma i ask you a sincere question, doesn't approve a school one a lot of people moving who don't speak english? does it get better? >> absolutely. if you're talking about a city that used to be 1 million people and is now down to 630,000, having folks come here and participate and pay taxes, sending their kids to our school

is a blessing and we welcome those children. like i was saying, we had a great group come to city hall yesterday to advocate for their community, to speak out against intolerance, and to help us pass this resolution. that's why i'm so proud to represent my city on the council. a >> tucker: may be your city is depopulated because threaded 60 murders last year because you don't take it seriously and you spend your time with frivolous nonsense like this which doesn't make the city better it's just sad, it's depressing. to watch a formerly great city like that leg was under leadership like yours. i'm sorry. >> it's only frivolous one it's not your family. >> tucker: this is a concern. it's sad. you're not providing a serious answer. we sent a team to rockville, chris jenkins spoke to local police there as well as well as outraged parents, just out of a meeting with the school, joined us now with his report. >> that's right, just a few minutes ago, the school behind me packed, 700 plus of parents

who left emotional, said that things did not get too heated, took their questions, we talked to some of them, talked to mom's in particular, very upset about the events of last thursday, one of them who subs here. you can see now if you students a few protesters actually out there, it's quite a scene. here's the moms we talked to earlier today, take a look. >> what is the next step forward to take our kids safe? i have a daughter coming mixture here. i'm good to have tube and i would like that place to be safe for our kids. and for older kids. i have too many kids that i know our friend my kids, and i don't want anybody to have to deal with that. >> do you have any doubts about sending your next order here? >> not a doubt, fear, yes. if i know the schools are going to do everything. but i'm a little shaky right no now. the law that governs immigration that put a kid illegally in the school. that is more my concern than anything else. >> i just don't want

18-year-olds and 14-year-olds mingling. i don't really want my child in with a criminal that just walked across our border, the one young man had already been convicted of a crime and they had wanted to deport him. i don't want my son involved with him. >> reporter: at that meeting was led by a school superintendent jack smith as well is a principle here at dr. benson and members of law enforcement. we spoke earlier today to the police from montgomery county, thomas mager to find out what happens now with those two individuals jose montano and henry sanchez, here's what he had to say. >> if they are found guilty, our intent would be to have them serve whatever time they are given by the judge. on the day they are released, whether it's 20 days, 20 months, 20 years. whatever they get in terms of a sentence, on the day that they are released, if ice has a

detainer or a want waiting for them, we will turn them right over to ice for ice to do with them what they have the responsibility for. >> reporter: aside from stricking a real nerve with every parent in this country like yourself and myself who have daughters, ed also raised a national debate now about areas like this and whether or not sanctuary cities exist or not and if they are enforced or not we will stay on top of this for you, tucker? >> tucker: why are people embarrassed to point to something that actually happened and draw obvious conclusions from it? the rockville rape atrocity, sometimes one form countries and their people here they're not sending their best. a think tank consented extensive research on immigration and its many effects. he joined us now. thanks for coming on. if one of the baffling questions

i think about our government is why as a time when we keep stats on everything, how many merry-go-round's accidents there are on america's playgrounds, we really don't have good numbers on the number of crimes committed by immigrants illegal and otherwise, why is that? >> because people don't want to know, that's what it amounts to. the fbi doesn't want to know, local state police, local police, they don't want to know. data on this is really very iffy, the census bureau sort of tries to track it but it's not necessarily very effective. the answer is no one wants to know. >> tucker: no one wants to know. how long have we not known? and who was the lobby for not knowing? who's behind the ignorance lobby on this question? >> basically all of the usual suspects pushing for amnesty and increase immigration, because their goal is to basically

suppress anything that makes immigration -- puts it in a bad light. the fact is that immigrants as a whole probably aren't especially more likely or even less likely to be criminals. the issue here especially in this is what we saw this rockville rockville case is not even so much whether what the crime rate is a monk immigrants. it's that people who were in the custody of the government illegal immigrants were in custody and then let go. bad people do bad things all the time is not on the government's fault. people who were in the custody of government, they did not remove them they let them go instead. that is the fault of the federal government as well as all the local and state sanctuary jurisdictions. >> tucker: this is in in fact governments not letting you know how poorly you're doing their job they hired you to do. >> absolutely, that's one of the things that the president wanted to try to rectify where ice will

now start releasing data on this and reports on this. if it's just got started, they released their first but it was kind of a first effort, they've got to get organized and release this data. they at least will be able to say look, we asked for these people to be handed over, deportable aliens in these jurisdictions didn't do it and they let them go instead the period of that's important information to have and going forward were going to have a more regular report on this. that's probably the most effective tool on sanctuary cities is information. they're going to say this person only was a drunk driver or a wife beater or whatever and so we let them go. if that person then goes on and graduates to becoming a murdere murderer, we are going to know. if were going to say you let him know even though he was a criminal and deportable, this is partly on you. if >> tucker: did you notice that when the president

announced this plan to get data collection in the speech two weeks ago to a joint session of congress, of all the things he said some of them controversial. this was the only one that was in effect booed by a lot of the democrats in attendance. why is this among all of them so controversial? >> remember, they booed he talked about releasing information, talked about this victims services office he pointed out several of the surviving family members. they were booing these family members. people whose children or husbands had been murdered by illegal immigrants, people who again not just regular just regular run-of-the-mill illegal aliens, people who had been in the custody of the government and then let's go. like i said, the reason these people are booed and this idea of transparency in getting this information was booed is that nothing can be permitted to make any immigrants, illegal immigrant in particular look ba

bad. somehow that would then mean the superintendent of the school you played before, somehow that reflects on all immigrants. the fact is people are smart. they can tell the difference between an illegal immigrant rapist and a regular neighbor, worker at the restaurant who isn't a rapist, people can tell the difference. >> tucker: of course, the veil of lying and secrecy bus marches all immigrants. not all immigrants are the same. a lot of them are incredibly impressive, much more impressive than i am, we benefit from a lot of immigrants, some of them are horrible and we should get rid of them immediately. we are not allowed to make distinctions i've noticed. that's part of the gambit, isn't it? all immigrants are exactly the same an attack on one as an attack on all. >> even the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants is what in the these people have been trying to eliminate, the pro-immigration lobby has been trying to distinguish as well as the distinction between people

who obey the law and general criminal aliens and regular immigrants. there have been efforts by new york, a few years ago there was this coalition that opposed any deportation, even of criminals. when a noncitizen murderer finished his sentence, their position was that person should be returned to the community because no one should be deported, they actually had ashton, not one more deportatio deportation. that is not some fringe he thing, that's pretty mainstream among these anti-borders activist groups. >> tucker: if that's your position your nightingale and jane public policy, that's theology, that's a position of faith. coming up today, second day of hearings on neil gorsuch, the nomination to supreme courts. the marathon hearing just wrapped up a few minutes ago. will debate the judge's merits

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♪ >> tucker: the elaborate ceremony that is the supreme court nomination hearing continued today. judge neil gorsuch presented himself as a neutral arbiter of the lawn will not expose his own thoughts on any contentious issue. democrats played the opposite role by aggressively questioning him at every turn. >> i had a career in identifying absurd a. [laughter]

i know it when i see it. >> the president had the authority to ban all from the red states and all people who come from israel? >> how do we have confidence in you that you won't just be for the big corporations? that you will be for the little man? >> have you ever met president trump personally? >> not until my interview. >> in that interview, did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. wade? >> no, senator. >> what would he have done if he ask which mark >> i would have walked the door. >> tucker: it finally ended a half hour until, opposes the course of notch nation, chief counsel and policy director at the judicial crisis network which supports him, they both join us tonight. is neil gorsuch qualified to the supreme court? >> i think there is no doubt his

past experiences make him qualified to sit on the supreme court, i think when were looking at it candidate, we can't just look at whether or not they are qualified but whether or not they're going to apply the laws of our land in an equitable manner. i think that's where the problem lies with his nomination. >> tucker: he's qualified but he shouldn't be allowed to sit in the supreme court. kerry, do you think that he is the best possible nominee that president trump could have found for this open seat on the supreme court? >> i think he's an amazing choice, not just because we commented on, he's very well-qualified for this but there is more to it. this making sure someone has an approach to the constitution which is faithful to its original understanding, faithful to the text of the laws. he showed that today in spades, he talks a lot about the importance of judicial independence, the importance of putting law for dominic before politics. all judges are going to come to a decision they don't like some of the time, saddam of the jugs to make their to make sure you're following the law and not

putting your personal politics for a spirit of all of those things are the reason he has broad bipartisan support. the democratic senators love him so much but people like obama's acting sg talked about with a fair-minded judge he is i think he has brought it support like in colorado as well. >> tucker: isn't that sort of what you want. i heard senator and senator say i don't like the conclusion that you reached and i sought judge gorsuch said i don't really like the conclusion i reached either i'm not revealing what i think it's possible i don't agree with my own decision but it's consistent with the law and it's my job is to evaluate the law in terms of the constitution. why is that out of bounds? >> i think the problem is he was very evasive and a lot of his answers. i think he's trying to appeal to that bipartisan support. he wrote a speech with a former attorney general of gonzales who concerned national security

whether the president has the rights to surveilled our citizens without a warrant in the interest of national security. he said i didn't believe what i was writing at the time, i was just subscribed. just describe when we are writing about national security? isn't he applying to be described in chief for our nation to write opinions that are going to found the laws of and principles for our entire nation? if he was writing things he didn't believe them, how can we trust him to write what he believes to be the truth to uphold our constitution now? >> tucker: perhaps because being a speechwriter and supreme court justice are entirely different jobs. i wonder it, the concern for conservatives is come seen a parade of a purportedly conservative justices appointed to the court to then become liberals. david souter comes to mind, there are others, how do we know that's not going to happen? >> he's got something that frankly chief justice roberts didn't have that's a decade-long

on the bench, you can see the decisions he's made applying the same principles he doesn't know what to my car to, everyone knows what they want to hear at the hearing. i'll follow the law, i will follow the constitution. he has that record to prove it. and to prove it in cases where he was getting political pressure, people who were taking him to task at this time, we don't like the result he reached but at the end of the day it's about coming to the right legal result in the fact that he's done it for ten years is great evidence that's something he's going to continue on the court. >> tucker: this judge is going to sit on the supreme court i think no matter what, my question to you is democrats are putting on a show of fighting his nomination. can you imagine a judge a conservative judge who you support? is there anyone donald trump could realistically nominate who you would say okay, i support this guy? >> i can't think of a conservative judge at the top of my head that i would support. i can think of a judge who would

be more bipartisan, a judge who hasn't written entire articles about how he doesn't support liberal positions. while he's being interviewed, recant that position that he originally had a talk that he should've taken such a strong position that took a position against liberals. i think we can find a judge that's more fair, more equitable, we can agree on one point that he will remain conservative, he has an incredible track record of finding in favor of corporations over working-class people, working class men and women and over environmental protection issues. were going to see the same thing. what does that mean when he becomes a supreme court justice? is going to find a four trumps towers over the men and women who built it in the land that was built upon. >> tucker: i can't wait to see that case. thanks for joining us, i appreciate it. up next, puerto rico making a new push to become a state in our country. the commonwealth government

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become a state or move toward independence as a separate country. there are potential problems here, puerto rico's government defaulted on its debt last year it would be the poorest state by far if it joined the union. ricardo reseller was a governor, he's pushing for statehood which he said would fix the island's economy and it's only fair, he joins us now. thanks for coming on. >> thank you for the opportunit opportunity. >> tucker: in an interview in january with the "miami herald"" you explained wide puerto rico deserves to be a state and you said if i'm not misquoting you that the united states does not have moral standing to deny puerto rico statehood and dentists in such bad shape financially because its colonial situation is what provokes the crisis. do you think it's old and the united states government is a good way to become a state? >> i am a very proud american citizen. what i'm doing is shedding light on what i think is the last bastion of undemocratic behavior

which is having a colonial territory in the united states. my hope is that we can start a transition so that we ask you had states citizens don't have to look at territories or colonial territories as a thing of the 21st century, we want to move beyond that in the vast majority of people in puerto rico love their u.s. citizenship and we want to become a state. >> tucker: i agree with you completely it is a colonial situation it is unsustainable it's silly, it's a relic of the past, why not become your own country? >> that's an alternative, what we are doing is offering goes to noncolonial nonterritorial alternative spirit way back in 2012, the people of puerto rico chose not to continue to colonial territory route. were choosing between statehood and alternatives to independence. i can tell you right now, the vast majority of people of

puerto rico value their u.s. citizenship and i believe statehood will win convincingly. >> tucker: why would it be good for america to absorb a third world country into the united states? a country where electricity doesn't work the whole island went dark in september as you well know. massively and that is totally corrupt and dysfunctional, no offense it's a great place and everything, but what would be in it for america to make it a state? >> it's a great added value it's a great question. i think we need to start talking about this. puerto rico can become the connector of the americas, we've been part of the united states for over 100 years but we also culturally have elements for south america and of course elements from north america. we speak english and to speak spanish. geographical kate were centered the right position and we have a lot of added value. i think our economy can take a significant turn if we start addressing some of the local government issues which our

administration has already started. i am convinced that i have the most fiscally aggressive, fiscally conservative agenda in the united states right now. i immediately reduced 20% of the political appointees in our government. i reduced ten to 20% of what contracts are of the current budget as i took office. we are moving in a path to reducing 131 agency structure in puerto rico to one that's about 30 to 35. we're taking our steps and puerto rico has added value as a destination. we have great doctors. we have a great education, higher level education system. we are a tourist destination and i think it could be a hub of the americas connected the united states. >> tucker: would english be the official english or puerto rico? this is an equal speaking country, puerto rico is not. >> it is, but the united states

is also a spanish-speaking country it's asserted largest spanish-speaking country in the world. the united states itself doesn't have an official language. i don't oppose come as a matter of fact our public policy is bilingualism, we want to teach and further our kids and citizens to have both languages and be robust. >> tucker: its work so well in canada and belgium we want to try it here, why would we want to try to be a bilingual country question works because you don't have to be it's a multilingual country. what i'm saying is in terms of the official stance, many other states in the united states don't have an official language as you know. the united states as a whole doesn't have it. of course we worked under the federal government, we already do. the federal courts in puerto rico, different federal structures already there, pushing through in english. is not something that would be

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president illegitimate and the russians behavior and act of war, what exactly is going on here? fox news senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. as an american, you want to feel good about the fbi director i can't remember ever worrying about one you don't want to feel their behavior is flaky or there's something else going on. watching the director of the fbi yesterday openly say yes we are investigating this one thing, the trump campaign, but no i can't comment on potential investigation into the leaking of the conversation of michael flynn in the russian ambassador on the other this raised the question what is going on here exactly? >> it does raise that question. one sort of suspects that this is the book and of his earlier handling of the hillary clinton it investigation, it had been closed and finally had to been reopened and had been closed. i think he may have felt that

this was payback call having done that" such grief for it. no of course obviously you wonder why the need to do this. i think it's reasonable strip to suggest that fbi directors should not be making public the fact that an investigation is being held or even the fact that it contained within the findings of that recommendation with the department of justice, prosecutorial decisions are left to the department of justice. that didn't happen to the hillary clinton case, lord only knows what will happen here. >> tucker: so interesting. this story seems to me has such momentum that it's hard to imagine when it will slow down. the idea that russia somehow hacked our election. is there anything at the core of this that you can see and do you think the story goes away anytime soon? >> the democrats use the hearing

to lay out their case for this investigation and the fact that there may be collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. if you listen to it all it sounds sort of impressive when they lay all these things out. when you examine them one by one, none of them really adds up to evidence of collusion, there's certainly evidence of contacts, there's evidence of russian attention to try to torpedo hillary clinton it's worth noting here that the russians gave up somewhere along the way on donald trump's possibilities and they were content to try to hurt her and possibly help him. that was their focus, it was an odd way to act with someone who you're colluding, there's one other thing worth mentioning here. the fbi director also answer the question, he has found no evidence, no information pointing to a wiretap of donald trump and trump tower, no

evidence of that. however, what about this investigation going on that he announced last july that involves the trump campaign in trump associates? are we to believe that there is no surveillance associated with that? we do know as you pointed out that mike flynn was caught up in a wiretap, a routine national security wiretap of the russian ambassador, but who knows? when he made this announcement, call me, that there was this investigation going on he received permission of the higho do the announcement, there was a story back on january the 19th "new york times" it las whole thing out and said it was based on surveillance that indicated this contact, that story also said it wasn't clear the wiretaps had turned up anything about the trump campaign. we don't know where we are.

remember this, this is supposedly a counterintelligence investigation. that means is basically a national security matter. what's up with that? what does that tell us about how likely they are to find out about political collusion, one wonders? >> tucker: you made the smartest point of the year. if there was an investigation and there was, there was surveillance. if thank you for making that point. >> it's certainly worth asking the question, isn't it? you might have thought that certain members of the committee would ask the question, you might also have thought the issue would be raised about some of our colleagues in the media, so far, not so much. >> tucker: i wouldn't have thought either one but i'm glad you raised it, thanks a lot. >> you bet, tucker. >> tucker: if you're an eyewitness to a sexual assault, would you call the police? sounds like a rhetorical question, not everybody answers

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>> tucker: rockville, maryland, isn't the only american city rocked by un-unthinkable crime this past week, police in chicago currently hunting for five men who sexually insulted a teenage girl and a broadcast of the whole thing on facebook live, here's the worst part of expert according to police at least 40 people watched that broadcast on facebook and not a single one of them called 911. it was only recovered by her mother, thankfully. police recovered the goat still at hunt for her attackers at large. back to the hill, obamacare replacement plan is scheduled for a vote in the house this week, president trump lobbying

hard to make sure it passes. we go to trace gallagher, standing by. >> whether you call these adjustments, republicans can only afford to lose 21 g.o.p. votes, fox news has them somewhere in the low 30s. the big changes are freezing and unwinding the medicaid expansion. conservatives are irate that since obamacare started, some 11 million able-bodied people with no children have signed up for medicaid. the previous bill would have allowed those people to keep signing up until 2020. the modified bill would freak out but it would allow more generous reimbursement for elderly and disabled medicaid patients. the revised bill also removes tax credits to help older americans offset rising premiums. it appears the house is willing to allow the senate to decide how big those tax credits should be. during a closed-door meeting with house republicans, president trump gave a rousing endorsement of the bill and a stern warning if it doesn't pass

saying "i honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018." trump even called out lawmakers stirring up opposition to the bill calling freedom caucus chairman mills though some believe the president was half joking, the vote comes on thursday. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks. tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. an expletive interview with hhs secretary tom price. that's tomorrow, don't miss it. coming up next, boston public school officials have new idea for fixing racial achievement gaps, just replace all the world maps in every classroom, remarkable, why didn't we think of that? details ahead.

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>> tucker: here's an here's an innovation boston public schools are replacing world maps the old maps use the mercator part projection would use straight lines and accurately captures a state chip of countries and warps their size.

the new map uses a different projection shows a size but they look weird. the old map made america and europe looked bigger in place europe at the center because i thought that western civilization was important. now is considered offensive so they're changing it. your tax dollars at work. >> just a few minutes, laura ingraham, jay sekulow, a lot happening tonight in the news rated the repeal and bill, the gorsuch confirmation hearings and more a follow-up from testimony yesterday. a very important issue that few in the media will ever discuss. if the president remains steadfast in his commandments to fix the illegal immigration crisis in the country whether it's building a border wall, and extension were cities or the deportation of violent criminal illegal immigrants. any action to restore law and order must be swift because american lives are being