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boards. it's counting down and we'll start to get those percentages going on the bottom of the screen. we will be joining us throughout the evening coming up next. and right now our friend in d.c. tucker carlson. >> bret: tucker? ♪ >> tucker: the polls have just closed and this is a fox news alert. seconds ago polls closed in alabama for the special senate election. now supporters of republican roy moore and democrat doug jones waiting for the results, of course, hoping they will come in quickly. it's been a remarkable race and unexpectedly competitive one. donald trump won the state of alabama by 28 points but moore has been weakened, as you know by allegations of sexual misconduct. according to little data from fox news and voter analysis the race is pretty tight. we should also note that jones has made his own blunders, of course, sending out literature last week that many saw as racist. prime coverage kicks off with fox senior political
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analyst brit hume. so, brit, what are the implications either way? let's say roy moore wins, what does that mean for the republicans in washington? >> well, tucker, my assessment of that is very simply this. on an ordinary night, on a special election in alabama, we would probably be calling this at 8:00 if we had exit polling for the republican. but, as you point out. this is no ordinary night. my way of looking at it is that there are two missiles headed toward the republicans in the u.s. senate and those who may run for the job. and the only question is which one is going to hit them. either in the case of a moore loss. they lose a seat in the senate. which narrowly divided as the senate is, that's a big deal. however, if roy moore wins they have a political albatross around their neck or at least someone that the democrats going forward into next year's midterm elections will try to hang
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around their neck and around the neck of every single member of the candidate for the senate incumbent or not throughout the whole season. this looks like a night in which the republicans have no way to win. stuck tuck is it impossible for republicans in washington to tell their voters look, we are on your side. we just don't like roy moore. we are not on the side of gloria allred and "the today show." we are on your side it's just this specific guy is bad is there any way to convey that message? >> they certainly will try to do that i would think. but, you know, and that's -- that would be what i would recommend if i were a political strategist that you try to deal with the fact he is among you. he is part of your caucus. he is a republican. he is your colleague. and you can say whatever you want about him, but that fact will remain because can you distance yourself as best you can what you probably cannot do, tucker,
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is refuse to seat him. >> tucker: right. >> then that brings up the question of whether you can expel him. and my reading of that, tucker is you probably can expel him. it takes i think 67 votes to do it. but, no one has ever been expelled for the senate for conduct that occurred before he became a member of the senate. it would be unprecedented act. it wouldn't be easy. and the best republicans could hope for if he is elected the matter could be referred to the ethics committee. roy moore is saying unconstitutional for the ethics committee to take it up. i don't think that argument is going to carry the day. at which point the republicans can pray that this whole fewe if you if yo fue down. that's something they can hope for. i'm not sure that's a winning strategy but it's
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something. at some point the ethics committee will report with a recommendation and we can see where it goes. either way this is not a good situation. >> tucker: it's a big deal to overturn the expressed will of voters, it seems to me. really quickly, jones is being attacked by republicans as a pretty conventional liberal. and i think that's right. i wonder if jones had come out as pro-life, as opposed to abortion, if it would even be a race tonight and maybe this is one of the costs to having a national party policy everyone has to have the same. are there places where they could win if they moderated their view on that specific issue? >> interesting you ask that question because i have had people say that about republicans if they would just get off this anti-abortion, this pro-life stuff, they could win more races. i think once a person has declared on that issue, it's pretty hard to reverse
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yourself. i have seen it done. george h.w. bush did it you may recall. >> tucker: yeah very well. >> he was proabortion right and he became a fan of dooption and he was able to stakeout that territory and survive and carry on. in jones' case, i'm not sure. he is pretty far out there on that issue. i think you are right. certainly is a problem for him because it has proved abortion to be the most enduring moral issue of our time and maybe will for the foreseeable future. i think it has been a drag on his prospects and when all is said and done tonight, we look back we might well conclude as you suggest that was the issue that hindered him. >> tucker: thank you. i hope you stay with us. >> you bet. >> tucker: this race is closed and the results are being tabulated right now. will fox make the call? we are joined by bret baier along with martha maccallum,
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host of the story martha maccallum. i don't know who to ask first. i will throw it to both of you. in a race like, this where the nation is watching and it's far more confusing than typically would be than an alabama senate race. how do you decide when we know? >> bret: we have this new process this cycle, this time it's called fox news voter analysis and we have polls, questions that have been asked of voters today. polling all day. and over the past few days about how they would vote and how they would react. then we have that and the raw numbers coming in. and put that together. and our decision desk, that's hold away in this room in this building, not far from here, makes an educated decision about what's left and said this is possible. right now, tucker, this race is really close. and for the first time in a quarter century a democrat could win the senate seat in
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alabama doug jones is at least poised to do that after this topsy touchy kind of race. >> martha: unlikely to be one of those nights call a race with 20 or 30% of the vote tabulated. much more likely we will be here a while. making sure the numbers we have got. northern part is different than the southern part. you have the cities. we wait for them to come in and extrapolate the numbers with the help of our decision desk combined with these new not polls, analysis that we have of voters which does online and does phone interviews and combines them we hope they will be quite telling. >> tucker: how do you use that. fox has been asking folks on alabama all day on their view on the issues. how does that inform you. >> martha: similar to exit polls, get a sense what's on people's line minds. 50% of them said they did
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believe the accusations of sex i can'sexual misconduct agat roy moore. it doesn't tell you a lot. it is split. discussing the issues of abortion with brit. 53% say that's very important barometer. that may cause people leaning towards doug jones to pull back from his choice given his record on that. this is very divided. this is a very tough choice for voters in alabama. i think in one way, tucker. they know, of course, that this is going to reflect on them. right? they are going to make a statement here. and they are extraordinarily independent. and they will don't like the fact that the nation has been trying to tell them what they should think about this and their voices are going to be heard momentarily. >> bret: just to make sense of the numbers on the screen. you are seeing the first raw numbers come in. that's the percentages of the first raw vote totals. throughout the night you will see on the bottom of the screen those numbers
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change. we will put them up as the numbers come in. we will take raw numbers and voter analysis that we have been doing and the decision desk will be able to make a call as to who is going to win this race. >> tucker: right now it's 157 to 5343: 8th grade school election. when are we going to find out if you can make a prediction about when? >> this is tough. we tried that on election night. >> martha: we ended you up being here when "fox & friends" started the next morning. we will see you, tucker. >> bret: close right now. >> tucker: i can't wait. bret and martha, thank you. >> tucker: stay up on the screen throughout the show in the east coast. sexual harassment allegations not the only drama in the news right now. almost every day brings out more signs the department of justifiable could be ideologically compromised in its investigations. we don't wants to think that, but the evidence is mounting. until this month, bruce ohr
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was a senior official at doj. he was demoted after it was disclosed he failed to disclose meetings with fusion gps. the firm responsible for the infamous trump dossier. it has not been revealed that ohr's wife actually works for fusion gps. congressman represents rhode island he has been following this case from the very beginning. we have been talking with him about it. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: the reasonable for having independent counsel make sure things are on the level. not politically motivated. everyone can have confidence in the justin system. that's a goal i think we all agree with given that the daily revelation that people integral to this investigation are partisan shakes the public's faith. is this a conservatorship for you? >> i think, first of all, we have to say that there is an ongoing effort by my republican colleagues to undermine the integrity of this investigation. we saw in the judicial committee last week. let's start off with the facts. robert mueller respected by everyone, republican,
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democrat alike. >> tucker: right. >> a career prosecutor confirmed unanimously. when he was confirmed mcconnell i have a lot of confidence in bob mueller. i think he was a good choice. newt gingrich. superb choice. reputation impeccable for honesty and integrity. these are professionals who take an oath to the constitution. >> tucker: okay. i agree with you. >> and they have a responsibility to do that. if they don't, if they show any partisanship bias, favoritism. they are subjected not only removed to the case. they are subjected to losing their license. >> tucker: there is i have it right here. look, here's the point there san effort to undermine mueller's credibility. >> why is that? i'm not talking but. here's the thing. the american people have wonder there is ongoing effort to undermine the fbi. we had a hearing before the judicial committee. >> tucker: let's discuss the
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facts as they are and then we can assess. take bruce ohr, he is the associate deputy attorney general. he lied about having meetings with fusion gps where his wife worked, which is at the very center of this entire case. >> tucker. >> tucker: that doesn't rattle you a little bit? >> tucker, what i really wants to focus on is that when the special counsel learned of both mr. ohr and mr. strzok, they removed them from the case. one of them was depleted but they were both removed. >> tucker: what about aaron. >> that's evidence that robert mueller is doing his job. >> tucker: hold on, wait a second. we have a whole list of lawyers who work for mueller who either represented the clintons personally or gave money though their campaign. >> tucker, you know, prosecutors all over the country have political views. what they are required to do is set aside personal beliefs. personal views on the issue.
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>> tucker: hold on. >> do that all across america. >> tucker: i asthma agree with you however this is the most politically sensitive case in this generation. jeannie rhee represented the clinton foundation. are you joking? why would do you that? >> extraordinary professionals who risked their lives. >> tucker: what do you know about jeanine rhee. >> tucker: they are authority we flex before them? >> in place prohibit prosecutors or people who work for the fbi to depart from the oath that they took. if they do that they are subject to removal from the case. they could being sanctioned. they could lose their license to practice law. >> tucker: hold on, if you really care. >> of course i do. >> tucker: you say do you about the impartiality of this respond. andrew weissmann his deputy in this. weissmann is the one who emailed sally yates when she
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turned down the travel ban how in awe he was of her. is he a democratic donor. obama. >> tucker, that clearly does not disqualify. what you have to determine. if this person impartially set aside personal views and do. >> tucker: if this were an investigation of hillary clinton. if it were, and 90% of the lawyers that the ig hired, the independent counsel hired were republican donors and had worked for trump, you would say what is this? >> we could say robert mueller is a republican. rod rosenstein. >> tucker: rod rosenstein is a liberal democrat. >> robert mueller. i don't know whether he is a democrat or not. robert mueller is definitely republican. prosecutor are required to set aside identical views. these are men and women, professionals who subject themselves to disciplinary action. they will could lose their license.
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be. >> tucker: you are filibustering. >> no, no. tucker the only thing that changed robert muller is getting closer to the president. >> tucker: this is just a hack job. exactly what i thought it was in the beginning. you are not addressing my specific questions about specific people. you are saying they risk their lives. >> what has changed in your assessment? >> tucker: nothing. i have been slow to judge because there has been a parade of people come out. two have been demoted for activity. >> robert mueller is respected by republicans, democrats. >> tucker: not by me anymore. >> he has assembled a team. >> tucker: you are repeating a talking point. team of extraordinary professionals. >> they are. these are men and women who risked their lives. can you laugh about them. >> tucker: they are not risking their lives any more than i am. >> this is what they do. undermining them and attacking the rule of law. >> tucker: suck up to power don't ask questions. extraordinary professionals. >> attacking the fbi because you don't like what they are doing. >> tucker: ask questions that's what i'm doing. >> so i do.
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>> tucker: don't try to bully me. >> no one can bully you. >> tucker: we are out of time, congressman. come back any time. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: because this is an interesting topic. >> tucker: kristen gillibrand poses as congress' sexual assault. is she? we'll discuss that next. of course throughout the hour we will keep you updated on alabama. of the polls there have just closed. the outcome left to be decided. we'll let you know. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.
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♪ >> tucker: polls have closed in the state of alabama. the results are coming in now. trickling in. they will be on your screen all night. the race for the first time in many years can go either way at any time. stay right here. we will be updating you all night. ryan of the new yorker was fired yesterday, the latest casualty of the hunt for sexual harassers. the magazine described crime as improper sexual conduct did. not elaborate beyond that nor did it name his accuser who remains anonymous. the new yorker was unable to site a company policy that was violated he wrote. that didn't matter. lizza lost the job he held over academic indicated. he was suspended from role cnn as well as adjunct professorship at georgetown. is he in his 40's but his career is over now. the same has happened to plenty of other people on
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the basis of sexual harassment claims. in just the past week, tv chef was pulled off the air steve edwards. al franken is about to leave the senate. a of other ones, too. maybe these people are guilty as charged. sexual harassment is real and apparently common. so it could be. how common is it? well, it would be nice to know that but that would require facts, which are one of the many things these cases lack along with names and dates and the specific nature of the crimes alleged. details matter. protecting the innocence is the very essence of western justice. unfortunately we are moving in the opposite direction. toward a standard where to be accused means to be judged guilty. this is not a defense of sexual harassment, obviously, just an acknowledgment that it's terrifying. really terrifying. in a recent piece for
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politico. emily explains how we got here. it turns out it did not start with harvey weinstein exactly but with the last administration. at the beginning of this decade, the obama administration launched a campaign to stamp out sexual assault on college campuses. the goal was laudable obviously but the means were horrifying. using title 9 pressured colleges to lower the burden of proof for sexual misconduct and urged them to create kangaroo courts that denied basic rights to students like access to counsel and the ability to face and question accusers. within a few years, it became normal to view sexual misconduct as a special class of crime where no presumption of innocence was warranted. accusation equaled conviction. two years ago democratic congressman put it as clearly as anyone ever has. if there are 10 people that have been accused and maybe one or two did it. it seems better to get rid
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of all 10 people. in other words it's okay to punish the innocent. if you want an omelet you have to break some eggs. that was rob spheres line echoed by totalitarian dictators ever since. jarring to hear it from a u.s. congressman in this country. on campuses students were humiliated and expelled on the basis of no evidence they had done anything wrong. in one case, at the university of north dakota, a student was tossed out for sexual assault even as his accuser was prosecuted for lying to police about the same incident. now, at the time, many on the right allied with civil libertarians to decry this as a basic attack on the preaccepts of justice which it was. now those same groups are silent, mostly. some are even cheering along because this time the victims primarily are liberal journalists, politicians, and media personalities. a lot of these seem like odious people anyway and it's gratifying to see them hounded from public life. that's a mistake. principles matter. even when they protect people you don't like. if some annoying magazine
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writer can lose everything over anonymous unproven charge it can happen to you, too. and it might. in a brilliant new piece in the american interest, a writer called clair berlin ski sums up the reality we are now living in. quote: it now takes only one accusation to destroy a man's life. just one for him to be tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion. overnight costing him his livelihood and social respectability. we are on a frenzied extra judicial warlock hunt that does not pause to parse the difference between rape and stupidity. the punishment for sexual harassment is so grave that clearly this crime, like any other serious crime, requires an unambiguous definition. we have nothing of the sort. well, rear living through a moral panic obviously. as berlin ski points out we have seen this before. again, a quote from her. not long ago we firmly convinced ourselves that our children were rit actually raped by satanist. in recent years we have
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become especially prone to replacing complex thought with shallow slogans. we live in a time of black and white thinking. we should have the self-awareness to suspect that events in recent weeks may not be aspect of our growing enlightenment but our rather enamourment of extremism. you may not agree with her point. it's strong and thoughtful and worth debating. berlinski said she could barely get it published. they were too afraid to print her essay. that tells you everything. senator kirsten gillibrand of new york has tried to make herself a leader in this sexual assault crusade and recently got into a tiff with the president over it. michelle is an attorney at the center for american progress and she joins us tonight. thanks for come on. >> thanks for have having me. >> tucker: being lectured by kirsten gillibrand after she spent 10 years covering for bill clinton was accused of
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rape. too much. why should i take my moral cues on this question from someone who is as cynical as that? >> so, senator gillibrand was actually in a bipartisan, bible study group when her phone rang, when she found out that the president of the united states was th with the biggest bully pulpit in the world was attacking her on twitter. i think the question and where we could really begin the conversation is that really the da core rum that we want our president to be engaging? and. >> tucker: the answer is no. >> with daughters, he needs to be able to say is there's an epidemic around sexual assault and sexual harassment and i want to do something. >> tucker: i'm against the president tweeting about anything ever. >> that is great. i'm so happy to hear that. >> tucker: i'm against most people tweeting against ever i'm against tweeting. >> anti-twitter.
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>> tucker: someone who covered for bill clinton, who refused to say anything about her colleague anthony weiner when asked about his sexual misdeeds who has covered for linda sarsour who is just an open massagist who wants sharia law and attacked the victims of female jean tail i can't mutilation. why should she lecture me about anything. >> you know i worked in the senate with kirsten gillibrand many years before i went to the center for american progress. one of the things i am most proud of to this day is the bipartisan work we did on the 9/11 health bill. that was something we did with senator coburn who was one of the most conservative fiscally and otherwise republicans in the senate the reason why they work for her she is a hard worker. >> tucker: i don't doubt that for a second. i'm sure she is a hard working person. why does she get to lecture us on a subject.
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she has a rating from planned parenthood which has said we will commit sex selective abortions. abortions designed to basically cull female babies. if you are a family mist how how can you support sex selective abortions i have never understood that. >> i appreciate the question. i don't think that is actually true, tucker. >> tucker: it is true. >> if you go and do any research. >> tucker: i have. >> i don't think anyone would say that planned parenthood is pushing that. >> tucker: they are not. they said they are okay with it. they have said it out loud. >> to provide contraceptive care. health coverage for women in this country. i know as difficult as it is for us to recognize roe is a constitutionally protected right. >> tucker: does sexually selective abortions bother you? >> if we are really going to be honest in this country we have to recognize that abortion is a right protected by the constitution. >> tucker: selective abortion feminists now. i just wondered that. >> back to the. >> tucker: we are out of
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time. i will give you the last word though. >> i will say that senator gillibrand is someone i have senile hardest working people across the aisle. if we as a country really want to value women, we have to figure out this issue around sexual assault. >> tucker: i totally believe that i have got three daughters. i'm all for valuing women. >> oso do i. >> tucker: that's not for kristin grill grand because i think she is false. thanks for joining us. >> tucker: family of the subway bombing are outraged do they have a right to be. we will bring the results to you as soon as the election results come in.
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>> tucker: keeping our eye on the state of alabama. electric results keep coming. in we will let you know immediately if we are able to make a call in that contest. yesterday, islamic extremist. akayed ullah tried to set off a suicide bomb in knox. he succeeded only in injuring himself. his family though remarkably says they're outraged not by what he did but by what the police did in the aftermath of the crime. in a statement, his family said this, quote: we are outraged by the behavior of law enforcement officials during this investigation. today we have seen our children as young as 4 years old held out in the cold detained as their parents were questioned. one teenage relative was
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pulled out of high school classes and intie interrogated without a lawyer without his parents. these are are not the actions we respect from our justice system. we hope to see better in the days and weeks to come. a law professor at the university of detroit and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. >> hey, good evening, tucker. >> tucker: it seems like it this is a little baffling. i had trouble believing it was real actually when i first read it so you find out that someone in your family has a tendency to kill strangers in the name of jihad in a subway station and you issue a statement saying that you have been wronged somehow? how does this work? >> well, i mean, let's be clear that n. that statement they said they were heart broken by the attack. to characterize it they were just attacking the police is wrong. i think there is an issue of bias enforcement. we didn't see the police conduct this sort of treatment against the family of dylann roof or robert deere or james holmes, right? they just view muslims and their families. >> tucker: i don't know. i don't know if they did or not. >> possible suspects as suspicious all the time.
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>> tucker: why do you -- slow down, why do you think that is, i wonder? have you seen the numbers on this? i mean, let's be totally real. >> what numbers? >> tucker: numbers on likelihood of committing a terror attack in a public place, particularly a i suicide bomb in a subway station are a little higher for muslims than presbyterians. let's be honest and stop lying all the time. >> the media thinks a terror attack is only a tear attack if it's committed by a muslim anyway. we saw steven paddock in vegas. look how out media treated his brothers the days after the attack. became a super star. he was arrested on child pornography. >> tucker: you come into this country if you are guy's family from bank, you come in here through the grace and kindness of the american people. you are here like 20 minutes and all of a sudden you are complaining about bias against you and our justice system. it's like you just got here. >> i didn't just get here.
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i have been here my whole life. >> tucker: needless to say. i'm talking about the family of the bomber. these people issue a statement like we're the victims here. it seems like in a normal country you would say to people who just arrived like you should apologize profusely and stop complaining about bias. >> let's hold on a second. there is no indication that they didn't cooperate with law enforcement. in fact, muslims across the country cooperate with law enforcement all the time. i think i'm looking at the bigger picture here which there is a bias in law enforcement. look what happened to the clock boy down in texas who they said that he was committing a hoax bomb crime. he was questioned for four hours without a lawyer. they tried to say he was committing a hoax bomb. and it's not a hoax if you are telling everybody it's a clock. >> tucker: do you think he is the only one questioned without a lawyer? here's the point. do you see something wrong with a system, our system that invites people from impoverished foreign countries who show up here and immediately learn that they're victims and part of an interest group that's at war with a larger society?
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that's clearly what happened in this case. do you see that as a recipe for disunion in a country at all. >> i think it's important to criticize law enforcement when it acts in a biased way. now, in this situation, we sees a. >> tucker: the guy set off a bomb in a subway station, gee-whiz. >> nobody is saying he is not not guilty. of course he is guilty and should go to jail for the rest of his life. when you treat his family immediatelily as accomplices when you don't do it with white criminals. >> tucker: i just had a friend had his door knocked down by the fbi. you don't know anything. maybe that's part of your problem. >> steven paddock's brother was a celebrity on the news. steven paddock's brother. >> tucker: he is in jail for something horrible now anyways. >> now he is. they didn't know that after the shooting. he was treated like a celebrity on the news. you are just wrong about this, tucker. >> tucker: no wonder people hated this country. professor, thank you. >> i don't hate this country. >> tucker: they are taught to hate this country and it's distressing.
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dan bongino is a former nypd officer. he joins us tonight. dan, i just want to analyze this in a sober way. i'm getting a little spun up here. is what you know about the family of this lunatic, how you know about how they were treated, is it inconsistent with the way law enforcement acts in general in do you see this as an example of bias from what you know? >> no, tucker that guy has no idea what he is talking about. i know he is not on the air anymore. i get it maybe it's a little unfair. he his platform. now i will take a shot at him. that guy is crazy. that is not -- law enforcement is biased? does he have any idea how the process works? let me explain how it actually works for reasonable people out there. not that maniac, okay? here's how it works. when a bomb goes off in the city, have you this thing called an exigent circumstances contingency for miranda. you don't have to mirandize people, because you know what, tucker? another bomb could go off and somebody could be
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killed. does he not know that? has he never read -- does he come on the air completely and entirely unprepared? >> tucker: just to clarify for our viewers, so, in those cases where the police are speaking to people without mirandizeing and without lawyer present. they are not doing so to gather evidence in order to charge that person but to find out if there is an imnegligent threat in some other direction. is that what you are saying? >> yes. thank you for saying that, tucker. one, miranda. just to be clear, if you're in custody and you're interrogated, plus those statements are going to be used in a proceeding in a court proceeding later, then, yes, you have to mirandize people. if your primary interest, tucker, is saving the lives of people who could be killed in an additional bombing, what did you think the cops were going to do to the family of this bangladeshi man? do you think they would show one a plate of tea and crumb pets? is that guy kidding me? what did he think was going to happen? do you have any time to go there and say, hey, folks, listen, can i give you a back rub?
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i to there and act as professionally as you can as i know the nypd does. i worked there. we have a problem. maybe of your family is alleged to have just blown himself up in a subway. we need information. and we need it now. is there anyone else involved? and this is what -- you know, the family is outraged, tucker? you know what? we are outraged. do you know what we're outraged about? this cair attorney who came on afterwards and gave a statement by the way who cair jumps out in front of screen afterwards every time worried about phony mass outbreaks of islamophobia and americans are also outraged about being the most compassionate country on earth which it comes to immigration. we get slapped in the face every time like we are the mutts here, not this guy who tried to kill people. >> tucker: totally right. we import more than a million people every year and the second they arrive the left convinces them they are victims and the rest of the country hates them. it's a disaster. dan, thank you for your sober analysis of that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: we have a lot
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voter analysis defines that a majority 51% have a favorable opinion of the democrat doug jones. that is a tick higher than the 50% who have a favorable opinion of judge moore's most famous endorser president trump and considerably higher than the 3 will% who have a favorable opinion of judge moore. but, when it comes to voters who think that it is very important which party controls the u.s. senate, 55% favor roy moore. 42% favor the democrat doug jones. we are told that the democrat jones has already shown up to his election night party at a hotel near his house in birmingham. his campaign manager said they worked until the last possible minute 7:00 local trying to earn votes. the producer on the hometown hero charles barkley is that the that event after appearing at a separate events. we do expect to see him in montgomery at some point. we also expect to see the former white house chief strategist who has been the
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second most famous after president trump moore backer that is steve bannon and if moore pulls out a victory. we expect there to be a lot of credit given to president trump. but if he does not, we expect a lot of blame to be directed at mitch mcconnell tucker? particular. >> tucker: peter doocy on the ground. special coverage will continue in a few minutes. regular viewers of this show know we have fallen pretty hard for chris com cuomo. what began as gentle mocking and turned into affection and awe as we watched video after video after chris cuomo's stream of musings often delivered by grunting in the gym. >> guys say you want to get in on the process of what's going on behind the screens. you see that splash, the "new york times" is here taking a picture of me while rose is taking a picture of me and now taking a picture of the "new york times" taking a picture of me while i'm talking to you. this is something that we're doing for the "new york
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times." a piece that's going to be very short because it's about style and i clearly have none. >> tucker: if we were ever to adopt an eastern religion chris cuomo would be our swamy. and even by our high standards, a recent piece in the tv news blogged me right stood out for the quivering intensity of its love for chris cuomo. in case you missed it, here is the lead. cnn's new day host chris cuomo sharp legal mind on full display tuesday morning it began. sharp legal mind didn't he false declare that the constitution prohibits hate speech? yep, not so sharp. that didn't slow the author of thed meiat piece. hall in a flourish pr officials would envy slobbered on about cuomo's quote relevant reasoned and dispassionate manner that viewers have come to expect. now, the question isn't is it journalism, obviously it's not journalism. the real question is this stalking. does it cross the line from fawning to creepy?
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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. votes are being tallied as we speak in alabama where democrat doug jones is trying to achieve a surprise and it would be a surprise victory over republican roy moore in one of the most republican states in the country. john daniel davidson is the senior correspondent at the federalist and he joins us tonight. john, thanks for coming on.
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so, other than the coastal elites hate alabama, which they always have and that's even more obvious than it's ever been. what have we learned from this? >> well, i think we have learned that when mitch mcconnell and the g.o.p. leadership in washington tries to hand pick a candidate and meddle in a state election, things can blow up in their face. >> tucker: right. >> that's exactly what happened here. mitch mcconnell very much wanted luther strange to be the next senator from alabama instead he is really given the people of alabama a very difficult choice that a lot of alabamaians think there is no good solution to this problem they have between doug jones and roy moore. >> so it's really like trying to force your daughter to date someone and she goes like way in the other direction. >> that's right. that's right. exactly. i talked to a number of people in alabama, party officials and campaign people who told me that
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during the g.o.p. primaries the word was out among all the political consulting firms that if do you any work for any candidate other than luther strange, you will be blacklisted. >> tucker: whoa. >> by the g.o.p. this was repeated to me by multiple people who didn't talk to one another. this was sort of understood, you know. tuck particular that's fascinating. that's amazing. not surprising at all. thank you for that tid bit, john, really interesting. >> you're welcome. >> tucker: thanks for joining us. we are continuing to monday tort election results in alabama which are coming in right now. stay with us. ♪ ♪ when you have a cold...
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meanwhile, good night from washington. we have more alabama election coverage throughout the evening. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity. this is a fox news alert. it is decision night for the voters in the great state of alabama and a race that has national implications. we are awaiting the results in this highly anticipated alabama u.s. senate special election race between conservative outsider republican judge roy moore and democrat doug jones who president trump is calling a puppet of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. here's how the race stands right now and you can see it, roy moore is up. the "new york times" actually is predicting a 55% chance at this hour that roy moore would win this race. but it looks very close. here is the very latest from roy moore election headquarters in montgomery, alabama is peter doocy, sir. what's going on? how are they feeling in that

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