it s wrong not to defend latvia against putin because why? you are right. a tucker: i know i am. nato is an alliance aligned against china in many ways as well.l. tucker: no let s comparing russia to china doesn t make russia okay. r tucker: you are trying to explain why it s in america s vital interest too start a nuclear war to defend latvia. no, i did not say that. tucker: that s what we would be obligated to do. america s violate interest to defend other did you know tries around the world that have trying to become democracies that are trying to promote freedom and individual rights and trying to promote human rights and rule of law. that s what latvia at other baltic states are doing and we should encourage that by extending that security umbrella to them. which is what nato has done. tucker: so, in other words, our kids get to die for latvia because it somehow protects the rule of law for them to too that. i m asking does the average american understand w
tucker: not obvious at all to me but keep trying. great to see you, david. thank you. tucker: christian whiton joins us tonight. when did bill kristol take over the democratic party?s did you notice when that happened? yeah.tpp it s amazing the turn when this group that used to bezi very reticent in committing the lives of americans, the blood the treasure of the united states to frankly other people s problems now seem to be more hawkish than the neocons were in the iraq war. tucker: do you think your average democratic voter is one board with that? do you think the average democrat and even in california liberal places up for having a war over the freedom yearning people of estonia? seriously? it s more than one thing about the baltics they still have fight this them and pledge almost of spending 2% of g.d.p. on defense. but, look at the expansion.dfe of nato more broadly. we puts montenegro in there recently. people want to put the nation of georgia on the complete oth
months ago interest in children, said directly i m serving out my term, not running for president but she was already planning to run then, right? you can plan to run for president and even run for president and no you re not going to be the nominee or president so then you know you re going to serve your term senate. tucker: that s one way to know. so i think she s being honest. i think she has many if not most of these people who have already announced or say that they are going to do it, even elizabeth warren as i mentioned on your show, does not expect to be the nominee. if they expect to be in a cabinet. these are people, remember, these were people who thought they were going to be in hillar hillary s cabinet. so now they re all discombobulated, thought they were going to be in the white house and now this is the next step in order to get there. so hillary s failure has really opened this door wide that nobody thought they would see for another generation. and so look, the
yes the chinese government murders opponents and puts muslims in concentration camps and yes they are languishing in those camps right now. it s not a huge deal to meet y with the chinese. the former governor of california jerry brown met with xi he praised him as a leader in the global fight climate change even though china is by far the world s biggest polluter. whatever. he may be a dictator but he a progressive dictator.e the left is not against those.in it s definitely for those. in fact, they are role models in case you haven t figured it out. david tafuriaw a lawyer and former advisor to the obama administration and joins us tonight.pa old enough to remember what it was the party of peace and now the party of mandatory war. i m just wondering why shouldn t we have a debate about article 5 in nato which obligates the united states and all members of nato to defend the interest of other states? so why would should would he be on the hook tort fair toler integrity of estonia and
who knows? point is we did that articlele 5 obligates the united states to protect any nato ally that is threatened. so how do we feel about that now? are you ready to launch a nuclear war over latvia? what do you think of sending your kids to defend the territorial integrity of estonia? a.our foreign policy establishment thinks it s well worth it in fact, under our current rules of membership in nato. we have no choice. you might not have known that. all of this might merit a national debate. at some point when we are ready 28 years in. no, the left isn t in toto national debates anymore. they are in to screaming and threats and criminal investigation and other forms of coercion. they like things the wayrc they are in this country. they are benefiting hugely from the status quo and they don t like being challenged. they consider asking difficult questions a criminal act. just this morning, in fact, the most famous former federal prosecutor in the country explained this view on twitter