see this. >> thanks. good to sigh. that's our "story" on this tuesday night. let us know what you think. we will be back here tomorrow night at 7. tucker carlson next. good night, everybody. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." trump rally in progress in iowa. it's right outside of omaha. if news happen we will go there. first up to speed on what is happening in washington. the crack political team over at the "washington post" uncovered a brand new species of fake news you need to know about: originary left wingones.

-- wing mobs. they cast the trump resistant movement as an angry mob. the "washington post" wants you to know these mobs are not real. they are an illusion. that may surprise you. you may have seen videos of prominent republicans being chased out of restaurants by progressives and read how a republican congressman was shot with a rifle by a bernie sanders supporter. and college campuses descend into rioting because conservatives showed up to talk. and groups of hysterical young people why would at lawmakers. all of this may have given you the mistaken impression there is a threat of disorder and lawlessness from the left building in this country. some funded by a man the

"washington post" describes as a philanth philanthropist. this is racism. it's designed says the post for the benefit of white voters particularly men. the angry mobs you thought you were watching on television are merely a hallucination concocted by fox news. you can wake up now. none of it is real. it's 1996 again. wait, has anyone told the angry left wing mobs about this? they believe they exist. in portland they are blocking traffic and breaking things and screaming at old ladies in wheel share. they don't get the "washington post" in oregon.

watch. >> [screaming]. >> [bleep]. >> [screaming]. >> [bleep]. >> [shouting]. >> [bleep]. >> [screaming]. >> [bleep]. >> tucker: don't believe your lying eyes. some reports describe the protestors as antifa. others say they are black lives matter. it doesn't matter. you are looking at the youth wing of the democratic parties. these are their shock troops. listen to maxine waters and cory booker call them to arms. >> go to the hill today. get up and in the face of congress people. >> if you see anybody from that

cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gas station, you get up and you tell them they are not welcome! >> tucker: go get them. get in their face. they obeyed. the left always obeys. obedience is the point of their program. >> you won't eat in peace. >> abolish ice. >> [shouting]. >> well, thanks to incidents like the one you just saw and the one the "washington post" asures you are didn't really happen. you have no right to be worried about. people across the country nevertheless are becoming c concerned.

that's arrest -- that's racist says the post. the wife of senator rand paul is so concerned about what is happening, she keeps a loaded gun by her bed. watch. >> so many unhinged people and unstable people out there. when they hear on their side telling them get up in their face, they take that literally. they think that gives them a license. that scares me. we updated our security systems at home and i sleep with a loaded gun by my bed. i used to feel safe. that's change. >> tucker: the "washington post" might call her paranoid. many on the left celebrated when

her husband wound up in the hospital after being assaulted by an angreal liberal. -- angry liberal. >> my husband had 6 broken ribs and was seriously injured. to have people like cher and bet midler laughing on the internet and lauding his attacker, what kind of person are you? that you think that is acceptable? >> tucker: that's a fair question. the video we just showed you is real video. we didn't make it up in the basement to scare you or to win a mid-term. assessing everything you have seen, you might be tempted to conclude that maybe there is a growing problem with left wing mob violence. but left wing leaders and their propaganda in the press concluded the exact opposite. they have decided the problem is actually you. you are the problem sitting at home. you are dangerous.

the "new york times" paul grudman accused the republican party of harboring authorian impulses. hillary clinton is so worried about the angry grandmothered in portland smashing windows, she know longer considers republicans americans or fully human. according to hillary clinton you no longer have to be civil to republicans. you can do whatever you want to them because they deserve it. >> you can't be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for and care about. i believe if we are fortunate enough to win back and/or the senate, that's when civility can start again. >> tucker: yeah, so there you

have it. there is the most recent democratic presidential candidate. the leader of her party endorsing viciousness against her political opponent. according to the "washington post," this is what republican extremism looks like. you have to be crazy not to see it. andy is a journalist following this closely and joins us tonight. andy, we played a bunch of videos about what is happening in portland. i don't know what your politics were gone. were those republicans in the streets of portland? >> they were not. >> tucker: they were not. who were they? what was the point of this? how much coverage did this get in portland? did any civic or political leaders in portland raise any

outcry about this violence? >> some was recorded over the weekend on saturday. that was a protest organized by don't shoot portland which is a black lives matter type of group. they were protesting the police involved shooting of a man who is suspected of shooting two people. well, the police here take a hands off approach most of the time with protestors. what you saw on saturday in the video, the demonstrators were allowed to take over a street in downtown portland and direct traffic and threaten drivers. stop traffic while the police looked on from a block away because they were afraid of inflaming the situation. >> tucker: did democratic political leaders in portland

denounce the violence? >> not as far as i know. the story is being framed in a partisan way on your show. the fact of the matter on hand is the portland mayor also doubles as at police commissioner. i am not privy to the internal conversations he may have with the police department here. based on other event that happened in the past, i would say there is a dereliction of duty upholding the rule of law. >> tucker: one might be tempted to come to that conclusion. the "washington post" doesn't agree, but i do. thank you very much. good to see you. quentin james is cofounder of bested strategics. we don't agree politically but we can agree that people banging

on doors with batons threatening old ladies is unacceptable. >> it is unacceptable. there are larger problems at hand. the violence across the country is not coming from the left. but actually from the right. you showed clips tonight of dylan roof preparing to kill people on a church in charleston or white supremacists who killed people last year. >> tucker: hold on. wait. wait. >> no one is calling for violence on either side. >> tucker: yes, maxine waters said get in people's faces. >> that's not violence. >> tucker: if you scream at someone to the point where they have to leave the restaurant, that's an act of wild aggression. is that happening to a lot of democratic lawmakers?

>> i don't think people should be obnoxious with their protests. i'm sorry? >> tucker: can you think of a case where a democratic politician has been chased out of a restaurant or screamed at on an airplane? >> in 2010, people showed up to the congressional townhalls with loaded weapons. i don't know how we distinguish that from violence, showing up armed. >> tucker: right now in -- >> we have one party rule in washington. >> tucker: what about the 250-year-old tradition of explaining what you are for and explaining what the other person is for is wrong?

where did we get to a place where officeholders encourage young people -- hillary clinton said you no longer have to be civil to people you disagree with. >> hillary clinton is saying we are not seeing leadership to hold president trump accountable. >> tucker: that's not what i am quoting. she said you don't have to be civil to republicans because -- >> she was saying you can't be civil when a party is not following legislative protocol. >> tucker: you don't like trump, i get. i am not talking about trump. i don't care about trump. i care about the rest of the country. you are not required to be civil with people you disagree with. do you want to live in that country? >> i am not calling for

incivility. >> tucker: i get it. i thought obama really hurt the country, but i was always civil. >> there are similar protests from people on the right. >> tucker: hillary clinton, that's not helpful. >> we are not seeing that level of accountability from the republicans. >> tucker: i am happy to criticize republicans all the time. i am not a partisan robot. people on the left will never criticize anything. >> president obama got criticized when he went against the will of the party. >> tucker: just say hillary clinton is wrong? just be civil even if we disagree. >> i don't think she was calling for incivility.

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>> ♪ >> tucker: brett kavanaugh is on the supreme court. democrats are mad at him and getting madder. lawmakers say they will pursue impeachment against him if democrats take the house. members of the media are lashing out on that same point. some people argue that supporting kavanaugh is cause to stop speaking to a person. james carville laid out the political calculation. >> kavanaugh is worth more alive than dead. in the democrats win the house they will hold hearings on people think he perjuried himself. he will be an issue in 2018 and

in 2020. the democrats will dig up stuff. the press won't stop all of the things they are working on about kavanaugh. it's one of these amazing things that probably never happened before in american politics. >> tucker: richard is an attorney and former advisor to bill clinton and hillary clinton. let's say i am a democrat and i want you for healthcare and i am worried about my premiums. i vote democrat. man my healthcare prices will go down. but the first thing let's impeach brett kavanaugh! i am bewildered by that. >> look, i can't figure out james. that's not what they are saying. nancy pelosi said we are not talking impeachment of trump nor kavanaugh. and the chair of the house judiciary committee said we will look into the investigation that

was a joke what the fbi did. but he is not talking about impeachment. some are, i will concede that. cooler heads are saying it's a waste of time and it's not healing. if the senate is close to where it is now, it's futile. >> tucker: continuing to the investigation into brett kavanaugh, to what end? i don't think this is working for democrats. we will find out. it doesn't seem to be winning new voters to the democratic party. how does that help the country exactly? >> well, i think the whole point what the democrats will do in the house is be a check on trump that hasn't been in effect. whether that's his dealings personally with women, or his tax strategies or dealings with the russians, both his staff -- >> tucker: democrats are going after trump on his personal life? have you been naughty?

[laughing]. >> do you remember when there was bill clinton? >> tucker: i remember it well and smart republicans regret that. they lost seats. it was a stupid waste of time. bill clinton is a creepy guy that mistreated women. should we impeach him over that and most people think no. democrats are repeating the same behavior. >> i think the democrats's attitude is show the country how things are supposed to work. it's not a question of their personal life. if you have the fbi do an investigation, have the fbi do an investigation not constrain it so you know what answer you will get. >> tucker: one of your leading presidential candidates came on this show and said the problem is trump he violated his marriage vows. i have been married 27 years. i didn't know this was the new democratic standard. the adultery rule is in place for the democratic party. does this apply to everybody?

>> no, i think the fact of the matter is what the democrats will run on this years healthcare, dealing with corruption. >> tucker: make sure you have not committed personal since. are you evangelicals that don't believe in god? >> as regards to brett kavanaugh, it's not what he did back in high school. >> tucker: so his yearbook is cool now? >> it has to do with lying. bill clinton was impeached for lying but this is boys will be boys. >> tucker: whatever the side does that we hate we will be certain to do? >> you are trying to clean up the way congress act. the president, it's been a rubber stamp. it looks like the democrats will control the house. if hillary clinton had become

president, we would be talking could the republicans getting a 16 vote margin in the senate and two-thirds of the house. >> tucker: we will be wearing uniforms and marching in step. that's one thing i am happy about. richard, thank you. the continuing attack on brett kavanau kavanaugh, brit hume will talk to us after the break. >> we just had a big election won by a landslide. >> ♪ >> [inaudible]. (music throughout)

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>> tucker: republicans believe the war waged on brett kavanaugh will help them in the upcoming mid-terms. the democrats don't believe that. they are continuing to go against kavanaugh. now they think that will help them in the mid-term elections. who is right? brit hume joins us tonight. both sides seem convinced that they are winning on this. who is? >> well, i think the democrats are maxed out on motivation. this is a democratic voters

first crack at the ballot box since donald trump's win left them speechless with rage. they are eager to rage. any additional motivation from the kavanaugh affair is only a modest increase of where the needle already was. republicans were looking sleepy. a lot of them don't like trump. he has a divided party. the kavanaugh case has changed theerk kwation there. all of the polling evidence shows the motivation among republicans is up. republicans got more out of it. >> tucker: the last day to register in a bunch of different states and registration has been intense today. what did you think of hillary clinton's remark made to a british journalist that the rules of civility ought to be suspended when dealing with republicans? >> she is always a couple of

beats behind the music. this is where some people in her party are going. it looks like she is trying to get on that train. pretty soon, when things get back to normal, she will be back in the middle of being an establishment politician. i don't think she will stay with this line. >> tucker: this is what you are seeing from a bunch of elder statesmen in the democratic party. they are not sure what is going. the kids are mad and blocking intersections. they are saying i am hip and radical. >> i am with you. the slogan was i am with her. now she is saying i am with you. >> tucker: this happened 50 years ago? >> yes. i remember when we come back: -- when we had trouble in the streets in vietnam. it was a bad issue for democrats. normal people elected nixon

twice. >> tucker: do you think that will happen this time? >> he is not around. in my opinion, this is insane politics. for dick durbin to sit in the middle of the hearing when people were jumping up and screaming and republicans were complaining about it. he said this is democrats. democracy. no it's not. most americans don't think it's democracy. many people don't want to say out loud they support but make excuses. >> tucker: yes, democracy is listening to citizens and acting. this is shutting them down. a spirited debate last night about john mayer who came out against toxic masculinity. attacking men for their gender,

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>> we have to tear the contract up. we do not possess the ability to have any woman you see. i am going on record revealing the trauma of men falling short of [bleep] in a male contract that nobody can live up to. until we get rid of that in men, we won't have the life we all deserve. >> tucker: breaking this a one man therapy session in the middle of a concert. we thought it was amusing. feminists said we just didn't get it. most men don't. john mayer is a feminist hero. she argued. watch. >> this isn't about saying your body is a wonderland. it's about men being violent

towards women. >> tucker: everyone is against men being violent towards women. i wonder in the standard is not different. if brett kavanaugh from 1982 had basketball and your body is a wonderland, you would have called for his arrest. great to see you. i am not making a case against john mayer. he is pretty good. i am making a case against this phrase everywhere. toxic masculinity. it seems like an attack on all men and not just the violent ones. i think that is wrong. >> it is wrong, but it's useful for the left. it's like climate change. it can be whatever they want. >> tucker: so true. >>. >> is no reality. it does indict every man.

it indicts the nature of manhood. i love men. i think men are great. i love the masculine man who saved me from another man trying to get into my car at the gas station. i love the men in the military who are first responders. and the women who joined them in that effort. we sleep nicely at night because of masculine men every day. the bottom line is that interview you had with her was fascinating. she admitted that the standard of what is toxic masculinity, why not just call it violence against women, she said it only applies to kavanaugh because he was a nominee for the supreme court. the implication is that well, he would have ia larger impact on society. tucker, entertainment figures have a huge impact on culture, on children. musicians and dancers and actors. they don't have any watch dogs

looking at them with what decisions they are making. they don't do things that are transparent. >> tucker: that's totally right. >> this argument that we should look at all men as the problem is what makes a harvey weinstein possible. it's what makes a bill cosby possible. we dilute the view. we ask people to look at the innocent man like kavanaugh using him as a stand in while the other men and maybe this is what mr. mayer was doing, if they say the right things, it's like an invisibility cloak. >> tucker: that's so true. you have noticed this: the threat is not from masculine men. the men i met that mistreat women are the weakest men. >> that's a very good point. we are looking at each individual case. every woman has to deal with however we approach the issues

in our lives with violence and the nature of the men who might be violent. the argument is separating women even from the men in their own lives. the men that love them and that's the political agenda here. >> tucker: exactly. >> it has nothing to do with masculinity and strength. >> tucker: we did the math and americans are spending more helping illegal aliens have children here than on a border wall. is congress considering changing that? and steven segal joins us to talk about his new motive and the role he may play in u.s. and russian relations for real. trump rally in iowa. >> if you like your children or love your children, you can leave your beautiful children.

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he didn't accept. a fascinating new report for the centers for immigration studies found that helping illegal immigrants having children is a bigger priority for our government than defending the border. steven joins us tonight. how did you measure this priority? >> right now we are looking at census bureau data. they asked people every year, several million people if they are immigrants and had a kid in the last year. you can pick out those who are likely illegal immigrants. when you do that, you find that there are 300,000 births to illegal immigrants each year at a cost of $12,000 for the two-thirds that are paid for by taxpayers. $12,000 is what is costs to have a kid in the united states. that include care for the child after he is born. if you add that up.

it's 2.5-billion dollars a year we pay for births to illegal immigrants which is more than we spent on any kind of new wall construction. >> tucker: does that make us good people or crazy people? >> well, a couple of things about that. if someone is here and having a kid, we will pay for it if they don't have insurance and two-thirds of illegal immigrants don't have insurance. since the kid is born here and is a u.s. citizen it may make sense to do that. the larger question is, to tolerate this and not try to encourage people to go home and not stop them from entering. >> tucker: if you tolerate something consistently over decades, you are welcoming it, aren't you? >> right. if we have a situation where illegal immigrants can get everything from a driver's license to benefits for their children and college tuition and

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for office there. he joined us to tell us about that and his new film. here it is. your film first. one critic said it's the best have you done in a long time. tell us about it. >> i also think it's the best film i have done in over 20 years. it's a kung-fu motive, but the wisdom of what i consider to be a man who rises to the occasion of helping those who are in tremendous need and becomes a reluctant hero. it has all of those different scenes that pull the heart strings of the people, the public, and great action and great story. great characters and great chinese stars. i am proud of it. it's a wonderful motive. >> tucker: a lot of people need rescuing now. the other news story about you

is that you were considering running for governor of siberia. tell bus that. if that is true. >> this is one of the million of fake news stories. i was a film festival where my father is from. somebody in the audience said, hey, man, we don't have a governor. do you want to become the governor? i said sure and there it went! at the same time we said 30 times we were joking. it was just a joke that the press enjoyed doing bad things to certain people with. >> tucker: i am not surprised by that at all. you are a russian citizen. you for russia now. give us your perspective on the debate over russia taking place in the united states right now. >> well, i said this before, i

believe this is a situation where there is a tremendous amount of propaganda against russia. in my opinion, most of the things that are being said is fabricated and untrue. this whole thing with russian collusion is a fantasy. this has more to do with the great divide between the republicans and the democrats and the conservatives and liberals. at this point, other than groups will do anything, they don't care if it's legal or immoral to win this battle where their agenda triumphs. i said this before, we are at a tipping point in the united states of america where if people don't realize that

republicans and democrats have to start to work together in a more civil fashion and agree to disagree and understand that, the truth and civility will help the process of true politics instead of destroying our nation. >> tucker: you for russia a lot. you talk to russians. what do they make of this? what do they think of? >> they are bemused. some of them are laughing and some are crying. the consensus is that they find it astounding and hard to believe that so much is being made of this and a lot of the these accusations against people like kavanaugh. they just are finding -- the people i talk to are finding it increddule us. >> tucker: i feel the same way. you know putin. what is he like? >> i think he is a brilliant

strategist. he is an intelligent man and a great world leader. i think if we would come to terms with trying to deal with russia and some of the other countries in eastern europe, as if they are equal partners, this would go a long way in world peace. >> tucker: washington obsession with russia. it's a distraction. it's on purpose and a distraction from the reasons the trump became president. it's explained in "ship of fools." it's at your local book store and online. that's about it for us tonight. it's an honor to do this show

for an hour. back tomorrow at 8. the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. good night from washington. guess who is next? ladies and gentlemen from new york city. sean hannity. >> sean: me! welcome to "hannity." new york city one of the highest taxed states in the world. the president wrapped up a raucous rally in iowa. 28 days to go until the most important mid-term election in our lifetime. 4 weeks from tonight. the president is pounding the campaign trail for republicans across the country. the senate, the house are very much upfor grabs. it's up to you in 28 days. you have the power to decide the immediate future of this country. we will break down the most critical races state by state with the