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tuesday. thank you to all of you and your families and loved ones that gave their lives for our liberty and freedom. now, barbecue and drink beer. have a great weekend. i will see you tuesday. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." british authorities are continuing to investigate the suicide bombing in manchester on monday, the one that killed almost two dozen people. nothing they have found so far will surprise you. seven people have been arrested for possible involvement in that plot. police are warning that bombers solomon arbor day may simply haveen been the mule for a bomb built by someone else. and that person remains at large and could strike again. that is one concern, but there are other facts in the case that ought to get policymakers thinking deeply about how and why this happened.e this will all seem similar topl you if you watched any of these before. the bomber was born inou britai, not some far-off land, but he grew to embrace islamic radicalism and declared war on
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the country that raised him and killed his neighbors in effect. there are many more like him. a new report released by the british governmentt. concludes there are about 3500 people being watched as potential terrorists. not a big country. at least 400 people who have returned to britain after leaving to fight for isis, the very group that took responsibility for the manchester bombing. maybe there are lessons here, patterns that lawmakers need to consider as they respond. or we can go with the traditional choice, the one favored by our leaders, which is to add british flags to our facebook profiles, pretend that terrorism somehow brings us together rather than drives us apart, and dismisses anyone who asks real questions as a bigot and a nativist so we can maintain the illusion that terror bombings are just an unavoidable fact of life in the big city. which is the better option? joining us now to help decide, nigel farage, former leader of the u.k. independence party, ukip, and mark stein, the columnist and sometimes guest host for rush limbaugh. it's great to see you both.
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nigel, just a factual question first. there are brits who the authorities know have gone to fight for isis and they are walking free on your island. how can that be? >> i simply can't believe it. for the last few years, i've said that either we take away the passports of people we suspect are being linked to isis to stop them going, or perhaps better still, when they go to syria, on their attempt to return, we take their passports away and stop them coming back in. the remarkable thing is that we know of 400 that have been in syria that have returned, but we suspect the number may be a thousand or more. and yet we've only taken action against 40. i'm frankly sick to death of seeing prime ministers and leaders standing up after
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attacks saying how awfully sorry we are, when nothing is being done to counter the bad guys. >> tucker: mark stein, if you're running a country and the people in your country have gone to fight with the most grotesque terror group ever created and you do nothing about it, you're really not trying to protect your population, are you? >> no. i'm old-fashioned enough to believe in treason. you described this killer as british. these 850 people, i think, who are known to have gone off to fight in syria and iraq, nigel will know this better than i do, but for purposes of comparison, at the height of the ira's campaign, mi5 estimated that there were no more than 100 active operatives. that involves just basically going 20 miles down the road. these guys traveled halfway around the planet to fight for the queen's enemies. that's the definition of treason. i don't know why they're walking around in the street. we're told that it would be very expensive to throw away 150 people into prison. germany estimates that for every
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one of these suspects they're tracking, they need 60 people tracking that guy. it's a lot cheaper to toss them into prison for going off andnd fighting your enemies abroad than it is to have 60 people monitoring them and then doing nothing until 48 hours after they've blown up a bunch of people. >> tucker: you've got to wonder, nigel, if the government can't even punish people who were at war with it and with its population, than what is the point of having a government? isn't that the most basic responsibility of the government? >> the primary aim of any government should be to protect its citizens and the integrity of the nation. i'm afraid this country is so hidebound by political correctness that we have allowed the mass sexual rape and abuse of thousands of underage girls in northern cities and we've done nothing about it, allowed people to go and be deeply radicalized, even brutalized in
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syria and done nothing about it. all because we're scared of being thought perhaps if we target one particular community, those of islamic faith, we might be thought to be racist. what is interesting is that our prime minister, theresa may, was, of course, for six years the home secretary. she was the person in charge of all of this and frankly, all i can say is she failed dismally in any attempts to stop radicalization from within or to stop bad people from outside coming into our country. manchester was a shock.ts it was a new low. attacking young girls at a concert, and people are upset, people are angry, and i think we now, even us slow to anger brits, now need some action from our government. >> tucker: mark, do you agree with that? do you think it's a matter off leaders who would literally rather see children die than be called bigoted?
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>> yes, i think so. i i was listening to the deputy mayor of manchester, i think it is baroness hughes-- correct me if i'm wrong, she is saying we have to have the courage to call this what it is. and then she said it's extremism. extremism is a weaselly and invasive term. and then she said we have to accept that muslim people are no more likely to commit thesee acs than white people are. and that, in fact, is not the case. not after brussels, not after nice, not after the berlin christmas market, not after the murder of the french priest last year. there is a particular problem, and as disgusting as what happened on monday night is -- was -- equally concerning is the reaction of people like the deputy mayor and the prime minister and the chief constable of greater manchester who are basically asking the citizens of the united kingdom to live with
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the official lie when nothing can be said that actually approximates to the reality of the situation here. that's soviet and totalitarian. they basically said this is an official lie. you know it's absurd, you know it doesn't match what you see, but this is it and you have tot accept it. it's wicked to do that. >> tucker: you're required to believe it. they want to control your mind,w not just your behavior. nigel, when you watch the american response, even a cultural response to an event like what happened in your country on monday, are youpo surprised by how few of the lessons americans are learning from this? >> i'm not sure actually. there is optimism here. i spoke to seth yesterday, who of course is dealing with counterterrorism and president trump in the white house and i think there is a new mood in the american government, a desire to cast aside political correctness, a genuine desire to stop radicalization fromo
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happening. had hillary won, she couldn't even bring herself to use the phrase "islamic terrorism." i think with trump, you have got somebody who has the moral courage to deal with this and tucker, can i say, i thought his speech in riyadh to 50 of the world's biggest muslim leaders, when he said to them, "drive out from your own places of worshipe those that spread extremism," i think america is at a much better place than we are here. though i have to say, you mentioned already there are 3,500 terror suspects living in the united kingdom. belgium, with a population of 12 million, there are 18,000 suspected terrorists. there are some countries even worse than us. >> tucker: i'm feeling better about america already. nigel and mark, thank you very much for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: another smallll story
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this morning, not terror related, but one that says a lot. a new survey found that british university students were so overwhelmed by student loan debt that a third of them would consider prostitution in ordern to pay off their loans. before you judge that, consider that the situation here in the u.s. may be no better. student loan debt is higher here, more than 1 million college kids have enrolled in one prostitution web site, just one, and maybe others hoping to sell themselves for cash. these are normal kids working to get an education. people you might know, might live on your street, willing to become a hooker to pay the bills. is this the america you remember? isn't this a rich country? for some, it's richerfo than ev, take a trip outside of the city sometime. like the recovery never happened because in a lot of places, it didn't happen. almost half of the people here in the u.s. can't come up with 400 bucks on a day's notice. that's a pair of tires for your truck, not even all four. yet it's still too expensive perhaps, not even likely for your neighbors. since 1990, the percentage of
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working age americans which are classified as quote "disabled" has doubled. a lot of them, the disability they face is a total lack of jobs near where they live. none of these people shows up in the fake unemployment numbers washington shamelessly peddles to the rest of us. it's not surprising that heroin use has exploded in rural america. drug ods has killed 50,000 people per year in this countryh in a lot of ways, things are bad in parts of america, that's why so many voters rolled the dice on donald trump in the last election. it's also why it is vital to the people in charge to address the underlying problems that put them there in the first place. they're not addressing those problems, in case you haven't noticed. latest evidence comes from a new poll released by politico. as of this morning, 60% of democrats say that trump should be impeached and removed from office. nearly half of democrats, this is amazing, believe that congress's top priority ought to be investigating the administration's ties to russia. not fixing health carey or unemployment, the opioid crisist
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or finding out why college kids are selling their bodies to pay student loans, but the russia conspiracy. that's the most important thing to half of all democrats. as we've noted before many times, this is crazy. worse than that, it's negligent. the real story is not donald trump, whatever you think of him, it's the real people who voted for him. they voted for him for a reason, in some cases, even though they didn't really care to vote for him. a lot of them were actually democrats abandoned by their party. democrats could probably win a lot of these people back at homw if they cared about theirr live. but instead, the party has retreated further into the cul-de-sac of identity politics. open borders, transgender bathrooms, and a number of esoteric and poorly thought out ideas pushed by its component interest groups. and now, russia, the grandest conspiracy of all, the one that explains everything in the universe, very much including the failures of the democratic party. trump didn't win, putin installed him. it's a lie, but it feels good. what a relief from self-reflection.
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so, democrats take hit after hit until one day they're hopelessly addicted to this lie. they're putinheads looking for their fix on cnn. it's amusing, its poignant, it's sad, but in the meantime, the middle class is still dying.g. former senior advisor to the dnc, he ran the trump war room, and zac petkanas joins us tonight. half of all democrats believe investigating the ties between trump and russia is the single most important agenda item for the congress to pursue in face of everything that's happeninger this country. that tells you everything. >> i think what it tells you is it's a very serious issue that congress needs to take serious, and the white house needs to start taking it seriously, which is something that weha haven't been seeing from them. in fact, what was seen is they have spent their capital trying to undermine the special counsel, throwing out these arcane rules from the department of justice trying to limit the scope of what they can investigate so they can't investigate jared kushner.
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i think this is a reaction to the fact that people in washington don't seem to be taking this seriously, certainly not from this white house. >> tucker: i don't know what washington you're living in. may be different from the one i occupy. >> how about the washington where paul ryan and kevin mccarthy, the leader of the party joked about the fact that he believed donald trump andie another member of congress being paid by the russians. >> tucker: he might be part of the conspiracy too. you're kind of missing the point i am making, and so is your party. we just had a political revolution in november, something none of us expected. least of all the democrats. it happen for a reason, a reason that parties refused to pay attention to. they exist to respond to anxieties and hopes and the needs of their constituents and the democrats, rather than thinking how the hell did this happen, what did we do wrong, went right to russia. meanwhile the middle-class is still dying. >>on we can walk and chew gum at
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the same time. >> tucker: what's the evidence? >> there's a vigorous opposition to the republican health care bill which is, they said 23he million fewer people are going to have health care. >> tucker: are you joking? >> you don't think that that matters to people? >> tucker: i think it does matter. >> a senior that is making $26,000 year will see in 850% increase. >> tucker: you're kind of missing the point, democrats just lost last election on obamacare. obamacare was in place, the same program all of us live underar right now was in place on election day and it failed the middle class. that's why michigan and a bunch of other unexpected states went for trump rather than hilary. b my only point is, where is the reflection here? where's the concern about actuae issues, the unemployment numbers? did carter paige's russia ties bring a single job to a single american? i mean, really. >> rob quist and mandana, what is he campaigning on right now?
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is he campaigning on russia? what he's talking about is health care. he's talking about fixing obamacare and is talking about campaigning. >> tucker: you're making my point for me. >> you can walk and chew gum at the same time. we are focusing and making sure that our republic is secured. because of the extraordinary intervention by a hostile foreign power. >> tucker: you're selling crap to your voters and you know that. you're telling them all theiran problems can be explained by vladimir putin's intervention. >> it is 100% not true. >> we're going out there and campaigning every day on health care. that's what candidates are going out there and talking to people about. they're spending a lot of the time focusing on. if you turn on the tv. >> tucker: i host a cable showry in the city and i can promise you that every person i talked to on the left is totallyy absorbed in the russia story and this poll, on which this whole segment is predicated, proves that it's true. >> russia is an extraordinarily important issue because there is a potential active obstructionus of justice piece that's going on
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right now. i >> tucker: oh, my god, . >> it's very, very important. however, we are talking in a very focused way on health care, which is all the evidence you needed. to go into georgia. >> tucker: your reaction --dash i'm agreeing with you that when democrats address middle-class economics, they have a shot and by the way, the country deserved someone to focus on that. bernie sanders almost got your nomination, and he did not by talking about russia or these weird social issues that really serve nobody except your stupid little interest groups. he talked about bread-and-butter things like student loans. these are real things.-b and you guys have abandoned that completely. >> if you go onto the floor of the house of representatives, what are they talking about? they're talking about health care, they're talking aboute jobs.y the first thing that senate democrats did, what did they do? they sent an infrastructure job bill to the white house. where has that been? that has been sitting there languishing. >> tucker: to spare me. they are going to impeach trump because he's not responding to the opioid crisis or unemployment or the rising health careea costs?
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no, they are trying to impeach him because they think he is a vladimir putin marionette. >> the democratic leadership is not talking about this. it's talking about an awful health care bill that is 23 w million people. >> tucker: maybe would be good for the democratic party to leave weather then letting its interest groups set the agenda and it's spun up net roots who watch the cable show racked on the sun that, but to articulate what the messages. the middle-class needs k representation and they're ignoring it. >> if you want to know what we are talking about on a daily basis, go to your candidates talking about health care, or talking creation. >> tucker: one guy in montana. >> and georgia and other candidates that are going around. >> tucker: zac, it's great to see you, thanks. >> you, too. >> tucker: president trump is trying to cope with the special prosecutor and the white house staff that has sprung a million leaks. too small in number, more than a million. is it time to bring back one ofn his political allies from the campaign, corey lewandowski?i? joining us in a minute, trump's former campaign manager. is he going back to the white house? published reports say yes.
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we'll ask. new york is keeping honors on a terrorist's terror group murdered five new yorkers. this is actually happening right now. n plus, we'll ask a city councilmember why he is supporting this guy and why new york is suddenly in favor of terror. an amazing story. stay tuned. 80 percent of recurrent ischemic strokes could be prevented with the right steps. and take it from me, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.
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now, rumors are swirling that trump wants to bring him back to the white house as part of a special crisis management team. are the rumors true? corey lewandowski joins us tonight to confirm or deny. corey, are you going back to u e white house? >> tucker, the only time i go tc the white house is as a guest. you know that. just as a visitor. i like to bring my family sometimes, that's about it. >> tucker: you wouldn't consider going back to work as a crisis manager as this investigation asproceeds? >> let me be very clear, and i think everyone knows this, my loyalty is to the president and to make sure that his agenda, which he ran on witches jobs, homeland security, building a wall, making sure people are back to work, cutting taxes to the american middle class isngco moving forward. and if that means i can help the president by doing that, of , privilege.uld be a let me be clear, i've got a great life. i love doing what i'm doing. if i can help the president from the outside, i can be very, very helpful from the outside may be much more so than even on the inside. >> tucker: if you went inside, what would you do?
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what does crisis management meaning of situation like this? >> honestly, i don't know and to conversations about this what's amazing is, there's one media outlet which would like to qualify as fake news, it's called politico, they read a story and suddenly everyone picks up on it and says wow, it's factual. that was on an airplane coming back from miami on friday, the story breaks and all of a sudden i get a bunch of phone calls and says, i heard you have a job att the white house. nobody told me or anyone else i had been associated with. don't believe everything you read in the fake news. >> tucker: i would never defend politico. it's a ridiculous web site but a lot of people in the white house talk to politico. that is real. they're getting a lot of calls from staff, both career people and appointees, from within the building. so, that's kind of the larger question, why all these leaks, have never seen as many leaks in the administration since i've been here.t >> it's very clear to me and k what was seen as we saw a report and i don't know if it's actually accurate or not, but we saw there's three staffers who have been identified by news outlets who have leaked
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classified information.ws if that has happened, those people should be held at the highest standards of the law accountable which is a felony.ds if there are additional leaks that are taking place, i would recommend that the staff in the white house dig in as hard as i can to find out who those leaks are and immediately remove those people not just from the white house but from any government agency that they are working for and move them out as quickly as possible. there is a deep state that want to see the president not s accomplish his agenda. they did not support him when hn ran, they do not support him as as the president and they should not be working in his administration. >> tucker: and they're working day and night to undermine the president. so, two and half hours ago, "thc new york times" put a story on its web site saying that intelligence services picked up conversations between russian intelligence officials talking about how to influence the trump campaign. there is no suggestion that the trump campaign cooperated with
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this or became agents ofof russ, but this is clearly an attempt by career intel officers to hurn the white house. that's a big deal.o that doesn't happen a lot and in normal administrations, so, what is being done to stop this? this will paralyze the administration if it happens. >> that's right. i don't think the intelligence community, classified information was leaked again by the president's conversation with another world leader. that is being done from the intelligence community, solely to discredit this president. they don't want to see and be successful. they are doing so not just to the detriment of the president but at the detriment of the entire country. these people need to be held accountable, need to find out who they are, be removed i immediately and if they have committed a crime, they need to be prosecuted that crime. >> tucker: there is going to be or already is in fact a criminal investigation underway, and we are not exact leisure who the targets are but presumably
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everyone who works over there and anyone in the orbit. what's going to happen is that people conducting that investigation start leaking what they find during the course of it? >> you completely erode the public trust. no matter what takes place, there are things that should be brought up to the public in the interest of full disclosure and things that should be done behind things to make sure that they aren't leaked to it andt what we've seen in this administration, unlike in the obama administration, the bush in administration beforehand, if there's a leak within the organization, i think what has to be done is they have about 4,000 presidential appointments. the staff needs to work its due diligence as quickly as possible to make sure his appointeesnt ae being put in place. we have seen time and time again again, the holdovers. we saw it at the department ofuc education just yesterday, a holdover quit as opposed to testifying before the committeet we saw that sally yates refused to implement a direct order of the president and was removed from her job. these people who served under
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the obama administration will do anything they can to destroy this president. they need to be removed and the need to be brought in who are loyal to the president and loyal to the country. yesterday.yeah, like we don't have time to ask what hasn't been done, but it is the question that hangs in thehe ai. corey lewandowski, thanks a lot for joining us tonight. >> thank you >> tucker: oscar lopez rivera was a leader and a terror group that committed hundreds of bombings and killed five in new york. he went to prison for a long time, now, he's out. obama got him out. now, new york city is honoring him as a great man. up next, we'll talk to a city councilman who compares him to nelson mandela. find out why. ♪ people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital
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>> tucker: new york was holding puerto rico day upcoming two weeks, and this will make national news. organizers have announced they're going to honor a man called oscar lopez rivera >> tucker: new york's annuall puerto rico day is coming up in two weeks, and this will make national news. organizers have announced they're going to honor a man called oscar lopez rivera during the parade. who is he? a terrorist,ic literally. lopez was a leader of the puerto rican nonmilitary group that was committing all kinds of attacks throughout the united states in the '70s and '80s and attempted to make puerto rico communist. they murdered five people in new york during a series of bombings. lopez rivera would still be imprisoned for his many crimes, but president obama commuted his sentence just before leaving office with very little fanfare, as the press didn't really bother to cover it and he went free. jermaine williams is on the city council here in new york city and he signed a letter praising lopez rivera claiming solidarity with him. i'm not even sure what to say
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about this. you represent new york city, a city you think would be sensitive to terror. and yet, you're endorsing an admitted terrorist. there is no debate about what the guy did. he admitted it. so, why would you do that? >> so, one, i'm going to be marching in the puerto rican day parade to celebrate the heritage and the culture there. two, mr. lopez hasn't said that he committed any violent crime and hasn't been associated with violent crimes. and lastly, a lot of these things depend on the vantage c point that we're looking at. so, nelson mandela was a terrorist until 2008, five years before his death. by the united states government. so, a lot of times, people are conflating the use of violence as they say as the separation, but what they're trying to say -- >> tucker: i don't even know. you didn't even do your research. what do you mean he didn't admit it? he did admit it.
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he was convicted. i actually read contemporaneous news reports today. in 1981, he went on trial pretty was convicted of armed robbery and bomb making and a bunch of other things. he admitted that he did it. then president clinton tried to offer him clemency if only he i would renounce violence and he wouldn't. there's no debate that the guy committed acts of violence but he admitted to armed robbery. >> because they didn't recognize the united states, they didn't put up a defense. the united states just went ahead and did their own case. but he has renounced violence -- >> tucker: he admitted that he committed for armed robbery. >> that aside, we should get to the real point. many people conflate, saying, i the cause when they reallyy just don't believe in the cause to begin with. so, i submit to you, what strategy should be used to fight for one's freedom, justice, and equity? >> tucker: how about the system they use in puerto rico where they have referenda where they
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vote on whether they want to be an independent country or a state or a terroristicic countr, which they regularly do? they do that all the time. you obviously don't follow thisl in any detail. he is also a terrorist. >> again, the nelson mandela was viewed as a terrorist until 2008. >> tucker: are you really comparing him to nelson mandela? >> hold on. martin luther king was the most dangerous man in america by thee fbi. he was shot and killed violently. what we're saying, we did is very often. >> tucker: did martin luther king commit armed robbery? what are you saying? >> what we're saying is we conflate a lot of issues. >> tucker: you're conflating issues. i'm not even attacking theke i cause. i'm merely saying, armed robbery and making bombs are not legitimate forms of political expression. you think they are. >> the united states has supported people who have done violent acts in the course of getting their freedom across the world. what we tend to do is -- >> tucker: i'm not for that. are youu for that? >> i'm not, but what i am saying
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is, we should be consistent. so, when this that pay drinks daily. he b celebrated the ira by having them in their parade, the ny pd didn't participate because there was a lot of irish and the nypd. >> tucker: i'm against that too. you can say the same thing about timothy mcveigh. he thought he was committing an unitedwar against the states but how would you have felt if present bush hadld committed his sentence and he was honored in a parade? >> you're comparing different things. we have a colony that has no representation and can't vote for president, can't vote in congress and either they want statehood or they want independence. >> tucker: they get to vote -- i'm trying to be patient. you don't know anything about this. they get to vote on whether they want. >> i actually do. >> tucker: that are you aware that they get to vote popular vote on whether they want to be their own country, and they don't. i think they should, by the way, they don't because i get so much in aid from the united states. >> people who actually do and have been fighting it for some time.
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the question is, what do we do when people are fighting for their freedom and justice? so often -- >> tucker: so it's okay to commit armed robbery. >> i don't condone it. i support nonviolence. what i'm saying is even when we do nonviolent resistance, whether it's sitting down forr people saying black lives matter, people get excoriated with the same link. >> tucker: so you're a demagogue violence. making excuses for development shape to enact behavior and you should be ashamed of yourself. >> they prefer one strategy over another when they don't refer any strategy at all. >> tucker: it's pretty simple and you're in a position of responsibility. people voted for you, they look to you. you should say unequivocally nobody -- you're supporting a guy who admitted to armed robbery. >> people who became the taliban, this country has supported saddam hussein. we are saying one thing for a group of people and another for another. >> tucker: when things fall apart, it p is people like you o we will be responsible for them.
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people who told constituents that it's okay to use violence. >> people like you actually try to conflate issues, but i'm saying to you, whatever it is that is brought up when it comes to strategies for freedom and justice, the people who are privileged usually trying to dictate what should be done and what we should celebrate. >> tucker: all of us of all colors and all incomes can agree that armed robbery is not legitimate. >> tell me -- what i am saying to you. tell me -- >> tucker: i'm out of time, councilman. insane. colleges across america claim tc be becoming safer and savor for dire consequences with anyone for a controversial idea. after the break, we'll talk to adam corolla, the most popular podcast host in the world and the great dennis prager about their upcoming documentary on campus safe spaces. melania and ivanka's clothing choices. our panel will decide if that's merely silly or the silliest story of the day. ♪ . i've had it up to here! it's been month after month of fiber.
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>> tucker: people across the country are fleeing from uncomfortable ideas, now going to omnipresent safe spaces where they can live lives free ofre scary ideas they don't understand. now, adam corolla wants to put them at risk. he's teaming up with radio host dennis prager to make a documentary film called "no safe spaces." they've traveled the country to ask college kids aboutut the suppression of dissent on campus here's part of it. >> the university of tomorrow is here. a place of discovery, tolerance, and acceptance. >> our commitment to diversityco means that nobody graduates until they think just the right way. >> at utopia university, therera are no violent words to hurt me. >> i will punch you if you're a fascist. >> i'm going to be the next che guevara. >> we speak out against privilege. >> we checked our privilege. >> welcome to utopia u. >> a wonderful place to learn that everything your parents taught you is wrong. >> tucker: adam corolla and dennis prager join us now. boy, this film is overdue.
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adam, what did you learn in traveling the country? >> [laughs] so far, we've only hit a couple of colleges but all you have to do is watch your show and you learn everything you need to know about campuses turning into a romper room.kn >> tucker: i mean, it sor distressing. dennis, when you talk to these kids, did they know how unfree they are? >> they don't care. this is what's so disturbing. it was a pew poll, about half of the kids in america today believe in freedom of speech because the other is when you asked them, and you can see thie on the internet, it's amazing to watch these kids say this. "oh, we believe in free speech, just not for hate speech." not understanding that nobody ever really needed to protect love speech. >> tucker: hate speech is not actually an illegal category, kind of hilarious that they think it is. when you go to these campuses, you got the biggest podcast in the world, congratulations onyo that. when you show up at these i
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college campuses or you deal with college students, do they understand that things are very different now from the way they were when you were in college? t do they sort of know that they are in the middle of this moment? or do they think it was alwaysom this way?hi >> i wasn't in college, but thank you.ay i was on the construction sit picking up garbage. y >> tucker: it's my favorite thing about you. i love that. >> the only thing i was drinking was a gourd full of my own tears, tucker. they remind me that kids from "the twilight zone" which anyono into the cornfield who disagrees with them and were so scared to be in a cornfield by these snotty nosed brats that we just follow suit. >> we are making this movie and it's at nosafespaces.com. we're making this movie, but the truth is, it's impossible to parody what actually takes place.
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harvard -- i want all your l viewers to look this up because what i'm about to say will sound like we made it up or certainly like adam made it up. at harvard, they announced last week that no longer will there be fines on your overdue library book, which is $0.50 a day, by the way. $0.50 a day. because we understand how much pressure the harvard student already has on him or her. you don't have to pay your overdue book fine. >> tucker: the obvious question, final question to you, adam, since you didn't go to college and did just fine, what did you send your kids to college? >> great question. i would like you to come and speak to my wife, tucker. i've been saying this for a million years. we're just sending them to be poisoned. it's like that nike commercial. they're out in the audience wearing gray jumpsuits and being indoctrinated into these horrible ideologies. to be fair, some of them should be scared when the giant jewish guy comes in and yells at them. but other than that, they have no excuse.d
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[laughter] >> i'm very scary. i do scare them. >> tucker: "no safe spaces" is the movie, and every person on the show is going to watch thate thank you guys. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: don't miss our entire hour of stories like this on monday, memorial day. we bring you a special edition of the show, "campus craziness." it will be this time slot, eight eastern on monday. grab a beer and enjoy yourself. well, in the wake of the manchester bombings on monday, katy perry says she's got an easy solution for stopping all terrorism. she's figured it out. is this the weirdest story ofin the day? "top that," the weird story contest, is next.yo e way. with an estate plan e way. including wills or a living trust that grows along with you and your family. legalzoom.
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♪ >> tucker: time now for "top that." kind of the nobel peace prizee for strange news.. president trump has caused massive inflation inn the musicl committee. a single segment is not enough. we created the segment to decide the weirdest thing that has happened today in the news.e here to decide for us, gillian turner, former white house national security council employee, probably the best one, and lisa boothe from thel "washington examiner" and they join us tonight on the set. great to see you. what do you have? blow my mind.ht >> tucker, there's been a lot of talk about how to stop terrorism and i think we finally found tht answer. >> i think the greatest thing that we can do now is just unite as people who, as fanbases, all of it. i think that the greatest thing that we can do is just unite and love on each other and no barriers, no borders. we all need to just coexist.
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>> there's actually been reports -- >> tucker: who was that? >> that's katy. >> my god, really? >> tucker: truly. >> there's been reports that isis were so moved by the statements that they've decided to lay down their arms. >> tucker: i'm not surprised because the "coexist" bumper sticker has been surprisingly effective against the war against terror. with all the religious symbols on it, visualize world peace and all the stuff, just stops them in their tracks. >> the irony in all this is she lives in a $20 million gated community, she's got a security detail, so, clearly she's the last person to have to worrymm about any sort of danger around her. so, it's just ridiculous.ou >> you are just trying to makeke tucker jealous. >> nikki haley might have to watch her back now because we might have found a new u.n. ambassador. >> tucker: the rest of us can just love on each other and think about that.
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can you beat that? >> i think so. you've known me for a while. it takes a lot to offend me.. a lot at this point. >> tucker: you're remarkably even-tempered. >> i am, exactly, working for two administrations, everyone hates me, that's fine. but this week, i got offended. i wanted to bring the story to you. as you know, the president traveled to the middle east and most in the news cycle has been focused on that for good reason. this sends signals all around the world, everything is up for grabs for analysis. when it comes to this trip, how long he is away for, what countries he visits, what order he visits them in, how long he stays, who he lives with, who goes with him, all fair game. but there was an inordinate amount of attention this year and analysis on what the first lady and ivanka trump wore on their heads. and my issue with this, the main commentary was the fact that they wore veils in vatican city when they visited the pope and they didn't wear head coverings in saudi arabia. which is all very -- that's fine. but to focus on this and have a complete lack of any discussion about what the men around them
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who are actually the stars of the show were wearing was sort of sexist at its most insidious. to me, the most dangerous kind of sexism is that which is so. omnipresent and accepted that nobody even notices it. >> tucker: i would diagnosis differently. i wouldd say it's multiculturalism. the argument is you have to show the same to the saudi families as you with the pope. and i would say, no, you don't. >> there's an easy answer to that, which is the reason that these decisions get made is byby state department protocol office. they set the tone and the guidelines for the trip. it's not personal decisions they made. that quells a little bit of your criticism i think. >> it's good to know that gillian doesn't get offendedha easily.t >> tucker: by the way, you win because i can't watch that katy perry clip again. you do, but you get this consolation trophy because you
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>> tucker: the institutional left of the equipment for weeks the president trump engage in obstructed justice by firing fbi director who committed plenty of viable offensive. let's compare that behavior with the actual behavior of a congresswoman. police are investigating a staffer of hers f who have had a massive debt and a multimillion dollar scam. we are investigating it and as part of that, we see it as a laptop. the laptop wasn't taken from her office but now she is claiming that she ownst it. since she happens to sit on the house appropriations committee which controls the budget for the capitol police, she calls and theiry' cheat and threaten m with punishment if his officers wouldn't call to mack fall back. >> my understanding, the capitol police arms were not able to confiscate the equipment when the member is not under investigation. i think you are violating the rules when you conduct your business that way.
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and there will be consequences. >> tucker: there will be consequences. threatening the comps about what will happen if they don't ignore evidence. we will see you else picks it up. we are back tomorrow at 8:00. we hope you join us then. "the five" starts right now. ♪ op >> greg: hi, i am greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, jesse watters, dana perino, juan williams. it is "the five." the terror attack in manchester. authorities are still hunting film the bomb maker but before the jihadi's can strike again, details ahead. but first. expecting wisdom from a pop star is like expecting sonnets from a gerbil. but bono said this of terrorists. >> they hate music, they hate women. they even hate little girls. they hate everything that we love.

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