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Unfortunate. >> obviously hes not the coolest guy in the world. >> yeah, no. >> but isnt it getting silly every day, were exhuming bodies from the ground and taking down statues. >> when is this going to end. the confederate flag hasnt got more attention than now. its like a catch-22. it is getting silly. the silliest part is the apple story how apple is banning game thats have the confederate flag in them but they are historically accurate games, not like they are idolizing the confederal flag....

Protesters yanked down statues of lenin who, of course, led the russian revolution. and they accused president yanukovych of wanting too close of ties with russia. we like in alise labbot. alise, the ukrainian president, we know, has left kiev. hes reportedly saying he will not resign. hes digging in. what does all of this mean at this point? >> reporter: well, he may be digging in, christi, but its really unclear whether he can maintain his grip on power, because you see in the last couple of d...

Daniel davidson senior correspondent at the federalist. he joins us tonight. john, this does seem like a turning point somehow, not just on the right but also on the left, these events of the last two days and there seems to be a new intensity on the left. am i imagining that? >> no, youre not. and we do seem like we are at a turning point. but this has been coming down the pike for a number of years. i remember two years ago we had the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and had you ...

Revolution where they tore down statues, temples. >> tucker: thats exactly right. >> the whole thing even stomping on them. >> tucker: but move did that and the cam region did that and the taliban did that in afghanistan for political reasons. look, im not -- for whatever it is worth not sympathetic to confederacy im an american and insurrections, period. its not about that. the people who are attacking these statues know nothing about history. they dont know who robert e. lee was. they dont kno...

You, look at pictures of chinas cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples, the whole thing. even stomping on them. >> tucker: mao did that and that camera roosted that, and tr the political reasons, im not sympathetic to the confederacy, i im against insurrections. the people who are attacking the statues dont know who robert e. lee was, they dont know who stonewall jackson was. theyre trying to t delegitimize the this is transactional, theyre doing this to achieve a goal that is...

This is about political power and its about a small group of people on the left trying to exert outsized influence on american politics t by following in the footsteps of mao, of the armed thugs in the weimer republic, thef telegram. these are tactics that are well known. you start bynd tearing down statues and burning books and eventually you go after people. >> tucker: one of the ironies of all of this, its been interestinge to watch on the split screen, left and right its fighting each other,...

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