anchor chair all next week. you're not going to miss that. i've enjoyed it very much. thanks for being with me. good night, everybody. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's just one video shot on a cell phone at the university of california at riverside, but it tells you a lot about what our kids are learning at school and therefore where we may be heading as a country. in the video a student called edith sees a man wearing a make america great again hat and becomes so enraged that she steals it off his head. he demands it back, she refuses, and this exchange ensues. watch. >> you know what this represents? this represents genocide. >> i understand. >> genocide of a bunch of people. >> you do not get to take other people's property that is

legally theirs in this country. >> they're recording me like i'm the criminal here. >> you stole my property. >> you stole this land. i hate this country, and i'm not leaving. i'm staying here because stuff needs to be fixed here. >> but you don't fix it to be breaking the law. >> we need to get rid of all you all. >> i don't care what you have to say. >> your freedom of speech is killing a lot of people out there. that's what it is, you're out there wearing hats like these that promote laws and legislation that literally kill and murder in the masses. >> really. >> people of color. >> tucker: f your laws. i hate this country, and i'm staying here anywhere. your ancestors stole this land. your free speech is killing people. it used to be only the ignorant or the insane talked this way yet this is a woman who completed high school and is now receiving a college education,

and that's what's changed. she talks this way precisely because she was educated in america. she learned these views in school. she and millions of other students who for the past 30 years have been taught to hate america. while the rest of us are busy at work raising families our children are learning that america is evil. edith has learned that america is rotten and therefore she believes she has no positive obligations to our society. she believes that people who look like the founders of this country are stained with blood guilt, and it is her right, even her duty, to hate them and to punish them for the crime of existing. she didn't come to any of of this on her own. she was taught it. millions of young people are learning the same lessons. every time an athlete protests the national anthem, those lessons are reinforced.

this is the future the left is creating. once you accept everything older than the milk in your fridge is morally reprehensible and must be destroyed, the entire past starts to look like a nightmare of bigotry and depression. you begin to see racism everywhere, even here. >> the grinch hated christmas. the whole christmas season. no one quite knows the reason. it could be perhaps that his shoes were too tight. it could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. >> tucker: that's right. dr. seuss has been called out as a racist. a month ago robert e lee was the designated villain. the revolution has gathered steam since then. now a librarian in massachusetts has rejected first lady melania trump's gift of dr. seuss' books claiming the illustrations are

racist caricatures. >> tucker: in modern america they say everything is racist. even if dr. seuss had no intention to do any wrong, they'll destroy his invention. you think there's to way that this could be true, but for today's leftist the limits are few. with each day's new outrage they simmer and stew and suck in their faces until they turn blue. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me back, tucker. >> tucker: i'll admit as a middle age man who majored in history this was confusing to me and i mocked it at first. dr. seuss racist? he was a liberal. but then i read the text, and so i think i understand what's going on. i'm going to read you a portion of the cat in the hat, and you confirm for me that this is bigotry.

i know some good games we could play, i know some new tricks, a lot of good tricks, i'll show them to you, your mother will not mind at all if i do. the cat is being portrayed as shady and manipulative here, and that clearly is bigotry. i think you'd agree. >> i don't know if i can agree with that. you know, we're going to whether or not dr. seuss had a history of racism in his past, and it is true. would we call every cat in the hat, every dr. seuss book a picture of bigotry and racism? i think that may go a little too far. >> tucker: you're not reading -- so i guess i have an advantage here because i have as we say in the academy the text right in front of me. i want to confront you were the text. then sally and i did not know what to say. our mother was out of the house for the day. now, if that's not a damaging stereotype of single parenthood i don't know what is, and the idea that this kind of garbage

winds up in the hands of preschoolers. >> that's cute, tucker. the librarian that called dr. seuss' work partly bigotry and racism spent the majority of her letter to the first lady of the united states on something far more meaty. but of course they'll only focus on that part of her letter. >> tucker: i don't think bringing up racist issues a race baiting. i'm doing it now. i'm responding to something very specific she said which was that dr. seuss is a racist. she said that. now, this was troubling to me as someone who was weaned on dr. seuss, who raised four children on dr. seuss, and then i realized, and we have the pictures here, that it's not just my family, but famous

political figures have endorsed dr. seuss including the obamas, and i think we may have actual documentary evidence of the obamas reading dr. seuss. >> pretty much all of the stuff you need to know is in dr. seuss. >> tucker: now we're in a revolutionary moment where we're reassessing what we thought we knew. i'm sure you're an obama supporter. >> very much so. >> tucker: in light of what he just said can you continue to support him? >> absolutely. here's the reality for american african-americans and people of color. there are parts of american history, there are famous people in american history who we have to take them for their great parts and dismiss them for the parts of them that were brought up new some of the racist and bigotry ways that america had in its history, and so dr. seuss, i actually had -- once i heard the story pulled out our dr. seuss books and took a closer look at them so i can see exactly what it was that was the complaint,

and as is normal -- >> tucker: what was it? i mean i've been obviously speaking tongue in cheek because this is literally demented. but since you said you checked, what did you find? where were the racist parts? >> you look at many of the drawings, and you have to put it in the context of the times when many of people's books are written, and you can see there are very stereotypical drawings of asians and black face drawings. >> tucker: what books? i grew up not far from dr. seuss in california. he was kind of a local hero. big liberal.

and he wrote a bunch of books against racism. i'm not aware of what you're talking about. i don't think he did many books where he illustrated people. what books specifically are racist? >> no, not specific books. he was actually a cartoonist for a political ads, and so a simple google search you will she where he drew very stereotypical black faced pictures of individuals, of people portraying stereotypical views is of asian americans and african-americans. it's common. he admitted to it. >> tucker: do you think you're leaving out some context? the asian americans that you were talking about were the imperial japanese government, the ones who took over asia and raped and tortured hundreds of thousands of people to death. so you think it's racist that he portrayed that government in an unflattering light? is that what you're saying? >> well, i would imagine that if i were to draw some of the confederate soldiers in the same kind of light that he did despite the fact that they were treasonist, people would find those objection only. >> tucker: it's okay -- it was okay in 1943 to mock the

japanese army and so maybe it's -- >> no, tucker, it's not. >> tucker: it's not okay. who put you in charge of what's okay? is there any recognition? i know we're debating on tv, but do part of you think wow, the people i'm around, maybe myself, we've like turned into something we used to hate which is people who jump up and say "you can't do that." do you ever think that? what have i become? i'm denouncing dr. seuss? >> well, no, respect the person who is near me, respect the people who are around me. i may have private opinions, but there's certain things that you don't say out loud. there's certain things that you stop out of simple human respect. for example, a perfect one is when your president called an entire league s.o.b.s. although you may accept it in your community to just say oh, we talk about people of other races as if it's not a problem,

i think a good human american. >> tucker: whoa whoa whoa. the parenthetical charge of racism. in your community you might do that. no, actually he's denouncing professional athletes. why in the world is the left discrediting itself by going after of all people dr. seuss? it's absurd. do you recognize that at all? i think there's racism that exists, but dr. seuss was not a major purveyor of it, so why are you hassling dr. seuss? do you feel silly? >> absolutely not. what's absurd is this librarian who brought up this whole dr. seuss issue had a whole two, three, four paragraphs before she talked about dr. seuss. it talked about how ridiculous it was that they used taxpayer dollars to send books to overprivileged schools that didn't need them, but instead

they're focusing on that very important point that you should agree with. you want to focus on the latter part of her letter that talks about dr. seuss because you want to trivialize what could be an important issue. isn't it ridiculous that the first lady of the united states wouldn't know that a school already had all of the books -- >> tucker: can't believe she said dr. seuss books to a library. she should be in jail. you're a nice person. come on now. thanks for joining us. >> it's not mean, it's just not realistic. we need people like you to speak up and say that you know what -- >> tucker: stop sending dr. seuss books! i want wait for this year to be over. mark stein has written quite a few books of his own, though the obamas didn't like them quite as much as they like dr. seuss. he joins us next. what do you make of

dr. seussgate? >> this is like year zero in cambodia. the world has to be createda new. in the space of 20 minutes we've gone from the confederate flag is racist to the star spangled banner is racist. we've gone from general lee is racist to dr. seuss is racist. we've gone from down the levy and old president obama to the cat in the hat which is actually this librarian's argument. i looked up the piece she referenced in the journal of social justice librarians or whatever it is, and it is incredibly moronic. it is part of the dumbing down of american society. the piece argues that the cat in the hat's bow tie is meant to be 19th century racist minstril

shows. yogi bear wears a neck tie, but boo-boo, the bear, wears a bow tie. ambrosia in my little pony wears a bow. i'm not obsessed with my little pony, but i happen to know this one character in my little pony wears a bow tie. cartoon characters wear bow ties. we are making ourselves a society too stupid to survive as that california student demonstrates if we go down this path. >> tucker: what's so striking to me, so we're debating the tax bill in washington right now, and the entire conservative establishment is on board, and they're right about most of it. but that's what they spend all their time doing. these nonprofits are focused on the tax code.

meanwhile the culture has become so rotted that i'm wondering if we can hold together as a country. maybe they should pay a little more attention to stuff like this and a little less to capital gains taxes over the last 40 years. >> absolutely. i would think the education system is the biggest structural defect in the united states and most other western countries. i get these emails every time you do a story about the latest bit of campus craziness i get these emails from people saying whatever happened to common sense? well, common sense presupposes that a society has something in common, and if one person looks at a cat in a hat and thinks oh, there's a cute cat in a funny candy striped hat and the other sees a 19th century minstril show, then in fact they do not have enough in common to hold together, and that's crazy about this, and just to go back to what you were talking about

earlier, the problem here is that if everything is racist, nothing is racist. >> tucker: well, that's right. >> if the confederate flag is racist, if robert e. lee is racist, and then we go to the national anthem is racist, the flag is racist, now dr. seuss is racist, then nothing is not racist, and it's actually nuttier than the nazis on this. hitler's favorite opera was the merry widow which was is biggest hit on broadway, and nobody in the height of insanity after the nazi period in germany thought to examine it. we're actually getting nuttier in our culture totalitarianism. >> tucker: your point that common sentence presupposes a common understanding of the world is really deep. i'm going to be thinking about it all night. mark, thanks a lot. >> thanks, tucker.

loved your poem, although it was a bit dodgy. >> tucker: that's for sure. thanks. we've got a "fox news alert." secretary of health and human services tom price has resigned. he left earlier today following revelations that he spent more than a million dollars in taxpayer money chartering private planes when he easily could have flown commercial. well, the scandal offended the president who repeatedly told reporters this week he was considering firing price. don j. wright will take over. price seemed like a decent guy. but power does that to people, it does them to an awful lot of them. the price affair sets a new standard here. if you're using your job, your federal job, to live more luxuriously than the people you represent, you ought to leave.

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>> tucker: well, no story in the >> tucker: well, no story in the past year has consumed nearly as many words and as much airtime as the alleged collusion between the donald trump presidential campaign and the government of russia. hillary clinton suggested the collusion may compel a rerun of the 2016 election, which of course all of our are looking forward to, but it's the core story that undergirds all of this actually real? last week several major outlets reported that russia had attempted to hack election systems in 21 u.s. states. that story whipped people into a frenzy, and it turned out to be false. generallyist glen greenwald who is not a conservative wrote the russia story of 2017 not unlike the iraq discourse of 2002 is now driven by religious faith rather than rational faculties. john davidson does not have much in common with glen, but he may agree with this. he writes for the federalist, and he joins us tonight.

thanks for coupling on. >> thank you. >> tucker: he's not protrump, he's a figure of the left, and i don't think he has any political agenda either way, but he's a logical person, a rational person, and he looks at the evidence and finds it wanting. >> yeah, i find it kind of awkward to be in a position where i'm agreeing with glen greenwald on anything. but he's right about this. ever since this russia collusion story first came up, the media has bent over backwards going after every anonymous leak, every salacious story they could get their hands on to try to prove that the real reason trump won the election was because he was cluing with vladimir putin. democrats and their friends in the media cannot accept the fact that donald trump won a free and fair election, and there's got

to be some other explanation for it, and they've latched on to this russia story, and every time they trot out a new theory or leak or a new explosive document or piece of intelligence, it crumbles right away. we've seen this time after time, and this is the latest version. >> tucker: it would -- it's a significant statement to say maybe the whole thing is false. i think i'm approaching that conclusion because i don't see evidence otherwise, but if it really is a lie at its core, i mean, man, we've spent an awful lot of time on this as a country. >> well, i think we need to distinguish between the claim that the trump campaign and trump was in it with russia, but

to say that russia did have propaganda that was designed not to elect one candidate over another, but to sew discord, to discredit the democratic process, to turn americans against one another, i think there is something to that claim, and a lot of us in the conservative media were writing about this last summer, and we didn't have access to any special intelligence reports or any secret dossiers. all you had to do was pay close attention to the trolls on twitter and facebook, and you could tell something odd was going on with tweets and with social media memes going viral. they were coming from probably russian troll farms. >> tucker: having spent my whole life in the city, i think of all the foreign governments, turkey is a huge one, the saudis, many others, that actively pump their propaganda into our system and

try to affect our political process. do you think we're now going to have a new standard where all of that is unacceptable? i hope so. >> well, maybe we should, and that's a conversation that we could have, right, but that's not the conversation the democrats want to have. >> tucker: no. >> there's a whole swath of the left that can only believe that donald trump either got elected because half the country are racists or trump colewded with russia. it's impossible for them to imagine hillary clinton was a horrible candidate who run a horrible campaign and vast numbers of americans wanted something different. that can't be true. >> tucker: i'm kind of excited for this new tomorrow we're getting. no foreign governments are allowed to influence our process. we're going to held them to that new standard. john, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: christian bakers are being forced to bake cakes for satan.

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it's intended to compete with a naytivity scene. they're going to ask christian bakers to bake satanic cakes. the cofounder joins us tonight. thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: i have mixed views on this. part of me wants to take it seriously because there are real legal question, but you're just a troll. >> you're going to have to define for me what you think a credible religion is at this point and then maybe you should thank organizations like liberty council or the alliance defending freedom when they put forward legal cases claiming that they're taking a religious point of view and the supreme

court taking those at face value. we do have affirmative values. these are an expression of our deeply held beliefs, and i think that's all anybody needs. >> tucker: yeah, we've had this conversation before. blah, blah, blah. this is about getting publicity and hassling people. if you really have beliefs -- i mean i honestly think it has to do with what was clearly not a happy childhood that you had. but i guess my question is if you have these sincere beliefs, if it is a real religion, then why not practice it? why waste all this time bothering other people who are minding their own business? >> are you saying why don't we practice it in private and in our own churches and in our own homes? because then i would say i'm completely on board with you, and that's exactly pretty much the message i'm putting out. you don't see us going into public forums where there isn't religious representation. we're upholding pluralism.

>> tucker: you're going and you're seeking out people to bother, and you're -- >> we're not seeking out people to bother. >> tucker: yes, you are. >> we're not the ones opening up the forum. do you ever ask an evangelical why they need to put their bibles in public schools? why they have to put up their crosses when they have churches all over the place. >> tucker: what they're not doing is showing up at your house and saying, you know, say the lord's prayer with me, mr. graves, and if you don't, then i'm going to sue you or i'm going to get the government to launch a suit against you. you say you and your followers, to the extent you have any, are seeking out small businesses that don't want to accommodate you in order to force them to violate their own beliefs. that's my understanding. >> well, it highlights a

disparity. the fact is that religion is a protected class. sexual orientation is not. if you want to deny people service, fine. let's be consistent. the gay hairdresser shouldn't have to dress the hair of the evangelical theocrat. >> tucker: i'm fine with that. if it's your business and you're being asked to violate your beliefs, i think -- and they're sincere beliefs. >> that brings up troubling questions about protecting classes. >> tucker: it does actually -- yes, it does, but one of the reasons that this was not an issue after the civil rights movement -- no one's defending denying people service on the basis of their race which is clearly immoral and wrong and illegal, and it should be, but questions like the bakery out in colorado, one of the reasons those haven't arisen in the last 50 years is because people had a sense of decency and politeness,

and they didn't feel it was the right thing to get in someone's face and force them for the sake of making some kind of public statement to violate their beliefs. do you see what i'm saying? >> then the gay maker shouldn't be forced to make a cake for the evangelical theocrat. >> tucker: i agree, but i haven't seen a single case of an evangelical forcing any kind of baker to bake a cake that violates his beliefs? i would say back off and let people live their lives. and in fact, why don't you dow that, mr. graves, if in fact that's your real name. >> religion is a protected class. >> tucker: you should crawl back into your hole. insider trading is illegal. don't trade it. you'll go to jail unless you work for the congress. they do it a lot, and they get

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>> tucker: hhs secretary tom price's use of government planes, over a million dollars worth, got plenty of well deserved attention, but it may not be the most glaring example of government corruption this week. according to a remarkable new report from "politico" congressional aids engage in insider trader bying and selling stocks that they have information about. this is unbelievable. it's obviously an illegal conflict of interest. in the executive branch if you

or i did it we'd be in jail. they get away with it. why is that. peter schweitzer knows about this. he's the president of the government accountability institute. he has written on this exact thing before, and, peter, you were the first person i thought of. i thought peter schweitzer showed this to the world three or five years ago, and i thought it got shut down, but no. why? >> a lot of us thought it was going to get shot down in 2011 when my book came out. they passed the stock act which was supposed to regulate this activity, but it happened. they gutted the bill. the only place in america, there's this island in washington, d.c. that allows people to trade stock where they have a vested outcome or influence on the outcome. if you're a judge you can't trade stock on cases you're dealing with. if you're a reporter, a journalist covering wall street, you can't trade stock in those

areas. the only place you can do this is in congress, and it's a massive problem. it's not only by the way a problem of them trading their own stock. they can share this information or even sell this information to outside investors, and they can make bank on it as well. >> tucker: i just don't understand why the justice department doesn't come down on this? that is so transparently corrupt? that subverts the whole idea of government, and if you or i tried that, we would be walked in handcuffs in front of the cameras. >> if you go back -- remember tammany hall. they did things that were technically legal. in this particular case it's very hard to prove a legal side of insider trading. the other problem is look, who makes the rules. congress makes the rules, and they have decided to exempt themselves largely from the insider trading rules. that applies to them, their

spouses, and it applies to their staff. you've got hundreds of congressional staffers, and those are the ones that are required to disclose their stock trades. you have hundreds of them trading stock every year in companies that they regulate. these could be companies that are subject to congressional action. these could be companies that are going to benefit from certain legislation. these are companies that could be hurt by certain pieces of legislation, and, as you know, tucker, oftentimes congressional staffers know even more about these details than members of congress do so they can really, really clean up in this area. >> tucker: it just makes a mockery of our market. the whole point of the markets in the united states is they're transparent, and all of us have roughly the same information, but if the people making the rules are profiting from those rules, how can -- quickly, how can this be changed? this is so offensive? how can people like this go to prison where they deserve to be? >> well, number one, they should just simply ban -- if you are a

congressional staffer or a member of congress ban the trading of individual stocks. or number two, at least require a blind trust which is not perfect, but that's the only way this is going to work. you've got to have a clear, bright line that says this activity is illegal. the problem is on capitol hill they're assuming that they're going to be able to get away with it because people aren't paying attention. it's one of those drain the swamp issues that's persistent. >> tucker: somebody needs to overturn the tables in the temping tonight. peter schweitzer, thank you for that. last night we had a guest on to discuss the increased racialization, if that's a word, it should be, of american politics. peter will be here. he's infuriated by the claims presley made. enraged.

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♪ >> tucker: well, during last night's show we interviewed a lawyer called monique presley. she came on to discuss the repeated injection of racial rhetoric into the national anthem protests and by extension into the american political discourse. here's part of what she said. >> the issue is why there are protests in the first place and the people who are living terrified every day just walking down the street. so if you look at how we got here, we got here because african-american men are disproportionately stopped, disproportionately searched, disproportionately arrested, and disproportionately killed per capita in this country. >> tucker: peter kersinau is an

attorney. he saw that segment and objected to it, and we asked him to come on. peter, thanks for coming on. >> absolutely. >> tucker: what was your contention with that segment last night? >> almost everything that you just played was false, inaccurate, and based on a false premise. and it's a false premise that's been perpetuated for quite some time now. there's no doubt whatsoever that this country has a history with respect to race. blacks have been discriminated against in egregious ways. people have been killed. relatively recently. there's no doubt blacks have been targeted by cops. in a nation of 320 million there are going to be racists, and some of them are going to be cops, but for the last 30 years that premise that blacks are disproportionately arrested, shot by cops, is completely false, and all you have to do is look at the department of

justice statistics. just, for example, and this is pretty bad, frankly. the justice department stats show that blacks are in fact killed two and a half times more often than whites are by policemen. however, when you take a look -- remember that statistic. two and a half times more frequently, but that's far less than what the data would predict given black crime rates. take new york city, for example. blacks are now two and a half times more likely to commit crimes. blacks in new york city are 35 times more likely to commit robberies than whites. 51 times more likely to engage in shootings regardless of whether or not it results in a homicide. so when you think about two and a half times versus 51 times, the type of police involvement that you would expect from those kinds of stats is far below than what would be predicted, and that has consequences to the

ferguson effect. what we saw, and heather mcdonald has done a number of studies on this, great work on this, defend before the civil rights commission showing that because of these protests and the consequences of it police withdraw from active and proactive policing and sometimes the city administrations tell them to as we saw with the mayor of baltimore, the obama administration had consent decrees which change police practices so police withdrew from active policing. that consequence is profound because despite the fact that we've had decades of a decline in the crime rate, right after ferguson, we saw a significant spike in violent crimes most especially in those cities which witnessed the types of high profile shootings and protests that resulted in police drawing back except for pew cities

showed that 74% of police were less engaged in proactive policing except for one cohort, black cops, black cops are 3.3 times more likely to shoot black suspects than white cops, but even so when you look at the crime data that is black involved in crime versus police shootings, the number of shootings are far below that which would be predicted based on crime involvement. and when you have the false narrative and you've got this perpetuation of all these protects and it causes the ferguson effect, here's what the consequences are. take a look at the data. despite the dramatic decline in crime rates, in 2015 900 more blacks were murdered than in the year before. 2016 900 more. 7,881 blacks killed in 2016. the vast majority, more than 90%, by other blacks, not cops. that's nearly twice as men as the number of soldiers that were

killed in the entire iraq war, and it's at least partially a consequence of this false narrative feeding this outrage which then feeds the protects which then results in a ferguson effect and then the spike of the crime rates. most of the people i think in good will may be ignorant of those facts and believe subjectively, i've been pulled over by the cops, and if you talk with your own little universe you believe that maybe you're being treated differently, except when you look at the objective facts. most people probably believe but are ignorant of the fact that in fact the narrative is false, but there is a cohort of individuals, some politicians, political opportunists that are using this for political agendas. and that's despicable. >> tucker: i don't think i've ever done a segment where i didn't say one word. i was so mesmerized. i can't remember someone with that kind of command of the numbers.

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>> tucker: an update on the trial >> tucker: an update on the trial of bob menendez of new jersey. he spent most of this month on trial. prosecutors say he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, vacations, campaign donations from a florida doctor. in return the senator allegedly protected him from federal investigators allowing him to commit more than $100 million in medicare fraud. he deserves the presumption of innocence, but the case has enough evidence to go on trial, and it hasn't received near as much coverage at russia. years ago i edited the first

story accusing menendez. that's it for us tonight. here's sean hannity. have a great weekend. >> sean: thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity" on this busy breaking friday news tonight. part two of our exclusive interview with the leading voice of conservatism in america, the one and only rush limbaugh. we'll ask him about the deep state, liberal mainstream drive by media as he calls them, robert mueller's overreaching investigation and so much more. eric trump will join us. and i have a special message for all of you tonight, but first after coming under fire from president trump for disrespecting our flag, our national anthem, and the military, the nfl finally appears they may be getting the message. we're going to cover all of this in tonight's very, very importan