dana perino in for the vacationing bill o'reilly and please remember the spin stops here because we are looking out for you.ut ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" despite donald trump being an alleged russian puppets, the american tensions with russia keep rising. a russian official said relations are at the lowest point since the cold war. he set aside his old skepticism towards nato. secretary of state rex tillerson and had an unproductive meeting with vladimir putin in moscow. >> right now we're not getting along with russia at all. if we may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with russia. >> we need to put an end to this steady degradation which is not doing nothing to restore the trust between our two countries

or to make progress on the issues of greatest importance to both of us. >> tucker: democratics strategist and it says there's plenty of warning signs that the administration is too cozy with russia. thanks for coming on. the relationship is bad right now, you heard the russians say the very same, use of the prime minister say were as close to war as we've been in a long time, do you believe any of this? is it is just part of the conspiracy? >> i actually do, i found today's developments on the one hand discouraging but on the other hand heartening. you saw the ad administration speaking with one voice aboutha russia and await many democratst fear they never would. russian is an adversary of the united states and you have ambassador haley, secretary tillerson and evenen president trump saying the right thing. so in that sense, it's encouraging. >> tucker: you're happy that were moving toward a war. that's what you just said to

clearly democrats are happy about it they want a confrontation with russia and i guess the question is why?ia one of the democratic party become the war party? >> i'm happy that this administration is taking russia seriously and the secretary tillerson sent the right signals today in his meeting with the foreign minister. >> tucker: but again, the prime minister of russia said that u.s.-american relations "are ruined and we are on the brink of armed conflict." that's bad, why would that be heartening to you? >> it's heartening in the sensee that i believe during theha campaign and thereafter, this president hasn't taken russia seriously. he said through multiple occasions, things that cause ust to question whether he put the united states interest first.awn seems to be doing that that's what's heartening to me. >> tucker: it's strange to be having watched politics so long to see the democrats so avidly pushing for a conflict with russia. i'm just confused, this is the new liberal position thatit because the people who run the

country don't respect human rights efficiently or they put propaganda into the american system, that we need to be in conflict with them. it is at the core of w this? i'm honestly confused. i >> i think it's more complicated than that. i think you have people on the left who are angry about thein election so they are pushing this. you have national security agencies, you have richard for the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, we haveh to get to the bottom of it and as a secretary tillerson andnd said today russia undoubtedly interfered with our elections and there ought to be more, stiffer penalties. >> tucker: there's literally no evidence of that at all none that has come into the public view that russia affected the outcome of the election. i guess what you are saying is here's the new threshold: if the country attempts to affect the outcome or injects its propaganda, they are our enemy and we have to have a bellicose posture with them is that the new standard? lot of countries meet that

standard, not just a few. >> russia interfered aggressively in our elections, they had thousands of people and internet bots trying to proliferate news that's fake on the internet to get people's opinions to change, that's inappropriate. >> tucker: what was the readership for that, do you know? it was basically around zero. there is no evidence that any of that information swayed a single vote. you have the russian television station which i think has an view of 30,000. as a keen observer i am missing, the animus toward russia stems from what, a lot of countries have done what russia did. why are we really met with russia on the left, what is this really about? >> i don't think it's left or right, i think it's country before party. you have many republicans who believe these things, lindsey graham, john mccain, richard burr. you have direct comey who aggressively went afterr hillary clinton in the investigation, i don't think this is a partisan issue so much as we need to get the bottom of

it. >> tucker: the permanent establishment in washington, my question is why would that be good for the united states? you saw democrats say that it was deeply troubling that the trump administration alerted the russian military before striking syria, would have been better to kill some of them with air strikes?il >> i think what you have there is people weren't assured that the administration was put in the united states interests first. a that's why they might have made a statement like that. what you saw today, however, was a very resolute administration, one which is not going to take a slaughter of innocent children lightly. and it's going to take appropriate action. >> tucker: innocent children are slaughtered around the world every single day and nobody says boo about it. i'm agnostic on the question of russia. why being at odds with russia helps the united states. >> we should be at odds that

anyone is trying to interfere and does not have interest at heart. >> tucker: there is no country at that has their own interest to her. >> we have allies, we have enemies, we have adversaries different degrees.er >> tucker: what these event states benefit by taking some aggressive with russia, an avowed appointment of islamic terrorism which i think you would concede. why should that person beme excited about moving toward war with russia? >> nobody should be excited about that. don't misunderstand me. i think for a while a lot of people weren't taking it seriously. >> tucker: again, you're not answering the question, what do> we get out of this?n, typically when the united states formulates a policy position abroad the aim is to make america safer or more prosperous. in what sense does this confrontation with russia now on going make our country safer or more prosperous?th >> with respect to our elections, it makes us safer in

our democratic processes to make sure that their integrity is preserved. we know from testimony -- coato >> tucker: there is no evidence, there's not a single person come forward i change my vote because i was watching rt. >> there's no evidence that al qaeda or isis have successfully breached our chemical plants, does that mean we shouldn't try to stop them? >> tucker: al qaeda and isis have killed one thousands of americans, russia hasn't done so. i feel less safe than i did a month ago thanks to cheerleading by the left pushing this administration toward conflict. >> i doubt this administration is listening to the left. i don't believe were on the brink of war, despite bellicose statements to the contrary by russia. i don't look to russia as to where we stand. >> tucker: apparently earlier this morning, not apparently, i think, a u.s. commercial flight flying from san francisco to

shanghai was turned away at the edge of russian airspace and the passengers were told that a american carrier is not permitted to enter russian airspace for "diplomatic reasons." if that turns out to be true, that's the suggestion that tensions are getting to a level that is dangerous and i would think as a liberal and a democrat you would say whoa, wait a second. this is scary.as instead you and many others are cheerleading this. >> i wouldn't say that.y. i think that's certainly troubling. what's heartening about today is tillerson and his counterpart announced that they are going to move back to noninterferencece with respect to airspace over syria and that's certainly much more significant because we could've had a militaryve confrontation and where they ara backing away from that. i also think it's heartening that they seem to have agreed to continue talking. there may be bellicose statements from the russians but we seem to be trying to resolve the situation as best we can. >> tucker: china mistreats its own citizens, dissent is crushed, dissidents are killed, it is invaded another country and occupies it, it seeks our destruction. chinese government has hacked

into american governments apparent though my computers many times it's factual for 20 pushing for sections against china, where she pushing for competition against china, itac meets all the criteria you lay down. >> what you pointed out is united states seeks to act in the spend is chris. if it's been one of you think it is been interest. they're doing everything russia has done much more. >> i do but sit at theee united since government. i agree with you. human rights are awful. >> tucker: so we should wage war. >> absolutely not. >> tucker: do you remember when democrats were the antiwar, they sangno songs when, or t-shirts, held concerts, held pea-sized. that was them though. democrats are now the d reflecte party of war. if there is a humanitarian quagmire on the other side of the globe, they are all for committing troops and you better be for it to they will denounce you, don't believe it? ask kelsey gabbert.

she remember the lessons of a rock perhaps because she served there herself and she has consistently warned against intervening in syria, she said it serves no u.s. interest likely empower terror groups and it could have dramaticallyow increased the suffering of civilians there. you might not agree with her point of view but you cannott call her positions crazy because they are not crazy. they are still too much for the modern democratic party. just last weekend, she was denounced by none other than howard dean who called her a disgrace. remember how her? is a former peacenik who ran for president in 2004 on the basis of his opposition to the war in iraq, and war cost -- he's demanding that she liveaq conference because she dare showed skepticism blaming asada for last week's chemical attacks. she helped manage hillary's campaign and she knows runs a center for american progress.

she is so outraged that gabbert does not support war in syria that she is called on hawaii's voters to punish her. someday we'll figure exactly hoe and why the left went crazy but for now it's obvious they decide sending american troops into battle much easier than improving the lives of voters. what is the real state of u.s.-russian relations in these tumultuous times, stephen cohen is a professor emeritus of russian studies at nyu and editor at the nation magazine, professor cohen joins us tonight. what is the view from russia, what is the russian government make of everything that's happened last week? >> they think we are crazy, completely crazy.er for all the reasons you just discussed with that the guest of yours and what you said about kelsey gabbert. you quoted the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev, i've been doing this for two years, i don't remember a soviet or post-soviet leader saying

this, he said american-russian relations are absolutely ruined, ruined.la what is important is dmitry medvedev is considered to be the most pro-western member of the putin leadership. he's the guy that obama and clinton try to base the reset on. your previous guest, i don't mean to be rude to him, but first of all he doesn't know what he's talking about, secondly, he excludes the reality that russia has a a politics and the politics of russia today as we talk. if not the conviction, the concern that america is preparing war against russia. if not in syria, then on the two other cold war fronts. ukraine or the baltic where nat is building up in anr unprecedented way. russia is really, really wound

tight and this is not good because they have nuclear weapons and because accidents happen. the one tiny piece of good news is that the new american secretary of state rex tillerson who has been slurred in this country as putin's friend because he made a wonderful deal for exxonmobil, which he headed for russian vast oil reserves under the sea. the russians and putin in particular know him very welll and they never would have made this multibillion-dollar deal with him if they didn't think he was a serious, honorable, ande reliable man. two things happened. putin was not supposed to meet with tillerson because a lot of the political class in russia, he did meet with him. i guarantee you, they had a conversation that essentiallyy came down to this. rex, says putin, what in the

world is going on in washington? what is this kremlin gate about that trump is our puppet? and by the way, says putin, there is no evidence and you haven't produced the evidence that assad committed that this chemical weapon act. so something between these two men went on which is exceedingly important for the matter of war and peace and i think what tillerson said afterward and suggested that they did have a candid conversation. >> tucker: let me ask you a question here. what is the motive particularly on the american left for pushing conflict with russia?? this is an utter role reversal from 30 years ago and i find it baffling? what's at the root of it, you've been a man of the left for most of your life, what is this about? >> i am like a reformed alcoholic, i have no memory of my previous life.

i don't know what left and right are, they are geography to me. we have issues and what you've been doing on your broadcast shows, you are concerned with issues. what's happened in washington, this attempt to portray trump as a puppet of kremlin's canvassing russia that the american warfare party is behind this. my concern is that russia will overreact. >> tucker: that seems like a legitimate concern for a countrc with nuclear weapon. >> i'm not young, i've been doing this for the years, sometimes as a professor, sometimes inside, i have never been as worried as i am today about the possibility of war with russia. >> tucker: those are ominous words and you would hate tot think that the root of all this is politically expedient, that would really be a shame and a lot of people would be culpable for that. thank you very much for joining us.lp

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bombing in dortmund, germany yesterday which nearly took out players on a top soccer team. after a shorter investigation, german police said they arrested a man who was motivated by radical islam. this is a surprising of course, how can we rationally expect them to commit such a large percentage of the terrorist attacks? it seems to be a remarkable coincidence that they appear to be committing most of them, perhaps they are provoked by something the germans are doing, were going to get to the bottom of that.f president trump says he doesn't want american troops in syria, his administration is maneuvering to topple bashar al-assad from power. surprising to some of his long time fan to appreciated --dash one of those is ann coulter, she joins us now. nice to see you tonight, washington is very focused on this and other foreign policy questions, what should people support with the presidentlast ? >> i knew there was going to be

massive pushback everything trump proposes to do on immigration, i didn't relist the pushback would be as strong for not starting pointless wars, you think that would be one of the simplest things to do. it's been interesting watchingon so many of these generals straight out of dr. strangelove pushing for war with syria, war with russia, war with north korea. i thought general mattis' statement was a fantastic yesterday, that seem to be returning to the trump policy on the campaign, how many times a day have the said? is not running of the president of the world, he put our interests first. it's a very hard explain the syrian attack, it's certainly not a vital national security interest, we generally don't at least conservatives don't rushing around the world for humanitarian reasons. for that region of the world, assad is one of the better

leaders, there are probably only one or two better than him. he's not even like a saddam hussain murderous thug. he helped us after 9/11, giving us intelligence. it's a very strange thing we've done here and i feel like it's such a departure from what trump said on the campaign trail. and in 2013 on his twitter feed. >> tucker: that's all true to be fair he did say yesterday unequivocably, we are not sending troops to syria which i think was reassuring to some people. it hasn't lessened the enthusiasm of a lot of people here about getting further involved in one of these wars. why is that ? what's the motivation behind? do you know? >> for the left and therefore the media, i think it's identical to their motive for wanting to dump the entire thirh world of the country could they want to destroy america. if they keep going to war, m sending our best americans toir

these wars, i know it's kind of cliche but it's not the graduates going off to do the fighting? it tends to be the west texas american men doing the fighting and apparently under the new rules, 14-year-old girls. it will deplete this country if we keep doing these wars, as i point out as i do in today's column it's always destroyed c precedence. it's never helped the country we claimed were trying to help. we think were removing a strong minded were helping the people get out from this brutal dictator. within the new tribe comes in, they are always much more brutal than the last tribe and they hate us even more. iraq, egypt, libya, iran, hownd many times we have to see this isn't working? >> tucker: that's because yougy didn't go to harvard, so you're not smart enough to perfectly

anticipate the outcome like thih whereas they are because you never worked at mckinsey and they did it. let me ask you about your speecs coming up at cal berkeley just a few months ago. there was literally a riot, what kind of welcome do you think you're going to get when you go there? >> i just read on breitbart that apparently the administration has essentially shut down a david horowitz speech there, they moved it a mile off campus and it's in the middle of the day where there are classes being held. the sponsor contacted me today you often get these pushback from administrators demanding all kinds of money and security fees and all sorts of other things. maybe i shouldn't be saying this because the sponsors haven't necessarily agreed to my proposal yet. one of the proposals the administration made was limited to students and i think that's not such a bad idea as i said before. the student at these places aren't the ones writing, what we're seeing is the rioters from ferguson going around to

colleges wherever they think it will be fun to smash a starbucks window. >> tucker: that's right. we wish you luck and i hope this will be your first stop after you get back from there in one piece, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> tucker: up next, last week lansing, michigan, defied the administration by making its sanctuary city. tonight they may decide to reconsider. will welcome back to that city's mayor to ask what exactly is going on in lansing. marie knows that a dutch apple pie can make any occasion feel more special. so she makes her pie crust from scratch. and sprinkles on brown sugar streusel. so that you can spend more time making special moments with your family. marie callender's it's time to savor

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>> tucker: a week ago, we interviewed to the mayor la >> tucker: a week ago, we interviewed to the mayorng lansing, michigan, regarding his city making itself a sanctuary city, after 168 hours as a sanctuary city, they cal the special meeting happening right now to reconsider this. it could cost them a lot of federal money. he was just at that meeting which is still going on and he joins us now, thanks a lot for coming on. last time we talked, you explained you were going to make lansing heaven on earth, i may be overstating it a little bit, just like a great american city by letting a lot oft people, there illegally and work for really low wages. it seems like the city council did in the gray, one then they see the brilliance of your plan? >> i said nothing like that, i think were a great city now. i heard from a lot of your fans

after i came on at you do have a great fan base. what we are seeing saying is democracy in action, this discussion is a part of it, i think we should have more conversations where we shedhi light and not heat and iit appreciate that. that's one thing i appreciate about your show that people get a chance to talk you talk about real issues. counsel is having a real debate, heard from chambers converse, ie work with them about growing business all the time in lansing and they are hearing for the people on both sides of the issue. they had months to do this before and they are doing it again now but democracy can be messy. i encourage the debate and i encourage the debate among your listeners as well. >> tucker: i totally agree, why is there any debate. when you have an idea as great as yours just bring in more people illegally, why wouldav anyone object to that? one of the arguments against that? >> with all due respect i know

your bona fides, you are well educated in journalism. there is no evidence that we are opening the floodgates to illegals by declaring it a sanctuary city or declaring nondiscrimination in our policing. it is no evidence that's open the floodgates at all. people heard you say that.. >> tucker: you think people. won't come? they will. >> i won't give in a city benefits. what we're doing is enforcing the law. a group that you should feel close to the cato institute recently came out with a study that shows in fact undocumented workers have a 44% lesse likelihood of committing crimes than so-called regular americans. >> tucker: that's a libertarian point of view that there are more impressive than we are and we should be quiet and accept them. >> its research and our policing shows that. the other thing about our last, i do want to talk about. >> tucker: i'm sure you want

to talk about a lot of things i want to back up to what you just said. they are actually more impressive than we are, that's a point of view. >> i never said they were more impressive >> tucker: there better people than we are, i get it. what if you pass a law protecting the right of actual citizens of lansing saying you have a right to not be the victim of a crime by someone here illegally, looking out for the people who are here illegally, who were born here who didn't sneak in. do you think the city council will be opposing on that? i doubt it. >> mr. carlson with all due respect, we do this every day. the brave men and women of our police force every day go out and enforce the law equally, they do not profile, they do not discriminate. if you are breaking the law, you are going to be arrested in lansing, michigan. we triage, serious crimes are dealt with first. we are a pretty safeio city. i'm part of the effort our police department is made.

the new statistics of the fbi crime statistics show we haveur another year of progress. crime is always --s >> tucker: it's a really simple thing. you say that people come here illegally are more morally upright than people who are born here. >> i never said that. you are putting words in my mouth. i said the cato institute's say. they commit fewer crimes. >> tucker: if they are so great and the cato institute study i guess proves that they are better than we are, why wouldn't your citizens been so excited to have more illegal aliens in their city? was a david being debated? >> some are excited about the century city and some aren't. i wanted to this. your president, our president trump and said he wanted to get rid of the bad hombre spread i said some of the people who angrily came on. the president said he wanted to

get rid of the bad ones, the criminals, the rapists he was talk about. now it seems like they want to go out after every single undocumented worker. no president has tried to do that. i understand president obamare deported some people, i'm not saying nobody should be deported. this idea that we're going to deport a ten or 11 million people, folks that are here building a better life, i can't go along with that and i can't allow my police force to be distracted to do immigration enforcement on the behalf of the federal government. and you guys love local control, would have at your local control? >> tucker: i get it. who should be deported? a if you are not alerting federal authorities to the presence of illegal aliens in your community, how can they can be deported? >> i hope i don't regret this, i'm quoting president trump. criminals. >> tucker: here's an actual question, let's say the lansing police department picks up an illegal alien for drunk driving. that's a bad thing. in new york city, that person ia

not reported to the feds because their policies to protect people who are here illegally beforeo american citizens, would you report a drunk driver here illegally to the feds? >> that's a good question that i don't have the absolute answer to, i would think certainly on a second offense they would.d. i'm honestly not sure. >> tucker: why aren't you sure, you're the mayor, what's your position on that?ot why would you not to deport someone who's driving drunk, are you serious? >> i work with the police chiefo in the city attorney, i'm not a lawyer myself but i did issue the executive order. i'm not sure that a first offense of drunk driving would that we would move the deportation for that? >> tucker: why? >> because if nobody was hurt, if they agreed to go into a program to a diversion program. >> tucker: then it's all cool, if it initially had any kids in a crosswalk. >> what would we do if you gotot caught drunk driving?

>> tucker: i'd be punished if i was in somebody else's country illegally, -- i'd be in jail and deported. >> they would be punished like anybody else would be punished. >> tucker: they would be deported to the feds and they might stick around to do it again as many have as you know. maybe your citizens would appreciate it is you thoughtai about them as well as the illegals. >> we think about them every day, that's one of the reasons crime is down. when an extension of the federal government. >> tucker: thank you for joining us. >> you want to local control, we are giving her local control.. >> tucker: up next, part three of drugged, the opioid academic ravaging america. america's veterans are the hardest hit in that crisis, much more than you realize. we saw how flying can in fact be hazardous to your health, it's not all bad. one family did manage to make 11 grand by not lying.

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>> tucker: we want to bring you the third part of "drugged" or weeklong series of the opioid epidemic. in particular by the easy availability of opiatesucuc america's veterans. >> tucker: jason was a husbandas and a father, from 1998-2002, he served as a corporal in the u.s. marine corps. august 30th 2013, he died. it showed his corpse was laced with a lethal cocktail of drugs, including opioids.s. he was a patient at the vaor hospital a place so infamousgs over prescribing painkillers,

veterans referred to it as candyland. the crisis finds its darkest depression and how it finds our veterans. year after year, doctors at va hospitals over prescribe opioids to vets returning fromom wars in iraq and afghanistan. the va itself admitted it was blessed of the growing addiction crisis appeared at the va deserves blame. va doctors diagnosed 60% of that's from the plummets of the middle east with chronic pain that compares to 30% for the overall american population. until recently, the va treated a veterans chronic pain almost exclusively with opioid painkillers. prescriptions sorted by 270% over 12 years and easy access to the drugs lead to sky-high addiction rates. the va failures don't stop there. in addition to getting tens of thousands of that's hooked on synthetic heroin, the va hasas

consistently failed to help them deal with their addictions. consider the va hospital near fayetteville, north carolina, that's not far from fort bragg, the nation's largest military base. 47% of prescription there are abuse, according to "the wall street journal" the va health system and still has no residential addiction treatmentu program, no in patient detox acacian facility. if there are only five doctors in a 21 county area who are abln to dispense medications able to treat overdoses. the consequences of all this, veterans remain hooked on drugs or the turn to private clinics. at one small clinic near fort bragg, for hundreds of veterans line up outside every morning for methadone the drug used to treat their addiction. the line forms at 5:00 every morning. that strategy stomach tragedies not confined to north caroline it plays out across country. american veterans are twice as likely to die from accidental overdose as nonveterans. last year alone, nearly 70

thousands of them sought treatment for opioid at va hospitals. it's addiction far worse than anything experts in american history. we contacted at the va for a statement they acknowledge thati opiate abuse is a serious public health issue of course and theyy said they launched an initiative to reduce opioid use amongst veterans. they also said more work needs to be done. a veteran that took a job after the va, he became a whistleblower because the terrible practices he observed there, he joins us now. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> tucker: the first number jumped out is 60% of returning vets from the middle east, afghanistan and iraq were prescribed opioids for chronic pain and nearly half of them developed addiction to it of some kind. that number seems crazy, how could 60% -- 60% -- of all returning vets be given these drugs? >> it's an easy way to mask

problems that people are having whether it's in the military or outside of the military. it's easy for doctors to prescribe something that makes their patient feel better, even though it doesn't really take care of their underlying issues that are there. the reason your statistics arely right on, why is it that veterans get back from the battlefield and they are dealing with these kind of injuries, they end up in a system, in a bureaucracy like that va and they end up being treated even worse than people being treated because of the opioid epidemic and the rest of society, it's because of the va it's a t government bureaucracy is the second-largest bureaucracy bureaucracy in the federal government. veterans are used to being in at system where there is harsh and immediate accountability for b actions.ha when a division commander sees a lower level commander that'ss doing something wrong, they are taken care of right away.

veterans get thrown into a system where you are dealing with civil service regulations and laws that are archaic and they protect the wrongdoers and you just can't get rid of people. >> tucker: you would think that someone would take the overview at some point. i know that hospitals and hospital systems keep close track of the data and the metrics. 60% of all returning veterans are getting opioids go to market this something wrong. why did nobody reach that obvious conclusion? >> you hit the nail on the head it's about oversight. there is two levels of oversight that need to happen and both ofh them failed at least in the situation at the va. i speak to whistleblowers acros the country and i hear the same thing. the first level of accountability is within the bureaucracy itself, within the va. that accountability just doesn't exist. when you go into a system like that where wrongdoing isn't checked, any psychologist wouldh

tell you that that's going to lead to an environment where unchecked behavior leads to bad consequences. you have that first level of accountability, that's the problem. there's also another level of accountability that's missing here and that's among our political class. that's our elected officials who are supposed to oversee federal bureaucracy like the va. the political class in wisconsin completely failed, you have it senator tammy sitting on a detail and a veteran died and you have congressman ron kind who was getting complaints. >> tucker: and i've noticed and meanwhile the government just printed an entire generation of addicts, thank you forte everything you've done on this topic. we're back in just a minute with our panel, stay tuned. t.

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the one you're supposed to do. my favorite is an exchange between maxime and henry and maxine says it's stupid. she think political correctness is stupid that is apparently incorrect, i would to be maxine in this situation and do not henry. there's also another one with s alejandra and a couple of different students and one group shows up early and other shows up late and it's somehow racista if you are upset and you ask the other group to apologize for tardy and tardiness because were supposed to recognize other cultures, is it that they are tardy, were supposed to recognize that. >> tucker: punctuality is bigotry. that's their position. >> if you like people to be on time because it's clearly racist. >> tucker: that's clearly insane, can you top that? >> not meant for live television. >> tucker: it's not intuitive, do you have better than that. >> i know you like a good

airline story, everyone is pretension paid attention to united airlines, family of three picked up at laguardia in new york that they got paidd $11,000 to voluntarily forgo their flights to florida. they picked up on friday, delta air lines was offering money to people to pump voluntarily get bumped from their fight, there was some big storms in the area or something. they four went to their tickets friday night, came back saturday, sunday there were like we're just canceling the flights. every time they did this each member got $1,350. >> tucker: they had to borrow for today's-- >> correct that it was a combination of gift vouchers and cash, they didn't get beat up. >> tucker: i'm good have to go, we actually called clemson and

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being bumped from his seat in favor of a higher priority passenger. nobody beat him, he's grateful for that. that's it for us tonight, hannity up next, have a great night, we'll see you tomorrow. >> sean: we have a lot of breaking news tonight, jay sekulow, sara carter, dr. sebastian gorka, piers morgan will all join us as wellr is maria bartiromo but first let's start with the highly anticipated showdown with the russians over syria's use of chemical weapons. secretary of state rex tillersoh met face to space with resident leonard putin and held a contentious news conference with the country's foreign minister. rich edson is an the country with more. >> secretary of state m with vladimir putin, with foreign minister sergey lavrov