if you remember in 2016 president trump made his pro-life position a promise to evangelicals. he went after hillary clinton for her defense of abortion and late-term abortions. so, if pete buttigieg finds his way on stage against president trump or if he finds his way on to the stage against vice president pence competing for the vice presidency, he is going to have to answer about why he has been quiet for so long. tucker: yeah. he doesn t want to upset his donors i would guess. philip, thank you so much for that update. thank you, sir. tucker: mayor buttigieg may be the self-promoting holy man in the democratic party. he is not the only one using religion as a political weapon, ilhan omar declared that a cudgel as he would say. voters have a religious obligation to support the democratic party. watch this. make sure you are voting. make sure you understand why you are voting. god expects us to do the righteous work and so god
whether joe biden is equipped to withstand the very grueling campaign. we choose truth over facts. now, biden maintains his flubs would not impact his ability to make presidential decisions, but this campaign video is hoping to exploit a weak spot. watch again. play the radio. make sure the television excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the phone. for his part, joe biden says he will release the results of his next physical exam. tucker? tucker: trace gallagher. a writer called george packer just wrote a remarkable piece for the atlantic magazine about has experience sending two children to the new york city public school. over the course of a decade, packer writes that he watched as his children s school shifted their agenda from education to the full-time pursuit of a radical woke ideology.
in philadelphia. in krazner s first year the homicide rate rose 12%. levels not seen and more than a decade. he is one of those victims. you see your son laying on a table not moving at all. it was very emotional. and then to go to the funeral home to see your son laying in the casket. it was the worst. it was the worst thing to ever happen. tucker: it was easy case for prosecutors. the murder was caught on surveillance tape and the killer confessed. the shooter stuck the gun in the car and shot my son one time in the left of his the back of his head. if you can t tell me that s not premeditated i don t know what i don t know what else to say about that. that was cold blood killing. they set my son up on video. tucker: despite having a confession he downgraded his sentence to third degree murder. a charge usually reserved for unintentional killings. instead of getting life in
witness did not speak to and is not speaking and he is said by friends this happened, right? it isn t even a firsthand account. right there you have a huge strike against you if you are trying to get the story into print in the old new york times, right? and then on top of that, you have the fact that the woman herself is not talking, the alleged victim is not talking and has told and she has told friends that she didn t remember this. so, i can only imagine what would have happened back in my newspaper days if i went to an editor and said this is what i have got. i can just see him picking up the copy and throwing it across the room and you couldn t get anywhere near this is nowhere near publishable. it s not even remotely close. tucker: they kind of gamely defend themselves by saying the editor did. this now, a lot of writers, i m one of them. you had a book excerpted in print, right? they take your book and make a newspaper piece out of it. right. you watch pretty carefu
clearly trying to appeal to which i would submit they are probably a part of. tucker: leaving out critically relevant facts like the fact that the supposed victim didn t remember the assault is a kind of dishonesty and it devalues the currency of the paper. whatever you think of the times it s obviously liberal they get the facts right. what happens if they don t get the facts right. the representation declines. when he was the curmudgeonly editor for many years. i went to see him about a job years ago back in the 1970s. he was eccentric guy but he was a very strong editor. he said to me when i m gone, he said, i want it to be said of me, quote: he kept the paper straight. that actually is on his grave stone. and i remember thinking at the time the new york times was the straightest newspaper anywhere. it was the bible. it was the reliable source. when i was covering