it was really wonderful because animal got to meet a lot of new friends. a lot of new friends. did you find that the syrian little girls and little boys were a lot like your friends here in america? yeah, they really were. it was very interesting because they like to play and learn, just like elmo and all of his friends at sesame street . tucker: [laughs] come on. it s a little funny, he is a little cute. also, there is a question to the guy that was with them with the international rescue committee, who took a swipe at the u.s. policies regarding refugees. also, tucker, this comes on the heels of the supreme court decision regarding the travel ban come affirming some of it. tucker: how great would it be if they cnn reporter asked if they were the same, and elmo said, they were totally different. [laughter] that would have been a funny segment rates because they probably wouldn t have aired on cnn. it would not be on cnn. tucker: can you get weirder? i am with elmo on
of restraint and realism, would find a very supportive tucker: that was his campaign. that was the president s campaign. when i am struck by is this russia stuff. liberals, and some conservatives, mccain, lindsey graham, out there basically agitating, looks to me like, agitating for conflict with russia. this is an active war. why the focus from liberals on russia and there is a bellicose way? i don t understand it. i part ways with a lot of my liberal progressive friends. the nation has supported on investigation, a special counsel investigation, into alleged interference in the election. what i think is dangerous it s out of balance. i think we need to look very hard at the importance of how the working relationship with russia. we are on the cusp of an escalating arms crisis. very, very dangerous. you need russia to resolve the crisis in syria, which we were talking about.
few weeks. it is the nearest thing to real news. tucker: it sad. they there are a lot of talented people. i worked there. they are smart, serious people, but they are being pushed to the side of. what about the prediction you heard rush limbaugh, who use it in for sometimes, say that they are going to be a casualty of the trump administration? i think that is likely. the argument that van jones was saying, that it s a nothing burger, but it s ratings, that is true in the short term. but there are diminishing returns to this. it s a russian investigation with no russians. the only russian anyone s ever mentions is the ambassador, who was strolling around lunging all over the district of columbia. he is the only sinister russian in this story. it s a russian investigation without any russians. at some point, it will be like one of those russian dolls that all the tourist light, you open the big russian doll, there is a
what s in your wallet? tucker: the united states could very well be on the brink of greater military intervention in syria. we are not being paranoid. all of the signs are there. but for some reason, the run-up is not getting a lot of attention. with very little fanfare come on monday night, the administration said at identify the possible preparations for the president of syria, bashar al-assad, to make another chemical weapons attack by the white house address to these preparations could trigger new military strikes on the country, similar to the ones we saw launched last april. his escalation in syria a wise idea? is very popular in washington. one of the point, why is no one debating it? the editor of the nation joins us tonight. thank you for joining us. i was really struck. the washington establishment, republicans and democrats, really hate the president, they are threatened by him, they don t like him. the only moment in seven months that he has been in office since
tucker: the united states could very well be on the brink of greater military intervention in syria. we are not being paranoid. all of the signs are there. but for some reason, the run-up is not getting a lot of attention. with very little fanfare come on monday night, the administration said at identify the possible preparations for the president of syria, bashar al-assad, to make another chemical weapons attack by the white house address to these preparations could trigger new military strikes on the country, similar to the ones we saw launched last april. his escalation in syria a wise idea? is very popular in washington. one of the point, why is no one debating it? the editor of the nation joins us tonight. thank you for joining us. i was really struck. the washington establishment, republicans and democrats, really hate the president, they are threatened by him, they don t like him. the only moment in seven months that he has been in office since