it's fantastic. thanks to everybody for buying the cookbook. it sold out on the first day. >> martha: lucky that i got my copy early. >> thanks for taking part. i'm helping so many people relive their happy memories. >> martha: great to see you. you are up late. that's our story for tonight. we will see you back here tomorrow night. tucker carlson coming up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." less than three weeks to go until the midterm elections, violence is flaring up again. it republicans in both minnesota and the state of nevada have been assaulted, in effect, punished for violating the unwritten law. if trace gallagher has more on this developing story for us in a period of trace. >> in minnesota there were two separate incidents. first the g.o.p. representative sir anderson said she confronted a man for kicking down her

campaign sign and the man didn't like it. watch. >> he comes charging at me and gets between me and the car door so i couldn't shut the car door. and i didn't want to just -- i froze basically. >> that's when she says the man punched her, calling her an anarchist and saying she should kill herself. then first-time candidate shane macklin says he was at a restaurant in benton county minnesota talking about campaign issues when he was blindsided. listen. >> this gal over here asked me something and i was talking to her and that's when this gentleman literally just punched me out of nowhere. >> he says he blacked out when he hit the ground of medical records show he suffered a concussion. police are investigating both attacks. in the meantime, another threat against maine g.o.p. senator susan collins, who of course cast the key vote justice brett kavanaugh. this time a letter was sent to collins' home address to her

husband claiming it contained a deadly poison ricin. parts of collins' home and her dog are now in quarantine while a crime lab checks out the letter. a g.o.p. candidate running for vermont's state legislature also got a threatening letter reminiscent of a mystery novel. the letter was made up of words pulled out of printed material to spell "we are hunting you. my comrades will kill you and the constitution. socialism is here. open season for republican. death in vermont." she says her platform of low taxes and small government apparently makes socialists want to kill her. finally, the gloves off and then about a governor's race. at the democratic operative for a group funded by george soros is in jail tonight after allegedly assaulting the female campaign manager of the g.o.p. candidate. kristin davidson said the attack left her traumatized and

horrified. tucker. >> tucker: thank you, trace. you would think that violence, physical attacks and threats in our political system would shock all of us, but this point unfortunately, nobody is really surprised. it almost seems normal. just last year progressive activist try to murder an entire field of republican lawmakers practicing baseball. he gravely wounded one of them. strangely you didn't hear calls for gun control in the days after that happened. in this point we forgotten that happened at all. so the cycle has accelerated. using force against republican officeholders and conservatives now seems like a feature of our political landscape. >> shame! shame! shame! >> no borders, no loss! sanctuary for all! if kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace! >> tucker: what is this really

about? suddenly this kind of rage is everywhere. you've seen tape like that for the past several months, but who exactly is it aimed at? what is the point? well, republicans, obviously, are the focus of it. it conservatives more generally. anyone else who descends from one true faith of cultural leftism. but really the target is the country itself. the left is angry at america. they say so all the time. this is not the democratic party you grew up in or that you remember if you are over 30. that party may have stood for some bad ideas, and it did, but there was never really a question about its fundamental loyalty to america, or the people who live here. the party of fdr and lbj, even of bill clinton, was basically a patriotic party. it was an american party. not anymore. in 2018, anyone who considers america a distinct physical place with meaningful borders and its own history and traditions and language and culture and values, won't feel comfortable in the democratic

party, indeed may not even be allowed in that party. to modern democrats, the leaders of the party, america is an economy with land attached. it's a massive private equity scheme from which they are benefiting. it's people are interchangeable human widgets to be discarded and placed when their usefulness expires. wasn't always this way? wasn't always what america was like, you might ask? shut up, they will explain. before obama got elected, america was truly a horrible place, a nightmare. watch new york governor andrew cuomo explained. >> we are not going to make america great again. it was never that great. >> tucker: it was never that great, says the guy who inherited his job from his dad. his remarks got some coverage on this channel, but they were hardly unusual for cuomo's party. before she founded the #metoo movement, senator elizabeth warren spent a lot of time telling audiences what an awful country this is. here's one example.

>> the hard truth about our criminal justice system, it's racist. [applause] >> i mean front to back. >> tucker: racist, front to back. in other words, our laws and our police are illegitimate and they are immoral. don't worry about violating or ignoring them. texas senate candidate robert o'rourke recently told a crowd that police in america murder and imprison people solely because of their skin color. that's factually untrue. it's ridiculous, and of course, he didn't even try to prove it was true, but it's also a slur on decent people of all colors for trying their best to serve this country and law enforcemen law enforcement. democrats should have said something, but they didn't, they are not allowed to, nobody is. defend america and you will be punished. former congresswoman mary bono lost her job this week as

president of usa gymnastics. what did she do wrong? she leveled a veiled criticism at colin kaepernick. that's unacceptable no. colin kaepernick makes millions denigrating our national symbols. he's a hero, nike hired him. if you complain about that coming to where the villain and you are out. defending america is suddenly a firing offense on the left. mark learned this the hard way. he wasn't simply a loyal democrat. he was the head of allegheny county democratic party, also a military veteran. you think he would be allowed to stick up for america once in a while, but no. he made the mistake of writing this in a facebook post. "i stand for the fly, i kneel at the cross. not so long ago most democrats would have nodded in agreement at that, today it's hate speech and he lost his job. tonight there loss is our gain and mark joins us now. thanks a lot for coming on the show. did i miss state that? did you have to leave your job running the county's republican -- throughout the democratic party because of those words on facebook?

>> i was the executive director of the county party and, yes, basically that's exactly what happened because of that post, which i remind you was over a year ago that i posted that. i was asked to resign, yes. >> tucker: you are a veteran and you say you stand for out the flag and you were denounced as a racist for that. >> correct. the people who brought this to light tried to tie it to the nfl players taking any. >> tucker: so, look, i'm confused. i met a democratic voter, never have been, but i've been here a long time. i've known a lot of decent patriotic democrats. it doesn't seem like that long ago it would've been weird for the head of a pennsylvania democratic county party to say i stand for the flag and kneel before the cross. would it have been five years ago? >> absolutely not. and i can tell you even last year when the pittsburgh steelers decided to stay in the locker room instead of come up with the national anthem, one player, an army ranger, came out

and stood by himself with his hand over his heart and he was not considered a racist. even as much as a year ago, it would not have been unheard of to hear a leader in the party defend the flag. >> tucker: you where the executive director of the party. you obviously know a lot of democrats intercounty. what has your former coworker said to you since this happened? >> i haven't heard from any of them. i understand the party line is that it is a personal matter, and i can respect that. however, those that are elected officials or party members who are not tied with my direct sort of change of command, if you will, i have not heard from any of them. >> tucker: 's that's shocking. what does this say to you about how the party has changed? >> well, it makes me wonder if there is room for moderate democrats in the democratic party nowadays. there were some elected officials who said that they acknowledge that they've known me and i am not a racist. however, it was insensitive. and unfortunately, if my

patriotism and standing up for family friends has become insensitive, then i think we as democrats need to stop and reevaluate exactly what we stand for. >> tucker: if standing up for the flag is considered racist, then what happens to the country do you think going forward? >> that's a good question. i'm a little worried about that. >> tucker: what are you going to do? >> well, i would like to continue to bring this to light and continue to voice concern for this very issue. and then in the short term, ironically, my son is going in the air force in 60 days so i'm going to spend some time with him, and then i will continue to fight this because as long as i can and continue to clear my name. >> tucker: god bless. and let me just say, again, i'm not a supporter of the democratic party, but i hope you stay in that party because i think it needs normal people. >> thank you. >> tucker: thanks very much for sharing with us, that's a shocking story. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: what to make of

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companies deciding what can and cannot be said in public, even when it's ugly and lunatic, as that was. we will have more on this. at one of the those companies use to ban speech? who exactly is getting banned? we are trying to find out. we will bring you the results of that tomorrow. well, whether you at a political rally or simply out to dinner with your family, is becoming accepted list on the left that anyone who disagrees his game for harassment, even hillary clinton says that civility is pointless. how is this working, by the way for america and the democratic party? former communications director for senator harry reid of nevada and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. i want to get your take on the man we just spoke to, the executive director of allegheny county pennsylvania's democratic party, not some random apparatchik, but he ran the party. he was kicked out because he said," and now "i stand for the flag and a meal for the cross." what does that tell you?

>> it bothers me that this is something he posted a year ago and they hired him anyway. it's not lost on me how all that is and they still chose to hire him. i think that's fine if they decide to hire him even after the post. it bothered me that they fired him a year later because of it. >> tucker: i'm confused. what's wrong with that post? i stand for the flag and i kneel for the cross. i think most americans feel that way. why would there be a bad thing to write? >> because we know this is obviously something that goes against what colin kaepernick is standing for. or kneeling for as the case may be. as we talk about the injustices done to african-american people but i do think it's important to remember as we talk about this, civility on the left, the allegheny county party is 1 of 67 county parties of pennsylvania. thousands of county parties across the country. this is one small example. >> tucker: we can even take that out of this conversation

and get to what you were saying, which is that this is troubling because, i'm quoting you know "it goes against what colin kaepernick is saying." his colin kaepernick in charge of the party? >> that's not at all what i said. what i said as it bothers me that they decided a year later that is problematic and it's probably because they got a lot of heat. we know that the people who are involved in county parties both on the republican and democratic side are the people -- they are the most passionate activist you can find. that's a lot of what happened here. >> tucker: but leaving aside even the allegheny county party, i just wonder, simple question, is it okay to say that? if i say i stand for the flag and i kneel for the cross, i'm a sincere christian and patriotic american, can i be a democrat in good standing or my a racist for saying that? >> you should be a democrat in good standing. you should be a part of it. i'm bothered by the fact that

they -- having a hard time talking. i'm bothered by the fact that they fired him over this, particularly since it was something that happened well over a year ago. they knew about this. if it was bothersome and then they should have not hired him in the first place. >> tucker: of course i agree with apart completely, though they may not have seen it. i think the party is changing, i think that really is the point. if but i'm bothered by this theme i have seen, which is really not list a couple, that anyone who said the country, flawed, of course, had a civil war over its flaws, continue to fight about its flaws, but basically it's a good place. better than any other place. it's not an inherently racist country, cops aren't shooting people because of their skin color. that may happen but in general it does not happen. that's why so many africans move here. if you say that they are like, what, what is this? i'm serious. >> there is no hate. there is no better place than america. i think we can all agree about that. but there are some problems that

we have here. there is institutionalized racism. we do know that we have situations where more african-americans are pulled over by police officers than white people. we know that. if there is evidence to back that up but that doesn't make america not great. it's called google to find the data. >> tucker: it's hard to interpret what the data means, actually. numbers are not the same as reality. they are a measurement of phenomenon but they don't explain what the phenomenon is caused by. so actually there's a debate about this and to say institutional racism is not an exclamation, it's a slur. but i guess, why is it that so many democratic candidates -- how can beto o'rourke, not his real name, robert o'rourke, cops kill people because of their skin color, it doesn't happen on a large scale, why doesn't anybody say anything about that? what about all the black cops out there? >> the g.o.p. county party in kansas can get away with calling

his opponent a radical socialist kickboxing lesbian who he wants to send back to the reservation. >> tucker: someone said that? >> it's called google and it is out there. they fired him over that but they do have very real problems here and i think the things you are pointing out are not just issues on the left, but we see these sorts of attacks on the right as well. >> tucker: that's not true. they are wackos on the right for sure, obviously. but there are not a lot of people choosing losing their jobs to countries because they are too left wing, that's just not happening and you know as well as i. kickboxing. i'm going to look that up. thank you, great to see you. a treasury department employee has just been karch tomei charged criminally for leaking information involved with the russia pro-purity there are new developments in that investigation, which is still ongoing. it tells you a lot about how it works.

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deputy rick gates to the press. accused of leaking those documents to buzz feed, a seminews site. just the latest member of the bureaucracy to be caught betraying the public's trust to empower the #resistance. molly, give us a sense of the scale of the crime here. these are bank records -- why would she have access to their bank records and what sort of betrayal is it to leak them to the press? >> this someone was a senior analyst at the treasury department's financial criminal enforcement crimes enforcement network. she had access to so many of these documents, which are very confidential about bank records, any time there is suspicious activity that gets investigated by the treasury department. she was found to have had -- she was found to have put tens of thousands of them on a flash drive to be sharing them over the course of a year with a buzz

feed reporter and one of the things, interesting in the affidavit is there's a coconspirator involved who is her boss at the treasury department. we tried calling the treasury department's office and asking them which part of the office when she and so we could determine who her boss was and they wouldn't tell us. they are being very tight-lipped about this. but it's even her boss as well that is implicated in this crime. >> tucker: 's obliques are common in journalism. and this is the beneficiary many leaks, including today. you don't share them with the public and less there's a reason for it. the public has an interest in this, there is a right to know. is there any conceivable reason that the bank records of these guys should have been revealed to the public? >> she herself said when she was caught today that she was doing this as a whistle-blower, she was sharing it with reporters so the records would be safely capped with him and she claims she did not know he was publishing stories about that. that doesn't stand to reason

that that is a reasonable explanation. she was sharing a lot of information that supported this russia collusion narrative. this idea that trump was a trader who had colluded with russia to steal an election. the way that story has been fed is through these types of selective leaks and it has gotten a lot of people caught up in it who should not have had their government conspiring against them with the media to create this narrative and it also probably shouldn't have taken a full year to know this is going on. buzzfeed were actually pretty clear that they were getting the suspicious activity reports, which do not come from a lot of places in the government and they have been publishing a story after story after story of these going back to october of 2017. they weren't well hidden, where this office was that was leaking it. i'm actually kind of surprised it took so long for people to finally catch up with the people who were leaking. >> tucker: do you think there's any kind of behavior that can't be justified in terms of resisting trump that the left

wouldn't resort to? >> we've seen that with this set of leaks and so many of the other sets of leaks, that there is no norm, there is no line that cannot be crossed or violated in service of resisting president trump, and you have had a lot of people say it's crazy to think that there's a deep state that would be conspiring with the medium to undermine the president, and yet you have stories like this. this is not the first person to be arrested for leaking or lying about leaking. james well, the senate staffer who was sleeping with a reporter and sharing the information with multiple reporters. reality winner who wasn't sharing information. a lot of people who have not even begun to be caught. i don't think the fbi has been doing a particularly good job of tracking these leaks. there's a lot to be done here if people care about having a government that makes sense and is not conspiring against the president. >> tucker: and doesn't crush on popular citizens because they don't like what they voted for.

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of course it is. spokesman for the marijuana policy project, joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >> tucker: of course. does it bother you when big business and government align to make young people more passive and compliant back >> well, it bothers me government creates foolish laws that destroy the lives of countless young and other people older people alike for using a substance that is objectively less harmful than alcohol. marijuana is out there. so rather than forcing it into the underground market, criminalizing people for using it, let's actually control it, let's regulate it, let's treat it more like alcohol and do what we can to minimize the potential harm around it. >> tucker: we are not doing anything to minimize the harm around it, we will never do tha that. it's become more potent. i would concede that it's less threatening than alcohol for

sure but it's also less deadening and that's kind of a point about marijuana. if the government isn't in the marijuana business because it wants to minimize harm. it wants to make money and tax revenue but it also wants to keep young people passive and stupid and less likely to complain and revolt when the economy they created doesn't serve young people. you don't see this? >> i think it's actually kind of an absurd notion seeing as marijuana has long been associated with younger people revolting. marijuana became popular in the '60s during the antiwar movement. >> tucker: do you smoke a lot of weed, mason? come on, i grew up in california. it does not make you more likely to do anything, is the truth, as you know. i know firsthand and you know you do too. >> that's a stereotype. that's like saying everyone enjoys a cocktail after work with their friends is a lush. it's just not true. >> tucker: i'm not arguing that. >> it's not a big deal. if the last few presidents.

we fed supreme court justices, countless business people. it's not a problem for adults to use it responsibly. >> tucker: i'm not arguing that. i'm not arguing it is a problem for people to smoke marijuana occasionally. i'm not a prohibitionist bite a. it's true of everything. >> that's actually not what we are seeing. washington, oregon, nevada, every state that has made marijuana legal has not seen an increase. >> tucker: that's not true. that's fake numbers. it's actually not a fact. >> talk to the governments in each of those states. >> tucker: let me just ask you. overpopulation's, it is true that marijuana, and this is a clinical matter that has been studied a lot over decades, makes people less likely to act. it makes them more passive and i'm just saying if you are running a system that was not serving young people, serving

them so badly a lot of them became socialists, wouldn't you want them passive and spacey and out of it and wouldn't you also want to collect the tax revenue and continue your lines with creepy big cannabis companies? that's kind of what's going on, right? >> i think it's bizarre that you want the government to use this as a way to criminalize a whole population of people and control people. if you wanted to be a crime for adults to use a substance less harmful than one that is legal o you or me or anyone. >> tucker: what i'm saying is marijuana are effectively already was decriminalized in most places. there are people who do jail terms for weed. >> hundreds of thousands of americans are arrested for every year for marijuana. >> tucker: no one in most places is arrested for a joint -- we had a don't ask don't tell policy in a lot of places. >> hundreds of thousands of americans are arrested every year for marijuana. >> tucker: but hold on.

you could very easily, in effect, decriminalize it for small amounts without legalizing, which means every time i walk through times squar times square, someone is hitting a vape or smoking a joint, which is what it is now. i'm saying it's a totally different thing. as you know. but big openings want to profit from this. >> don't you see what you are saying? it's illegal in times square. >> tucker: i'm saying it's artie been decriminalized as you know. in new york city, washington, d.c., people smoke on the street. >> if you do you're going to get cited. the same if you have a beer on the street. >> tucker: that's not true. nothing happens to you when you smoke weed in new york. >> if you can prove it's illegal to use marijuana on the streets. >> tucker: you're missing my point. it's not enforced. de blasio just said to the cops, i just talked about it. that's better than legalizing it. the only thing that will do is make it more common. >> you are denying the facts.

>> tucker: you are denying reality. >> thousands and thousands of people are arrested in new york every year for marijuana possession. it's just a fact. you think of this conspiracy to dumb down america. >> tucker: is literally that but it's also a conspiracy for people like you to get rich from selling it. let's be honest, this is big corporations trying to get rich from kids smoking more weed. i'm sure you've got a piece of it. don't give in our personal freedom garbage. if this is corporation. >> do you think it should be -- to think anheuser-busch is an evil corporation and that they are just out there to destroy the world? >> tucker: not to destroy the world. >> do think that alcohol should be illegal and that these companies should not be there to provide a product? >> tucker: a product, it's just a product. no, it destroys people. i've seen it. we are out of time. i wish we could keep going because you know what i'm saying is true.

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the saudis, if he is in fact being soft it's because the people around him are pushing him to do that. they love the saudis because the saudis oppose iran, it's that simple. we are not here to endorse saudi arabia. obviously a corrupt and medieval desert theocracy but we should pause for a moment and point out the hypocrisy from our own press. saudi arabia has been in the news for a long time, like 100 years, and no one ever seemed to care about the implication and 11, funding radical islamic ideology around the world, funding insurgents in syria, radical imams in the west. they barely even covered the saudi military campaign in yemen, which has been horrifying. and then twice in the past two years, this country, the united states, bomb syria, even though no apparent american interests were at stake there. why did we do that? in part because saudi arabia pushed us to do it, and you know what the media said? they loved it. watch.

>> it was required to take direct military action to degrade the use of chemical weapons by the murderous assad regime. >> it's very clear to me that this president, after using such rhetoric on sunday, had to take stronger military action than we did last year. >> we have a leader who is now a war criminal supported by the iranians and the russians. that demands a strong and risky response. if the west won't stand up when a leader uses gas multiple times against his own people, we live in a very dangerous world. >> tucker: you know what you just heard? you just heard the saudi line on foreign policy. all those little robots were repeating it uncritically as they have for decades. now they are whipping around and saying that trump is sucking up to the saudis because he has a soft spot for strongmen. really! if you are concerned about sucking up to strongmen, what you make about the media, the left more broadly has done with the biggest and most heinous and powerful, by the way,

dictatorship in the world every single day? that of course would be the chinese government. china has merited far more people than saudi arabia even considered beheading. the press doesn't care and the hour president has been too hard on china, boo-hoo. so someday in the very near future when china surpasses the united states in the size of its economy and military power, they will be ready to bow down to their new overlords just like kent brockman on the simpsons. >> and we would like -- >> and i for one welcome our new insect overlords. i would like to remind them that as a trusted tv personality, i can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. >> tucker: that's just in a cartoon. in real life you will be working in a factory. have fun. to continue our coverage of major democratic candidates in the lead up to the midterm elections, tonight we take a

closer look at the gubernatorial candidate in florida, his name is andrew gillum. the mayor of tallahassee, currently ahead in the polls amazingly and if elected he has an agenda that florida has never seen before. florida has more than half a million illegal immigrants living within the state's borders. his response to this is to describe immigration enforcement of any kind as immoral. he has called for abolishing ice for example, watch. >> ron desantis, the republican nominee had a statement last night about you, he says you want to abolish ice, you do, correct? >> we want to replace ice with the department of justice, an entity that has not been tarnished in the same way as ice has. >> so again, he says you want to abolish eyes, if you say you want to replace it, that's basically the same thing. >> tucker: that's basically the same thing and he's not embarrassed of it, why would he be? he also has long-standing ties to a group called the dream defenders, a radical left-wing group based in a state of florida.

they have to announce to the very existence from police and prisons and called for the elimination of national borders. they also called america the planet's biggest bully. his response has been to brag about sneaking food to the defenders when they occupied the capital of florida. he was also a big fan of radical, genuinely radical billionaire george soros, watch this. >> you were supported by two billionaires who came in and helped her campaign and largely your campaign early on was funded by them, george soros and tom steyer. how do you square sort of a populist progressive campaign that wants to get big money among other things, get big money out of politics, get dark money out of politics and yes it's billionaires that have to prop up your campaign? >> i will tell you, i'm obviously deeply appreciated, be known for some time. >> tucker: is not shy about it anyway and although it has nothing directly to do with running the state of florida, he thinks that trump is a racist

who must be impeached. >> this president has been wrong in almost every issue and as governor -- donald trump should be impeached now. >> tucker: a racist! that guy could be running the state of florida. not a small thing, it's not a small state. lisa boothe is a fox news contributor, she's been following this race closely. >> kind of terrifying, isn't it? >> a little bit considering half the population of pennsylvania, new york and new jersey is now living there to get away from the lunacy and all of nowhere he looks like it could be the next governor. very quickly, did we mischaracterize that? i don't want to be unfair and does he really have a shot to win? >> the races within the margin of error so there's still hope for florida. if you are a floridian at home there is still hope there but the guy is a socialist. he has an outright called himself that but he's embraced

the endorsement of bernie sanders. there's literally no daylight between his policies and alexandra garcia cortez outside of the fact that she would essentially be irrelevant where is he would be the governor of florida. as you mentioned, this guy supports abolishing ice. he supports single-payer health care systems. he wants to raise taxes on job creators in the state by a billion dollars, making the taxx rate higher than it was before. all of them will be heading in the opposite direction and i think the most troubling is the dream defenders group. as he mentioned, this is a group that wants to abolish the polic police, that wants to abolish prisons. they believe in a border-free world. if this is a very radical and dangerous group and he signed their manifesto. he signed their pledge, the freedom paper. >> tucker: it scares me for what it says about the country, someone like that wins. thank you very much for that, i appreciate it.

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of the book and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. leaving aside whether it's right or wrong to help china repress its own population, should a company that is willing to do that have control of all of our data in this country? >> i think you are absolutely right to focus on this issue. the problem you have here is china is an enormous market in google apparently cannot resist the temptation to do business there. the problem is you can only do business on the country's terms, which require not only censorship but reporting anyone who makes searches that are considered inappropriate by the government. and google employees i think are very concerned about this. i think there's a lot of internal dissent but i think that the management team for whatever reason it is determined to go ahead of this. and i don't think google ten years ago would've done this. >> tucker: it's a big market? that would be like saying i'm selling fentanyl tickets but

like a lot of kids want french and also i should sell it to them. >> i don't think there's any other explanation for it. these people are looking at this as they are bigger than any one country. google's measure has always been to have all of the world's information, to control all of the world's information. they view china as a huge part of the world and they want to control all of it. in my mind it's completely inappropriate. it really bothers me. i know it bothers a lot of employees at google and i don't know how this is going to turn out but i hope in the end pushback will make them back off with this. >> tucker: google is, among other things one of the most technologically advanced companies in the world. far more sophisticated than anything the pentagon has. so i wouldn't some point google become a threat potential into the u.s. government? why wouldn't our government be worried about it? >> i'm particularly worried about it in artificial intelligence. google has demonstrated a complete commitment to doing business on china's term and they have put themselves forward

to our government as the leading artificial intelligence company in the country and they want the government to finance google to build more artificial intelligence for our national security. it's my position that it's completely appropriate. it doesn't make any sense at all. >> tucker: we only got 30 seconds left but i want to know why it are american lawmakers moved in the face of these obvious threats? >> to be clear, i think there are a lot of lawmakers who are concerned about it. i think for right now for whatever reasons congress is focused on other issues in this one is gigantic. and you know there was a hearing in washington and google didn't show up and this was not the court focused but it was issues like this one and google chose not to go. as though they are somehow immune from having to testify in front of our congress. and in my mind it's just completely inappropriate and that stuff is got to stop. >> tucker: when you're that big you can do what you want. >> they shouldn't be allowed to do what they want. >> tucker: i agree! >> if this is america. if you were on the team or the off the team. that's the attitude they don't

have. >> tucker: thank you. god bless you for saying that. that's it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow to the show that is the sworn and cheerful enemy. dvr it if you haven't already. if tomorrow is going to be a great show. we have an investigation underway into censorship online and we will tell you what we found. meanwhile, sean hannity live from new york. >> sean: great show as always. looking forward to that report. welcome to "hannity." glad you are with us. of 20 days to go until the midterm elections. as a matter of fact, look at the display. at three weeks from tonight we will be talking about the results. that's how close we are. democratic candidates, democratic candidates they run for nothing but fear of president trump. grow the economy, protect the american people. they are just fueled by this rage from their humiliating loss in 2016 and democrats have vilified all political