Media, if people dont believe us. One of the reasons they dont believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. That is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. Politico did a study on this. How many registered republicans in the White House Press corps . Zero. Thats a huge problem, dont you think . Im a registered independent. I think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. Tucker do you i agree with you. You think of the people covering the white house are objective . I do. We went to read their twitter feeds . I cant speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. I think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. I think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. Tucker i agree with that vehemently. Lets drop the pretense. Here is the pretense. The pretense of objectivity or the press In Washington hates donald trump. He baits them. Its a two way deal. He doesnt like them and he goads them. But they rise to debate every time. In so doing, they reveal what they really think politically and that undermine their credibility. You have to see this because we are marinating and it. Do not acknowledge that is happening . I would acknowledge it is important when such reporters, be they correspondence on television or print reporters of the New York Times or reuters or any other news organization, to make a mistake, they should correct it. I think it is important. I think having bias is not acceptable. I think its important, however, also to know when a consumer of news, whether you are looking at a program that is biased or is not. There are avenues, as you well know, act places like fox come at that place is like other networks, if you watch tv, you will get a certain angle, you get a certain opinion. Tucker know what you are watching, know what you are reae
correspondence need to stay in their lanes. Tucker i do an opinion show. Do you think the people that watch you know its show . Tucker i Dont Know Why they would think that. I never say that. In contrast to the people standing in the Briefing Room, who are telling us on camera, i am just here to report the facts. Then, you read their twitter feed, and it says i hate trump. They are out in the open libera liberal. Do you have a specific example . Tucker we have done like 15 shows on this. I know a lot of these people. They have always kind of been liberal. But its totally open. The New York Times correspondence, for example, we had the ombudsman for the New York Times, read all these tweets from these people, her correspondence, she couldnt defend them. I am just saying, is that of the association, dont you feel the
credibility of the report as you represent is undermined when they wave their opinions run a public . I think it is important to report the facts in the news and to stay neutral. Tucker you would encourage your members not to reveal their political biases in public . Was not the correspondence associations job to tell her members how to do their jobs. Its not. We stand up for the values of truth, the values of reporting the facts and values of the First Amendment, which is to have acted to the president , to be able to do our jobs and that is why we advocate for it. Tucker the idea that your readers or viewers believe you is a central not just Business Model if you had a White House Press corps that was 100 middle aged white men, there would be a fullblown outcry about the lack of diversity. I bet you 100 bucks, doesnt look at america. If you have not a single registered republican, and a country in which the congress, the majority of governorships, the white house, held by republicans, but doesnt like america at all. Yet, i dont think he would wring a thing about it, are you . The white house Correspondents Organization has no impact over who our members hire. I cant tell fox, which is a member of the White House Correspondents Association, you need sent this person or that person crispy when im not you to there was no racial or ethnic diversity, presumably, you would say this isnt right. Do you think its okay that there are zero registered republicans of the White House Press corps according to politico . I think what is important is that we have a press corps made up of journalists who report the truth and Who Robustly Report on the president in United States. Tucker Diversity Doesnt Matter . Of course diversity matters. Tucker but not political diversity . Diversity is important to me. It is important to me in a row that i play. Tucker [laughs] we are almost out of time. His political diversity important . Is diversity important . Tucker political diversity. Speak of my job is to tell what they do is report the news,
regardless of what Political Party controls the white house. Tucker i wish i believe that, i dont. Jeff, thank you. My pleasure. Tucker time now for news abuse, we highlight the excesses of of the american media. President trump sat down with eric bolling a fox and said that despite his rhetoric on saturday, he doesnt actually hate the press, except sometimes he does. Watch. Not all of the media. I will tell you, that is unfair the way they cover. They say that the media, i am against the media, i am not against the media. I am against the fake media. If you look at cnn, the way they cover me, no matter what you do, it is negative, hits, hits. So, i love the media. I think the media is great. If i do something bad, treat me badly. But they dont tell it like it is. Tucker a media reporter for the hill. He was there on saturday at the Correspondents Dinner and he
joins us. What do you think . What i think of the white house Correspondents Dinner . Tucker yeah. First, i would like to comment on jeff masons interview. He spoke there that night. I am utterly curious and confused here. He admitted to you that under the Trump Administration, tucker, that there has never been better access. All i know is when i watch the daily press briefings, sean spicer takes more questions than josh earnest ever did, there are more reporters because of skype another press passes have been given out to other different kinds of reporters and ever before. I know that President Trump gave nine major interviews last week, including without lady its like the washington post, cbs news, reuters, wall street journal. Then i hear them on Saturday Night to say there are threats n United States. We must remain vigilant, the world is watching. I got a First Amendment pen when i walked into the dinner. Wait. I dont get it. On one hand, the Trump Administration is totally about access, and on the other hand, they are a press their first treatment is being threatened. How does that square, tucker . I think the references changing of libel laws. You think that is going to happen . Comments were made by Reince Priebus on sunday. Jeff mason raising his comments on saturday. I think they will be change . I dont know. I dont know. I cant answer that question. Its hard, its very hard if you are a public figure, to sue an outlet if they reported negative news about you that is completely false. You have to show damages. You have to show that there was actual damages that occurred and you hardly ever see anybody won outside of hulk hogan, who sued gawker out of insistence. Otherwise come you dont see it happen very often. Tucker i wasnt there. I was on the other side of the continent. I usually go. But watching the tape of it, as i did today, it seemed from beginning to end, hostile to the president. Let me be totally clearly still not clear. I think reporters job is to hold the powerful to account, but this seemed personal. Absolutely it seemed personal. No question about it. There was vitriol toward donald trump, tucker, that we have never seen with any other president. I base that our numbers. Media research center. I get they are conservatives but i did a study that showed 89 of stories are negative toward donald trump. Okay. Lets go to the swedes. They have a Company Called media tenor research firm. 97 out of 100 stories by the Cbs Evening News and the Nbc Nightly News were negative toward donald trump and his first month. I get at that 65, 35, it will skew negative. For 973, that tells me that there is probably an agenda there. By the way, a threat to the First Amendment doesnt happen when a president is mean to the press. When he is nasty to them. That is exercising his First Amendment rights. You could say it is beneath the presidency. What we are confusing trump beig made to the press with First Amendment being suppressed. The First Amendment, tucker, was under threat under the obama
administration. They spied on james rosen. Not only that, at this network, james rosen. They designated him as a flight risk so they were then have to tell them about their surveillance. They secretly seized Associated Press phone records. They rejected a Record Number of foia request, Freedom Of Information requests. Those are threats to the First Amendment. Jeff mason should have been speaking out to that at other white house Correspondents Dinners. Parties should have been canceled, boycotts should have happened under the Obama Administration. Actions, obama, words, trump. That is a difference here. Tucker we actually have just mason still in our studio. Would you like to respond to any of the things that judges that . The first thing i would respond to, joe, sort of like at the top clip of the show, you cherry picked my words and you guys are critical of how reporters report. You are leaving out a good chunk of what i said. I talked about access. I said that. I said you said there was good access. What you did not say, when i talked about theFirst Amendment, the First Amendment being under threat, i talked about the rhetoric that has come did you ever make that comment under the Obama Administration of the First Amendment was under threa im the president of the White House Correspondents Association now. Tucker let me ask you guys really quick did you ever ask about that . Tucker do you think of tomorrow, the graduating class of byu, Brigham Young university, came To Washington and got jobs in the White House Press corps, 80 of the reporters working in the Briefing Room were graduates of byu, du, jeff first, do you think the coverage would change it anyway . I have no idea how the coverage would change. Tucker of course you do. [laughs] of course it would change. I think it is important for journalists who come to be part of the White House Press corps have the objective of reporting the truth. Mack. Tucker do you think that if people that came from a
different, diverse background were brought here To Washington . Not like Everyone Else . Would it affect the coverage . The problem is, tucker, i dont think they would be hired. [laughter] they wouldnt get the chance to do it in the first place. Tucker gentlemen, thank you both. Coming up, today is made a come of the great state for labor protests around the world. Instead of marching for workers, today, actavis demanded open borders. Real talk to a Protest Organizer about what that means exactly. Stay tuned. When you have allergies, it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. Luckily theres powerful, 24hour, nondrowsy claritin. It provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. Live claritin clear. Tucker International Made a protest got violent in paris but the french were the only ones taking to the streets. Across the United States, protesters marched against Immigration Laws. In the bay area, marchers demanded open border, shouting no ban come a for all. Executive director of the Coalition Joins us now. Thank you for coming on. Thank you for coming on. Tucker i am 47. I have watched a lot of may day protest. Imagine my surprise watching and International Workers day protest that was designed over 100 years ago to highlight the concerns of workers, wages, arguing on behalf of policies that would lower wages. I thought, boy, global capitalism is pretty tricky. I got you guys to advocate on
behalf of the Chamber Of Commerce. How did they do that . Tucker, it had nothing to do without. Tucker really . Yeah. I was a 500,000 people in foley square and we were there to make a statement about the shared values that we have as a country. That is that immigrants are part of the solution. Immigrants have been making America Great for centuries now. Immigrants are workers, they are business owners, they are employers, they are neighbors, families, and friends. We wanted to join with hundreds of thousands of people all across the country in peaceful protest to make that statement that we will rise up and that we will fight back. Tucker okay. I kind of agree with what you said. I am for immigrants and they are all those things. They are great. But they are also one of the reasons that the wages for american Working Class families have stayed stagnant or declined because when you have an overabundance of something, and this case labor, it its value falls. There is no controversy about that. You are advocating for that. You are advocating for lower wages for workers. I just Dont Know Why. That is not what i am arguing for. In fact, we said today that its important to pay fair wages for everybody. Here is the fact. The facts are that immigrants contribute so much to the american economy. Here in new york from the state comptrollers estimate they add 230 billion in economic value. They pay 10 billion in taxes here in new york city. New york city happens to be one of the biggest cities in the emigrant capital of the world. We know that emigrants add tremendous value as workers but also has employees and small businesses. Tucker for sure. I want you to track with me, steve. These are average working people. Lets say i work for 12 bucks an hour and someone comes up to work for seven. To my wages go up or do they go up . They go down about happens across the country. There is no debate about it. A lot of studies show wet. The Chamber Of Commerce have a big employees are for it. You are forward, to . Im confused. Are they paying you to be forward . Why would you before it . It doesnt help working people. They certainly arent paying me for it. Tucker are you sure . Im very sure about her. Heres what i would say, tucker. The fact is, its not that simple. We live in a global economy. We dont live in a simple equation where one persons wages go up and the others go down. Its not a zerosum game. When you look at the impact that immigrants have come it is tremendous. This is something that people see not only here new york city, but all across new york state, as well. In buffalo, rochester, even in places like utica. Those are all places that are deeply in trouble, as you know, but a class is dying. The middle class is dying in new york city as you may know. I think you follow this since you are on tv arguing on behalf of it. Let me ask you some questions. We have about 1. 1 Million People come here illegally every year. What is the optimal number, how many want to lead in their workers that you represent . Im not an expert in the number of specific immigrants coming in. Heres what i will tell you. These cities that you just mentioned, not only those cities, but buffalo, albany, rochester, though cities are in dire economic straits not because of immigrants, but immigrants are part of the way forward. That is been proven time and time again. Immigrants add value. They stabilize neighborhoods, they pay taxes, their great workers and business workers. We should figure out how to get more immigrants. Tucker you dont know how many. You are making the case but you havent actually thought through how many is a good number because you are not going to get into the economics. You were arguing the economics. Let me ask you one more simple question. How is it, if i work in a depressed postindustrial town, and say the service industry, for a bunch of people come and who are willing to work for less than i am used