our country who share our values, who love our people, and who always will love our people. we don't want people coming into our country who have bad intentions even before they start. >> you are watching "tucker carlson tonight." the president has been speaking for about 50 minutes. we are going to continue watching him until he finishes. >> president trump: we also believe that those seeking to immigrate into our country should be able to support themselves financially and should not be able to use welfare for themselves or their household for a period of at least five years. as we speak, we are working with two wonderful senators, tom cotton and david perdue, to create a new immigration system

for america. instead of today's low-skill system -- just a terrible system where anybody comes in, people that have never worked, people that are criminals, anybody comes in -- we want a marriage-based system, one that protects our workers -- a marriage merit merit-based system, one that protects our workers, and one that protects our economy. we wanted merit-based. we want people that work really hard in their country and are going to come into our country and work really, really hard. we don't want people that come into our country and immediately go on welfare and stay there for the rest of their lives. we are not going to do it. we are working every single day to move the legislation that

serves the interests of the american people. as we discussed earlier, at the very top of the list is health care reform with obamacare, the washington obstructionists, meaning democrats, made big promises to the american people, and every single promise they made turned out to be a lie. "you can have your doctor. you can have your plan." you remember it, 28 times. "you can have your doctor. you can have your plan." i know democrats that heard that, and they would have never voted for it, but they voted because they believed the lies of president obama. [boos] for seven years, every republican running for office promised to repeal and replace this disastrous law.

now they must keep their promis promise. the senate is working not only to repeal obamacare but to deliver great health care for the american people. any senator who votes against repeal and replace is telling america that they are fine with the obamacare nightmare, and i predict they will have a lot of problems. in west virginia, recent premiums have gone up 169% since obamacare went into effect. in alaska, over 200%. and the deductibles have gone through the roof. you will never even get to use

it. in missouri, premiums have shot up 145% under obamacare. in pennsylvania, the cost of obamacare insurance has more than doubled in the coverage has become horrific. it is time for democrats to stop resisting. that is their term. "resist, resist." they have to do, finally, what is right for the american peopl people, but probably we'll do it ourselves, because today we won 51-50 and didn't get one democratic vote. think of that. [cheers and applause] my administration is working every single day to heat and honor the will of the voters. that includes working on one of

the biggest tax cuts in american history and, actually, if i get what i want, it will be the single biggest tax cut in american history. [cheers and applause] we have the highest taxes anywhere in the world, and this will really bring them down to one of the lowest. and we really have no choice. we will have growth, we will have everything that we dreamed of having. it is time to let americans keep more of their own money. it's time to bring new companies to our shores and to create a new era of growth, prosperity, and wealth. we want millions of americans to be lifted from welfare to work and from dependence to independence. [cheers and applause]

one of the ways we will put more americans to work despite rebuilding our nation's crumbling infrastructure. that is why i have called on legislators to pass a bill that generates $1 trillion in new infrastructure investments. we are going to fix our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our airports. we are going to fix all of the things that once made us great, and we are going to use american iron, american steel, american aluminum. [cheers and applause] we will buy american, and we will hire, finally, american. we want, once again, to have the best infrastructure, the best

schools, the best jobs, the best factories, and we want products that proudly carry the label "made in the usa." we want this country that we love so much, america, to be strong, proud, and free, which means america must also be united. because when america is united, america is totally unstoppable. [cheers and applause] although, i'll be totally honest with you. even if it's not united, we are

unstoppable. so don't worry about it. [cheers and applause] we are going to be unstoppable either way, but it would be nice, wouldn't it? are small differences are nothing compared to our common history, common values, and common future. we share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. now it is us to preserve the birthright of freedom and justice, the birthrate of prosperity that our ancestors won for us with their sweat. with their sweat come up with their blood, with their work, with their muscle, with their brain. they won it for us, and we are going to make it bigger and better and stronger than it ever was before. it is time to look past the old

division, retired -- really tired -- politicians, and the steel debates of the past, and to finally come together as one nation under god. we have no choice. we cannot and never will back down. we will never, ever give up. we cannot fail. and if we remember what unites us, and i promise you, we will not fail. we cannot fail. we will make america strong again. we will make america wealthy again. we will make america proud agai

again. we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again. thank you, god bless you, god bless the state of ohio. thank you, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." as you just saw, the president has wrapped up the rally in youngstown, ohio, where he touted his accomplishments in the last six months. some of the most significant in the history of this country. here is part of what he said. >> sometimes they say he doesn't act presidential. and i say, hey, look, great schools, smart guy.

it is so easy to act presidential. but that's not going to get it done. but i think that with few exceptions, no president has done anywhere near what we've done in his first six months. not even close. >> tucker: will have more reaction to the rally in ohio throughout the hour. back here in washington though, it was one of the more dramatic days of memory, at least politically, as the president continued a protracted rhetorical assault on his own attorney general, jeff sessions. it began before breakfast this morning with the street. "attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton climbs. where our emails and dnc server and intel leakers?" the attacks continued. the president describes himself as very disappointed in his attorney general. he went on to dismiss the importance of sessions' endorsement last year during the primaries which was the very first to receive from a city

center. this afternoon at a joint news conference with the prime minister of lebanon, he went after him again, saying he was upset with the general for recusing himself from the russian investigation and not doing after combat leaks from u.s. intelligence agencies. watch. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office, and i would have, quite simply, picked somebody else. so i think that is a bad thing, not for the president, but for the presidency. i think it is unfair to the presidency. >> tucker: unfair to the presidency. well, the russia investigation is certain that. it is unfair to the country too paid the whole thing is stupid and disingenuous, as we pointed out many times, and it helps nobody but partisans who are pushing it. it is easy to understand the frustration the president feels. but publicly attacking jeff sessions for all of that,

that is nuts. senior white house staff thinks are too. they have asked the president to stop, so far without success. meanwhile, sessions hasn't said a word. his only public comment has been a press release describing his plan to crack down on sanctuary cities. that is his job. that's the point. jeff sessions is doing what he was hired to, as he was doing from day one. sessions took him seriously in his work to do that. trump promised to end obama's policy of harassing local police department's. sessions has done that too. in an administration which at many points does act like they have no ideas but their ran on, jeff sessions has stayed true to the ideas they got trump elected. that is by the left hates jeff sessions more than any other member of the cabinet. they are rejoicing into night, not just because sessions are suffering and humiliated, but because the drum coalition seems to be fracturing. the left wants to believe -- they tell you this all the time -- that drum got elected

because he is famous and voters are dumb, but that is not what happened. trump got elected because he had true things that everybody else was afraid to say, namely, the american middle class is in deep trouble and elites in both parties don't care. they are happy to replace them with foreign workers who work for less in the complain. voters knew in their bones that message was true because it is true. republicans in washington absolutely hated hearing that, and they hated trump for saying it because it implicated them. except for jeff sessions. sessions agreed with that message. that is why he endorsed trump and left a good job at the senate to work for him, which is how he got to this weird and ominous moment where the one guy in washington who actually believes in trump-ism is being forced out by trump himself. he should remember that the ideas he ran on are bigger than he is and will remain that way. the former senator from south carolina joins us, also a senior fellow. match lab's president, chairman

of the american conservative union. i want to ask you, you both have been in washington for a while, and i won't, as always, to get this administration the benefit of the doubt. what is the point in this. i don't see how this advances the aims of the administration. >> i could see how the president is frustrated, but there is no better man than jeff sessions and no greater supporter, as you said, of his agenda. i think it would be a big mistake to push him out, because jeff will make the justice department but it is supposed to be, and i think the president will be very proud after several years. >> tucker: it seems like, and i don't think i am overstating this, that jeff sessions is one of the only people working around the president who really believes in what the president ran on. that's not a popular message here in washington, the soft populism of the campaign. people hate that here. why is sessions, of all people, being picked on? >> and remember election night being in trump tower and seen jeff sessions and his wife, and

the man was on cloud nine. he was over the moon, and so proud of donald trump. he had done so much to get him there. and it is painful for those of us that respect the president and have known jeff sessions to see this all happening. tucker, there are certain dominoes that follow. if sessions were to leave as ag, you have the deputy ag, really, for practical purposes, not just running the investigations but everything at the department of justice. this is the person who i've been kind balked at the first sign of trouble and actually was the one who picked a special counsel without running it by jeff sessions. it would be ironic that the one that did the thing that has the president so frustrated that has the investigation on this wrong track would be the one in charge of everything. then they get a new guy in the top job which is no easy task. >> tucker: there are two levels to this. one is the fairness level, taking one guy who has helped you and took the job at some cost to himself, but the other is the practical level. i get 20 president is

frustrated. i'm frustrated as a citizen watching this nonsense. but if sessions were to leave, could the president get a new attorney general to his liking to his senate? >> not to his liking, not to my liking. it would take a lot of democratic votes, i think, to get someone through, or at least some, i suspect. if nothing else, you would have several months of someone in charge at the justice department who is not friendly to trump's values or hours. i hope they can work this out. this happens when you're getting attacked from the outside, start blaming each other. the president of the need to be involved with this. they need to hang in there together as a team and they can get this thing done. >> tucker: and they may. by the way, sessions is still there and apparently has no plans to leave unless asked to leave, and thus fired. he had the president have not spoken as of air time tonight. do you think they will? >> i do think they will. it is between these to recommend to resolve this.

senator sessions has a lot of his key former staff in key positions are at the white house. there are a lot of people in the trump administration who kind of got their start with jeff sessions. i am hoping he can get it worked out. really, the president, and understand what he is frustrated. i think it is a fair thing for him to say that i should've had a heads up. i'm not a lawyer, but i read the guide, would have been the right thing to do. the person who i think balked and flinched was the deputy ag who picked the special counsel, and i think that is a point of concern. but i think we don't want to do is anything that exacerbates that situation. i'm hoping these two guys get it resolved. >> tucker: do think it will be? >> i'm optimistic right now. it would be such a mistake and it would create another set of controversies and reasons to attack the president. my hope is that the advisors will say, let's talk with jeff sessions. >> tucker: i hope so. a lot of powerful people on both sides hate the president and hit this message, so you don't want to see him in the unity one

group of people who agree with him and have supported him. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: as we said, the president rallied a few minutes ago in ohio. congressman eric swallow it will respond to that speech and more next. more shakeups in the administration will could be c. hire brit hume will be here wita preview of that whoa!

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love so much, america, to be strong, proud, and free. which means america must also be united. [cheers and applause] because when america is united, america is totally unstoppable. although, i'll be totally honest with you. even if it's not united, we are unstoppable, so don't worry about it. >> tucker: congressman eric swalwell was watching some of that speech on our side. he represents the state of california and he joins us. a democrat, by the way. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me back. >> tucker: you have been involved in this precious stuff, there is a lot going on. but when you strip away that stuff, some of it is

significant, some of it isn't, but you get to the resume i trump was elected, and economic message and at the class. >> agreed. >> tucker: which he said tonight. is there anything you disagree with that? >> the problem is that the cost of it, he is unable to deliver and eight. the people on the crowd out counting on these good jobs, health care to be given to them, they are not getting any of that. >> tucker: i think that is one of the greatest responses on i have heard. that's like the arsonist saying, i would love to stare at her house while it burns down. it's not like vladimir putin inserted himself. it's by the democratic party made up this complex and bizarre part about trump being in bed with putin. and trump didn't respond well in some cases, including today. but basically it paralyzed politics in washington. you are upset he was unable to

enact his policies because of what you did? >> his involvement, he is paying the price now. the deep involvement they had with russia is coming to roost, and the sad thing is that people were counting on him to deliver, and not everyone is saying -- >> tucker: i mean, this is breaking news. can we get a banner underneath. you're telling me that you agreed with his program all along. >> i agree that he identified economic anxieties that were out there. no question that people want better jobs, better wages, a better future for their kids. they're not getting any of that right now. >> tucker: by denis run on that last time? >> we did. >> tucker: i wonder, we had a long conversation about this yesterday with a member of your caucus, and i came away thinking that he was probably pretty sincere. he thinks the party should. from this identity politics policy to kind of soft populism. is that there any evidence?

the numbers are showing. >> my colleagues are. we believe if you invest in people from the schoolhouse to the retraining that you really need for the displacements that is out there, so we're going to tell them over the next few years, we are up for you. and he's not delivering. >> tucker: since we have got over 10 million, some number may be far in excess of 10 million people here illegally, and in a lot of ways, they are being treated as citizens, democrats seem to think they should be treated more like citizens, do you think we should make distinctions between american citizens and not american citizens and help the american citizens first? a choice between helping 1 of 2, we help the american citizens. >> i want to give new americans a path to citizenship. >> tucker: what if they aren't citizens yet? you have 100 bucks and you have to give it to one person, should we make citizens a priority over noncitizens. >> i still believe what my mom told me as a kid. a rising tide lifts all boats. >> tucker: social we shouldn't

give priority to non-u.s. citizens sure we do, but should we give priority to americans over non-americans? >> i think we are all in it together. >> tucker: so every person that means in burkina faso and burma? >> people in the united states working hard. >> tucker: even if they are here illegally. >> i want to put them on a path to citizenship. patient jump the line. >> tucker: the people who are here illegally should get the same treatment i get, i don't get priority? >> we are all humans, tucker, and we all want opportunity and what is best for our kids. >> tucker: we are all humans. god judges us the same. >> we should extend as much opportunity to as many people and we all do better. >> tucker: i don't think the middle class is going to buy that, but we'll see. thanks so much. during his speech in it, the president prays the center for moving forward on that a repeal of obamacare. >> only a few hours ago, the

senate approved a -- we are now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this obamacare nightmare. [cheers and applause] and delivering great health care for the american people, we're going to do that. >> tucker: brit hume is, of course, fox's senior political analyst, and for good reason, he knows all. >> [laughs] i'll say this about that. it was trump, the crowd loved it, it was utterly reminiscent of the campaign rallies. and he loves this sort of thing. and these kind of events are arguably which brought him to the white house. the problem is that you can campaign your way into the white house, but you can't campaign your way back into a successful administration. perhaps he can find a way like

west virginia where he might have gotten a favorable vote from the senator of west virginia by appearing with her in the rest of it. but broadly speaking, i think the things that beset his administration at the moment cannot quite be solved by going out and campaigning. >> tucker: the irony is, listening to that speech, which i really enjoyed and agreed with, the one person in this administration that i'm aware of who actually agrees with all that -- i know many who do not. many. the one who does as jeff sessions, who is also the one under fire today. i wonder if this is a message that that agenda is no longer operative. >> i don't think so. i think the president has a peculiar concept of what the attorney general's job is. he seems to think the attorney general is some kind of goalie for him to protect him from, you know, whatever may come his way from forces he finds inimical to him. that's not the job. that isn't. the attorneys attorney generals

always been a little part. the attorney general has to be the man who enforces the nation's laws involving everybody including the president. and a strong attorney general helps the president by, well, doing that job well, and, at times, when required, giving the president advise as to he, the president, should stay out of trouble. the president, this whole recusal argument that he should have let him know he was going to do it, well, maybe a couple of days, but the circumstances that gave rise to the recusal had to really come about at the time of the president appointed him. it doesn't really make any sense, it doesn't really make any sense to me. >> tucker: none of it does. you can see it getting fixed, they decide nothing good is coming out of this. the disaster would be, --

>> something is going to have to be done pretty attorney general is going to have to stay in office, but no attorney general could survive for very long when he clearly does not have the confidence of the president. either sooner or later they will be gone, and then begins a hole, but who he could ever get in. the question arises, others may be on the outs the moment, may decide not to stay. they may find trump, as this episode with the sessions may illustrate, an impossible person to work for. >> tucker: rex tillerson has been out today, anyway. >> in texas. >> tucker: coming back tomorrow. i think that is designed as a sign that i am not going anywhere. >> but they don't know. the one thing you have to be

careful with this sort of speculation is that there have been so many people in the white house in particular who have been reported to be on the way out for so long, and the only one in the white house is sean spicer, and he apparently re-signed in the shakeup. but the president seems to think that the essence of serving him is to be simply personally loyal to him. that isn't all there is to it. the best way to do that is not to indulge his every whim and mood. >> tucker: no, it's to make sure the things he ran on, the people voted for, that people wanted to have been come on, and have been. >> to support his agenda and try to advance it. >> tucker: and not subvert it so that whenever cabinet-level people say -- really, i don't remember anybody for voting for that. thank you. kim ryan says house democrats need a new leader. maybe him. what does he have to offer that nancy pelosi lacks.

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speeches when he was in ohio previously. he talked about expanding medicare, expanding medicaid, trillion dollar infrastructure bill. opiate crisis, talked about trying to take care of that. and in all instances, he has either gone backwards or not delivered at all. >> why so many people in youngstown? >> youngstown is a great place, very welcoming. >> tucker: but a place that loves an economic message aimed at the people that live there, solidly middle-class. >> an arena for six or 6,000 or 7,000 people. the energy has is very high, but the reality is, at some point, you've got to deliver. he hasn't delivered in the first six months, and as i said, he made a lot of promises during the campaign, and i heard him make some big promises in this speech too. he's going to open up the steel mills back up going to be all kinds of people work there.

we have a billion dollars steel mill and youngstown, -- in youngstown. >> tucker: what is the message that voters in your part in my district are getting from the democratic party now. probably have opinions that we are embarrassed of, "privilege" even if you are unemployed or make more than your dad did, which do you think is more effective to your voters? >> i don't think i quite understand the question, but democrats are talking about how we make investments in the economy to grow the economy. whether that is straight infrastructure, investments, making sure we redo our energy grid, redo broadband in the country, because those are jobs that actually cannot be outsourced because stuff is in the ground, the energy is in the ground it can't be outsourced. broadband is in the ground, can't be outsourced. but also we are not a party that is hostile to business. that we are for a simplified tax code. we are for small and midsize

businesses making investments. we actually need those business people to take the risks to higher our people. >> tucker: i agree with that. for what it's worth, i agree with that message. my point, and it probably didn't explain that very well, is that i haven't heard that from the democratic party, from hillary clinton, from nancy pelosi, the leader of your party in the house, i haven't heard anything like that. and i wonder if the party is really going to change, and if nancy pelosi is going to lead it in the direction you need to go. >> you are hearing it from me and hearing it from a lot of other democrats across the country, and i don't know if it has percolated itself appeared to the national level. i think what happened on monday was a good step in the right direction, finally talking about jobs, the economy, but we've got to continue to talk about how we grow the economy. how we can be business-friendly and still be progressive because we need those folks to make the investments to hire our people. but at the same time, we've got to make investments that help grow the economy and, yes, that

is infrastructure. >> tucker: and what do you think the same group of people that have been leading a party for the last generation, who pushed identity politics over an economic message, electing hillary clinton, a rich ivy league grad for being a woman. do you think they could lead you in a new direction? why could they do that quest next week are a lot of younger, newer people emerging in the party. i think of people like hakeem jeffries, seth moulton, that are talked about a growth agenda. democrats are not hostile to business. >> tucker: so why don't you take on pelosi? >> i did. >> tucker: no, i mean, again create >> we are in the middle of an election cycle now. we don't have elections for another year and a half. i really don't have any interest in doing that. i did it. i'm using my platform being on a great show like yours to get this message out about it, there are democrats out there that have a platform that are about

growing the economy. given all those people in that arena that just want a shot, they just want a chance to feed their families. >> tucker: not been a message they had been hearing from you. >> i have run into more people and youngstown are places i travel -- >> tucker: sorry, i've got to go. >> they say they made more money under bill clinton than any other president. >> tucker: saying there's only one way to handle republicans, unfriend them forever, no exceptions. we'll tell you -- ha! what that means. flo and jamie request entry. slovakia. triceratops. tapioca. racquetball. staccato. me llamo jamie. pumpernickel. pudding. employee: hey, guys! home quote explorer. it's home insurance made easy. password was "hey guys." it's home insurance made easy. ♪

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>> tucker: in a recent piece for "out" magazine, a writer decided to advise readers on what to do if your friend is eight gay republican. his advice is simple, cut off that friend totally and permanently because friendship is nothing compared to partisan

politics. he wrote this quote. "everything suddenly go sours' when i vendor advocate trump and his hideousness, which includes diminished rights for women, lgbtqs, the arts, and the nonrich, not to mention all those treasonous sounding doings with russia. am i supposed to understand that a gay friend is there for concerned about tax breaks and then can't be bothered to avoid for quote for that. bye, felicia. as a real-life friend, somebody that has my plates, my accomplishments, decides to trump it in my face, the alleged glory of the republican party, i simply have to show them the hand and the door. friendship over." obviously pretty intolerant of musto, but also tragic paid french with different people is how you become open-minded. it sharpens the intellect, leads to a lot of new experiences that are worth having, rejecting everyone not like you is the

path to sadness and closemindedness and hatred. not surprisingly, musto's article is dripping with the kind of hate he says he would condemn. still, we are willing to bring on even the intolerant, and we do about it, so we invited "fox news specialists" to come on and tell us what his outlook. he refused. instead, he retreated to every coward's favorite refuge, twitter pretty tweeted this, "i gotten offered to be on tv! tucker carlson! i didn't get back to them!" when someone asked him why he didn't, he said it's because his words would be twisted. "twisted is the very definition of fox news." clever. it's hard to imagine us twisting your words, michael musto, but despite, the insult, the offer remains, it is always open to someone who read something we disagree with, because unlike you, we believe there is benefit to open discussion, and we don't think you should break people off just because they disagree with you. because were not mindless.

albert eisenberg serves as communication director of the philadelphia republican party. he focuses on gay issues. he joins us now. albert, did this come as a surprise to you? what is this about? i don't really understand it. trump was more for gay rights than obama. what is this? >> hi, tucker, next to me and he can be of like-minded tolerant folks. it is about a general footstomping and intolerance of people who you disagree with, or ucl in the left that has the sort of movement of the movement since the election. they can't handle their loss. they would rather write off half the country is bigoted and intolerant because they really genuinely don't want to listen to people. they want to be scornful of them. >> tucker: you know it distorts everything? the idea that the personal is political, that there is no refuge, that there is no, if i can borrow their term, save space from ideology.

may be normal people want to retreat from that, you can have a human relationship from someone, maybe even marry and have kids with someone you don't agree with politically. they have assaulted that idea. >> you're a crack. everything from "sportscenter" to what you eat has turned into politics. here's what you should do if you have a gay republican friend. coming from one. you should guess, there republican prediction peter should listen to them speak, and then you should get your turn to speak in turn, and then maybe you'll learn something. i do with my liberal friends all the time. >> tucker: to any of them unfriend you? >> you know, it is a great way of filtering out people who are -- by the way, the definition of "intolerant," writing people off before you know them. i have been yelled out on dates. i've been yelled at by strangers. but it is a great way of weeding out people who are actually extreme the close-minded. you get a thick skin when you are involved in this, especially of somebody who is out who isn't shy about being pro-lgbt, i kind of consider it a favor about

that. at this point. >> tucker: would you be willing to be friends with michael musto? >> no, he seems like somebody who probably would want to talk over me and tell me why i'm a bigot and buy everything i believe is wrong before he knows anything about any of my beliefs. so my assumption based on wet heat -- let's put it this way. i don't want to be friends with somebody who is intolerant. >> tucker: that doesn't sound like much fun, getting lectured. >> no, he sounds kind of not fun at all. >> tucker: yeah, not too fun. political people are not that fun. thanks for joining us. across the country, students are standing up for their views by silencing everybody else's. adam corolla of the most popular podcast in the world testifying about this new threat to freedom of speech, but first, he joins us, next. whoooo.

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>> tucker: anybody at all in every evergreen state college. if you are a consecutive or a liberal, you can expect protests, and riots and threats when you speak your mind. adam carolla hosts the adam carolla show. he will be testifying before congress this week on this question. what are you testifying about? >> first off, tucker, i would like to quickly say to every teacher i had at north hollywood high, my manager ken at the mcdonald's in studio city and every construction foreman, kiss my butt. i am testifying in front of cong. you are all wrong. >> tucker: i know that mcdonald's. who invited you and what are you

saying? >> they wanted to talk about free speech. they are having a ben sharpirro from the right and me from the center. i never went to college so i don't have anything to compare it to. i went to l.a. valley college and was put on academic probation at a junior college which is like being arrested in prison. i will talk about free speech. >> tucker: [laughing] your perspective is someone joss things they regard as most he true but cause people to get mad at you. you have been shouted down before by people who disagree. >> i am. sometimes even people outside of my own family. look, i was at home depot in glendale, california. they remember playing ryana

music but i still bought my tools and paid and left. i didn't demand they shut the home depot down or demand to speak to the manager. i didn't throw something at the speaker. i didn't chain myself to one of the cash registers. it's music. some of you hike and some you don't like. you don't have to listen to it you don't like it and you keep moving. >> tucker: that seems sensible reaction. why all of a cudden are people making the case that you are not allowed to say that because i can't bear it? it injuries me to hear something i disagree. >> i blame the adults, the administration, the teacher, the faculty. they are the zoo keepers and they are letting the animals take over zoo. these guys are 18 or 19.

i didn't know what i was doing when i was 18 or 19 and i grew up in a normal time. they were bone in 1998 and grew up in an insane time where everyone told them they could whatever they wanted and nothing was wrong and everyone had a peanut allergy and lactose intolerant. now they are running the asylum. it's the faculty's fault. all of the guys you talk to, the dean is melba toast soaked in hot butter milk. he needs to say i am running the school. >> tucker: if i were this charge of america higher education, i would put you in charge of the school. thanks for joining us. that was fantastic. that's it for us. tune in every night at 8:00 to the show that is the sworn

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