tv Tucker Carlson Tonight FOX News June 5, 2017 8:00pm-9:01pm PDT
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contacting our advertisers with support has played such a big role. i cannot thank you enough. it has humbled me. you want to call? 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left this evening. hopefully we'll see you back here tomorrow y night. if they let me back. see you then. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for the third time in as many months, islamic terrorists have massacred british citizens. first, the truck attack outside parliament in march that killed seven. then, two weeks ago, a suicide bomber murdered almost two dozen in manchester, many of them children, during the ariana grande concert. now, on saturday, three attackers screaming islamicc slogans mow down pedestrians with a van in central london, then stabbed and slashed the survivors. seven died, many more were wounded.n, london bridge may not be falling down yet, but there's more to it --on there is no doubt isis haa plan for that too.
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islamic terrorist attacks have been common and each one provokes the exactly the same response. our leaders of government and the media tell us they are angry and clearly they are, but atmi whom are they angry, exactly? they shake their fists at the terrorists, the militants, extremists, whatever the euphemism of the day happens to be. then they pledge that whatever happens, our civilization will never be bowed or shaken, although clearly, we are both. but then, they quickly turn their attention to the group they actually hate the most, far more than any terrorist, their critics. g g anyone who dares question their leadership or criticize their flaccid, mindless response to islamic terror, those are the real enemies. here, for example, is the response that donald trump got when he dared to point out that to a large extent, terrorism is an immigration problem. >> the president doesn't want us to be politically correct, right?ol let's not be pc about this. is the president trying to provoke a domestic terrorist attackry with this twitter rant? only to prove himself right?er >> there are serious concerns about this president's mental stability. >> president trump has been commenting on the london terror
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attack via twitter, one in the past few hours says, "we mustt stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. if we don't get smart, it will only get worse." do you feel the president is trying to perpetuate fear of terrorism by tweeting the way he has today? >> tucker: when was the last time we heard any one on the left talk that way about islamic extremism? no one on television openlyy defends isis, of course. isis is impossible to defend. but the real rage of thesenl people is reserved for those who appear critical of islam. i terrorism may be bad but raising doubts about multiculturalism is worse. foreigners come to our countries and kill our people, you think our leaders would blame them, but no, they blame us who live here. they blame our history. they blame our culture, our opinions, religion. it's our fault. that is that their core assumption. you see it in all they say. why else in the face of totalitarian threats were they they so eagerly abandon our freedoms beginning with speech? in the u.k., for example, they
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have been multiple arrests for islamophobic remarks made on, line, not actions, remarks. in the u.s., still rhetorically observing the bill of rights, it falls to the private sector. facebook, twitter, cable news. the results are the same. fanatics from other countries want to force us to change the way we want to live. the leaders are helping them in effect, because they agree with isis, the west is not worth defending. charles krauthammer joins us tonight. charles, why the displaced rage? i'm not defending the president's tweets. i don't think he should be tweeting, at all. but you look at television, you would think his crime is greate, than the crime committed on london bridge. >> look, you are always going to have lunatic voices on the left. some will get expression on cable tv. but generally speaking, there are a lot of stories about what we see on the left. the suppression of speech on
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campus, the rioting, the antifascist so-called rioting. something politically incorrect. that is all true, those are real stories, they are to be covered. but the london attack is not really a media story. it's not a political correctness story. it is a story about islamic radicalism. and the tragedy here is, the president is sort of right in talking about immigration. but the point he is missing is that the problem was immigration 30 years ago. we are 30 years late. the terrorists were 30 years old. this is a failure, and generally is a failure of assimilation, integration of these immigrants by mostly europeans over the last 30 years, which is why it is not amenable to solution. >> tucker: it is in this country because -- europe is at least 30 years ahead of us on the same immigration path.
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so you could, if you took it seriously, prevent, to some extent, what has happened in europe. it is also a political story when people are being arrested for criticizing my religion are -- a religion or voicing their political views. that is actually happening in europe and has for a while. >> they don't have the first amendment. we don't have the same problem of assimilation. america is blessedly different in that regard, which is one reason why you have an epidemic of radical islamic terrorism in europe, and you don't have it here. the one major attack, the one catastrophic attack, was entirely from outside, they work their way through our system. here, what is the characteristic of the european attacks, so tragic and so hard to deal with, is the fact that these are t british citizens raised in a country from a second-generation, here are second-generation immigrants, generally speaking. thenot speaking about muslims in particular,
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assimilating, that's a story of the jewish people, the italians, the polish people, the third generation is so assimilable, you can hardly tell. >> tucker: do we have that? the scale is so different. this country is 1% muslim, france, we don't know exactly, 10%. it is a much different scale in europe from what it is here. >> absolutely. 10% of the population in france is estimated to be immigrants. no, it is a question of scale, but it's a question of also history. we have a history of being able to import immigrants in a way to make them into americans. but that is true. the question of scale is important. it is one of the reasons why people here are so strongly against illegal immigration. because the fear is that this is a monoclonal immigration, it is hispanic speaking mostly mexican,pe which is wonderful, but the problem is, if they become a critical mass in certain parts
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of the country, then you get a problem of assimilation, where people end up not speaking the language and not -- in brooklyn, you have 150 nationalities, but they are so relatively small that the assimilation is almost automatic. that has been our history for 150 years. >> tucker: assimilation doesn't happen. it doesn't happen unless the host country demands that and says, here is our culture, our language, our values, adopt them or leave. normal countries do that. we don't do that anymore. c >> we do it to a certain extent. i think the bilingual education fad was a terrible mistake because it created separateness. when you add to that the monoclonal immigration, meanings it is not from around the world, it is not from equally distributed the way it was 100 years ago at ellis island. but it is mostly hispanic speaking and you end up in a community where you don't get tt learn english. i think that is the problem. but you're right. there is a loss of spirit in the
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west, not so much in the u.s. as in europe, where we don't believe in ourselves. where our history is flawed, where we teach our kids all of the sins of the american republic and none of the glories. when you do that for a long enough time, you end up with a generation that doesn't know whu they should be proud to be americans, why they should beti defending america. we are not anywhere near there but that is the danger. >> tucker: it seems like we are. what are our shared values? if you believe in multiculturalism, then, by definition, you are not going to rise to defend your culture because it is equal to every other culture. >> it depends how you describe multiculturalism. we are a multicultural nation and we accord respect to different ethnicities, religions, languages. it is when you say that our own history is so corrupt, that our tradition is one that is uniquely the one that is not worth learning, that is when you run into problems.
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i don't think we are near theren but there is a danger and i think we need to be very careful how we handle that or we could raise generations that don't know why they should be proud to be americans and why they should be americans. >> tucker: i hope we are far from that as you say. charles krauthammer, thank you. it turns out that khuram butt is one of the s london bridge attackers was featured in a recent british documentary called "the jihadist next door." fox news has not confirmed thate it was him, but sky news has reported that it is him. in any case, the man appears ina the documentary attending a rally in a park where a radicall preacher predicts that the entirety of britain will be ruled by sharia law. watch this. >> english, non-muslim. for all of us praying, we have to say, this is our reality. this is the reality. i don't forget what the laws, this is the reality.
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we were just praying. we can't pray? >> tucker: once again, looks like this man's extremism was obvious for years but the attack it caused was somehow a t surprise, as it always is. president trump is using the london attacks to lobby for the return of his travel ban that would affect six countries, muslim majority countries. on saturday night, the president tweeted this, "we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety!" today, "people, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever the want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban!" a travel ban is a toned down version of the president called for in the campaign trail in 2015. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. until our country's can figure out what the hell is going on.
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>> tucker: mustafa tameez is a democratic strategist and former consultant for the department of homeland security. thanks a lot for coming on. all the focus has been on the president's motives in this. what does he really mean, what does he desire personally?ir i guess i would say, that is unknowable, as it always is, with people's motives. the question is, does the country deserve a higher level of protection in light of what we are watching happened in europe? i don't see how we don't deserve that. >> no, i agree with you that wei need a higher level of protection, especially nowadays. but we have to identify where the threat is. as charles was saying, many ofhe these radicals are homegrown, meaning that they are not coming from somewhere else, they are grown within this countrieses. -- these countries. we have to counter violentnt extremism, make sure that the isis narrative of a class of civilization is not the one that we adopt, you are right, nobody knows president trump's motives. we are concerned that sometimes his rhetoric inflames that.re that is the concern of the --
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the intelligence organizations, counterterrorism. >> tucker: i guess. it is hard to generalize about the intelligence organizations. but this has been going on for a long time. you can hardly blame his intemperate language for all of it.imgu in the 18 terror plots that have been foiled in the last couple of years, two-thirds were hatched apparently by people who would be affected by thiss temporary stop on immigration from those countries. so, why would that have been a bad thing? two-thirds. >> i don't know. the cato institute did a study to look at people from 1975 to 2015, and 3.5 million refugees have come here. not a single one has committed a terrorist attack. that is just a big number. so, we have to do this, as the world is, rather than the way the president or others might want to see it. this is not a clash of civilization.or we have got effectively from law enforcement and intelligence and human intelligence, go after the
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threat. doing the travel ban is not the most effective way. that comes from -- >> tucker: you threw out a fake statistic i don't know. some think tank gave it to you. >> it's a notable think tank. >> tucker: i'm not attacking. i'm just saying, here are the actual facts. may 17th, 2016, 2 guys from somalia busted with bomb making material. november 16, another guy from somalia, ohio state attack, as you know. september 16th, another somalian, another afghan, somalian, iraqi, somalian, iraq, sudan, that is always within a span of a year, people arrested for terror plotting. i'm not impugning everyone from somalia, i'm just saying this is real. >> the real threat is homegrown terrorism, which we have to go after. charles is right.. when charles was talking about this is second, third generation in europe, that have not assimilated, one of the reasons
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why the assimilation hasn't occurred is because they createt a hostile environment for the people coming into the country. but we don't want to do is makee the united states -- >> tucker: i'm sorry. i can't let that stand. so you are saying that people attack the west because the west somehow isn't nice enough to them? welcoming them in -- you just said that. i am trying to keep it civil. it's grating to hear that they are facing a hostile environment that when they are brought over at public expense and subsidizing. h why is that hostile? >> if you study counterterrorism and you look at europe, what has made the environment really bad is many of these folks don't feel like they have opportunities, and creates the false narrative. what the beauty of america is, the first day that you enter the united states, you are and italian american, an irish-american, jewish american, muslim-american, that allows everyone to have their identity.
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that is something europe doesn't have. you have second, third, fourth generation that still consider themselves from the land where they came from. >> tucker: the people who were murdered in manchester, the kids, they just weren't welcoming enough? what are you saying exactly?htii >> what i am saying is that we have to learn from their experience and make sure that what we do here doesn't take place. >> tucker: what we do? they liked in these people who are trying to kill them. that's their fault? >> what is different is that we are a country of immigrants, bred from religious freedom. those are our cornerstone principles. and that principle has allowed us to grow and flourish for over 200 years.ne >> tucker: okay, i'm fully aware of that, but are you saying that muslims don't experience religious freedom in great britain?re >> look, what i am telling you -- >> tucker: what are you saying exactly? >> what i am saying is that terrorists want to hurt and kill
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us, and the way they do it is bm dividing. they are looking to recruit people that are within these countries, online, recruiters looking for people that feel that there is a wedge in society. rather than creating more wedges and making the environment more fertile for people to recruit, we have to figure out a way to push back, hunt down, and killnv them. >> tucker: part of what you are saying is right, but the subtext is the same as it always is, which is blaming the victims for this. the brits didn't deserve this. >> that is not true, tucker. >> tucker: yes, it is. you just suggested -- >> i am not the one that started tweeting against the mayor of london right after a terrorist attack. that is what president trump did. >> tucker: he's not here. i am asking -- >> i'm telling you how the divisive environment -- >> tucker: always the fault of the american i have noticed.
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>> i'm an american. i don't want the fault of our nation. i'm as equally american as any american. >> tucker: i am not contesting that. i am merely objecting to your instinct to blame the victims in europe for -- >> you are blaming the victim.e >> tucker: you said that they were creating a hostile environment, and i think it is very much the opposite. >> that is part of the challenge, because when you wana people to assimilate, it's a two-way interaction by the people coming into the country have to want to assimilate in the nation, the host nation, has to assimilate them. in two, three, four generations, the assimilation is not occurring, we have to figure out what the problem is. the beauty of our nations is that people assimilate much faster because of the -- >> tucker: so, if we complain about refugees or immigrants coming in from a certain region, then we are somehow abetting terrorism. it's a fantastic rhetorical trick to get people to shut up but it doesn't work on me. >> i am not trying to shut you up, tucker, god forbid i'm going
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to shut you up. [laughs]t >> tucker: you say that they are abutting isis -- >> that is what you are saying. these are your words. these are not my words. these are your interpretations. >> tucker: i am not that smart but i know what you are really saying. >> i'm not sure if it's clever or --- >> tucker: okay, we will let our viewers judge. inmates are truly running the asylum at evergreen college, putting that in quotation marks in the state of washington. professors have signed a letter endorsing the actions of students who try to drive a professor off campus and threatened him because of his race.s an update from there. also, hillary clinton underht investigation once again by the u.s. senate. what might they find? "clinton cash" author peter schweizer joins us next. remember our special night? abdominal pain... ...and diarrhea. but it's my anniversary. aw. sorry. we've got other plans. your recurring, unpredictable abdominal pain and diarrhea...
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>> [chanting] >> why is this most violent [bleep] system? [chanting] >> it is not an accident. that all of our i administration is white. it's not an accident. it is systematic. >> i am tired of white people talking about what black and brown people need. you don't know! >> [bleep] you!! [cheers and applause] >> tucker: well, evergreen college in washington state is melting down. that is not an overstatement. two weeks ago, we interviewed a math professor called bret weinstein, he's a liberal who has been overwhelmed by the
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left. c a mob of students demanding he be fired because he refused to leave campus for a day because he was white. they demanded he leave. he said i don't think so. now, at least 16 evergreen faculty and staff have signed a letter supporting the students against the professor. they are demanding a disciplinary investigation of weinstein, who they say hasinhe "endangered students" by inviting "white supremacist backlash" through his refusal to leave campus. this is all real, by the way. tomi lahren is a senior communications advisor for the great american alliance.e. she joins us. what is going on in evergreen? >> oh, boy. g i mean, the fact that this is happening in the united states of america, first of all, is disturbing. isn't it odd, tucker, that there used to be generations of americans that fought against segregation and now it seems that the new generation is fighting for segregation? it's lunacy. >> tucker: this poor professor weinstein, we talked to him and said, you probably are liberal, he said, i am a lefty.
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he's a bernie sanders guy. he remembers liberals as they were a generation ago, against segregation, and hurting people on the basis of their skinat color. he woke up one day and everyone around him disagreed. i mean, that's a 180 degrees change it looks like. >> i can't believe it. to throw out these words like "racist," especially at a professor who said, i think we should all come together on campus, no one should stay home, we shouldn't have a day of exclusion, the fact that he came out and said that was brave. then, to be called a racist because of it?t? it just shows how ridiculous these labels are and howal damaging they can be. but the most disgusting and disturbing part of this whole thing is that there are other professors who are sticking up for the mob like protesters. now, that is what has got me. >> tucker: you got to kind of wonder their motives, which are unknowable, but i wonder how many of them are just afraid tod disagree with the mob. they no longer run evergreen, obviously. the president is a spineless character. he bowed out a long time ago. basically, it is being run by an angry mob implying violence.
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maybe they just don't want to get hurt. >> that is probably part of it. but here's the deal. we know this. the alt-left is organized and they are well-funded. they are on college campuses and that is going to be a battleground for us, but not just now, but for election cycles to come. that is important for great american alliance to say that, we are going to do this professionally and with class, we are not going to have mobs,ll we are going to get our message out there and do it using free speech. we are not going to do it like the students at evergreen college because that is disruptive, disgusting, it's violent, and it's un-american. >> tucker: where's the civil rights division at the justice department? if you had any other college where a mob of students who are implying physical violence, threatening someone, because of his skin color, and you had faculty doing the same, i mean, shouldn't there be a civil rights investigation? where is the state senate in the state of washington? where is the governor? where is the mayor of olympia? where are the authorities here exactly? >> everybody is afraid to speak up because if they speak out
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against this, they are labeled a racist. everyone is so afraid of being labeled a racist. they have the power then. it is the alt-left, mobs like this that have the power, then and hold the power. also hold the mainstream media accountable for that, as well. the mainstream media needs to come out and say, this is crap. until they do that, groups like this feel justified and validated. when people become fearless to stand up, that is when this stuff will end. >> tucker: i agree with that completely. i wonder how long it will be a until the mob comes for them, since the revolution always eats itself? [laughs] i mean, seriously. you really think you get a pass by nodding in agreement with the mob? you never do. s r >> no, of course not. w these individuals, they claim to be sticking up for civil rights, they claim to be social justice warriors, and they act like this? i mean, that video that has been posted on youtube is appalling. can you imagine being a parent right now, ready to send your b child to college? can you imagine being a parent of a conservative student ready to send them the college?
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can you imagine what that must feel like? >> tucker: can you imagine being an alum getting a phone call from a fundraiser saying, why don't you give some money to a college, any college? [laughs]ay no way! tomi lahren, thanks a lot for coming out tonight.gh >> of course, thanks for having me. >> tucker: the clintons are under investigation again, continuing a trend that goes all the way back to the early '90s, almost without interruption.. will this investigation be the one that finally uncovers something serious? the author of "clinton cash" will weigh in on that next. peter schweizer joins us. dear predictable, there's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say...if you love something set it free. see you around, giulia
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>> tucker: time for tonight's reality check. we want to show you a video but before we play it, a warning. this tape is more than 20 years old. it comes from a different timeme when our leaders were less i enlightened and morality was not as advanced as it is today. obviously. we're broadcasting it purely for its historical value. that said, you might want to remove children and the elderly from the room as it plays. it could be triggering to the sensitive.er here it is. >> that is why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more. by hiring a record number of new border guards. by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens, thel jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. the public service they use imposed burdens on our taxpayers. it is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of
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abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more to stop it. [applause] >> tucker: wow. to think he said that on national television during the state of the union, no less. does hillary know about this? president clinton used as a highly offensive term "illegal alien," criminal aliens were referred to as "criminales aliens," and he want that illegal aliens take jobs of citizens and take tolls on public services. he bragged about increasing deportations. in other words, the bill clinton of 1995 told the truth about o immigration plainly and without apology. it was a very different time in a very different democratic party, one that cared about the country it governed. the party would never tolerate such hate think today, nor would the media. it is too clear and easy to t understand and therefore, people might be persuaded by it. speaking of the clintons, they are under an investigation yet again. set your clock by it. the senate judiciary committee is launching a probe.
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clinton pressured government officials in bangladesh to drop a corruption investigation of mohammad yunus, a businessman and clinton foundation donor. peter schweizer is the author of "clinton cash." he joins us tonight. so, peter, what is the substance of this investigation? what are they looking for?r? >> basically, the substance of this investigation is that senior state department officials in seeing this investigation taking place, this longtime clinton friend, told b the prime minister of bangladesh, to get their mother, the prime minister, to call off the dogs on the investigation, if they didn't do that, according to the prime minister's son, they were going to have the irs audit him. the son of the bangladeshi prime minister lives in the united states. he has been here for 17 years. so, it was a very serious threat. based on what that individual has said, it is a pretty detailed claim. i think that is why
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senator grassley is saying this needs to be investigated. >> tucker: so, is it typical for a secretary of state tona insert herself into the internal politics of bangladesh? >> no.o. i mean, look. i think we could all say this is a family friend. it would have been fine to say, hey, how was this investigation going? where do you think it is going to lead? to essentially be charged with siccing the irs on foreign government officials and their families, for these purposes, is way beyond the pale. unfortunately, tucker, it fits the pattern of the kind of behavior that the clintons engage in, which is usingg government power as a tool and a cultural against the opponents, are people that are looking for wrongdoing, that is taking place either by them or their powerful friends. >> tucker: right. as anyone who works in nonliberal foundation d.c. -- what about the broader investigation into the clinton foundation's activities? are they ongoing? what is the status?
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>> i know that the fbi continues to look into the clinton foundation on a number of levels, some of them, with pay to play charges. others related to the sort of keeping of the books or the cooking of the books. those are ongoing. look, a lot of people will say, tucker, you know, she lost, what is the big deal?in i think the issue is, win or lose, if this kind of behavior is allowed to go on, and it's not even investigated by federal authorities, it just encourages the kind of behavior by the political class, whether they be republicans or democrats. i said from the beginning, there needs to be either an independent counsel or a grand jury to look into these charges, so they get aired and look at once and for all, and we can for -- put this to rest or we can have a trial where charges are actually brought. >> tucker: sure. dropping them underminesug people's beliefs that people are treated equally under the law. kind of weird, though.
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i feel like i know an awful lot about a number of investigations in progressss because the leaks show up in the newspaper every day. i haven't seen any leaks out of this investigation. >> no, that's right. really, since the campaign with "the wall street journal" ran a front-page piece on this investigation, it has been very quiet. i know from personal knowledge that the investigation is going on. where it has stood for a while,e tucker, is that fbi field offices went to the department of justice looking for subpoenaf power and other tools. they were turned down by the obama justice department. it will be interesting to see under the new attorney general, jeff sessions, whether that changes. i think it should. i think it is a question of giving them the right tools. let's just see where the facts lead. t i think that is ultimately where we also come down on this. >> tucker: of course. by the way, for the record, i'm glad there are no leaks. they should never be leaks from ongoing investigations. i find it curious that the clintons are never announced in addition to all their other titles as subjects of a current fbi investigation, i feel liketo that should be added to the lisa of titles. >> [laughs] it probably would be pretty repetitive, tucker. that is something that can be
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said for quite a while, goingg back to the '90s. even in the 2000s, there were certain claims about conduct that was taking place, the marc rich pardon, now, the clinton foundation, it is an ongoing look. i think it just requires thehe kind of investigation from at least some people in washington don't seem to want to take place.t for the life of me, that is ridiculous. >> tucker: they sold all the presidential pardons, i was here for that. that was great.. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: there has been total chaos in portland, oregon. the left got violent in efforts to shut down a free speech rally. we'll talk to an organizer of that rally coming up. plus, wonder woman is a feminism icon, but apparently her new movie isn't feminist enough for some feminists. could that be the weirdest story of the day?he there's a lot to choose from. we have them in "top that." we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork...
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president trump held a free speech rally in downtown portland. a couple hundred people showed up but they were surrounded by a much larger mass of protesters,n some armed with bricks, knives,, brass knuckles, to make it clear that the free speech people were not welcome in that open-minded city. what happened? >> it started as a rally of about 500 hard-core trump supporters who really wanted to prove that they could go into liberal portland and stand up for their beliefs. there was a lot of talk about free speech and not backing down to the left. frankly, many of the trump supporters seemed ready to haven physically fight the opposition. some brought shields and sticks. they had their own security people looking to bounce anyone from the opposing side. but this rally was mainly peaceful. there were also completely surrounded by several thousand people protesting the rally and the rights of free speech. on one side, was a group of union members. on the opposite side was a large group of peace activists and sort of mainstream liberalss they shouted down the trump supporters as being racist and anti-immigrant.
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they came in the name of peace but i saw a lot of obscene gestures, and heard a ton of words that we would have to bleep. s they were fired up but also not violent. then, there were the anarchists, easy to spot because many of them covered their faces with bandannas or ski masks. they wore helmets and came armed with whatever they could scrounge up. they seemed to want a fight with the trump supporters and the police who stood in the strong line in full riot gear between them and the trump rally. some of them belong to the portland chapter of antifa, short for antifascists, but really, these are many of the same people who caused property damage and spar with police every may day. some of the group started throwing bricks and bottles and that is when police finally went on the offensive. they deployed several flash bang grenades and pepper balls. they pushed the anarchists back and eventually corralled themd into an area. police confiscated dozens of weapons that you saw there, bricks, knives, that sort of thing. amazingly, no assault, no injuries, very little if any
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property damage related arrest 14 people. when it was over, police said it went as well as the possibly could have. tucker. >> tucker: thanks, dan. it will be interesting to know how many of the anarchists went to expensive private schools. i'm thinking 100% but we don't know. thanks for that report. joey gibson was there on sunday. he was at the free-speech rally and organized it. he joins us now. joey, what happened? >> we had a great day. we talked about freedom. a lot of positive energy, good speakers. no hate speech on our side. tons of hate speech on their side. very successful rally. >> tucker: was there violence? >> there was no violence. i know that -- i know one kid that got beat up by the anarchists, but for the most part, it was a peaceful day. i do think they are trying to provoke us. a lot of people were yelling in our faces and i think they were trying to get us to punch. but we don't do that. we only act out of self-defense.
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>> tucker: i think you are best for sticking with that policy. what was the point of your protest? s >> it wasn't a protest. it was more of a rally to promote freedom in one of the most liberal cities in the united states of america. we also got to start talking about god more, especially in liberal cities. and we really want to inspire the youth and inspire the conservative and the libertarians to organize and to act in these liberal cities. >> tucker: are you from portland? >> i am from vancouver, a washington, which is right across the bridge. >> tucker: right over the river. do you think you changed any minds? >> you know, it is hard to tell. we had several people come up to us and thank us for our positive message. because if you listen to the media, we are like some white supremacist group. we are a hate group. unfortunately, they are using deception to try to keep people away from us. i do know that we changed some hearts and minds of some people who listened to our words. it was a positive experience. hopefully, we can continue to do
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this and get more people on board and understand that this isn't about racism or social justice, this is about limited government, making our government to small. >> tucker: you look outnumbered. we are putting it up on the screen, i don't know if you can see it, i think that you shot, it is you all surrounded by an awful lot of other people, what was the ratio, would you say? how many more of them were there than you? >> there was a lot.ouor we are talking portland, oregon. at least 2-1, may be 3-1 more than us. we still had huge numbers. this was a larger conservative rally in the history of portland. but portland police and homeland security did their job to make sure that we were allowed to organize in portland. >> tucker: the largest conservative rally in the history of portland. that really is the tallest building in uzbekistan. [laughs] still impressive. joey, thanks a lot for coming on tonight. we appreciate it. "wonder woman" is of course an ultra tough amazon who beats up tons of weak, puny men.
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>> tucker: imagine if it was your job to wade through every insane news story they came across your desk every day. you would need help. we have assembled it. we call it "top that." our job, find the craziest story of the day. i joining us this evening, kathryn lyons, the managing editor at "famous d.c." and aaron mcpike, the white house correspondent for the "independent journal review." you first. >> my story annoys me so much that it makes me laugh. so it's okay. >> tucker: [laughs] okay. >> apparently there is a little bit of backlash surrounding a woman who a lot of girls look up to, and don't worry, she is
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nonpartisan, it isot "wonder woman." she did really well in the box office this weekend, broke it, and a couple hearts apparently, because there is one critic out there who did notro take too kindly to this news, he is warning everybody that the movie falls short of shattering the glass ceiling and that there is another man out there, he is my favorite,, because he is extremely offended that he was not invited to the all-woman screening in austin, texas. >> tucker: there was a screening for just women? >> yes. just women. >> tucker: is that allowed? can you do that? >> why not? >> tucker: so, he wanted to go to the movie but you are not allowed to see "wonder woman" at the screening unless you are a woman? >> right. it was an all-male staff hosting the event and all women in the audience. >> tucker: i cannot keep up with the many levels that are gender wars. >> there is only two genders. >> tucker: that's a controversial statement, kathryn.
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can you top that, erin? >> we'll see. small, local story, they say it takes money to make money, asal you may know, so, there is a suburban in alabama that wantsts to charge teenagers $110 in order to complete their summer gigs, like mowing the lawn, babysitting, having a lemonade stand, something like that. and the reason this came to light is because a man with a lawn care business noticed that a teenager was mowing lawns in his neighborhood and complained and said, you need a business license in order to do that. well, they are having meeting oe the town council tonight to clarify the language from this ordinance that was passed in 2007. >> tucker: oh, so the real purpose of licensing becomes clear, which is to reduce competition from upstarts. >> apparently so. >> tucker: can you imagine being a guy that turned in the kid for mowing the lawns and not having a business license? >> jealous. t >> tucker: no, bound for a dark place, i would say. both those stories are appalling, both are ridiculous.j yours is the most ridiculous,ld however, kathryn. news flash, "wonder woman" can't be a feminist icon because she
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is not real. "wonder woman" doesn't actually exist. her bracelets do not repel bullets. >> you are going to anger a lot of people. >> tucker: i say that as a truth teller. some truths need to be told. >> captain underpants? >> tucker: [laughs] i'm not going there. >> tucker: thank you, both. you get a participation trophy. >> we are tied. >> tucker: i'm glad you are keeping score. coming up, hillary clinton said macedonia rigged the last election. no one can figure out why macedonia would want to do that. it seems like a nice place. up next, we have a theory to explain why the macedonians would do that. here is their anthem again, by the way. ♪ re let's do more. add one a day women's complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day women's in gummies and tablets.
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want to meddle in america's presidential election and sabotage hillary clinton's campaign and bring down our republic? after aa few days of reporting, we came to a theory. it's possible they wanted their mcdonald's back. like all legitimate countries, macedonia once had big macs. there were seven mcdonald's outlets within its borders and average macedonians were of course, very pleased by that. why wouldn't they be? four years ago, the franchise operator got into some kind of dispute with a mcdonald's european subsidy and the golden age of macedonian fast food swiftly came to an end. the franchise license was pulled. mcdonald's left the country, maybe forever, putting macedonia in the same happy meal-free category as north korea and iran. not a category you want to be in.anin that was in 2013. 2016 was the first presidential election since then. we are not asserting this as facts because we would never do that. but alert viewers may connect the dots. macedonians lost their fries and in retaliation, we lost our democracy.
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crazy, you say? no crazier than hillary clinton's theory. that's about it for us tonight. tune in every night for the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.ne dvr it. and stay tuned for "the five."r >> greg: hi, i am greg gutfeld.un with kimberly guifoyle, juan williams, jesse watters, and dana perino. "the five." ♪ yet again, after the latest attacks in the u.k., we find out the one of the terrorists has been reported to police at least twice before. this is crazy. he was reportedly in a documentary on jihad -- british jihadists. but the attack still happened. how could that be? we know the answer. no one wants to go after theset ghouls and be wrong because then you are suddenly labeled a bigot. its incentive not to
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