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We expect the house speaker to be holding her weekly news conference and one might even say likely talk about, as you can see the shot, president donald trump and his remarks that he would accept foreign interference -- or election information from a foreign government. props are being put on the stage. we want to talk about something else happening on the hill. a warning about something youve probably been hearing more and more about. something called deep fakes. it has the attention of lawma...

Policies, ratified by voters, you are subverting democracy itself. brennan obviously knows that he doesnt care. about the rest of us should care. fox senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. brit, thanks for coming on. so it seems to me that if you have a government where the elected leaders are ignored unilaterally by permanent employees in the bureaucracy, it doesnt matter what the political affiliations of anyone involved are. that is subverting democracy, isnt it. >> well, its be...

Basic level, all authority in representative democracy flows from voters. the president and the vice president are the only elected officials among the millions who work in the executive branch of government. if you subvert their policies, ratified by voters, you are subverting democracy itself. brennan obviously knows that he doesnt care. but the rest of us should care.. fox senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. brit, thanks for coming on. so it seems to me that if you have a gov...

. and now for my weekly memo to president trump, who on tuesday will deliver his state of the union address. sure, you saved some face, mr. trump, you get your moment to look the part of president. but before you stick your chest out too far, i want to issue you a challenge. see, for the past three years ive listened to you in speech after speech cast the state of our union as one of utter darkness, dangerous caravan at the southern border, constant exploitation by our global peers, except for...

Cheerleading this, talking about standards and norms, the blue check twitter 88, the norms are going away. the norms are changing, actually. they are driving the change in those norms. what does this mean, as a historian as you are, what does this mean for future administrations? is it okay for the unelected to run the government? >> that is what i am worried about. perhaps as penance for my past sins i was sent books by liberals all saying that the president is subverting democracy, and what i ...

Believe in the constitution. i will tell you why, because you are member of a party that is calling for removing a duly elected president from office without an election. >> i am not called for that. >> tucker: s what you make elizabeth warren calling for that today, in effect, saying his aides do not like him, we need to invoke the 20 for the amendment and remove him without an election. what do you think? >> i think we need to invoke democracy. we will do that in 60 days and we will conduct th...

Stupid people. we have decided to subvert the result of the 2016 elections. all of these people serve at the presidents pleasure and the idea that they can effectively nullify the election is actually disgraceful and depraved and decadent. >> tucker: but how are they exactly the same people who are forever lecturing us about the subversion of democracy? is mind-bending in its hypocrisy. >> right. if there is a huge element of projection here. by the way, i think that goes to the insanity, too. b...

Not even a straight a straightforward oligarchy. if the 500 smartest, wisest, most decent people in america suddenly overthrew our government and took over, things might actually improve, who knows. but that is not what is happening. instead, the assistant under secretary of god knows what has decided that he is in the king and you. were doing things his way or else. but he is not even admitting that he is doing that. he has not held a press conference to announce he is in charge. instead, he is...

From the president. he end of the vice president are the only ones in the building who have been installed by voters. no one else has. so when an executive branch employee subverts the president, he is subverting the will of voters and therefore the constitution. that used to be obvious, this is nots crazy new legal theory. it is the basis of our democrac democracy. and now it is crumbling care to trump won because he promised to do thinks that other politicians have been asked to do but failed ...

The subversion of standards and norms, the blue check twitter c idiot, "the norms are goingre away." the norms are changing, actually. they are driving the change in those norms. what does this mean, as a historian, as you are, what does this mean for future administrations? is it okay for the unelected to run the government? >> that is what i am worried about. perhaps as penance for my past sins i was sent books by liberals all saying that the president is subverting democracy, and what i found...