>> shannon: tomorrow we will bring you coverage of the president's remarks to the g.o.p. retreat. for now, most watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the night with us. from washington, i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker:r: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president trump gave his first state of the union address last night, you probably saw it. the striking thing about this breach was how normal it seemed, how ordinary it was. he stuck to the script, pretty much the letter, it was in the center of american opinion, calls for strong borders, unity, a robust military, warm words for the country's bedrock institution, from the family into our democratic process. most americans like these things, theyy agree with them. donald trump remains

controversial as a person but the bulk of his positions are not controversial, not very. check the polling on that. that may be the key thing to know about our current politics. it's mostly personal. if you read a trump speech in a british accent, pretty much everyone would applaud. not everybody but most people. maybe unfortunately last night's state of the union was not delivered in a british accent. democrats are not applied. the modern democratic party, everythingry donald trump says s the heat speech, even things that the left once agreed with. not nearly as much as his administration has changed democrats. if you just returned from a year abroad, prepare yourself, you will not recognize the new democraticde party. last night, democratic members refused to stand or clap when trump praised the national anthem, when he praised military veterans, when he pointed out new low black unemployment numbers. some refused to stand for steve scalise, louisiana congressmanus

he nearly murdered last year by a bernie sanders supporter. what is going on? they are giving trump the finger. bad manners are not a form of resistance. what it is more than that? what if democrats don't like those things anymore? what are praising our veterans or flag really does enrage the modern left? in its tweets during the speech, msnbc host joy reid put it this way, "church, family, police, national anthem, trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s era nationalism, the goal of this speech appears tooa be to force the normalization of trump on the terms of the bygone era." think about that for a minute. church, family, police, military, and love of country,e are now tropes for my bygone era? most americans consider those things the pillars of our civilization. if you don't agree with that, imagine a society without those things. what would it look like? how could at last? would you want to live there?

joy reid would come so would many of her coanchor's over at msnbc enter and her harvard -- this is in political resistance, it's not about donald trump, its nihilism, the mindless impulse to tear down what you did nothe build. richard your father translated into political turns. it seeks to undermine the decent and beautiful and all that came before. this isn't a philosophy, it's a sickness, and once you catch it, you are apt to say things like this. speak if he gives a speech tonight in which he makes it sound like the biggest issue in thege united states, is ms-13, again nobody that doesn't watch fox news has everut heard of. >> for this president to conflate the dreamers with gang members, he was demonizing our immigrants here, and i was offended w. >> tucker: so ms-13 is merely something that fox news created

to demonize immigrants? presumably leave those would be the same immigrants that gang routinely kills because they immigrants. we don't want to thank the left really believes any of this but we are starting to think they do. joe concha writes about media for "the hill" he joins us tonight. joe, and another cable channel, one of the contributors and said that she was in effect triggered by the word "family," that was offensive,iv a dog whistle or code word. that, to me, crystallized the response. what was your view of it? speak with a view over all is who are you going to believe? polls that were taken by people from people from across the country by cbs and cnn, i get there/post, you can only hold them in so much weight, maybe a couple more republicans watched last night then answered, so you either believe them or you believe pendants that primarily to their prior suffocating -- do theirnd pontificating from

new york or d.c., all i couldhe think about was wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, the fact that no one got anything close to getting the states right in terms effectively while coming down because no one can gain the dell might gauge the true pulse of the country. we see the analysis today and last night and we compare two poles that have astounding numbers, cnn saw the respondent's essay the speech was very or somewhat positive. itpe goes higher on cbs, 75%. two key stats. eight and ten in the cbs poll thought that the president was trying to unite the country rather than divided yet all we heard from pundits is that this was a gloomy and divisive speech. finally, the cbs poll, putting the partisans aside, those who identify as independents, 73% saw the speech as part positivt if you just watch the coverage today, you would think this was one of the worst, most divisive, most darkest beaches we've ever seen from a president.

>> tucker: it's almost as if there is a disconnect between the public on the people who are supposed to be gathering its news and presentingg reality to them. >> yes. look at joy reid and her saying that ms-13 is a fox story. i think she got her aft mixed up. as an fbi story as and they are on the fbi list. it's not it again that you can put together a football team with. c there are 70,000 members in ms-13 in long island not too far for me here in jersey. they committed 25 murders according to local authorities since 2016, that's a big deal. >> tucker: if you dig down a little bit, how many of those murders are people in your neighborhood or mind? 's zero. how many were a fellow immigrants? 100%. so how was it anti-immigrant to oppose a gang that kills immigrants? >> it contradicts with the president said to the week before,us which was he extended his daca proposal to 1.8 million people. that is far more than the

800,000 that we had been hearing. so how can he propose something like that and be anti-immigrant at the same time? it's a rocking contradiction. >> tucker: is there anyone at these networks who is thinking through what life after trump might look like? if you alienate half the country or devalue your credibility with all the country, because they have, what happens when he's gone? >> oh, boy. [laughs] it's going to be a complete disaster i would say. the only reason why ratings are a little bit higher is because of donald trump and obviously the vitriol towards him. i think what is happening now, and i honestly believe this, you have a lot of pendants, particularly republican pundits that are anti-trump, that are telling their audience on those networks what they want to hear, in essence, comfort food. on their phones afterwards they are checking twitter and if they are remotely contradictory innd terms of not being anti-trump, we saw this last year with van jones after the president's

address to the joint session of congress, he praised the president, said he looked presidential, andon he got bulld and destroyed on social media to the pointen where he had to say, wait a minute, let me clarify what i said. i think at this point you have anchors and pundits that are very, very afraid that their audiences will turn on themy unless they say exactly what they want to hear, and it's trump derangement syndrome, as well, which obviously, if you suffer from not for more than four hours, go to a safe space immediately. >> tucker: it's an airless room. good to see it. in the wake of the president's speech, members of the press and the democratic party try to outdo each other in an effort to be as panicked and terrified as they could. how could the president speak for an hour and not speak that far off nation russia? >> there is a missing figure in this hall tonight that we f ougt not to forget about. and that is the special

prosecutor of the united states who was at this hour probably meeting with his team. >> he's not there. >> he sort of hovers over. >> not is an extraordinarily important part of what is going onhi in d.c. >> when putin is not met by power, it is almost like he is giving an invitation to continue his assault. that is tantamount to malfeasance. >> president trump is completely silent about russia's ongoing assault on our democracy. his administration's outrageous refusal to impose sanctions, what's that about? what is that about? what do the russians have on him politically, personally, financially? >> tucker: noted foreign policy experts nancy pelosi andr cory booker, folks. luis gutierrez went very hysterical. he said the president's speech -- "whoever translated it for him from russian did a good job." mark green isb. a democrat, he's

published 23 books on public affairs, he's been around. mark, you have been around long enough to remember when mccarthy era was a central lesson for american liberals, when hysteria overtook the political system and people started accusing each other and people were drummed out of the public sphere because of it and at the time, people said things exactly like congressman gutierrez said. translated from the original russian. does it strike you that your site is doing that exact thing right now? >> not at all. let's stick to the facts. >> tucker: [laughs] >> i do think trumps state of the union was possible if you haveha amnesia. over 18 months in the past, he of course mocked and insulted meryl streep, mexicans, muslims -- >> tucker: heat mocked meryl streep? i didn't know. i'm out. that's it. i'm done. meryl streep, that's it.

>> give me one minute. all fact-checkers led by "the washington post" have documented over 2,000 misleading or false statements. barack obama illegally wiretapping donald trump. should he have said -- >> tucker: now you are getting stupid. >> listen, listen. >> tucker: can i ask you a real question? speak of his intelligence agencies have said that russia hacked our election. so he is silent on putin, and he plays up ms-13. so if the democrats are upset, you say they are hysterical, his tweets and has public comments are so hysterical, world populao opinion has gone from 60% favorable to america to 20%. tucker, they are laughing at you. >> tucker: okay. can i ask you a couple of questions? i get democrats don't like trump, they hate his tweets, i kind of hate his tweets, too. >> and his false statements.

>> tucker: and he attacked meryl streep, that is too much. but why would they sit and refuse to clap when he said nice words about the national anthem at the military veterans? what message does that send? >> you when i know that democrats and republicans have a bipartisan affection for the military. for you to pretend democrats -- >> tucker: i'm not pretending anything. i'm asking you a question. what is the answer? >> you know what's going on with flag. >> tucker: are you triggered by veterans? speak of the flag is not about veterans. >> tucker: i'm asking you about veterans. veterans sat there. >> the right to salute the flag, you know that donald trump has gone after black athletes like colin kaepernick, he did that. he is so anti-minority -- >> tucker: oh, totally. blah, blah, blah. can i ask you a question,

though? why, when he says complementary things -- i will let you answer. please answer the question i asked, which is, when they sit there and hear him complement our military veterans and refuse to applaud, i know they don't like him, that's fine. but why not applaud veterans? >> of course -- >> tucker: why not applaud them? i don't understand. >> you are talking about the audience response. i thought this was about trumps state of the union. >> tucker: when steve scalise goes a standing ovation, why not join it? he's a member of congress that was shot. he's alive. by not?nd i would hate to think democrats are becoming extreme and arranged an out of touch with popular opinion but that is the conclusion i'm reaching because i watched last night. >> joe, who talked about post, he said out of touch with popular opinion. >> tucker: why can't you applaud for steve scalise? t answer my question. >> allow me to finish a sentence after the comma.

do you want to talk about polls? because he is an incessant liar and because he is insulting dreamers as if they are all ms-13 -- >> tucker: oh, i thought he was offering amnesty to 2 million of them. >> for $30 billion wall that mexican didn't pay for. f come on, tucker. >> tucker: mark, you used to be so reasonable. a look at the landscape and i think, i think trumps that some unreasonable things and on the left becomes so much more unreasonable than trump. you will get him reelected by your inability to follow a linear plot. >> you acknowledge that he says unreasonable things but the democrats didn't applaud because he took false credit for black unemployment. look, let's talk numbers. joe talked to numbers about who watched the state of the union. >> tucker: answer my question! why don't you answer that and we can move on? >> by 2-1, the public doesn't trust him. your audience does and you do,

but the world is laughing -- >> tucker: i don't trust any politician. i'm interested in their ideas and i support the ones that i think i'm right and i oppose the one i don't. >> the issue isn't meryl streep. the issue is a president who demeans minorities -- >> tucker: one simple question, a factual question. if the president offered, as he did last night, amnesty to over -- and the final number will be over 2 million people here illegally --li a bigger ofr than obama ever gave, then how is he against them? he's offering them citizenship. >> i know the answer. >> tucker: what's the answer? >> all of us would agree to it in a bill just about dreamers. but what trump is saying is i will do it if you give me $30 billion for a wall that is not necessary. why is he linking the dreamers to something else? >> tucker: why is he linking people who snuck in the country to attempts to other people's thinking in the country? i'll get you back tomorrow.

>> did they sneak into the country over their babies? tucker -- >> tucker: their parents snuck into the country. >> for their babies? stop misleading your audience! >> tucker: thanks for joining us on good luck. top silicon valley company airbnb tried to win over customers by touting its own virtue, in contrast to the president, who was repulsive. is that working? we talked to one of the company's executives, he joins s next. ♪ hey, what are you guys doing here? we're voya. we stay with you to and through retirement. so you'll still be here to help me make smart choices? well, with your finances that is. we had nothing to do with that tie. voya. helping you to and through retirement.

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>> tucker: the tech company airbnb, which is run by very rich people who are definitely your moral betters, used the state of the union addressed asn opportunity to denounce the trump administration and its immigration policy. they debuted in ad that ridicules the president's recent ads about poor and dangerous countries. is a part of it. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: we'll see you in port-au-prince. a short time ago, we spoke to airbnb head of policy, chris lehane.

chris, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me come at tucker. how are you doing? >> tucker: i'm doing great. i'm very familiar with your work, for many years in the political sphere, now you are working for a big commercial company. i'm a little confused by the message of the ad. the message appears to be, the president is immoral but we are virtuous, therefore, spend money with us? is that the message? >> i don't think, tucker, the words you used are anywhere in the ad -- >> tucker: they don't. >> if you look at the trajectory, we ran our first at along the lines on fox last year during the super bowl -- >> tucker: we appreciate that. >>ur i'm sure you do. i'm sure the company dead. [laughs] the ad was really focused on the same subject matter that this ad is focused on, which is this concept of we accept, we are a people to people based platform, we have over 250 million users,

191 countries, and we do believe, our mission is to allow anyone to belong anywhere, and so last year on the super bowl, we ran an ad about we accept, which really embraced the idea of inclusion and diversity, it was a response to the travel ban. over the course of the year, we continue to step out and inconsistent with our core mission of allowing anyone to belong anywhere. this ad that we ran -- >> tucker: that's not your core mission. your core mission is to make money. [laughs] are you a church now? it extols the virtues of some wonderful people. >> tucker: because you are virtuous and you are not in those to get rich. i doubt you take a salary from airbnb, just the moral satisfaction. >> let me ask you, tucker -- >> tucker: [laughs] hilarious. >> how much do the hosts make on each transaction? >> tucker:e i'm not attacking airbnb.

>> you are. >> tucker: i'm attacking your mischaracterization of it as a missionary organization. >> i think you're missing the point. >> tucker: in allki seriousness, the point is clear, we are a virtuous company, we accept, in contrast to the bigoted president, who seeks to exclude, we are good, he's evil, spend money with us. i merely asking you a commercial question, is that a good play for you, to say, we are the virtuous company, we are not in us where the money, we are just really good people? that is what you are saying. >> there's a reason you are not writing ad scripts because that is not what the ad says. it is really important to lookwr at what the ad says. what are the ads they say? the ad said there is some beautiful people and beautiful places. ultimately, what you come back to is what is our mission? the mission is to allow anyone to belong anywhere. >> tucker: let's get specific.op i get it. >> to take people off-line, online and connect them off-line from different backgrounds.

>> tucker: and also make billions. that's great. i'm justus saying, you, and this outcome i say, come to haiti. hold on. serious question. have you walked without production through downtown port-au-prince recently and if so, how did it go? >> i spent a couple of nights in a township in south africa outside of cape town. >> tucker: [laughs] hold on. >> have you been to those places? >> tucker: yes, i have. >> have you spent the night and some of these townships? >> tucker: chris, you can't y filibuster. you haveou to just -- let's be polite and answer simple questions. i'm glad you indicate cape town, the bridges placed on the continent of africa. i know a fair amount about port-au-prince, and i'm telling you is a very dangerous place. is it immoral, bigoted, to

acknowledge that not everywhere in the world is the same and some places are really dangerous in some places aren't? is that okay or is that a species u of bigotry? >> i think what is wrong is to cast aspersions on an entire people and an entire country. i think the best way, and all the data supports this.po the best way to break down differences is to have people from different backgrounds spend time with one another. not to criticize them, not to condemn them, but actually for people to spend time with one another. >> tucker: hold on. you pledge to personally come up with your family, go on vacation haiti, not at some retrieval resort, but in downtown port-au-prince, the capital city, and spend a night, to get the cross-cultural polorization that is so important? tell me whatza kind of time you had when you come back. >> tucker, first of all, if you

want to talk about my family, i am happy to. my guess is my family might have a little bit more diversity >> tucker: i'm not attacking your family. i'm talking about port-au-prince, haiti. it's a dangerousr: city. i'm not attacking your family. >> i'm just saying -- >> tucker: i'm not attacking your family. >> would you like me to answer the question? the answer to your question, we are planning a trip to africa and we are going to some of these townships that i talked about. >> tucker: you'll be surprised to learn that haiti is not in africa. i hope that occurs sometime in your trip. >> your question is getting at rather are you in my family are willing to travel to places in the world that people typically do p not travel to. >> tucker: that's not my question. my question is are you going to port-au-prince, haiti, ? not some for a place? speak it when i am happy to take my family and these types of pln

my past. i actually do believe in what our platform is trying to do, which is to take people from different backgrounds, connect them from different backgrounds. now i get that you may not -- >> tucker: i'm just wondering, did you get ordained before you got this job? [laughs] i love it, i love getting lectures! >> you didn't ask me these questions when we ran the ad during fox on the super bowl. why didn't usc's last year? >> tucker: i don't know. probably some sinister reason. i didn't see the spot. i appreciate you coming out tonight. thanks. president trump tout of there state of the t economy last nig, the debate rages over whether he deserves credit for that, and if so, how much. we have a tech owner, head of overstock.com, and austan goolsbee, to answer this

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>> tucker: the president spent a big chunk of his speech touting the economy. the stock market is at all-time highs, all of us are aware of that. of the wreck of the new tax bill, apple and other companies have announced plans to repatriate billions in overseas earnings and bring them back here. are the signs as good as the president says and if they are, doesf he deserve credit for the? the founder and president of

overstock.com, austan goolsbee is a professor at university of chicago's school of business, one of president obama's economic advisors may join us tonight. thank you, both, for coming on. patrick, you run a big business, a business you start that, you are in a pretty good place to assess thes effect of these economic policies on business. i how has it been? speak of it's definitely been positive. it's been positive at a number of ways. the tax become a part of the economy is the animal spirit uncertainly, i would say the president has been very good for thel animal spirit of the economy. in addition to tax relief is overdue, and necessary, and something that gets overlooked as far as thelo economy is the pearl rule of law, he basically went to the federalist society is what we read in the paper and he got them to suggest to the federal judges that i should appoint, and that is a very good for the economy. >> tucker: austin austan, a man

running this multibillion dollar company saying these policies have helped his company, isn't that the acid test? >> i believe donald trump deserves some credit for the economy. i believe thatat>> the objectios the trying to take 100% of the credit for the economy, and that is where we disagree. so if you take the black unemployment rate in the united states, it is at record lows. it is still eight percentage points under president obama, it has fallen another one percentage point under donald trump. i think donald think donald trump deserves some credit and in the tax plan, there are certainly things that gave large amounts of tax cutting 22 corporations and they are quite happy about that. and i hope that that will lead to higher growth in the economy. i want that to be true. but i think it's a little -- i don't know what the correct word is -- maybe inconsiderate for the president in the state of the union to trypr to pretend le

he did it all and i think the fact that 60% of the american people credit president obama for their strong economy, and 35% -- >> tucker: there is no doubt that people are grateful for president obama. patrick, the immigration question is one that is often discussed in economicat terms in the idea is that if you don't have millions upon millions of people with less than a high school education coming into your country, at all times, then your economy will collapse. is that your perspective on it? >> no, absolutely not. i think that milton friedman put it correctly, that we have to at some point choose between having open borders are having a social safety net. here is a pure libertarian, would have favored open borders. i think the government has a responsibility, consent of the governed, and i think the government want the government to look out for them and not for the whole world. at some point, we have to recognize that not only does it stress the social safety net but it provides a lot of competition

for less skilled workers, which is -- and so by slowing the dash what i really take some offense that, though, is the idea -- i got to follow the law, you and i have to follow the law, so let's start with the premise that we all agree we have to follow the law and then we can agree what it is but there seem to be peoplebu suggesting in the conversation that we don't -- we can be fuzzy about the law. if they can be fuzzy, cannot be fuzzy about it? >> tucker: that's a great question, i want to put it to austan goolsbee,ti who i think s a law-abiding party. we are hearingr your party say, not just say come by shock, but they are saying there are some alitical benefit to having person breaking the law, there are all kinds of extenuating circumstances where they can be punished for obeying the law? does that apply to you and me or the illegal aliens? >> i think you know that you are taking to an extreme and not

portraying accurately -- >> tucker: i don't think so. >> in the case of the dream act kids, they were brought here as small children, and so in the same wayki that if there is a kd in a car seat in the backseat and the parent is speeding, technically, the child is breaking the law because they are speeding. but they aren't the ones who are at fault and that is the root of the disagreement. >> tucker: it's not, if i can extend a technology, though. we are taking off the table the idea punishing the parents who are consenting adults, who settled us with this problem other children, it is a problem, and they are not being punished either. the are getting amnesty come too. >> the question about daca was not about the parents, it's about the kids, and what the president outlined in his original immigration policy was one that a lot of americans agreed with, which is that he was going to start by deporting the "bad hombres" and violent criminals. what we have seen over the first year in office is that not what

he did at all. they are finding doctors and people that are professionals and people that have been here for 40 years, and just do not bang the buck basis, it strikes me as an odd way to go about it. speak >> tucker: come patrick, really quick, if you could disobey a law, what would it be and what would your excuse be l that would satisfy the left? > there would be none. i have met austan, i have respect for austan.n. this is america, we are not going to go round up 11 million people. i am not in that camp. we are not going to go do that. there has to be some path ofh forgiveness to seditious citizd stuff. and i think that trump took a very constructive step forward. just wanted to say that. i thought the speech was great. and i don't support tron. i did not vote for him. >> tucker: he's winning over oneve executive. thank you both for coming on.

hillary clinton tried to solve her #metoo crisis in his flowered into a crisis.oo last night, while no one was looking, now, even longtime allies are turning on her. kind of a big development, that's next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: a lot of people were watching the state of the union last night. that made it a perfect time to put on comfortable news the media bloodstream. the perfect time if you are s hillary clinton. just a few minutes before president trump started talking last night, hillary clinton published a lengthy note on her facebook page defending her intervention to protect burns strider after he sexually harassed a member of her

campaign team. "washington post" writer alyssa rosenberg announced she "was done with hillary clinton." tammy bruce is a new york radio host entry joins us to assess the state of hillary clinton in the #metoo moment. tammy, nice to see you. what did you think of her explanation last night? >> it sounded to me like she probably thought this was her state of the unionr address to e delivering angie broke into the chardonnay cabinet and the rest is history. it was way too long -- >> tucker: drunk facebook page for calista want to facebook, wanting to make it about her, realizing that she'd been exposed for being a fraud that she is. this is the irony about hillary clinton. my favorite part of this thing, and she never really apologized for what shecl did, which was shielding this man and disrupting the work life of the woman who was the target. she wrote in part, "i did this because i didn't think firing him was the best solution to the problem. he needed to be punished, changes behavior, and understand why his actions were wrong. ii thought this could happen without him losing his job.

tucker, she's talking about her husband. this is the problem with hillary clinton is that in order to be able to react to sexual harassment or predatory situation, appropriately these days, she would have to admit that everything she has done in the past has been wrong. and she can't do it. so hillary, and i'm glad that these women are realizing it, hillary has been the a last pern i can rely on as really the icon for enablers, and now that it is finally catching up to her. >> tucker: what is so interesting, i think most people would give hillary a pass on her husband, as you do uncomplicated personal situations. she said she wouldn't weigh in on this, i have inconsistencies in my personal life, i want to impose my views on you, but instead she lectures everybody else of the most hypocritical way. why did she do that? >> she did get involved, though, when it came to smearing the women. >> tucker: she did, that's right. >> in the 2008 campaign and '16,

she s presented herself as this position of elect a woman because a woman will govern differently, a woman will not do these things thatom men do, and that is always been untrue. my position as a feminist is that women do everything men can do and that we need to be in more positions of power but this is an issue of character, not an issue of gender, and may be hillary clinton will do something that's good just by her history, which is proved to us that women are like men, that we have the same challenges, and that when we do have power, we've got to keep a check in ourselves and make sure that we stay true to our principles. hillary clinton has not in any of that. >> tucker: that'ss a really deep point and a smart one. we are all human. thank you, tammy. here's the list, lynchings, cross burnings, yoga. one professor says that yoga is built on a bedrock of racism. you probably didn't know that. felix pointed to you next. -- we'll explain it to you nex

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♪ >> tucker: enjoy yoga? please stop. you are promoting white supremacy. a professor of religious studies at michigan state argued that "the explosion of yoga studios, yoga video apps, yoga pants, and other yoga swag over the past two decades is evidence -- you guessed it -- of systemic racism built on the labor of black people and people of the global south." the founding publisher of catalina magazine, more than that, she is our guide to the changing landscape of 2018 and the deepest recesses of the lunatic left. we are glad to see you as always, kathy. so yoga is racist? how is that? >> according to this article, many white people who do yoga,

and is mostly white people who do yoga, few of them understand the culture, the history, and the religion behind yogain and they are simply enjoying it for the physical aspects of it, so they are not understanding yoga athletic goes back to you. they need to if they want to appreciate it, if not, they are simply gettingng into this viewpoint of white supremacy, according to this professor. >> tucker: so if yoga is racist, his hot yoga more racist or less? >> [laughs] all western yoga is racist according to this author, according to this professor. all western yoga. yoga that is practiced in india has nothing to do with the older that is practiced in the western world. >> tucker: what about pilates? are though safe? >> pilates was not discussed in the article. it is western yoga as a whole being practiced by white people, white women, upper-class, middle-class people, not minorities, not latinos or immigrants. this is a white sport, a white activity.

>> tucker: that, right there, is suspect. call the police. what about tae kwon do? by these standards, that might be banned, right? >> by this author standards, perhaps. she really has a problem with yoga in industrial -- yoga industrial complex. that is what she called it. the yoga industrial complex. >> tucker: if it's wrong for people in the west to practice yoga, is it wrong for people and the rest of the road to use the internet, which was created here? part of our cultural legacy? >> i think we understand the culture of the internet and it doesn't go back to the british colonizing india and with the indians hadd to do to introduce them to yoga and show them their culture was intelligent, that was part of the yoga movement and that is how it came to the united states in the 19 the 20th century. the internet would not. >> tucker: what about democracy? that was invented by the greeks in the west, the basis of western civilization lynn.

>> then again, no. yoga was away for the indians to show their colonizers that they were intelligent and they had this wonderful -- >> tucker: where do you read your history? yoga predates the british by quite a bit. i just want -- i'm interested, how many people who are into yoga in the united states, do you think, voted for donald trump? >> oh, article didn't touch upon that. >> tucker: s as someone who is very familiar with nontrump voters, would you say may be 1% of people who practice yoga voted trump? is that you high? >> according to the author, many middle and upper class white women practice yoga. soos those people who fit intory that category and are trump supporters voted for trump. >> tucker: [laughs] are you struck by the fact that that series of descriptors, upper-middle-class, white, that is the whole argument on the

left. that is just bad because anything that hasn't is in superior to that. >> according to this article, those of the people who practice yoga and do not understand immigrants and minorities and what they are going through and perhaps have more privilege and are able to experience yoga andg other things that other groups cannot experience. >> tucker:as last question. if, in a multicultural society, which we live in, and i am for the basic b principle, which is their article things of other cultures andl you should enjoy them, wounded the rules change? we live in a multicultural society but you're not allowed to enjoy cool things from other cultures or if you do you have to feel guilty about it? how does that work? >> the author said by no means to stop doing yoga but if you do it, understand that you are only understanding an eighth of it, they are so much more to yoga. understand what people want through to introduce this to you from their culture to your culture,an have an appreciation,

don't just take advantage of it than by the yoga gear and take advantage of this wonderful tradition that was brought to you by another culture. >> tucker: interesting. i haven't tested it but i suspect downward dog is harder to enjoy if you are hating yourself while you do it, wouldn't you think? >> i don't think anyone would hate themselves, they would just know more about downward dog. >> tucker: more self-love. great to see you as always, cathy. you really are our sherpa and we appreciate it. sorry, sherpa, different culture, no offense intended. we'll be right back. yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

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