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the country, specifically, gender roles. today in tennessee the republican governor billy see signed two controversial new laws. one bans gender affirming care for minors and the other restricts drag shows in the state. let s bring in former democratic congressman ron derrick jones and patrick is here and doug high. guys, let s start with the decision to ban any sort of doctors medical care for anyone under 18 who is looking who believes they are trans and is looking for any sort of medical treatment be it pharmaceutical, consultation or anything like that. doug, i believe you are comfortable with this new law in tennessee. yeah, i think one we have to treat people with dignity and respect and certainly what we ve learned over not just the past three or four years but 20 years, people that feel this way, are this way and have gone through this process quite often go through a very painful life and process. we don t want that. but there are differences between people ....
Trans a hot button word but drag shows are and so now he has signed i think i have the language here. it s an offense, it s illegal for a person that engages in adult cabaret performances as a feature of the performance is a male or female impersonator that provides entertainment viewed by a person who is not an adult. okay. it not just it s again just interesting to see that the governor himself dressed as a woman in his high school photo. here he is. dressed as a woman because lots of people because it s fun. because it s fun and funny and lots of people dress as a different gender to perform and by the way, being a drag queen is a serious art form and they ve been doing it for thousands of years. it s entertaining. people like to express themselves. it fun to watch it. and you might actually learn something about the world and ....
It s a clown in the world. it s the same thing that s going on with the filibuster right now. the filibuster was fine for 2-300 uses in the last legislative cycle when trump was president. all. all of a sudden, that too is a threat to democracy. i guess that is the hot button word these days. you call something i threat to democracy, and that s what it is. it turns out that the democrats are fair weather fans of democracy. they like it when it works for them, but when it doesn t, everything is an existential threat. tucker: well put. dan holloway, great to see you. thank you. if you have not listened to howard stern recently, please don t. it s depressing. a man of enormous talent has become craven. his radio show. he is using it to push paranoid cowardice. if you are interested in what is happening, we have the tape. ....
President was asked about americans in ukraine and he told them very clearly to leave. he said that, quote, things could go crazy quickly. do you share that urgency and concern? absolutely. and it s interesting. the ukrainian people and their leaders are now starting to sound the alarm more than they were even a week or two ago. i think early on, president zelensky, it makes sense, you don t want to alarm people and crash the stock market and the economy and create all these problems, but as the threat continues, it s become more and more obvious how, sorry, i was going to say imminent, as i understand it, there s not a proper translation. that s now a hot button word. exactly. but how it could happen, it could happen at a moment s notice and, you know, we certainly don t want a situation where you have a lot of american civilians in ukraine desperate ....
And exploiting contradiction. and putting out a lot of different stories. if you look at the message from here, russia would say, yes, we are pulling back some troops, not all but some. and that those exercises in belarus, some are coming to an end, et cetera. but you know, obviously the contradictions just keep another ball in the air. and president putin himself, look at what he said over the past couple of days. he said we want diplomacy to continue but at same time he was using this word genocide, which is really a hot-button word to accuse ukrainian government of carrying out genocide against russian speakers in that critical donbas region. the russian speakers in the eastern part of ukraine. so, i think, you know, overall this can work for president putin by keeping the contradictions going, by keeping ....