grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. will be here tomorrow night with your latest news. for now, i am shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if there is one lesson of this weekend's "march for our lives," it's that ending violence in america is easy. so easy that even children know how to do it. all that stand between the broken chaotic country we liveet in and the peaceful uptopia of the future is a small groupas of evil people mostly republicans. as a parkland student noted there are sick f-ers out there who want to sell more guns and murder more children and get reelected. his school mate agreed. "if you take money from the nram

you have chosen death." it's all pretty straightforward. if the nra was not blindly committed to killing children and enjoy murder for its own sake, we would not have school shootings in the first place. it's that simple. speakers at the march told us that and the media amplified that message and formed a ring around the activists. as ben white put it, "the sickening efforts to slime, undermine and dehumanize he's young people betrays an enormous amount of fear." in other words, shut up america and don't ask questions. the kids know what they arerd doing. do they know? vox.com ran this story. "i have covered gun violence for years and the solutions are not a big mystery." written by german lopez. lopez graduated from the

university of cincinnati in 2012. he is still in his 20s. i have covered gun violence for years may be an over-statement. lopez approached this subject with the self-confidence of a research scientist wading in data. lopez said america needs is more like australia's buy back program paired with the serious ban on specific firearms. potentially including all semi-automatic weapons. all semi-automatic weapons? there are more than 100 million of those in the united states and the majority are in the bedroom closets of law-abiding americans. they have done nothing wrong i don't have plans to do anything wrong. how will we confiscate all those guns? somebody would have to go door-to-door to take them by force and arrest anyone who resists. in the name of ending gun violence, people would be shot to death. there is no question about that.

so who exactly is going to do i it? local police? the fbi, delta force? german lopez of vox did notr volunteer for that job himself. he blamed the nra for blocking the whole idea.me >> supreme court and u.s. lawmakers backed by the gun lobby and the nra widely agreed the second amendment does put barriers on how far restrictions go." we have news. the supreme court is also in the pocket of the nra. is there evidence of that? which justices are taking gun money or is vox just throwing up that claim? this is the problem with letting children write new stories. the articles tend to be dumb and intentionally or not they tend to be inaccurate and dishonest. worst of all, they tend to reinforce the fantasy that complex problems have simple solutions because that's what most children believe.

in real life, nothing is simple. we don't really know why the incidence of n school shootings has risen even at the proportion of households with firearms has dropped. we ought tohy do our best to fid out. the self-righteous kids screaming at you on television over the weekend aren't helping atn. all. erika thomas is a georgia state representative and advocate of gun control and she joins us. representative thomas, thanks for coming on. what do you think would happen if we tried to confiscate assault weapons from law-abiding americans? >> well, yes, it's about how what happened back in 1994. we had a ban on assault rifles. mass shootings went down by 43%. that's what we want to happen. we want mass shootings to go down. i think that's the most important point in this matter. >> tucker: didn't columbine take place during the assault weapons ban and didn't the overall rate remain unchanged?

>> oh, no. you are right about columbine. 43 percent does not account for all. 43% went down. >> tucker: the clinton justice department was required to study its effects. the death rate by firearms did not decline over that 10 year period. statistically no lives were saved. that's the conclusion of the do doj. doesn't that give you pause? >> no it doesn't. when i think about 2004 when congress lifted that ban and mass shootings went up over 200%. those are the numbers.ma mass shootings went up. we talk about numbers, it went up. >> tucker: but the murder rate didn't move at all. okay, those are the numbers. what do you think would happen if law enforcement, pushed by democratic politicians, tried to take the guns from law-abiding

americans? what do you think the effect would be? >> i am not talking about taking guns from law-abiding citizens. i am talking about a ban on assault rifles. we are not trying to promote a militia. b what war are we going out that we need assault rifles? protect the citizens. not assault rifles. >> tucker: i don't want to argue with you. here's the legislation you supported in georgia. the last assault weapons ban democrats pushed. i am quoting from theea legislation: the georgia bureau of investigations shall seize and take possession of any assault weapon. large capacity magazine. shell sees and take possession of. that's not voluntary. that's mandatory. you've got hundreds of thousands of people in your state who own weaponswe you say are assault weapons. are you worried that someone

might get killed if law enforcement comes, they have done nothing wrong, saying we are taking your gun away. what do you think would happen? you support the law that would call for it.ul >> what i am worried about is when the constitution was made and when the second amendment was made, it stated that, of course, the second amendment, but let's talk about when it was made. t that was when assault rifles, you had to take several minutes to reload an assault rifle. now it's several seconds. let's review that. >> tucker: i agree. >> let's review the law again. >> tucker: okay. you keep dodging my question. i think it's important. we are getting to a point where actual legislation has been sponsored and will be again saying the government needs to take people's weapons by force. if you really care about preventing deaths, i wonder ifar you are concerned even a little bit there might be a violent reaction to that. is that crazy to suggest?re >> that's not crazy. you are totally correct.

by force is not what we want to do. >> tucker: that's what the law says. f >> i am not talking about takinn anything about force. >> tucker: did you support the law saying the state should seize and take possession of these guns? >> i support saving lives. saving lives is a ban on assault rifles. these kids are out here and they are saying we need to put a ban on assault rifles. >> tucker: i think we both agreed. we are both against killing. i have real concerns about the effects of the law that you supported but don't want to address. the overwhelming majority of gun deaths in this country are caused by handguns, not by i so-called assault rifles. that's a tiny percentage. why are we banning the guns that causes a small percentage of killings but leaving the guns that cause the majority legal? >> i understand what you are saying. you may say it's a small

percentage. >> tucker: it is. >> when it's your brother or your sister, it's not a small percentage. >> tucker: what about the brothers and sisters -- >> it's not a small percentage. >> tucker: don't demagogue it with me. i am not downplaying the significance of anyone's death. of course. i'm as concerned as you are. i am just wondering why since assault rifles relatively speaking because few deaths, handguns because the overwhelming majority of deaths, why are you not calling for banning handguns and seizing and taking possession of handguns? i don't know why if you care so much about gun violence. >> i would ask you the sameou question. would you call for a ban on handguns? no you would not. >> tucker: guns don't cause killings. a gun is a tool. fewer american households have

guns than 40 years ago. >> so can we not put a ban on assault rifles? why not? >> tucker: because you have over 100 million semi-automatic weapons in the united states right now. what do you do with those? >> you know what? give them to the military. if people want to have assault rifles, join the military. >> tucker: what if they don't want to give up their guns? >> not to shoot our kids in america. >> tucker: i give up. i ask you questions and you don't want to answer. okay. media coverage of the weekend's anti-gun marches were a lot like what you just saw. overwhelming and deeply one sided. you think the second amendment still applies to america, then you are evil. that was the message. watch. >> there are a handful of marches you remember that our

town remembers. the civil rights marches of the '60s and the abortion rights marches of the '80s and 90s and tea party, million man march. this is right up there. >> the wheels of change are happening. i'm getting chills just having this conversation north of the national mall where women's suffrage started and civil rights. >> i think they will exceed the 500,000.0. whatever the number, the makeup and the content of it is something this nation has never seen. this is an awe inspiring moment. >> tucker: joe concha writes about the media for "the hill" and watches a lot of television and joins us tonight. joe, there are people on the stage over the weekend who said and we repeated some of what they said. if you disagree me on gun control policy, you are on the side of killing children. you are in effect sympathetic to murderers.dr that's a pretty extreme thing to say.

did anyone covering this point that out or did it just slide like it was that normal? >> it slid because it is normal if you listen to the rhetoric on college campus.s. you are with us or against us of we will shout you down and not allow you to speak if you differ from our point of view.r i didn't hear a lot of talk about the high school in maryland where a resource officer took out the shooter before there was any further loss of life. one girl did pass away last week. that's a solution that wasn't allowed to be presented because in the mind of many of the people organizing this event, there is only one solution. that's an assault weapons ban. you can agree or disagree but you've got to allow other ideas to be presented to such a comprehensive problem. we had 25, 26 mass school shootings at elementary school or high schools since columbine in 1999. let's hear some other ideas or hear about the failures of law enforcement and if our police officers are ready to engage when these things happen.

>> tucker: were the 4 armed deputies outside of the high school in parkland were they mentioned at all? did you hear anybody make reference to them? >> i didn't really see that. i saw a lot of david hogg. when he first came on the screen, i tweeted out how impressed i was in terms of how articulate and intelligent and composed he was. i said that would be a big star in this business. since then, he's gone off thehe rails and no journalists have challenged him. he told this to fox news: we want this be to a community discussion. we can't have debates between republicans and democrats. we need to have a discussion as americans. that's fair enough. but a couple of weeks ago he was bragging he hung up on the white house and said we don't need to listen to president trump. the white house called to invite him to a listening session. he said president trump needs to listen to the screams of this

children. which is why he held a listening session at the white house. okay, you won't attend a listening session but you are telling us we have to listen to each other. he wants to be treated as an adult. he has every right to his opinion. you need to challenge some of the things he is saying. >> tucker: you can't do that. as ben white reminded us that would be dehumanizing the children so you have to sit back and pretend they are wise. the anti-gun coverage moved briskly into the coverage of stormy daniels, the porn star. this is dominating cable news for how long and to what end? >> well, it reminds us of 2014 and the malaysian jet that went missing. it's the only story that is out there. i am telling the doesn't move

the needle one bit. president trump's ratings creeped up to 42%. fox news has a pull out at 45. -- a pull out cnn has him at the highest rating in months. presidents have had affairs going back to eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and clinton. they have either been accused of having an affair or had them. with donald trump, people know what they got. a thrice-married guy in the tabloids on a regular basis. i grew up here. trust me. i read about him. there is nothing to see here for the trump supporters. >> tucker: yeah, i don't think they are surprised. you cover tv and know the people who work in our business. do you think they are in a good place to lecture the rest of the country about personal moral standards? do you think they are the people who should give that lecture?

>> based on what i've seen, probably some of the last people with some exceptions to be talking aboutt that. one more point. anderson cooper conducted this interview and did a good job. the optics going into it. i asked your producers to grab this photo. it was him and of stormy daniels and of her lawyer. they are all arm and arm. this was taken right before or after the interview. if you are a trump supporter, you saw that and said i don't remember mike wallace posing with the person arm in arm along with the lawyer. if i was anderson, i would've asked out. >> tucker: hilarious. joe, thank you. >> sure. no problem. >> tucker: well, the "60uc minutes" stormy daniels interview did massive ratings. 21 million last night. but does it matter? mark steyn joins us next with his view of it. stay tuned.

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the white house denies this. cable news has been talking pretty much about nothing since other than stormy daniels. what do you make of this? even if you assume the story ist true and you might, you have to wonder why it matters. if you are a trump supporter,to you are probably not so surprised. you knew who donald trump was when you voted for him but you did it any way because you understood the only options were people who hated you. if you are a trump opponent,pe is stormy daniels the best you can do? if you're looking about a new reason to be met if the president, how about the budget deal he signed on friday. it cost more than a trillion dollars but knows nothing to protect the country from a foreign invasion that's changing it. the press ignored that.si why? because reporters could care less about voters.th how about the 60,000 americans who overdosed last year and the shrinking middle-class?

that's not interesting to them. nobody in brooklyn cares. instead tv networks devotedro their schedule to convincing us that donald trump is naughty. apparently americans had no idea that donald trump had an outlandish personal life. it's not like he bragged about it. or got caught onto reinbold garrity's on the access hollywood tape. in related news, chris christie was cited yesterday eating a snickers bar. now it's clear that trump is flawed, the media insists that america has an obligation to ber shocked and disgusted. if there is one thing reporters do well, it's setting a high moral tone for the rest of us. that's why people are anxious to take important life advice fromf tv anchors. parents dream about allowing anyone in cnn's prime-time line-up to babysit their kids. come on. what is more shocking is trump's personal life or the

mindlessness and the dishonest of the average tv anchor? which of these hurts america more? it is not a close call. mark steyn is an author who had never heard of stormy daniels until last night. he joins us now. i am sure you watched every moment of this unfolding saga. what is your view?w? >> well, i do think that if one is in the media. i am an old fleet street hand. we knew about sex scandals in the u.k. three in a bed. autoerotic asphyxiation. i have been there and done. that i know all about it. when this thing started and tucker, you may have seen anderson cooper asking about the mechanics of the act -- i was thinking, oh, this is an actual sex scandal. i will make a nice cup of tea and settle down. i came back and there was a

pasty bloke called trevor. that's not even an american name. i don't know what self-respecting red-blooded american is called trevor. he was with the federal election committee and saying that trump's lawyer may have committed a campaign election crime by giving stormy daniels $130,000. i'm thinking my god, is there anything in this country that can't be turned into a federal regulation infraction. i was settling down for a sex scandal and it's a campaign finance infraction after all. to tie it all into the spendingo bill, trump paid off -- if it's true -- trump paid off a porn star for $130 grand. that's the art of the deal. i would like to see that trump with mcconnell and paul ryan last friday. >> tucker: i totally agree. how does it make you feel to know when you watch cnn that the people in the anchor chairs are

a lot better than you are and they will go to heaven. they will intercede on your behalf. they will do their best. their salvation is a a certainty because of their deep decency and rectitude. how do you feel when they send that message to you? >> there is actually something faintly creepy about the moral preening of these people. to be serious, i don't know a lot of porn stars. the last one was from 1973. she is probably 89. i don't know stormy daniels. she is a useful vessel to cnn and the others.

in two years' time she will be broke and wondering what happened to the tv interest and the smarmy lawyer 22 whose hands under she's fallen. the public interest in john edwards, who is also smarmy. when he was running for president, he got into this mes mess. the department of justice's argument was that john edwards' family image was part of his political image. his family man image was regulated by federal finance campaign laws. trump is the opposite. he is howard stern and show girls. he has more ex-wives than the previous 44 presidents combined and doubled. he does not have a family man image that falls within federal regulation. this is going nowhere and it's a dud. it's a blast.

-- it's a bust. anderson cooper may be turned on by it, but nobody else is. >> tucker: it would be interesting to know if the press understands why trump got elected. i bet there is not a single person who voted for trump on the basis of his personal life. great to see you. thank you. facebook built its empire on surveillance capitalism.m. now we are waking up to what that means. can the company survive? should it survive? that's next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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>> tucker: the hits keep coming from facebook. >> tucker: the hits keep coming from facebook. first the company was rocked by the revelation that cambridge analytica harvested data and now the company is accused of shady data collect. it may have been spying on people. it was reported that facebook collected contacts and text messages from android phone users without their knowledge. roger is the cofounder of validation partners, an early investor in facebook and a mentor of mark zuckerberg. thanks for coming on. >> happy to be here, tucker. >> tucker: it seems like the rest of the country is waking up to the basic nature of facebook. it spies on you. >> i think that the issue is exactly as you framed it. the business model, which is based on advertising, requires them to know as much as they can about every single user.

what you can't tell as a user is they are using every tool available. android phones allows facebook to download all of your contacts and texts. facebook goes well, someday we may be able to monetize it. we will grab it while it's ther there. a lot of people discovered that it's not just cambridge analytica. from 2010 to 2014 there were at least tens of thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of applications that harvested all of this user data without the permission of the user. >> tucker: that gives facebook more power over you than any government has had over american citizens. should we are worried about that power?an >> that's the kind of power that requires great judgment and facebook's judgment around

this power has been poor. as somebody who mentored them and was involved with an investor, who was at one time extraordinarily proud of it, my tenure there was before the company developed a business model. so i was withdrawn while this was going on. as i came to understand what going on, i felt it was important to reach out to mark zuckerberg and cheryl sandberg and make them aware of it. it's hard to recognize your baby has a huge problem. but i am afraid it has.ze candidly, i am glad thesee revelations are coming out because they need to change their strategies. >> tucker: so android users found out they are spied on upon. will we learn that about apple? >> no, apple has a different structure. the sad thing is, we are going

to discover if you're an android user, it's not just facebook spying on you. and apple's model, because pay directly to apple when they buy the phone, they treat those people as the customer. with android, it's the phone company that's the customer. in facebook, where the advertiser is the customer and the user is the product, these are of the phone to android is also a product. that's the problem with the model. they aren't treating us like humans. they are treating us like the fuel to generate profits. candidly, i think that has to stop. all of silicon valley needs to reassess whites in business and recognize they can be incredibly profitable and still be billionaires without stripping the privacy from everybody and selling it to the highest bidde bidder. >> tucker: it took government 40 years to respond to the health effects of tobacco. the government took action. how long will it take our government to respond to the bad effects of facebook and google?

>> to be clear, i don't think the best response will be from the government. it will be from the users and the employees these companies.. i don't think the employees understood exactly what the companies were doing. as they understand it, they are going to appreciate that's not something they want to be part of. i think you're going to see some kind of pushback and rebellion. one of the things we have been to encourage the employees of facebook and these other companies is to recognize that hey, wait a minute. these arecourk great ideas. these companies make great products but the advertising business model has terrible incentives. literally billions of people are being hurt by it, not just in the u.s. but around the world. frankly, they can be successful without doing that stuff. it's on the employees to fix it. the government can't fix this on a time frame that would makem any difference. >> tucker: that's a good point. they are not even trying. thanks.oo we are out of time. i appreciate your knowledge and candor. up next, professor jordan

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>> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: university of toronto professor jordan peterson has become a phenomenon. videos of him get millions of views. his book is one of the biggest best seller written by a canadian author. he questions the left's rhetoric on gender and he was called dangerous. vox just published a massive and almost unbelievably stupid piece accusing peterson of "reactionary politics that validate white, straight men at the extent of everyone else."

professor, thanks for coming on. a hurt dog barks. you have done something that made people upset. what do you think you have said that the left finds so provocative? >> i pointed out why they are incorrect and ideologically possessed on issues like gender. the radical left insists that gender is a social construct and that's simply not true. the scientific data are absolutely crystal clear. no reasonable scientist disagrees. they are all foaming at the mouth because i am poking holes in their cherished notions. they like to think people are completely malleable because that means people can be made over in their ideological image. they are not happy about that. >> tucker: when theyat say your ideas are dangerous, what they are really saying is you are dangerous to them. >> i hope so. i am not a fan of radical leftists. looked what happened in the 20

century with them. >> tucker: what has your job been like in academia? you can't be one of many people who has these views. >> they are more common than you think. my views on gender are shared widely in the personality community. anyone who understands personality and is a credible scientist knows the difference between men and women in personality should be d contributed to biological factors. this isn't contentious. thee only people it's contentios around is gender ideologues. they have lost the scientific battlelr so they are taking it o the legislative front to enforce their views. they are not contentious viewpoints. they are mainstream. criticized all the time for spouting pseudoscience. it's not pseudoscience. it's mainstream science. people who know the literature are disputing this. it's been known since at least the 1990s.

>> tucker:r: why are people whose views are not rooted in science dominating our public conversation? >> i think there is a technical reason for that. it's obvious that things can go too far on the right and on the left. it's easy to put a box around people who go too far on the right. you can look at themes of racial superiority. it's not so easy to put a box around people who go too far on the left. there is not a single thing you can point to that they do that has the same sort of red flag nature is claims of racial superiority. it's hard for people to left-leaning,re saying that they are concerned with inequality, to dissociate from those who have gone too far. the problem is we don't know where the red flags are in leftist territory. for me, equality of outcome is a so-called equity. that's a red flag. it doesn't seem as immediately pathological as claims of racial superiority.

it's harder for people on the left to disassociate themselves from the people who would do everyone in. >> tucker: you drew the line at pretending that biological sex is not real. that's how you first became famous. you said i'm not going to lie about science. is that a good start for the rest of us to start? >> it's a reasonable place. the idea that biological sex and gender expression, gender identity vary. there is nothing you can claim that is more false than that. it's being written into the law. it's patentlyat absurd. it's a telling commentary on the state of political discourse across the west. that something like that can even happen. i think it's equality of outcome that is the pathological desire. that's a bad one. >> tucker: i agree. the good news is that taking a

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♪ >> tucker: for more than 100 years, california was the golden state. in the past 30 years, it's the poverty capital of america. a higher percentage ofit californians are impoverished. tens of thousands of homeless people live in l.a. county. many are concentrated in a tent

metropolis along skid row. what's it like in california's heart of darkness? katie hopkins came over from london and spent the past weekend there in downtown los angeles. she joins us with a report. katie, you are not from the united states. you don't live here. so you have a fresher take on this. what was your reaction when you saw skid row in l.a.? >> every time i am in l.a., you drive past skid row or people pointed out. that's for the homeless people live. it's almost as if everyone can turn away, look away, don't go there. even in a hotel giving out maps, they put a sticker over skid row as if it doesn't exist. i figured i will go there, i will stay there and meet the people there. i will see how big of this problem is. i can tell you it's like nothing else on earth. i have been to some migrant camps, but this is worse than that. it's one big sea of human waste

and effluent and rats and filth. the number of rats they are outweighs the population which is in the order of 3,000 people living in these tents. it's a a desperate situation. i really feel there is human health hazard in the center of l.a. downtown. it's a time bomb waiting to go off. it's very much like london in the 1600s, just prior to the bubonic plague. that's what you are up against. it's no wonder the democrats would rather talk about sanctuary cities or dreamers, because that sounds so much nicer than the potential bubonic plague in the middle of downtown l.a. >> tucker: some of the video you sent is too over the top to show. s it's too disgusting. i walked around bombay, india not long ago, and never saw anything like this. los angeles is much richer than bombay. why does this exist in l.a.? >> it's a curious thing.

there is lots of tears and sympathy. there's a lot of missions, there's a woman's shelter. i think ultimately and fundamentally what's missing from skid row is someone capable of gripping the place. full ofs are always tears, tea and sympathy. giving out charity. what you need in there is the military to go in. you need housing units put in place, temporary shelters. you need to clear the area in order to clean it up. that's okay to be done with sympathy and that's not going to be done with oh, it's such a shame these poor people. it's going to be done with some kind of military operation to clear up the area. no one is really going to want to take that. what we need in america i think is more leaders who are willing to be unpopular and a few more journalists perhaps were willing to stop navel-gazing or gazing at the cleavage of stormy whoever and reporting on some of

the reality we face day-to-day on streets that no one is talking about. >> tucker: right. i am embarrassed as an american to say to you that it's not just los angeles. it's chicago, san francisco, washington, d.c., new york city. there is something that connects these. >> i think that is right. >> tucker: give us your 15 seconds. what do you think it is? what is the cause of this? what is the ideology behind it? >> i think this all stems from the sense that everybody is free to do whatever they want in the sense that we will support the fact that the family unit doesn't matter anymore. we will support the fact that you can rely on the government for everything. we will support the fact that government is supposed to provide you with a house, that you don't have to take individual accountability. what it ends up as a bunch of people who are completely lost and beyond help. you shut down the sanatorium's. they have nowhere to go. tea and sympathy and allowing people to live however they like isn't going to cut it. this entire area of downtown -- and no one goes there. i was the only woman there that

i saw that wasn't living in a tent. when i would say to people of california, you think this is a problem in downtown? this is coming to you. these tent cities are building all over the place. >> tucker: that is literally true. >> maybe then you will care. >> tucker: katie hopkins, thank you for that. i appreciateke it. cnn has found a scandal brewing in the trump cabinet. someone may not believe in our highest value: diversity. we will tell you what that means. stay tuned. if your adventure keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips you may have overactive bladder, or oab. ohhhh... enough already! we need to see a doctor.

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