tucker: wanted to hear her great-grandparents come? in 1990? my grandparents, i guess as i great-grandparents prayed about on my irish side. tucker: i guess congratulations, but you are not answering the core question, which is i m not saying everybody who comes under the diversity lottery is bad, but i m sure a lot of great people come. the fact that the united states passes out green cards on the basis of a lottery at random would any person defending that system apply the same principles to his or her own business? would you hire this way? no, but a business is not a nation and that s very different, especially a nation decides. as i think you know, i am one of the democrats like chuck schumer who was originally a part of this, and others like the gang of eight who say it s about time that we get rid of it because it is irrelevant. you just heard the reason that it was implemented in this country originally and we don t need it now. we are a very diverse nation. by radio
that would just be common police practice. tucker: of course it would. so what about that changed under de blasio? there were complaints made by not just the aclu, but certain muslim activist groups, and other groups that said that we were profiling, that it was unfair, that we ought not to do it. this had not been happening before. instead of actually showing that it was a normal police practice to do these things, they just caved in. it was like throwing up the white flag and saying we don t want we want to beg perfecty polite, we don t want to offend anybody. meanwhile, the cost was the public safety. tucker: really quickly, patrick, was there any evidence that the police in new york were violating peoples civil rights, hassling people, hurting people under the current policing regime? no, in fact that particular lawsuit that was filed was ruled
you hate to ask that question, but it arises in this casee because in 2005 the nypd created a report, radicalization in the west is a homegrown threat, and it laid out all u.s. muslims could become radicalized. that guide was subsequently denounced as islamiphobic. they purged it in 2016 in response to a lawsuit by, you will be surprise, the aclu. former deputy inspector general fertile soil of jihad and he joins us tonight. thanks for having me on. tucker: new york is famous for having a very serious kind of world class literally, police department, and they took this threat seriously after the two world trade center bombings, obviously. they produced this report. what does it mean that the de blasio administration jettisoned it? what they basically did is
my only question is shouldn t the government act on behalf of its own people first? it s a simple question. do you agree with that? i don t think they should just be looking at who should be the best for america regarding academia andnd career. there are other areas where we could have better. for example, here in california we have so many lower entry jobs in agriculture that go unfilled, as you know. there are americans who don t want to do it, or are overqualified to do it here.ug tucker: does it occur to you that people will take a job if it pays enough? does anyone on the left care about wages anymore, how much working people may? is that a concern at all? it is a concern, thank you for making me a spokesperson for all of those on the left. i know i like to make a goodod amount of money and i think most people do here on thene left. by the way, somebody who is picking the lettuce that goes into our salad is not making the salary that somebody whour graduates from college wi
tucker: we wanted to know what foreign lobbyists and interest you have met with so we called over to your office and this is the response that we got.ia i m sure he s met with folks who registered, as well as investors, governors, officials and heads of state but they had no details. why shouldn t citizens be able to know if member of the foreign affairs committee is meeting with? i think it s a great question. if we have a number of meetings as foreign affairs committees. sometimes it s heads of state, sometimes as ambassador. those lobbying for the country, those are government officials. there are occasions in which people were hired as lobbyists advocate for a particular country. they have to disclose that.e w someone wouldn t get an appointment if they said i want to talk to you about uzbekistan or pakistan. they have to disclose that and they are required under law to register to disclose what they are paid. i think that s really important. tucker: two points, many of the