ain t going to happen because of you and me. tucker: do we know that when would it have happened? when would the next ice age have happened? is that your question? tucker: what would here is the point that i hope our viewers can understand. i m not in any way denying that climate is changing, immoderately open to the i am open to the possibility possibility that the changes that the changes caused by man. i merely calling into question your claim that all of this is settled. that we know precisely what is happening and why and that anyone who asks pointed questions about it isb a denier who ought to be in prison or shouted off the stage. that is your word. that is not my claim.uo tucker: would you like me to read your quote? people who disagree with you all to potentially go to jail? you said that. i m not sure that s what i said, mr. carlson. we can talk about that shortly.s tucker: it is appropriate to jail the guys from enron? the cigarette industry who promised it
monuments, i get that. here is my ld it s not that i m offended, it s an offense et to the united states of america, to honor war criminals, to honor those traitors to our country. tucker: they certainly weree traitors to our country, they started their own country. traitors and human rights violators. there is no country on then planet, no society that would honor those. people with credentials like that. tucker: except ours because it was a civil war.it i agree with your definition. they were traitors to america but then they came backck into america, they reintegrated into america, and then it came back absolutely. they lost the war. tucker: thank god they w did. it was a civil war. it does a little more complicated than that. here is my question.is does your view of this apply to all slaveholders or just civil war figures? it is not just civil war figures but civil war
that? is assad a good guy?? tucker: i don t know. ask the christians and who live in syria. if we align with russia, we are aligning with iran. we are aligning with assad. tucker: that s bad for american interests because why? do you think iran is good for american interests? tucker: i think iran is a bad country and in a lot of ways against american interests. but within the context of syria, assad was much better for americaa than the people i believe you hope to replace it with. the kurds? tucker: the kurds are going to run syria? now we are in fantasyland. they are going to have an independent i am not going to break it out.i tucker: because it worked so well in iraq? the problem with iraq was in 2003, when we had the chance, we didn t break it up. tucker: we didn t break it up. w last question, and would you knowing what you know now i hate to revisit this, knowing what you know now, deposing saddam, his subsequent death, empowered iran dramatically a
it s not an issue of them being erased from history. it s being not celebrated. if you put your name on a building you are being: celebrated. tucker: if you live in washington okay. the city i live in is named after the founder of the country, the first president, whose plantation, which was populated by slaves, is right on the road at mount vernon.mo so this is not a rhetorical question, the real question. should we change the name of the capital of the country? what should we do about george washington?e george washington is not a confederate general. george washington is the founder of a country and put his life on the line in order to do so.ed he was a flawed human being but he created a great thing. he was part of a great creation that is self perpetuating and self-correcting. that is what the process is about. c so the fact is that right now we can get to george washington in washington, d.c., but we need to take care of these confederate statues right now. tucker: let
think that was a wise idea? do you think there are any lessons going forward that when you take out a secular leader, the vacuum is filled by even worse people? i think that is a valid point, in 2003, we did a great a great staying inexcusably badly. we believed any iraqi emigre who spoke english with an oxford accented more a well tailored i suit our intentions are great but if i had to do it over again, no, i would not get ridit of saddam hussein because we hadn t thought it through. i tucker: this wasn t the only russia hawk who became extremely agitated when asked obvious questions. just a day later, we had on max exceeded him have in affected outrage. watch. let me ask you a question. if we were to follow the course of action you are suggesting wem follow, you are demanding we follow on moral grounds, having i what course of action is