tucker: 150 million. million. nsa is doing exactly what congress told him to do. it said we want to keep this program, but when they set up the program, they set it up more or less to address a problem that they had seen with the 9/11 attackers.es when they identified a terrorist haven in yemen and they saw phone calls coming in, they didn t realize they were coming from the united states. so nsa said we need to find anybody who s in touch with the terrorists outside of the united states, and we want to, as you d expect, if you re investigating somebody who s in touch with a terrorist, you want to know who they are in touch with in the united states and who both people are in touch with. so when you do the math, that turns out to be close to 150 million.
no diversity. tucker: ooh, white men, worst kind.te then there was kurt eickenwald.. how could we forget kurt eichenwald, who dropped this on twitter, i hope every g.o.p-er who voted for trumpcare see a family member get a long-term condition, lose insurance, and die. when asked why he wanted people to die for his political beliefs, eichenwald added this, because i want them to be tortured. keep in mind, he works at msnbc now. his venom exceeded by singer and actress bette miller. she tweeted this: just like that. and finally, there s congressman debbie dingell of michigan who, like mitchell, was very hung up on the whiteness of republican lawmakers trying to change health care. here she is. i just sort of watched in shock, the picture in the rose garden after what happened.
eight years, and huge pieces of his earlier life remained undiscovered. and it s not just a girlfriend. it s his closest intellectuall companion, his closest friendlo from harvard law school, the person who actually helped edit his autobiography memoir, dreams from my father. hi it s remarkable that journalists back in 2007, 2008. didn t do this basic legwork back in 2007, 2008. tucker: in the book, you say that the former president reached out during the course of his political career to a number of people who might have given interviews and leaned on them not to talk to journalist because they might hurt him. do you think that was part of theto problem? the barack obama from 1985 to 2002 in illinois was a wonderful progressive politician. i m a progressive democrat myself. but the barack obama that we saw
about his talks with the russians. today, president trump tweeted quote, biggest story today between clapper and yates is on surveillance. presumably the president s talking about him being surveilled. he goes on to say, why doesn t the media report on this? #fakenews. the president also said the russia-trump collusion story is a hoax. tucker: thanks, trace. time now for news abuse, we bring you the highlights of america s fading and rotten media establishment. macron was elected president of france yesterday and according to the new york times which was exultant, we have press censorship to thank for his election. last week, the candidates emails was leaked to the internet. the press did little reporting on their content. in part because french law prohibits campaign reporting the last two days before an election, but it didn t stop there. even after the blackout ended, most media outlets in france
woman on the senate foreign relations committee. there are zero republican women, and has anyone ever said a thing about it? no, they don t deal with women s issues. tucker: the gender-neutral part, that s not identity, the lack of identity, right? you see the point. they re bringing it up after last year s election. tucker: i don t evenhe understand your story but i know i m against it. [laughter] but i like it. yours has lena dunham in it so you can t win, i m sorry. you win, and you get today s participation trophy. weight loss is the last thing that needs to be politicized, it s the last thing that we have. tucker: thanks both of youu very much for joining us. coming up next, sometimes it s a company s brilliant effort to curb greenhouse gases by changing the world s eating habits. you re probably not going to like it, but your pet frog might. stay tuned to find out what that means.