why would people who do that need to be defended by you? what about what trump said got you going? i think we cannot pretend to look at this in a larger context. we cannot pretend that this is not part of a larger trend that started way before donald trump became president, a trend of criminalizing and dehumanizing all immigrants, and the question was about gang members who were operating inside the u.s. tucker: i m not here to defend all of trump s views, but in this very specific case he was asked about ms-13 and has been talking about this for more than a year, and he said, they are animals. you may not like the term, it s imprecise or whatever, but is there no one else you can defend? are there not other where the people being attacked? do you wake up in the morning and ask yourself, how do it her
president trump was talking about ms-13, he couldn t stop himself from defending ms-13. john harwood weighed in on twitter as he often does however repugnant their actions they are human beings in my opinion. he does things like call immigrants animals. the defense is that he was following up by a statement by the sheriff saying it was ms-13. he was just talking about ms-13. good enough? no, not good enough and it s a slippery slope when you start dehumanizing people this way. that s what the nazis data, that s what slave owners did. that s not what humans do. larry o connor is an associate of the washington times and he joins us tonight. that s not what americans do, larry. i don t expect much from anna navarro. you know what i found most
and i don t do too many media segments because obviously they are just dumb, but the first draft of their story said trump had attacked undocumented immigrants. migrants, or many who cross the border. tucker: so that was a democratic talking point. it was an absolute lie. even c-span, who pretends to be completely down the middle, and i think usually they are, they did the same thing. tucker: so why shouldn t these be reporters in-kind contributions to the democratic committee? the associated press by the way is the only one that i have seen who fully retracted it and deleted their tweets. but why are they called upon any ethics questions? they said, further context, suggesting it was out of context but it wasn t out of context, they lied about what the president said. tucker: larry o connor, always great to see you. our northern neighbor canada is having its own immigration
though and some joint ms-13. and it s true, they aren t all the same because people aren t all the same. that s the point of the immigration law. they are not the same and we should sort the good from the bad. but that is too much for for the left, i would suggest this might be a real country whose actual citizens have interests worth protecting. yesterday on twitter, the governor jerry brown went after the president s views on immigration and ended his tweet this way: we the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the world, are not impressed. citizens of the economy come up that it all. to the modern left, you are not un-american with culture and history and collective identity. you are a citizen of the economy, a cog in the machine of global capitalism. america is just another private equity schemed to some. their pledge is different than yours. to the economy for which it stands, one economy with open
required by the constitution to complement immigrants. sorry. second, you may not agree with all of his policies, but in this specific case, he is criticizing people who are evil, and are killing, once again, the poor and the defenseless. and you have been driven so crazy by trump that you can t even accept that as true. if i accept charles manson as an animal, does that bother you? of course. and i agree with president trump. but guess what, last year, ice armrests armrests were up. so focus on that. focus on those who have no criminal records. tucker: people who are here illegally should be deported. that s what the law says. if you don t like the law, change it in congress. then you should not focus on