york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner, he joins us tonight. give us a quick overview of what the president is considering declassifying, whether you think he will, and if he does what we re likely to learn from the documents. well, it does appear that he is likely to do. that the first thing that everyone mentions is essentially the rest of the carter page fisa application. remember, some of it was declassified and released. we all knew there were large parts of it that were blacked out. republicans have said why don t you just declassify the whole thing. if you don t want to do that here s about 20 pages we would like to see you declassify. the thinking is, that the president will probably declassify those 20 or so pages that he s been requested to do. now, the question then, of course, is what s in it. and i m told it would amy to something that would apply to something that we saw james comey say earlier this year, he was on special president talking
christopher, thanks for coming out tonight. thank you, tucker. good to talk to you again. tucker: so the response that we got, i don t want to belabor it or whine about it, the response was telling from the left when we asked on friday night is it really true this new national slogan, is it true that the less we have in common the stronger that we are. out of that, thinking about that, raised the question what is it that unites us as a country? why are we a country? well, i have to go back to my foundational roots as a christian and say fall himself 133, says behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to gather together in unit, from psalms. we re not a christian nation but we have foundational principles based in judeowe-christian morality. we had to come together as one. you had to bring the 13 colonies together and have something that was going to unite us. that s what we came together with the declaration of independence, and the
a tactic. keep in mind this show has argued consistently and persistently for almost two years that people should never be punished or rewarded on the basis of their skin color. unlike the left we don t believe your dna is the most important thing about you. each of us is an individual not a faceless member of a herd. we abhor defining people by race. that s one of the reasons we re not liberals. maybe we re being too literal. they don t think we re racist and probably wouldn t care the we were. al sharpton is in good standing. none of this is about race at all. they re trying to silence us, they don t want to answer the question. they don t want to answer it because they don t have an answer to it. think about that. america is a country the size of a continue in any event with 325 million people in it. what holds all of that together, what is glue? it doesn t need to be ethnicity
candidates? what can they do in 2020? a question almost nobody with a seems interested in even asking. they ought to be interested. mark steyn is an author and columnist, he joins us of the outlines are clear, google is the most powerful company in the world, they have a choke hold on human information, they can clearly guide the outcome of the election if they chose to do so. they tried to influence the last election. why shouldn t we be deeply concerned about this? we should be deeply concerned. as you said, russia, everyone goes bananas about they bought 100 grand worth of facebook ads. google is already more powerful in terms of its control over people s lives than almost every government on the planet. i would say arguably, it has more control over american lives than, say, the government of russia does as a practical matter. people are very naive about
that it played a central role, said it made up the bulk of the application.ap so i think of that is pretty much a confirmed fact, that it was a big part. on the other hand, there was other stuff. we know that the application mentioned carter page s history. he had been attempted there was an attempt by some russianst to recruit him a few years earlier. that was in the application. we don t know what is an arrest. that is what everybody hopes this declassification may bring us. tucker: yep. the obama administration used hillary clinton campaign documents to justify spying on hillary s opponent. that isll what we may learn. byron york, thank you. thank you, tucker. tucker: last week on this program, we raised an importante question, may be the most important question the country faces. what unites americans as a country? well, elites were not impressed by this at all. they are attacking us for raisingth this question. after the break, we all respond.