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this hour." thank you for being here. im kate bolduan. russia unleashing missiles across ukraine. few cities were spared in what could be the broadest assault since the invasion began. dozens more injured. v vladimir putin is posting about the strikes. he said theyre in retaliation over the weekend of a key bridge linking russia to annexed crimea and accusing ukraine of terrorism as imangs like these are broadcast all over the world. the ukraine president is holding emergency talks wit...

He wrote tens of thousands of jokes in his career. Among those who told them were Dick Gregory, Jack Paar, Red Skelton — and, for a while, President Gerald R. Ford.

Made me feel right at home. >> tucker: its a little ham-handed i would say. youre a working comedian. thats why im so grateful youre on. what is your life like now? >> well, it is getting very sensitive. and i think this is obviously an outlier. but i think the reason that i made a stand on this issue is i dont want this to get worse and continue. >> tucker: so striking that this is being applied to comedians, theyre being applied to all of us, were all terrified. all of us live in fear and free...

>> tucker: its a little ham-handed i would say. you are a working comedian. why im grateful you are on. what is your life like now? >> well, it is getting very sensitive. this is an outlier. no one could suggest that every university or college is like this. but the reason i made a stand on this issue i dont want it to get worse. >> tucker: yes. >> i dont want it to continue. >> tucker: but it is so striking this is applied to comedians, the standards. theyre applied to all of us. we are all ter...

>> tucker: its a little ham-handed i would say. you are a working comedian. why im grateful you are on. what is your life like now? >> well, it is getting very sensitive. this is an outlier. no one could suggest that every university or college is like this. but the reason i made a stand on this issue i dont want it to get worse. >> tucker: yes. >> i dont want it to continue. >> tucker: but it is so striking this is applied to comedians, the standards. theyre applied to all of us. we are all ter...

Try and find the office of the person in question. senator al franken, democrat of minnesota, who is facing an allegation from a woman who claims that she was on a uso tour with him before he was a united states senator. this would have been in his capacity as a professional working comedian. and the allegations that she lines up are that she was assigned to play opposite him in a skit that involved then kissing on stage as a gag and that throughout the course of this, that he essentially asked ...

Makes less than minimum wage, gets fired from the job. all the rodeo clowns in america have to go to sensitivity training. the truth is every president going back as far as i can remember and ive gone to a lot of rodeos in my life. every president gets the mask treatment from the rodeo clown. >> they went too far, dana. >> sherrod, quickly. whattest your outrage? >> my outrage, i got no outrage this year. i happen to be a working comedian and have friends like you guys. >> oh. >> to my "red eye"...