move forward. it definitely get a copy of "the point of it all" charles krauthammer, put it close to your bed. we'll be right back tomorrow night. "tucker carlson tonight" is up next from washington, d.c., right after this. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," if you have been watching television recently you probably heard the bad news. the trump administration is over. toast, cooked, done for good, and along with it any hope of the middle-class revolution that 63 million americans voted for two years ago, the president has been caught committing felonies, here is whether legal experts without law degrees are saying on television. >> if pp, must be, will be impeached because of the crimes that prosecutors say he committed in the michael cohen case.

>> both parties need to get on board to pass articles of impeachment. >> you have conspiracy, you have obstruction coming up campaign finance. >> if the democrats do not pursue this vigorously, they will be accountable for abdicating their responsibility. >> it goes to the mueller question. the ethical question. a democracy is at stake. to speak of this criminal must be brought up by the united star impeachment. >> tucker: going to show you the don them on tape, but to sum up they are telling us that we are staring down the barrel of a constitutional crisis. and then crisis stems from what msnbc describes as "the crimes prosecutor saved the president committed in the michael cohen case." which crimes were those? we have the answer, the relevant details were spelled out in a piece that ran over the weekend to "the new york times" under this headline. prosecutors say that to trump directed a league illegal

payments during the campaign. the gist is this, trump's former lawyer michael cohen has told former prosecutors that he facilitated payments to two women who said that they had affairs with donald trump. and then, actually, that is it. that is the entire story right there. paying the two women, saying for federal prosecutors was a serious crime, a crime worthy of impeachment, if not indictment. okay, but you might be wondering how exactly that is criminal. we will stipulate that everything that michael cohen has told the feds is absolutely true. assuming anna's fee is not a wise idea with michael cohen, but for the sake of argument let's do it in this case. everything he says is true, why is what he is legend a criminal offense? remember the facts of the story are undisputed, two women approach donald trump and threatened to ruin his career and ruin his family if he does not give them money.

that sounds like a classic case of extortion. but for whatever reason trump caves to it and directs michael cohen to pay the ransom. now more than two years later trump is a felon for doing this. it does not seem to make any sense. oh, but you are not a federal prosecutor on a political machine. if you were a federal prosecutor on a political machine, you would construe those extortion payments as campaign contributions. you do this even though the money in question did not come from or go to donald trump's presidential campaign. they knew would claim that trump and michael coyne violated campaign finance law because they did not publicly disclose those payments. despite the fact that disclosing them would nullify the reason for making them in the first place which was to keep the whole thing secret. that is the argument you would make both in federal court and for your proxies on cable television. it is insultingly stupid. but because everyone in power hates the target of your

investigation, nobody would question you. and that is what is happening right now. now by this reasoning, any money of political candidate spends to maintain or protect their image during office now qualifies as a regulated campaign donation and has to be disclosed. that would be included with an infinite number of other things, buying toothpaste and getting a haircut. it would definitely include the taxpayer finance slush fund that congress has set aside to pay off its own sexual harassment claims. yes, those now qualify as campaign contributions. they must be publicly disclosed. except, of course they are not publicly disclosed and they never will be. why is that? that may be a question for congressional leaders including, now that we think about it, adam schiff from burbank, california. the incoming chairman of the house of intelligence committee. what does he have to say about congress not disclosing the very same payments that democrats sae

impeached for not disclosing. let's ask him. >> there is a real prospect that on the day donald trump leaves office, the justice department may indict him. that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the prospect of jail time. >> trump knows that he is facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. and even if a sitting president cannot be indicted, he has to know that his future looks like it is behind bars unless he cuts some sort of deal with the prosecutors. >> tucker: so to translate, trump is a criminal, he is going to jail. for committing the smaller version of the made up a crime that we in congress have committed for years and force you to pay for. we are never apologizing for that. because we do not have to, and cnn is not going to make us. screw you, america, and your stupid election. we are in charge. that's the real message here, in case you missed it. chris hahn, a radio host, and age into chuck schumer, he joins

us tonight. i know that you do not like a trump. that is fine. but speak slowly so that i can understand. explain to me why paying off someone who is extorting you, threatening to make public details of your personal life, why paying that person is a felony? >> first of all, we do not know that there was actual extortion. we know that a payment was made, there was a catch and kill deal with the "national enquirer," whether it was extortion has not been proven yet. nor has it been alleged in many cases by the president. >> tucker: let me just stop and say, i am alleging it because it is obvious. you are not going to pay 100 grand or 150, 200 grand to someone unless there is a threat to you and your reputation. this is extortion. i don't know why it is not being prosecuted. i do not know why trump is not to defending himself, but it clearly is extortion. why is it a crime to pay off someone who you had an affair with? >> they want to tell a story that he does not want to hold, he says, just tell it to mean, i

for it. >> tucker: that is extortion. if i did that to you, i said i know in detail about your sex life, chris hahn, and i will tell it on television unless you pay me. that is extortion. but why is it a felony to pay women you have had relationships with? >> it is not a felony, it is a felony to do a campaign expenditure, and not disclose it. >> tucker: house at a campaign expenditure? >> he made this during the campaign for the purpose of the campaign, there are tape recordings of him discussing this with michael cohen. >> tucker: hold on, wait, it is not a small thing, it is the thing. this is a crime that a "new york times" told us on saturday federal prosecutors are alleging the president committed. it is a felony. and michael cohen pled guilty to a species of this. so i just want to get to the bottom of this. why is that a contribution to pay off a former girlfriend?

i'm honestly confused. you are a campaign guy. tell me. >> there is a -- that he -- >> tucker: hold on, i don't know. >> there is a lot more to this than just paying off. >> tucker: one allegation at a time. so federal prosecutors, this is not just something that dumb people on tv are talking about coming even though they are. this is something that prosecutors in new york state are saying that they have apparently evidence to indict over. so tell me why, because a lot of people in washington pay off their girlfriends including a lot of people in congress. a lot of people in congress. including some democrats, just throwing that out there. so tell me that while -- why it is a campaign contribution to pay off your girlfriend? >> i think the fund that congress is using to pay people off needs to be disclosed. in the members who are involved with those disclosure decisions need to be removed. >> i'm sure that that will happen right away. msnbc will push really hard for that. okay. so tell me why it is a

campaign -- code this is a central question, why is it -- why is that a campaign contribution, did not go to the campaign, it was a threat to his reputation and his livelihood as all extortion is, right? so why is that a campaign contribution? >> there is black letter law, we find these laws pretty clear about what you can and cannot do with funds. these were not necessarily from trump's own pocket. there were as all sorts of schemes put together by the president and michael cohen to move the money around so that it was not traced back to president trump. spiro no, no, stop, stop, stop. may be, we have never had a president like trump and a million different ways, i am not defending his personal life, i am merely saying that this is now being described as a felony, as a crime for which the president could be removed, so now is the time where we need to be very specific about what the crime is, because you have

stopped all business of government so that we can respond to this, so let's respond right now, tell me how and where in campaign finance law it says you are not allowed to use your money, there is no allegation that this is campaign money. your money to pay off a former girlfriend? >> it is -- the allegation is not that it is his money, there is allegations that he move money around from various schemes. >> tucker: you are allowed to do that too. you are allowed to hide the payments. is that a crime now? because it is your money? >> that is a violation -- a clear violation of campaign finance law part. >> tucker: i will let you speak, we are in campaign finance law that taking money that is not premier political campaign to respond to an extortion attempt to pay off your girlfriend or pay the gardener, pay anybody, why is that a felony? where does it say that?

>> campaign finance law, i will not quote to the section in verse, i do not know it off the top of my head. campaign finance law clearly states that any money spent for campaign purposes specifically by people other than the candidate must be disclosed. >> tucker: why is that it campaign purpose pay to speak of the president and michael cohen when clearly set up the scheme so that other people could pay these women off on behalf of donald trump while he was running for president and the allocations within his campaign and his reputation. that is a violation. >> tucker: no, actually, because anybody faced, i don't know a single man who faces that allegation who thought that he could squelch it would not paid the person off. because it does incalculable damage to your reputation whether you are running for anything or not. so it is so clearly not a campaign violation that i wonder if we want to set this precedent. do you want to live in a world where people paying off extortion attempts are now

campaign finance felons? this is lunacy, and you know it. >> this is strikingly similar to what happened to john edwards pretty >> tucker: yes, and it is awful what happened to john edwards. >> this is struggling similar situation. and what happened -- >> tucker: and other populist with his b.s. campaign finance nonsense. exactly what happened. we are out of time. >> the campaign finance law, it is more than that, it is a foreign corrupt practices act. >> tucker: that is a separate taking. if he violated that i will not defend it, but in this case it is made up. all right, chris hahn, thank yo thank you. >> thank you, tucker pretty >> tucker: one of the most historic reactions came from a former obama administration u.s. attorney -- attorney that says that the president should be stripped of his office. >> it could be that president trump recurred the presidency by fraud when immigrants procure their citizenship by fraud, we strip them of their citizenship could win a president procures his

presidency by fraud, should we consider doing the same? >> tucker: alan dershowitz is of course a retired harvard law school professor, the author of the book, joining us tonight. i have a couple of questions, but relating to the sound bite we played, is there a provision in the constitution for stripping whatever that means, stripping the presidency from a president who you think is whatever that means? >> sure, it is called the 25th amendment, but not on the grounds of illegitimacy. i want everyone to imagine the following scenario. let's assume when bill clinton was running for president, paula jones came up to him and said, unless you pay me $130,000 i will reveal our affair. let's assume that bill clinton and hillary clinton together did exactly what it is alleged that donald trump and michael cohen did together. i guarantee you that "the new york times," nbc, msnbc would be railing against any prosecutor who dared to suggest

that this was a violation of the campaign finance law. everybody would be on the other side of this issue. there will be republicans out there saying, strip them of the presidency. impeach him, indict him, every democrat would be saying, this is a witch hunt. is terrible. we need a single standard if you would not go after bill clinton, don't go after donald trump. if you are going after donald trump, then you have to go after hillary clinton for everything that she allegedly did. for example, one of your guests talk about the federal corrupt practices act. that applies when you bribe a foreign official. what they are arguing is that there was a rumor that maybe somebody offered putin a penthouse and a tower that trump was thinking of building in moscow, if that had been done and it would a violation of the federal corrupt practices act. but it is all based on

hypotheticals and may be powerless. i just want everybody to apply the issue on the other foot test. if hillary clinton were president and republicans were saying "lock her up" everybody was on the other side, screaming about how dare you extend statutes. how dear you expand the criteria for impeachment. now all of the liberal democrat fairweather libertarians are saying the hill with the constitution, the hill with civil liberties, get trumped, that is the most important consideration, get him by any means possible. this is such a danger to the constitutional system, that i would hope that a true civil libertarians would rebel against it as i am. >> tucker: is it unfair to describe this scenario as extortion? i say that i know something about your sex life and a secret that you want to keep hidden. unless you pay me money i will reveal it, that seems like textbook extortion, why is it

not? >> it is absolutely textbook extortion and there ought to be a prosecution of any person, man or woman who approaches any candidate or anybody else and says, unless you pay me money, i'm going to reveal a act that occurred. that is absolute extortion and it is shocking that the special counsel looking into this who has a broad mandate. it is not looking into the extortion committed by at least the porn star whose lawyer approach the candidate or the candidates people and threaten exposure. otherwise why would you not paid to listen to the tape? the tape makes that clear, that he made of president trump, it is clear that they were paying off extortion in order to prevent these issues from coming out for multiple reasons, to protect his family.

and protect their brand, and the campaign. let's remember one more thing, the president can contribute to a candidate as much as he wants. if bloomberg runs for president, he could announce tomorrow i'm not taking a nickel. i'm putting $1 billion of my own money into this campaign. that is perfectly legitimate. as far as it is concerned, it is a campaign that has to report. and if these payments had to be reported, they had to be reported after the election. they were porting time was after the election. so it could not have impacted the election. so the absurd notion that he won the presidency by fraud and should be stripped of the presidency reflects incredible ignorance about the timing here and how the statutes operate. >> tucker: this is getting so crazy it is making my head spin. i appreciate you coming on in explaining this to us. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: we have been saying it for a couple of years, we have hard scientific evidence that impact big tech is altering and harming the brains of children. is it time to doing something --

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congress has called the ceo of google to answer some conversations about data transparency. what should congress ask him about? following the issue may be more closely than any other attorney, thank you very much for coming on paid what should be the list of questions? >> this is only a subset of the issues that people should be asking google that is the subject of the testimony tomorrow. but google for years as he pointed out has been collecting data and not disclosing to users number one the extent of the collection of the data or what they are doing with the data, we have known of breaches, including today a breach of 52.5 million users in the google+ failed experiment in social media, it is not clear when that happen, google is not it disclosing people what it happened and what he was has been made of it, as i point out they get away with it, because they have a seat of politicians in washington even on the

republican side, and the agency's past, it is to examine the issues and protect consumers. consumers are at a complete loss paid what i expect to happen on capitol hill is that there will be some posturing questions written by staffers and members of congress that they will read out and you will have some focus group tested jargony incomprehensible responses from impeaching folks to do a little bit of a dance, and everybody will go home not understanding what the answers were and probably not doing anything about it, this is a real tragedy and missed opportunity, tucker. >> tucker: what a shame, i will ask you another element of the google story, several google employees plotted to get rid of breitbart after the 2016 election, labeled the resist, google employees discussed how they could use the "hate speech" and fake news labels to justify cutting off breitbart's ad revenues. this is kind of the stuff of

conservative fever dreams that google would be actually doing something like this. are you surprised by it? and what can be done? >> a, am not surprised, google is denying it, but there is extensive evidence that they did it. and they did it in two ways. one way was after the election as he mentioned a number of excitable left-wing google executives and employees tried to squeeze breitbart and other conservative outlets into this hate speech category. they then confessed that after a lot of effort that was really tough. so they also did a two pronged approach, and having their ad people contact customers and tell them that it might be dangerous or a bad idea to advertise or allow the ads to be placed on conservative new websites like breitbart and others. and pointed to some outside groups like sleeping giant that makes it a business practice of defaming conservative writers in organizations and using that as a smear. google also does this and many

other ways like through its youtube and categories as content as sensitive, which automatically both makes it hard to find the content online and also strips that content from the ability to gain advertising revenue. so google is doing this systematically, they are doing it purposefully. and i think that it violates not just some laws including decency act, but it violates state laws that have to do with fraud and transparency on business practices and constitution, able to get away with this, because they contribute to some conservative groups like sea packet, a lot of money to show up, and certainly on capitol hill, they get away with it. and we see nothing done to control this duopoly, monopoly on advertising revenue. it is very dangerous, because of the shaping of what young people in america who mainly get their news through google see every day. >> tucker: looking back, the congress allowing google to become more powerful, subverting the democracy completely, that

will be the thing that we hold them for. harmeet dhillon, you are the voice on the right side. thank you for joining us as always. >> thank you, tucker played >> tucker: meanwhile, we have been saying it for years, now they are the hard sign evidence that big tech is harming children. the 60 minutes highlighted research that says that children who use tablets, smartphones, and other screens more than seven hours a day, and that is a lot of kids, believe it or not are developing different brain structures. their brains are being damaged by this. a psychotherapist who has written on the subject, he join. you must feel vindicated by this report, tom. >> i do, i'm happy to be see it -- -- to see it, and lookingt it in my book, we can have some scientifc evidence showing exactly what all of the tech is doing to the brain. >> tucker: what is it doing? >> the area of the brain called the cortex, the outer layer of the brain, the preliminary study that the research has conducted

shows a premature thinning of that part of the brain. which is kind of frightening considering the importance of the part of the brain, what it does how it is very important for human beings in terms of organizing, planning, and a host of other different things. another component that you do not hear much about something called neural plasticity. which is actually the greatest breakthrough in modern psychology. that means that the brain although very strong and rigid, can be molded and shaped if placed in the right environment for three or more hours per day. we know that the average kid is spending nine hours a day on average in what i consider to be the highly stimulating worlds, and what happens is that the brain will grow new neural pathways, the circuitry to adapt to the cyber world. and the problem is what i am seeing clinically is an unadapting of young kids in the real world, having a very difficult time coping with just those trivial nuances of life and the anxiety disorders, the

depressions and so forth. >> tucker: all kinds of measuring measurements are showing how horrifying this is. how young our kids getting addicted? >> there is some research that showed that kids as young as two years old showing signs of depression. and right now the average age for smartphone issuances about age ten. and i give lectures, every parent knows that this is bad, but when you talk about it, you love the term "groupthink" i love the term social conformity. and parents, you have to do it is in the best interest of your child, not what everybody else around you is doing. >> tucker: can you give me the 20 second answer with the question then i ask you, why are we so passive in the face of this? of 2-year-olds were huffing on marbles, we would say, no. but we let our society collapse, why? >> i always talk about common sense, it is pretty clear if we walk around and everybody has their heads buried in a device

all day long, you pull up to a traffic light and they cannot even contain themselves for a minute without looking at their device. it is pretty clear that it is having an impact on their behavior. the reason that nobody is doing anything about it, because we are looking for scientific evidence, and now we have some of it. we will see more of it. and we will start seeing some changes as a result, tucker. >> tucker: we waited too long for the studies to confirm the obvious. thank you so much. hollywood does not need to remake 1984 again, not that they would, it is probably illegal, but they do a perfect job of replicating it in real life. they are living the plot line of george elwell's novel, kevin hart is the latest person to be destroyed for statements many years ago. we will tell you his story after the break. ♪

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larry alger has fought the forces of conformity for a long time, a radio show host from los angeles paid a really great to have you. what is the take away from watching what just happened to kevin hart? >> the take away is what the devil are the rules? as he pointed out, kevin hart did these tweets years ago and made antigay references in his stand up. he apologized back in 2015. the academy award, people wanted him to apologize again, he refused. now the show will be carried by abc. abc, parent company is disney, disney owns espn, they have employed keith olbermann, who is a term paid her from way back and just last year he tweeted that trump was a and dropped a bunch of f-bombs in his tweet, but kevin hart has to go. the other inconsistency is that other comedians like amy schumer last year i think it was hosted a democratic fund-raiser has used the f-word for gay in a

tweet. as has sarah silverman, and chelsea handler who have hosted shows, and have the instances of joy and read on msnbc who had a blog in 2007-2008, and antigay posts that she was -- not joking, but talking about broke back mountain saying that she hated men kiss. she apologized and then later on she said that she was hacked, nbc did a search to find out whether she was hacked, she was not hacked, so she misremembered or lied and then apologized again. she has the show on msnbc. so forgive kevin hart for not knowing what the rules are. >> tucker: what is the best response? you are absolutely right, all of us at some point will be accused of thought crime and the mob will come for us, it is inevitable, how do we respond? what is the best way to respond? >> on a case-by-case basis, he said that he had grown. the most horrific tweets was saying that if he came home and saw his son playing with his daughter's doll house he would break the doll house over his head.

he later on said that he apologized coming as grown as a man, and perhaps the tweet had to do with his own insecurities as a man. i think that's what you do. you apologize and be sincere and keep going. but if people keep beating you over the head over and over again, they are not going to forgive you. i'm not sure what the point is, which is why i believe that kevin hart was morally justified in saying that i have already apologized. i'm not going to apologize again. i'm a 40-year-old man. i've grown, let it alone. >> tucker: what happens to a society where the mob feels it has ultimate authority on judgment, nobody believes in god so they have to make their own judgments. hard and fast judgments, and no forgiveness is allowed? >> what happens to a society that is so inconsistent, for example, kanye west is being called an uncle tom and a token but a house, that does not seem to bother anybody. you have a guy like alan sharp who has a show that he referred to gays as's, as interlopers, he accused the white man of rating a white teenager, and has a

show every weekend. so i'm not exactly sure what to say other than it is terribly inconsistent, and seems to be the one wolf that people are conservative, and one people on the left. >> tucker: it is best to ignore the noise coming you do have a an awful lot of power, larry elder, we are rooting for you. you always have a home on the show. >> i can use to help, thank you. >> tucker: china just launched a new persecution of the country's christians, anyone in washington care? or are they too busy taking chinese money? plus paris continues to be convulsed by the worst riots in 50 years, one of these riots, they are about the paris climate treaty, the spirit of it anyway? the policy that they'd want here are being rejected by left and right in france and are ignoring it because it is too inconvenient to pay attention, the tail ahead. ♪

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>> tucker: china has launched a new crackdown, how many stories begin with that sentence? china has launched a new crackdown, many. and once again a new crackdown on the underground christian community. coordinated sweep of nighttime raids, police rounding up 100 members and the pastor of the early rain covenant church because it does not submit to government control, it is illegal in china and members have been forbidden from attending services come the latest in the persecution wave that is shut down several different churches for thousands of different church members. this is what actual over religious oppression looks like, but the ruling class boycotting north carolina over the bathroom laws do not care at all. none of them calling for boycotts or sanctions on china, know which onset against the university businesses and

lobbyist with financial ties to china as a regime, and china is the future, if anything it is the country that we ought to emulate, remember that after they lecture you about how their values are better than yours. the war in afghanistan has continued for 17 years, the longest war in the history of this country, we are still spending billions they are, american soldiers are still dying there, and it might all be worth it if we were still fighting for victory, but are we fighting for victory? in a newly leaked audiotape, former nato commander tell secretary of state mike pompeo of the war in afghanistan should be fought. not exactly the opening speech from patton. "my best suggestion, he says is to keep a limited number of forces there and just kind of muddle along and see what we can do." now muddle along is not a strategy for anything much less victory. it is a strategy to waste american money and lives for no reason at all. if u.s. troops are going to muddle along in a war, maybe it

is a sign that it is a war that we should not be fighting in the first place. if you can remember a year and a half ago on june 1st, 2017, the president announced that he was pulling this country out of the paris climate of chords to hear the politicians and television news react. you would think that it was the worst natural catastrophe ever. >> what happened yesterday on the climate issue is an embarrassment to our country. and it should be an embarrassment to him personally for how he enters to his grandchildren. >> people are going to die. that habitat will be destroyed. seas will rise, insects will spread. >> this will be the day that the united states resigned as a leader of the free world. >> he is not helping the forgotten american. he is hurting them. their kids will have worse asthma in the summer. the president who talks about putting america first has now put america last. >> tucker: these people are so stupid is this amazing that they

have jobs. the economy must be pretty strong if they have health insurance. one thing they said is true, people were hurt, but not because we pulled out, but because other people kept to the terms of the paris accord. including france. this fall france began to implement a gas tax to prevent climate change. now for the fourth week and in a row, the city of paris has been rocked by riots and mass protests. the city is burning and shows no signs of stopping. what did this? progressive climate policy. well, people formulated it ever admitted? of course not. they are too invested. while the press all of the sudden doing everything it can to kill elizabeth warren's presidential campaign before it even begins, that is interesting. is this a mercy killing? or something else going on, mark steyn joins us to unravel a delightful mystery after the break. ♪

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♪ >> now, the president likes to call my mom a liar good what do the facts say? speak of facts suggest that you have native american ancestry in your pedigree. >> and trump can say whatever he wants about me, but mocking native americans or immigrants to try to get at me, that's not what it is for. i'm not enrolled in a tribe, and only tribes declared tribal citizenship. i respect that distinction, but my family history is my family history. >> tucker: you really cannot watch that enough. it really should be a screen saver. this has not been the fall

elizabeth warren hope for. she thought that releasing a dna test showing that she might have had a loan american indian ancestor not necessarily from the continent a few years ago would silence the president and give her momentum going into the primaries next year. instead, even the left is turning on her. the two pieces in "the washington post," "the new york times" in the past week suggest that her campaign has been deeply, maybe even fatally wounded by the blunder of the dna test. it looks almost like an effort to kill elizabeth warren's campaign before she can embarrass her party, the one to which everyone in the media belongs before she actually runs. mark steyn is an author and columnist, not a conspiracy, and what we will run this by him anyway. what is going on? she has a media creation, not a genius, but she has been the subject of endless profiles in the press particularly by "the boston globe" that has promoted her for years. and now they are attacking her, why? >> that is interesting,

"the boston globe" is saying to elizabeth warren, you have to know when not to run. and this is the paper that has wanted her to run until she took -- until she got had faked into taking the dna test that showed that she was 1/1,024th native american. which is less native american than the average. i mean, you could kim jong un, vladimir putin, and they would be more than 1/1,024th native american just because some cherokee happened to change trains in odessa in 1852 and got lucky with one of the porters. anybody is more native american. and what is fascinating about this is that elizabeth warren was a test on the limits of democrat identity politics, because the recent presidential candidates have been sold on identity politics, but in rather

strange ways, so barack obama is an african-american, but he has nothing to do with the black experience or civil rights. he is black just because his father happen to be a british subject born in colonial kenya. barack obama was actually the first child of british subjects to be president. i believe since andrew jackson. so we tried to get himself in on the colonial thing. obama said his stepgrandfather in indonesia had died fighting dutch soldiers in the struggle for independence. in fact, it turned out that his stepgrandfather died when he fell off a chair while changing the drapes. that is not a joke. that is actually true. that is how his stepgrandfather died. and then you have hillary clinton who is running as a federalist icon and an ens only the candidate because she is the wife of the previous guy. and was given a senate seat for

standing by him when his interns dress wound up in the crime lab. so in such a world, you cannot blame elizabeth warren for saying if hillary can be a feminist icon, why can't i be the first native american president? she was harvard law school's first woman of color. that's why it is not a family law thing, she actually was promoted as harvard law school's first woman of color, why should she not be america's first native american president? >> tucker: [laughs] >> none of this identity politics, joe biden should run as the first transgender woman candidate and dared the democrat electorate to call him on it! >> tucker: i hope that he does not do that. mark steyn. we are out of time. >> thank you a lot, tucker. >> tucker: we will be right

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