This is something the president predicted was right was never a legal basis for this, correct . President trump won the legal argument today. And the Supreme Court came out on his side and lifted the stay that the Appeals Court put in place. But the legal argument was never the strongest argument against the ban. Its the policy argument. Really bad policy. Tucker will you concede that there was a legal argument against it, that the left as a group made and it was that a single judge in hawaii had more power over americas Foreign Policy and control of americas borders than the president did and the Supreme Court today said thats absurd. It wasnt just hawaii, tucker. There were a number of court cases in a number of courts that stayed this travel order. And it was a close call legally. It was a close call for the Appeals Court that upheld the stay. It was also a close call for the Supreme Court. Tucker the president has got a right to make judgments like this and enforce them with law. Thats why we have a president. You will concede that. I think thats a valid argument and thats the argument that was made. Thats one of the arguments that persuaded the Supreme Court today. Although, keep in mind, that the court only lifted the stay. It will hear the merits of the case in october. But, yes, you are right. But, as i said, the stronger argument against this travel ban is its really bad policy. It doesnt accomplish the goal which is notomake america safer. Tucker it doesnt. You would argue the counter case that the more immigrants that we have from say somali coming into the country the safer we are . What point are you making. What i would argue on Policy Grounds this ban is both too broad and not broad enough. Let me explain. Heres why its too broad. It denies muslims from six predominantly muslim countries. Tucker let me stop and correct you. It makes no reference to religion at all. It doesnt badge muslims. It bans people who live in six countries the Obama Administration designated as
all somalians. As you may know the u. S. Has people inside somalia. We have diplomats and soldiers inside somalia fighting terrorists. They are working with somalians. If they counter good people who are helping them and brave and putting their life on the line and they cant have the option to put them through a Refugee Program to dom back through america when they have helped America Fight terrorists it doesnt make sense. Too broad. Tucker you are making this up on the spot. No, im not. I was in iraq during the war. Tucker you worked with somworksomalians in somalia. Quite a number of them have been involved and been arrested for it. What percentage of those somalians relocated here once worked for the government fighting terrorism. I dont know the answer to that. Tucker none, probably. My point is we are banning some of them. And we are not banning people from countries that have actually produced tastes who have killed americans, which makes no sense. And, by the way, we are also banning people from countries like syria. We also have american soldiers who are serving in harms way. They have syrians who are helping them. They might want to put those syrians through a Refugee Program because they risked their lives to help america. Its too broad. Grandmas and grandpas and 3yearold kids. Tucker you are trying to outshout me here. But you raise the sector of the u. S. Government keeping the yards out. Whatever group has fought with american soldiers abroad. You cant name a Single Person from somalia who has done that there are likely not very many. Thats not the point at all. You saw how Open Border Policy keep the country safer. Most people would disagree with that because its demonstrably false. I know somalians who have helped. Good law abiding citizens in america right now. Like i know iraqs when i served in iraq during the height of the war and there were iraqs who risked their lives and to help me and
farmer and have you sheep. Sometimes sheep get killed. Sometimes sheep get killed by thousands of wolves. You build a fence to keep bears out even though a bear hasnt killed a sheep. Tucker i want you to look me straight in the face and say people from these six countries are as likely to commit acts of terror as people from japan . Is that what you are saying . No. That is absolutely not what im saying. But there are other countries where people come from those countries and they are more likely. Tucker add to the list you and i are in agreement on that. We will expand the list. Thank you, david. Thank you. Tucker time now for news abuse. Cnns dissent from News Organization to Political Campaign is nearly complete. Last week the channel published a Story Linking Trump ally anthony scare scarmuc
i to an investment fund. On saturday they had to apologize. They retracted the story and admitted it did not meet cnns editorial standards and thats saying something. Tonight three reporters who worked on the piece resigned their jobs. One of them a guy called eric nicbluo worked at the New York Times. Worked on a piece earlier in the month and that piece turned out to be false. You may remember it. When he told us that the jim comey the fbi director was going to come before the president and contradict the president s claim he was not under investigation and jim comey told him so. It turned out to be untrue. He helped write that one, too. He may go back to the New York Times where he came from in april. Well see. Its been seven months though since trump won the president ial election. Since then, precisely no evidence has emerged to support the claim that trump somehow colluded with the russian government in order to win the race. But you would never know that from watching that channel which has become home for conspiracists on
the russian question worldwide. Last february seeing yet another example. Cnn produced a story accusing Trump Associates of repeated contacts with russian intelligence. That report turned out to be almost identical to a report by the New York Times that jim comey called out specifically for being grossly inaccurate. We could go on and on and on. Overall, 93 of cnns coverage of the Trump Administration has been negative. 93 . Amine would get more balanced coverage. Anybody. We fidel castro certainly has. Cnn, in other words, is no longer just a News Organization. It is a campaign with a Political Mission run, not surprisingly by a man named jeff zucker who once expressed interest in running for office himself. Great pushing a message, hurting opponents and not so good at others like reporting the news. This is a change. How did it happen . Sharyl attkisson hosts full measure. She is the author of a very fitting and really
interesting new book called the smear it comes out tomorrow and she joins us tonight. Cnn was liberal, i think, for a long time. This is different from what we have seen before. Its not just cnn. Its other News Organizations. What changed . I worked there a long time ago from i think it was 1990 to 1993. But i think a lot of News Organizations in the past three to four years have undergone a huge seed change last two months to three Years Campaign 2016. I talk about in the book, i there this is a confluence of factors including we have now invited pundits and political operatives into our newsroom not just as commentators and pundits but reporters, anchors in editorial positions. Sometimes little meaningful difference now i think between the people reporting the news and the political operatives who want to advance news narratives. Thats a problem. I also think that the establishment, im talking democrats, republicans, and the Media Establishment have exempted themselves from the
normal Journalism Rules and rules of Political Behavior because they see donald trump as such a big threat. They would say a hitleresque threat. That means they dont have to follow the normal rules of journalism in this case. I think its more of a threat to the system of favors, money, and access that has been developed through what we have known as a political establishment. Tucker its not just the conventional leftright thing. They are liberal, trump is conservative, they hate him. There is Something Different going on. Populism with trump that scares them . I think its the fact that washington survived, as welyouknow as well as i do. Access and money where people have spent decades paying into certain politicians, democrats and republicans alike, to make sure certain political hearings dont happen. To make sure certain laws have provisions written in. All of a sudden, overnight, all of that access they have bought, all the hard work they have done as lobbyists and so on is almost worthless if trumps reality of washington comes into
what happens then . I kind of liken it in the extreme to the situation as it must be in north korea. If you have a tv and can watch the news and its going to be a version thats approved and put out by the state, i think in some respects we are getting artificial reality created by people who are putting out narrow tifsz whether democrats, republicans, or corporate interests and people sense, at least some people, that they are not getting an accurate picture. And i think if you are like me, there is very little that i see reported on the news that i instantly believe without doing my own checking. Tucker i agree with that. So many former reputable News Organizations have been proved to be 180 degrees wrong not just a little bit wrong. In the case some insisted President Trump was under investigation when he wasnt. So many that insisted it couldnt be true that comey had told Him Three Times he wasnt under investigation, when that was the case. These sorts of things with very little repercussions when the reporting turns out to be wrong based on, i think, highly inadequate standards, reporters doing things that wouldnt be
allowed in Journalism Schools but doing them now with impuberty. Impunity. Tucker no one is ever held to account for lying, in effect. Or getting something woefully wrong because they arent doing due diligence. Tucker exactly. Sharyl attkisson the book is great. Thanks for coming on. Thanks, tucker. Tucker several House Democrats seem to be turning on the former president saying obama did not do enough to stop russia from affecting the elections. What is happening . We will talk to Victor Davis Hanson about that. Plus, seattle, the city country recently hiked its in minimum wage to 13 bucks an hour. Sounds great but in a real and cruel twist of fate you might have predicted the higher wage is causing the poorest workers in the city to make less. Is that the weirdest story of the day . We will decide and top that. From reception, to landline, to mobile. I need one number. Not two. Im always moving forward. Because i cant afford to get stuck in the past. Comcast business. Built for business. Tuck particular here is kind of an amazing turn of events. One the House Of RepresentativesTop Democrats is pulling no less a figure than barack obama in to the vast web of russia conspiracies. Well, appearing on where else cnn on sunday, congressman adam schiff of california, who is the top democrat in the House Intel Committee said that president obama should have interfered more in the election in order to stop alleged russian interference. I think the Obama Administration should have done a lot more when it became clear that not only was russia intervenes but it was being directed at the
highest levels of the kremlin, given the seriousness of this, i think the administration needed to call out russia earlier. Needed to act to deter and punish russia earlier. I think that was a very serious mistake. Tucker he is not alone. There is a song sheet going around in addition to schiff hymes and falwell recent guests on this show have criticized obama in the last week. Why the sudden attacks on the democrats former leader . Weird. Victor david hanson fellow at the Hoover Administration and Cal State Fresno he joins us tonight. What is this about . I think the whole political landscape, the Investigatory Landscape and the Cultural Landscape is starting to shift. Trump may be victorious on this travel order. It looks like is he going to have some progress with the Healthcare Reform and the tax reform. The economy is doing pretty well. Joblessness is at all time
low and stock market is soaring it looks like there may be a shift on dependent energies coming back to the united states. That all creates and he has won four special elections. That creates a momentum and people want to back off a little bit. Secondly, i think we underestimated james comeys testimony. It was a pandoras box that left off a lot of demons we havent fully digested them. Loretta lynch is facing a lot of exposure because unlike the trump allegations of impediment of an investigation, she comey admits that he Exceede Exaccedeo her request thats de facto impediment. We havent digested that Bill Clinton Tarmac meeting with her. We had comey who said he leaked a letter so he could prompt a Special Investigator and then as soon as he finished that investigation his best friend was appointed to the job. We have a House Intelligence Committee thats now looking at rice and brennan and
power, people are going back and looking at this russian collusion from new eyes as adam schiff pointed out that the first thing that strikes one is that conversation in 2012 where on Hot Mike Inadvertent admission barack obama said i need more space. Under todays climate that might constitute some sort of collusion itself. Why was he being soft on the russians when hillary had a lot of exposure with the russians. He himself had this failed six year reset ga gamut. Tucker this might wind up in places we dont anticipate enough to. Its a progressive boomerang if you are going to take out the king, you have got to take him out. It didnt work. Trump is a figure that anything that doesnt take him out makes him stronger. Third thing is culturally, people are tired of finding another day, another celebrity tries to imagine a way of killing the president of the united states. And when you add in the Shakespearian Ritual Murder Of Trump every night or look at trying to challenge the election on voting machines, on sabotaging the electoral college, on Cherry Picking judges, recusals, deep state obama bureaucrats, impeachment, 25th amendment. It is just saturating the people. They are saying you know what . Give him six months, but this slow motion cue is running out of steam. I think the perfect storm of politics, the reversal in the aims of these investigations and then just exhaustion on the part of the public with a story that didnt have any legs. It all is working to trumps benefit in a way that none of us ever imagined. Tucker fascinating. You may be absolutely right. You get caught up in the daytoday its hard to see that thank you, professor. I appreciate that. Thank you for having me, tucker. Tucker the man who attempted to murder the House Majority whip Steve Scalise is political
extremist. Talk to the Radio Host Shooting Spree actually prompted by his understanding of the constitution. The conservatives are somehow responsible for this. Sty tuned. Yet, according to a seattle radio show host Dave Roth Hodgkinson may have been motivated by a conservative understanding the constitution believing his Assassination Attempt was a constitutional live protected use of violence to resist tyranny. There is a theory for you. Dave ross joins us tonight to explain. Dave, it seems to me like heres a guy who said exactly why he did what he did, pretty clearly. And yet, youre blaming the country and the constitution for what he did. Not at all. No. When i saw that he was being described as a leftwing terrorist, essentially, i wanted to find out what motivated him to actually use a gun to carry that out. You are allowed to hate the government if you want to. Where i draw the line, of course, is using violence against it. And it brought to mind the Militia Story which used to be a big topic years ago, right . This idea the Second Amendment is the last extreme protection against
the tier ran call government. Did i some searching around to see if that was still pretty current. I noticed ted cruz himself not long ago had talked about the S