thank you for coming on. thank you for having me.r: tucker: we have a legitimate news. this comes from reuters. the defense secretary was asked specifically, the question we ask on monday, the one that you called us traitors for asking, do we know that assad is behind the gas attack? this is with the secretary just said. we are still assessing the intelligence, ourhe self and allies, we are still working on this. so as with the gas attack last year, last april, the secretary of defense, who would know, has not confirmed that we know the assad government did it. so why am i unpatriotic for asking the same question? i did not call you a traitor or unpatriotic. tucker: yes, you did. you called me, i m quoting, an ostensibly unpatriotic politico in i m not attacg you. you are attacking me for asking the most basic of all questions, and it turns out that the
you would think our policymakers would keep that question foremost in mind always, they don t. they consider the effect on k america an irrelevant consideration, even offensive. they are highly annoyed when you ask about it, like only an agent of a foreign government would want to know how a u.s.-led war might help the u.s. it s easy to understand why other countries might want us to attack syria. china, for example. they would be thrilled by it. if you sought to displace america as the leader of the road, you would wanted to weaken the military and go broke and nothing can change that faster than a war as we proved in the recent past. basic questions. no one bothered to answer them or even engagee. he didn t even try to explain how a war there might even help the u.s., instead he suggests we were agents of putin. the rhetoric of the left has corrupted establishment republicans in washington and that is not surprising. the two groups have a lot in
terrifying. on monday night, we spent more than 15 minutes talking about that.on we asked what seemed like mostth we asked what seemed like most basic questions, questions the geniuses on the other channels ought to be asking, but are not. we are told we must attack syria to punish president assad for launching a chemical attack. it s our moral duty to uphold international behavior and punish war criminals like assado okay, but are we sure that he was responsible for the gas attacks? many people claim he was, they started claiming that within hours of the attacks before any of those facts were known. and they re still claiming it. where s the proof? they have provided no proof, they ve just made loud noises and denounced the question askers. that s not enough.ot as american citizens, we have a right to know why we re doing this. the second question we asked monday was how would attacking syria help the united states? how would it help make us richer, safer, or happier?
attention to them and less attentive the people coming here illegally to replace them. is that ever occur to you? i think it is absurd to ask about question of me. i represent 750,000 americans who live in my district. and to say that i don t care about middle-class families because they care about everyone who lives in my district is absurd. the fact is, there is one reason why people are leaving about us because of the high cost of housing. and if we had and employer after employer says, i ve got to pay a very high wage for people to be able to afford a house. keep in mind, that s a good problem. tucker: housing product on mike markets are affected by government policies. there is a reason why california has more expensive estate. these are middle-class concerns. this is what you y said would laura ingraham ask you, ifd, iu want less crime, moved to the cayman islands. figure the point i was making was to rebut the races beginning of her show, where should she
if it was launched by rebel groups, then we probably wouldn t attack the syrian army in response. so who did it is the question? and the u.s. government has not definitively determined that. that is all i said on monday and you accused me of defending what you said is that this was a propaganda designed to manipulate the american public opinion, , i sincerely questiong the trump administration, suggesting may have misled the public into more. tucker: hold on, i m questioning anyone who states as fact what he doesn t know is fact. it is propaganda to say something that you don t know is true, and pretend that you do know it. we do know that the rebels do not have an air force. we know that these were, delivered by air. we know they contain they are delivered by canisters, they have been appearing in a variety of different places, compression, which is what you need to use a precursor for a sarin nerve gas. that is information delivered to us by people on the ground. we do not