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Judgment? it was a course description. if you passed a course description for a public university to a foreigner whom you did not know was a spy, will you be betraying your country? >> i tend not to hang out with russian spies because i am trying to get a deal. >> [overlapping talking]. >> i love this country. >> tucker: you are saying carter page doesn't love this country. carter page, where did you go to college? >> the u.s. naval academy. >> tucker: you are accusing him of being unpatriteotic. he was a naval officer but doesn't love his country? >> i don't know what is in his heart. i head ...

Studio. i want to ask him what these documents were. let's get very specific here. you pass documents to a rujss russian spy. what were the documents and why aren't you in prison? >> this is complete spin. i was teaching a course at new york university called energy in the world in the spring semester of 2013. i had a coffee with a diplomat from the russian consulate. >> a spy. >> i showed him a couple of course materials. >> [overlapping talking]. >> tucker: slow down. hold on. shouldn't you hear what the documents were? wouldn't that inform your judgment? it was a course description.

Myself. so, i thought at this point in my career, and given the nature of our political climate, it was necessary to give it an apt and appropriate title. so i did. >> the course description says that the class will discuss ways to challenge white supremesy and challenge laws, policies and practices that have allowed white racial domination over those racialized as nonwhite. what kind of material would be covered? give us examples of that. >> well, the course will begin in ernest tomorrow morning and we will begin with a int interrogation of the race concept, its political nature and consequen...

Controversial. why not call the class racism? >> that wouldn't be precise and it wouldn't be candid enough. the term white racism is the language of the literature, there's scholarly books with the title, journal articles with the title. i've used the term myself in my own writing. a course with the same name was taught nearly a quarter of a century ago at the university of connecticut. i thought given the climate now, it was necessary to give it an apt and appropriate title. >> the course description says the class will discuss ways to challenge white supremacies and examine iedeologies. what...

Found inside trunks of seven different cars valued at more than a quarter million dollars. wow. clayton and pete? clayton: thank you, abby. first it was butler university a small private college in indiana offering anti-trump course. now an ivy league school is following suit. pete: of course. cornell is joining the resistance by adding a class this fall called america confronts the world. the course description reads donald trump and barack obama give two visions of america and the world. get. this xenophobic nationalism and for obamacare it's pragmatic cosmopolitanism. clayton: joining us. >...