yeah. we get christmas eve off and christmas day to come home, but we have a lot of international students who obviously you can t make it home in that amount of time, and so they are forced to kind of stay there. we are there over all breaks, summer, you never leave, you get a week off in august and then you are back to it. tucker: so that s kind of what i was hoping to tease out of your, i didn t realize that with that profound. so this is a commitment of like people can t even no. all summer you have to stay there, you have to take classes because just when you have to take classes come into take classes you are there to swim, so it s kind of like this cycle where your school and swim all the time, so like you said, i know you re being funny but there s really not time for anything. there s hardly time you know, to form relationships outside of swimming, it s hard time to see her family and things like that. tucker: why did you do that? i know. it s crazy. tucker: si
About third or fourth ranked in the nation, so tucker: so how fast was his time i m a a slash lia thomas time compared to yours? at least a second that i have faster. tucker: wow. and that was the time i think they swam at a dual meet, which is if you know swimming really rare. it was kind of dislike who, how who is this person? i was just like kind of but when i found out lia was formerly well, i was thrilled, because i was like okay, the ncaa would never let this happen to where we have someone who swim three years as a male, swim with the females at our national championships. and so i kind of just went about my training, so i was like this is a good thing, maybe. but it turns out two weeks before our national championships, the ncaa announced lia will be competing with the females and i was just like mind blown. tucker: you can find tucker carlson today episodes
Tomorrow after they meet with queen elizabeth. i m jack avon has, now back to tucker carlson tonight. enjoy. tucker: riley gaines spent her life becoming one of the top collegiate summers in united states. she set the 200-meter ncaa championships record but the ncaa championships this year, she was forced to compete against a man. at the university of pennsylvania swimmer calling himself lia thomas. for tucker carlson today we spoke to riley gaines about how hard she trained for the championship and about how she first learned that a man planned to compete against her. here s what she told us. tucker: of the nine months here in school is in session, how many of those? so we are there over summer, we are there over christmas, we are there over thanksgiving, where there over spring break was fall break, we don t get to go home ever. tucker: for real?
That is simplistic but it s basically what happened. i m confident it s going to change though. we were starting to see that, weren t we, in 2018 and 2019, the gradual reduction in the illegal immigration and the powers of assimilation i think would have kicked in. starting to see more people from asia, but am very pessimistic, 2 million scheduled in this fiscal year to come across the border. it s going to be a disaster. tucker: how will that play out over time do you think? well, it sure won t affect the people who engineered it, they will be in the bicoastal elite conclaves, and their knowledge of people who speak spanish will be maria, you know, the housekeeper, and juan the gardener, but they will never put their kids an integrated school or entertain or socialize with people from mexico. i can see it in palo alto where i work at stanford. but in the long one we re going to it s going to impact the mexican american lower and middle classes because when you have these people
So hard and yet you had to be vertically integrated and that required connections with the government and capital. tucker: totally. i started to have a populist streak. i always had, but that made it much so when the trump maga thing came along, i was never i mean, i was receptive to that, the idea that we re going to go back and look at these hardworking people that we ve written off as losers, deplorables, trump s people that biden called chumps or drugs, and i really identified with them because i had grown up with them, so for me it wasn t so much donald trump a person, but it was what he represented, and i couldn t figure out while these republican candidates in 2016 didn t say why are we giving china all of these why are we opening our border? these wars i supported the iraq war, but they were not in a cost to moral sense working out for the people that were fighting them, so i couldn t