so we can enjoy the freedoms. we have to embrace them and be proud in america. >> what a great y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y us next sunday when "the next revolution" will be televised. . mark: hello america. i'm mark levin. this is "life, liberty & levin." i have a special guest. tucker carlson. great to see you. [ laughter ] >> i've been on tv23 years, this is the most spectacular studio. mark: isn't it great? >> congratulations, first of all, you are killing it, i have to persuade to you do stuff. there is a fact story. mark: i owe you and other people the fact i got into

room. i kept prodding me. >> annoying you, is more like it. mark: we've known each other for over 20 years. >> we're best friended. mark: you haven't changed at all. i remember when you were doing a local show on wabc and you hit the bigtime, you substituted for rush, you went into syndication, you started with fox at the beginning of fox. >> 1996. mark: 1996, you been there the entire time and now the babe ruth of cable tv. you're the babe ruth of cable tv. >> let's not overstate the case. mark: but you are, and so as the babe ruth of cable tv, you're also attacked a lot by the left. they try the boycotts every now and then, attack you, go after you, what is that like? >> wow, this is a great question. the most important thing to me, i don't care, not even a little

bit mark, one bit what the left thinks of me. i just care about what's right. like you, i have a love and a passion for this country, and i always brought up in 201, i do it by design, it's my way. you have your gifts and unique style. rush has his, his unique style. i like to be myself, and i saw 13 million more americans on food stamps, million more in poverty. i saw the lowest label participation rate since the 70s. worst recovery since the 40s. 51% low home ownership. doubling of the debt. i give the numbers out on purpose. those are real people, real americans, real suffering because of government fairly, and this is your wheel house, this is what do you. you do the history of our great founders and frameers and philosophers, at the end of the

day, i'm looking at it from a practical standpoint. what works? why does it work? mark: why do you think you're attacked the way you are? >> i'm attacked because for a lot of these people it's about power. we had the most unbelievable week where pam bondi is attacked. think about this, secretary nielsen is attacked, sarah huckabee is attacked. conservatives are being thrown out of restaurants, being followed, you have high-profile democrats suggesting that we get confronted in gas stations and restaurants, like a mob mentality has taken over. and real reason for it is that in 500 days the economy has flipped dramatically. every economic indicator we have is off the charts. nobody thought donald trump would win, nobody thought he'd get the primary. nobody thought he'd beat hillary and nobody thought he would be this successful. we are in the silly season where democrats have only one single playbook.

that is republicans are racist, sexist misogynists, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic. it's a lie. 14 states in the united states have record low unemployment. african-americans, record low unemployment. hispanic-americans, record low unemployment. women in the workforce, record low unemployment. the success of donald trump is a clear and present danger to the left of america. it is a threat to them, and so like when he first got into office which he never thought he'd win, they're imploding. now that he's successful and the mueller witch-hunt which you have been very articulate about, is imploding. now that the economy is successful, nobody expected rocketman to be returning hostages, to be dismantling nuclear test sites, to be

willing to talk about the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. nobody thought donald trump would get that when he was talking about fire and fury and donald trump was talking about little rocketman and he was saying my button is bigger than yours and mine works. and it shows peace through strength works. it shows the president's economic philosophy works. how long have we as conservatives known that government bureaucracy is killing business? it is destroying, you know, states like ohio and michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania, all around the country. we now have 4 million new jobs created in just over 500 days. why am i attacked? . mark: you think you are attacked because you give voice to conservatism. >> yes. mark: the voice of conservatism? >> yes. all of the above. mark: and the defender of the president and his policies. >> the policies are working.

to answer the question is a round about answer, directly, mark. for most of my career i go with my heart, my gut, but i'm also very connected to those people that are out of work. i bought a painting by john mcnaughton, he's a patriotic and religious painter out of salt lake city, and it's a forgotten man. and the forgotten man painting is a young man on a bench and all the presidents and obama got his foot on the constitution, which you revere, and the reason that this election was about them, you know my background, i don't want to bore you. mark: you think -- well, that's what i want to get to. you think you identify with these folks. >> 100%. mark: and the president's policies because of how you grew up and your background and you grew up and your grandparent, explain. >> my grandparents came with on average $10 in their pocket

from ireland at the turn of the last century. they had no hopes, no dreams, except to make a better life for their children, hence my parents did better, and i literally believe i stand on the shoulders of those four grandparents. all four came from ireland, and my parent, they never really had money. mark: they were modest, middle class parents. >> mark, i was delivering papers at 8, washing dishes at 12, by hand, not a machine. a chef, a bus boy, a waiter, a bartender and got into contracting. painting, hanging wallpaper, framing houses, fell off a roof. mark: come to my house, need some work done. [laughter] . >> the answer is i'm a dishwasher who works hard and harder than i've ever worked and i believe in this country and i believe that i've been blessed more than i deserve,

and i absolutely, positively, i abhor that the fact when america is in decline, this country can be, and is, the shining city on the hill as reagan talked about. and it is frankly my obligation. look, now i've made money, i lived with no money, now i have money, better to have money, and better to have opportunity, and better to have a growing, thriving economy, and also better to have peace in the world. we don't need to be at war. mark: what did your parents do? >> my mom was a prison guard for 25 years. my dad worked in family court probation. most of my family was in law enforcement. it was a big deal. i've never told the story, i was appointed to the new york police academy when i was 19. mark: really? >> last minute, believe it or not, i passed the psychological, passed the physical. 99 to the written. appointed to the academy, i said, i don't know, i have no

idea why i made that decision, because it was a big deal in my family to be a civil servant. the two relatives i had that made it to the fbi, they were like a deity. that's why it hurts for me to be looking at corruption in the fbi, not to get too offtrack here. look, america is supposed to be -- we all want the same thing in a way. everybody wants a nice house, in a safe neighborhood, they want a decent car to drive. they want to go out to dinner once a month or every two weeks, they want to take their kids when they are five or six to disney, but they're willing to work hard for that, and when government, through its burdensome regulation and high taxes, you know, think where the democrats want to run on this midterm election? this midterm election is the single biggest, most important

midterm in this country's history. because they want to impeach this man. now, they're telling people like maxine waters, shhh, don't tell anybody. we got it. we got it. we want to impeach him. they don't have a reason to impeach him, there's no high crimes and misdemeanors. mark: i agree. >> what else do they want to do? open borders. want to keep obamacare and you know the biggest tax cut in our history, $2,000 around on average for family, when nancy pelosi, a millionaire calls crumbs, they want the crumbs back. they want to rescind the tax cuts. $2,000 in the pockets of families makes a massive difference in their daily life. mark: how do you explain the so-called never-trumpers? the president's been enormously successful in foreign policy. a lot of them come out of bush administration, the neoconservative group in that

genre. when you look at iran, the president did exactly the right thing. israel, recognizing jerusalem as the capital and moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, that was the law by passed by every president except this president. when you look at how things started with north korea, people may quibble to how things are done with un, putting the military threat through the and driving the dictator to the table than any previous president. >> called peace through strength. mark: peace through strength. >> you worked for reagan. mark: i worked for reagan and supported trump in the general election. >> did you. mark: and see a lot of similarities, not talking about the way they speak, there's a charisma and principle to both these men, and people claiming to conservatives don't recognize it either because they've had a personal tiff with him or thin skinned about approaches and so forth.

>> one other thing, they don't want to admit they're wrong. mark: you've been in a fight with a lot of peace people. >> it's not even a fight. the american people are winning now. look, i'm going to make a prediction. donald trump is a transformational president, and i don't believe he's a nationalist and i don't believe he's a populist. i have always remained in my entire career consistent. i am a reagan conservative, and, which you were the chief of staff for ed meese, one of the greatest attorneys general we ever had, and so you know reagan's policies as i do. i can cite the economic statistics, 20 million new jobs, literally doubled revenues to the government. mark: and he was hated, too. attacked by the same force. >> wait a minute, he was called an amiable dunce and voodooed

bush to the second term. >> the media hated him, hated him, but they hate trump more. >> more. mark: and my view of that is, and see if you agree. they thought hillary was going to win, banked on hillary, wanted the american people rose up and said enough is enough, we want to try this man, and this is not just an attack from my perspective on trump. this is an attack on the american people. and can you hear it more and more, scarborough talking about trump voters as racist. they are racist. hillary calling them deplorables, attacking millions and millions of americans. >> look at the text, i go to walmart and can smell the trump people. there's a contempt, and the left has always had this for conservatives, but there's a contempt for people. now, okay, i'm that diswasher,

i'm that bus boy, i'm that contractor. i identify with the people that make the country great. here's why i think trump's a transformational figure. this office will never be viewed again the same way. i think there were three in our lifetime. three movements really profound momentis. >> want to pick up on this but i don't want to cut you short on this. >> okay, you want to take a break, be right back and continue "life, liberty & levin"? mark: you know the format. i want to hear this at length when we return. >> you got it. mark: folks, you can check us out on levin tv almost every week night, crtv.com, sign up or call 844-levin-tv. we'd love to have you. we'll be right back. it's time for the 'lowest prices of the season' with savings on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides to keep you effortlessly comfortable.

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. mark: sean hannity, you were talking about transformational presidents. go right ahead. >> let's go back to the reagan comparison for a second. i'm looking at trump. beside trade, and i know where you stand on trade. mark: okay. >> let's put that aside. mark: right. >> you and i have discussed privately. i think everything is a negotiation, we're never going to get to that point, because i know this man pretty well. donald trump, if you go back to

reagan, reagan was hated by the establishment as we were discussing. and all of a sudden, we get 20 million new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth. mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, the evil empire. kind of similar to rocketman, fire and fury, and now democrats can't help but acknowledge how great the reagan years were. same thing is going to happen to donald trump, in this sense, the office of the presidency is never going to be viewed the same way again. he has broken every rule of establishment politics, and what the left hasn't figured out is the american people have figured out like for example, the media will act all outraged over donald trump tweeted this, and then so you watch these stupid cable people that live in a bubble and talk to each other only, not to any real audience, so to speak, and say

that's outrageous, and the next one will say, no, that's really, really outrageous. no, that's outrageous and disgusting. and this is their own world. meanwhile, the american people are saying 4 million new jobs, wow, the economy has never been better, consumer confidence never been higher. record low unemployment all over the place. here's my argument. we're going to look back in our lifetime and realize that he has systematically changed, he's taken the bar higher in the sense that people want to get things done. american people are practical, commonsense people, and if it works, they don't want these guys playing games. look, i'll give you an example, i hate republicans in this sense, republicans never talked about health care, when we had a health care debate, we never talked about health savings accounts, health cooperatives,

you and i have read musgrave, goodman, patient, power, the kiddo foundation, who talked about health savings accounts but for rand paul and a couple others? and who talked about health care cooperatives? those innovative, so-called intellectual ideas of conservatives, they weren't even discussed and tried to ram through an establishment bill and they couldn't keep a simple promise that they all made for 7 1/2 years. donald trump comes in, okay, i'll do it calls, and they couldn't get the job done. mark: what else has donald trump done? >> he's cut taxes. mark: no, no, no, exposed the media, and this is why they hate him. i'm convinced. the media have played this game with the american people for decades that they're objective and/or bipartisan and only reporting the news. he shown them to be a pseudoprofession. it's not a profession at all and shown them also to be is

group think of one mind. there's different characters, different levels of intelligence, some of them quasi intelligence, if you will, so far and so forth. he drives them nuts because he calls them out and accuse them of attacking -- >> them. mark: press, freedom. he's not attacking press freedom. he's undermining press freedom. >> in 2008 i said journalism in america is dead. >> i remember this. >> i didn't know how right i was at the time. here's what they haven't figured out and i love this part. what they haven't figured out at cnn, cnn they have been so branded, they will forever be known as fake news. cnn. same with broadcast networks. i think one of the funniest things the president does, and if you have a sense of humor understand and donald trump and the american people seem to understand him and they accept he's not your cookie cutter politician, that is politically

correct, that won't take a chance, but i think during his rallies, see those people in the back, fake news, fake news, and the crowd turns around on their own, not led by trump, cnn sucks, or fake news, and they shout at them, and i would be thinking if i was running a network and every state, every group of people were saying hannity sucks, i think i might take it personally and say what am i doing wrong? where is it wrong? mark: there's a reason why the democrat party agenda and the media are so insync? >> sure. mark: let me ask you this, when is the last time the "washington post" or "new york times" led with a front page story supportive of a trump policy? >> is that a joke? mark: like when i was on your show, like the text from the fbi, you can point out one that's pro-trump? >> no. mark: can you point out one that's anti-hillary? >> no.

mark: can you point out one senior fbi official? >> no. mark: anti-hillary senior fbi official. >> you know what the best line you said on my show, you pointed out rightly so, sadly, that not rank and file fbi. i am very careful. mark: we're the ones that defend the rank and file fbi and doing it today by trying to clean up the top mess. >> i'll take it a step further, the heroes are going to be rank and file fbi, the special agents that are dying to tell their story how corrupt their top bosses were. mark: waiting for my best line ever on tv. >> i'm going to tell you. your best line ever was sadly, it's a sad line, but it's true and captures it all. that the -- that literally what they have done to try and subvert an election is far worse than anything russia

could have imagined. this is why nobody seems to understand how profound this is, and the other part of this is the i.g. report is only the beginning. this is what happened. hillary committed felonies, hillary obstructed justice, it was covered up by the top-ranking fbi officials, comey, page, strzok, loretta lynch to an extent, andrew mccabe, and others, and they covered it up, they rigged an investigation, they wrote an exoneration before they interviewed her or 17 other people. that never happens. there have been other people that have gone to jail for far less than hillary clinton, and did it so she could remain the candidate. we've seen written text how much they loved her and then they turned on trump. i think you used the term, i know i've used the term and russia used the term which is an accurate term, which is soft

coup, this is the single biggest abuse of power, scandal, corruption scandal in american history. and back to the media, they missed the biggest story in their lives while simultaneously pushing a phony russian narrative because their fixation is not helping the american people, but destroying one man after they supported her. mark: they want trump out. >> they want him to fail. mark: go after his family. >> disgusting. >> go after his staff, go after his campaign, and he's exposed them. >> 100%. >> you were saying, cnn will never be viewed the same. >> ever. mark: and media will ever be viewed the same. viewed the same. >> ever.

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billion of u.s. goods. canada's tariffs impact everything from ketchup to dish washer detergent. . mark: you know, sean hannity, believe it or not, people are going to want to know how we met, how we became best friends, that sort of thing. how did we meet? i don't remember. >> i don't know, that say great question. we think we're so smart, we're not that smart. mark: i don't remember, do you? it was a long time ago. >> this is interesting for me. this is role reversal, because i interview you. mark: you like interviewing me? >> yes, i do, actually. mark: why? >> i interview you, we have timed your answers, they are six-minute answers, but chockful, but i like to let you do your thing. mark: this is when i'm on

hannity during the week. >> i'm on -- i don't like to do interviews like this, not because i don't like to do them but i feel four hours a day is enough for me. three hours on radio, an hour on tv, how much do people want of me? but i always interview you, although you've interviewed me on the radio show. what i find is i've gotten to be a better host because i listen more. i get my monologue out, i work on that thing from 8:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night. mark: you write your own monologue? >> absolutely, every day. mark: do you read it off the board, sometimes i can tell you are doing it off your mind, right away. >> if i have 13 minutes written, it's really a 20 minute monologue, because the radio in me comes out and i have the best prompter, i have signals, i'll give you my signals. i'll be reading the prompter and go like that, that's my

signal don't move, or look away. mark: in other words, keep it where it is, i have other things to say. >> that's right. we add at least five to seven minutes to every monologue and i use them all. there is so much to talk about, what i think has made me a better host, i read enough research on me over the years, when you're doing something wrong, the audience are smarter than you are, they're watching, if i interrupt somebody, stop interrupting, and i find if i get it out in the beginning and put it together and try to make the best case every day. we start with an empty canvas, every single day is a new day and the challenge is you always have to assume there are new people that are watching, so you got to set the foundation and keep bringing in the new information, and i try to do it as creative way as i can. it's a little bit of a challenge every day. but in all honesty -- mark: so i come on and speak for six minutes? >> i let you go.

but it works. mark: have you ever interrupted me? >> try not to. i try not to interrupt like i used to. the only restraints we have are the constraints of time. mark: we all have that. >> but i -- i honestly feel this is history unfolding before our eyes. i never finished the thought earlier, there was the reagan revolution, it transformed the country. i was the emcee the night newt gingrich became the speaker of the house. i lived in georgia, i was a local radio host. and we're now in the third wave of this, and it's donald trump, the conservative, not all this nationalist, populism. he's governing as a conservative. >> you think it went reagan revolution, tea party, trump revolution. >> no, reagan revolution, tea party is a big component. reagan, newt contract. mark: tea party. >> tea party and now trump. and trump will, i think, like

reagan at some point, people are going to realize how transformational it is. we can't predict the future. i mean, you never know if there is a major economic downturn out of all our control. you don't know about peace and prosperity, but i do know that this president looks at, you know, he says he wants to meet putin and developed a good relationship with the president of china, i think we already see dividends vis-a-vis north korea, if we can denuclearize, denuclearization of the korean peninsula, is that not good for our kids and grandkids? . you know reagan talked about getting rid of nukes altogether? >> he did. mark: he's friendly with the dictator of china but tough on china, so doesn't allow that to get in the way of his policies. >> nope. mark: i noticed that, too. back to you. when did you start in radio? >> wow. it's either '86 -- it's '87,

1987. didn't last very long. i wasn't very good at it. i just knew i wanted to be on the radio. howard stern tells a great story. if you watch his movie private parts, may sound bizarre. mark: never watched it. >> you should watch it. actually i identify with everything that he did. he once said the well the went on the first time i was on radio, and i have no idea where this comes from. none. it just came out, and i knew i loved it from the first time i did it. i have the tapes. they're horrific. it's embarrassing. mark: you can turn them, you know. >> i'm going to. my son who is 19 heard it once and he literally said to me, oh, dad, and put his hands over his face and said that's embarrassing. but i've been very fortunate in my career in the sense that i loved it. i ate it up, and i never had a

vision they could do it after growing up listening to radio, and then i did it, and then i wanted to do nothing else, and then i finally got a job, traveled -- this is where it's similar to howard stern, started traveling around the country, and i lived five years in rhode island, five years in california, two years in alabama, four years in georgia. i never thought i'd be successful. i always assumed that i've done my last show. mark: when we return, what was your big break? what would you consider to be your big break? don't forget to check us out on levin tv almost every week night, go to crtv.com, join us, we'd love to have you or call us at 844-levin-tv. 844-levin-tv. we'll be right back. we know when they grow up, this is what they'll remember.

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. mark: welcome back. so sean hannity, radio, what was your big radio break? >> it wasn't just one. well, you can't deny, when you fill in for rush, who's, look, he's the pioneer, he forged the path. we all owe him a debt of gratitude. mark: absolutely. >> and very appreciative. i grew up listening to all the radio guys, farber, barry gray, john shoyer was a money guy, gene berns, the pioneers of talk room. the big break was a guy named dave stone and bill dunn van, my first paid radio gig, doing it free up until then and packed up what was my contracting work van and drove across the country. that was break one. break two was a guy by the name

of sluggo in atlanta, georgia. neil borts who is a friend of ours, since retired. he left one station, referred to as ex-wife and moved to a bigger station and now i'm on that station ironically, wsb and the big break was fox news going on the air, and then that led to wabc, roger ailes and phil voice. i'm friends with every person that hired me. i talk to them all. they all critique me to this day. if i do something they don't like, sluggo is writing me, shut up, don't talk. they care. i prefer the criticism rather than the compliment because that makes you better. mark: and, you know, you're one of the few people who have been able to do radio and tv. the only one i know for a couple of decades now. >> no. mark: no, no, no, for a couple of decades now. >> 23 years.

mark: 23 years. how do you have the energy for this? >> i mean, i don't know, i can flip the question. if i didn't do it every day i'd be riding around in a car doing my own talk show probably out loud. mark: talking to yourself? >> to myself. mark: on the corner with a rain coat. >> saying okay, i'd be going john in atlanta. mark: talk shows. >> longtime listener, first time caller. mark: you call into talk shows early on? >> i was on ladders doing construction calling talk shows. when ollie was going on, and became a dear friend, you were very involved in that, i couldn't go to works i sat there and watched those hearings, brendan sullivan, a friend of yours, i'm not a potted plant. mark: unbelievable. >> or ollie north, when he went like this or when they thought they had him because he bought

leotards for his young daughter the dancer and thought i think it was fawn hall. he had to have been having an affair. the media was corrupt then. mark: you were calling radio shows? >> every day. absolutely. and what i noticed is i got more reaction than the hosts. i want to talk about what that guy just said, i was so passionate about it, it was my love. reagan, i studied him from day one, and then i got into studying on my own. mark: how old are you? >> good question. 56. mark: and you started in radio, how old were you? >> 27ish. mark: and so you started on fox, you were in your 30s? >> yes, early 30s, 23 years. mark: you think can you do this for another 10, 20 years? >> i don't think about it. people say what part do you think -- well, i just do my thing every day. here's my analogy, and i don't like when people get too egotistical and think i did

this, there are people in our business, i believe what the bible said, if you're not against us, you're for us. people that hate both of us, if they're doing good things for the country, i don't care what they say about me. i want the country to succeed. i view it as we're all spokes in a wheel, every spoke is necessary to make the wheel go around. and by the way, every american citizen voting in 2018, they want to undo your -- undo the last election. they want to do-over. 2018 is a do-over. four things they want to do and i mentioned them earlier, impeach the president. open borders. keep obamacare and they want their crumbs back. and we can't let this happen. midterms usually aren't that important, really, and the first midterm in any presidency historically with a couple of exceptions the power -- the

party that has the presidency is going to lose seats. we can't have that had this time. if we do, they doll those four things, and they so hate this president, and the american people -- the fbi agents that tried to undermine trump in the soft coup, those people thought they knew better than the american people. it's arrogance, power, those are in your books, all the philosophers that you talk about, i read every one of your books, all of the framers and founders warned about tyranny in government. there's contempt right now for the american people. one last thing, and i don't mean to interrupt you. this is a tipping point for the country, mark, we better get this right or we lose it. if they're successful in their effort to undermine donald trump and push him out of office, we've lost the country and we'll never get it back. you know what you once said? mark: what. i love it he quotes me.

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. mark: what do you make of the state of the republican party? >> weak. feckless. bible says there is no vision that people perish. lacking leadership. mark: who do you blame, though? >> most of them. honestly the people i trust most in congress are the freedom caucus. those guys fight for the things they have done. you know what republican party is missing? they literally -- it's a layup for them if they would just follow the courage, the strength, the principles and

the promise keeping of donald trump. if you want to get re-elected, instead of sitting there agonizing, calculating, what's going to happen, what if do i this? vote this way? how about keep your promises. >> why do we need a freedom caucus within the republican party? shouldn't that be the republican party? >> should be the republican party. the reason they can't repeal and replace obamacare, they have hundreds of republicans who have no intention of replacing obamacare. they're as bad as the democrats. in senate 2015, they voted to repeal obamacare. straight vote. and seven of them, when it actually mattered, less than two years later. we didn't really mean it. mark: and the house was even worse. they voted to repeal and wouldn't vote to repeal it. >> the house passed bills that the senate never took up. over 400 of those, i give them a little more credit, not a lot. here's what's missing, where is the principle of lower taxes,

cutting government, cutting bureaucracy where is the principle of supporting a president that has literally been my path to energy of independence that will create millions of high-paying career jobs for so many americans. he did it independently in spite of them. and more at war with his party than the democratic party. i expect it from them, but the reality is in washington today. i'm not a registered republican, i'm a conservative. always been a consistent reagan conservative and for all these idiot never-trumper people is they're not consistent, and now egos are so humongous, they don't want to admit they're wrong, like the media doesn't want to admit they're wrong. that's your answer. -here comes the rain. [ horn honking ] [ engine revving ] what's that, girl? [ engine revving ] flo needs help?! [ engine revving ] take me to her! ♪ coming, flo! why aren't we taking roads?! flo. [ horn honking ] -oh. you made it.

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in ten years? >> i have a idea. i hope i am alive. i have kids i'd love to take care of and my grandkids. mark: do think the be in radio or tv? >> i have never planned any of this. mark: would you like to be in radio or on tv in ten years question mark. >> i probably cannot give it up because i care more than i ever care. the stakes are higher than they ever have been. i'm a spoke in a wheel and i have an opportunity and i want to do my part. this country is worth fighting for and so many fought, bled, died and gave their lives for this country and to allow a culture of corruption to put its, as you said, post constitutional america and the rule of law and we don't have equal justice under the law were equal application of the laws and if we don't get that straight for our kids i will feel like a failure. mark: it has been a great pleasure.

>> there's a reason why call you the great one. mark: my pleasure. see you next time on "life, liberty and levin". chris: i'm chris wallace, president trump will announce supreme court nominee a week from tomorrow and sets day for a summit with vladimir putin. ♪ >> i think we will be talking about syria, i think we will be talking about ukraine, i think we will be talking about many other subjects and we will see what happens. chris: we will discuss relations between u.s. and russia and what to expect from summit with john bolton, president trump's national security adviser in first interview since returning from moscow. then -- >> you to pick a great one. we have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years. chris: who will president trump pick to replace