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Frankly what oakland mayor libby schaaf did when she warned of the impending raids in our i is it, watch. >> what she did no better than a gang lookout yelling police when a police cruiser comes in a neighborhood except she did it to the entire community. it's beyond the pale. i have been doing this for 34 years. and this is a whole new low to intentionally warn criminals that law enforcement is coming. >> tucker: professor of boat law school at u.s. berkeley and deputy assistant attorney general under president bush and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. i think it's allowed. my under...

When defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla. >> donald defreeze goes to the only place he knows that he's likely to get a warm welcome, and that's berkeley. he hooks up on the outside with some of the students who had been visiting him on the inside, and that includes joe remiro, willie wolfe, russ little, and in their social circle are nancy ling perry and ms. moon soltysik. ms. moon and nancy wind up moving in with donald defreeze and start coming up with these ideas about revolutionary change. the three of them become the nucleus of the symbionese liberation army. >> the symbio...

But in short order, he became radicalized. and he became part of this group that spent its time going to vacaville prison and he became b friends with donald defreeze. defreeze had a plan. all the jobs in the prison were done by a convict. defreeze knew enough from talking to other prisoners that the man in the boilers is a job outside the fence. and the first time they sent him to his job, he stayed there for a couple hours and he was gone. i'm not sure who picked him up. i always thought it was willie. when defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla. >> donald defreeze goes to the o...

Radicalized and he became part of this group that spent its time going to vacaville prison, and he became friends with donald defreeze. joe remiro, and russ little. defreeze had a plan. >> back then all the jobs in the prison were done by a convict. the man in the boilers is a job outside the fence. the first time they sent him to his job, he stayed there for a couple hours and he was gone. i'm not certain who picked him up. i always thought it was willie. when defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla. >> donald defreeze goes to the only place he knows that he's likely to get a warm...

Interestingly enough. so donna, you were a campus radical some time ago in berkeley. a part of an earlier generation. correct me if i am wrong, but the generation you belonged to had strong political views, ones i disagree with you about at its core there was a belief in free speech. wasn't there? >> absolutely. that's berkeley. that's free speech. >> tucker: well, that's gone. i don't hear anybody mourning its passing. presumably a lot of mainstream media liberals still believe in free speech. it was one of the pillars of their movement, of what they believe. but i don't hear them standing up...