upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. tomorrow. tucker carlson is up next in d.c. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have some pretty interesting news out of the state ofck minnesota for you this evening. you remember congress member keith ellison has been accused of physical abuse by his former girlfriend, a woman called karen monahan. she said that in the middle of a domestic argument, congressman ellison dragged her off the bed while screaming obscenities at her. she said this happened just two years ago, in 2016. we can't say whether karen's story is correct we weren't there.re we do know that these are serious allegations and they are specific and recent and madeat against a powerful man.

ellison is a sitting member of congress, and he's also the deputy head of the dnc. candidate for attorney general in minnesota. under pressure from critics, the state democratic party pledged to investigate her story. tonight we have their conclusions. "an allegation standing alone is not necessarily sufficient to conclude that conduct occurred." that is the finding of the top lawyer for the minnesota democratic party. in other words, karen monahan'sn words don't mean anything. unless she provides a tangible proof, we don't believe her. let that sink in for a minute in light of in all you've seen. this is the standard of democratic party politicians use to judge their own. at least when political power is at stake.ol prove it. otherwise, shut up and go away. meanwhile in washington, brett kavanaugh faces a very different standard.to a little more than a week ago, a woman named julie swetnick told a remarkable story. she claimed that as a college student during the early 1980s, she attended at least ten

parties outside of washington where high school boys took turns raping underage girls who had been rendered semi-conscious with drugs. p it took place in the open. she said she saw them but she never told friends. she never filed a police report. she kept attending these parties until she herself was gang raped. according to julie, brett kavanaugh attended these parties and she saw him standing in line she says, waiting his turn. s here's how swetnick describedre the scene in an interview with nbc news just tonight. >> my body was violated. my soul was broken. i was at a party and i remember that i started not to feel very well.ar and next thing i know, i was shoved into a room and i am having my clothes torn in different directions. i was physically assaulted in every way you could possibly physically assault a woman.

>> everyone is wondering if one of those people was brett kavanaugh. >> i cannot specifically say i that he was one of the ones who assaulted me. but before this happened to me, at that party, i saw brett kavanaugh there. i saw mark judge there. they were hanging about the area where i started to feel disoriented. and laughing. i could hear them laughing and laughing. if brett kavanaugh was one of the people that did this to me, there is no way in the world that he should go scot-free on this and that he should be on the supreme court. >> tucker: if he is one of those people, a claim that she is not actually making. judged on its own terms on the things that she is saying, her story raises more questions. why does she keep going to rape parties? ten in a row? where are the witnesses? dozens of people must've seen

the atrocities. not a single person has admitted even appearing about any of this. that is hard to understand, given the close knit community of catholic schools that produced brett kavanaugh. swetnick has provided no evidence of any kind to show this happened. reporters have interviewed many of her classmates and nobody recalls that. the whole thing is hard to believe and many questions need to be answered before it can be taken seriously. and yet chuck schumer hasn't asked those questions. he heard swetnick's claims and immediately called for brett kavanaugh to drop out of the running. they agreed with that, he called his allegations a gut punch, "if my republican colleagues have any sense of morality, they will refuse to move forwarl with judge kavanaugh's nomination."." democrats are demanding that the fbi investigate the story. so far that is not happening, why is it not happening? maybe here's part of the answer. this is nbc's megyn kelly. watch her explain. >> she faced allegations of her

misconduct. 18 years ago. that company claims that she f told them she graduated from john hopkins but they learned this school had no record of her. she also falsely described her work experience at a prior employer. they said she engaged an unwelcomed sexual conduct herself. she made allegations against her coworkers and they had been inappropriate with her. they said she took medical leave and unemployment benefits. in d.c., there was a restraining order filed against her by an ex-boyfriend.fo the people who were very upset h that the fbi is not looking onto julie swetnick's allegations, there are reasons for that. >> avenatti has been begging for an investigation. >> what a shock. >> he has been begging for tv cameras.. >> tucker: it takes a lot of guts to say that on nbc. if you are concerned about rape victims and there are rape victims, a lot of them. you would hesitate before repeating those claims that would discredit the victims. democrats don't care.

it could work politically and that is the only point. more than two weeks since the brett kavanaugh saga, only senate republicans still believe the story had anything to do with sexual abuse. last friday, democrats said they needed a few days for interviews to follow-up on christine ford's claims. "let's give this one week, says senator amy klobuchar. her fellow democrats nodded solemnly. poor jeff flake believed them. today, you will be surprised to know this, democrats are saying that a week is not enough. the fbi will need a lot more time. who knows how much time? to interview everyone who was ever made a claim against brett kavanaugh, including julie swetnick, maybe the editors of the georgetown prep yearbook also. just a week? that is a cover-up. jeff flake may call for this again, everybody else knows exactly what is going on.ls it is not about brett kavanaugh at this point. it is about punishing everyone who looks like brett kavanaugh. watch this. >> as a man, i was embarrassed for him. it was the ultimate display of

white entitlement. i talked to men over the weekend and i found the higher you go on the income curve, the more men are like, well, we all did this. still not getting it.. women are getting it and i find the lower you go on the income curve, men are getting it. >> tucker: if you are his shrink, you might understand what he just said, but if you are not, you might wonder what in the world this story, the brett kavanaugh story, has to do with race. nothing. everyone in it is the sameav color. you'd be missing the point. democrats are looking for justice here. they want a revolution. for 60 years they've been telling us that it is immoral to judge people by their skin color and they were right about that. absolutely right. they put up a monument of martin luther king just in case we forgot. and yet suddenly withoutus notifying the rest of us they have changed the rules. anyone who doesn't judge others

on the basis of skin color is a bigot. refuse to commit racism? you are a racist. is your head spinning? it is just starting. r wait till you see this. here's "saturday night live's" treatment of lindsey graham over the weekend. he was one of the few republicans that democrats could stomach and then he stood up for brett kavanaugh and now he is a monster.bl a very specific kind of monster. watch this. >> you let him do whatever the hell he wants. this is my audition for mr. trump. and also for a production of the crucible. let me tell you, i was good. >> tucker: let me tell you, queen, get it? lindsey graham is secretly gay. that is what nbc is telling us and they are implying that there is something wrong with that.

that graham ought to be ashamed. when did they start using that? isn't that against everything they supposedly believe? only if you assume they believe anything, but they don't. it is only about power. the radio host and president of imv, tammy bruce. tammy, i have to say i'm getting used to the idea that if you argue against judging people on the basis of skin color that you are racist. >> sure. >> tucker: now the left, guardians of america's gay community are using slurs against lindsey graham? what? >> look, regardless of what you think of mr. graham, the left does this all the time. if they don't like somebody they want to smear someone. that is the accusation to some degree.ar you are supposed to believe that somebody is a monster and as a result, they are gay. >> tucker: from the left? >> of course. my first book in 2001 was abouto how homophobia, sexism is all

rooted on the left. all the finger-pointing on the right is projection.ef when you see the impact on women in these last couple of weeks, they don't care about women. women are to be used. they don't care about gay people, they are to be used. the same issue with race. if it can get them something, that is what they will say.e every now again the curtain gets drawn back. this is one of those times. you are seeing the panic. what they really think is coming out. whether or not to their constituencies who they think will put up with it, that is the issue. will there be a push back on effectively, clearly, the mocking of someone or the attempt to paint someone with the scarlet letter? >> tucker: how could, honestly, if you are the human rights campaign and you exist to call out and punish this kind of behavior, and they do, how can you sit and not say anything?

>> we are going to watch that, aren't we? everybody gets trained on the left that the ends justifies the means. the end result. no matter what we have to do,, you have to able to deal with it because in the end we really mean the best for you. it is very much like a battered woman or a battered man. your batterer says, i'm doing this for your own good. even though it hurts you in the end, they say they know best and that is what the left has been doing. look at the end result, it is economic decline. the end result is the decline of the quality of our lives. certainly not being able to take seriously for who we are as individuals, whether it is women or a person of color. of course, denigrating everyone else. people who are white or just don't fit within the framework of who the protected classes are for the left. >> tucker: i am learning more a about the left than i ever wanted to know and i'm glad i didn't read your book in 2001 because i would've been upset this whole time. >> these last two weeks have been shameful.

they been an insult to every single american. all of us who rely on decency, treating people fairly, expecting americans to stand up for their ideals. and the very few people who say they are banner carriers are the ones carrying the torch and burning it to the ground. >> tucker: just the opposite, amazing. t tammy bruce, thank you. as we just told you the left somehow, amazingly, out of nowhere is making a brett kavanaugh saga. it's about a lot of things, it is not about race, but they are making it about race and they're telling you that certain people of a specific race and gender are bad. they deserve to be hurt, possibly killed. not exaggerating. details ahead.ta the president is currently giving a speech in tennessee, we are monitoring it. >> our hearts bleed red, white and blue. ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: brett kavanaugh's nomination and the controversy around it is is many things but the one thing it is not as a racial i story. there is no racial angle whatsoever and no reasonablers person could disagree with that but has does not prevented to the left from using it to vilify

people for their skin color. april ryan and bill maher said kavanaugh being grilled for sexual assault is white privilege. watch. >> it was a sense of entitlement. this is mine. >> right. the whole thing. it was such a pageant. when people ask what is white privilege? this is a pageant of it. >> tucker: they didn't explain what it means or how it works, former bush campaign strategist and "abc news" political analyst matthew dowd went further than that. he published an op-ed demanding that "white male white male christians vacate their positions of power for other people." he's not doing that himself but he did not notably advocate for genocide. a georgetown professor called christine fair did do that, she recently tweeted this "look at g this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist entitlement. all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps.

bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? yes."he georgetown has issued a statement defending her, marjorie clifton joins us tonight. what you think of that? do you think it is within bounds of reasonable political discourse for a university professor to call for genocide? >> no. no, i don't. i don't think that is a helpful statement.es >> tucker: would you add any other superlatives to that? not helpful and appropriate? how about immoral and disgusting? >> it is not creating a dialogue and it is not adding to an environment that addresses the real heart of where people's concerns are. >> tucker: hold on. wait.re these aren't your remarks, i'm not holding you responsible but a normal personi would say are you joking? killing people? can't we say this is totally over the top and calling for violence based on their race, we are not for that?ov or are we for that?

>> i agree. it's not appropriate. it is not how i would talk. >> tucker: how about disgusting? >> sure. >> tucker: i want to get to the core principles. i was raised to believe that you are not allowed to attack or judge people based on their skia color. we have a whole monument in the mall, are we still for that or have we moved on to something else? >> what we have erupted in this debate and why does coming out to this white male christian conversation, what we saw in the optics of that trial was about gender. it really is about who we believe in a situation which is her against him. that was a very hard thing for a lot of people to have to reckon with, because what we do know is that 97% of companies are represented by white men and not representative of the labor force. >> tucker: hold on. wait, wait, wait. let's start with principles, are we allowed to judge people on the basis of their skin color? >> of course not.

>> tucker: but you are, though. that is what you are saying. >> no, i am not. >> tucker: yes you are. you just said that it is bad that companies have too many white people in this. if you are looking at this in the perspective of martin luther king, he would say that that is wrong. right? >> i'm going to tell you is that the workforce was largely built by white christian men and that is not a bad thing. it is just a reality. when we look at issues of fairness like we look at issues of fairness in this case and in this trial. it was about who was being represented and how are we hearing it? how are we understanding it? businesses are seeing it. >> tucker: wait, hold on. you can't keep going with that, i'm not tracking. i'm not playing games, i don't get it. so the race of the people sitting in the senate matters because why? >> the gender i would say even more. >> tucker: no, but, i think there are differences between genders that are real and biological and are verifiable. they are reflected in dna.

we don't believe that about race though, do we? we think certain races have more wisdom or more honesty than others? >> no, of course not. >> tucker: then why is race relevant at all? >> it is creating a larger conversation about diversity. >> tucker: it is causing people to attack people on the basis of race and liberals are endorsing it including you, what changed? what have i missed? >> i did not endorse that but i would say there is unhelpful conversations that are relatedot but not about this particular trial. >> tucker: would it be fair to say to someone who attacks white men, you're not allowed to attack people on the basis of their skin color ever period. if you don't like being attacked, don't attack a race? >> absolutely. >> tucker: april ryan and all these other dumb people are going on with these racist attacks, it is okay to call them out? >> i wouldn't have a conversation that way but i would say that when i am talking about representation, the companies even see this in termn of productivity. when they increased diversity in

their leadership by 10% they see a 1% increase in earnings. that is the productivity reality. >> tucker: that is not actually a real statistic, it is made up and it is much more complicated that. [laughs] i throw that statistic at me. >> it means nonwhite men. that is what's hard. let me be clear, i was raised by a white christian man. he very much understands and sees issues from a different way, like you, who is a father of many daughters. as we go into the workforce. >> tucker: i am amazed we were all racist now. i thought we weren't. >> that is not me calling people racist. we are as human beings. >> tucker: we are out of time unfortunately, a sickening conversation but i appreciate you taking part. rachel mitchell has expressed al letter expressing her beliefs on the allegations after last week's hearings.g in that memo she says, it is he

said, she said the prosecutor would not press charges. lisa boothe has followed this closely. >> hey, tucker. >> tell me about her conclusions. >> her conclusions, basically she goes through all of these various inconsistencies that we have seen in her story. the problem is, she has basically remained unquestioned by thehe media and the left, and that is dangerous because if you're bringing life alteringnd and life ruining accusations against mom, your story should be questioned. go through the inconsistencies. every witness christine ford has named has denied the event in question. looking at the facts, she has given different periods of time. she texted "the washington post" mid-1980s and then she comes the conclusion it was the summer of 1982. she has givenen stories about hw many different people were there. her polygraph letter alone, she has two different versions. originally fruit four people.

it was four boys and two girls. even if you give her the benefit of the doubt, was it 36 years ago?r maybe her memory is just not straight and then you go to the recent problems.nd she's said she doesn't remember how a member of "the washington post" got her therapist notes. yet "the washington post" saidid that she provided them to her. she can't remember when she had the polygraph test. there is a complete farce from her and her attorney saying that she is afraid to fly. then it turns out she's flown to hawaii, costa rica, french polynesia. we've seen thesete inconsistencs not just with long-term memory but with recent. nobody has called herd on it ad i think the reason being is everyone is so afraid of the me too movement, so afraid of these bullies on the left, that they are afraid to call a spade a spade. her story is not credible, it doesn't add up. >> tucker: you have been great on this from the very beginning. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: the whole country is afraid. this was not the country we were promised.

>> i have three brothers and i think about that.th i think it is important. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: democrats say the investigation is not enough. they want a bigger investigation that goes on forever. i thought it was just a week? is anybody else surprised? that is next.

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investment management. >> tucker: having convinced poor jeff flake to order a weeklong investigation for judge kavanaugh. somebody screamed it in an elevator which is how democracy works now. democrats are now trying to dictate the scope of the investigation, as if they are in charge of congress which thanks to jeff flake they are. in a letter released today, ten democrats have called to the bureau to investigate all three allegations against brett kavanaugh including julie's fantasy about gang rape. their letter lists 24 people they would like interviewed at a bare minimum about their allegations. we have a professor from georgetown university law school us. thank you for coming on. are we right to feel a little bit misled when democrats in public told us on friday, it's monday. three days later. if they wantti christine ford's

allegationsfo investigated for a week and now the goalposts are so far down the field we can't see them. should we feel like we have been lied to? >> i think the least convincing part of the democratic case is that this was not being manipulated in terms of its timing. i think most people believe that these allegations were held to the last minute. right before the vote. i think there is a legitimate criticism for that. also i think you want to anticipate that one week is not going to satisfy many of the critics. the fact is that most of these statements, not all of them were previously given to the committee. they are unlikely to change and so the outcome of this investigation is unlikely to change many minds. we are going to get to a point where we have to make a decision.. if senators feel like the record is insufficient they have a reason, i suppose, to vote on that basis. to keep this open indefinitely, it is going to do an injustice to the nominee and to the process. we have to come to some conclusion.

>> tucker: so julie swetnick's claims that they was a series of at least ten gang rapes that took place, nobody's ever heard this and it has never been alleged. do you think this rises to the level of credibility that would spur an fbi investigation almost 40 years later? >> it sounds like the fbi is not going to investigate that allegation. part of the concern for many people is that this is an extraordinary allegation with no one going to the police. previously or any accounts being published as to what occurred. for that reason, i think the fbi is focusing on the earlier two allegations. >> tucker: huh. do you expect that republicans will be able to reassert control? i think they do run the senate. could they say, if in enough time, mark judge has been interviewed again under oath. we are done. can they do that? >> of course they can, and it does appear that mcconnell was going to push this through.ai

he insists there's going to be a vote this week. tammy is a little bit curious because the fbi was given a full week. that would end friday. presumably a lot of material will be given to the senate on friday. it's not quite clear how the logistics are going to happen for the fbi to be concluded onid friday, presumably, and also how the voteo friday. >> tucker: professor, thank you very much. great to talk to you. senator tom cotton is a republican, he represents the state of arkansas and he joins us tonight.ep senator, thank you for coming on and i mean that. we try to get any republicans from the u.s. senate and come here to make the affirmative case, for two weeks you are the only one who said yes. i am watching an army of surrogates go out and call him a sex offender. why are you the only republican willing to come on tv and make a a case for him? o >> tucker, it is pretty one-sided. that army of surrogates needs to get a lot bigger if they're going to take me on.

judge kavanaugh has a stellar record on the bench. he has a long and distinguished history of public service and he has undergone six background checks, tucker, six background checks. somehow the fbi is supposed to turn up new information in just a few days and satisfy all the democrats. yet, as soon as we agreed to have a limited investigation by the fbi into current credible allegations but to humor them, to give them a few days we started moving the goalposts. if you interview people it will take weeks and on. it will never end, tucker. this is not about trying to get the facts or the proof. it is trying to stop brett kavanaugh from being confirmed to the supreme court.ed >> tucker: would i find so striking is that he is a sitting federal judge. he has authored scores and scores of opinions and we arere not debating any of them. n his judicial philosophy is not even up for debate. it is all about his high school yearbook. does that strike this

conversation is unbecoming as a country as advanced as ours? it is stupefying laid down. -- stupefying lead dome why? >> it is pretty amusing to see democratic senators pouring over high school yearbooks as if it is the da vinci code. if amy klobuchar and others are condemning brett kavanaugh for uncorroborated allegations for 36 years ago, then amy klobuchar stands by keith ellison who is credibly accused of beating his ex-girlfriend just a few years ago with contemporaneous medical and police records. it just goes to show that the democrats are engaged in a smeae campaign to assassinate brettt kavanaugh's character because they will stop at nothing. to prevent him from getting on the supreme court. >> tucker: finally a u.s. senator to make the case. very ably made, thank you very much. good to see you.nk >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: nancy pelosi says that whether the party succeeds or fails in keeping brett kavanaugh off the supreme court, they will try to impeach him if they win in midterms.

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>> tucker: she didn't specify what court he is on right now but that was the future speaker of the house perhaps.as nancy pelosi. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: i know you have a position on this. do you really think it is wise to create a system where even if you lose your effort to stop someone from getting onto a court that you will impeach him? once he gets on the court? >> i think there is a lot of hypocrisy right now coming from conservatives and the reason why i say that is because they are literally outraged and have rob -- pushing to have deputy attorney general rod rosenstein fired for unsubstantiated comments. yet they religiously stand behind judge brett kavanaugh. >> tucker: i'm not sure i am tracking your logic. >> what do you mean? the comments about reporting donald trump. >> tucker: i'm not calling for rosenstein to be fired. it would be a little weird if

republicans said, rod rosenstein nine should be, i don't know if he could be impeached but impeached? >> fired. you have 11 republicans pushing for that but i think we do have to listen and understand what pelosi is saying. if this man is not qualified because of his temperament to be a supreme court justice thanti where we not questioning whether or not he should be on the court? >> tucker: i think it is totally fair to question why he should be on the supreme court. i believe in questions, i do it for a living. the left is always denouncing me for asking questions. >> i'm not denouncing you. >> tucker: here's a question, what grounds would he be impeached? what would be the argument for the crime? >> with anyone, there is no crime. and i think that is what has happened with conservatives. they are looking at this as a criminal trial. >> tucker: wait, no, no. doesn't impeachment by definition require a crime? impeachment is a process of putting someone on trial for removing him.

>> i think what they are saying is it will depend on what comes out of the fbi investigation. if there is an fbi investigation, i don't think iti is a criminal investigation. that is why i was saying, there is not a trial. no jury, judge, prosecutor, or publicic defender. it's about character references and of those references don't pan out, just like anyone else in the united states, you don't get hired, or as trump says, you get fired. >> tucker: i get it but that is not what pelosi is arguing. it may be that she does not understand the system. she seemed odd in that clip i will say. impeachment i believe requires a crime. she said if he lied. what would he have lied about? and how would we know that? what is she talking about? >> he could've lied about sexually assaulting dr. ford. >> tucker: and that can be c proved how? >> we would have to see in the investigation. >> tucker: if he didn't drink that much in high school and in college and democrats seem to be very eager to prove that he did. are you comfortable with that as

a line of argument? 37 years after the fact, senators could make it their single-minded focus to show that you drank more beer than you said you did? does that degrade our system a little bit to have a conversation that stupid? >> i don't think it is a stupidi conversation. i think it is a serious conversation because we are talking abouton sexual assault. those comments have been backedd up by college peers of his that he went to school with. >> tucker: they are not claiming -- >> he had one woman call him a sloppy drunk. >> tucker: that is great. this is the party of ted kennedy saying if you drink too much you are not suited for high office? is that the argument? >> no, the argument is if you are accused of sexual assault then you are not fit to be on the supreme court. >> tucker: that it's a fine standard, but they are not making that, his friends from college say that he drank too much! >> i don't think that's necessarily the complete argument. that's part of it.t. >> tucker: no one in colleges

concerned that he sexually assaulted anyone. i haven't seen that allegation. >> we do have an allegation that is coming from dr. ford right now. >> tucker: it will take a couple of years apparently for senate democrats to get that done. [laughs] it was supposed to take a week. it is all such a scam. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> tucker: kristen gillibrand is bringing a new brand of justice to america whereow accusation is the same as guilt. that is not the country i grew up in. how do you feel about living in it now? that's next.

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pompous know-nothings going on about stupid things. worse than that, it appears to herald a new era in american justice. a time whose foremost profit is turning out to be kristin gillibrand, senator of new york. in a world a person is guilty as soon accused of any crime. questioning an accuser is a constitutional right, instead it is a crime. michael anton is a researcher, the former national security official in the trump administration, he joins us tonight.t. thank you for coming. what is that standard? >> it is as you said. as your last guest said. in certain cases the accusation suffices to convict. further investigation, presumption of innocence, confronting an accuser. none of that matters. the accuser raises a hand and says, i say this, we are all obligated to accept that. the democrats i think in their defense would say this isn't a

trial, it is not a criminal trial. in this case the judge is seeking a great thing to him a seat in the supreme court that nobody is entitled to. we do not need to be held to these niceties of laws. once they accept the standard, especially if this precedent is allowed to hold, what will happen is that any citizen of the united states will have an effective veto power over any member of court. all that they do is come forward and say, i accuse you of something 30 years ago, you can't question my sincerity, the accusation is enough. therefore, you have to step down. in the piece, i described it as essentially going to a sporting event and going up to your opponent and breaking his arm with a baseball bat and saying "too bad you can't play. you have to forfeit and let me win." >> tucker: it is not a criminal trial so why do you have a problem with that? what i find so striking is the idea that those standards only apply in a strict legal setting. those are the standards of fairness that apply to all human interaction, including the way you parent your children.

since when do they not count? >> since the supreme court is divided 5-4 and since this has become a completely politicized event. there was nothing in brett kavanaugh's record as a judge to sow any doubt, his qualifications as you pointed out are beyond starling. the democrats were clearly looking at a loss here. brett kavanaugh's going to get confirmed and they had to do something, so they came up with this.t i think it sets a disastrous precedent for our country.in it is also cruelly unfair. >> tucker: what does it say quickly, about the people doing it? if you say in public that fairness doesn't matter, what does it say about you? >> that power is everything. all that matters is winning here and now. collateral damagee to institutions doesn't matter. damaged people, damage little kids don't matter. the only thing that matters ise power, holding onto getting more of it. >> tucker: wow. michael, thank you very much. great to see you. >> thank you.

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from minnesota. are you happy with his new stander that the dnc has articulated? >> no. thank you so much for having me. it shows the hypocrisy of the democratic party and the double standard that they do have. i am running for the me too seat in minnesota and my opponent is campaigning with him and she says that keith ellison categorically denies these allegations, therefore, she believes in him and she stands with them, yet when it's brett kavanaugh or a republican, they want a full and complete investigation. it shows the hypocrisy. in the investigation that was done, keith ellison, the vice down by the dnc party,h el the law firm of the democratic party in minnesota, so it is like the fox watching the henhouse. karen monahan, keith ellison's former girlfriend, she is on twitter tonight, iah retweeted, she is begging for someone to listen to her, but thehe democr democrats, the complete

hypocrisy that they are, are you >> sean: i have no idea if the r not, i really don't know, and i would withhold judgment because i think that is what where people would do. i'm surprised by the reaction. have the press in minnesota, the paper in the twin cities, been hounding keith ellison? >> no. absolutely not. it is dead silent among the media and the democrats in minnesota, yet all we hear about is brett kavanaugh and how we should have a full fbi investigation with the media is quite in my opponent tito smith out there fully campaigning and supporting keith ellison, and nobody is bringing these accusations, calling for an investigation. today i called on the attorney general of minnesota to do a full investigation of keith ellison because the borders of t minnesota, they wat to know before they go to the polls in november, who is keith ellison, has he relayed on these things to his girlfriend. >> tucker: i can't keep up

with the rules because they change so quickly but are we supposed to believe the woman? i keep hearing that. >> sexual-harassment abuse, domestic abuse, it is all wrong. every accuser should be heard. against keith ellison, these are some really, really serious accusations. >> tucker: i know! thank you. ♪ >> tucker: i'm not great at selling things, which is why i haven't been talking about this book every night for the past year but it's coming out tomorrow, and i'm proud of it, because i think it explains what has happened in this country, how president trump was elected, why, and how the battleground seems to have shifted so completely. if people you are watching on television were saying one thing ten years ago and saying the opposite tonight, and you are

seeing the outcome of this book explains why. it's out tomorrow, hope you buy it. it'ss great. that's it for us tonight. see you tomorrow on the show that is a sworn enemy of sworn, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we are live in new york tonight. sean hannity is alive in our studio. >> sean: by the way, you could to be a guest on my show coming up later tonight, and give you time to breathe and collect yourself after a great show. >> tucker: great show. >> sean:k. congratulations. welcome to "hannity." i'm not overstating this. this is literally now a tipping point in american history. democrats, the media, they have no shame. zero restraint, zero concern for truth, zero concern for innocent lives. they are all too willing to destroy, all for political power. that is more important than what is truth and justice. now we have one party in this country, it is about smears, slander, for