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President. opposition leaders say that's a sham to give the socialist leader absolute power. what it means for the anti-government protests sweeping the country and caught up in it all, imprisoned american josh holt. his mother has been tirelessly fighting to free him. we're going to talk to her later in the show. plus, a brand new u.s. astronaut orbitting around the u.s. in space, but has time for a special message for his family down on earth. what that is. as we look at north korea's test, north korea claims that missile could strike anywhere in the united states. [speaking language]

I heard you report on similar issues in north korea. how pronounced is it when how the officials want or need a relationship with the united states? >> reporter: they say that they really don't care about the united states. what they care about is self preservation was a society. they consider the leader the head of the society. you can cut off an arm or leg, aka, the people that live there, but you can't cut off the head. they want to keep in place the power that gives kim jong-un absolute power. if they have a viable nuclear weapon and ballistic missile that could hit the u.s., they will not...

We are supposed to argue about them but i'm not just going to a signed book i agree with orchids agree with. we assign those books that are smart. and murray is a a smart guy ande should hear him whether we agree with him or not. >> i have no idea what your political views are. i hope you don't tell me. i hopeon your students don't kn, that's exactly how it should be. in the ten seconds we have left, do you expect a problem. do you expect people to freak out and assault you? >> i hope not. i'm relying on the football players in my class to protect me. we will see. >> tucker: you are an old-fas...

Don't trust us and people think we're biased and defending ourselves, which is, even though the press isn't always fair, even though sometimes we're biased, when we give people in power a hard time, it forces them to make their point more effectively and makes it harder for them to misuse their power. >> that's our job, and thank you president trump, thank you president trump for speaking up for speaking up for democracy, president bush. absolute power corrupts is what he was saying. he was saying it is addictive. that's what journalists are supposed to be tasked with is holding their feet to ...

When we look at that idea, president george w. bush is being interviewed right now somewhere else. we won't tell you so you don't change the channel. he said something about going after the press and how dangerous it is. >> i consider the media to be indispensable to democracy, we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive. it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere. >> impact of the former president saying this. >> there was nobody beat up more in my estimat...