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Know, marble kole plcolumns, th r ree gal notion of success. his architect told me it was like the court of louis the 14th on lsd. over the top. >> that's a good description. he likes to speak over the top. good to have your take tonight. thank you for being here. >> thank you. coming up, remembering barbara bush. the former first lady. a make ark mate ark is laid the rest as thousands celebrate her grace, wit and above all, her love of family. and i'm terry ware. and this is our sears hometown store. we always wanted to raise our family in a small tight-knit hometown community. when the opp...

>> tucker: oh, they don't deserve to be aired. so you don't have the right. >> that's right. >> tucker: everything is cool unless people disagreeht with you in which case we have to punish them. sure, hold i y on. what i'm saying is the left is punishing people forat saying what they think is true now. not everyone agrees with everyone else's opinion, like, to have free speech, you have to tolerate the views of people you disagree with. and the left no longer does. you don't see that as authoritarian?re >> i do not agree with you that the left no longer does. i think that's a very small fringe...

Because we also have laws. >> tucker: h.r, that's where speech goes die. of course. thank you so much. good luck with your h.r. a professor of classic emeritus at cal state fresno joins us tonight. professor, you spent a lot of time studying dictatorships and how they take power from the people and hold it to themselves and basically do what theyeo will despite popularan sentiment. what are the things that dictatorships do first to prepare the way for totalitarian rule? >> one of the things that hillary clinton said in that speech is they destroy trust s and transparency. that was quite ironic...

Doctrine that he was elected -- that nationalist agenda that he was elected on. that kind of remarkable in terms of his language. the prime minister of april said th r -- israel said this was a great speech. others who said this is antagonizing the regime. >> the romney reaction was a little surprising to some people, but it definitely carries through and drives home that the trump administration is going to be more u.s. focused and still at the same time have this agenda outside, you know, where it's going to talk about potentially using u.s. force to destroy other nations. it's a departure. ...

Policies that we're hearing about i think would be beneficial to businesses, i think would be beneficial to consumers. so, i do see a lot of optimism. we see a lot of people. we do over 20 million tax returns a year. we so it from all income levels. and i think people are a little confused. they're confused about things like health care and the like, but generally, i think people are feeling pretty good. >> he also says simplifying the tax code will help individuals, help small businesses. and he gave me this statistic on just how confusing the current laws can be. h & r block deals with all o...