>> tucker: so you are saying that having the statue up is not a celebration of the confederac confederacy. it's a way for the rest of us to remember what it was in the triumph over it by the united states. >> that's right. it's also being just misused by members of the left to really denigrate the values of this nation. that's what it is. and they are using race, but what it does also is deflect attention away from the more critical issues that we are facing, particularly in black america where we have more blacks killed in one year than were killed in 70 years -- lynched in 70 years between 1873-1950, 4,000 blacks were lynched brutally but 6,000 blacks were killed in one year. if taking a confederate statute down does nothing towards saving a life in chicago but we are