mark steyn, we will see you later in the show.always want to disarm the people they rule. they have to in order to rule in the manner they want. we will investigate that phenomenon. next. >> tucker: no country in the western hemisphere has failed more completely than venezuela. it had a lot going for it.'t it has a huge middle-class, and today it can't even feed itself. you know what happened, they were obvious and predictable and disastrous consequences but that's not the whole story of what happened. six years ago the government of venezuela passed a gun banan specifically designed to disarm the public. it did not make people safer. venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in the world. that wasn't the point of it. the point was to make the people powerless, and it definitely did that. as one terrified venezuelan put it, people never would've believed they indeed do defend themselves against the government. but of course they did. in the past two years, almost 200 protesters, pro-democracy protesters, have been murdered by

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mark steyn has more.of chicago, we have a exclusive investigation in some parts of the city that are war zones as you know. 3,000 people have been shot in chicago so far this year. almost 500 are dead. these levels of violence are matched by third world-style governance. police officers in chicago are worried that one judge there may be helping criminals get away with murder. fox news's matt finn to investigate. >> a brazen 2011 quadruple homicide caught on tape. four men walk into a convenience store on chicago's south side and open fire. a bloodbath killing four people including one of the suspects. a chicago law enforcement source tells fox news in addition to this shocking video, there was "more than enough physical, biological and firearms evidence to convict the suspects." yet all three were found not guilty. in her ruling, the judge wrote that the tape did not definitively i.d. any of the suspects and that there was no dna evidence linking the defendants to the crime scene. we spoke to rod trubinsk

author and columnist mark steyn joins us tonight, this guy was hiding in plain sight. >> this is a veryof story. the europeans and they enjoy it. they like to send their reporters out into the great wastelands of the american interior and report back that all the people there are inbred, stump tooth snake handling crazies who like nothing better than a jigger of moonshine and to bunk up with her sister before they go down to have their church renamed after trump and do a couple of scripture readings from the art of the deal. so basically this guy -- you laugh, but that is actually what these newspapers and want. i guy called matthew engel, his editors told him to go to the most backward parts of america and find the most inbred crazies to write about, and his heart wasn't really in it so he went to a suburban olive garden restaurant and wrote it up as if he was stanley in africa, discovering livingston. that's how they think of the interior of america. this guy was completely ridiculous. he said the town manager was a who had never been to the ocean and these guys in fergus falls post a

mark steyn.freshing to see you, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: a lot of people in france spent the weekend burning capital. most of the press in this country isn't interested in why it happened, and those who know aren't telling. they said they are lying. we will tell you why these riots are actually happening and it's fascinating and it says a lot about our country too. stay tuned. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! ♪ >> tucker: paris is on fire, the city is seeing some of its worst riots in half a century. what exactly is going one here? if you turn on the a televisiono other news outlets you wi

don't you assume my gender, mark steyn. >> mark: we are going to come up with a new pronoun just forou. thank you very much, michael. happy new year. let's hope for a manly new year for michael. >> a very manly christmas new year. >> mark: we wish you a manly christmas. president trump routinely refers to the russian investigation as a witch hunt. now, some real life witches are angry at him. cnn recently profiled witches who say that president trump's use of the term demeans the suffering of actual witches and war locks, if you'll find that masculine term. >> witches can decide with liberals. you know what any wish president trump would stop saying about the mueller investigation? >> it's a pitch hunt. that's all it is. a witch hunt. a russian witch hunt. this is witch hunt like nobody has ever seen before. >> reporter: the author of witchcraft activism calls the term -- >> really disgraceful. thousands were executed suspicion of witchcraft. >> they have a lot to be offended by. his use of the term witch hunt is very low on the list of priorities. it does demonstrate his ignorance,

[laughs] >> i'm going to cut you off, don't you assume my gender, mark steyn. k: we will come up with the new pronoun for you. thank you very much, and happy new year, let's hope for a manly newtm year for you. >> a very manly new year. >> mark: president trump routinely refers to the russian investigation as a witch hunt. and now some real life witches are angry angry at him. cnn recently profiled which is saying that trumps use of the term infers the suffering of actual witches and warlocks, if you pardon that masculine term. >> witches tend to side with liberals and you know what they wish president trump would stop saying about the mueller investigation? speak to this is a witch hunt like you've never seen before. >> author of the witch hunt of activism because the use of the president's term -- >> really disgraceful. thousands of people were executed in europe accused of witchcraft. >> does a lot to be offended about by donald trump, but that word is low on the list of priorities for many witches but it does demonstrate his ignorance as usual. >> i guess we

we begin talking to mark steyn right now.l around. great to see you. >> great to see you, brian. brian: how do you feel about the country's response to president bush 41? >> i am stunned by it. i think he deserved it but i didn't think americans responded like this. >> a lot to do how he lived his post-political life. he had a rich life. he had other interests. he wasn't consumed by politics. something actually bad and unfair happened to him in 1992 i think but he took it very well. he adjusted to it. he lived a full post-political life, for the last 25 years. and i think that plays a large part. he is an object lesson, how to live life after you've been president. ainsley: what stands out the most to you? >> in what he did, i think actually a lot of the world of the last 30 years was defined by him. after the fall of the berlin wall, the germans wanted reunification. mrs. thatcher for example, objected to it very strenuously. in fact that george h.w. bush agreed with the germans on unification, created the map of the new eur

have you taken any of his classes, mark steyn?no, and the reason is, this is because 50 years ago, this kind of shallow banality would have been the province of a drunk undergraduate at three in the morning. i mean, basically the idea that god has gotten the virgin mary back to his pad and she is saying, i really must go, and he isnd saying, baby it's cold outside and put some records on while i poor, i miss the days when atheists were at least intelligent enough to take seriously what they were forcing to knock down. the stupidity and banality and shallowness and productiveness of this is a dismal comment on the state of atheism in america. >> tucker: it's not even brave. they have never criticized jeff bezos, the richest man in the world, or apple, tim cook in google. they suck up to people in power and beat up on evangelicals, and call themselves rebels. >> and they don't seem to make the same kind of ramadan jokes. it's all bad, isn't it? i wonder why that is, tucker? >> tucker: so you mean, this community college professor, w

griff: >> that is a great line. >> mark steyn.as holiday. here is how some in the media responded, including a national security analyst? watch. >> presidential trips like this are often to tell the military how much their service matters to the country and why their on going mission is so critical to the safety and security of the american people. this was a little bit different. the president seems to have confused in some way this troop visit with a campaign rally by raising things like the border wall and things that he has done for them. pete: is the president confused, mark? >> no, i think these guys are confused. i realize everything is a crime in america, very litigious society, but the ideas, guys, soldiers in these thankless camps, one of our allied prime ministers said to me, he went to them. you've been to them, i've been to them. they're like crusader forts. you are in there. you can't go outside. outside all kind of people want to kill you. it is psychologically stressful just being in those crusader forts. the idea

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" i'm mark steyn in for tucker.he will join us later to discuss the ongoing collapse of men in america. first another liberal media meltdown. taking the opportunity to turn an american visi a preside. accuse the president of turning the post christmas visit into a political event. >> from a national security perspective, for all the reasons

ist >> i'm going to go out with mark steyn. he's a political commentator, but also a funny guy.a few dates in the northeast corridor. i think it's like rochester, new york, and syracuse, and -- >> jimmy: oh, fun. >> yeah. although i just found out -- well, i'm looking at the syracuse ticket dates and it's not selling that well. but the other three are doing well. i look at syracuse -- we're in the small town of syracuse, and the same night they booked us in there, syracuse's college basketball team is playing duke. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: just no. you can't -- >> yeah. it'd be like going in to do kabuki the day they signed the armistice or something. [ laughter ] you know, it's just like the -- the silliest booking. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. silly, but -- guys, if you're in syracuse, tape the game. >> yeah. no one tell anyone, no spoilers. and go see dennis miller. yeah. >> wait a second. wait a second, jimmy. >> jimmy: whoa, whoa, whoa. oh, my gosh. >> i signed up for alerts, and this one just came in. it's -- i get notifications on what's going to happen that day for the priyanka

♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" i'm mark steyn in for tucker. sleeping off his boxing day back but he will join us later to discuss the ongoing collapse of men in america. first another liberal media meltdown. taking the opportunity to turn an american visi a preside. accuse the president of turning the post christmas visit into a political event. >> from a national security perspective, for all the reasons that you just listed, the president should have stayed home. >> the reason he went now is that he couldn't go to mar-a-lago because the government was shut down. he is like the grinch. instead of i'm being honest. >> we should also be concerned that mr. trump once again used a captive audience of american heroes to push his unpopular domestic agenda. even in doing something right he figures out a way to sow chaos. >> it took far too long especially compared to president obama who visited troops in iraq in his first three months in office. >> over at cnn, attacking the president wasn't enough, they decided to attack the troops as well. >> the