medal count was driven by our female athletes. so get get them, ladies. that is our story for tonight. thanks for being with us. tweet me at martha maccallum at the #"the story." have a great weekend. tucker is up. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. within minutes of the parkland massacre the media identified a villain. wasn't the 19-year-old who pulled the trigger. cnn published a piece scolding the president for calling him crazy u the real killer was the nra along with millions of law abiding gun owners, blood was on their hands. well, a few days later now that we have some facts. it turns out it's not so simple. it turns out that government at all levels played a role in allowing this massacre to happen. in fact, a much larger role than we knew or would have ever guess you had. the details are shocking. here is part of what we know

so far. the broward county sheriff's office received at least 23 calls related to nikolas cruz and his family. in 2016 a deputy was told directly that cruz was threatening to shoot up his school. the one he shot up. and had taken photographs of himself with firearms. that information was forwarded to deputy scott peterson. that name sounds familiar, that is the exact security guard at stoneman douglas high school who hid outside during the shooting and refused to go inside as 17 people were murdered. apparently doing nothing was a habit of peterson's. president trump weighed in on him today on his way to cpac. watch. >> when it came time to go in there and do something, he didn't have the courage or something happened but he certainly did a poor job. there is no question about that. he was there for five minutes, for five minutes. that was during the entire shooting. he heard it right at the beginning. so he certainly did a poor job. but that's the case where somebody was outside. they're trained. they didn't react properly

under pressure or they were a coward. >> tucker: scott peterson may not have been the only coward on the scene. brand new reports suggest three other broward county deputies arrived at the school during the massacre but did not enter or attempt to pursue cruz. instead they hid outside behind their vehicles until coral springs officers arrived and found them. action appears to be a defining quality in the broward county sheriff's office. last december broward county was warned that cruz was a school shooter in the making and collecting weapons with which to do it. they didn't even write a report on the tip. instead they told the tipster to report cruz tout palm beach county sheriff's office. those how local police responded or didn't respond. the state wasn't much better. later in 2016, despite evidence of suicidal behavior by cruz, in his expressioned desire to buy a firearm, the florida department of children and families decided that somehow he was not a threat to himself or others. if they decided otherwise,

cruz would have been involuntarily committed and would have been barred from buying a gun. in case you are wondering how was this guy able to buy a gun? that's how. then there is the fbi, the feds. in september of 2017, the fbi was warned that a youtube user named nikolas cruz spelled correctly had written this, quote: i'm going to be a professional school shooter. he wrote that online. the fbi now says that was not enough information to identify who made that remark and they were unable to investigate despite the fact that cruz gave his real name, spelled in the unusual way that it is spelled. in january 2018, the fbi was warned again that cruz was planning to shoot up a school and were given specific information about his erratic behavior, his gun-collecting, his expressed desire to kill people. did he not hide that the tipster warned that cruz was, quote: going to explode and worried it was just a matter of time before he, quote, was in a school and shooting the place up. the caller also told the fbi that she made the call because she wanted a, quote, clear conscience if he takes

off and just starts shooting places up in response the fbi did nothing. they didn't bother to forward that tip to a field office. the school system failed as well and badly. in 2013, school officials decided to radically cut down on in school arrests claiming that school discipline was racially biased. the school simply stopped referring students to police for assault and drug use and numerous other crimes, actual crimes. total arrests declined for more than a thousand a year to fewer than 400. so in spite of getting in trouble with school authorities repeatedly, cruz was never arrested, he was never charged. never convicted, never stopped from buying a gun. the schools failed, the local police failed, the florida state bureaucracy failed, the officer on duty failed, the fbi failed u the government's first duty is protecting its citizens. they failed. ultimately citizens have to defend themselves. the message could not be clearer. yet, the same government officials who failed to protect us are saying we don't have a right to protect ourselves.

michael graham at the s. a boston herald columnist and michael in the morning podcast ricochet.com. he joins us tonight to assess this cascade of failures and the self-righteousness that has followed. this seems like the biggest case of deflexion on record. government officials rather than stopping and saying you know what? we screwed up and we are going to find out why are saying america, it's your fault. >> you know, when you listen to you recounting all these events, obviously the culprit, tucker is the nra. if only the nra were destroyed then we would solve all these problems. i love this argument that we are not competent enough to own guns to protect ourselves because we are stew stupid. we will shoot our eye out, whatever we have to rely on government. okay how about the government? actually they are out in the parking lot hiding waiting until the shooting is over. can i have a gun? that just proves that guns don't work. heads i win tails you lose argument from people who want to restrict gun rights. >> tucker: something is

going on here though. i still have respect for, affection for law enforcement. i know a million of them. great people protect us here at fox. grateful to them. here have you apparently according to reports tonight four separate armed coming or deputies, sheriff's deputies refusing to go in you can't tell me all four of them are cowards. is there a policy? you think at least one of them would have gone in. what's that about. >> a normal person cannot stand there with a gun and listen to kids get killed without running in the door. >> tucker: right. >> i wrote a piece for the federalist today going back and looking at other incidents where the cops stayed outside. people forget the orlando massacre which was the worst shooting in modern america until las vegas, the cop actually shot -- gun exchange with the killer. the killer goes in cop stays outside. swat shows up. three hours while murders are going on inside. in newtown, according to the judicial review. cops stood outside for four or five minutes listening to

the gunfire and did not go in the building. so there are two branches here. one is cowardice, i think the president is right to make that point. the other is training that departments still haven't figured out how they are going to deal with these issues. columbine was supposed to be the turning point. we know people waited outside at columbine because we had never seen a columbine. it's kind of like 9/11. you can't blame people for not understanding 9/11 we had never seen it this is a post 9/11, post columbine moment. just as people on an airplane will never sit and wait for hijackers to take the plane anywhere. police should not wait for people to die inside the building. the argument got today and heard from a lot of police officers today. you don't understand, michael, if we go in, there will be danger there is a guy with a gun in there. there are dead people. the danger part is already covered. second, this is truly disturbing. i'm with you. my uncle is retired lapd, weighs honored for heroism twice. his brother was a deputy. i have law enforcement in my family. the vast majority want to do the right thing. the number of police officers who have told me point blank my number one

job is to go home safe at night to my family, and they point to a supreme court case that says that police do not have a duty to protect you. if that's your number one job to go home safe at night. you need to find a mall that needs a security guard and do that for a living. the reason we honor cops is that cops do that amazing thing. they see danger and they see an innocent person and themselves and they say i'm going to choose to get between the innocent person and the bad guy. that's why we honor cops. we don't honor cops because they have the best policy sit outside the car waiting for the swat team. >> tucker: if they don't want to protect that's fine, don't prevent us from protecting ourselves. michael, thank you for that that was really insightful. >> thank you. >> tucker: last night we had florida democratic state senator gary farmer on to discuss his support of gun control measures that he has sponsored in the state. farmer was dishonest throughout the interview. we are not using that term

lightly. gary farmer is trying to strip you a basic constitutional right. we think it's important to correct the record and let you know he was not telling the truth through parts of that interview and have examples. just before the show started news broke security guard douglas high in parkland hid outside the building as nuclear also a cruz murdered 17 inside. we just told you about that. the sheriff had just had a press conference saying so before the show last night. here is part. >> he went, in addressed the killer, killed the killer. >> so we asked farmer about this right at the want to segment. made obvious point they are admitting they didn't protect the kids shouldn't they be able to protect themselves. he said breaking news, can't really respond to that as the interview progressed he began to make up his own facts about it watch. >> the fact of the matter is most of the cancer narge occurred before he ever had an opportunity to be there to stop it. >> tucker: that's not true. he made that up and then started shouting so it was hard to correct that. the shooting lasted six minutes and peterson waited outside the building for

four minutes. >> in this bill, owners of the rifles, including many hunting rifles that you designate weapons of war and assault rifles, owners. >> not true but keep going. misinformation number one. >> is true. >> keep going. >> tucker: would have to register those rifles with the government. am i misreading that. >> no. that's a different bill. that's a different bill, tucker. >> tucker: so we have just read the bill before last night's show and thought that was right. we looked it up again today. and it was right. that bill does require you to register your firearms. not because have you drop something wrong but just because have you them u farmer says this was his bill. so, of course, he must have known that and yet he lied about it that's use unfortunately to know going forward. i hope you will remember it johnny joey jones is a retired staff sergeant who was wounded in afghanistan and he joins us tonight. johnny, thanks for coming on. >> good evening, tuc tucker. >> tucker: people are so horrified what happened at

parkland. going back 20 years to columbine and even before that. they are open to solutions and i think a lot of people are open to gun control because it sounds like it might work. have you thought a lot about this. have you been around gun as lot of your life. would it work? >> well, listen, in the marine corps i learned the war game every move. to look at my end goal and work my way backwards. that's what i have done for the last week. i have looked at every policy suggested and war gamed it to the end. it comes back to the same end. we make a decision. do we ban all guns or a certain type of gun which would include confiscation and registry and things that a lot of people in favor of gun control aren't in favor of or do we do more defensive posture? do we secure our schools and make sure the background checks work and go down this path that we are already on in a lot of ways and that we have to go down either way? and so my opinion, and what i'm saying through the research and the war gaming that i see and the rhetoric trying to weed through it all is that the first thing we need to do is make sure the background checks we

already do work. make sure the infrastructure and the resources behind our law enforcement from local to federal is actually being used. you know, president bush's legacy is the department of homeland security among everything else. in a quick amount of time we were able to take local law enforcement stations couldn't talk to each other on the radio or local fire stations intelligence sharing all the way up to the fbi and further. and if we can't do the same amount of diligence in the same amount of work that's not worth our time, if a sweeping piece of legislation simply because it makes us feel better is the answer we go to now then we are suffering from the instant gratification taken hold of millennials and everyone else in this country. >> tucker: yeah and kind of missing the point why is our society producing people like nikolas cruz in the first place? that might be worth thinking about. >> absolutely. >> tucker: as you point out there are already a lot of laws. we he have far more restrictive gun laws than we did when i was born for example and we have more shootings. maybe we are not enforcing

them correctly. if the government is fail to enforce the laws on the books, why does the government never holdoesn'tanybt accountable for that. >> a lot of people spewing rhetoric feel that way. i have got a house full of guns. none of them are never going to kill anyone that doesn't need to die because they are trying to hurt my family. i'm okay with the idea of bringing in new laws. when your -- for example, if you ban ars, grand father the ones here or have a confiscation program. that won't go over well. timothy mcveigh killed 168 people in a federal government people with a bomb made from fertilizer and diesel fuel because he didn't agree with how the federal government was handling a policy. crazy exists in all subgroups. if you go after and confiscate guns crazy is going to come out again. it's going to come out just as bad. don't start catalyst for people to go out and do other things that are evil and tormented. so, i can tell you if you try to ban these guns, 23

you don't go that path you will do what's called the national firearms acted. basically what you will do is put these guns in a category similar with suppressers and fully auto. and then they become infinitely expensive and then created a system only rich people own this type of guns unconstitutional in and of itself. >> mike: i don't think that would bother michael bloomberg surrounded by armed body guards. johnny, thank you. >> absolutely. thanks for having me on. >> tucker: last night we interviewed a survivor the parkland shooting called colton haab. he was invited to the town hall held at cnn this weeks. he with crew from that when he said they altered one of his questions. last night he described cnn as ideological and dishonest. almost immediately after the show cnn responded by claiming that colton haab is lying. even altering evidence. tonight cnn executives leaked unauthorized an authorized release of what they claim are colton's personal emails.

they are trying to claim that he or his family altered evidence of his exchange with a cnn producer. all of this surprised us because, as you will remember, it was just a few days ago that cnn was declaring that anyone who questioned the integrity of parkland survivors and colton haab is one of them is a monster guilty of the most severe kind of moral crime. and, yet, cnn is doing the very same thing right now, questioning the integrity of a survivor because it suits them. so there is some irony there. but there is also the large and we think more important question of what's actually true. this is journalism. we don't know what's actually true. we will do our best to find out and we will tell you if we do. the press spent a year claim moring truth collusion russia. they abandoned the story or even deny it ever existed. interesting. that's next. and the wolf huffed and puffed...

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>> tucker: american media incident federal to creating the putin campaign colluded with the trump campaign. outlets claiming the whole thing never happened. they didn't claim that that doesn't mean they haven't grown uninterested in the mueller investigation. they treat that investigation sacred even though the 13 democrats, three independence and no republicans unless you include mueller himself. lee smith is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. he joins us tonight. lee, whatever you think the russia investigation or whatever you anticipate we are going to learn from it, you can't deny that the press alleged in effect

collusion for months. >> yes. little machin much to pretend ty didn't. >> went on before the election and well before the story we attributed or believed to have come from the steele dossier. that was yahoo news piece and mother jones piece. this started in july. if you look, there is a campaign information operation. the press already going on for steve publication and american press going after different figures in the trump campaign carter page. like they are talking about bra zin ski or kissinger. if i were covering the auto industry and covering every talking point gm sent me that would not make me a journalist. that would make me basically an employee of g.m. it seems like reporters are doing that with the intel community and with the mueller investigation. >> yes. it's actually shameful.

the idea that the american press is working, has been working for a while with the intelligence community. taking leaks from them. many of these leaks, of course, are illegal like with the leak of michael flynn, exactly, the way that they are working and information operation along with the intelligence community that it's a horrible thing to have happened to the press. and the press did it to themselves. >> tucker: can you hurt yourself as a journalist if you are not skeptical. journalists have always been liberal. i get it. i have done it my whole life. >> absolutely. >> tucker: skepticism was the thing that tied us together. whatever happened to that. >> a lot of different things have happened. it's not about the press leaning toward the left which is usually again, that's the way the press has always been. >> tucker: for sure. >> something different happened here. i do believe there will be a price to pay. i do believe that different people once the russian narrative more and more. once the dossier nonsense has gone through, i believe people will look back and they will say what happened

here? what did the press do? we enjoyed it like a bunch of chocolates. we got a rush from it now we don't believe that we can trust them anymore. i think that's going to be the upshot of this i know you are not here to discuss politics. i can't resist. can you run a midterm election on russian collusion. i know whole capable stories. >> i don't see how. what are they going to do? run against vladimir putin? no i think it's much more likely the republicans are going to end up running against adam schiff. end up running against people. run against people, senior democratic figures who may have played a very destructive role in the 2016 elections and i think if we look at the different investigations on the hill the senate judiciary committee and house intelligence committee it, looks like senior democrats who have done some very bad things, i think it doesn't look great for them heading into 2000 --

>> tucker: if i were a democrat and wanted to talk about economics i would be very comad. thank you that's interesting. >> appreciate it. >> tucker: huge percentage of what you hear on tvs these days centers on the payrolls opayrollperilsof russi. that's the democratic party and our pr party have been telling us for nor are more than a year. is this true? let's play a game and you decide. we will describe actions by a hostile foreign power and you guess whether it's russia or china. get a pen. ready? first, the fbi director said this country uses students and professors at american universities as spies. this problem is so widespread that almost every fbi field office is dealing with it russia, nope. china? china has 350,000 students in the u.s. some of whom apparently are intelligence agents. next question, this question reportedly hacked the office of personnel management, giving it access to millions of federal personnel records which allows its spy agent

to locate espionage target. this country hacked the fdic and other agencies. russia? no. china. a company from this country has effectively taken over an entire u.s. territory. bloomberg reported last week how a massive state sponsored gambling runs the island of sigh pan which used to be ours? rickenbacker? no china once again. the country will overtake the u.s. as world's largest economy? russia? please, that's hilarious. russia is third w0r8d compared to yes, china. this country has killed tens of thousands of americans by manufacturing and exporting fentanyl deadliest narcotic known to man. rush hay have fake twitter accounts but china did that this country demands censor products oligarchy that runs police state. amazingly american companies obediently comply with these orders because they are afraid not to. is it russia they are cow

tailing too mean old putin? of course not, it's china. tell us which country strikes you as a bigger threat to america? the author of chinese girl in the ghetto former deputy director of the committee for american sovereignty pro-trump pac joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me, couple levels, i one think -- rise of china is a threat to a place in our world. but compared to russia, is there really a comparison? >> well, you know, let's recall that a few years ago senator john mccain who said that russia really is just a gas station masquerading as a country. so, you know, you don't need to take that literally, but, i think any sane person would look at china's economy, look at the trajectory of their rise, and understand that china actually poses a much more serious long term strategic thread to america's place in the world. but we don't each have to look at that on such broad scale, i think we just need to look back 20 years. the last time we had a serious foreign influence

campaign scandal in this country was during the clinton era when, you know, the democratic national committee was forced to give back nearly $3 million of foreign money and we know that. >> tucker: russian money? >> and we know that during that scandal there was actually a lot of chinese money involved. money from the communist government or people affiliated with the chinese government and there was money from elsewhere in asia, too. that was actually real money that had to be given back. thus far we haven't seen anything like that in the current russia investigation. >> tucker: is it possible if you want to know who has power you just ask who does nobody criticize? everybody criticize russia, there are no repercussions. ases as a single person in hollywood or finance ever criticized china. doesn't that tell you how beholden we tore kahne. what a threat they actually are. nobody says anything? >> some people have criticized china when it was popular to could so. let's remember seven years

in tibet done by brad pitt. popular back then to credit size. >> tucker: could that get made today. >> i don't know. hollywood hasn't come and asked me for my opinion. i have no idea. >> tucker: richard gere can't get a movie role. >> there you go. but what we do know is that a lot of these hollywood people like to do things. these days it is popular to question donald trump it is popular to question the legitimacy of electoral victory. a lot of the people obsessed with the russia investigation. people from the fake news media. what they really want to do is essentially to sort of bring out anything that makes the current president look bad. >> tucker: i mean, look, i think it's okay to criticize the president. i have criticized many presidents and really meant it. if you care about the country, have you though about soberly what threats it faces. >> absolutely. >> tucker: if you are telling biggest threat it faces either lying or stupid. >> or you could be both, right? >> tucker: yeah, you could be both. >> what we do know while we have been obsessing over this russia investigation.

we have actually ignored some really weighty issues. not just china but china being one the most weighty issues among them. >> tucker: it's a really good point. huge cost as lee smith was just saying there is a big cost to this stuff. thank you for that good to see you. >> thank you so much. tuck purdue university says students should avoid using the word strike it from lexicon. cathy areu joins us next. enough to protect my heart. adding bayer aspirin can further reduce the risk of another heart attack. because my second chance matters. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester.

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>> tucker: canadian prime minister justin trudeau is visiting india right now and sadly for him it's not going well. trudeau has embarrassed his country and annoyed many indians in dressing up in ludicrous indian national garb, ludicrous for him. interestingly though trudeau was man explaining to canadians that they should not use the word mankind and the u.s. school agrees. writing guide at purdue university accredited school apparently tells students to avoid words like mailman and mankind in order to have nonsexist non-biased writing. cathy areu is founder and publisher of catalina magazine and she think she agrees. she joins us tonight. cathy, good to see you. >> hi, good to see you. >> tucker: i have got to say basic irony here you are lecturing us about sexism while you are sitting right now in manhattan. >> manhattan.

we need to rename the city then. >> tucker: yeah. >> the big apple. the big apple would be less offensive. i would be sitting in the apple not manhattan. >> tucker: why should the post office deliver mail. >> it's m-a-i-l that's okay. if it's m-a-l-e that's the problem. >> tucker: it's not spelling it's gender inclusive. male is offensive. we just learned that. >> i don't think they are including that but they are saying that society has changed and times are changing and we don't want to be offensive in our language. and they are tryin try to be nonsexist and non-biased and that means trying to take the word man out. instead of man made it would be synthetic. instead of mailman it would be mail carrier. there are many ways to go around it instead of humanity you say -- >> mailman has mail in it?

>> m-a-i-l. >> can you change a vowel but it sounds the same. has that dreaded word that sends people shrieking for safe space male. >> think are saying man. man is the word that they are trying to avoid. they are saying that the word man is associated with adult men as opposed to just humanity or humans. so, they are trying to avoid the word man so if we could eliminate that word, then things would be much better and people would be less ongegded. offended. >> tucker: what if you lived in manchester, vermont. >> they might have to change the name of the city if people agree with purdue university. and purdue university found that things need to be updated and they updated their writing guide to take out these words that apparently are offending certain groups of people. >> tucker: so, okay, just to make sure i understand the rule. if something offends somebody, even if you have never met that person,

personally. >> right. >> tucker: you have to change it. so doesn't that mean that a small group of super unhappy people get to control what the rest of us say and think? >> perhaps they are ahead of their time. maybe this is something that is offending a small group but the group is going to get larger and times are changing. and our language is dynamic. webster keeps adding new words in the dictionary. so our language needs to change. and a term that used to be non-offensive like man made and mailman needs to be changed. >> tucker: i get that i guess the question for me is who guess to decide what changes and what doesn't? for example i think i have now decided the most offensive word in the language is college professor. because to me that can a notes dumbness and misuse of power and tenure. right anded me 00 credit at this so maybedeand mediocrity.c? >> if you have a writing

guide perhaps and you put that out there and people agree with you then, yeah, maybe, maybe that bo would fly. the university backed them up and there you have it they have a writing guide that now is going to teach us how to not offend. >> tucker: but do you think they i have the guts, i mean, it's one thing to bully the little rich kids who go to your school because like what do they know? >> this is indiana. this is the heart of america. >> tucker: of course. if you are paying like 60 grand or whatever it is for like the fake diploma you get, you know, and you are not working, obviously you have privilege by definition. no matter who is paying for it. >> okay. >> tucker: easy to boss them around. do you think they would have the guts to go to goldman sachs in new york and say change your name now or else? >> they probably wouldn't shop there. they probably wouldn't shop there. >> tucker: what if he were shopping at goldman sachs. will.

>> the name man is adult male and we need to change it like wo-man has the word man in there. just call us a person. >> tucker: so gold person sax? would that be better. >> i think. so i'm less offended, yes. >> tucker: by the way, what if you just -- since the rule is if you spell it and i will stop with this because i know this is angels on the head of a pendant. if you spelled man differently like maa so it's like mailman but maan. >> professions male dominated but they changed. spelling mailman differently doesn't apply. profession now applies for men and women or persons. all people. no man needed. no man needed. >> tucker: isn't there a man in the world woman. >> call me a person. i would be less offended. no need for woman.

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should people who love the outdoors be concerned about wind farms? >> well, what people usually start out seeing is big majestic form of energy and they say wow, that's majestic. that's wonderful. we are saving the planet. once they put some numbers behind what they see and start to quantify the impacts and the benefits, they tend to take a different view and these majestic turbines become a whole less tolerable to look at. >> they have environmental effects. some of this we don't fully understand we know they kill a lot of birds. they also enrich a number of big companies not all of them based here that take advantage of our in effect subsidies to get rich who is making money from these

things. >> largely hedge fund investors. institutional investors of whom are offshore and overseas. people who tend to speculate. god love burchett hathaway. warren buffet said these wind farms no insult to farmers these wind farms don't make any sense at all. the only reason we do them is for the production fax credit which is a federal subsidy. >> tucker: the rest of us are paying for warren buffet to get even richer. the concern i have about these, i like the idea. most people do like the idea. these companies come into rural areas where struggle glick industry has died. they pay off the town governments and in exchange people get one of these in their backyard. and do those people have any recourse? do they have say in this at all? >> it varies state to state, tucker. maine where i live has set up a law now for 10 years that makes it almost impossible for citizens or citizen groups to stand in

the way of a permit for one of these wind applications. and they could be very big. the footprint for a typical wind energy project tends to be anywhere from 6 to 20 miles across. and they go across some ridge lines that maine has for centuries valued a lot. >> tucker: right. so warren buffet can get richer. you get one of these in your backyard, killing all the birds for a square mile, driving you crazy with the noise and you can't do anything about it. >> well, you can do very little. and, again, the state of maine started out 10 years ago with stars in its eyes. said, you know, we need to get our boys home from iraq. we need to get off of oil. we need to save the planet. and what turned out to be the fact of the matter was that wind energy produces electricity. we don't use oil for electricity. anything we do with wind

energy here in america has nothing to do with our conflicts in the middle east. the amount that we can move the needle on co 2 using wind energy is deminimis. if co 2 is a problem and i don't like to weighed into the rabbit hole of gun rights, reproductive rights or climate change. if climate change is a problem, wind energy does nothing to solve it. >> tucker: right, exactly. sole similar is promising but the tax code encourages hedge funds to get rich while they wreck your yard and infuriating. thank you for standing up for that i appreciate it planned parenthood says it's launching a nationwide program to promote abortion. that will make the country happier. what's their plan? that's next.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: planned parenthood wants america to start having more abortions as soon as possible because that's liberation. more abortions the better. this week the country's largest abortion company announced a nationwide offensive that aims to make abortion easier to get all over the country. in the state of missouri they want a 72-hour waiting period repealed in case you want one right now. in maine allow nurse practitioners to give abortion pills. two of more than just a dozen laws planned parenthood is pushing all of which help its business model. lila rose is the founder live action pro-life activist groips group. she joining us tonight. lila, thanks for coming on. much different initiatives across the country. the idea is that more abortion equals more happiness? if you could sum up their

position. is it that? >> yes. exactly, tucker. it's that more abortion is somehow better for women and they are claiming this word abortion access just like this term pro-choice. it's really abortion pressure. it's really the only choice of abortion. planned parenthood does not focused on expanding access to prenatal support, pregnancy resources, parenting support. adoption referral or adoption support. planned parenthood is focused on abortion through all nine months for any reason, taxpayer funded for any woman, anywhere. that really reveals how out of touch think are with most women and most americans. >> tucker: and that's not just your opinion. as a professional pro-lifer. i mean, there is a lot of polling on this. most people don't agree with that. they are not on your side but definitely planned parenthood. >> right. >> tucker: that's changed though 20 years ago the abortion people basically had to say we are not for it if you really need it we want to make sure it's there now they are saying yeah more abortion is good.

that's a change, isn't it. >> it's a big change. two thirds of americans over two thirds of americans, according to gallup polling want restrictions on abortions. and some of them want restrictions in the second to third trimester. they want waiting periods. they want different forms of ensuring that women have other options. this is really showing that planned parenthood is not in touch with where the country is. it's also very trouble toggle see how this plays out. so, for example, in ohio, right now planned parenthood is challenging a law that would protect down syndrome babies from being particularly targeted in the womb for abortion. they are suing the health department in ohio because they want to be able to abort because of down syndrome or other prenatal diagnoses. what this is really say something we don't value disabled children in the womb. but the rest of the country differs on that. our country increasingly values disabled children. little gerber baby was a down sin drowm baby and named gerber baby 2018.

goes to show planned parenthood is not in touch with what people -- they are desperate. they know taxpayer fund something at stake. half a billion dollars a year. they know the president and both the house and many in the senate have said they would stop funding planned parenthood. they know the department of justice has investigating them for selling of baby body parts and fbi doing that as well. they are very concerned. they are trying to, this is ultimately a feeble attempt to push back to try to say put their stake in the ground, but, again, i think it's not going to go over well and this is going to raise up more people to oppose them than support them. >> tucker: so, just really quick, planned parenthood, the nation's biggest abortion provider which supports sex selective abortions and anything else you can imagine, gets about half a billion dollars a year in our money. and a lot of republicans support that. how much money do you get in federal -- do you get half a billion in federal subsidies a year? >> no. we don't receive any -- live action is a nonprofit. we receive no federal funding.

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group think. have a terrific weekend. we'll be back on monday at 8:00 p.m. good night from washington and weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of hannity the trump agenda, president trump he rocked the crowd, he delivered a rousing speech at cpac 2018 tonight for the hour we have the highlights and, of course, reaction all of this we will check in with judge jeanine pirro. we start with president trump's plan to protect american schools and students following this tragedy in florida. let's take a look. >> it's time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers. we don't want them in our schools. [applause] we don't want them. when we declare