>> dana: thanks for being a part of the "the story" tonight. in catch me on the five on 9:00 just one hour now for now. tucker carlson is up next could help you have a great weekend. goodbye. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president trump held his very first face-to-face meeting with the russian president latimer putin today as the two are both in homburg for this week's g20 summit. >> we have been -- we've had some very good talks. we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening. for russia and the united states, and for everybod everybody. it's been an honor to be with you. >> tucker: most of the meeting

focused on syria's ongoing civil war, but president trump also pressed putin about alleged russian interference in last fall's election. denied any such interference, of course exactly that's what he would say if he and trump ed sedar lee conspired to read it years ago. we will let you decide. meanwhile, violent protests continue in hamburg. it was so bad in one point that millennia trump was unable to attend a boat trip for the spouses of world leaders after security decided it was too dangerous for her to leave the hotel. so the european left is quick to write against trump. here's the interesting thing. european populations aren't actually that hostile to his policies. consider trump's proposal to ban immigration temporarily from half a dozen muslim majority countries. outrageous, right?

actually most europeans don't think it goes nearly far enough. a poll this year found that a majority in france, germany, italy, belgium, and several other countries backed a total halt to muslim immigration into the countries. in every country in europe, support for such a ban was far higher then over opposition to it. kind of amazing. how about the president's plan to build a wall? we are told in this country that it is morally offensive. nobody does it because it doesn't work. many european governments feel the family about their own borders. hungary just built -- slovenia has a wall in the croatian border, austria isn't just putting up a fence on the italian border, it's also sending soldiers to defend it. trump's anti-migrant wall maybe a crime against mandy, but in europe walls are good policy and they are supported by the population. even global warming, there's not as much difference as you might think. trump's withdrawal from the paris climate accord supposedly marked the total end of american

global leadership. all the news anchors here said so repeatedly. but actually, that's not such a crazy view in europe. believe it or not. a2015 survey found that only 42% of europeans were very worried about global warming. meaning most people there share the president's lack of all-consuming urgency on that question. in other words, europe is much closer to america that most of us realize. at least on the issues. trump's views are considered extreme there either. he just hated by elites on both continents. john daniel davison is a senior correspondent at the federalist and he joins us tonight. john, these numbers are a little striking considering the coverage of the president's trip abroad. he is basically friend as this -- it's being -- they must have forced backwards view, but the population seems to agree with him. >> it's very similar to what we see in coverage of trump here in

the u.s. the same narrative that trump is a buffoon, out of step with mainstream america, holds these offensive policy views and wants to do all these terrible things. but there is just a poll released released wednesday showing a majority of americans support a travel ban along the lines of what trump has proposed for muslim majority countries. this idea that his ideas are out of the mainstream is totally false. not just in europe, but here in the u.s. as well. you just don't hear that in the media because that's not what the elites think. >> tucker: that's also not what they cover, so they cover the president himself, his tweets, his behavior. which is a whole separate thing. that's a whole separate response from the public when you poll on it. do you approve of the president's twitch? no, not really say most people. he almost never hear people, straight coverage of what he's actually proposing, what his ideas are.

the seem like they've always been popular. this is not a new thing. >> the interesting thing about the poll on wednesday was the language of the poll actually excluded any references to donald trump. the question is would you support a state department policy that restricts immigration from these muslim majority countries. 55% of people said yes. i would support that. it's exactly like you said, the media wants to focus on trump the person, not on the administration's policies which have always been a lot more popular than the media gives the administering credit for. >> tucker: i have to say, maybe the headline here, and this is never reported that i'm aware of, is how far out of step the people who run western europe and the united states are with their own population. this is supposed to be democracy, and yet their views have no resemblance to the views of the people that they are supposedly governing. >> it's an uncomfortable thing to bring up, especially when we

talk about the e.u. the e.u. is not a very democratic institution. when you look at the majority of people in poland, in other parts of europe, they support these policies that the e.u. elites themselves really deplore. there's talk earlier this year of the e.u. sanctioning the czech republic and poland and hungary for their immigration policy. huge majorities in those countries favor restricting migrants. they don't want the country to be flooded with migrants the way germany has been. the e.u. wants to punish them for that. when we talk about e.u. or european elites, we aren't really talk about people who care all that much what actual citizens of poland want. or think. >> tucker: you see that here in this country on display every day. how long can fake democracy continue? >> ethically seeing the repercussions, the backlash from

that. you had trump selection which was obviously a backlash to the political establishment of both parties in this country. then you had -- the historic run at the french presidency. i think you're going to see this more and more as people get set up with the idea that elites in brussels or in washington or some far off capital know what's best for people, don't care what they want, and try to impose policy that are not popular. it's going to be a rising tide of populism until the elites can figure this out. >> tucker: one thing i think to think you know what's best, i think we all sort of think we know what's best. but to not care what the people who elected you think is a different thing entirely and not sustainable. i appreciate your insight. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: overrun another channel chris matthews predicted the president would be at a massive disadvantage in his meeting with latimer putin. because of course he knows

everything about his little puppet donald trump. >> our president is walking into a room tomorrow morning in hamburg germany with a guy looking across to them like you're looking at me who knows everything, who knows every meeting that his people, mike flynn, jared kushner, anybody else. who met with the president. he knows it all. if he had excitement in the hotel room in moscow, years ago, he's got those pictures, is looked at as a million times. he knows every thing about donald trump. >> tucker: you can't edit live television, but still. back in reality, the question is which of the president be looking to gain from today's meeting with the russian leader. for that we turn to an actual expert on the subject, a russian speaker, stephen cohen is a professor at nyu, taught at princeton, also contribute an editor at the nation magazine. he joins us tonight. professor, the first thing you notice is just how much the press is rooting for this

meeting between our president and the russian president to fail. why? why were they wanted to fail? >> it's kind of pornography, justice like there's no law against -- there is no american interest. as a historian, let me tell you the headline i would write instead. what we witnessed today in hamburg. potentially historic new, anti-cold war partnership, begun by trump and putin, but meanwhile attempts to sabotage it escalate. he said it was an expert. i actually do have one expertis expertise. i've seen a lot of summits as we call meetings between american and russian presidents. the president even participated -- the first george bush's summit preparation, when he met with gorbachev and invited them

to the camp david. in that context, i think what we saw today was potentially the most faithful meeting between american and russian president since the war time. the reason is that the relationship with russia is so dangerous. and yet we have a president who might have been crippled by these russian attacks on him, and yet he was not. he was, i think, politically courageous. it went well, he did important things, and this will be astonishing to be said but i think today we witnessed pertinent stomach witnessed tonic president trunk i think it was a good day for everybody. >> tucker: how much of the attacks on russia from, how much do they really have to do with iran and russia is with iran and

syria? >> i think a lot. you've got three major actors being demonized in america. one is putin. second is trump. but then the leader of syria, president asada, is demonized here remember the main thing which you today, and i said this before, i thought the primary aspiration of trump should be an antiterrorism alliance, i thought that was vital, that is in fact, and they said as much, what they spent their time on today. they formed an alliance. that means that we will side for now with russia with assad. that will be assailed in washington because he's loath in washington, almost as much as trump and putin. >> tucker: but why is that? can you put a finer point on

that, my frustration in this debate is that a lot of the players in it are not straightforward about what they are really for them what they are really against. their agendas are closed. why is assad the focus of so much anger in washington? >> i don't know. i try only to talk about things i've studied. what i do know is that when the syrian civil war began five, six years ago, there were a lot of dirty hands in that mix. including american hands. everybody was arming somebody. we have a monstrous war going on there with so many groups being armed by so many different states, but the thing about assad to me has always been, and maybe this is colloquial, but he has been the protector of the and christians, and the nonjihadists islamic population in syria. at a time when the main threat there, the islamic state, isis, caps off the heads of these

people. it would seem to me that we should stick with assad until we defeat these people. focus, if you will, before we end, something that both trump and putin said today, they said we are meeting, we have agreed, and we promise positive things to come. in other words, they have formed a political partnership. and now it goes forward, but it will be viciously attacked. and already has. if you look at the press today. >> tucker: mindless. thank you for the common sense. stephen cohen joining us. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: hamburg germany the latest city to be wrecked internationally violent left-wing protests. up next, we will talk to some but says violence in the streets like which are watching now paints the legacy of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

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77% of its residents voted for hillary last fall. all that money and all that progressive values you'd think that people in marin would be willing to implement liberal policies, and usually they are as long as they don't inconvenience them personally. consider affordable housing, and california subsidized housing is required everywhere, but marin doesn't want it. mark levine is a liberal democrat who represents the county in the california state's family. he is putting a proposal that would give marin county a special exemption from statewide affordable housing requirements, despite the fact that if there is any place on the planet that could use more affordable housing its suburban san francisco. marin can probably all seems a little bit of that diversity thing they are always talking about. as of last census, the county is less than 3% black, which is what liberals call segregated. there's no doubt that if you ask local residents they would have excellent reasons why marin county shouldn't have to follow the same reasons as

everybody else in the state of california. they say the need to preserve the county's charm or its historic character or they will vaguely note that housing projects bring crime problems. and maybe hurt schools. keep in mind, they definitely are racist. they aren't afraid of diversity, it's not they voted for donald trump or something. actually, to become highly honest we believe them. they probably aren't racist. most americans aren't. but when you vote for the policies of enforced diversity for everybody else, would he tell the rest of america that they are bigots for not wanting a housing project next door or somali refugees flooding into their kids schools, you probably ought to follow the same rules yourself. they don't, because they never do. the second day of the g20 summit in hamburg germany sought even more violent protests which injured almost 200 police officers.

that was germany as we said. it could've been right here in america. he could have been at berkeley or baltimore or ferguson. it could have been a lot of different places. it's all the same. this kind of protesting, writing. bob woodson's been around it a long time, he protested for 50s. he is president and founder of the woodson center. he says today's violent riders are distorting earlier protest movements. thanks for coming on tonight. >> good to be here. >> tucker: thank you. >> go ahead. >> tucker: you were involved in the civil rights movement,

which is of course stated model for a lot of the protests we are watching pete how do they compare? >> first of all let me just say, i was involved in the civil rights movement even in the mid-50s when i was stationed in the military in the south, and i was the subject to police intimidation and for three years after i was discharged my heart would race when the police officer was behind me. but i also was a veteran of the civil rights movement led demonstrations in west chester pennsylvania. i realize that what is happened over the past few years is that the civil rights movement has morphed into a race grievance industry. it's also -- it's hypocritical in that they are using race to justify the generation of iniquity. we demonstrated in the '60s, we did so for the purpose of

increasing inclusion for tweed and tennis traits we could have separate graduation ceremonies. we also demonstrated to change the climate. we were peaceful. we sought the support of the place. we also were disciplined, we made certain that we had the proper role models, such as rosa parks, someone of good character. the civil rights movement of the 60s has now been hijacked by the left and has become a race grievance industry, and they are distorting it and really just destroying what we have created. >> tucker: so, mr. woodson, when you having personally fought against segregation look around and see the left pushing to reinstate segregation as you just said, separate graduation ceremonies, separate dorms, separate parts of the cafeteria and colleges. what do you make of that?

is that beholding to you? >> first of all, it's even worse than you are portraying it. when people have deeply held blades, these beliefs are challenged with facts and truth, what they have to do is create destructive myths. the myth is that the conditions that you see low income blacks are in today is somehow a legacy of slavery and jim crow and therefore what you are witnessing now is the legacy. that is just not true. in the past, blacks were in slavery but not of slavery. blacks were in segregated, but they were not of it. blacks were in poverty but not of poverty. in other words, from the time of slavery up until the 60s, even though we were facing these odd odds, were old people could walk in their communities without fearing for their grandchildren, we didn't have out of wedlock births, our marriage rates in the 1930s to 1940s was higher than the white marriage rate. but all of that changed in 1960

when we met this tsunami of liberal academics who said one of the things we have to do is to make welfare a right, and then reparations. we also disconnected work from income, and this was purposely done by the liberal academics at columbia university, and they said if we do this, it means that fathers will be irrelevant, drug addiction will go, school dropouts will increase, and so what we are witnessing, what they could not accomplish, liberal policies of the 60s did. as a consequence we now have 70% of children are being born in single-parent households. but this did not happen during segregation. urban renewal destroyed all of the commercial centers around the country, and so it's just a

myth. and it's a real crisis. >> tucker: must be so bitter for you to watch. robert watson, thank you for the perspective. i appreciate. >> thank you. >> tucker: president trump the administration is besieged by an unprecedented number of leaks. it really is unprecedented. we kept track. is it endangering the country? that conversation next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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this administration are coming from career bureaucrats who shouldn't be divulging sensitive information which they have privy, have access. and also our leaked purely for the purpose of undermining a president they don't like. in so doing they hurt the country. how can you defend something like that? >> i think the leaks are dangerous. i think sometimes people that are making these leaks may not realize the consequences of it. recently we saw a leak, from a young lady, reality tv, an odd name tv, she served in the military and was a contractor with the nsa. likely she's going to go to jail for this. leaks are dangerous and we have to be careful, but the issue that we are finding in this administration we are seeing more than ever is that when president trump has to -- he has to get the respect of the people that are serving him in these agencies. you have to work harder at doing that. so far he hasn't done that. all the tweets, all the attacks,

they are giving a hard time to people that work in these agencies that are civil servants, many of them not very highly paid. and when he doesn't read the presidential briefs, instead he watches cable news shows, attacking people on twitter. >> tucker: as a factual matter, they are highly paid, federal bureaucrats make considerably more than their private-sector counterparts. so they are well-paid. >> people serving in the fbi, they are not highly paid people. they could make a lot more money in the private sector. these are people who worked in the military, that dni, there are a lot of people who from -- give their life to protect our nation. >> tucker: yes there are. my father worked in the federal government, i'm not against federal employees. >> and mine worked for -- >> tucker: and when he worked for president, you have two choices. you can either work to forward

his agenda which is your job, or you can resign. would you take the same position if soldiers didn't respect the chairman of the joint chiefs and turned their guns against him? he would say no, you work for the military. you protect the country, you do what you're told. if you don't want to, you leave. it's not a matter of earning the respect. they are undermining national security because they don't like him. >> i think you make a very important point. there's a lot of leaks that are coming from within the white house that these are the people that he has handpicked. they are the only ones in the room at times he makes a call to a foreign leader. a lot of the leaks are also coming from within his administration, within the people he has chosen. has come -- he, look, a lot of leaks are coming at a very high level that are people that are in the room that are coming from the administration. you and i both know that. you work in media. >> tucker: slow down for a

second. there are leaks coming from the political staff in the white house. leaking against each other, turf wars. that's conventional. ugly, but it happens. but the leaks that matter and the ones that undermine our ability to run the government and to be safe are the ones coming from the permanent staff. for example, may 23rd of this year, the president of the philippines and trump have a conversation. the contents are leaked. that didn't come from his staff. they have no reason to do that. how does that help the country, leaking some like that? >> look, i give an example of the lady named reality tv who is a contractor. mid-20s, she does make a lot of money. it's a silly name, that's what her name is. president trump has to work harder to appeal to the people -- >> tucker:'s you are blaming trump for reality winner? that's no less --

>> i think the president has to earn the respect of the people that wear the uniform, that worked very hard to put their lives in danger. he could not -- these are not people that are property or -- >> tucker: i don't know why you make excuses. it's totally against the law and it's wrong. >> he is to do a better job. >> tucker: thanks. we talk a lot effect of illegal immigration on the economy, but what about the effect on the environment? next up we talk to a progressive environmental professor next. stay tuned. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember.

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crime was always high there, but now it has exploded. in the first six months of this year, 365 people have been shot. a55% increase. there've been a most 100 murders, putting in contention with baltimore and lewis for title of america's most deadly city. even more frighteningly, only about 37% of the city's are even solved. he can be gunned down at random while walking through the french quarter, and there is nearly a two-thirds chance your killer will never be found. the mayor knows what he has to do to save his city, and it's obvious if you think about it, fix global warming. in the state of the city address, he announced an ambitious plan to save new orleans to increase recycling, cut carbon emissions, and massively increase its solar energy output, all to stand in contrast to the trump administration which has recently pulled out of the paris climate agreement. between this and tearing down all those statues in the city,

it is shocking that the mayor can't seem to get a handle on the city's crime problem which is the single biggest problem. focusing on superficial issues popular with the coastal he doesn't seem to be helping. president has pushed for restricting immigration into the note said, focusing on the alleged economic problems as a result of immigration. those are the only reasons to oppose the british. what about the classic liberal because of protecting the environment? he's the author of the book how many is too many, the purpose of art meant for reducing immigration into the united states. he joins a snippet professor, thanks for coming on. >> good to be with you, tucker. >> tucker: it seems like i was looking for you for a year. when i was a kid, there were liberals, and progressives who

said i'm not against immigrants or anything, but too many people is bad for the environment. it seemed an obvious point. i can't find anybody in the left he says that other than you. what is your argument? >> the ornament is relatively straightforward, tucker. immigration currently is driving u.s. population growth, and population growth is a big part of many of our environmental problems. so part of the progress of has to do with that. if you care about creating a sustainable environment, you need to look at immigration driven population growth. >> tucker: because you don't go to midtown manhattan furniture, you go to yellowstone because there's fewer people. why is the sierra club and the nrdc pushing for reductions immigration? >> years ago, when you go back to the 70s and even into the

1980s, the sierra club did have a policy that the u.s. should reduce immigration to levels that would stabilize the u.s. population. but over time, that got to be a harder and harder argument to make. for complex reasons. really, starting about 20 years ago, environmental leaders dropped the ball on population. so there are quite a few of us, though, who is to believe an important component of sustainability. we are trying to make that case. >> tucker: crowded countries are dirty, all of them. it's obvious if you travel. what does our population look like if current trends continue, say 100 years from now? what are the effects on the environment? >> currently our population is 326 million people in the united states. if we keep immigration levels where they are, we are on track to add 200 million more people

by 2100. the output of at about 525 million people. when the other hand, if we reduced immigration -- >> tucker: weight, stop your out there. we are on track to add, to be at 500 million by the end of one? how long >> by 2100. >> tucker: by the end of this entry? >> by the end of the century. most of this population growth is driven by immigration. if you get to play cut back to the levels of immigration we had 50 years ago, we do be untracked to stabilize our population in a few decades. basically what happened the american people have chosen to stabilize our population, having about enough children to replace ourselves. but congress has increased immigration in recent decades and so we are on track to add hundreds of millions more people. that has a pretty large environmental impact. whether you talk about greenhouse gases, sprawl, loss

of wildlife habitat. people make a difference. >> tucker: 500 million people by the end of this century. so if you are watching, your children will live in a country with 500 million people. that's a remarkable number. professor, i hope you will come back. i'm sure you take a lot of for saying stuff like that on the left, but good for doing it. >> i appreciate the opportunity to come on. thanks. >> tucker: any time. u.s. military is moving ahead with policies for integrating transgender soldiers into the army chemic armed forces. why is the question. social engineering or will it make our military more effective in fighting foreign wars? we debated with a former member of the obama administration nex next.

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>> tucker: late in his second term, president obama implemented new policies allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the military. secretary of defense james mattis has now reversed that policy, though he has delayed allowing transgender to vigils to enlist by an actor six months so the military can prepare. how is the military preparing? new training manuals, which among many other things tell female soldiers they should except seeing naked men in the shower. all of this making our country safer? hector graham failed was a obama national security appointee and a speech writer, he joins us. ask for coming on. >> thank you for saving the simplest issue for the last of the week, right into the weekend. >> tucker: i think it maybe

the simplest issue. all changes to military policy ought to answer one question, doesn't make the the country safer? >> tucker, i think you are righ right. when i worked directly with secretary ash carter on a number of personnel reforms, whether it was repeal of don't ask don't tell, whether it was women in combat, or whether was transgender service, the question was always does this make our force more effective. ash carter, he's a physicist. he wants the data. he wants the facts. he's not an ideologue, and neither is general mattis, the secretary of defense. that's how we approach these question, but also in mind that we have the finest fighting -- >> tucker: first of all, he's a coward. he is a coward who should've resigned. because in no sense with the deity described or not does this make the country safer. if you can prove otherwise, the floor is open. how does this make america safer? >> tucker, we have to

concentrate on the breadth of today and making sure that our force is ready and able to fight and win our nation's wars. that's the mission. at the same time with the elect of the and make sure that we recruit from the broadest possible pool of america's best. we have an all volunteer force. we have to draft, we have to recruit from a number of different communities throughout the country. in the past you've seen how the military has expanded to different ethnicities, different races, women in combat. >> tucker: you're not answering the question. what you're saying is this is a massive social program designed to affirm different communities to put political pressure on the white house. that's fine. but the pentagon ought to be only concerned with winning wars and securing our safety. how does this advance that in any way? give me -- make me feel better. >> the way the country wins wars is that we have a military that constitutes america's best, reflect america were people want to serve.

we've seen how it is changed from the revolutionary war. it's change in a lot of ways in terms of put recruits, who it attracts. still, we have the finest fighting force the world is ever known. part of that is that we need soldiers to make that true. >> tucker: that is just logan's beard military, the army is now saying that female soldiers have to get used to it. they are not allowed to complain about seeing naked men in the shower because if you identify, self identify without going any physical changes, as transgender, the military has to accept your gender designation. if you say you are woman, you are woman, and other own have to deal with it. whatever you think of that, how does that help the war in afghanistan? >> right now there are between 3,009,000 individuals who are transgender currently serving in the military. and they served with excellence. they served pride, they serve with dignity. these are the people who despite all sorts of obstacles, all sorts of prejudices, they want to serve their country.

it's the courage, it's their commitment to their country, not their gender identity. >> tucker: you're totally missing it, i'm not attacking them at all. i admire anyone who wants to serve the country. but the question is, is the country best served by this policy? it's not about empowering individuals. it's about safeguarding the country. i don't see how this achieves that. you don't have an answer because you know this is a political sop to an interest group that the administration was afraid of. toby called them on it because everyone's too embarrassed in a mud called. nobody's -- >> tucker, i'm not calling you a bigot or anything like that. the rand corporation on the west coast, it's pretty conservative, and they've said that this would have minimal impact on readiness. so it's not like you have a group of --

>> the month >> tucker: it has minimal impact. that's the standard? as long as it's with minimal impact? shouldn't every decision make it a more effective fighting force for the sake of the country to protect. this does not do that. it was made with that question in mind. it was made for other reasons. that's why they should've resigned when they made you do this. >> should secretary matus resign if he continues it? i don't think so. he came up with -- a six-month delay to make sure that the policies are right and that we get the training rights that our military can continue to serve independent country. >> tucker: patrick, thank you for the game of catch. i appreciate. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: up next, washington, d.c., city council think that is a problem. it's solution, giving minorities a chance to get to the medical marijuana business. it sounds strange. nick was born to move.

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