here is to unity and our better angels. that is our story for tonight. i'll see you back here on monday. tucker is up next. that's amazing! that is amazing. absolutely phenomenal. i'll have to tell my kids that i'm a rock star now. >> tucker: well, good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you will remember yesterday white house chief of staff john kelly delivered 18 minutes of mesmerizing remarks from the briefing room and begged politicians and the press not to politicize the mourning of gold star families. general kelly singled out florida congresswoman frederica wilson for special criticism and called her an "elty barrel" forever talking about herself and ever willing to exploit the dead to burnish her own reputation! the congresswoman in tradition

of empty barrels stood up to talk about how she is instrumental to get the funding for the building. we were stunned. stunned that she had done it. even for someone that is that empty a barrel. we were stunned. >> tucker: how did the congresswoman respond? chastened for the criticism of a man who has given his life of his son. she apologized for the demagoguery and said she will stick to fighting the president over disagreements over policy. no wait, just kidding. in fact she seemed delighted on the attack because it made her more famous which goes to prove general kelly was right in the first place. she is bragging with the characterist immodesty, she has become a rock star. >> you mean to tell me i have

become so important that the white house is folk me and my words -- following me and my words? this is amazing. this is amazing. phenomenal. i'll have to tell my kids that i'm a rock star now. >> tucker: 24 hours later there is no indication that the congresswoman listened to anything that general kelly said much less learned by it. you will shocked by the creativity. she dismissed him as a racist. he didn't mention racism because it was irrelevant to what he was talking about. he's a bigot, she says. how does she know that? a phrase "empty barrel" a term she concedes she never heard before is according to congresswoman wilson of florida a racist slur. >> empty barrel makes the most noise. he was using that, likening that to you. basically that you --

>> that is a racist term. i'm thinking about that. when we looked it up in the dictionary because i had never heard of an empty barrel. i don't like to be dragged into something like that. >> tucker: the definition isn't there, by the way. what you are looking at is another fake politician alleging fake bias crime to hide her own failures. you would think democrats would be embarrassed by the routine. tired and absurd not to mention divisive and dumb. who is not sick of it at this point? but no, the democrats willing to defend it. whatever it takes. msnbc lawrence to donnell explained to his viewers the phrase "empty barrel" which was coined by plato and used by shakespeare is indeed racist because it was part of a broader effort to dehumanize frederica wilson. >> john kelly never sat by a student bike frederica wilson in his elementary school.

the language about black people in his white neighborhood was the same language about black people used at that time in white communities in the segregated south. i know the neighborhood that he comes from. i know the culture. it was a neighborhood where calling someone looked like frederica wilson an empty barrel was the kindest thing that would have been said about her. you know what wasn't sacred when he was a kid growing up? black women. he took time. a lot of extra time to call a black woman who he doesn't know and he doesn't like an empty barrel. unbelievable. >> tucker: joy reed never one for subtlety went farther than that and attacked general kelly's childhood as racist. kelly grew up in segregated boston, she tweeted in a irish catholic neighborhood where women were bullied not honor and blacks scorn and rejected. really, there is nothing like using gross ethnic stereotypes

when fighting for racial justice as she says she is. according to joy reid the problem isn't general kelly. the irish, they're the problem. this is grotesque, obviously. the morons making the arguments are sick. this is a similar -- symptom of disease to imagine racism behind every disagreement and it's the death of political debate. you can argue with people who disagree with you who are just wrong but there is no reasoning with bigots. you can only crush them. opponents become your enemies. they must be destroyed. that is how many on the left see general kelly not to mention you and me. mark green is the chief of staff of the shadow cabinet, anti-trump organization. he joins us now. mark, the problem i have with this is not that she doesn't like to be attacked by general kelly. i get that. or there is a disagreement. fine. why did demagogue like wilson and people you saw on cable television turn this into something it's not. racial dispute. there is nothing racial about this. why pretend there is.

>> i don't think it was a racial dispute. what you have done is take a comment she made i think ill-advised, that the empty barrels thing had a racial connotation. of course the issue is not -- >> tucker: well, i didn't -- >> you want to go off on race. let me finish. >> tucker: i don't. >> kelly served with a distinction of a marine to a four star and suffered a grievous loss of his son. and his comments were mesmerizing when he focused on that. first issue why do we have a president who now has been shown again to have lied about what he said. it's not only what he said that was untrue but what he didn't say. the issue, of course, is four deceased green berets in battle -- >> tucker: you are ignoring my question like i imagine you would. you are ignoring the question

entirely to give me a speech on trump. >> he has been silent for 12 days than representative wilson who is stellar in her community. principal, congresswoman -- >> tucker: spare me. i'm not attacking her record as member of congress but i'm making an of course point political debate of the time you spent your life engaging in -- me, too -- grinds to the halt the second you start calling people racist on the basis of no evidence. it's a conversation ender not a starter. it's so common on the left i think it is destroying any hope of conversation. she just engaged in it. you saw it. i'm not mischaracterizing her remarks. she was followed up by the demagogues on the other channel echoing them, expanding them and attacking the guy's family in the neighborhood as if they know anything about it. this is a piece of a lot of this behavior recently and you know it. >> i have already said i don't think she should have said it. i don't think the president of the united states should have exonerated white racist saying

jews will not replace us down south as you know he did. so between the president -- of course he said that, right? >> tucker: for saying that -- [overtalk] >> tucker: if i thought the president of the united states is okay with that, that is disgusting. i don't agree with that by the way. >> let's talk about this episode. if president wud asked about a photographic session said, "i never said to the widow. representative wilson is lying. i have proof." tucker, that was false, correct? yes or no? >> tucker: i don't know. to be totally honest with you i think the debate is stupid actually. the guy the president calls this widow and says look i'm sorry your son got killed. i think there is a fair question to what american troops were doing in niger in the first place. that is legitimate. but the guy is trying to offer condolence. talk about a dumb distraction from what is going on in the world. >> i don't disagree. if trump were the white house

had said he tried to be genuine and he was sympathetic, he made the call and may have misspoken. the widow and the mother were upset by what he did. he should have just said i'm sorry if i misspoke and it wasn't from my heart. >> tucker: demagogues from president made it an issue. i heard what the president said. why are you inserting yourself i would ask congresswoman wilson into this? >> it was very funny. sarah huckabee sanders said and general kelly it's terrible when a politician makes themselves the center of attention and not the issue. hmm. i wonder who would have done that presidents' day trump the day went to the c.i.a. wall of heroes and talked about his crowd size. >> tucker: if you don't like it in one case, you don't like it in another. >> fine. why didn't he talk about niger? four deaths. 12 days. same number, of course, that

died in benghazi. and the "l.a. times" today said massive intelligence failure and they didn't have adequate air cover. i don't know. "l.a. times" reported it. >> i'm willing to believe any of that. but what i find impossible is someone hosting a daily show is having a rational conversation with anybody when "to kill a mocking bird" is now racist, when the ice cream truck music is racist. when everything that the left doesn't like is now racist you can't have a rational conversation anymore. i wonder why smart people in the left don't say something about you. >> you don't want to talk about president trump. i get it. talk about rissist. -- racist. was it racist when president trump said obama wasn't born here? >> tucker: i don't know. >> really? >> tucker: is it factual or racist? i think he was born here. i don't care to be honest. i don't think it's racist. i don't know. it seems like a dumb conversation. from beginning to end. >> race has been put in the conversation from birtherism to charlottesville.

>> tucker: birtherism. i never got that. a dumb talking point in my opinion. >> i hope president trump cuts it out. >> tucker: he hosts a boston radio show and writes for the boston harold -- "boston herald" and he saw your city impugned last night when hosts said look, general kelly is a bigot because he is from boston. how did you take that as a native son? >> it is outrageous. lawrence o'donnell shouldn't say that. he said he and general kelly came from identical backgrounds. actually, lawrence o'donnell's father was a lawyer and general kelly's father was a milkman. after high school, lawrence o'donnell went to harvard college. general kelly went into the

u.s. marine corps. they were talking about boston, the desegregation problems. the rioting and all that. when that all began, you know, lawrence o'donnell was writing snide essays at cambridge at "harvard lampoon" and general kelly was a commuter going to you mass boston. they come from very different backgrounds. >> tucker: so you must have been confused when you saw joy reid, who also went to harvard. impressed harvard graduate. went on to say it was his neighborhood that did it. the neighborhood in which women were disrespected and men were racists. it sounded like ugly irish immigrants to me. >> do they know what is in kelly's heart? he went to st. mary's high school in massachusetts. he would take the trolley with

two other guys to the high school. in the late 1960s. one of the guys that he used to take the centrally with is william francis galvin now the secretary of state of the commonwealth of massachusetts. a democrat. a democrat elected repeatedly statewide. are lawrence o'donnell and joy reid saying he is a racist as well? the whole thing about the empty barrel. if they listen to the interview that john kelly gave when he was appointed chief of staff he said his mother used to call people empty barrels. like you said, it's not a racial term at all. goes back to classical greece and shakespeare. they don't know what they are talking about. lawrence o'donnell likes to pose as a tough street kid at moments like this. whitey bolger the gangster

arrested a few years back he went on a show and told a long involved story about a woman he knew, knew whitey. he is supposed to say he is up by his boot straps kind of guy. that is not who he is. but it is who john kelly is. >> tucker: so you don't think it's an accurate self-depiction of lawrence o'donnell >> i don't think he is a tough street kid. >> i'm from la jolla. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> tucker: harvey weinstein's stint in rehab doesn't seem to be going well or look at it another way, it seems to be going very well. we have details next.

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>> tucker: there are new developments in the harvey weinstein saga. a lawyer representing one of weinstein's accusers held a press conference today, one day after the client held a lengthy interview with the los angeles police department. the decision to go to the press has police concerned, though, because they think the publicity-seeking will look bad to prosecutors and potentially to a criminal jury. we are following this. the founder of tmz hosts "object jectfied" on fox. what was the thinking behind doing the press interviews? >> it's baffling, tucker. the woman and the lawyer named david ring met with lapd people and robbery homicide yesterday literally minutes after they left.

apparently this was choreographed. the "l.a. times" published a story where david ring and his client sat down with the reporter and went through the case with them. the lapd is not happy about that. the detectives we have spoken with said look, i know this from covering the cases. that they believe it compromises the case because they want to talk to witnesses to give a fresh account without having anything in their head about what the woman is staying. now that the story is out it creates a problem. the lawyer then doubles down and puts on his website this morning that he is representing this woman. that they have gone to the police and he links to the "l.a. times" and he triples down and holds a news conference. my reporter at the news conference said why did you talk to the "l.a. times"? his answer was well, they ambushed me because they heard my client was meeting so i felt i had to talk to them.

my understanding from that is a lot of lawyers because i know this rather than saying okay, here is the case. they say no comment. he didn't do that. >> tucker: yeah. because he is a publicity speaker like so many of -- publicity seeker like so many of them doing his client wrong i would argue. the reports that harvey weinstein is undergoing outpatient treatment, living in a hotel, chatting on his cell phone. can we trust those accounts? >> i'm hesitating only because -- i'm not trying to promote or tease but we have a pretty big story coming up that you will see if you log on to tmz.com tomorrow morning so i have to be circumspect about it. but what i can say to you is that harvey weinstein and people involved in the treatment are disputing some of that. to be continued tomorrow morning. >> tucker: to be continued. so you have interviewed mark

cuban for your show. you are hearing rumblings that mark cuban might run for president. i guess we have to take that seriously given recent history. we actually have a clip from that interview. here is a preview. >> you need somebody who can connect to people and relate to people. i think i qualify on each of those. now whether or not i'll do it is a big decision. >> you sound like a candidate. >> i'm a concerned american citizen. >> so am i, but i'm not a candidate. >> i wouldn't run unless i had solutions. if i had solutions i have something to offer. if i don't, you won't see me anywhere near being a politician. >> tucker: did he mention what the solutions were, what he believed, what his platform might be or the ideology is? >> he talked a lot about healthcare. by the way, i called b.s. on what he said at the end of that because i said to him, look, you are sounding like a candidate. i am telling you, tucker, when you watch this, mark cuban is seriously, he is a really

smart guy. mark cuban succeeds pretty much at what he wants to do. when you listen, you will hear he is seriously considering this. and he tells me which political party he'd run on. and that is a big deal because obviously the question is would he challenge trump in the general or would he go after him in the primary? he answers it. >> tucker: huh. interesting. is that sunday night? >> sunday night. 8:00 eastern. they replay it again at 11:00 eastern. >> tucker: i'll catch both. great to talk to you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: thank you. well, almost immediately after allegations of abuse broke in the "new york times" harvey weinstein retreated into the favored cocoon of the embattled celebrity. luxury rehab clinic where he said he would battle against the disease of sex addiction. it doesn't seem to be going well from a treatment perspective. new reports say that weinstein has been arriving late, falling asleep in session and talking on a smuggled cell phone. apparently this is worse than

we could have imaginedded. psycho therapist is the window in the world and she joins us now. a new report arriving on my iphone a new report that harvey weinstein is leaving the arizona treatment program on saturday, tomorrow, after one week treatment. his psychologist says that -- i'm quoting now -- "harvey has been dealing with the anger, boundary with each other and beginning work on empathy. and he is invested in the program." pardon me if i call b.s. on that. am i too cynical? >> no, i agree. one week is not enough treatment for someone accused of what he is accused of. >> so it sounds like this thing was a deeply cynical p.r. diversion. >> it could have been. right? we don't know. we don't know what the intentions were for going to treatment. i don't think he had many options in terms of the p.r. a lot of people who are wealthy and powerful will do something like this to avoid

legal action and try to rebuild the reputation. so i'm not surprised. >> tucker: what bothers me, though is that licensed therapist would lend his name to a statement that non-creditable. that after a week, a guy who has been chatting on his cell phone and falling asleep in group meetings is on his way to a cure is someone who practices psycho therapy. you can confirm that is ridiculous, correct? >> i would say that, yes. i would go out on a limb and say that. i would. >> tucker: so doesn't it discredit the whole enterprise? the institution of psycho therapy, the treatment centers? some of us are already suspicious about this business but it makes it seem like a joke. >> the problem is people who are accused as he has been of committing sexual crimes, what do we do with them in the society? so, one of the things we have to worry about is that they will commit the crimes again. so the reason for treatment programs is to hope we can affect some change so when

they come out of the treatment program they are not a threat to the community. >> tucker: there are, of course, with everything many different levels. >> totally. >> tucker: there are people considered abusive but the root is the boorishness and self-involvement. >> right. there is a big difference between someone who has sexual addiction issues and someone who is a sexual offender. >> tucker: if you are exposing yourself to strangers in restaurants that does seem to cross a line to come compulsion. >> and criminal activity. >> tucker: of course. >> in this case in particular what many people in the psychological community, feminists want to see him get prosecuted. if he is found guilty and i know that the state of new york, los angeles, the police in los angeles, the police in london have opened up an investigation on him. even accusing him, there are accusations he has even raped some of the victims. the hope is that he will get prosecuted. if he is found guilty go to jail and then the question is

do we use taxpayers money to have him get treatment in the present system? >> does it ever work? >> it's a case-by-case basis. >> tucker: my impression with recidivism rate of sex offenders is high. >> it is very high but we can't lock people like this up for life if we lock them up at all. so what do we do? >> tucker: don't you age out of it? isn't there a point in a man's life where he is too tired? i'm serious. >> i understand the question but we can't come up with a sex offender profile. it's something we have a hard time doing in the psychological community because people who commit the crimes defy everything we understand. it doesn't matter the age or the socioeconomic class. we can't pin down why people do this. the only thing we do know is people who do commit sex crimes 95% of them are men. so the question for me is one of every six women in her lifetime is a victim of sexual

assault or rape, 95% of the people who are the criminal offenders are men, how many men are getting away with this kind of behavior that we are not talking about? as a society are we complicit by not having a larger understanding or system in place to actually prosecute people who do this? >> tucker: let's start with hollywood and see where it goes from there. quickly, as a psychotherapist, don't you want to see action taken against the shrink declining weinstein on the road to recovery? if i saw my breakfast cereal and saw another half rat hair, i'd want it off the market. it discredits all cereal. do don't you agree? >> i question the judgment of the psychiatrist saying he is on the road to recovery. the problem is he was in a

voluntary treatment center. he wasn't a mandated criminal in a treatment facility. he is free to leave when he wants to leave. would i have come out -- i'm november involved in the case -- i'm not involved in a case. but would i come out after a week and say i think he is on the road tocorry? -- to recovery? >> tucker: you can hire people to defend you. it's very distressing. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. thanks. >> tucker: thoroughly everybody wants to find out how stephen paddock murdered 58 people, right? why is a judge forced apparently to order m.g.m. not to destroy evidence from the mandalay bay shooting? perplexing. that is next. when in unfamiliar waters, hundreds of miles from base-- all that training and discipline pay off ,

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dan once worked for the secret service and the nypd and he joins us tonight. this doesn't seem like the kind of order that would come more than three weeks after a shooting both because it would be obvious. of course, you don't destroy evidence. if you send an order like that, wouldn't it be immediate? i'm confused. >> well, you are not wrong to be confused. you can add this to the list of perplexing things about this case which has me and a number of my law enforcement friends completely baffled. when you have a corroborating witness. a quick example. god forbid you are walking down the street and someone holds you one a knife. he drops the knife at the scene, the bad guy. when the cops show up, you don't throw the knife away. nor do you need a judge's order to tell you to turn over the knife to the said law enforcement officer. i can only think of two possible scenarios. one completely implausal that the mandalay is a cosponnor, which is nonsense. or there a hostility or trust

gap developing. nothing else makes sense. there is no other way to square the circle. >> tucker: the second scenario makes a great deal of sense. there is evidence to support that is true. mandalay bay managed the public safety of jesus campos the security guard and put him on ellen and restricted his appearances to ellen who is an employee of m.g.m. or their sponsor of the show. in any case. would that kind of behavior suggest to law enforcement these people are spinning and we better keep them under control? >> you know, tucker, they would. if i could be candid for a moment. i always default on the side of law enforcement, when there is a question. i just think they have a tough job. unless you show me evidence they did something wrong i tend to default on their side. >> tucker: me, too. >> but really, with the way that this has been handled between mandalay gross p.r.

investigation with campos and the law enforcement timeline all over you have to start to say to yourself this is one of the largest mass murders in american history. the public has a genuine real interest tucker in finding out what the hell happened here. i get it. you are the cops. i was one. i totally understand your job. but this wasn't a burglary at the 7-eleven. the american public is understandably a bit frightened. what the heck happened? were we dealing with a psychopath? were we dealing with a radical? terrorist? what is going on? mandalay, i have to be honest, is just not helping here with the bumpered -- butchered p.r. campaign. >> tucker: they have a different agenda, to avoid getting sued. there are a lot of lawsuits brewing now. most confusing thing to me is why don't the feds take charge? we know the f.b.i. has by their own explanation dozens of dozens of special agents working on this. why doesn't a spokesman come

forward from the d.o.j. from f.b.i. and say here is the state of play and here is what we know? why haven't they done that? >> yeah. you know, i would love to come on tv and go here is a really great answer. i just don't have any -- it doesn't make since. i mean it's obvious to me that there have been problems from the start with basic timeline elements of the crime. tucker, the first thing about a crime is the secret of event. why doesn't the bureau which by the way has custody of the evidence. i only know that because the sheriff said it at a press conference, which says to me they are the lead investigative agency at this point. why aren't they taking over and saying here is what we are going to do and here is how this will work and here is when we release information and here is what we know now? i don't know. if there pushback from the sheriff? i don't know. i'm not sure. >> tucker: well, it helps that you don't know because it makes me feel less crazy. because i find this generally coffin -- confusing. i have never seen anything like this.

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"the hill" all over this story since the beginning and today he is reporting that bill clinton sought permission to meet with the russian nuclear official while obama administration was reaching a final decision on the deal. as he said he wrote that piece and he joins us now. this is actually remarkable fact if true. it looks like you proved it in your piece. the former president bill clinton's wife who is then secretary of state sought to meet with the very company trying to buy uranium one. >> absolutely. the timing is interesting because hillary had just come back from moscow and set business in motion between the united states and russia and bill clinton coming to jetstream to figure out get a $500,000 check while he is there. at least seeking permission to meet with people who had a direct interest in what his wife was doing. now say they at the end they decided not to do the meetings but it doesn't raise a new question. >> tucker: but he requested it? >> he requested permission from the state department. who wanted to meet with him?

who knows who requested what. but we know he asked for permission to see these people. >> tucker: what would be the innocent explanation for why bill clinton would want to meet with a nuclear -- >> with russia, nothing is innocent. somebody has a motive. maybe russian officials wanted to follow up on the hillary clinton visit and see what the husband knew, the former president. or he was looking to do something in russia, something well for his family. we talked to somebody, someone close, a close friend of the president who said he was involved in conversations in 2010 before the president went to russia. and that they were talking about doing something, getting business relationships going that would benefit a family business that they were talking about. i don't know more than that right now. but that may be a possible motive for the trip. >> tucker: so if the russians wanted to talk to the husband of the secretary of state, right, business deals were germinating at this time between the u.s. and russia. it sounds like the russians had their eye on hillary clinton. >> they did. there is not any doubt about that. in the next couple of weeks we will continue to report out interesting details about how

much the u.s. government knew about russia's intentions toward the clintons and what they were trying to do to influence them. more evidence than what is the public domain now. >> tucker: you don't have to believe there is hidden information, though there is and you are uncovering it but that aside the fact obama administration gave control of 20% of the uranium to the russians was there ever a policy rationale for that? >> at the time they said there was no national security issue. you remember 2015, the argument is if we don't buy the russians uranium they will sell it on the black market or give it to iran or north korea or something we don't want. we learned learned this week ths story started on monday with us where we reported that the f.b.i. in 2009 proved that the arm in the united states making bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in the united states while the clintons and the obama administration were approving this deal. there was a good reason not to give them the uranium. they were engaged in criminal

activity. >> you just hinted at something coming up that you believe the effort to suborn hillary by the russians broader than we know. >> no doubt. multiple efforts to win influence and gain access to her. listen, she is the secretary of state. that is not surprising. but i think we will get detail and specifics apt how they tried to do it. some things that made overtures will be famous when you find out who they are. there was a concerted effort to focus on hillary clinton in 2009-2010. good reason. she was the fails of the reboot, the reset with russia. they wanted to know what she was doing and put influence efforts underway. >> tucker: we have spent the last 11 months hearing from democrats that there is no greater peril to the united states than russia. amazing. thank you for your reporting on this. i can't wait to see the story. an nfl player who says it is his christian duty to kneel for the anthem to protest racism joins us next. he is white. he has a whole take on this and a long op-ed and he will

explain the rationale. stay tuned.

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>> tucker: the debate over the nfl anthem protest has persistently been framed in racial terms. most protesting players have been african-american. they say they are kneeling to protest the treatment of black americans by the police. critics of anthem protests meantime routinely labeled as racist. clint freshham says as his christian it's his duty to kneel along the black players to show solidarity against racism. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. good to be here. >> tucker: i am convinced of

your sincerity completely. you are a christian. you wrote a long interesting op-ed on the subject. i'm convinced that there is racism in america. you said you experienced it yourself in the nfl. i don't understand why the existence of bigoted people means that you protest the symbols of the country itself. >> yeah. if i fought in world war ii or my son died in vietnam and i go to a national football game and i'm sitting there and i am watching players protest against the very thing that my son died for, i can see why it would cause a problem. i totally get that. >> tucker: yeah. >> when colin kaepernick first kneeled i had a problem with it because i didn't understand where guys were coming from. i know that the six years that i spent in the national football league with guys that i otherwise wouldn't have had any time with just because we are in different places in our world, it also showed me that

it is just as hard for them to watch a video of someone who look like them being shot by a police officer and there seems to be no apparent justice for that. so, i get that. because of that, players have chosen to have a nonviolent protest to bring awareness to something that is unfortunate in our society. >> tucker: i'm with you up until the end. i'm for nonviolent protests, of course. i just don't understand why people who reaped more benefits from this country than almost anyone else in the country. that is pro, athletes, nfl players, are protesting the country itself. the country is a decent place. there are some crummy people here but the country itself is good. that is why these guys are succeeding in it and live these incredibly entitled lives. why attack the country? that has always been my problem with this. >> yeah.

you know, the truth is, is they have millions of dollars. >> tucker: yeah. >> but the reality is getting millions of dollars doesn't make the pain go away. we both know that someone who is rich but is empty inside their heart doesn't make the pain stop just because you have a ton of money. doesn't make you happier. >> tucker: for sure. >> just because you get $1 million when you are 25 it doesn't take away from the sting you felt from the 25 years leading up to that point. >> tucker: no. in fact it's probably bad for you. i agree with that. but again, you are absolutely right. the world is littered with unhappy rich people. that is for sure. in fact, it probably makes them less happy to be that successful. i think the fact they have been successful is evidence that the deal that america makes with the citizens is basically on the level which is like be good at something, work hard and you can succeed. it's not the country's fault. that is the point i'm making. why blame the country? it's a good country. >> it's a fantastic country.

>> tucker: when they say it's a bad country it's a lie. >> it's a fantastic country. i'm so grate to feel have the opportunity to live -- grateful to have the opportunity to live in this country. there are people scrambling to try to live in this country to create a better life for themselves but the reality is our soldiers did not go fight and die in other nations to allow systemic racism to continue to exist in this country. while we are not perfect, of course the country isn't perfect. we are still going to stand up and we are going to fight for injustice and fight for inequality so there is freedom and justice for everybody. >> tucker: i think you are misguided. i think that the message it's sending is the whole thing is this is a joke, who cares about america? i don't think it's sending that message at all. i hope you are right. thank you for joining us. >> yeah. >> tucker: thank you. how does north korea's high command get intel about this country? they watch cable news. we will tell you what one of

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