harper s magazine and he s been the publisher there for more than 35 years so he s watched a few democratic candidates in his time. he s got a new piece out for the spectator in which he describes those with warren this way, as a left-wing populist for people who don t want left-wing populism. warren, he writes, may be more like hillary and anyone dares to say aloud. when the two women talk on the phone, as they do, maybe it s more about power than about good government. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on tonight. so you have watched this carefully. you sound, by the peace, like you are you are sympathetic to the idea of an authentic populist running but it sounds like you don t really buy would elizabeth warren is telling. why? because she s already announced to the regular democratic party, and i m talking about the barons of the democratic party, the people who really run it day today, the clinton, obama s actions, their lives off wall street, that she
tucker: you been in journalism a long time. is that what journalists are supposed to do? cover up and protect powerful people? of course not. i always thought journalists were supposed to expose powerful and exposed corruption and speak up like i did several years ago and will was blacklisted by liberal media when i saw things that had very bad behavior and i what we are saying as with any robot, being so obsessed with not the corruption or the injustice or not that many people were continued to get victimized after the story was spiked, but upset with the fact that she didn t get credit for breaking the story, this career defining story that she wanted her name on, and it fulfills this impression people have of journalists as the spineless egomaniacs who don t care about anything but themselves and working their way, climbing up the ranks. at nbc, it works for her. she became a coanchor wrote 2020 after she shut up and didn t fight this tucker: your obsolete right that i need
country after they graduate. in other words, we are going to staple a green card to their diploma. you have probably heard that phrase. employers who use f1b visas are not required to pay payroll taxes, they get a tax subsidy for hiring foreigners over u.s. citizens. how is that for america last? maybe the program would make sense if americans really couldn t fill all of those jobs but it turns out, there are plenty who could. just ask the thousands who were recently laid off by uber. according to the economic policy institute, nearly half of all american stem majors, that is people who study technology, don t end up working in stem jobs. isn t that weird? the only people who actuallyn benefit from these visa programs are tech billionaires in silicon valley. and the foreign nationalists who want to live in san francisco. our government makes it easy for them to do that. who gets hurt? among others, the college graduates who took on huge amounts of student loan debt
tucker: you ve been in journalism a long time. is that what journalists are supposed to do? cover up and protect powerful people? of course not. i always thought journalists were supposed to expose powerful and expose corruption and speak up, like i did several years ago and was blacklisted byow liberal media when i saw things very bad behavior and i what we are saying as with amy robach, being so obsessed with not the corruption or the injustice or not that many people continued to get victimized after the story was spiked, but she s obsessed with the fact that she didn t get credit for breaking the story, this career defining story that she wanted her name on, and it fulfills this impression people have of journalists as the spineless egomaniacs who don t care about anything but themselves and working their way, climbing up the ranks. at nbc, it worked for her. she became a coanchor of 20/20
presence near rounding up the interment in concentration camps of muslim ethnic and art minorities? is that what you are saying? yes. also we have a number american companies that have just generally supported beijing transferring technology to the chinese and we have them involved in places where they shouldn t be, including a part of the northwest of china, which is really horrible. tucker: you have to wonder why investors aren t saying anything about this. there are a series as activists, hedge fund managers, for example, who will go to companies and say we don t like the way you are doing business, we think you are operating inefficiently, and we are going to force you to do what we want. why don t any of them ever push nike, for example, to stop supporting the fascist regime of mainland china? they should. it s not just the question of morals, it s also the question on business because those places are risky from a business point of view, certainly from a reputational point