the robot with household items. they are geniuses, obviously. the first global challenges set for this weekend in washington. good story, right? thanks for being here. we will see you tomorrow at 7:00. coming up right next, my friend tucker carlson. good night, everybody. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we've gotten new details for this evening on the russian takeover of the u.s. government, the one you've been hearing about nonstop from every media outlet in america since tuesday. turns out it's a little more complicated than cnn initially told you. remember that russian lawyer that donald trump, jr., met with last summer? the one you are told is likely a kremlin spy sent directly by vladimir putin? it turns out the obama administration lettering. not only let her in, but took pains to make certain she got here. former attorney general lynch personally got involved in

helping that lawyer come to the united states. once here, the lawyer/spy/diabolical hacker of democracy didn't just meet with donald trump junior. she also sat in on a congressional hearing, she lobbied on behalf of her government, she went to events around washington, including a dinner attended by at least one member of congress who, for the record, is not named trump. in other words, the story is considerably more complex than you may have heard. don't tell "time" magazine that. time magazine, to them it is a simple crime tale. in fact it's o.j. simpson 20 years later. donald trump in the white bronco. here's their latest cover. red-handed. that's all you need to know. later in the show we will talk to kato kaelin about his thoughts on russia. just kidding. here's the part that is not a person talking point in d.c. it's an actual country. a world country with a nuclear arsenal. for 100 years we had a nuanced

relationship with the russian government despite appearances sometimes. we've done that because we have to do it. because it was in our best interest. not anymore. thanks to hysteria over trump's election, rush is now the single most evil country in the history of the world. according to democrats, even speaking to russians is a crime, a betrayal of america. >> the country that attacked us in the 2016 elections, he can't go into business with them. it is truly like working with the japanese after pearl harbor to defend hawaii. >> i'm questioning the patriotism of the republicans who are allowing this president to side with the lead mare put in. to wrap his arms around putin. >> republicans in congress have become enablers of the trump-russia assault on our democracy. >> tucker: questioning their patriotism? didn't do liberals use to accuse conservatives of doing that very thing? remember? until they started their own red

scare, started doing it themselves. since then it has been a flat out hyperbole contest with the award going to the participant with the most ludicrous analogies. nazi associations usually when. >> he bombs children on purpose and syria. he is as bad as hitler. >> tucker: okay. so a lot of otherwise sober people in washington have completely lost their minds and are saying things they will hopefully cringe in embarrassment over later. but what's the cost of this hysteria to america right now? we still have a world to run. how much harder is this making it? with us now's former cia operations officer brian. thanks a lot for coming on site. i don't need to say, but it's hardly a defense of the policies of the russian government to ask what is the cost to u.s. interests when any attempt to

find common interest with russia are denounced as unpatriotic? speak and what you're hearing ran out of d.c. is a lot of either or. either you or with russia or you're against it. the bottom-line and international politics and international affairs as it tends to be more nuanced, more complicated. in syria right now, we don't have a vested interest to spend hundreds of millions of dollars or send tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops. we have to work with russia to a degree, and the iranians, which is in our interest. create stability, some as refugees back. move forward with the interests we have. it's not -- >> tucker: wait a second. why are we carrying for water for putin? i'm joking, but that's exactly the response you get from otherwise sober minded policy experts when you make the point that you just made. it seems conventional and obvious. what's the cost?

you can't say things aloud like that. >> a lot of people don't understand how foreign policy works. we don't have friends. we have interests. we have temporary alliances. that's how global affairs works now. that's how it is always work. that's how we'll continue to work for many decades if not centuries. things change. unfortunately there are areas where haptic collaborate and cooperate -- that doesn't mean, that we can be honest about the fact that they did what they did in 2016. i believe that as former intelligence officer, the quick to hold them to account. but our relationship with them is complicated. always has been. for decades. >> tucker: the russians have been running anti-american propaganda efforts for 100 year years. they invented the idea that aids was created in a laboratory, we know this. i hate to say it because we are in the middle of a witch hunt. this is not a defense of the

behavior of the putin government. it's a reality. they are not the only country seeking to do that. can i get an amen to that? >> preach on. look at china. in the 90s, giving a whole bunch of money to my party and to others, you go back into time. the british in the run-up to world war ii have an office in new york trying to influence get us involved in a war. that doesn't minimize -- pearl harbor was an influence on that, but the point is this. we have complicated relationships with people all around the world. and we always will. that doesn't mean we don't hold people to account and we don't push back and in case strike back. that's what we need to do with russia and vladimir putin. we need to be honest about what he does to his own people. that is part of what our values are all about as americans. that should be nonnegotiable. at the same time, you have to be very sober, to use a word, a sober understanding of the complexities of the world.

>> tucker: if you're to set up this same set of standards, for the fifth time because i know the thought police are watching tonight, this is not a defense of russia. but if you were to set up the same moral threshold we are imposing on the rushing government to other allies, how about the saudi arabians, would it be possible to do any business at all or would you be accused of being a sympathizer with al qaeda if you said maybe we should do business with them? >> you can go to places in africa were some of those leaders have been abusing their people for decades. in some cases, there is one guy who perpetuated cannibalism. if there are horrific people out there that we have varying degrees of relationships with. it is tough. it is hard. sometimes we are to give and sometimes with the take. on this relationship with russia, organa have to do a mix of both. i think with the push back and push back hard. there is no question about that. they did what they did. but we do need to start approaching things with a much

more sober understanding in mind about world affairs. i don't think -- we are losing that nuance, tucker. that's scary for american security in the immediate to long-term. >> tucker: there are no adults left here, but you should come and improve the tenor and the tone of the city. thanks for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. >> tucker: the specter of russian infiltration followed him on his trip to france. he addressed his son's alleged involvement and the conspiracy at a news conference today. watch. >> i have a son who is a great young man pit he's a fine person took a meeting with the lawyer from russia. it lasted for very short period. i think it's a meeting most people in politics probably would've taken. >> tucker: congressman is a democrat from the state of rhode island and he joins us. thanks for coming in. you just heard a former cia officer, who is a democrat for whatever it's worth, saying

russia doesn't have our interests in heart, which is true, but let's be real. we can't not deal with russia. you can't denounce anybody who seeks to do with russia as a traitor to his country. can we be an adult on this? >> a relationship with many countries including russia's complicated. i agree with the person you just had on, brian i think it the point he made is an important one. it's complicated, but we need to understand the russian government interviewed and our presidential action. we should be serious about that. we should conduct the end but going investigation. we told them to account. we should sanction them pit which make it clear, don't you ever do this again to america. be on how long -- are they the first to interfere? i'm just asking. >> we should be outraged by the time -- at the time any foreign government interferes. the reality is it is very important that the russians understand by the way we respond

to this that america is not going to allow this. that we hold our democracy to be sacred. it is not to allow the government to participate in using hacked, stolen emails, putting russian internet bots onto the internet to promote russian propaganda. this is -- this is four intelligence agencies and agreed to by 17. >> tucker: you need to point to bureaucrats to justify a point. >> these are intelligence professionals. that's not -- let's not diminish them. they have dedicated their lives to collect intelligence. >> tucker: i have a right to question any assumption. >> and i have a right to assert that i have confidence. >> tucker: i want to get back to point, because no one gets to the details because we are busy, attacking a democracy, you said rt is the problem. rt is a cable network.

i don't watch it, but rt is part of the the american press corp. should we them? >> i've had the opportunity to have briefings, there've been on classified documents made available. it is the conclusion of our intelligence agencies, foreign intelligence agencies, and an agreement of 17 that the russian government led by vlad mayor put engaged in a very sick just get an effort to election of hillary clinton. rt promoted propaganda, fake stories, that were then retweeted on the internet by thousands of russian -- >> tucker: so if a news organization puts out stories you think -- >> rt is a russian propaganda machine. you know that. it's not a question of it should be allowed, the point is they facilitated the release of stolen emails, i hack into the dnc -- no, they facilitated the

release. >> tucker: what does that mean? >> they facilitated -- the russian intelligence agency of the russian government hacked into the dnc, facilitated the release through wikileaks, they in addition to rt promoting fake news -- >> tucker: is a member of congress it's your job -- >> it is our job to protect our democracy. if you -- i am perfectly fine with you, they interfered with the presidential election. >> tucker: don't demagogue it. i'm asking specific questions you don't want to answer. >> i am answering them. >> tucker: in what ways rt problem and what can we do with it? >> there's nothing we can do. what we can do is protect our democracy from it. >> tucker: how can we protect our debug see? >> punish them for what they did. sanctions. it's not a cable network -- it's

russian propaganda that promotes false information that gets reposted on the internet, shared with -- >> tucker: what world -- what role does -- >> i'm talking about the efforts of our team which is a well documented russian propaganda operation. >> tucker: you think the u.s. congress and intelligence agencies out of fight back? >> we ought to fight back against foreign government interfering with our presidential election. >> tucker: here's the concern. >> we can't stop them from existing, but we can punish the russian government to having the audacity to interfere. >> tucker: name a story that ran on our tv. >> there is a story about all of the money raised in the clinton campaign by the clinton foundation used by the clintons personally. the clinton campaign -- it was promoted as part of the russian propaganda. and that was wrong of course it's wrong. >> tucker: seat like a story on rt so we need to punish them

pit >> i'm not saying that. we have to understand, we are against -- -- >> tucker: i get the adjectives, i want to get to the core. >> it's not just here. they did it in france. they tried to do and in germany. they are trying to destabilize the western world. >> tucker: i'm trying do to get and more precise. it's important because i want specific answers. let me ask you an overview question since that's where you want to go. even if everything you say is right, i wonder if it speaks to the suffering of the people you represent and providence. there've been some democrats, some wise ones, saying we are going to win elections because it doesn't speak to the people. >> asked me on the show to talk about this. it's helpful to your viewing audience. >> tucker: i actually don't think it is. >> i'd like to talk about the fact we've done infrastructure bill, i like to talk about taxing legislative to make college more affordable.

>> tucker: was nancy pelosi out there hammering the russia issue? >> i'm responsible for my own conduct, and i continue to say we should be focused on the issue that matters in rhode island. that's great and good paying jobs, preparing our infrastructure, making college more formal, secure in the future of medicare and social security. that's what we should be doing. the real tragedy is -- she didn't ask me on the show to talk about those things because you want to talk about russia. because people watch a show because of it. have me on and talk about legislation. >> tucker: i guess i'm just too quiet on this one. thanks for coming out. a left wing judge san francisco has no plans to remove an order -- who is this judge and is he acting on legal or political grounds? will unpack that next. an nra ad has triggered liberals, and we have their

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>> tucker: a state representative in maine who made violent threats against the president is now nuts presently being investigated by the secret service. earlier this week state representative scott hammond of south portland went on a profane facebook rent against the president that wound up with a violent threat that appeared to suggest he would hurt the president. he later described the post as aggressively sarcastic and said it was an exchange with a friend. i don't even think he is maine

originally. federal district court judge is a yale grad with a history of left-wing activism on and off the bench. i own a ruling, that seems more political than judicial. he has announced that he is unwilling to pullback in order that prevents the trump administration from cracking down on st. therese it is who exactly is he and why is he so often in the news? the president of judicial watch joins us tonight. tom, i wanted to destroy because i noticed his name appearing. there are lots of judges that i don't agree with, but this appeared to be a judge who is making decisions based on his personal political beliefs and not trying to hide it. >> one of these anti-trump judges we've heard about with the president's temporary ban on illegal immigrants. here you have president trump trying to warn sanctuary cities, that if they don't comply with the law requiring allowing police and other local officials to come to kate with i.c.e.

status, like if you have someone arrested in jail, tell i.c.e. before you release them, and you don't get federal funds until you do. it seems like a common sense application of law. the judge says you can't do that. >> tucker: on the basis of what? is there a valid legal argument? >> he's pretending that the justice department is adding an extra requirement that only congress can add to the federal funding at issue. the order out of the attorney general's office and the department of justice, they say look, to the extent, appropriate under law. to the extent allowable under law. his other anti-trump judges, he said it doesn't matter what they say. i don't like it, and the sensory cities that are challenging it are going to be nervous. they may not get that money in the future. therefore -- >> tucker: he has become famous among a small group of people who've been paying attention because of an abortion

case on the west coast were an antiabortion group took videos of abortion providers talking about selling baby parts. nobody contests those videos are real. the judge has put a gag order on this, i won't allow those videos to be shown. we can show them on the show, they can be disseminated. even though they are real. it seems an obvious violation of the first amendment. and yet, nobody says anything about it because the entire media is on his side. >> when it comes to abortion, the rules don't apply. the first amendment doesn't apply when it comes to discussion, planned parenthood, which is been caught in this, planned parenthood is selling -- you don't get the same protections if you are pro-life that she would otherwise get. in this case, imagine if the press had gotten a video of the meeting donald trump, jr., had with russia. do you think a judge would preempt and prevent debt video from being released? know. all the media will be saying the people have a right to know what's going on here.

these organizations have federal funds at issue, and they may be violating the law. this is the investigative journalism 101, give a federal court judge telling a group that wanted to publish these videos, they couldn't publish it because of the impact on the people. >> tucker: i'm a journalist not a lawyer, is truth not a defense? the audios are real. can you not make the case that you have a right under the first amendment to show them? >> i think that there's of strong argument. if this was the aclu or "the washington post," "the new york times" trying to publish the pentagon papers, things like that, just imagine if emails in the russia investigation can be published because they might embarrass someone, or videos of undercove undercover, the famous 60 minute undercover videos, imagine if they were intervening to prevent those from being shown. all the media would be in an

opera. here these are videos that are really terrible. i heard them described, they are hard to see because you can't see them on the internet, but they describe the selling and -- >> tucker: they are totally horrifying. people have an absolute right to see the truth. >> this judge, and obama appointee. >> tucker: not surprising. thanks a lot. black lives matter has a message for the national rifle association. stop instigating racial violence. are they taking their own advice on that? one target of their attack, dana loesch, she joins me up next for a rebuttal. stay tuned. copd makes it hard to breathe.

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>> tucker: from berkeley to the g20 meeting, a global surge in left-wing violence has left city smoldering. the national rifle association -- here it is. >> make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia, smash windows, burn cars, shutdown interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding. until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness. when that happens, they will use it as an excuse for their outrage. to be enough, the video wasn't well-received on the left. they immediately accused dana da

loesch of inciting racial violence. black lives matter, which sums actually has incited racial violence, fired back with their own video. here it is. >> until the only option left is for black people to disrupt the system that keeps us oppressed and build the kinds of communities in which we want to live. when that happens, they will use it as an excuse to kill more of us. we know that we are not safe. but we are not scared either. we will continue to produce media, teach students, march, and protest to not only protect the first amendment as fiercely as the nrr protects the second, but to protect our lives. from the fund gun toting racis. we demand the nra remove their dangerous propaganda videos narrated by conservative talk radio host dana loesch. >> tucker: so for the first amendment we demand that

the video is moved. dana loesch joins. what's your response? >> well, tucker, thanks so much revenue. that's actually incredibly ironic and you just pointed that out. they say they are for the first amendment but they want to do because i censorship being that it's not actually a government entity, but they want to because i censor my first minute rights. tucker, there's nothing at all wrong, there's nothing and saturday, there's nothing at all bad that i said in the original ad. in fact, i think that's the common ground that we should all come together on. we all condemn violence. we condemn the people who sanction violence, we condemned the violence itself, the people who endorse it, and the people who like to pretend it doesn't happen so we can go on and they can further ignore. that's what we condemn. this ad, it does make sense. black lives matter began earnestly. i think it began as an organization that really wanted to solve some of the discord between the black community and police officers. that's a noble thing. but what has it turned into?

and infusion of cash, our digital record out there about that, that's no good. they turn to fostering more division instead of solving it. it certainly does seem that way. >> tucker: you can't, just for the record, be for the first amendment and simultaneously demand that people not be allowed to hear the opposing view. i would say. but they are the only ones, black lives matter, that took issue with your ad, which really got a strong reaction for sure in progressive america. there's a women's march planned i think tomorrow, i won't be going, in part a response to you, the ad, and the national rifle association. what is that, exactly? >> it is the women's march, which if you remember back in january tucker, they banned pro-life women, so it's some women only. it's not all women. they banned any sort of muslim groups, they banned pro-life groups, they don't really like conservative women that believe in second i met rights for all women. so it's a very discriminatory organization.

they've decided to react in this manner to me speaking truth. they try to smear it, go after me and said that i was inciting violence. tucker, the crazy thing is is that these organizers have said way mark -- they said actual incendiary things, they support a pretty dangerous people. people like louis farrakhan, if you remember they testified in defense of the blind sheik wexler thought that was a physical struggle. >> tucker: what's that have to do the women's march? i would people like that be involved? >> i have no idea, because the men that they support don't believe in women's rights. they think women should be home in the kitchen, they partnered with -- michael bloomberg's gone lobbyist organization. they are just upset. i'm not even sure that they know quite what they are upset about. but they've decided to march together, along with black lives matter, which i find kind of shocking considering that michael bloomberg, believes in throwing young black men against the wall and frisking them.

that's a policy he supports to the point where he tried to stop video of him saying it. they haven't released a statement on that, and nor tucker has the women's organization, the women's march, they haven't -- waiting for those videos. >> tucker: i love it relates to this idea of intersection analogy if i'm leaving crossing my pronouncing that correctly. that they are united together. the whole thing seems a little bit illogical to me. you have people at a women's march 2 don't think women should be in the workplace, doesn't really make sense. >> the biggest thing about all of this, and this is some of the ideology that these individuals promote, is that somehow progressivism has a patent on being female. it has a patent on being or pit as a patent on being black or muslim. it doesn't. that's what i find discriminatory. >> tucker: and also silly.

thank you for correcting that. danna, things left coming on tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: the u.s. monetary has a long and noble history of crushing tyrants and liberating countries. now another priority. limiting people from the disk them in a tory belief that there were only two cogenders in the world of biology. the veterans of the war in afghanistan are here to talk about the new transgender policy and how it will affect the world's most effective fighting force. plus big developments in the case of four men missing and the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we have a live report on that straight ahead.

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>> tucker: everyone america pretty much respects the u.s. military and for good reason. they are amazing. most taxpayers likes to think the money the military spends goes to expenses like submarines and ammunition. very few think it's six changes and transgender awareness training. on the other hand, it's 2017 and that means transgender recruitment is part of what the pentagon does. the question is, will that help

us win wars? this captain served in afghanistan, knee joints now for an update. james, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> tucker: is not a question of being for or against transgender people, i don't think. it's a question of the pentagon making decisions that make the services more effective. winning wars and defending the country. i don't think i should be in the military. i don't meet the standards. my simple question to you is does the transgender policy make the military more effective at its core task? >> no it doesn't. this policy is problematic for three reasons. first, privacy concerns. second, it elevates identity politics overcome that preparation. third, most importantly, it undermines readiness by removing objectivity from our military standards. >> tucker: the second, it identified elevates identity politics over

preparation? >> the army has a very specific set of plans for male and female soldiers based on body fat, height and weight, but based on biological differences between males and females. under this policy, a soldier can change their gender in the personnel system without undergoing reassignment surgery or any other physical changes whatsoever. so in the army -- >> tucker: as long as you say you've changed, you can change? >> if you have achieved a change of birth certificate and you are now a different gender. for an example of how this plays into the readiness issue, an 18-year-old male soldier with 21% body fat is considered a liability and is not -- an 18-year-old female at 20% body fat is fit for duty. if you have an 18-year-old soldier, 21% body fat, and all of the characteristics of a male soldier, but identifies as female, he could be combat

eligible when -- under the female stander, when he otherwise would not be. >> tucker: and all these people are fighting the same wars, right? >> sure thing. >> tucker: so if your only goal was to be the most effective fighting force he could you have a standard wouldn't shoot? >> you would think, under the issue i just described, the example, essentially you are combat eligible if you identifies the type of person who would be combat eligible. that's very millennial. that's not really a good way to fight wars. >> tucker: the reason nobody talks about this is because nobody wants to be seen as attacking anyone. i'm in that category, i'm not attacking anyone. i honestly try to be sensitive. but again the military is different from other institutions in that it has only one goal. and that's to protect the country. let's take a look, put on the screen, these are words from your training manual. all soldiers must use the barracks bathroom and shower facilities associated with their gender. understand, you may encounter individuals who have physical characteristics of the

opposite sex. that's going to all enlisted personnel no? >> i actually received the training manual that are published from a female officer who was justifiably concerned about the answer she was getting from the army about this policy. >> tucker: let me ask you is there anybody in leadership, civilian or otherwise, in the military, who argues that this will make you a more effective force, when more wars because of this? >> i don't want to speak for all service members, but i have never heard anybody say this makes us more effective. i know the obama administration their justification was that they are recruiting all available talent, but then you have the others, it's going to have a negative impact on readiness. that is a pretty clear indicator that this is not making us safer. >> tucker: any impact -- by the way, you can get somebody to

come in the shown tugboats. every buddy so intimidated. >> it's a difficult issue. >> tucker: the military protect our country, we all have interest in us. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: fight to save the lives to make life of charlie gard went on today, but why should the government be able to make health decisions about a child? the u.n. says otherwise. charles krauthammer on that up next. i have to tell you something. dad, one second i was driving and then the next... they just didn't stop and then... i'm really sorry. i wrecked the subaru. i wrecked it. you're ok. that's all that matters. (vo) a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. not necessarily after 3 toddlers with boundless energy.

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>> tucker: charles krauthammer concern is second to join us. first, our country's most powerful institution that hated the rest of the country for a long time. the people who run tech companies, hollywood studios, look out the window of 35 as they commute, they see a

population that is fat, bigoted, dumb. they feel pure contempt for the people below them. at long last middle america is returning those feelings. and you poll by pew finds that republican leaning voters have come to distrust the higher education establishment a lot. 50% of them believe colleges and universities have a negative overall effect on the country. just 36% think they have a positive effect, a swing of about 20 points from just two years ago. okay, you say. that just because stupid, uneducated conservatives naturally hate school. they cannot get into them. right? wrong. actually, republicans of college degrees are even more hostile to college than those without them because they know how bad it is. but if colleges have lost the confidence of nonliberals, consider the media. 85% of republican voters say the national news media are hurting the country. once again a substantial swing from just a few years ago. publicans are then oppressed by labor unions, either, or banks.

the only institutions that are still viewed positively by both sides of the spectrum are churches and religious groups and yet those institutions are the ones that are losing power in america. the sentiments are not pointless, these are not numbers that mean nothing. a country can't thrive without strong, respected institutions. it's a big deal when the nations elites reject their own people, but it's an even bigger deal one the people reject them. today the parents of 11-month-old charlie gard stormed up the british courtroom when they were battling a british judge over their son's treatment. his parents have two good days to prove to the judge that their son, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, would benefit from treatment here in the united states. the judge previously ruled that additional treatment will be futile after dr. said that the boy cannot be helped. the question has been raised by can't they just bring their child to the united states for treatment? an obscure provision in the

u.n.'s convention on the rights of the child inhibits parents abilities to make a medical decision for their children. the u.s. is the only country that is not ratified its membership in the convention. charles krauthammer is a physician, best selling author, spent a lot of time thing about medical ethics and he joins us tonight. so, we talked about this a couple of times, and you've made the point that these are very complex matters and that it's best to give people space on these. i had no idea there was an international convention that might be affecting the ability of the parents to decide for their son. >> the fact that it's getting in the way of their being able to act as they wish is a testimony to the wisdom of our not signing it. these are ridiculous international agreements. generally adhered to, by countries without the rule of law. basically it allows some judge in some country to harvest the

international court of justice over this or that. we have a constitution that has maintained and supported and preserved the rights of our citizens, including our children, rather well for a quarter of a millennium. to me it just shows you how this gets so infected by rights talk. the issue here is not the poor, the babies right. it's a problem of his suffering, his future, the prospects. rights are irrelevant here. the only question that we should be debating is what's best for the child. since the child can't speak for himself, who speaks on behalf of the child? that's the ultimate question. it seems to me, even though the parents are wrong in this, we talked about this last week, i don't think there's any hope for the child in coming here. i think it would prolong the suffering. even the doctor who does the treatment for other kinds of diseases, but never with

charlie's, has said there's only a 10% chance of any improvement. in any improvement is going to leave him in a terminal state. >> tucker: i just find it a little remarkable than an international treaty to the united nations could impinged on one of the most basic and sacred relationships of all between parent and child. since when did international bureaucrats decide they have the right to make decisions for your child who they never met? >> since forever. that's all they do. to go to five-star hotels, they draw up these agreements, these social agreements, these bills of rights which are never adhered to. it starts way back after the second world war with the international conventions for economic and social rights. in the west we understand what rights are. your protection against government intrusion. it's basically a right. it's a right against the government. it's been expanded, specifically

by a socialist and communist countries, that have not that protection against government intrusion, to say well, yes, of course. we give people economic rights, the right to work, the right to food, et cetera. social rights. which is a way of saying "we are going to oppress our people, they will have the right, but we are going to feed them and will call that a right." you end up in these ridiculous discussions at international conventions. i will give you an example. the law of the sea. this is an invention of rights. a country that has never invented a pencil has a right to mangle these modules at the bottom of the pacific ocean, they wouldn't of heard of it and had no use for it. whereas we are mining them with our technology and our sweat and effort. that's what's wrong with the law of the sea. >> tucker: this is what is like to have the village rated of the child, when somebody you don't know gets to make life or death decisions about the child.

>> it should be the parents above all, which is why in this case i would allow them to take the child even though if it were mine i wouldn't. or secondarily, if it can't be the parents, or if the parents aren't present, then the courts of your own system, your own society. but to rely on some convention nobody's ever heard of drawn up by bureaucrats who lived on a different planet is absurd. i think that's an absurdity introduced here. the british are serious about how to deal with this, but this is the one sign of unseriousness. >> tucker: i've got a key decision to make about my chilton, one a lot bureaucrats in zimbabwe way in? charles, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: we will be right back.

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pennsylvania. fox news' rick leventhal has the latest. >> the news of that somewhat stunning confession broke late this afternoon and now, we are hearing a disturbing account of what may have happened to the sarcoma segment. -- four missing men. >> cosmo dinardo this evening confessed to the district attorney. he confessed to his participation or commission and the murders of the four young men. in exchange for that confession, he was promised by the district attorney that he will spare his life by not invoking the death penalty. >> 19-year-old dean finocchiaro has been identified, the others missing and presumed that our 22-year-old mark sturgis, tom meo, and 19-year-old jimi patrick. according to "the associated press" ," dinardo's confection s

that he may have killed the four men after selling the marijuana and may have had help with three of the murders. we will have more on that. >> tucker: thanks for the update. we appreciate it. good night from washington. "the five" is next. ♪ >> greg: hello, i am greg gutfeld. with kimberly guilfoyle, jesse watters, and meghan mccain, "the five" ." ♪ >> greg: well, it is the most hyped meeting since eve met the snake. donald, jr., and the baffling russian can be entered for 20 minutes and the media howls of the moon. yet, they never asked one simple question, tells us, greg. how did the russian lawyer get into the united states -- wasn't her visa denied? she arrived here under