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There so they upgraded him as a permanent member of this group and they downgraded the chairman. now, i just want people to think about this tonight, and i love eds prospective on this, imagine if obama had said the chairman of the joint chiefs will come when i ask him to come in the room, but im putting the editor of buzzfeed on the principals committee. i mean, would republicans be -- have a mind-blowing experience or what? >> i have no problem putting steve bannon, whatever the president want...

Imagine if obama had said the chairman of the joint chiefs will come when i ask him to come in the room, but im putting the editor of buzzfeed on the principals committee. i mean, would republicans be -- ve a mind-blowing experience or what? >> i have no problem putting steve bannon, whatever the president wants him to. ed niese was counselor to the president, he served a similar role. the point you made earlier, the joint chiefs chairman is adviser to the president and secretary of defense by s...

Swift shutdown of all of the twitter accounts run by the department of interior. the accounts were all reactivated the next day and the park service apologized for the retweets. but the silencing of federal civil servants continued. on monday, scientists at the department of agriculture were reportedly banned from releasing taxpayer-funded research to the public. that ban was rescinded the next day after an outcry from the scientific community, according to buzzfeed. but employees from the depar...

That implicit point, that you are not going to cover racists like they have a legitimate point of view. >> tucker: i will tell you exactly how. clearly, buzzfeed news has a pretty open political agenda. masquerading as journalism. >> is it open or is it masquerading? >> tucker: it is open and obvious for those of us were trying to pay attention. i think you are hiding behind journalistic standards. the day the supreme court ruled on gay marriage, you wrote this, "the supreme court ruling today, ...

I mean its literally physically dangerous for the american troops who are in iraq right now. if the iraqis theyre serving alongside think that the united states has these members of our military in that country right now because it is now u.s. policy to take iraqs oil, that is very dangerous for american troops in that environment. like fighting isis wasnt dangerous enough. so we reported some of this on monday nights show. now we have something new. a long time middle east correspondent, really...

And i dont mean its dangerous in some academic geopolitical sense. i mean its literally physically dangerous for the american troops who are in iraq right now. if the iraqis theyre serving alongside think that the united states has these members of our military in that country right now because it is now u.s. policy to take iraqs oil, that is very dangerous for american troops in that environment. like fighting isis wasnt dangerous enough. so we reported some of this on monday nights show. now w...

Are not going to cover racists like they have a legitimate point of view. >> tucker: i will tell you exactly how. clearly, buzzfeed news has a pretty open political agenda. masquerading as journalism. >> is it open or is it masquerading? >> tucker: it is open and obvious for those of us were trying to pay attention. i think you are hiding behind journalistic standards. the day the supreme court ruled on gay marriage, you wrote this, "the supreme court ruling today, astonishing to me as much as w...

Stop making public comments since the inauguration. buzzfeed reports the department of agriculture told employees last night that an earlier e-mail barring some public communication was released without official guide apse and is hereby rescinded. reports of a communication lockdown now. this came from several media outlets, including nbc, after the interior department was temporarily banned from twitter friday after it retweeted a photo comparing the size of the 2009 and 2017 inauguration crowd...

Oil? >> im not going to talk about what we may or may not do. i think the president has been very clear he doesnt telegraph forward what taking options off the table. thats not a good negotiating skill. thats not how he works. those are reasons hes been successful at negotiating, because he does it in a way that doesnt telegraph to people what hes going to take on or off the table. >> whether or not you are going to talk about what we may or may not do, the fact that that is on the table makes t...

Table. >> whether or not you are going to talk about what we may or may not do, the fact that that is on the table makes this actually not a hypothetical scenario anymore because thats policy. thats now policy. the white house, president of the united states has just communicated to the american people and to the world that u.s. troops in oil-producing regions around the world might be there ttake the oil from these countries. that very well could be why theyre there. the u.s. reserves the right...