ashamed, you stand in front of that sign, now it makes you feel even more ashamed. what are you going to go out n and do? you re going to go and eat even more. so it s the tacticoi that i m arguing with. it s not the fact that people shouldn t take responsibility for themselves, but you cannot scare people into losing weight. tucker: that s not true. you can scare people into anything. i ve been scared into losing weight.gh trust me. i ve got to say, even if i m argument against you, i know the people who put this ad up are not people i would want to have dinner with. i just know that. so i m arguing against my own position. dr. marshall, thank you for joining us tonight. great to see you. thank you.po tucker: a massive thousand page biography of president obama s early years just came out.t. it s definitive and has a lot of facts and information.io stuff you should have known but didn t. we ll talk to the book s pulitzer prize-winning author. in case you want to lower yourid can
american communications in the stream of intelligence? and he gave exactly the right answer. and afterwards, the attorney general said you re not supposed to ask a question if you don t know what the answer s going to be. i said i knew exactly what the training here was going to be, what that guy had been through, and i knew he knew the answer and i m surprised. tucker: but you sort of wonder, i wonder a lot of things about nsa, but one is how would we really know? so it s obviously highly technical and highly classified, and if i m a member of congress on one of the committees andy i call over and say i d like to see this, and i m sure i m getting those things? this is the hardest problem with intelligence, gotta be secret, and yet you want in the democracy to be sure that the government runs it and the intelligence committee is not running the government. the way we solve that ore addressed it as least is there are multiple independent and
rival centers of power all whom think their principal job, job one, is to make sure that the intelligence committee and in some cases nsa don t violate the law. there s the justice department thinks that s their job, the general counsel and nsa think that s their job.ep there s a privacy officer in nsa who think s that their job. two intelligence committees who think that s their job. the fisa court thinks it s their job to write unheard on nsa. all of them are independent. all of them are going to make their careers.s. they can find a violation of the law and all of them conduct investigations at various times. it s not perfect. but probably the most investigated agency that i can think of. tucker: when james clapper was running american intelligence went before congress and said we re not spying on any american citizens, and it turned out he was lying. did that shock you? yeah, i think he either
journalism failed to discover for years. tucker: it seems like at key points in his life, obama made decisions that were not i not human decisions. he seemed to make decisions basedng on political calculation going back a long time, including who he married, and it s a coldness at the center of the guy that is striking.hi i think there is an ambition, a deep, profound political ambition, which barack articulated as early as 1987 to the people with whom he was closest then and that ambition was a formative part of his life. joining jeremiah wright, trinity united church of christ was a part of that too.
i don t know. that s a hypothetical, but the reality of the matter is the republican party at its highest> ranks of leadership has a diversity problem and lack of diversity, be it ideological diversity or racial diversity, gender diversity, it makes us all poor because you re not necessarily getting the perspective one needs when attacking something as big as infrastructure, tax reform, or health care. these are big challenges. tucker: it was just announced that anyone who disagrees can t be a member of the party. disagrees on roe v. wade. you re telling me that diversity is lacking. that s not exactly true. tucker: we choose to have the views that we have.ru wee we don t choose to be the color that we are. it s something that happens to us. so the agreement that we ve had for a long time is a good agreement. we re not going to judge people on things they can control. accidents of birth, including race. so what does this have to do with the health care bill?s it s that you do