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>> sandra: i have to leave it there. >> a lot of women whose viewpoints. >> sandra: maybe we will continue this conversation all three of us. thank you for joining us. i will see you tomorrow at 9:00 on "america's newsroom" and again on outnumbered at noon. tucker is next. >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. north korean dictator kim jong un has proposed a face-to-face meeting with president trump about his country's nuclear weapons program. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. chief correspondent john roberts has been on this story and he has details at this hour. john? >> this is an extraordinary moment in history, tucker, just for the very fact that we heard from the white house tonight that the president of the united states has agreed to meet with the president of north korea. i mean, nobody thought that anything like this could ever happen unless it was under the most extraordinary of circumstances. but this is kind of from a beginning level. you know, kim jong un had talks with south korean officials earlier this week. those south korean officials came to the white house today to say that kim is committed to the do you
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nuclearization of the north korean peninsula and he held out that olive branch for a meeting with president trump. president trump who has said in the past many times he would be happy to meet with kim agreed u this is aiming toward the denuclearization of the north korean peninsula. this is not about freezing north korea's nuclear program as has happened some times in the past only to watch them cheat. president trump is making it clear that he wants kim jong un to give up his nuclear program. a statement from the press secretary just a short time ago will pass along to you, president trump greatly appreciates the nice words of the south korean delegates and president trump moon. he will accept the invitation to meet with kim jong un at a place and time to be determined. we look forward to the denuclearization of north korea. in the meantime, all sanctions and maximum pressure must remain. the question of where is probably one of the biggest questions right now. i would assume that president trump is not going to go to pyongyang in north
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korea to meet with kim jong un. >> i don't expect that kim jong un would come to the united states because he might fear that he will be thrown in an american jail and never see the light of day ever again. not that that would happen. it may be that they choose potentially south korea right there along the border, which will be the site of the talks between south korea's president and kim jong un later in may or maybe it's a third country. some neutral country somewhere else in the world where everyone can meet. how did we get to this point in the white house just walking us through that in a conference call right now. but, chung eui-yong advisor said in a statement outside the white house here it was due to president trump's program of maximum pressure that north korea came to the table. they said that while kim is committed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, he also understands the joint military exercises between south korea and the united
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states must continue. now, president trump, as you will remember, tucker, came under an extraordinary amount of criticism for his tough-minded approach toward north korea. a lot of people were saying he wanted to start a war with the north. it would seem that exactly the opposite has happened. rather than the missiles flying, it looks like there will be talks. and it really is, when you look at everywhere we were up until this point, an extraordinary moment in history. tucker? >> tucker: it's astounding. john, was there any mention of the role, if any, that china played in this? >> i think that this was very much a behind the scenes sort of thing. when you talk about the program of maximum pressure, that wasn't just the united states. it was the united states and a number of other countries, first and foremost among them, china. president trump has pushed xi ping time and time again to increase the sanctions, to put the squeeze on north korean banks, to not allow workers in north korea -- north korean workers in china to send money back to
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north korea. we don't know exactly how much china did in this particular case. it seemed like it was limited. but at this moment, it appears like it may have been enough. so we'll see where this goes. nobody is under any allusions here in the united states that kim jong un, they might think that he is sincere, but nobody thinks that he is not potentially playing fast and loose here. we had john bolton the former u.n. ambassador on air saying he thinks they are just trying to buy time so they can complete their nuclear weapons program. then they have a very big bargaining chip. they are looking at this optimistically here at the white house. that this may be the opening that the united states has waited for and tried for for an awfully long time. >> tucker: it's unexpected to say the least. john roberts at the white house. thank you very much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: harry is a north korea expert and director of defense studies at the center for the national interest and he joins us tonight. harry, i don't know anybody, any of the geniuses running our foreign policy in washington predicted
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anything like. this i certainly didn't. that's for certain. i actually thought there was a better chance we would be at nuclear war with north korea than there would be peace talks. there is something we are missing, tucker there is a little bit of context. south korean press about two weeks ago came out with reports that were fascinating. they actually speculated that north korea was actually on the edge of financial bankruptcy. by october, their foreign exchange reserves are probably going to be exhausted and their dollar reserves are going to be exhausted. so that means north korea is essentially bankrupt. you can't build a lot of nuclear weapons and a lot of missiles when you have no money to do it to pay all the different spies and people to bring those materials back. you can't feed your people that way. so i do think the north koreans might be trying to buy some time here. i also think that kim jong un's new found pragmatism there might be a bigger reason for it. >> tucker: what do you make of this kim pledged that north korean will refrain from any further nuclear or missile test. >> as long as we're talking that's the other caveat to that point. as long as both sides are negotiating and we are trying to figure something out, then they won't test there is a bigger point to all of this.
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what i would urge president trump to do, meet with kim jong un, throw the hail mary. these things can happen and work out. i don't think there is anything wrong with that what this administration cannot do, tucker is, give him any bribes. give him any economic incentives. the north koreans have tried that in the past to come to the table that would be the wrong move and that would be the a mistake. >> tucker: huh. what is the gamut? continued pressure in the words of south korea. >> test the intentions. maybe they're sincere. maybe they are willing to come to the negotiating table. we have to remember something here. the north koreans, time is against them. their economy is a disaster. it's worth something like $14 billion. south korea's is worth something like 1.2 trillion. some day the north korean state will collapse. and i think kim realizes this. so this may be historic moment. i never thought i would see this before probably in decades. so i think trump has to explore it.
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>> tucker: he may be the one president who would meet with the north korean leader. is he going to stop on his way in oslo to get the nobel peace prize? >> he should be given the peace prize. if he close the ultimate deal of a lifetime you give that man the nobel prize. no question. >> tucker: the chances of that are right around zero, i think. >> there may be -- >> tucker: of getting the nobel peace prize. gave it to obama for getting elected. >> he didn't do anything. trump has -- >> tucker: what happens just to game this out a little bit and obviously this is speculative. the end game, of course, is reunification that korea is becoming one country again. what would that mean for everyone else? >> means a lot of good and a lot of bad. the bad is the toughest part. the cost to reunify north korea with south korea is probably something like $10 trillion. you are talking about having to build roads, brings, take care of their people. the economics of that would be totally insane. plus, you would have china and japan very nervous about
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what a strong korea would mean for the region. just thinking that through is just astronomical. >> tucker: huh. and china and japan would not be if favor. >> japan convince them in the long term and china one of their biggest fears. >> tucker: we are thinking ahead. for the moment amazing. as judicial, no one in d.c. predicted it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: a lot more on this breaking stoffer later in the show. immigration, sleeper issue of the 2016 election. no one in power on either side wanted to talk about it but voters did. they knew our immigration policy was not serving their interests and that's why donald trump won. you think both parties would have learned something from that experience, kind of a biggs deal. and the message was clear. voters don't want open borders and they have said so emphatically. congress is still not even pretending to listen. many republican members on the hill are still pushing for a mass amnesty under the orwellian title of comprehensive immigration reform. democrats have gone completely off the deep end.
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20 years ago bill clinton gave speeches including the state of the union address calling illegal immigration a danger to the middle class because it was, demonstrably. try saying that now at a democratic fundraising dinner, you would be dragged off the stage and charged with bigotry. democrats are now affirmatively in favor of illegal immigration. not an overstatement. they tried to shut down the government on behalf of illegal aliens. they claim immigration laws that congress passed with their support are now illegitimate and that the officers charged with enforcing those laws are fascist. and, of course, they have made all rationale conversation impossible by framing the entire issue as a battle in some sort of larger race war. it's shocking but that's not an exaggeration. watch this. >> the attorney general is trying to distract the american people from a failed immigration system by painting a racist, broad brush of our immigrant community as dangerous criminals. >> the races who are driving immigration policy in the white house are dividing the
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agenda for every house republican and are shaping the brand of the republican party not just as a party who doesn't want poor or latin american immigrants but doesn't want brown or black or anyone who isn't white in this country. >> since last night, the president put forth a plan. that plan is a campaign to make america white again. >> tucker: the plan she is talking about, of course, would have admitted 3 million nonwhite immigrants. talk about demagoguery. they not only the pro-illegal immigration policy they don't want the border secured. they depose toll deport anyone after criminal offenses. they pass instate television. fight immigration law. they think kate steinle's killer has more rights than. do you confront them on any of this they say american citizens are not impressive enough. too fat, too lazy, too addicted to drugs. they demand decent wages.
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they insist on constitutional rights like freedom of speech and right to bear arms. all very inconvenient. bill kristol said that out loud. like to see these people replaced by compliant foreigners. serve the ruling class without complaint. do voters actually support any of that? actually they don't. it doesn't matter. democrats know if they import enough new voters they will be able to run the country forever. would you want to live in that country? probably not. but judge for yourself. california democratic senator kamala harris recently told the rest of us that california, her state, is our future. listen. >> these folks are really mired in rolling back the clock in time, and that's not going to happen. california represents the future. and they don't like it. but there you go. >> tucker: yeah. they don't like it but california is our future says future presidential candidate kamala harris. what would that mean actually if the future were california?
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california has more poverty than any state. highest number of residents that don't speak english at home. according to u.s. news it has the lowest quality of life in the country. 50 out of 50 states. housing prices are totally out of control. homelessness is overwhelming go there and see for yourself. hypodermic needles piling up nut street. middle class can't flee fast enough. past decade a million more people have moved out of california than have moved in. a u-haul from san jose to phoenix cost 10 times as much as a u-haul going the other way because no one is going the other way. this is the future that kamala harris is boasting about. all of this could soon be a political problem for democrats. mid terms are coming this up fall. democrats are going to win seats. republicans have made dumb mistakes. they are going to win seats. the question is will they retake congress? according to all predictions they should. they definitely promised their voters they are going to retake congress. yet, in spite of all of these advantages they may not. they may fall short.
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why? because their positions on immigration are radical and crazy. they have no popular support. in a democracy popular support still matters. brian dean wright is a democrat and former cia operative who says the open borders agenda is not sustainable. he joins us tonight. brian, what do you mean by that? why is it not sustainable to let every poor person in the world move here? >> here's the bottom line. this argument, this debate has really focused on the past. how have past immigrants made america's greatness? and indeed they have. we all have connections i agree. >> fantastic immigrant communities, right? what's happening now in the next 15 to 20 years? what we are seeing is something not related or connected to politics but actually technology. and what is happening robotics, animation and machine learning. effectively making human labor less and less important and relevant. that's especially true for jobs that immigrants hold and by the way blue collar folks and people of color in inner cities in particular. particular tuck exactly.
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>> the obama administration came out with this study in late 2016 right before they left and they said look, we are on the verge of losing jobs if you have them under 20 bucks an hour, you are likely and i'm quote going to be auto mated into on less sense. basically your job is going to go away. if you earn less than 20 bucks an hour, you can forget about any kind of quality of life, right? so, these are the kinds of jobs that immigrants take talk about how this technology is going to impact people here or people come into this country to include a merit based system. everybody can have a different opinion on whether or not we should be doing this. but, we should be talking about what is driving this change. and that change is technology. >> tucker: i mean, previous waives of immigration began at the start of the industrial revolution. we're at the end of it. so it's a totally different country with different economic needs. what you just said, i'm going to print out and put at the top of my list of things to worry about. the jobs that previous
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generations of immigrants held are going to be gone. so this is so obvious it should be particularly obvious to people in california which is leading the technological change. why does nobody say that ever? >> it's incredibly frustrating. for those of us who have been looking at their very, very closely. i work with an organization now or collaborate with an collective trying to figure out how do you take care of the people already here reinspire and engage with fly over states offensive terms but embrace it fine, let's do this. how do we fix this country and economy so that they win? all right? absent that who is going to take care of the folks who are already here? nevertheless, irrespective of the folks that we would be importing down the road. how are we going to pay for the trillion-dollar programs to take care of the people who are already here let alone new folks about 60% don't have any kind of notable skills. how are we going to take care of them if ultimately they are not providing a lot back in the economy. i think for the next five to
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10 years we have got to be focused on where these technologies are headed. by the way, i have been slammed by folks on the left including media matters and others for bringing this subject up. it doesn't bode well for having this conversation. >> tucker: no, it doesn't. >> if anybody's to be angry about this, reach out to people in san francisco and los angeles and new york and boston who are creating this technology, to your point. i mean, get angry at them for creating a system where we are going to have to be more thoughtful about who we take in this country. >> tucker: and we are angry. let me just say it's thrilling to hear somebody say something that is demonstrably true that everyone else is afraid to say and you just did it and i'm grateful that you did. thank you, bryan. >> you bit that. >> tucker: a supporter of the open borders agenda join us next to rebut what you just heard. did the president insult north korea's dictator so much that he actually agreed to a meeting and may disarm? this news is moving fast and we will have the latest on that story when we come
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♪ >> tucker: well, the democratic party has become completely radical as defined specifically by outside the mainstream of public opinion in a democracy. immigration that's exactly where they are. they are going to run on that apparently. some people think it's a good idea. richard. not being mean but you did. >> here is the point. last guest who i should note is a sincere democrat not a fake democrat we brought ton make a point. is he a democrat. but he said look, every
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study all by liberals, obama people. >> mackenzie people, consultants all predict like huge percent of all of our blue collar jobs are going away really do. and yet we are importing people as he noted are 60% without meaningful skills. doesn't mean they are bad people: what are they going to do? it's crazy. >> some industries where we are not going to be losing jobs, hospitality. >> tucker: yes. >> construction, agriculture, land escaping. retail, healthcare. this is where actually a lot of these undocumented immigrants are working. and you see what's happening in california where these businesses are just absolutely caught in a vice. you got ice on one hand. this california law on the other basically saying not so fast. and they are losing employees and they are losing customers because people just don't want to be around there. >> tucker: most of the jobs you mentioned are designed to serve rich people. this policy itself is designed to make sure that
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everyone in your neighborhood gets cheap housekeepers. i get it. so the ruling class is in favor of that i'm talking about actual jobs one can you support a family on. the old industrial jobs. that are going away. >> right. >> tucker: why would you ever, in the face of that change, import people who are not prepared to compete in a digital high tech economy? why would you do that? >> again, when you talk about importing people. >> tucker: letting them come. >> okay. fine. understand when the democrats were in control we had a gang of 8 bill that 14 republicans orrin hatch, lamar alexander, not lefties supported and we also had a net outflow of people from the u.s. to mexico. that's when the democrats were in charge, right? so, this notion about open borders, that's a caricature. i get it, but it just happens not to comport with relation. >> tucker: literally arguing for open borders now. arguing for them now. any border enforcement is not just wrong or against this country's economic interest which is a conversation i would be
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happy to have, but it's racist. you don't like people of different color. they are basically describing this as a kind of race war. is there a more divisive way to conduct politics than to say that kind of crap out loud when a you know it's a lie and b you know it's going to leave permanent wounds? >> so, again, kamala harris who you quoted earlier said i'm a former prosecutor, if ice wants to take out gang members and violent criminals and so forth, i'm there. because that's what they should be doing. if somebody is here undocumented that's a violent criminal, get them out. that's what she has been saying. look, as far as kind of targeting people by race, jeff sessions, i'm quite sure, went into california with his program and his lawsuit because the vice was tightening elsewhere in the trump administration, stormy dams, things weren't looking good for him personally and the administration generally and good way to talk about the other. >> tucker: whatever. but here is the truth. >> it is. >> tucker: lawmakers can debate the wisdom of laws. okay? that's what they do. lawmakers should never encourage others to
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disregard laws, to throughout the law. to undermine the law. their job is to make laws, not encourage lawlessness. >> agreed. >> tucker: if they don't like immigration laws the ones they voted for in congress. why don't they work to change them rather than try to convince people laws you don't like don't need to be obeyed which is what they are doing now. >> what they are say something by law a government cannot force its state to spend its resources. it's rich we agree. have you people from alabama who absolutely stiff armed the voting rights act saying now, we think the state should really be disempowered and should follow what washington says. >> tucker: nobody is arguing this. we have been through this ground many times. states are not obligated to enforce federal law. they are prohibited from undermining it and thwarting it and obstructing it. that's exactly what they are doing. you know it. it's illegal. they are doing it anyway. the lunatic mayor of oakland whose actual american citizens are dying because parts of oakland are terrifying. rather than meet their needs, she is encouraging
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illegals to escape federal law enforcement. that's obstruction of law. >> she is advising them of their rights. some other right, if it was a second amendment you would say thank god, mayor. >> tucker: they don't have rights. they are not american citizens. her concern should be for american citizens. >> she was basically saying do you or do you not have to respond to a knock on the door that's a right you have. >> tucker: the cops are coming, run. no snitching. she is out-of-touch rich who doesn't understand obligation to americans. >> what law enforcement would tell you in oakland and california to the extent that americans feel beset upon by police and by law enforcement they are less likely to report domestic violence and other things because they just don't want to come forward. >> tucker: who cares? look, i'm not against -- i'm actually for immigrants. i like them. but shouldn't lawmakers make their bottom line the well being citizens: democrats are not doing that. if they don't win the house, i'm going to come on the show with you and gloat because their views are so
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far out of the mainstream they may not win the house. >> i don't think if they don't win the house this is going to be. if you look at the polls, the polls are no wall. no reduction in immigration and, yes, on dreamers. that's what the polls actually say. >> tucker: well, we will see. you said the polls said that, i don't know, in 2016 and donald trump won. >> by 3 million short but yeah, he won. >> tucker: thank you, richard. >> sure. >> tucker: federal lawsuit is an act of war which is why the state of insurrection against american law is in place. a lot of stuff going on in this country, the director of ice joins us to talk about the latest next. ing] [car accelerating] you can switch and save worry. ♪ you can switch and save hassle. [vacuuming sound] and when you switch to esurance, you can save time, worry, hassle and yup, money.
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♪ ♪ >> tucker: the federal government is suing the state of california over its aggressive stand against federal immigration law. governor jerry brown of california calls this an act of war and it is. but who fired the first shot is the question. california officials are trying to undermine, as we said, the laws that congress passed. oakland maybe libby schaaf publicly warned of ice raid so criminals could go into hiding and escape agents. gabbgavin newgavin newsom says s should imitate her. thanks for coming on.
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>> thanks for having me. >> tucker: when you have the largest state in the country saying it's illegal for anyone who lives in that state, private citizens to cooperate with you, a federal law enforcement agency, what does that do to the work you're trying to do in the state of california? >> it makes our law enforcement duties a lot more difficult in the state of california. rather than taking custody of a criminal alien who is a public safety threat inside the security and safety of a county jail. >> tucker: right. >> where we don't have access to weapons. now we are forced to go into neighborhoods, places of employment to locate these public safety threats. on their turf, where they could have access to who knows what weapons. my biggest concern is one of my agents is going to knock on the door some day and he is not going to go home that night. very unfortunate because he should have been able to apprehend that person in a jail and not be forced to go on his turf to arrest him. >> tucker: this is making it more dangerous for federal immigration agents but there is irony here state of california claiming you are going to door and rousting the innocent. you are saying their
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policies are making you go door to door. >> sanctuary city policies are forcing our hand, right? for decades we have access to county jails. we can take, you know, someone in the country illegally and sitting in a county jail. which means they are not a choir boy. locals and state officials are made a decision to lock these people up. for decades we went to the jail, identified them as illegal aliens and taken them into custody and removed them from the country and community. because they have a limited our access to the jails. they don't share information with us. now we are forced to go in neighborhoods, which when the government says he is protecting immigrant communities and the mayor says she is protecting immigrant communities. they are not. they are releasing criminal aliens back into the very communities they live and very victimize. they are putting immigrant communities at increased danger of crime and they put the immigrant community at increased arrest by size. because when we go to a home. if we find others they will be arrested, too. they have actually put them in a bad position. i will add this. if they went to the immigrant community and asked the immigrant community what would you rather have ice in a county
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jail or in your neighborhood, i guarantee they would tell you the county jail. >> tucker: how does it make you feel to hear your agents described in effect as bigots, as a domestic gestapo by democrats in california? >> it's an insult to the 20,000 american patriots that work for ice. these are men and women that get up every day and strap a gun to their hip to defend this nation. they leave the safety and security of their home every day to protect their neighborhoods, to protect the community. and they are enforcing a law that congress enacted. they are doing their job, their sworn oath. it's an insult to many fine men and women. >> tucker: you don't makes the laws. congress does. how do you respond when brian fallon a former spokesman for hillary clinton says the democrats ought to run on eliminating ice? >> you know when you look at the work ice did, how many criminal aliens have reremoved from these communities? how much safer have we made these communities? these politicians need to talk to the victims of alien crime.
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talk to the people who have lost children at the hands of criminal aliens. they need to talk to california, the california sheriff's association, the governor's sheriffs came out in support of ice. they did a press release last night, if i can read one sentence in their press release it shows governor brown is wrong on this issue. this comes from his own sheriffs. we oppose sb-54. the bill was enacted, still containing significant liabilities which include restricting our communication with federal law enforcement about the release of wanted, undocumented criminals from our jails including known gang members and other serious offenders. his own sheriffs agree with what ice and doj is saying. >> tucker: shocking. mr. homan, thank you for coming on, that was great. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: good to see you. we have newly released radio transmissions from the parkland massacre in florida. that's next. ith me when this guy got a flat tire
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>> tucker: we now have police radio traffic from the parkland shooting, includes disgraced officer scott peterson the one who failed to enter stoneman douglas high school to confront the shooter and save the 17 who were murdered. here is part of it >> tucker: didn't go in. just kept talking. the radio traffic does shed light on the biggest scandal of that massacre after failing to respond to numerous warnings about nikolas cruz the shooter. broward county sheriff's deputies also failed to take action during the shooting that obviously could have saved lives. well, florida's republican controlled legislature just passed a battery of new gun control laws. the specific law raises the minimum age from buying a gun in the state to 21. it impose as minimum three
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day waiting period and bans bump stocks. it also creates a school for arming employees but requires them to complete at least 12 hours of diversity training. the law is still waiting for governor rick scott's signature. he could veto it. we don't know. representative david richardson is a democrat in the florida state house and he joins us tonight. representative, thanks for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: so i know you didn't support this bill, but i know that you are an advocate for gun control laws more broadly. tell me why it contains 12 hours of mandatory diversity training? how would that stop mass shootings? >> well, i think the diversity training was added because it would give everyone an opportunity to understand different communities and their needs and the diversity. so i know that there was a lot of concern from the communities of color about putting guns in schools and the stand your ground laws
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here in the state of florida which i'm sure you are very familiar with. they felt like it would be beneficial to have diversity training as part of that bill. >> tucker: i understand the political dynamics that lawmakers were bullied by interest groups to do it. let me ask my question how would that prevent further mass shootings which i thought was the point of this. >> i don't think that speaks to the prevention of the future mass shootings. i think it was added there because the guardian program was included in the bill which was part of the bill, the part of the bill that i had deep concerns about and that's why i voted no on the bill. but, as you know, the guardian program would allow school personnel, non-teachers to be armed, to carry guns in schools after an extensive training, over 130 hours and 12 hours of that would have to be in diversity training. >> tucker: yeah. i mean, it just makes the whole thing seem like a joke to the rest of us because, of course, that's totally unrelated to the supposed
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justification for the law. so you could see why that would cast some doubt on the intentions of the whole thing. let me ask you, i presume you support the part of the law that raises the age for purchasing firearms to 21. i'm not sure we know whether that's going to prevent mass shootings or save life. just from a constitutional rights perspective, so that's a right specifically mentioned in the constitution. okay. it's not like the right to buy alcohol. specifically mentioned. are there any other rights specifically mentioned like the right to vote or the right to free speech that we could kind of bump the age cap up to 21 on? >> well, as you know, we limit certain activities, for example, when you can get your drivers license. >> tucker: sure. >> i understand those are not constitutional issues. >> tucker: no they're not. >> you are talking about second amendment, of course. i fully support the second amendment. but it's something that i think we need to take a careful look at because, you know, we -- the second amendment was written at a time when we had militia men
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carrying muskets and pouches of gunpowder. we don't have that anymore. >> tucker: that's true. let me stop you there. you make a fair point. i want to go back and make sure i understand we need to take a look at the second amendment. what do you mean? revising it, repealing it? what does that mean? >> i am not in favor of repealing it. but i think that we should take a look at it in the context of when it was written versus today. i don't think the founding fathers could have anticipated the type of weaponry we have today. >> tucker: that's true. but, may i just say, i'm sorry, but this is important because you are a lawmaker. they also couldn't have anticipated the internet. they barely had the printing press. should we also take a look at the first amendment? i mean why wouldn't we if that's how we are going to evaluate our constitutional rights. >> we have taken a look at the first amendment several times. that's why you can't yell fire in a movie theater. >> tucker: that's basically all you can't do. any other speech is allowed according to the supreme court. do you think again, those decisions were before the internet. do you think we should revise the first amendment
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all constitutional rights up for revision based on technological advances? >> so, guns are the subject that we're talking about tonight, not the first amendment. >> tucker: no, the constitution. >> let me just get this in. >> tucker: yeah, yeah u. >> what often gets lost in the discussion with the second amendment is the part that starts with the about a well-regulated militia. >> tucker: militia. >> how -- why aren't we talking about that? where is this well-regulated militia? >> tucker: the supreme court has brots brought that up at least twice in the last 10 years. both times that amendment applies to the individual not the militia. that is a settled legal question. i'm wondering how the florida state legislature is reinterpreting that. whatever. we will find out. thank you, congressman, i appreciate that and your explanations. louis farrakhan is, of course, a racist. doesn't hide it. anti-semitic. says that right out loud and a fix for the democratic
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>> tucker: turns out lots of democrats are friends with louis farrakhan. congressman danny davis of illinois calls him an outstanding human being, said that to a reporter from daily caller. smiled as he did. even barack obama has been photographed meeting with minister farrakhan. but mr. farrakhan has a complicated history. he has, among other things praised adolf hitler. he said white people deserve to die. he blames the jews for 9/11. for some reason nobody on morning joe seems to notice. why is that that mark steyn is an author and columnist.
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he joins us tonight. to put this in context for you dukes of hazard popular. pulled out of rotation because there is a confederate flag on a car. that was considered too much. >> on the roof of the car. >> tucker: on the roof. >> for the sensibility of american viewers. protect the children for that davis hanging out with a guy saying the jews are blood suckers or horrible things. no one cares because of why. >> because he is on their team. the left are very serious about this. minister farrakhan has said that instead of boring on about what hitler did to the jew us, the jews should ask them selves about what they did to hitler to make him so mad at them. >> tucker: did he really say that? come on. >> that's how he has formulated it on multiple occasions. the media and powerful democrats, such as the deputy chairman keith ellison looked the other way. they have looked the other way since at least the
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so-called million man march, when he went nuts and started talking on the mile that he was standing by the lincoln and jefferson memorials and lincoln was the 16th president and jefferson was the 3rd president and if you add them up 16 and 3 makes 19. which is the precise height of each of the memorials and 19, the 9 means there is a pregnant womb and the 1 means there is a secret that's going to be uncovered. he is a nut. he is a nut. now, it's not just that he hates jews, but he claims to have been abducted on, i believe, two occasions by aliens. the first time he was taken up into space to commune with the spirit of elijah muhammad, the founder of the nation of islam and the second time he was apparently abducted by jews who got an ufo. there is jews in space. who knew? so it means that whenever jared kushner or tony blair
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or whoever middle east peace process they have to get right on minister farrakhan's rocket ship and go up to the planet and sort out the squabbling just and nation of islam guys up there in space. it says something absolutely appalling about the democrat party that an obvious nut, that obama, that even maxine waters, the keith ellison, that all these democrats are so scared of a lunatic that they feel obliged to kiss up to him. >> tucker: that's useful. i covered the million man march. i didn't know any of that. well, that was amazing. crazier than i imagined. >> yeah, it's all in the numbers. 16 plus 3: look, he makes great albums or did in the 50's. and he can carry off a red bow tie with a plumb, which as you know, tucker, is more difficult than it looks. so let's give him that.
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but it's embarrassing that this nut is a power broker in the democrat party and the media won't cover it. >> tucker: oh, i wish we had an hour to talk about this. mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: we'll have more on tonight's breaking news, astounding really breaking news. president trump's planned meeting with kim jong un of north korea. nobody saw that coming: we'll be right back. don't we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. don't we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched 'yeahhh.' yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed.
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and out of a policy so dramatically different than president obama's strategic patience for obama versus enough b.s. from trump. he had it. he put sanctions on. he got the chinese to do things they were never willing to do under the prior administration. and we gave up nothing for this meeting. sanctions continue. our joint exercises continue. and there may be a meeting in may with the president. he accepted. but there is a lot of groundwork to be laid before that meeting will be had. >> tucker: what's so interesting though is that that strategy was greeted in washington by the same people iraqi also greet us with liberators like this is insane and we are going to nuclear war. you are totally out of control and don't know what you are doing is anybody going to say honestly i was wrong and i guess it worked? >> the resistance will never admit that trump was able to make this break through. the question is what will come from a meeting, a face-to-face meeting with the president of north korea an the president of the united states? i equate this -- this is a modern day nixon goes to china. move makemoi makesmao makes thiy
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look like a choir boy. if trump is able to make a modicum of difference on turning back the clock on the nuclear program, it's going to be huge and good for the united states and good for the region. and i think china deserves a lot of credit, the south koreans deserve a lot of the credit. there is a lot of groundwork in the next month or so. >> tucker: it may not work. this is not a step, obviously, anyway, towards war. last question, could any other president, whatever trump -- whatever he is not good at, could any other president have done this. >> it would be hard to believe they could. why? it is because is he so unorthodox. is he willing to do things that foggy bottom would never have entertained. that's why he goes around people and does things that are totally unexpected. >> tucker: good point. the state department did not do. this oh my god, of course not. >> tucker: thanks for reminding us of that we have confirmed that attorney general jeff sessions has
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appointed a prosecutor team look into concerns lawmakers including uranium one. tomorrow night the attorney general joins us on our set 8:00 p.m. to discuss that. sorry, we missed news quiz tonight. it's tomorrow. good night from washington. here is sean. >> sean: all right, tucker. thank you. welcome to hannity. huge breaking news tonight. president trump scoring big win and possibly averting a major global nuclear crisis tonight with north korea. the president, in fact, accepting an invitation to meet with kim jong un by may and north korea agreeing to stop nuclear and missile testing and the sanctions continue in the meantime. we'll have our opening monologue in just a few minutes. first, joining us from the white house with the very latest on how this all came to be is our own john roberts. john, big surprise for a lot of people, big term i thought was used is denuke denuclearization. >> president said it's not about a freeze denuclearization. we knew something was up when the president poked his

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