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Different types of folk and that is a microcosm of our country. the revoking party has not recognize that. >> tucker: i lived in d.c. as a kid and it was a majority black city and the city government was majority african-american. you think they were making less good decisions because they were almost all one color? >> i dont know -- i didnt study d.c. politics. what i do know is that the policy represented the greater diversity that weve seen in our country. the republican party if you look at ...

Garden after what happened. i really wanted to cry. and when i say its not a game, they are treating it like a game but for the people that i represent and for people across the country, its not a game and a point that i was trying to make and the menu here and see that picture in the rose garden, you realize who it is, that is celebrating this and then hear that its all white boy, sorry to say it that way that are going to be doing this incentive, i get very concerned. >> tucker: the white boys...

Table, the possibility of future air strikes. does that make sense to you? no, i think what were seeing is a topsy-turvy, unpredictable foreign policy that changes by the day and what needs to happen is coherence in the foreign policy team and in the policy. the president needs to a lose date his end gate in syria and his objective and what came out of these conferences is the secretary of state, i think, is starting to build his stature, but he doesnt talk to the press. he should be making thes...

Missile strike, obama aides pushing back on criticism of the former presidents failure to follow through on the redline threat. they complain that they would not authorize action. former advisor ben rhodes also appearing to belittle the action pleading that obama was excoriated in d.c. for not taking a strike from an airfield in a few hours. and just after the strike on syria, the former state department official also talked of former president. >> the obama administration, we have been reckonin...

The soviet union did it with jack kennedy, this is a familiar pattern. and i think that if you live by bluster, to some extent, you end up paying the price for it. trump offered relatively facile criticism of president obama. do any of us really think hes thought out syrias role in the world and the balance of power in the middle east? i hope he has but i wouldnt bet my mortgage payment on it. and so hes -- i think to robins point, i think one of the great questions is not even whos making polic...

If you dont understand that, i dont think you should be in the business of making legislation or in the business of the leadership of enforcing. youre incapable of understanding that problem. >> tucker: that would disqualify virtually everyone in charge of making policy in the country except for about four people.em >> not everyone.un >> tucker: but most. there is this feeling that we dont have the moral standing in the west to criticize islamism. >> and they remind us that weis dont have that m...

Objective of the islamists. if you dont understand that i dont think you should be in the business of making legislation or in the business of the leadership of enforcing. youre incapable of understanding that problem. >> tucker: that would disqualify virtually everyone in charge of making policy in the country except for about four people. >> not everyone. >> tucker: about most. if there is this feeling that we dont have the moral standing in the west to criticize islamism. >> and they remind u...

Dont think you should be in the business of making legislation or in the business of the leadership of enforcing. youre incapable of understanding that problem. >> tucker: that would disqualify virtually everyone in charge of making policy in the country except for about four people. >> not everyone. >> tucker: about most. if there is this feeling that we dont have the moral standing in the west to criticize islamism. >> and they remind us that we dont have that moral standing because the islami...

Of making policy, mr. president. sort of same thing with immigration. its a really easy during campaign to talk about wall building and mass deportation forces. its a lot harder when youre governoring. i hope he moves. >> lets talk about on the same subject these things called skut nicks, named after president reagan in 1982 invited to the state of the union, he had rescued a drowning woman who was in a plane crash. since then presidents in the opposition party bring skut nicks to herald an amer...

To do. the question is where does that deference end? is he go to completely defer on issues he really seemed to disagree with before and continue to do that and have that become his policy? or will the policy be contradictory and confused confusing our allies and our foes. >> the u.n. ambassador is not the official making policy on russia. look, i think all of these things you are talking about, it is reality. it is why governing is harder than campaigning. it is easily to draw bright lines and...