>> martha: do you think you should have? do you think it will make a difference? >> donald trump will not win based on a book. >> martha: senator lindsey graham, always good to see you. bret baier and i will see her tomorrow morning for day two. ♪ "tucker carlson tonight" good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight, colin kaepernick is an awfully brave man, being celebrated by those in power and a massive corporat. we will discuss the deal ahead. also tell you a lot more about nbc news chairman and the lack and the maneuverings of that channel to protect predator harvey weinstein. a brand-new report on that that is fascinating and unnerving. but first as you know, capitol hill was in chaos today thanks to the first day of hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. just a few days ago, that was

history, but see if you can recall talking heads telling you that john mccain's funeral, if it meant anything meant that unity and stability had to return to washington. >> all of these people who are warring on normal days coming together. it was really dramatic. but this notion of unity is really what i have been seeing. >> speakers at the service spoke of bipartisanship and putting country over party. >> tucker: country over party, that did not happen today. judiciary chairman chuck grassley of iowa could not even get the hearing started without being interrupted repeatedly by his democratic colleagues. >> i welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the -- >> mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i would like to be recognized and ask a question before we proceed. mr. chairman, we received 42,000

documents that we have not been able to review. and we believe that the hearing should be postponed. >> we have been denied real access to the documents we need that turn the hearing into a charade and a mockery of our norms. mr. chairman, i therefore moved to adjourn this hearing. "tucker carlson tonight" by the way, we did not edit that tape, that was the very beginning in harris, california, immediately interrupting them. in the screaming protesters did not get the memo about biased bipartisanship either. here is what they did. >> we vote no! we vote no! >> this is an attack on women's rights and democracy. shut the hearing down. i hear you. shut the hearing down. >> tucker: was not a good day for bipartisanship, seeing a lor

perspective to draw, the senior political analyst joining us on the set, was this -- subsequently different from other confirmation hearings, would you say? >> much more of a circus, but some of the hearings have gotten pretty brutal and political, but i think what you saw today in this whole uproar was a reflection of a couple of things. part of it is pure partisanship. part of it is resistance of trump and the desire of some democrats on the committee to show that they are part of the resistance. but beyond that there is something more deeper and sincerely felt, a genuine fear that the addition of judge kavanaugh to the supreme court to succeed anthony kennedy means that the court will tip to a judicial philosophy more to the right. the left has been much more dependent over the decades on the course to achieve policy goals, it could not achieve through legislation. it could not pass through legislatures or get signed by presidents, so on. that's how we came to have a

universal right to abortion. that was something created by the courts. >> tucker: so voters did not do that? >> no, voters did not do that, and at the time that it was done, i do not think that voters would do so. that is the same with gay marriage recognized as a right. that emanated did it all from justice kennedy's abuse -- there was a kind of dignity vibe that he discovered in the constitution, probably looking there for hundreds of years on notice that gave rise to a right to gay marriage. i'm not saying that to these policy results are good or bad. they were achieved through the courts and not through legislatures, not through the normal political processes. democrats have been much more dependent on the courts and republicans have. republicans have resisted these things. being conservatives and so on. in the tipping of the balance of the courts on the right threatens what democrats have bn one of the key agencies of the agenda. and that's why you have this resistance. it is partly politics.

>> tucker: i understand that, they are mad about mary garland and that they have a right to be mad about mary garland, i do think that. what i am struck by is that they are not making subsidence arguments about his ideas or his fitness for the court. that would be fair game. >> when you hear the subsidy and argue wins, they, this. there is a list of the parties that have prevailed in cases which he has ruled, and that is extrapolated as this kind of party or that kind of party. painted for this kind of defendant. these arguments that are made about conservative jurists based on that kind of reasoning leave aside an entirely what the law may have commanded in these cases. in other words, okay, so the corporations won in cases 1-10, therefore you are pro-corporation. but what about what the law said? maybe the corporation won because that's what the law required. >> tucker: exactly. >> that kind of analysis is

missing as it was today with a few arguments made by -- >> tucker: a very good point. >> talking about the least subsequent record itself. >> tucker: it seems like power politics. it will get through if enough partisans can be rallied to their own side to get them through. >> this will be a party line vote. there's not much question about that. >> tucker: will he get through, republicans keeping every senator? >> so far it does not appear that the democrats have been successful in peeling off republican votes. but make no mistake, tucker, covered the board hearings in 1987. we were well within the hearings when i was talking to chairman of the senate judiciary committee joe byman and he said that mark would be confirmed. and then the tide turned, and it turned during the hearings, because the nominee did not to make a very smart political answer to questions that he was asked about his views on privacy. i will not go into all of the details, but the point was that he answered legally questions that he needed to answer more

politically. if he had it, he would not successfully be tarred with the idea that he was anti-privacy which was what it turned on. >> tucker: the predicate for roe v. wade. every nominee since has not made the mistake of saying what you think is true. >> democrats cannot turn this around, republicans and conservatives have learned a lot since 1987 about how to present the nominees and what to name and how to prepare them and how to prepare the ground. there is a big ad campaign backing the national television as i have seen, that is all relatively new. we have not seen that before. so the chances look very good, but believe me, tucker, anything can happen. >> tucker: thank you for that. great to see you. chief counsel to the democrats on the house judiciary committee and the sweet spot of the story, and he joins us. so julian, i want to put on the screen a tweet that went out today, because so much political debate does take place on social media. this was one of the training tweets on twitter, from a woman

called a misa skin and it says this "what the hell is that, gina basch giving the white power signed right behind him during this hearing, this alone should disqualify." the woman behind gina basch, the white supremacist is not white, she is hispanic and also jewish. that is lunatic, and it trended, got 15,000 likes almost immediately, what does that tell you about the state of the left? >> it tells me that our politics are broken. you see examples of this type of lunacy on the left and the right and it has no place in our politics. and i think that it is an inevitable result of the social media echo chamber that drive so much of politics and it is very unfortunate. i agree with a lot of what bert said and you said, what you see at the hearing, i think the histrionics were helpful, the shouters in the crowd. it was not helpful, and the

repeated interruptions were not helpful to the case. that they are trying to make, i do think it reflects an anger that they have over america garland, he had eight months before the election and could n. it is an expression of that anger. i do think that this entire hearing process has been completely broken and it is weakening performance art at this point. we do not get anything out of the hearings and i think that it is time for the democrats and republicans in the spirit that you were alluding to at the upset that john mccain spirit to fix the process. there should be an agreement between democrats and republicans for all future nominees on the document in question about what documents are given. that should not be something that you are fighting on it case by case business. they do not really testify about what they think or what they really believe in, what do they think that to roe v. wade was rightly decided or wrongly

decided. that is silly. that would prejudice them in a future case, somebody came up with that at some point. >> tucker: if that is lying, it forces all of these guys no matter how honest they are, no matter how much integrity they have, to lie on what they stand or basically put on an ad campaign in their own behalf which is unseemly. >> or to make it an empty vacuum, which is nothing in the constitution, there is nothing really in serious judicial thinking that says that a supreme court nominee can say if he thinks a previous case was rightly decided or wrongly decided or how they might approach that case, and at the same time they can speak about the value and the role of precedent. >> tucker: i agree, why should i hire you to make decisions if you won't tell me what you think? >> the democrats are playing a different game. >> tucker: i cannot believe that we are growing so much, i am open minded. it's true, but my sense about the opening drama, the screaming and the interrupting, which i

hated was that democrats know that he is going to get through barring someone and some unseemly development, but they are trying to do all they can. >> i think that they have to show the base and some energy to the base. that's why say it is winking performance art, i think that they know that it is not going to change votes in the judiciary committee on the floor. he is an extremely well qualified candidate. i disagree with a lot of the things that he has said and done in the rulings, but he is extremely well-qualified period he will get the votes and be confirmed. but democrats are playing a different game for the base. what they are trying to do is make the nomination as much as possible about trump. they sense that they have an 11 11-14. lead whether you pay attention to the usa today pole or the cpp pole, and they thinkn health care, pre-existing conditions which cavanaugh does not seem to be a fan of with the case coming up to the court, that the question of reproductive freedom or choice,

they think that these are all good debates. they think most people agree with reproductive freedom or choice. most people like pre-existing conditions. most people do not like what cavanaugh said about assault weapons. >> tucker: if you call revoked if freedom what it is, which is abortion. yes, they do. >> majorities, the numbers, if you look at where cavanaugh's number are, the numbers that want to see them approved are in the upper 30s. and it's because he has become, a proxy debate on a lot of issues including abortion. i think in our political system we are spending way, way too much time on the culture wars right now. >> tucker: but when it it be more helpful and edifying, the rest of us would make up our minds more thoughtfully if we could have a real debate about this stuff instead of this bizarre kabuki where everybody is speaking in code. if you are against abortion, tell us why. i don't know, i can tell you

why. maybe i can wendy mack you over there is nothing with that. >> and i respect people that are antiabortion. i do not agree with it, but i think that it is honestly held and it is a respectable and honorable position for someone to hold. it is deeply connected oftentimes to religious beliefs and other sets of beliefs. and i think that we should have a respectable position and debate on that. and i think the idea in a supreme court nomination that the kind of, the next supreme court justices hiding behind this kind of phony, and liberals and progressives, and conservatives do it. i mean, democrats and republicans do it. we hide behind the phony we cannot get into the details because it may prejudice a future case. it is nonsense. >> tucker: that was an awful lot of agreement for one segment. >> let's find something to disagree about. >> tucker: julian epstein, thank you for that conversation. abc news has ample evidence of exactly what harvey weinstein was doing to women, they killed

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♪ >> tucker: nbc news actively covered up harvey weinstein's abuse of women, that was clear months ago when the story first broke and we told you about it then. it is even clearer now. the remarkable thing is that nbc is still lying about it but more elaborately. in a long memo release last night nbc chairman andy laks spent 11 pages claiming that his network could not air the investigation of weinstein, the same piece that ran in the new yorker and won a pulitzer prize, not enough evidence, not enough on the record allegations against harvey weinstein. that is false and now we can prove it is on our nbc show this morning, megyn kelly bravely pointed out, because she still works there that there was in fact and on the record source against harvey weinstein, it was

rose mcgowan. and nbc knew this because of the claims included in a script that made it to the very top of the company. that included the general counsel of the company. we spoke to a source by phone that read us the pertinent line from the script. here it is "in their conversations with nbc news, she, rose mcgowan, specifically named weinstein." there is the story right to there, done cold. nbc also had videotape shot by police in new york up harvey weinstein himself confessing to abuse on camera. they had the whole thing nailed. and they suppressed it in a protect of weinstein. now they are lying about it. we should not be surprised by any of this, nbc news also lying about the access hollywood tape that they leaked to "the washington post" on the eve of the presidential debate in order to influence the outcome of that debate and election. and then to compound the crime, they fired and humiliated their own anchor billy bush for the

crime of, actually, we are not sure what the crime was. but we do know that nbc lied to its viewers and to the rest of us throughout that whole episode. we have asked nbc repeatedly to account for it. how did a secretly recorded videotape that was their property get from their offices to the hands of nbc news chief noah hopp and hines buddy at "the washington post"? we ask that question because transparency is at the heart of every legitimate news organization, but not at the heart of nbc. they will not answer our questions. that is not surprising. what is surprising if you think about it for a minute is why nbc did not run the weinstein story in the first place. they knew that it was factually true. it was news. it was a story. he met the definition. but they knew that ronan farrow might hurt them if they killed the story. and of course, in the end, he did hurt them badly. they knew that that might happen, but they killed it anyway. why did they do that?

we decided to investigate this question and we did. we spoke to a number of people with direct knowledge of the story and here's what we got. harvey weinstein had a long a documented history of abusing private investigators to earn damaging information about people who threatened him. he did that repeatedly too many people. to "the new york times" for example, did you do that to the leadership of nbc? people close to the story believe that he did. some people in the company believed that weinstein threatened to reveal damaging information about nbc's then biggest star matt lauer. so we asked nbc about this today. we asked directly. they answered a number of our questions, but notably they ignored the question about matt lauer completely. that's interesting. here's another question, how many people within the hierarchy of nbc knew about all of this? one obvious person to ask is chuck todd, the political director and host of "meet the press." he is famously connected, information is as currency, how

could he not know what it was happening inside their own company? nbc gets the biggest scoop of the year and kills it mysteriously, of course chuck todd knew. what does he think of that? squelching first-person accounts of sexual assault by powerful men consistent with chuck todd's view of journalism? is it -- did he complain about this inside the building and nbc? why did he not quite over it? or is it better to shut up and pretend that sexual assault did not happen in the hopes of keeping the highest paying job that he will ever have? maybe that is the answer. we do not know for sure, because chuck todd did not respond to our questions when we reach out today. we will call again. soon we will have occasion to call, because the daily deeds is preparing a blockbuster investigation into serious and widespread personal misconduct both at msnbc and nbc news. it sounds shocking, and as what we can tell it is true. will check back with chuck todd when it comes out and we will

see what he has to say. in the meantime, larry o'connor, associate editor of "the washington times" joins us tonight. so larry, nbc has changed the story just within the last 24 hours. initially andy laks said we had no on the record evidence or claim of any alleged victim of harvey weinstein. >> they could not run it because he would not go on the record. >> tucker: now the script from last summer where rose mcgowan is quoted saying "on the record that he abuse me." now he is saying we had no on camera on the record accusation. a, showing that he admit that he lied? and b, you do not need an hour on the camera account to run it. >> of course not, when you have harvey weinstein basically apologizing for the sexual assault against the one victim that blew the story apart. also, can we pause for a minute and check the irony about nbc news not running the story if somebody does not go on the

record, how many an honest anonymously sourced information have they run about the trump administration? why is it different here? and -- >> tucker: that is such a good point. >> and a sexual assault victim, think about that. it takes a lot of courage for these women to step forward and speak with ronan pharaoh. and ronan should get tons of credit, he already has, and it is well-deserved. to think about the courage that they had to point the finger to the most powerful man in hollywood and nbc news is dating and embedding that man by saying that you have to show us your face. you have to give us your name. that is outrageous what they did to these women. >> tucker: we are all flawed and all news organizations are flawed, but covering up her harvey weinstein is at a different level. i know a lot of people at nbc, there were some decent people there for sure, but you have to wonder how some of these people can work there without addressing it. if chuck todd for example. how can chuck dodd host meet the press without at least issuing a statement saying i agree with

andy laks lies or a distance myself? and how can we believe what he says if he is standing by this nonsense? >> andy laks is his boss, let's not forget mr. huff and hein, his name is on these memos too and he is all in on the same story. at that we did not have anybody going on the record. >> tucker: running around a lot of the exec executives are running around nbc tonight telling their employees to shut up. and that itself, i don't want to use the term "cover-up," but is that the behavior of a transparent integrity filled news organization? >> no, it is not. dementia megyn kelly shows this morning, we have three or four people on the side of the occasion, one other woman who was named in the story, rose mcgowan, and saying this is what happen, ronan pharaoh has said that the story even made it all the way up to the general counsel of the network and andy laks, noah halff and jaime and all of them are saying, hey, somebody is lying n

independent investigation, should we get a special counsel investigating? >> tucker: that takes an awful lot of guts, and i hope that she gets the credit, that's what journalism is when you stand up and say the unpopular but true things, do you think that that is being rewarded at nbc? >> not at all, but what is being rewarded is chuck todd coming to spend the last several days talking about journalism and how the media is the most unpopular entity in this country right now, and he is blaming everybody except, clean up your own house, clean up what is going on in your building. >> tucker: so your company covers upper and accused sex criminal and you never addressed it, but you are lecturing everybody else about their shortcomings. a speaker that appears to be what mr. todd is engaged in. >> tucker: we are not accusing you of hurting anybody or beating harvey weinstein, we are accusing you of embedding a cover-up, working for a company that participated in a cover-up for harvey weinstein. >> you would think that they

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>> tucker: and global mega-corporation nike, which is cooler and more virtuous than you has made colin kaepernick the story of its latest ad campaign, that's because what real bravery looks like is getting celebrated by everyone in power and getting huge money from an enormously wealthy and

influential company. many regular americans are not as impressive. some of posted videos of themselves burning nike gear. but before you throw support to a another corporation who hates your way of life, consider this. according to reports, and adidas also pursued colin kaepernick before he signed with nike. something much larger is afoot. jason whitlock posting "speak for yourself" on fs1 joining us tonight. my first thought was of you, i'm going to withhold any more judgment and allow you to lay out what this means. >> i think that nike has issues, p.r. issues. they have been sued for discrimination by both black people and women. they fired a bunch of executives recently, and long before any of that nike has had a problem with slave labor in asia. and people that actually make their shoes, nike has no

problem with their oppression. so i think that colin kaepernick aligning with them as a p.r. ploy by nike to cover up their larger bigger problem. and to feed the left-wing media, oh, look, we are friends of colin kaepernick, so overlook the years of criticism about the slave labor that makes our shoed the exploitation that we are perfectly fine with and then tucker, i will go a step further. when you look at president trump's america first policy and how they are impacting corporations like a nike and to the business that they do overseas, go and have their materials made in another country for less money, and then bring them back into our country without being taxed or punished for that, i just think that nike is playing politics here on a number of different levels. and it is a p.r. stunt to that i think it's going to blow up and

backfire in their face. no different, this reminds me of espn naming caitlyn jenner the most courageous person in america, because she had a sex change operation. i think that this is cut from that same cloth and how we doing that a label espn, pse and out of touch with middle america, i think this play with colin kaepernick is going to backfire on nike. >> tucker: what you're saying, you're describing something a little bit more sophisticated than just a reflexive cow town to pt sensibility. what you're saying is this is a company that could be attacked on legitimate grounds by critics and the left for exploiting records, for being bad for the world, but to avoid being attacked if they pay a indulgence, a tax to the church at pc by making colin kaepernick richer and they do not get

criticized. is that what you are saying? >> without question. and i think that this was really a harebrained idea and screw scheme. it's a sign of desperation. it will blow up in their face. it is bad business. and i get it. for a business to move into something this polarizing with sports fans is just crazy to me when nike has made so much money. they became this powerful force going with michael jordan, who avoided politics and understood that everybody at the end of the day by his shoes. the hypocrisy by nike is extreme using colin kaepernick in this way. and i do not blame colin kaepernick, he will take a check from wherever he can get it. this is nike using him to cover up for their internal external problems. >> tucker: that is such a

smart point. as a business decision, why would you, if you are nike especially with universal appeal went to narrow your customer base to 40% of the country? or narrow it at all? why would you do that? that seems shortsighted. >> because there are executives running all over america who basically grew up in the counterculture era of the ' 60s in '70s, and now they are in positions of power and they are doing crazy harebrained things with their company is. again, i've said it a million times. espn eventually thought that doing pc politics was good business. and it just is not. they are playing, nike and a lot of corporations are playing to a twitter way too often. they think that if we can just make twitter happy and make the left-wing dominated twitter happy, we are going to make the the world a better place and our

business better. it is not going to happen. >> tucker: it is so smart, you hit it again and again, and i'm glad that you do. a social media is changing our world. our brains even in ways that we do not perceive. thank you for reminding us that. jason whitlock, as always. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: washington, d.c., send-off for john mccain revealed more about the nation's capital than it did about senator mccain, and very little of that was good. we will have a recap on the late senator 's memorial service after the break. ♪ can make you feel unstoppabl. ♪ but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by talking to your doctor. ask about vraylar. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disorder in adults.

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he was. i was sitting two rows back from him on a charter flight when our plane was hit by lightning in a thunderstorm. we seem to be falling out of the sky, people on board screamed in panic. mccain and i watch this, yawned and went back to sleep. months later i walked through a wall or prison with him in hanoi where he had spent years in solitary confinement being tortured with ropes. that was the happiest time of my life, he said, under his breath. it was clear that he meant it. they're not a lot of people like john mccain in this country anymore, and that is a shame. it was a lot about him to admire. you have to wonder what's he would have made of his funeral and its coverage on television. at the parade of grief he politicians and mindless cliche merchants using his death to celebrate themselves. if you have ever lost someone you care about, ask yourself, what would it take for you to launch into a political speech in the middle of a eulogy? would you even consider doing that? everyone mourns in different ways, of course, but at

mccain's funeral everybody seem to be mourning and exactly the same way and demanding the rest of us do it that way too. just a few election cycles ago many of these same people were denouncing the john mccain as a racist and a danger to this country, some of them were attacking his wife and children. now they are using john mccain's memory to attack the rest of us. anyone who is not with their program, a program that has made them richer and more self-satisfied than any ruling class in history, even as our country's middle class has withered and died. technically it was a bipartisan group that mourns mccain. they said that a lot. but on the questions that matter they were in complete agreement with each other. the status quo was working for them. anyone who challenges it must be crushed. the media applauded the whole thing, of course, on the same team as the people with the stage with the same prerogatives at stake. they led the cheerleading. nodded in solemn bovine agreement as one member of

congress describe john mccain as a warrior for peace. the smarter ones in the mania must have been snickering at the absurdity of that. a warrior for peace? that is ridiculous, and not an attack on john mccain to say so. mccain was a warrior for war. he said so himself many times. he was not ashamed of that, hardly. john mccain's life was forged in more. he was probably the most warlike senator washington ever produced and he was proud of that. when they started describing him as gandhi, they are not just lying, they are telling you the opposite of the truth. but that is their signature move. inverting reality and demanding that you believe it. low-wage immigration makes us rich! debt makes a secure! men and women are identical. abortion is freedom, diversity and strength, war is peace. they say things with great vehemence, not because they believe them, but precisely because they know that they are not true. so obvious that they can only be disseminated by force. but not for long, lies do not

endure forever. people find out in the end. there was a wistfulness at the funeral that suggested that a lot of these people were morning not just john mccain's passing, but the coming end of their own reign in the fantasies that made it possible. or maybe they're not that self-aware. either way, i wish that i would've been able to conclude that scene in my book. the book is about this very group of people and the damage they have caused to our country. it is called "ship of fools" how a selfish ruling class is bringing america to the brink of revolution. it is out in a few weeks, but you can order it now. it is a middle finger aimed right back in their direction. i hope you like it. american institutions use to celebrate effort and ability and fairness, not all of those values are being sacrificed to the god of diversity which is our only strength, we are told. what is it? and what does this mean for our country going forward? we will speak with someone who wrote a book on the subject, smart and interesting. stay tuned. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: american universities were once havens for free speech and freeze thinking, that's why they exist to be that, but increasingly they are not that at all, they are safe spaces for people who do not want to explore uncomfortable ideas. academia in this question become open-minded again? heather mcdonald has been thinking a lot about it, she has wrote a book on the topic, titled "diversity delusion," she joins us. it's great to have it on. thank you. >> it's an honor. >> tucker: i think we have established, and our viewers are on board with the reality, that freethinking is banned in colleges, so what do you do about it?

how do you fix that? >> i think that you have to address the root cause of their free speech crisis, it is bad enough, but it is a result of something even more poisonous which is the spreading of victim ideology. college presidents are telling their own students that today are at risk of lethal racism and sexism by virtue of being on a college campus. that is an outright lie. there is no more tolerant place if you are not a conservative than a college campus today, no more privileged position then being a student with immediate access to the thing that it was brought forward, which is knowledge, we need to take on this poisonous narrative that college campuses in america in general are roiling masses of discrimination and sexism. >> tucker: you are doing that.

you are doing more than your part just by saying what is evidently true. i mean, you can get a lot out of just calling b.s. on ideas that are obviously stupid and wrong. but why don't more people in authority to do that why are people so cowed by the institutional left? >> there is no more dangerous epithet to you can hurl around these days them racist. and people simply crumble. but the faculty has to stand up. they have to both defend free speech, but even more importantly they have to defend the western civilization that is there extraordinary privilege to pass on the next generation of students. and if they are not willing to do that, if they are willing to capitulate to these preposterous charges that to read homer or to read sk latour or attila read shakespeare is to be subject to life-threatening racism they should resign, because they

are betraying the amazing legacy that is there privilege to pass on. >> tucker: our leaders are bent on destroying the institution that made all of this possible. very quickly, do you think that that can happen? is there any hope that you can redeem academia in our intellectual life in this country? do we need to build something new? >> it would be great to build new colleges. unfortunately they will face the prestige gap. parents that purport to be anti-materialistic and anticapitalist are frenzied to credential lies their students with the in the most prestigious college diploma that they can get. they go for knowledge rather than simply the credentials, but i think that we still have to keep on fighting within the university to shame these cowards and the college presidents and certainly alumni have to stop giving money. parents have to do due

diligence. the trustees have to strap on some balls and actually exercise their fiduciary responsibility to make sure that to these colleges are actually educating students in our extraordinary civilization with its conquest of disease and poverty and ones and the ability to speak the truth that is now so, so jeopardize. >> tucker: hey, man, this corrupt system is sustained, but the anxiety of liberal parents. you are absolutely right to read heather mac donald, you have done so much to tell the truth. we appreciate it. congrats on the book. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: "the new york times" is to horrified to discover that american companies might have to raise their wages for american workers, rather than rely on low played immigrants abroad to clean their toilet. revealing "the new york times" story ever written, we will break it down after their break. ♪ rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you.

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tonight by highlighting a deeply revealing story in "the new york times" this weekend, highlighting the suffering of one's especially been knighted and overlooked american, not an unemployed machinist in toledo whose family has been decimated by fenton all, it is a man name rob to he her's in martha's vineyard. notes with horror that thanks to trump, he cannot higher vacancy workers to clean his bathrooms anymore, and sometimes he has to do it themselves. and in the bureau of "new york times," this is what hell looks like. it is the whole reason for the immigration system, the immigration system in the first place so the people that look like you do not have to clean toilets. that's within your -- "new york times" believes and they are admitting it. stay tuned at 8:00 p.m. for the show that is a sworn, and we mean an enemy of lying pomposity, smugness, and especially groupthink.

good night from washington, sean hannity awaits in new york. >> sean: do you have a board that tells you which time you have gone over for the year? >> and i cannot believe that i am doing this. >> sean: no, you're not. this is like fake news. it is just not true. >> tucker: i am not a math major, i will agree. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," we have more news than is possible in an hour, starting with a serious note as we get back from vacation and labor day, the future of the country is at stake, 63 days it is all in your hands, a decision that could not be any more stark, america is at a crossroads right now, we will explain all of this tonight. do we continue the path of economic success and he is to strength? the empowerment of the forgotten men and women? or is your future going to be decided by a bunch of extreme far left democrats