of their lives now. you know, i m part of their lives. and the albums that i made in the 1970s go along with that, but of course, the kingpin is the song american pie. and really, all roads lead to rome in my show. i sing the american songbook, songs that i ve written, whether it is castles in the air, i love you so, all of the songs tucker: hunter wood. all roads lead to american pie at the end, usually, and it s a summing up of everything that is going on. i don t really do a set, you know, i ve been doing this for so many years, that i kind of make up a new show every night. but i just tell you one thing about yourself that i ve noticed? and that is that you do something that nobody else does. you get a guest on, and then you ask them a core question, and i
you know, i m part of their lives. and the albums that i made in the 1970s go along with that, but, of course, the kingpin is the song american pie. and really, all roads lead to rome in my show. i sing the american songbook, songs that i ve written, whether it is castles in the air, and i love you so, all of the songs tucker: winterwood. all roads lead to american pie at the end, usually, and it s a summing up of everything that is going on. i don t really do a set, you know, i ve been doing this for so many years, that i kind of make up a new show every night. but could i just tell you one thing about yourself that i ve noticed? and that is that you do something that nobody else does. you get a guest on, and then you ask them a core question, and i think that nobody else does that.
eye, if red eye had a guest on, we don t have the budget to actually blur your face. you d have to put your hand in front of your face like this and change your voice. i would not do that but the other person that said that would. i condemn him. here s the thing. i ll open this up to the table. we live in a time where we re absolutely intolerant of halloween costumes or off colored jokes or anything considered offensive to specific groups but somehow not this. slightly hypocrite cal? extremely. i don t think so. there s a different level of seriousness. that s what i m saying. they re okay with this. you mean that they say first amendment, blah. i m totally on your side on that. there are many times in the history of this country where the first amendment has said it doesn t apply to that. privacy and security, yelling
eye, if red eye had a guest on, we don t have the budget to actually blur your face. you d have to put your hand in front of your face like this and change your voice. i would not do that but the other person that said that would. i condemn him. here s the thing. i ll open this up to the table. we live in a time where we re absolutely intolerant of halloween costumes or off colored jokes or anything considered offensive to specific groups but somehow not this. slightly hypocrite cal? extremely. i don t think so. there s a different level of seriousness. that s what i m saying. they re okay with this. you mean that they say first amendment, blah. i m totally on your side on that. there are many times in the history of this country where the first amendment has said it doesn t apply to that. privacy and security, yelling
that and the clear scandals that went on in the case of the targeting of the i.r.s., or benghazi, or the targeting of james rosen and other reporters. i think there is a difference between the two, but if you re going to make that case i agree that the administration, this gets us back to our original point, needs to make the case, here is why this nsa program is right, how is how it protects us and here is why it doesn t endanger individual freedoms. the problem of course exactly as governor ridge said people aren t necessarily going to trust this administration right now when they see the scandals, but there is a difference between what is going on in the nsa, which has been approved by every branch of government and what is going on in the scandals. martha: i would agree. you have the difference played out in equal parts on both sides of the republican and democratic spectrum in how people feel about it. we have to leave it there but we will be watching you on sunday. i know you ve