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Unfortunate. >> obviously he's not the coolest guy in the world. >> yeah, no. >> but isn't it getting silly every day, we're exhuming bodies from the ground and taking down statues. >> when is this going to end. the confederate flag hasn't got more attention than now. it's like a catch-22. it is getting silly. the silliest part is the apple story how apple is banning game that's have the confederate flag in them but they are historically accurate games, not like they are idolizing the confederal flag. >> it's the south versus the north. >> yeah you can be killing said soldiers in the game. the...

Protesters yanked down statues of lenin who, of course, led the russian revolution. and they accused president yanukovych of wanting too close of ties with russia. we like in alise labbot. alise, the ukrainian president, we know, has left kiev. he's reportedly saying he will not resign. he's digging in. what does all of this mean at this point? >> reporter: well, he may be digging in, christi, but it's really unclear whether he can maintain his grip on power, because you see in the last couple of days about a third of his party in the you're cranian parliament has resigned. there are a lot of ...

Daniel davidson senior correspondent at the federalist. he joins us tonight. john, this does 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? >> no, you're not. and we do seem like we are at a turning point. but this has been coming down the pike for a number of years. i remember two years ago we had the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and had you people in the mainstream media at that time calling for the desis he creation of confederate graves...

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 utes government and tradition...

You, look at pictures of china's cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples, the whole thing. even stomping on them. >> tucker: mao did that and that camera roosted that, and tr the political reasons, i'm not sympathetic to the confederacy, i i'm against insurrections. the people who are attacking the statues don't know who robert e. lee was, they don't know who stonewall jackson was. they're trying to t delegitimize the this is transactional, they're doing this to achieve a goal that is nothing to do with the civil war. >> that's right, i think a lot the right,n conservatives o...