i've never heard of mike burgess, no offense, but you are setting a republican member of congress whoear-olds to vote? >> mike burgess. >> tucker: i'm not a partisan guy, i like to assess the ideas on their own terms and the idea isn't same no matter who is for it. >> let's talk about the idea, 16-year-olds have the right to drive, they have the ability to work. and they pay taxes. in 1971, tucker, we had this discussion in 1971 as a country. we changed the age then from 21 to 18, that was actually a very popular republican agenda. >> tucker: whatever. >> even by nixon ceremonial. >> tucker: so you are for nixon now? >> say that again? >> tucker: you are for nixon now? >> no, and for the idea in the discussion that we moved 21 to 18 for a reason. can you tell me the reason that we moved it to 18? >> i am familiar with it, i'm just wondering, 18 is not 16, we do not go to 16. >> let's give me the opportunity to actually talk about it. >> tucker: hit me with the core argument. >> we did it for 18-year-olds because i could pay taxes, work, and that was illegal working status or age in th

shannon: something from mike burgess, a republican from texas who says those who pay taxes should haves a teen i work and pay taxes. this week i voted for an amendment that would give young adults the right to vote. it failed by a wide margin. i support policies that encourage work and this could be part of the conversation. if you are paying taxes why not? >> these are 16-year-olds, we have lawmakers, mostly democrats who are pushing to raise the smoking age to 21 because they are not adults because people can't make their own decisions, this is outrageous, 60-year-olds, some have summer jobs, part-time jobs, some work full-time jobs but that doesn't make me comfortable with the idea they will make a decision for a national election that affect all of us. you had mentioned they are starting to learn the basics about the constitution and our government and how things work and richard brings up the point this -- there going to protest and that is because a lot of their instructors and teachers are liberals, giving class credit for them to attend these eventss. >> if you listen to the ex

myself,most children, mike burgess, who developed measles -- >> myself. >> and many people on the committee who got measles, recovered completely. but you ask yourself, is there a potential to be deadly? unequivocallyus that's the case, because when you were talking about the measles vaccine before we vaccinated here in the united states in the early to mid-60's, to 500 deaths directly due to measles. prior to the measles vaccine globally, there were over one million. one to two million deaths in the year. as dr. messonnier said, in direct answer to your question, deadly?tentially absolutely. >> i think that's very important. thank you. that deeply should concern all of us. and over the past two weeks, a has sprouted in my with four of illinois confirmed cases in champagne county. the home of the university of illinois. it happens to be my alma mater. and i'm trying to understand what has happened between 2000 and why we've fallen so the public health success stories when the c.d.c. actually said that we had united statesthe measles in 2000. no.dr. messonnier, yes or do you believe the prim