[Bill Hemmer, Cnn Anchor:] The Powerball and lotteries the topic tonight on "CROSSFIRE." We're going to go up to Washington for a preview. Bill Press and Tucker Carlson, my old friends, back with us now. Listen, guys. Good evening, first of all.
[Bill Press, Co-host, Cnn's "crossfire":] Thank you, Bill.
[Tucker Carlson, Co-host, Cnn's "crossfire":] Thank you, Bill.
[Hemmer:] We're going to give you one minute to go ahead and frame tonight's debate. The clock is running, so give it your best shot.
[Press:] The worst news I'm from Delaware and I'm not the fourth winner. But Tucker if you hadn't been so cheap, Tucker, if you had just gone out and spent a buck this weekend, you could have walked away with $41 million dollars. Aren't you sorry for your family?
[Carlson:] That I didn't humiliate myself by standing in line outside a liquor store waiting for a prize I'm never going to receive? You know, we have David Edwards on tonight, who is of course one of the winners. I'd like to do a show with the millions of sad, uneducated, credulous people who didn't win. Unfortunately, we can't fit them in the studio. But we should do that show.
[Press:] Tucker, that is so elitist. They're not so sad. You know, not everybody like you can afford to go to the baccarat table, Tucker. Not everybody can fly first class to Las Vegas. So this is the average working stiff's casino. A buck.
[Carlson:] And the average working stiff is getting stiffed. Think of it this way. If the government owned tobacco companies and were advertising, promoting smoking, you would say, "Gee, this is horrifying." Government promoting a destructive habit for profit. You would be against that. That's what it's doing here. And you ought to be against it now.
[Press:] I don't anybody that's gotten killed by playing the lottery, Tucker. But let me ask you this. Where else...
[Carlson:] There are many people.
[Press:] Get out. Where else could you spend a dollar and get $41 million?
[Carlson:] But you are not going to get $41 million.
[Press:] David Edwards did.
[Hemmer:] Time out.
[Carlson:] Eighteen minutes, Bill Hemmer. Tune in.
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