people looking back at my life thinking i could have spent more time with my kids when i could have spent another term, they would only know me as a weekend father. >> martha: that is our story for tonight, we'll see you back here tomorrow night. tucker is up next. >> tucker: could evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." all indications out of washington suggest that military strikes against syria could be imminent. president trump tweeted as much as morning warning serious ally russia to get ready because missiles "will be coming. nice and new and smart." speaking of smart, five years ago and response to the lack of administration's plans to bomb syria, trump tweeted this. "be prepared, there's a small chance are horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into world war iii." that was a wise response, the kind that could get you elected president of the united states and yet, here we are once again on the brink of something that

was outlined and consequences that are unknowable and terrifying. on monday night, we spent more than 50 minutes talking about that. we asked what seem like most basic questions, questions of the geniuses on the other channels of thought to be asking, but are not. we are told we must attack syria to punish president assad for launching a chemical attack. it's a moral duty to uphold international behavior and punish war criminals like assad. okay, but are we sure that he was responsible for the gas attack it? many people claim he was, they cynically mean that within hours of the attacks before any of those effects were known. and they're still claiming it. where's the proof? they have provided no proof, they've just made loud noises and announced the question askers. that's not enough. as american citizens, we have a right to know why we're doing this. the second question we ask a monday was how would attacking syria help the united states? how would it help make us

richer, safer, or happier? you would think our policymakers would keep that question foremost in mind always, they don't. they consider the effect on america to be a relevant consideration, even offensive. they are highly annoyed when you ask about it, like only an agent of a foreign government want to know how a u.s.-led war might help the u.s. we need to understand why other countries might want us to attack syria, china for example. they would be thrilled by it. if you start to displace america as a leader of the world, you would want it to weaken the military and go broke and nothing can change that faster. we proved in the recent past. again, those seem like basic questions. nobody bothers to answer them or even engage. we had senator roger wicker on the show monday to talk about syria, he did even tried to explain how a war might help the u.s. instead he suggests that we are agents of boudin. putin. the two groups have a lot in common it turns out.

other pendants accuse us of disloyalty, all without answering our questions. shut up they explained. over at cbs, they responded with ridicule. stephen colbert hosts a show on cbs, but he's not stupid. he's smart enough to engage in a conversation that might reveal him as a mindless warmonger posing as a criminal. >> it's unprecedented that the president's personal lawyer gets rolled up by johnny law. everybody is covering this, that includes fox news, tucker carlson last night wasted no time and going straight at addressing our national nightmare. >> tucker: you know the official story about pandas, they're cute, but almost helpless. pandas could easily kill you if they felt like it. sometimes they don't. [laughter] >> thank god they don't.

and thank god that tucker is covering what historians will call the pandemonium. obviously, he didn't have time to cover the michael cohen race, he had to talk about this very in-depth report. >> tucker: the bit went on for at least 4 minutes. we condensed it out of kindness. it's what cbs jumped on and a number of other outlets have spent the last week pushing this administration to war. they have no interest in explaining how bombing syria might help america, they don't care. instead, they make fun of pandas. there may be a real case for war in syria, we'd love to hear it. we've been begging to hear it, we would love to hear from stephen colbert himself. of course, he'll never come. instead, we are joined by -- at least he was brave enough to come and explain himself. thanks for coming on.

>> thanks for having me. >> tucker: we have legitimate news on this story, this comes from writers. the defense secretary asked specifically the question of essentially we on monday when you called us traders. "we're still assessing the intelligence, ourselves and our allies. we're still working on it. as with the gas attack last year, last april, the secretary secretary of defense has not confirmed that we know the assad government did it. why am i unpatriotic for asking the same question? >> i have not called you a traitor, i've not called you unpatriotic. >> tucker: you did. you called me and unpatriotic opinion maker whose advancing the geopolitical narrative in advance of a bloodsoaked regime. you were attacking me for asking the most basic of all questions. it turns out the secretary of

defense has the same questions. >> you are advancing pro-assad narrative. you should check out their tv. >> tucker: that's irrelevant to the question. i don't seek that coverage. the secretary of defense has been asked twice directly and in neither case did he and contrast to propagandists like yourself say we know the assad government did this. this is not an ancillary question. >> he made it very clear that he is not questioning the outcome investigations like that were the united nations which went so far as to say not only do we claim this, but syria was responsible for it. >> tucker: again, i don't want to be mean to you and i know your new, but here is part of the q&a with the secretary of

defense on the previous gas attack. he's asked about evidence. no, i have not got that evidence. i don't have the evidence print what i'm saying is other groups on the ground, the fighters have said serum has been used. we're looking for evidence. i don't have evidence credible or incredible. that was the response from the actual exchange. is he an agent of the putin too? >> i don't know why you would say that. those who have been on the ground in western syria, have established rather definitively that this 2017 attack was a syrian attack >> tucker: nobody is contesting the nature of the attack. that's immaterial. we can determine what the chemical was, the question is who launched it. that's the question on which our action turns.

if it was by rebel groups, we probably wouldn't attack the syrian army in response. who did it is the question. the u.s. government has not definitively determine that. that's all i said on monday and you accuse me of defending -- >> you said this was was a begr designed to mitigate the public opinion essentially questioning the trump administration suggesting that they have misled the public. >> tucker: i'm questioning anyone who states a fact. it is propagandistic to say something that you don't know is true. >> we know the rebels don't have an air force, we know that they are delivered by canisters, they are appearing in a variety of different places which is compression which is what you need and that is information that is delivered to us by people on the ground. we do not have american assets in western syria.

>> tucker: these are people with skin in the game. i am not here to defend, i hardly have to say this with a rational person, the regime of assad, my interest is only in what's best for america. that's why actors like you and on many other channels and all of the left, you're hearing people say, what you said which is unpatriotic or in fact, treasonous to ask these questions. how do you counter the effect of the secretary of state is saying the same thing i said on monday? do you think he's disloyal? that's a real question. >> i will repeat you are mischaracterizing his remarks. he is not coming into question the evidence that has been put to the united nations. if you do want to get into why it's necessary to respond, not in some vague notions of morality, that we should talk about that. i can agree that the american public has not been informed of the political class as to what the interests are.

>> tucker: please don't speak of the political classes as if you stand outside it. you are clearly acting as a tool on behalf of people who want the u.s. to proceed with the war and maybe we should. i can keep an open mind because i don't know. i do know lying when i see it and you have engaged in a lot and others. don't pretend to know what you don't know. now you're telling me why it's america's interest to wage war in syria. >> number one, united states has traveled all over the world when americans come in contact with these like they did in iraq, it will affect you the rest of your life. we do not we do see a future in which chemical warfare has become the status quo of the battlefield because the united states will come in contact. secondarily in the last 14 months, state sponsored terrorist attacks on foreign soil, russia using weapons of mass destruction. using chemical agents. this is a dangerous new reality i need to stop it now. >> tucker: i couldn't agree

more, but you're arguing parallel to the real argument which is how do we respond and who did this? we know that rebel groups have possession of the video of them in possession of chemical weapons. if you seek to deter the use of chemical weapons in the future, you want to punish the people who used them this time. as we stated at the outset and you agreed, we're not sure. >> taking more premise at face value, that rebel group and islamist groups get their hands or chemical weapons in the lesson there is to prevent the implosion of the state that has chemical weapons. if you were to nip this in the bud, you would want to take away any future policies. >> tucker: i'm not calling for a war with syria, but we are out of time on this one point which is if you want to have an adult

conversation about adult issues, wouldn't you agree that it's helpful not to call names come from a but to engage with the actual question? >> i'm not calling you names. i answered your questions directly. >> tucker: self-awareness is not your strong suit, but i appreciate coming on. very few on the island of where he lives. nigel, thanks for coming on. as of supporter, what do you make of the move towards engagement in war with syria? the costomach to mike >> what was the result, hundreds of thousands of deaths and chaos. libya, the same. we get end, we get rid of a nationalist leader we don't like and we open a door for isis and that calls for crisis. our track record of intervening

because morally, we think we should without a proper strateg strategy, without a long-term plan is bad. a week ago, the president said we were pulled up syria. tonight, we appear to be on the verge of perhaps quite large-scale military action joining. do we have a plan question or could you imagine if the scale of the strikes was such, do we actually think that would make syria better? whatever we think of assad, they have just beaten isis militarily in the field. >> tucker: yet, the advocates for this are telling us that somehow, assad, his government has been at war with extremists for years, was somehow in league with isis.

why all the lien? what is this really about? i'm honestly confused. i know lying when i see it and it's going on now in a large scale. >> i'm also curious as to why donald trump who was so clear in 2013 as i was as to why it was not a good idea to get involved with syria. it was not a good idea to arm the rebels. quite why it donald trump appears to have this change of mind, i don't know. it seems for some time that the globalist in the west need to have an enemy and they want to have a war. having a war is the most serious decision any government could ever take. it should not be done without a clear strategy. i'll give a warning, a warning to all the politicians here in britain and many of those in america. you and your chums tonight may think this is the right thing to do it would be very careful and

very cautious about public opinion. a poll out in britain today shows only one in four britons support military action and i'll bet in america, it's not a majority either. >> tucker: if you don't believe in democracy, doesn't matter. last question, do you think that one of the purposes of war would be to divert attention from the fact that you're not taking care of your own people? when you don't, may be having a war is the way to change the conversation. speak out yes, it is, it's also a great deflection away from all sorts of socialists. the first role of government is to protect and maintain the interests of its citizens. however horrible things in syria are, they do not affect directly american interests or british interests and i hope our leaders think again. >> tucker: think you for clear explanation. the hunt for russian collusion has become something very different. it's now suddenly an invasive

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look at the the presidents perl financial and sex life. the fbi was hunting for information about stormy daniels and the excess hollywood case. rather than anything that matters. do you want to know, does the public want to know a lot more about the presidents sex life? >> it no! i like donald trump, but i have zero interest in hearing any more about donald trump's sex life. i don't want to hear about stormy daniels, i don't want to hear about any of the others. i've known donald trump a long time and i've always taken him to be a man that's been married three times and has regularly boasted for five decades of his love of women.

the idea that it's somehow shocking or relevant to anything involving his residency that donald trump is a ladies' man i think is ridiculous. one of the things we're seeing, we have a brother that's her british army. one of the things that baffles me twice a year, he goes to a river in the darkest, most remote parts of the island and he stands in the middle of the river and he has a rod and he has bait and he's really there to catch a salmon, but he never actually catches salmon. he catches bits of wood that smashes him in the back of the head for the next five hours or he catches the little tiny minnows or bits and pieces that float on the river. here's the point. isn't this really what we're seeing here? the mueller investigation was

set up to catch the big salmon. donald trump ed collusion. he worked with the russians to fix the election. if that was true, it would be incredibly serious and would certainly lead to the end of his presidency. to date, we have seen no evidence at all that i've seen any clear evidence that he colluded with russia to fix the election. what we're now seeing as it reaches is a segway away into his sex life, into his loyalist activities. my guess is they're panicking, they're desperate, they need to nail donald trump on collusion, they haven't got that. they're fishing, they're hoping when he stands in that water, he'll catch something, anything.

>> tucker: unlike fly-fishing, there's nothing inherently edifying about the investigation. why would liberals who just like 20 minutes ago it seems to me, told the rest of us that the independent counsel investigation into president clinton's sex life was inherently illegitimate, infected invasion of privacy and by the way, they're probably right. those same people are now saying they're going wall-to-wall with it. it is no the no principal at al all? >> i don't remember any fbi raid on hillary clinton's lawyers with all the emails going missing. the liberals will say there's no comparison. there is a comparison. they genuinely believe there was something murky about the emails come out the right thing to do would be what they've done in this case and go and knock on the lawyer's door and find out what might be lurking there. it's one rule for trump and it's

another roll for the democrats in this kind of situation. there is a wider picture. you use the word edifying, it's kind of worse than that. it's potentially a crisis with syria, with the russians. this is very serious stuff. what was the lead story in "the new york times" today? was it syria? no. was it mark zuckerberg revealing that he didn't know very much about how facebook works or how it may influence elections around the world? which i can't really believe. no, the lead story in "the new york times" was basically donald trump's sex life. it was the rating of his lawyer's office from an exes hollywood tape from years ago. i don't really care what ronald trump did >> tucker:

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>> tucker: facebook ceo mark zuckerberg spent another action-packed day on capitol hill today taking questions from the commerce committee. during the hearing, he was pressed on whether facebook's actions amount to censorship. >> do you manipulate your algorithms to censor speech? >> congresswoman, we don't think about what we're doing as a centering speech. there are types of content like terrorism that i think we all agree we do not want to have on our service, so we build systems that can identify those and can remove that content and we are very proud of that work. >> let me toys of the great now. diamond and silk is not terrorism. >> tucker: here's an example, eric nesbitt as republican candidate in the state of michigan.

his online campaign announcement was recently rejected by facebook containing what they called "shocking and disrespectful material." facebook now says that rejection was a mistake. eric nesbitt towards us tonight. thanks for coming on. what exactly about your announcement was determined by facebook as disrespectful or shocking? >> i'm still trying to figure that out. i was announcing my candidacy for the state senate last week in western michigan. talked about lowering taxes and auto insurance rates and protecting our second amended rights. >> tucker: when you've got to defending the unborn and the second amendment, you don't think that's shocking? >> may be banning century cities and i had a picture of a few veterans that i was talking to also. i announced it last week and i wanted to boost the ad on friday

and i started to put that boost in and it usually takes a few hours for them to approve it. i got home around 6:00 on friday night and that's when they sent me that message saying that you're not following our advertising policies. i was kind of taken aback because i spent a few hundred dollars trying to get into counties from where i live. i figured i'll ask my facebook audience whether facebook is censoring. i think the answer came and was pretty open for my followers. >> tucker: facebook says it's a mistake, do you think this kind of thing happens to democrats running for state senate seat? >> i haven't heard about this on any record. i was named a conservative

reformer, so i continue to get out there. it's pretty frustrated when you're running a modern campaign, you've got to be on social media, you have to be on the internet to be able to broadcast. every company knows whether they've been the target for a twitter storm or facebook, you've got to respond quickly. if this means 78 hours, liberals are able to respond very quickly. i think it's very troubling. senator cruz really hit the nail on its head yesterday during the hearing, . >> tucker: it's a massive amount of control. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: california has all but announced immigration laws are now void in their state. any efforts to control and block immigration is announced. one congressman from california joins us to discuss that approach. how's it working?

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attention to people coming here illegally to replace them. does that ever occur to you? >> i think it's absurd to ask the question of me. i represent 750,000 americans who live in my district and to say that i don't care about middle-class families is absurd. there is one reason why people are leaving and it's because of the high cost of housing. employer after employer says i've got to pay a very high wage for people to be able to afford a house. keep in mind, that's a good problem. >> tucker: how can markets that are directly impacted, there is a reason california has way more expensive housing stock than idaho or oregon or washington state. this is what you said, i'm quoting, you said if you want less crime, move to the cayman islands. >> the point i was making was to rebut the racism show.

>> tucker: she is the racist? you said if you want less crime, leave the country. >> she put a picture after picture of person of color and said this is a criminal, this is a criminal. >> tucker: where the criminals? >> yes. she could have put up blond people, bald people, she decided to say the only criminals in this country are people of color. >> tucker: i don't you said that, but your response was moved to the cayman islands. middle-class families of all colors incorporated brad sherman and the people who run this state don't care about me because they are telling me to buzz off and go to the cayman islands. >> we have more housing stock in california that we have in the past. every one of those homes is built usually by middle-class families. we can't build houses fast enough to take care of all the people who want to move there. >> tucker: why does the state who was the richest now have the most property? >> we also have a very high --

we are a point of entry for people who come here from other countries, mostly legally, who are poor and they work hard. >> tucker: when we import poor people, we get rich. >> california is richer than the rest of the country and were doing just fine. >> tucker: you are a beneficiary of latin america, it bothers people that they're leaving by the hundreds of thousands. >> are housing stock is expensive, we are doing just fine. our credit rating is exceptional and people want to live in california. >> tucker: you have almost $1 trillion in unfunded obligations to retirees, your estate, not a country. a lot of credit ratings were fine in 2007, 2008 and then the economy blew up. >> you want me to come on here and talk about the census --

>> tucker: you don't want to answer real questions, i get it. so i'm being unfair, am i a racist? >> no -- you asked me to come on and talk about the census, but instead you want me to talk about state government issues. >> tucker: it's a trick, i'm asking a bunch of questions. i'll ask you a census question. why shouldn't we know, why shouldn't we be allowed to know how many citizens and noncitizens live here? >> do you want to use political polarization to bias the census? if so that we should have a question about guns. why shouldn't we know how many guns are in a household? the reason we don't ask that is because we don't want to make so many politically bias. >> tucker: why do we do the race question? do you find that a little creep

creepy? >> i don't know anybody in my district who is afraid to answer any question about what race they are. >> tucker: have you done a survey? >> i'm pretty in touch with my district. i'm in pretty good touch with what people are thinking and not a single person has come up to me and said they're afraid to answer the question about their race. >> tucker: because of living in the shadows and i think we both know that. i'm joking. if you could answer your race question, you could answer a citizenship question. >> why not ask a gun question? citizenship is relevant to gun ownership. the reason we don't after gun ownership question is because the nra would tell people to pull the survey away. >> tucker: i like this. that's pretty good.

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research scientists are still the best and appropriate for them, college is essential and well worth it. what about the rest of us? how about your average sociology major, potable science major at fill-in the blank state you? that remains an open question. we're going to spend the next month trying to answer it. there are a lot of ways to assess the cost and benefits of college and effects on students and the many ways it changes in society. we could to all of those in this series which is every wednesday night. tonight we wanted to begin with the economics of college, the numbers. college is expensive, that's the first thing to know about it. over the past 30 years, the cost of a four-year education at a public university has risen by 213%, a rate far faster than inflation. a lot of that cost is financed from debt. about 40 million americans have student loans, outstanding student loan debt in this country amounts to about $1.4 trillion. that's equal to about a third of the entire federal budget.

the numbers are rising fast. in 1993, the average student loan holder owed about $9400. today, the average balance is more than $34,000. studies show that most kids never bother to calculus their monthly payments when they apply for the loans. not surprising that the majority state it would not do it again. about half of loan holder is worried they won't be able to pay off their loans over the course of their lifetimes. some will and some won't, but lenders don't appear to make those decisions. they don't care. almost a third of students who sign up for student loans drop out before getting a degree and that makes it much less likely they'll earn enough to pay back the money. even if they do graduate, there aren't enough jobs to support them. more than 40% of young college graduates work in positions that do not require a college degree. certain majors lead to better jobs and higher incomes, but lenders don't seem to take that into consideration either. especially the government. over the school year in

2015-2016, the federal government handed out more than $4 billion in loans to psychology majors. handed out at him three to half billion dollars to students majoring in visual and performing arts. some of these students will go on to high paying jobs probably, some will have no problem repaying their loans. many, many others won't have that experience. student debt is crushing an entire generation of americans. young people with student loans are far less likely to buy cars, buy homes, get married, have children, than their parents generation was and their attitudes are very different as a result. when you see those polls showing young people prefer socialism to capitalism, you're probably horrified. you should know that student loan debt is one of the big reasons why. it's also a major factor in bernie sanders is a sudden rise to national celebrity, it's also a big factor in our countries drifted towards public economic economics. many don't notice this because it doesn't affect them. the student loan debt is making

our politics far more radical. if you like capitalism, you would be very worried about student loan debt. what are we getting in return for all of this? you would hope a well educated population. a literacy test was given to 18,000 adults with college degrees. fewer than a third were found to be proficient. that was a measure of a humanities education. at harvard, a researcher showed an look of students setting the hard sciences. among the findings "students receive honor degrees and college level physics courses aren't able to solve basic problems and questions encountered in a form slightly different from those which they have been formally instructed." when they got out of the classroom, they failed. if you're going to send an entire generation deep into debt, that is not an adequate return on investment, but it's not really surprising when you consider how college students actually spend their time. it's been studied a lot. one survey found the average

full-time college student spends less than three hours a day on educational activities of any kind. students meanwhile spend almost three times as much time shopping, eating and hanging around exited going to class and doing homework. in the end, it's a very costly vacation for all of us, is it worth it? fred kaplan has talked a lot about that question. he is the author of the book "the case against education" and he dresses tonight. professor, things are coming on. they would be positions, but for the average humanities major, is it a good idea? speak out the key issue is are you likely to graduate, if you have a very high chance of graduatina good investment. there is a lot of kids that go to school and have very little chance of finishing. kids that did poorly in high school that do poorly in

college as well and generally don't finish and so much of the payoff comes from crossing the finish line that really is the most pressing question is can i do the job of finishing? >> tucker: should lenders take that into consideration? >> when the government is lending money to students, they're not the gig about return investment, their thinking about trying to be popular. >> tucker: it crushes the kid, so if you're giving a massive loan to a kid is not going to graduate or ever make the money to pay it back, you're creating deep instability on society, aren't you? >> i think that's overstating it. there are a lot of kids -- the government to do anything different, they would have to profile people and say we don't think you're likely to succeed. so when i can view the money per think about the backlash of something like that. >> tucker: how about you say don't qualify for a loan unless you've demonstrated effort in school. it's not good for kids to give

them that money. >> that's a good idea. it goes back to the old days when you go to your counselor and they say i don't think your college material. nowadays, it would be almost impossible for a guidance counselor to say that. everyone is college material. it's hard to go until someone bluntly that you're unlikely to finish so you should try something else. >> tucker: we got over a trillion dollars which will be laid at the feet of the taxpayers because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. >> that's quite right. >> tucker: thank you, you didn't make me feel better. speaker of the house paul ryan says he's leaving congress at the end of the year. he leaves behind a pile of wreckage once called the congressional g.o.p. bill summoned up for you next. ♪ for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray relieves 6 symptoms... claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure.

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house paul ryan announced that he wouldn't be running for reelection. he has been speaker for almost three years and he leaves behind a party in shambles. republicans are on track to lose the house this fall for the first time in ten years. ryan deserves a lot of the blame for that. donald trump won unexpected lien 2016 by valley to secure the borders and focus on this countries vanishing middle class. ryan acted like none of that ever happened. he never liked trump personally and that's fine. but he ignored voters, that's all fine. he considered democracy and inconvenience, delivered a massive corporate tax cut. blocked meaningful border security. most republicans don't agree with paul ryan, so no wonder the party is collapsing. ryan is fleeing the scene of the crime. he is only 48 and will soon be rich. have fun. the rest of us are still stuck here. that's about it for us. to noon every night at 8:00 for the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, and

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