tucker carlson, the latest controversy involving him involves hid comments about russia and vladimir putin. he s been on the air with his soft spot for russia. he claimed russia does not hate americans as much as he called out liberal media. he said he was rooting for russia and walked it back like he was joking. watch. i m serious. why shouldn t i root for russia? i am. i m joking. i m only rooting for america. mocking as so many in the left have. tucker faced a backlash. russia s attempts to flood the media with misinformation is no joke. russians are working to sew through discord and false narratives designed to elicit
out, those individuals, there are these folks who are very quiet, behind the scenes, they re not folks going to appear on msnbc or fox. you know, some would call them back benchers. they have their nose to the grind, but they re paying attention, katie, and they re looking very discreetly at the information that s being pulled together by the democrats. that s the soft spot. the more credible that information is, the less partisan it is presented by nancy pelosi and the democratic committees, the more opportunity there is for these individuals to sort of move out of the silence and begin to voice publicly what they voiced privately. you ve heard it. i ve heard it. that there s a lot of damage here, that this is a problem, and that, yeah, this rises to an impeachable event. so that s what the that s what the front line of republicanism is now trying to build a wall to prevent from
if you don t want to be the candidate talking down the economy while people are doing well. president sees that s their soft spot right now. ainsley: he said something interesting about guns last night. i want to focus on the importance of mental health. we had these shootings recently. he said i vowed to uphold the second amendment. he said it s not the gun that pulls the trigger. it s the person holding the gun. i was reading an article this morning reminding us even though guns are terrible. mass shootings are terrible. drugs is what we need to focus on. people i do o die of drugs. more people lost in mass shootings. where do these drugs come from? many come from our southern border and the president talked about fixing immigration. listen to this. they excuse our heroic border agents of running concentration camps. [crowd boos] they do an incredible
about this embarrassing playpen-style behavior by our president. your thoughts? why is he this way? he has always been this way. he cannot take a slight and let will not let any insult go unpunished. that s what accounts for his rise in the republican primaries and what he has since taking office. he s a counterpuncher. his instinct is to fight and we see this in terms of campaigns and the day to day with the petty insults he hurls either on ontwitter or in news conferences or as you are seeing there outside the white house before leaving for japan earlier today. speaker pelosi, it s hard to believe there are democrats who weren t sure that she was up to the task to go toe to toe with president trump. she has done more than that. she still she bested him most days and most encounters. she knows his soft spot and invoked other presidents who were able to govern while being
most encounters. she knows his soft spot and invoked other presidents who governed while being under investigation and had to work with the other party on deals and big infrastructure and suggested he needs an intervention by family or staff and said she would pray for him, a bless your heart kind of sarcastic moment. the president can t take it. do you think he knew about the dirt by saying she was either incapable of putting a sentence together or saying she was tipsy? he didn t know about this stuff. do you believe him? it defies belief. he used video before in terms of attacks. today he is going after her mental ability and felt like a counter punch because she seemed to hint about his. this is what he does. he will fight on any level in order to score points and tries to wind that moment. there is no plan or attempt to be a statesman. it s about the political fight. there is an expression that