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>> sandra: that's going to do it for us, we'll see you back here at tomorrow night, but sure to catch me on outnumbered on fox news channel, i'm sandra smith in for martha maccallum. tweet me your thoughts, tucker's up up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," president trump announced the united states will be pulling out of the paris agreement, intended to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. space exit the states will withe paris claimant accord, were getting out. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> tucker: that did it, the left immediately became
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hysterical even more than usual, keep in mind this was a nonbinding, unenforceable agreement whose effect even if every nation involved follow the agreement to the letter cannot be in the position. in the world literally as they say. if billionaire democratic donor described trump's decision as assault and battery on the future of the american people. cnn warned its viewers to expect mass extensions, flooding in the streets of new york city, the physical annihilation of the marshall islands. the aclu concluded leaving the agreement was a massive step back for racial justice and an assault on communities of color. there was cable news, the long faces, the grave, the florid and outraged proclamations. it was like somebody died, millions of them actually. >> on a sunny day in the rose garden, what could be defined and construed as a dark speech. >> this will be the the day that
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the united states resigned the leader of the free world. >> i have such rage and sadness, we just watched a dangerous little man give a very, very scary speech. >> one of the most bleak depictions of america's role in the world as environmental partners. >> he is not helping the forgotten american, he is hurting them. their kids will have worth asthma in the summer, the president who talked about putting america first has now put america last. >> tucker: were not talking about science here, what were watching as a priesthood defending its faith. the essence of science is skepticism mostly testing what you think you know to make sure you actually know it. the people who run the space program didn't know everything and they knew it. that's not happening here, it's not allowed to. pressed for explanations as to what you're talking about your attacked as a denier, the matter is settled, every word in mutable and holy, questions equal apostasy, shut up and
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believe. the irony is almost none of the religious figures you saw sermonizing on tillage vision to date know much about the paris agreement beyond the bullet points they'd been handed by their producers 10 minutes before. they have any idea and why haven't they told us until now? before today most of the people you just saw spend far more time yammering about transgender bathrooms than about climate accords. what is in the agreement, there are a lot of things in the agreement and few of them are worth knowing. if the u.s. were stick with this accord we be pledging to cut our greenhouse gas percentage by 26% below the levels it wasn't too thousand five, that's a big reduction. it's not expected of china, india, or other huge polluting countries which happen to be our chief economic rivals. under the paris agreement, rich nations like the united states agreed to send $100 billion to poorer countries every year starting in 2020 to eight with their transition to great energy. president obama present the mic pledged $3 billion to this fund,
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china has not pledged a sense, the world's biggest polluter. china is likely to receive some of this money. keep in mind the chinese economy is predicted to overtake our economy in less than a year, but somehow we have to subsidize their energy production? that's lunacy. higher energy costs here, americans would pay more for gas, more for electricity, more in taxes all in the name of meeting obligations that other countries don't have to meet. if you want to know how all of this might end, look across the atlantic. european electricity, it costs three times as much as it does here and the prices are rising faster there as well. despite all of this, even supporters of the agreement concede that it won't come close to stopping global warming even if every one abided by the terms. there are counter arguments to this and some of them are legitimate. this is a debate, it's a big deal, a lot is at stake for americans who know nothing of
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the details. shouldn't congress have a chance to debate this and vote on it like they're supposed to. they already had that chance, it came in 2009. president obama had a democratic house and a super majority that year, the people now telling you that global warming is an existential threat to the world and everyone will die if we don't get a handle on it had more power at that moment than at any time since the new deal in the 30s and they could have done something about global warming openly and democratically, did they? no. they focused on passing the stimulus package, obamacare, dodd-frank. since that year, american voters have consistently elected majorities for home global warming is not a priority. in a relatively small number of zip codes, global warming is not a top priority for the american public. maybe it should be, but it's not. that's how democracy works, the public gets to decide what is most important. the people in charge disagree with it, they don't care what the voters think, they lost interest in democracy a long time ago and they are no longer hiding that fact.
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they don't believe you should be consulted before they change your life forever and mostly they don't bother to consult to accept today, they didn't get their way and they are hysterical about it. maybe they will have to make a real argument on behalf of what they believe by force on you, that's why the system was supposed to work, philip levine is part of the system come his former hillary clinton survey the mike surrogate, he joins us from palm beach to knightsbridge >> thank you, miami beach. >> tucker: did i say palm beach? >> you said palm beach but miami beach where it's at. >> tucker: i have mar-a-lago, excuse me. >> you mean that new waterpark in the future? >> you're here to concern about rising sea levels, i'm agnostic about it. i'm wondering how this specific agreement sending $3 billion a year to countries like india and china who don't have to lower their admissions rates is going to fix that global warming
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problem in miami beach. >> let me tell you what's going on in miami beach, we have streets that are flooding during sunny days. the water levels have gone up dramatically. we moved forward to raise our roads, put in pumps, change our building codes. is not because we're so excited to have to do that but we have to do it for survival of our city. it's not just miami beach commits coastal cities all over the world. i heard what you had to say but i've got to tell you something, when the world leading scientists are telling you this is what's going on and some of the smartest minds in the world are telling you this is the reason why, at some point you have to listen. >> tucker: you're actually dodging my question completely and i'm not denying the existence of sea level rise. i merely asking a very specific policy question. how will the terms of the paris agreement handing $3 billion per year to indian and china which do not have to lower their admissions how will that help what's going on in miami beach, what you just described?
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>> as the world is getting too hot and too warm, the oceans are rising and that's affecting miami beach. it's affecting all coastal cities. >> tucker: i can't let you judge it again. i'm asking a very specific agreement that you and everyone else on the left is beating their chest about anna trump is destroying, i'm open minded, tell me how that specific agreement and the financial arrangements in it will help the problems described. >> i'm going to tell you why. i'm not the guy from the left. the one thing i could tell you i call myself a radical centrist. rising oceans aren't republican and arch democrats. what does the agreement do? it puts the world together in alignment and says we have a problem. let's work together and solve the problem. what about the slight chance all the world's scientists and some of these great minds, let's say they're right. if they are, maybe it's a good
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idea if we do something about i it. >> tucker: you're describing religious faith. i don't have to bother to learn any of the details about a very specific agreement that we are all mad about today because there are people whose names i don't know who think it's a good idea. my question to you is why one of the average person say i'm open-minded but why don't you give me some specifics and tell me more, when we overcome i don't force me to participate as a democracy. >> no question as a democracy is an american democracy and it's a will democracy. we used to be the leader in that free will democracy and i think today what fareed zakaria said it's kind of red, we give up leadership. >> tucker: i thought you guys believed in science, one that you give me once you tell me why allowing china to take a pass on reducing its greenhouse emissions for years is going to reduce global warming and its effects? i don't understand what mark >>
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china signed this agreement, everyone is in it together, to make the world a better place to reduce these omissions. if >> is there a single person watching the show stupid enough to be confessed by what you're saying. >> almost every mayor in america now has come together and say were going to hit her to the protocols. >> tucker: other people are doing if, therefore it's a good idea? your constituents, your public, the obligation of explaining a clear simple terms specifically how the terms of this agreement will achieve the goal they say they will. >> the terms are very clear, if you reduce your greenhouse emissions and you lower the temperature the waters will stop rising. that is a global agreement.
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>> tucker: that makes perfect sense but >> of course it does. >> tucker: it actually doesn't doesn't, last question. if you may be totally right, i'm not denying that you are. if that's true, if reducing emissions will prevent the seas from rising, then why not require india and china and the world's other biggest polluters to do that? >> it does, it brings everybody together. the one thing i learned with the president's comments today what he said about pittsburgh, the mayor of pittsburgh as a friend of mine who doesn't agree with this, what's incredible i didn't realize ohio and pittsburgh doesn't get affected by climate change? it's an interesting thing i just learned of. >> tucker: you're making me more nervous than i was when this segment began, i appreciate you coming on. hillary clinton's 2016 excuse tour continues today, she spoke tonight in new york city, if that place sounds familiar, it's the place clinton abandon her supporters on election night. she didn't even bother to show up after she failed to win.
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instead she sent john podesta out to send her sobbing fans home. seven months later, clinton showed up what does she have to say? she suggested she was ready to take responsibility for losing. >> the really painful experiences honestly understanding what i didn't do well, or what i didn't do well enough, or what our shortcomings were, where we missed an opportunity where we didn't do in retrospect what might've worked better. >> tucker: but then, no, she went right back to the russian conspiracy. >> obviously i'm particularly concerned about the role that russia played about the very serious interference that we know, they are responsible for
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in our most fundamental democratic act. if you can't be all right with the idea that the foreign adversary was try to influence the election. the >> tucker: it wasn't secret macedonian agents who derailed her god-given presidency, it was a sexism paired >> in my book, i take on the issues of sexism and misogyny. , it may be uncomfortable for some people to read how i experienced it, what i believe about it, but i think it's a conversation we need to have creative >> tucker: she also did nothing to back off her comments yesterday when she began its part spotting full-blown conspiracy theories about how the trump campaign masterminded a russian effort to destroy her. >> the russians, wikileaks, same thing.
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dumped the john podesta emails, my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. they covered it like it was pearl harbor and got paid for the speeches they made, i got paid for the speeches i made. it was used and i thought it was unfairly used, i have my complaints about former director comey. >> tucker: endlessly against the president, his narcissistic, he won't accept information he disagrees with, he betrays friends and allies for his own personal gain, based on what you just saw and her baby hater the last few weeks, to any of these criticisms not apply to hillary clinton? she can't accept explanations for her defeat, like us us will be at, sorry she searches sabotage her. she's accusing the trump campaign affording specific packing efforts to the minute and provides no evidence and she's so narcissistic the only
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person she can't blame for her defeat is herself. even her biggest handicaps were self-inflicted, charles krauthammer is a writer and columnist who joins us now. it just sound like what people make of trump. >> i know i'm in a minority with conservatives, it could be because i was in my youth a liberal. i retain that marshmallow deep inside of my heart. and i try not to betray these days. but it's a pathetic performance. the it's childish, she can't accept responsibility. she is at this where she says i love in one of her ribs she says was a perfect candidate? no. did i make mistakes? yes. these are rhetorical devices, whoever said she was a perfect candidate? she was a terrible candidate, she was the worst of manageable. she couldn't shake the challenge of a 74-year-old socialist who,
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this is the best part about bernie sanders, honeymooned in the soviet union. she couldn't shake his challenge for six months. lindsey graham once said about bernie and the soviet union, yes, and he never left. that was her challenge and she had the dnc behind her, she complained about the dnc being against her. it's not delusional, losing an election, losing something you've been after for eight years probably 16 years is pretty hard. i think her handlers are somebody who cares for her should have said don't go out there. you wait a few more years, people will mellow to you, they want to remember details, they will have some affection for yo you. michael dukakis, walter mondale, these are people who didn't elicit the same kind of antipathy she does because they
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didn't wallow in self-pity. >> tucker: and anger, and it comes off -- i understand the disappointment she put a lot on the lined and she lost, you can understand her great disappointment. this is not helpful to the democratic party. she needs to think through why they lost, she's making it hard to do that. >> the best thing that's happened to the party and i would say probably one of the best things that donald trump ever did as he put an end to the clinton dynasty. it was not helping the party, it was trapped in the past. why was she running? what would she stand for? the most pathetic part of the leaks with the internal memos were she kept demanding they come up with a message. what is her message? you're approaching 70 years old, you've been running for a decade and you don't know why you're running? she never knew what she was running? it was her turn, it was like that famous moment in the late 70s when teddy kennedy was
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running for president and roger mudd asked him why are you running? and he couldn't answer. the answer was because i'm supposed to, i'm supposed to, i'm entitled to, sanders had a message. if he had a message for america, he had a political theory for all of his weirdness and the fact that socialism isn't exactly a good fit in america, there was substance. there was none there. i think in the end, that's what defeated her. there was no rationale for her run and the democratic party suffered being trapped by the clinton machine, nobody would rise, there were no serious candidates to challenge her. which should have happened but she cleared the field, she had all the money. she had the official backing, she had the name, the president
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looked at in some ways fondly at least by democrats. that wasn't enough. >> tucker: what a sad story. >> i don't want to be cynical about this but really she ought to just let it sit for a while and let people appreciate her good qualities. >> tucker: i think that's a really wise piece of advice, i don't you listen but she should. thank you. even many in the press think hillary clinton's claims have gone too far, also another man is being fingered as a key figure in the fbi probe of the russian connection, that man dares to join us just ahead. eow, but you don't have to do this. man #2: what if a tree falls on our garage? woman: what if a tornado rips off our roof? flo: you're covered. and you've bundled your home and auto insurance,
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♪ >> tucker: the press has spent months encouraging the story that russia somehow hacked the u.s. election, so it means something that if reporters are put off by hillary clinton's statements to that effect. nbc news andrea mitchell said clinton's claims about that are not backed by evidence. >> she is drawing a conspiracy theory, she doesn't have the evidence but she is obviously hoping this is what robert muller and the congressional committees do. she's also not limit herself. >> tucker: former advisor to hillary clinton, he agrees that her defeat was due to outside forces. it is great to see you tonight. is not easy to find someone who will defend her.
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mrs. clinton yesterday referred to macedonian operatives who played a key role in her defeat. can you explain a role in her loss? >> let me explain one thing, we acknowledge tragedies in a show like this that happened earlier today, i think pulling out of this climate deal was a tragedy for future generations. and for the economy, as the ceos of dow and g.e. and apple and others. >> tucker: you're in morning. >> that makes you kneel unique. who were the macedonians? >> what she was talking about, 17 intelligence agencies said without qualification that the russians were behind the subversion of the elections. a spoon she's talking about the macedonians, who were these macedonians? she tried to become president six months ago. yesterday on live tv with cara swisher she said at the
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macedonian agents -- who were they? >> i think we have reports of that as well, they were also working in cahoots with the russians and wikileaks? >> tucker: how do we know that? >> what we know what the facts. the facts are a couple days before the democratic convention, wikileaks dropped these emails that are very damaging, debbie wasserman schultz created chaos there. conversations with julie mesons, wikileaks, the hour after access hollywood said yesterday the dee going to drop and drop, dick cheney called it an act of war. if you don't agree with that, you have a complaint with him. >> tucker: i don't think dick cheney is arguing that the macedonians stole the election from hillary clinton but she is arguing that. i have to be honest with you you've been around a long time, i know a ton of democrats here in washington, i don't know one of them who isn't shocked by what hillary clinton said
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yesterday, attacking the democratic party, attacking barack obama it to mike dnc, when she had twice the money of donald trump on the sitting president of the united states put everything on the line for her and she attacks barack obama yesterday? far be it for me to up defend obama but that's insane pretty tried hard to get her elected and failed and she's attacking him now. >> charles just said what a horrible candidate this was. got more primary votes than barack obama. >> tucker: she lost and there are a lot of reasons why. but to turn around and blame the democratic party which was all in for hillary clinton, this is a horrible thing to do. as a democrat, how can you defend that? >> her principal beef is with comey.
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the principal one is with comey. >> tucker: what about sexism? >> the day of the comey letter, it is up six, by the time of the dust settles every single morning for the next week, the mainstream media is talking about the comey letter and breaks for trump in those few tweets. it >> tucker: i've heard the theory, what did she do wrong? i take responsibility, i did wrong, i never heard what exactly she did wrong. how did she mess up? she must be culpable, she lost her section election in a row. what specifically did she do wrong? >> i think of what she would say it from a messaging standpoint she would say something along the lines of i know how to create a 22 new jobs, i was in the white house when that happened. this business about what trump said about creating jobs would be an illusion. >> tucker: because my husband did it, therefore -- >> because she was there, we now have somebody who doesn't really know that frederick douglass is not alive, andrew jackson wasn't a run for the war.
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>> tucker: nt one, if only she had a different message but isn't the message the same as the campaign? the entire campaign is built around a message, your conceded she had a wrong message, that's like saying the car has no engine. >> at the fact that the message was great until the comey letter. she was up six-point? it was more than obama was up >> tucker: i can remember what was the message before the comey letter. >> the help you're going to get whether it's through education, research develop meant or job training, child care. all the things frankly we've seen congress say no to. >> tucker: i want to be clear, what did she do wrong? she had this great message that she couldn't explain -- >> it was working until the comey letter. >> tucker: she changed her message after the comey letter?
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>> i'm saying the comey letter was so serious. more searches for clinton fbi after the comey letter. there was a big distraction, the message was working, she would have been seen as a genius. >> tucker: i think comey heard her, i just want to know what she did wrong and neither you nor she can give me a clear -- >> more about jobs, less stronger together. it would be about jobs, jobs, jobs, i think she had a credible case because when she was living in the white house, 22 million jobs were created. >> tucker: what and she said? >> i think what you have her on the show you have to ask her. she had the core competence that we now pray for. >> tucker: she seemed kind of nuts yesterday, but whatever commences my view. it's great to see you, thank you for that.
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hillary clinton is the only one determined to expand the russian conspiracy, no unnamed sources within the u.s. intelligence community are calling nigel farrage, he's agreed to leave his handlers behind and join us for that question, stay tuned plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design.
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under my bed last night and that's just me, one man. hillary clinton isn't standing alone with her tinfoil hats anymore, she's in a club that now includes the majority of registered democrats. a new poll by the economist finds that 59% of democrats believe that russians literally rigged vote tallies to hand the fall election to donald trump. something for which there is no evidence at all, and nobody who is saying is claiming that. another politician who was accused of being a put in plants the whole time. leaks from unnamed sources probably within the u.s. intel community, say bricks at candidate nigel farrage, he joins us tonight to answer a very simple question. are you now or have you ever been an agent of the putin government? >> i have to say, if ever there was a case of a fake, this is i it.
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what they have done as they tried to join the dots together. i was involved with brexit, i was involved with a trump campaign, and 2016, therefore i must somehow be associated with the russians. it is total and utter hysterical nonsense. it >> tucker: it's a little more than that because this arose in "the guardian" newspaper which is very left wing does journalism. they are claiming sources who they imply are in the u.s. government are saying this. i have no doubt that it is untrue, it's libel. it's also suggesting the u.s. government is trying to hurt you in a significant way. does that bother you? >> i just don't believe it. it could be anybody, they tried to imply another person of interest, they've rung up the fbi, you haven't given them an answer either way.
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i would be very surprised if i was a person of interest, i'll tell you why. i've never done business in russia, i have literally no political connections with russia whatsoever, the whole thing is a fantasy from people who cannot accept the fact that they lost badly last year. >> tucker: have you ever passed microfilm and a public park to a russian agent, and what about macedonia? do you have any connections to secret agents in macedonia? >> i only wish i had to because life would be so much more exciting, i'm afraid not guilty on both questions. it >> tucker: were laughing about this because it is so ludicrous. it's a definition of ludacris. it's also damaging to accuse people in public, even anonymously of a reputation destroying act like collaborating with an authoritarian government such as
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putin's. we've seen a lot of this, i don't know if we've ever had political witch hunts in great britain but we have here, and this looks like one of them to be. the >> this is far bigger than anything i've seen in britain certainly since brexit, they tro apportion blame. they try to make out a net worth of hate, they haven't gotten very far with it. the concern with this one is that it's actually gaining some traction in the usa among a lot of democrats who are beginning to believe this constant stream of rubbish that is put out about the russian conspiracy. the difficulty is, put yourself in my shoes, just what do you do when "the guardian" newspaper publishes a story like this? how do you disprove them? how can you make them reveal their sources? without going to the high court and spending hundreds and thousands of dollars and months of your life on it, it's very, very difficult. >> tucker: how did you respond to this?
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>> i did say to the british media that i apologize for taking a long time, i was so busy laughing when i read the article, it is utter nonsense. i think in my case and 48 hours, this will blow over. >> tucker: you have a much better sense of humor than i do, i salute you for that. a calm and s and an amused detachment that i envy. nigel farrage, you're being wrong to and you are nice to come on tonight. >> tucker: the attorney general of the state of ohio now suing the five major drug manufacturers saying they help addicts to america to opiate painkillers in order to make a quick buck. the attorney general of ohio joins us next. tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible.
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drugged which is an ongoing look at the opioid crisis gripping the united states. in previous segments we told you the major role that the oxycontin creator purdue pharma and other drug companies have played in wide acceptance and distribution of highly addictive painkillers. they argued for both of those and they work with terrible consequences. the attorney general of ohio wants to take them to task for that, his estate is suing at purdue pharma and for other drug companies and accusing them of responsibility of creating a drug epidemic, it's killed more ohioans than the vietnam war did. thanks a lot for joining us. what's the essence of your case against purdue pharma and the other four companies here? >> the essence of our case is this -- historically these pain meds were used for end-of-life situations, someone has cancer, they are dying of cancer, they are also used for someone have the wisdom tooth out, they might
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take one or two. beginning in the late 90s, what the drug companies did in a very concerted way, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars to do this, the doctors they were targeting were not really the payment specialists, they were the general practitioners, the family doctors that you and i would go to. if they targeted them and they wanted them to believe and told them these medications were not very addictive. they told him it was very, very appropriate for someone who has long term pain, chronic pain and they were very, very successful. not only did they convince doctors, they convince the public. what we're saying it ohio and you've reported to very well, thank you for doing it, you've reported what's going on in ohio and we've been devastated. it's not just the number of
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people who die, losing ten or 12 a day, it's the children's services that are overflowing with foster kids. we think 50% of all the foster kids in ohio today are there because one or both parents are drug addicts. >> tucker: overwhelming epidemic in its scale. key question is did purdue pharma no the drugs they were selling were addictive? how could they not know that? >> how could they not know? they went through great expense and you'll have to hand it to them, they were very, very successful in changing the culture. they did it in some of the same ways that we've seen before with tobacco. they would fund kind of a third party who was supposedly unbiased and they would come out with reports that say it's not very addictive.
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key opinion makers in their community, they would give them slides, talking points, the doctors i'm sure believe what they were saying was true. they believe that, they even came up with a thing they called pseudo-addiction. when the doctor was treating that person come up purdue pharma, what you really need to do is there's not enough pain pills being prescribed, you have to go up and prescribed more, you haven't hit the point. they just really misled the american people. >> tucker: to have evidence that it wasn't an honest mistak mistake? >> here's one thing that i think
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is interesting. when we all get our prescriptions, you open up and there's all this fine print and there's a number of different pages in there. if you compared what is in those pages compared with what they are actually telling doctors in the glossy folders and the advertising two different things, you would find some of the more realistic examples and problems good what he read the fine print. how many people go read that fine print? anybody over 40 would have to take a magnifying glass to read it. they are saying one thing that was true in their marketing, it was simply not true. all of this is going to go to court, i have to play the lawyer and say we believe this is what the evidence will show. we spent a long time looking at this, we would not have filed
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this in this way thought the evidence would clear this, and convince a jury in ohio that this was true. >> tucker: so many lives have been destroyed, an iconic picture on the screen of grandparents passed out, o.d. done opiates, grandkids in the back. nobody hasn't been held accountable for this. if will be following this very closely, thanks for joining us tonight. steve hilton is getting a brand-new show on the fox news channel, and the next segment, stay tuned and we hope you will.
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it's steve hilton, he's about to become the newest toast on this channel, his program is called the next revolution with steve hilton, he joins us now. congratulations, this is awesome. i'm good to watch this show every sunday night. you're doing it from los angeles, what is that like and are you taking any flack from your neighbors who don't agree with you? >> lots of flat, thank you for giving me a chance to talk about it. before we get into it, i have a very important update for you. [laughs] last night on your show, you unleash some wild speculation the president tweet covfefe was actually hungarian, i speak hungarian, i can confirm that covfefe is not hungarian. >> tucker: i got an email from charlie, one of the great place kickers in football history, he said not hungarian, i think it's
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finished now. what's the show about? >> what i really want the show to be about is this warm enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. it's very much in line with the way you see the world. in regard to be looking at the failures of the elitist policie policies, it really people down especially working people. worker to be setting out a positive agenda, changes that will actually help people in their daily lives. i'm calling it positive populism, that's the idea. >> tucker: i guess the broader question here, the hysteria coming from the people in charge recently is so intense. it is that's because they feel their grip on power slipping, they're becoming more delusional, what is going on with those people? >> i think that's exactly right, they've had their way for so long.
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they have centralized, they've got corporations getting bigger and bigger on a global scale, unaccountable, same is happening with government, these multinational institutions. they finally see that people have had enough of its bread and vote after vote, you saw it with, you sought with donald trump last year. if the people are trying to carry out this revolution, that's why they called us the next revolution, we want to explain that pop populist movement, what should be coming next and really put power back in people's hands. >> one of the smartest people i know it one of the best explainers. at the show is the next revolution, thanks a lot for that. we'll be right back. a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter what path i take, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis.
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macedonian the dash "the five" is next. see you tomorrow. >> greg: no we are not. >> dana: i am dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, one williams, greg gutfeld, jesse watters. it is 9:00 in new york city and this is "the five." president trump fulfilled a controversial and major campaign promise by pulling the united states out of the landmarked paris i met agreemen agreement. it imposes far too heavy a burden on america's economy and that it's unfair to american workers. >> as of today
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