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Daniel davidson is the senior correspondent of the federalist and he joins us tonight. this doesn't seem like a turning point somehow not just on the right but also on the left, these events of the last two days and there seems to be a new intensity on the left, am i imagining that? >> we do seem like where the turning point, this has been coming down the pike for a number of years. t we had the hundred 50th anniversary of the confederate surrender atre appomattox and yu had people in the mainstream media at that time calling for the desecration of confederate graves.. not just tearing down st...

Law. why not do it the american way, and have the congress pass it, why aren't you lobbying the members of congress to embrace review? >> thanks for the f invitation. the thing is daca is working, in place for five years. as part of our economy. we have nearly 800,000 young immigrants who come forward voluntarily, trust the federal government to pass the national security test. and have paid a fee and have this temporary protection from deportation and keeping the program in place, president trump has madeo a decision so far and has seen that it's actually working.an he is learning about the p...

Ever seeing? >> reporter: anderson, that was a press conference from hell, no question about it. essentially what happened today, the white house came out to the reporters gathered in the lobby of trump tower and said to all of us, listen, the president is going to come down with a couple of cabinet secretaries and make some remarks and go back up the sell va f elevator. what happened after that, things went completely off the rails, because as the president wrapped up his remarks on infrastructure, he was peppered with questions about this lackluster response to the violence in charlottesvill...

Pictures of china's cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples. >> tucker: that's exactly right. >> the whole thing even stomping on them. >> tucker: but move did that and the cam region did that and the taliban did that in afghanistan for political reasons. look, i'm not -- for whatever it is worth not sympathetic to confederacy i'm an american and insurrections, period. it's not about that. the people who are attacking these statues know nothing about history. they don't know who robert e. lee was. they don't know who stonewall jackson was. they are trying to delegitimize the ...

People.. it is not common, cnn's chris cuomo now said it. he's a lawyer at pomona college in california, students are mining free speech is a tool appropriated by hegemonic institutions. at the right of free expressions should onlyly apply to certain racial groups but that's not racist because as you know because there is no racism on the left, they are just sincere people concerned about hate. there's actually a vitally important debate goingre on in e country and it's not about statues or even the alt and antifaic, it's about americans institutions and whether it's worth preserving. radicals...