chuffiness, love that word. again, thank you for watching us tonight. i am bill o'reilly. please remember the spin stops right here. ♪ >> oh, my god,... no! >> tucker: welcome to the friendly skies. a video recorded yesterday so the physician being violently seized and tracked often airplane, also the united airlines to give his seat to an employee be just a few minutes, we will talk to a passenger on the flight who took the video. welcome to "tucker carlson report." for months, the media and dozens of lawmakers have constantly and confidently accused resident from of being vladimir putin's puppet, in turn of having russia hacked the election, whatever that means. in this case, watch. >> we are being played as fools

by a spymaster in chief, a former kgb officer, director of russian intelligence. >> listen. if you want to believe the worst here, if you want to believe that gorsuch is literally pulling the strings of the administration, then this is exactly how it would play out wo not only denies the rushing attack, but who has a strange infatuation with president putin, but also suggesting policies that dangerously puppet those of putin. >> why doesn't president electronic ticket on itself but as putin's -- >> tucker: -- what is the story going forward? seth maltin who represents a state of massachusetts for last month, he said donald trump's minions are paid by the russian regime. thank you for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: you are one of the first people i thought of when

the trump demonstration sent those missiles into syria, into the puppet regime of vladimir putin. and i thought, pretty embarrassing moment for you, isn't it? >> no, not at all. in fact, i was the first to come out with a bipartisan statement from congress saying two things. saying that president trump did the right thing to hold bashar al-assad accountable for using chemical elkins against innocent people. but also that we need a plan going forward. and i stand by both of those points, and i stand by them in a bipartisan way. >> tucker: those are entirely rigid midpoints. i'm not questioning the substance behind them. i'm pointing to statements that you have made for weeks and months preceding that missile strike when you said, for example, there's a lot of evidence that members of this administration are more concerned with russian schools in our own. they prioritize the desires of the kremlin. here you have the trump administration, for good or ill, acting against the main foreign policy objectives of the putin regime which is supporting assa

assad. so your view of this doesn't square with reality. aren't you a little bit embarrassed now that that's obvious? >> no, not at all. first of all, i don't think we know what putin's number one foreign policy is. he has a lot of bigger fish to fry and he is interested in the united states of america. but look, tucker. you and i can disagree on the trump administration, the connections with russia. the bottom line is either of us really don't know. that's why i've been a consistent advocate for what the american people want, which is an independent, bipartisan investigation to get to the bottom of this. and you know it? there is a part of me that really hope you are right. that hopes that i am embarrassed at the end of the day and we find out there isn't any collusion behind the scenes between an american president and russia. but we all deserve to know. and that's why i've been -- >> tucker: that's not been the argument you've been making. i don't think that's a crazy thing to ask for. but as i just read, you said,

"members of the administration are more concerned with russia's golden others." these are your words. they are on your website. i'm not making them up. i'm just asking you, how does that claim square with what we saw on thursday night where we bombed a client state of russia? >> first of all, i mean... one exception does not prove the rule. you know, this could very well be interpreted as an attempt by the administration to get out from under the claim that they are colluding with russia. but the bottom line is -- >> tucker: really? >> -- there's a lot i think that trump has done that seems to be playing right in the hands of putin to we ought to find out, tucker, you and i'd be able to agree with that. >> tucker: increasing the size of our nuclear arsenal, deregulated the energy center, back in keystone pipeline, these are all things the russian hate, for good reason. you're saying still that there is no evidence that trump is in

the pocket of putin. even when he bombs a country where russian troops are stationed now propping up the regime of bashar al-assad. that's not enough evidence for you that he's not putin's puppet? >> right. and calling the russians to make sure they got their troops out of the way. i'm on the armed services committee. >> tucker: shouldn't he not have done that? >> before doing that, but he did feel it find to call the russians. so it's hard to say that he wasn't concerned about the russian troops. the bottom line is -- >> tucker: wait, wait -- you are going to keep going. >> what trump has done -- with russia. >> tucker: let me back you up and get you to explain what you just suggested. are you saying that this was part of an elaborate ruse, that in fact he was working with the russians -- i think he suggested a minute ago to divert attention from this diabolical confederacy you have been alleging, that this is a potemkin bombing, a fake bombing to for the rest of us that they are not in league with each other? >> look. i did not say it was confirmed as an explanation. >> tucker: what are you saying?

>> i'm saying is a believable, viable explanation which is no different when you are saying. there is a lot of evidence, and we have heard investigation after investigation that have trump demonstration officials colluding with, contacting with intelligent officials with the russians and lying about it. we heard that with jeff session jeff sessions, a long list. >> tucker: this conspiracy is a lot deeper than i thought it was. so you are saying -- it's one thing to say, okay, members of the trump administration met with russian officials. maybe it's all minutes, maybe it's not. >> why lie about it? it's an important. >> tucker: now you are saying that the military action we just saw on thursday night may have been correlated with the russians to throw sleuths like you off the scent, that appears what you are saying. that sounds like a huge conspiracy to me. >> well, it's a conspiracy if it's a conspiracy. but the reality is -- >> tucker: is there evidence for that?

>> i'm not going to confirm it. i know you want me to confirm it, but i'm saying there are people who think that. there are americans who think that. >> tucker: who are they quick to make >> that is a logical exultation as any i have you given for trump not colluding with the russians. >> tucker: who are these americans that think this? >> they think it's military action designed to throw people off. >> tucker: who thinks that? >> i tell you, there is a majority of americans who want an independent investigation. it's hard to understand why you are opposed to that. what are you opposed to an independent investigation? >> tucker: i'm not arguing against an independent, bipartisan investigation but i guess i would be for it. but you are saying that there are people -- >> i want to make sure that on the record, you are for it. >> tucker: there are people who believe that putin and trump got together and said, hey, i got an idea to throw congressman moulton off the trail, why don't we be to my pretend to be in colic with each other.

did you see this? this is what medvedev said. this puts up at a clash of military -- he's just saying that for public consumption? >> tucker, that's very flattering that you think donald trump is concerned about my particular views on the issu issue. all i'm saying is that we don't know, we don't know what's going on here. but we ought to talk about is what we can agree on, is that trump -- looks, i'm a democrat from massachusetts. i support trump's actions in syria. but i'm also seeing the constitution demands that any further action requires congress to come together in a bipartisan way and authorize that. and that's what we should be talking about. where is trump going with this? that's actually the important question. >> tucker: know, the important question is you are suggesting the president of the united states coordinated a military attack on a country with the knowledge of russia in order to divert attention away

from the russian election hacking scandal for that is a conspiracy so grand, so complex, so baroque, that i stand in awe of the possibility that's real. i stand in awe in the fact that you think is possibly real. and i sit awaiting the name of one person who agrees with you that it possibly happened. tell me one person who was saying this. >> tucker, i threw that out as an alternative hypothesis. i didn't say they were actually colluding with russia. i'm just saying that maybe this is a way for them to say we are willing to stand up to the russian regime. you are implying that they would be colluding with russian. maybe you know something about the trump-russian connection that even i don't know. but the bottom line is, tucker -- they want what's the point, what are you implying? are you implying there is a conspiracy? >> the bottom line is, tucker, that what trump has done in syria is okay. but one other things he has done in the past or not. and some other things his demonstration officials and his

campaign officials have done in the past are not. and we have to be willing to address that in a bipartisan way, in a way that says, you know what, russia is an enemy of the united states. russia is the number one -- hold on. >> tucker: you just bomb syria. there are russian troops in syria supporting the government we are seeking to overthrow. >> that's right. >> tucker: we are back to conspiracy for let's get the facts really quick. you said recently, and you said russia is america's number one enemy. you put russia above isis for example if you think russia is a greater threat to america than isis. >> i think in the long run russia is and there are a couple of reasons for that. they are very clearly trying to undermine our democracy in ways that isis does not have the capability of doing. the other of course is russia has nuclear arsenal that is targeted at us at this very moment. and that is why they are dangerous. >> tucker: they haven't targeted since 1947.

>> russia is in violation of the nuclear forces treaty right now, and this administration hasn't done anything about it! how do you explain that? who cares about the nuclear weapons treaty? i tell you, president reagan cares about that. he would be rolling over in his great if trump wasn't standing up to the russians. to the bottom line, we need to come together on the fact that russians -- >> tucker: well, do you have an answer? >> maybe you don't like it, tucker. >> tucker: i'm agreeing with you, congressman! that's fine. you just haven't answered why if the president is doing the bidding of the russians, our greatest enemy, worse than isis, then why is he seeking to expand the american nuclear arsenal! why is he taking money from domestic security and putting in the pentagon to is he pushing data partners to put more in their own defense? those are not things the russian government wants but it's the opposite of what the russian government wants. contending with the facts and

get back to me on how that squares up. >> look. you can give me plenty of things you can like what trump is doing. >> tucker: i don't even like those things! russia doesn't like them. >> look, i was sitting on the armed services committee a week ago when we had a bipartisan hearing where we talked about the fact that trump is trying to cut the state department budget, a lot of programs that he use to counter russian influence in eastern europe. and what i'm seeing is a republican veteran standing up saying, look, veterans on both sides of the aisle saying that it's not helpful for our national security. i can give you a long list of things that trump is doing that is not helpful to our national security either. you did one thing right, which is to take this action against assad. we ought to do more than that. >> tucker: my view is that's not the wrong thing, but whatever. congressman, thank you for coming on explaining. we want to give you a brief update on whether foreign countries are sending their best or as one former candidate put it, people with a lot of

problems for there is been a shift in federal law enforcement that you will notice. in 2004, 57% of federal arrests were of american citizens while 43% were noncitizens. in 2014, a decade later, the most recent year where we have full data, the numbers were flipped. noncitizens were 61% of arrests where citizens were 39%'s. the surging noncitizen arrest was because of a big increase of arresting for offenses like human smuggling and unlawful entry. there has been an explosion of people caught entering the u.s. again and again. it's not just we become more primitive, more people are coming. in 1992, 690 people convicted of unlawful entry into this country. in 2014, 16,556 people were convicted in an increase of 24 times. again, not because the obama administration was a lot tougher. they were just a lot more criminals to arrest. in 73.2% of cases, these people, the ones who got arrested, had a prior criminal history in this

country. they had been coming here for a better life, but in a lot of cases, it will be at our expense. at least in those cases. up next, united airlines trying to protect defendants policies after taking off a man from a flight leaving them bloodied. also, heroin is killing people at a rate five times higher than cracked it in the 80s. how did this happen? what role does the government play in that, and why is little being done? our special series will look for answers. our guests as the u.s. government is heavily responsible. stayim tuned. relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. my insurance rates are but dad, you've got... ...allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. it's good to be in, good hands.

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>> tucker: flying out of an american airport can already be hell on earth. and one passenger reached the ninth circle of it. flying out of louisville, kentucky, overbooked, and they need and make room for several employees of the airline. he got kicked -- one man refused to go, and he said he had to meet with patients the next day. so united did the only sensible thing and sent in the police who did this. watch. [yelling] >> oh, my god, ! oh, my god! no! oh, my god! >> my god! what are you doing? no! this is wrong. oh, my god. let go when you are doing to hi him! >> oh, my god, ! >> tucker: tyler bridges was on that flight. he joins us now. thank you for coming onto it with videos like these, you

wonder if there is a missing context or there is something you didn't see that explains what, this is what it looks like. >> yeah, pretty much. there is some buildup to get to this point. you know, prior to the man being drug off, united employees, they said the announcements saying that four passengers had to get off the plane before we leave for chicago. we couldn't leave until four people got off so united staff coul it to louisville. and then ultimately they randomly selected people based on an internal algorithm that weighs in the cost of the ticket and who was the last of purchase for that's how they picked the four people that were removed on the plane. the gentleman in the video, he was actually the third person they asked to get off the flight. prior to him, a younger couple was asked to leave by the united

gate agent, and they begrudgingly left the plane. and then the gate agent went to the man in the video and told him he had to get off the plane, at which time he said he was a doctor, he had patience, he wasn't going to get off the plane. and the gate agent was saying that you have to get the off the plane, and he said, fine chemical security, i'm not getting off the plane >> tucker: wow. >> the two initial security police officers that came on the plane, they tried to reason with a man. they were really calm, they went about it in a good way. and he was -- he would not reason with him. he was committed not getting off the plane. >> tucker: was a violent in way that you saw? >> so when the third officer came on, that was the one who ultimately removed him, he was yelling at them, he was trying to fend them off the best he could to, you know.

i guess he felt like he had to do whatever to say on the plane he wasn't getting the officers, but he was wailing his arms were trying to keep them away from him. ultimately, they had to use force, as you can see in the video. >> tucker: they use a lot of it. he was taken off the plane trip for some reason, came back on the plane. i think we can show it. >> right. >> tucker: is clear for it that he's in pretty bad shape physically. i think this might be it right here. he is bloodied. >> yeah. that part was really unbelievable for us on the plan plane. he was unconscious when they pull him off the plane. and in between him being pulled off, the united staff that was, you know, they had to clear the seeds were him, they came on the plane and they were berated by the passengers on the plane, as you can imagine. a lot of people were saying you should be embarrassed for working for this company, you should be ashamed of yourself.

>> tucker: so here is the response from oscar nunez, the ceo of united airlines. "this is an upsetting event. i apologize having to re-accommodate these customers. does that -- there is no mention that this man is battered and -- >> yeah, they definitely could have handled this in a better way and they deafly could've handled more for these people, not just the man that was removed, but the other folks. no one wanted to volunteer to get off the plane because the next flight wasn't until 2:00 p.m. the next day, which is almost a full 24 hours later. >> tucker: what's striking is its four hours away but why didn't -- you here in the tape you shot, a woman who said "why don't you just drive, united employees"? that's close. why didn't they? >> i'm not sure.

a lot of passengers were yelling that. they came on the plane. you know, people were really up in arms about what was going on around them in the flight. >> tucker: have you read the short story "the lottery" by shirley jackson? >> i have not, no. >> tucker: where they pick someone at random and stone them to death? [laughter] why does that remind me of that? thank you for your video and think you were telling us what you saw. >> no problem. thanks a lot. >> tucker: up next, egypt has close to 10 million christians and they are besieged by radical muslims who want them exterminated. why don't they seem to care much about what's happening to them? we will talk about it with piers morgan. he joins us next. rol your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight. ♪ share the spice of life. ♪ baby, slice it right.

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won't it, do you think? >> unfortunately, what happens in the middle east, it just does not seem to attract the immediate attention in america that it would if it happened, as we've seen in attacks in sweden the last two days, in london two weeks ago. i was therefore that the huge attention in paris and nice. these get huge attention. what happened in egypt was unbelievably significant. if you look at what isis really stands for, what they are carrying out now in the middle east and the east in particular, is that it kind of genocidal attack on christians and christianity. they want christianity eradicated and they want to convert all muslims to their crusade, they want it to be a holy war. they want christians gone. and i don't think that narrative is getting the attention it should get in the american media and i think in other media as

well around the world. >> tucker: what's so strange is the west is primarily christian, predominately. that's what makes it the west. and yet there is a sense that it's somehow wrong to root for the home team. when something happens to christians abroad, it's somehow... i don't know, impolite, to mention it, because it's self interested. have you mentioned this? >> right. look. i just couldn't be more transparent about the attack in st. petersburg last week. they made it absolutely clear, this is a war against the cross. they said that. that is what the statement said. they are at war in their heads with christianity. not just with christianity, they are at war with all other religions as well. they have been singling out in increasingly viral in terms that the real war now is against christians and the cross. i am a catholic, you know? the pope -- i'm concerned about his safety after what happened on palm sunday, i'm concerned with the pope's safety. he would be a massive target, a

massive prize for these islamist terrorists. they have made it very clear that he is the number one target for them in that battle against christians. they attacked the church where these coptic christians pope was actually officiating. they have made their intentions clear. i think this is a huge story. this is the kind of story that ought to be dominating cable news in america. it should be dominating headlines around the world. the press in america should be full of headlines about this. this narrative to me is very straightforward. isis have declared war on christianity. i'm not seeing that being covered enough. >> tucker: no. basically no one is covering it here. but you can imagine the silence that has been greeted by. part of the problem is there are no sportsmen for this. so any other group was under attack, you would have people calling up tv station saying "put me on, i represent this group," where are the leaders in

america, i don't want to single anyone out by name, archbishop of canterbury, but why are they saying something? >> i couldn't agree with you more. we need leaders to come up and get on the airways and talk about other atrocities. a handful of people were killed in london. i was there. i worked literally 500 yards from west minister briggs. i was there within hours of that happening. i was struck by the immediate raised by religious figures to come talk about this in public there but where are they now after what happened in egypt? why is that not deemed to be hugely significant? the death toll was far higher? the number of wounded was far higher. it seems to be, in the eyes of global media and global religious leaders not to be as important as these kind of want to be jihadis who spent too much time on the internet, getting in trucks, mowing people down. yes, they are dangerous people,

they are hideous atrocities. our thoughts go to the people they kill and maim and the rest of it. but actually what happened in egypt to me with these attacks on these two coptic churches were hugely more significant in the overall -- it looks very technical by isis. it look like they sent in highly trained people to do this. and it looks far more coordinated part of a much more bigger thought by them to take on christianity. as was the attack in st. petersburg. they set it! like i said, they said this is an attack on the cross. again, the coverage of st. petersburg, the coverage of egypt, not as high as a handful of people being killed in sweden and london. and i asked, simply, why? >> tucker: thank you for being a clear voice in this period piers morgan, editor at large, dailymail.com. appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: up next, what would happen if 9/11 happened every single month?

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from huntington, west virginia, a much smaller town, 28 overdoses arrived in local hospitals in four hours. two examples of what constituted the worst drug epidemic in american history. the search is fueled by opioids. opioids are painkilling drugs which suppress the central nervous system and are incredibly addictive. some like oxycodone and morphine can be legally prescribed by doctors and art. others like heroin are banned by law. her when composers of the sixth 2,000 americans killed by drug doses but every day, they take their lives with 91 more americans. that is twice the number of americans killed per day in the height of the war in vietnam. a big part of the problem is availability. in 12 states, mostly across the midwest and the south, the number of opioid painkiller prescriptions exceeds the numbers of residents who live there. in new hampshire, for example, let's say that 1.3 million

people, 13 million doses of opioids were dispensed within a single three month period. in west virginia, the opioid overdose rate is more than 40 per 100,000 people. put that in perspective, that's more than 20 times worse than the peak of the crack epidemic. the crisis is an american problem. americans consumed 81% of the global supply of oxycodone and almost 100% of the supply of hydrocodone. the active ingredient for some of the most popular prescription painkillers. once cooked, addicts looking for a better or cheaper high over woman leads her into the black n painkillers. as a number of prescription painkillers rises, if you come to no surprise that the the -- that's why since 2002, the number of heroin addicts in the u.s. have increased by 200%. all of that which brings us back to montgomery county, ohio.

that party's biggest city, dayton, ranks number one in the country for drug overdose and is why is -- in the state of ohio, 3,310 people died of accidental drug overdoses in 2015 alone. that is more than the number of people killed in 9/11. christopher caldwell is the senior editor at the weekly standard. he's the author of what i think is the same single best overview of the opioid epidemic. he joins us now in the studio. great to see you. >> great to see you too, tucker. >> tucker: what are the factors that led to this crisis? >> well, not a lot recently, but more remotely. you know, the united states has had a very, very fraught relationship with some pain relievers, which i think has to do with the way a few things came together in the 19th century. around the same time you had the isolation of morphine, which comes from an opium poppy.

it's the great opioid, morphine. you have the invention of the hypodermic needle. and you have the civil war. and i think a lot of people came back from the civil war addicted and, and, and, and the doctors became enthusiastic about the pain killing properties of this drug. and so they started to prescribe it promiscuous -- they voted to ban it. there was a real taboo about opioids. >> tucker: and that changed. we had a problem in the late '60s and '70s, soldiers coming back from vietnam addicted to the stuff. the crisis dwarfs that. part of the reason you right in this piece, our attitudes of pain relief changed and that was in part of a result of lobbying. >> i think that's right. there was a problem with drugs in the 1960s. there was a great popularity of them. but heroin was not really part

of it. hippies did into heroin. it was a specific problem in vietnam, but that was very confined and it was a very localized thing. it was in the '90s that a number of corporations began lobbying and um, spending a lot of money on p.r. for a more liberal attitude toward pain relief, treating the relief of pain as a kind of human right. talking about pain like the fifth vital sign, what they called it. in 1996, purdue pharmaceuticals brought out oxycodone. it was a special way of delivering the opioid epoxy -- because it entered the system slowly, it was thought that to be so dangerous.

what addicts would crush them or they would bite them and you can release the whole thing at the same time and get high. and on top of that, these things tended to be wildly over prescribed. i mean... >> tucker: wildly over prescribed. this is what i don't get. opioids are physically addictiv addictive. there was a pretty clear relationship here. why hasn't the federal government, which oversees this, not shut it down? >> well, i don't know how you shut it down, you know? you need to ban opioids? >> tucker: well, bandy promiscuous prescription of them in ways that are clearly detrimental for our society. >> that has tended to be a state responsibility, and i think the states are really beginning to do it. certainly, some of the states that i do this for this article like rhode island and maine now have in very different ways pretty serious regimes for

cracking down on the over prescription of the spirits. what happened to purdue pharma? that they make good money on a? >> they made good money on it. the sackler family, they are number 16 on the list of the forbes of austria families >> tucker: just for selling oxycontin? >> the lion share of their businesses of purdue farms business is in oxycontin. >> tucker: 30 seconds left, if you could do one thing to stop this, not to treat the people currently addicted, but to become people more addicted, what it would be? >> i think there is a big problem with fentanyl, which is an artificial opio that can be made from a lab coming in from china and mexico. i think that things can be done to interdict it. >> tucker: and that is the deadliest of all the opioids and derivatives? >> it's about 50 times as strong as normal heroin. and dealers like to cut it by a

factor of 50 so it's normal. but they don't always do a good job, and so is highly unpredictable. and it leads to a lot of overdoses. >> tucker: christopher caldwell, the piece is "american carnage." it's on our facebook page. thank you la for joining us. >> thank you. >> tucker: cap next, the watchmen magazine says the attack on syria was equally offensive to native americans. you can't even imagine why? so stay tuned, so we will tell you. woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing america's emissions. energy lives here.

>> tucker: if you find hillary clinton to be corrupt, phony, immoral, perhaps even evil, millions of people did. and clinton herself has a theory about why. she says she was just too successful. and we crush that in america. during an interview in a women's forum, mrs. clinton said this.

>> with men, success and ambition are correlated with likability. so the more successful a man is, uh, the more likeable he becomes. with a woman, guess what? it's the exact opposite. so the more successful, and therefore, ambitious a woman is, the less likable she becomes. >> tucker: how stupid is that there be a let me put it this way. let me disprove it right now by bringing on two successful and deeply likable woman. debbie marcello's white house correspondent for the "washington examiner." welcome to you both. actually, first to you. this theory -- i mean, this theory is basically a cousin of every other purity, which is anyone who voted against her is morally suspect. >> what's fascinating for this to begin with is her like

ability numbers were just horrible to begin with. she was a terrible candidate. no matter how you slice it or dice it, she was never going to win. and somebody like trump who most people did not like was able to win because she was so unlikable. this election was hers to lose by a landslide. there were a lot of men women including myself who would like to see if he were president. i just did not want to see you hillary clinton to be president. maybe i am a horrible person for saying that. >> tucker: gabby, what cracked me up most is the idea that people didn't like her because she was successful. i don't want to be mean, she was secretary of state. that's fine. appointed position. in what sense she was so wildly successful, though? >> that's a good question. if you watch this interview, there was an egregious lack of self-awareness in what she was explaining. saying that my saws any cost or the election, that somehow her own success, whether it's secondary state, first lady, while the wife of president bill clinton, somehow it

cost her the election. this is not true. the fact that hillary clinton -- the reason hillary clinton lost the election is because she did neither the husband, the sons, the brothers of people in the rust belt region -- >> tucker: because she is a hater. >> 61% of americans couldn't label her trustworthy? because she deployed cigarettes like -- >> tucker: if you don't like me, you are a bad person. not me, it's you. all right. the editor-in-chief of the magazine ""mother jones"" said that president trump's attack on syria is among other things offensive to native americans. here's the reason. her name is clara jeffries. she is certain that many american indians is enraged that tomahawk cruise matthews that use the name of a traditional alcoholic when of a traditional algonquin weapon. >> i think what i'm going to say

here, a lot of people probably will not like. i think the other day i was never trump during the election and i came away from that thinking, while back, he did something that i am 100% behind. he said a clear message to assad. in one of those moments, we had a lot of people on the right calling him a neo-con, which is a very interesting revelation, where is it coming from? to take it in this direction for! there were a lot of hillary clinton supporters was active hillary did this, we would be supportive of it. >> tucker: i love the syria strike. this was a serious thing no matter what side you are on, to reduce it to the dumbest identity politics and save space rhetoric about tomahawk -- i mean... it's not a serious critique. >> no, it's not a serious critique. a liberal journalist who tweeted this outfit into her research. if she had, she would be aware of the fact that the u.s.

military names our helicopters, the second crew chiefs exam yeah is an indian chief. we named them after indian americans out of respect for and recognition of the warrior spirit of the indian-american. >> it's offensive. >> it's not offensive! it's the same thing harry reid did suggesting the redskins change their name. >> tucker: as a scandinavian, i am a vikings fan. thank you both. >> thank you. >> tucker: is up next, we bring you some disturbing information about the future of christianity in europe. it's in trouble. stay tuned. -drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. could save money on car insurance.e in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. so if you switch to esurance

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>> tucker: 1300 years ago, charles martel defeated the moors and europe has been a christian cotton ever since. all of that is changing fast. the christian faces dying in europe. according to new numbers from pew research, from 2010-2015,

there were 5.6 million more deaths than births among that confidence christian population. the client doesn't involve people quitting from church on their own which is considerable. meanwhile, europe's muslim population has exploded. through the same period, the number of european muslims grew by 2.3 million, a combination of much higher birth weights and a wave of immigrants from the middle east. they are already altering the basic culture of the continent. the charity "national trust" dropped the word "easter" from its easter egg hunt, saying it wanted to be inclusive of all religions. those trends are not limited to europe, they are global. worldwide, 31% of the planet is now christian and 24% is muslim. islam is gaining ground fast. with the current pace, it will be the world's largest religion. that is great news if you believe western civilization is so sinful that it deserves to be destroyed and replaced by something different as many on the left believe. but what if you don't believe

that? well, good luck to you. that's it for us tonight. sean hannity is next. we will see you tomorrow. have a good night. ♪ >> sean: and welcome to "hannity" for newt gingrich newt gingrich, oliver north, or -- warning the united states that after last week's tomahawk missile strike in syria and after calling out the russians over the chemical weapons attack, secretary of state rex tillerson gets ready to head back to moscow in what is shaping up to be a major showdown. plus in response to north korea and their aggression, the u.s. navy has sent a strike group to the region to show major force on our part for joining us now in turkey from the