don t we lift some restrictions, give folks the means with what they want to with some basic seel of funding, and let s what happens. we are very much in a test case now. the program in newark, the program out in stockton, they are pilots to see what this can mean for families soon who are struggling. tucker: nobody is approaching this empirically but headstart has been evaluated for over 50 years. it doesn t work. we still find it.t. no program ever goes away, but here s what we do know. do you disagree with the proposition that giving people something for nothing, whether t they are poor or rich, it s a human thing, is bad for them? it doesn t make them feel good about themselves? we are talking about poor people. i actually believe when you give poor people additional money, it increases their responsibility. i think people, when they are struggling to make ends meet, struggling to determine how they keep their lights on and pay their mortgage every month, that increases their
tucker: hit me with the core argument. we did it for 18-year-olds because they could pay taxes, work, and that was illegal working status or age in the united states of america, now the legal working status or agee in the united states at 16 years old. they actually pay taxes. this is literally taxation with zero representation. and we already allow 16-year-olds to vote in places like takoma park, maryland. tucker: that is a sad little lunatic place. i live near takoma park maryland. you are calling them lunatics? tucker: yes, they let illegal aliens vote. it is a boutique town. they do not allow illegal aliens to vote. tucker: i live here, trust me, they do. if they can vote, which i think it s the most important civic duty there is, why aren t they serving in wars? why can t they buy guns? they don t have the right to do so. and most of our allied nations, because they do not have the right to do so.
i will give you two polls because i find them so interesting, this was monmouth last year, 77% of americans, that is a number to keep in your mind said that television and news outlets report fake news. that is 14 points higher than the year prior, go to 1976 so that we can put it into context, gallup runs a poll, trust and confidence in the media? 72%, nearly three quarters, same number said yes, we do have trust in the media, so the whole thing has been turned on its head, we totally trust the media to three quarters saying forget bias, we think that fake news is actually being reported. and that is incredible to me, tucker. tucker: people make mistakes, people go down rabbit holes, i have done it. i thought that gary condit killed his intern, i was wrong.i and let me apologize again, i m sorry.
report and that does not even exist anymore which is basically an internet comment board. that is shocking to me and i cannot believe it is not getting any more coverage. tucker: i agree with you. i worked at cnn for many years and in 2001 when gary condit was accused in the media of murdering his intern, but they all accused him of murder, and when it turned out that he did not do it and his career was destroyed, his life was destroyed, i have felt bad about it ever since, and i have nothing in common with him, but do you think anybody in the press will feelan bad that they have been lying to their viewers for two years? i think that many people have a problem with the media because there is no contrition. that when mistakes are made, people do not say straight up without excuse is that we got it wrong and we are sorry. we will try better next time. think about the last time you ever heard that from any major mediak person.
constrain call liberties whether in terms of personal ownership of firearms or in something like free speech. tucker: it is notwn reassuring, i am sure that there are a lot of americans, i am definitely one of them who are so horrified by these mass shootings that they want to do o something. when the people in this country leading the call for gun control are sewed clearly dishonest and disingenuous when they demand that you disarm has nothing to do with keeping you safe. it would be kind of foolish to take them at face value and disarm, wouldn t you? yes, it would, and i find it interesting that in new zealand where the prime minister did say that the gun laws have to change, new zealand is not america, but 20% of households in the country own guns. which is about twice the rate of australia and actually higher than france, germany, most european countries. it has a saying and rather old-fashioned attitude to gun