jessica, michelle, lisa, thanks for coming. in that's the story for this friday night. martha is back monday night. i promise she is back. she had a sore throat. i will be hosting fox news at night at 11:00, "fox & friends" tomorrow. thanks for starting your friday night with us. >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker tonight. they do, they lie regularly and shade the trooet even more than that. you of course new that. it's obvious. what's amazing is how they do it in unison. one will say something false, and what seems like minutes, all the others are saying it too, the exact same thing, sometimes word for word. it's like they're all texting each other in commercial breaks. they just know instinctively what the latest democratic party

talking points would be. here's the most recent one . in the days since last week's elections, all the geniuses on cable have decided it's a mirage. it's not real. it never has been real. it was always a fake threat to win the last election. watch them sing that tune in perfect harmony. >> this was never an urgent issue. these people were a thousand-plus miles away from the border. >> to also further your point, if you are so concerned about invaders and very bad people, wouldn't you be on the border today instead of your secretary of defense? >> they've been running on an imaginary caravan. the president talked a lot. he couldn't stop talking about the so-called caravan heading toward the border. >> this stupid [bleep] caravan. it's a lie that this caravan is a problem of that magnitude.

>> tucker: this so-called caravan, the imaginary caravan. that's what jeff zucker told him to say. too bad we now have pictures. reality is the enemy of the propaganda. a large number of migrants from that caravan are now just south of san diego and they're trying to get into this country. in the meantime, those same people are overwhelming city services in tijuana and causing crises there. the people are doing this because they exist. they're a physical reality. well, apparently, nobody has alerted kamala harris. that's why she just compared federal law enforcement officers to the ku klux klan. >> the plan was that, what we would call today a domestic terrorist group?

>> why? >> because they tried to use fear and force to change political environment. >> and what was the motivation for the use of fear and force? >> it was based on race and ethnicity. >> right. are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at i.c.e. is being used to enforce the laws? and do you see any parallel? >> i do not see any parallel. >> i'm talking about perception. >> i do not see a parallel. >> are you aware that there's a perception? >> to put i.c.e. in the same category as the kkk. >> >> tucker: american citizens trying to protect their countries bodiers, up holding laws are somehow like the kkk. it seems like an especially stupid and vicious thing to say. it's cruel, really. how would you feel if you were an i.c.e. officer or your brother was? can you imagine throwing out

that kind of slander at your fellow americans just for doing their jobs? you would have to be an awfully self-righteous person to talk like that. harris is. so are a lot of them. little to a man who advocates for unrestricted late-term abortion explain that he's on jesus' team and you aren't. >> what you did for those who seemed less important, you did for me. not the least of these. it's just society may act like they're less important, but we don't because we understand the value of people, we understand the dignity of work, we understand the values this country stands for. >> tucker: we understand the value of little people, senator brown says. really, do you? how about the millions of american workers whose wages haven't risen in decades? and how about the people of tijuana? the caravan came north because they knew they would have a shot

of getting into this country. democrats told them that. they encouraged this whole thing from the very first day. now it's a disaster. the mayor of tijuana says his city is buckling under the weight of the migrants. many are criminals. dozens of migrants never made it to the border. they are still missing presumably kidnapped by drug cartels. we would like to talk about it. we invited chris hahn on. he joins us today. so, chris, before we even get to all that, brown from ohio, is lecturing us on jesus. do you think brown's a little bit closer to jesus than, say, i am? >> well, matthew 25 applies here, don't you think? that's what he was quoting. we have people who want to come

to this country and seek asylum legally. and we are sending troops to texas when they're coming in in san diego. is the president watching right now? he's got to move those troops. >> tucker: you didn't address my question though. is that the new standard? do you think it's a fair standard? this is not something i have introduced into this. is that a fair form of political discourse? >> no, i think we're pointing out the hypocrisy on the right. they claim they are christians but ignore the teachings of christ. matthew 25 clearly directs us to help those in need. >> tucker: so, let me just ask you, which politicians would you say right now on the right are invoking jesus when they talk about building a wall? what exactly are you talking about?

>> how about mike pence? everything he does, every time mike pence talks he invokes christ every single time. >> tucker: just one example. >> how about the convention? the first thing he said was, i'm a christian, a father, and a conservative in that order. if he's really a christian, he should be practicing what jesus taught in matthew 25. >> tucker: and you think that jesus would have open borders? is that what you're saying? i'm aware of the verse. i'm aware of the verse. >> yeah. >> tucker: but you're comfortable with this is what you're saying? >> you're aware of it but i don't know that you believe it. that's what it says, tucker. and that's what mike pence pretends to acknowledge, but he doesn't. >> tucker: i'm trying not to end this interview right now because i'm getting offended. i wonder if you understand the

extent you're playing with fire. do you think that's a wise thing to do? do you think if mike pence got up and said, "i'm for building a wall and i'm quoting this scripture to justify it," i know for a fact that i would say, "whoa, settle down. it's a public policy question. it's a multi-ethnic, multi-religious country." but you're saying that's okay. >> i didn't mean to offend you on religious ground. >> tucker: come on now. i'm on jesus' team and you're not. what is that? >> i hear you. i'm just pointing out that many on the right have taken christ up as their banner of how they want to govern and yet when it comes to doing something like this, they ignore the teachings of christ. i do not think religion or scripture should be the basis in our country. >> tucker: but it's okay when brown does it. let me ask you this.

everything's allowed now. it doesn't matter. whatever it takes to get what we want. is it okay to compare federal law enforcement officials to the kkk, as senator harris did yesterday? >> look, i watched that whole clip, tucker. and frankly she was not comparing them to the kkk. she was suggesting to the nominee that there was the perception among some. she even said probably wrongfully. how are you going to correct the perception? >> tucker: i get it. look, a lot of hitler's closest staff wore blue ties. i'm not calling you a nazi. i just think a lot of people think you are. no, she's comparing federal law enforcement officials to the clan. and i just wonder is there a limit to what you can say in public if you're a u.s. senator before you drive the country into some kind of internal conflict. can you really say things like that now? >> you should not compare law

enforcement people to the clan and that's not what she was doing. that are they should fear i.c.e. >> tucker: is there a poll on this? how would kamala harris, who's lived in rich person worlds her entire life, how would she know this? does she have some poll? i don't think she does. no, she's trying to impugn the personal integrity of people. >> i'm sure she's trying to correct that fear because senator harris is a very ostensible person. >> tucker: accusing law enforcement as being like the clan. i think she's totally irresponsible. i want her to be responsible. finally, is it time to concede that the caravan is real and

that they're overwhelming tijuana. the mayor of tijuana says that a lot of members of the caravan are violent criminals and he's afraid of them. is he a racist, do you think? it sounds like he might be. >> nobody said it wasn't real. they said it wasn't a real threat. >> tucker: but the mayor of tijuana sounds like a flatout racist, maybe a clansman. do you think he is? but the mayor of tijuana says it's a threat to him. hold on, wait. i'm wondering, would jesus be okay with what this mayor of tijuana has said? >> is tijuana analogous to the united states of america? tijuana has a lot less resources than the united states of america. we have more people along our border, i would imagine, than there are police officers in tijuana. >> tucker: i think jesus would be very upset about the mayor of tijuana. i'll call father brown about

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the number rising. but what would the effect be if we did that? who is coming here? what are they like? and where is all of this going? steven, just the first obvious observation. people when i was a kid used to care about overpopulation. i guess nobody does anyone. >> that's a fair question. immigration by 2060 will add 75 million people to the u.s. population. you would think people concerned about the environment, traffic, pollution would think about that. >> tucker: but those are real concerns, which i will admit, as a kid, i mocked the liberals for having. but as i get over, i realize i don't want to live in a crowded place. does anyone on the left still say that? >> there are a few progressives out there. they have a lot of progressive support and they tend to focus a lot on population growth. but most mainstream people on

the left don't touch it with a 10-foot pole because long-term it's new immigrants and the children they have. and so they don't want to touch the issue anymore. >> tucker: what percentage of the population? >> about 95% of the increase in the u.s. population will come from future immigrants and the children and grandchildren they'll have. >> tucker: so that's almost a complete turnover in population. >> no, that's population growth. so most of all the increase is coming from immigration. >> tucker: so the language numbers are really interesting to me. one in five people living in this country does not speak english at home. has it ever been that high? >> it's hard to say, but it may have been that high amount past. what's even more interesting or perhaps more troubling is how concentrated it is. there are all kinds of areas where 95% of the people or 85% of the people and 95 and 85% of

the kids in school speak a foreign language at home. one wonders how assimilation can work with that level of immigration and foreign language concentration? >> tucker: so what are, broadly speaking, the education levels of immigrants coming here? >> it varies. >> tucker: of course it does. >> 80% plus of immigrants from india come with a college degree or more. >> tucker: so how does that break down? what percentage for immigrants are coming with no education versus those coming with high degrees of education? >> right now somewhat over a fourth of all immigrants have less than a high school education when they come. a little over a fourth also have no more than a high school education. so a high school education or less is a little over half. a little less than half is some

college or even college and more. >> >> tucker: so the majority have high school or less. >> and we know the welfare use and poverty is quite high. >> tucker: thank you very much. well, you just heard, as millions of people, many of them low skilled, half, continue to enter this country, an obvious question arises. what does that mean for our economy, for america's working class? thanks for coming on. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >> tucker: there's a debate over what automation is going to do long term. everyone agrees it will eliminate a lot of jobs that we currently think of as real jobs. they'll be gone. but is there any scenario in the future as we perceive it now where you would want them to have a high school the --

diploma or less? how concerned are you about that? >> i think it's a concern. i think it's one among many. i think there are a lot of things we're doing that really hurt less skilled workers. the way we approach immigration and education. we don't care about education for less-skilled workers. we say college for all. and if you don't complete college, you fell out somewhere along the way. >> tucker: so why wouldn't you if, if you were thinking thoughtfully, if you started with the presumption that some immigration is good, that's where i start anyway. why wouldn't you be thoughtful about letting in more people who already have the education that you think your economy requires? >> i think that's what we should do. most economists would look at the issue and say if you want to benefit workers at the bottom

and their wages, pretty much the models say high-skilled immigration is good for low-skilled workers. more low-skilled workers just adds more competition to the market. >> tucker: i've had this debate over a hundred times on this show over the last couple of years. and they say, all the studies say that's not true. >> i'm not aware of a study that shows that. there are a lot of studies that show the mix of immigrants reflects roughly what's in the population. so that's okay. but that's the wrong question to ask. the question to ask would which would be better. given to have high-skilled immigration, is it good to have a lot of low-skilled or less? and what you would say is the less low-skilled immigration you have, better things will be for the low-skilled workers that are here. >> tucker: if you could do one thing to help people who are

struggling to reap the benefits of our economy, what would it be? >> well, i think conceptually we have to value work and say it's not just about consumption and how cheap stuff is. we actually have to realize is that people having work is what's most important to them. >> tucker: wait a second. paying everybody off with three grand a month won't be the answer? >> no, it's a disaster. it's a great answer for the folks doing well. the funny thing is, the higher up the income ladder you go, the more people say, oh, not everyone needs a job. you go down to the bottom end of the ladder, people say, we want the jobs, because they understand how critical work is to their families, though their communities. and if we don't focus on that, if we just say, oh, we'll grow the pie, what they say, we'll just send everyone a piece. you don't have to bake your own pie.

we'll just give you a slice. that's not a model for a good society. >> tucker: that used to be obvious. >> it did until about the middle of the century. as long as people have more stuff every year, we'll call that success, but that's not success. i don't see a lot of that, no. >> tucker: i don't either. thank you for that. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: well, georgia's disputed election has finally ended. but democrats are fighting to overturn the results. your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small

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will win. political editor and chief investigate for fox 13 in tampa bay. we're going to miss the recount. he joins us tonight. what is going on? >> the hand recount is going to continue until sunday, but we can tell you that nelson is surely doomed in large part because he placed his hopes and trust in broward county, which as we've seen a time or two, that's kind of like placing your hope and trust in lloyd from dumb and dumber. they thought broward county would be dumber and less effective than it actually was. there were 30,000 votes that were flung through the machines not once but twice. nelson said, oh, these machines. broward, here you go again. what we found out again today, when they looked at the ballots

by hand, they didn't register because most of the voters left that race blank. maybe these democrats didn't vote for rick scott because he's a republican. maybe they didn't vote for bill nelson because he's bill nelson. who knows? that's the fact of the matter here. it puts nelson in an impossible position. there is chatter and speculation. some democrats said they couldn't see the race on the ballot because it had been tucked in the lower left and perhaps the poor ballot design by broward county. even so, that's tough luck for nelson. there's history for that too. in palm beach county when it designed the butterfly ballot when it tricked democrats into voting for pat buchanan. either way, it doesn't matter because once it's all said and done, it'll be certified on tuesday. scott is going to washington.

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bongino, author of "spygate: the attempted sabotage of donald j. trump" joins us tonight. clearly, people are going to be indicted. if those indictments are for crimes against this country, i'll applaud those indictments and root for conviction. but if they're for something much less than that, like lying in the course of the investigation, that has nothing to do at all with the court crime, i and other people will think this is really a reckless act. what will it do to the country if mueller does that? >> yeah, think about it, tucker. think about all the lives that have been ruined. politics have been up ended. there's very serious talk about impeachment over a crime where no one can produce evidence. let me applaud you. i agree with you on that. if there's ever evidence that actually surfaces, republican, democrat, or indifferent, then

you deserve to the prosecuted to the fullest stent -- extent of the law. none of that evidence has been produced. as a matter of fact, one, collusion isn't even a crime. i don't say that as a word dance. i say that because there is evidence of russian collusion against the hillary team. we're connected to people connected to the hillary team. but the left isn't interested in any of that. >> tucker: it just seems like we've lost sight of the purported goal. no one is pretending this is about anything other than settling your political grudges with the force of a prosecution. that doesn't seem like an american way. it seems like a totalitarian way

to do it. >> it absolutely is. their case was bedrocked around this dossier, which is a political document. it's salacious and unverified. number two, mccabe said they wouldn't have a case without the dossier. their words, not mine. when asked about verifying the dossier, tucker, you know what he said? oh, it's in its infancy. the lead investigator in the case said. and lisa page, the fbi lawyer said -- this is just months ago, not two years ago when it started. she said, hey, it still could be literally nothing. we've upended the whole country looking for this infamous russian collusion and it could be literally nothing. this is scary stuff.

you're not just throwing around the tyrannical word lightly. there's backbone there. >> tucker: the last administration spied on its political enemies using our intel agency. the rules of politics. i mean, it's disgusting. i know everyone thinks it's fine because everyone hates trump, but that's a really terrible precedent to put in place, i think. >> that's not even in dispute. april 14th of 2017, we not only spied on it using our intelligence community, we used foreign intelligence operators. cnn wrote a piece about it. april 14, 2017 about british intel spying on people for the obama administration on the trump team. >> tucker: if the bush administration had done that to obama, as god watches, i would not have defended that. great to see you. well, the wildfires in california really are horrible. they're the deadliest in the

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♪ >> tucker: well, it's the tale of leaders failing the people they're supposed to serve. the campfire in northern california is now the deadliest wildfire in california's history. more than 60 people have been confirmed dead, more than 600 are still missing. firefighters say it will take weeks to contain the blaze. a surprise snowstorm yesterday completely paralyzed the country's largest city. thousands lost power. people spent the night in their

cars. >> i'm frustrated, too. i'm frustrated as a new yorker who was stuck in traffic line so many other people were. in truth, this kind of was a perfect storm. it emerged bigger and later than anyone expected. obviously affected the whole tristate area in a very severe way. >> tucker: okay. but it was still a snowstorm. those happen every single year. and so it raises the question, are american leaders still able to handle the basics of governing. thanks a lot for coming on. so i watched the fire in california, which no single person is responsible for. the snowstorm yesterday in new york, same thing. and then the voting debacles in broward county. and i'm thinking, keeping the roads clear, the fires quenched, the votes counted. these are the core functions of

government and they can't do that. >> we seem to have a lot of things crumbling at the same time. i thought i would tell you something personal here. you were on my show a couple of weeks ago and i had a good friend who's a verified twitter personal and a public person apologize to me yesterday. he said that he couldn't share my interview with you because you're so controversial, it wouldn't -- it would upset his friends and family and things like that. i relate this to all of this because it seems that just our ability to talk about anything, whether it's how to deal with fires and how to deal with snow or how to talk about politics or everything else, really does seem to be crumbling. look, you know me. i'm a pretty limited government guy. i don't think the government has a lot of things that it should do and it gets its hands in all sorts of things it shouldn't. but what the government should be able to do, and i say this as someone who lived in new york city most of my adult life, is

the government should be able to handle a snowstorm when it's six or eight inches. of course they should be able to deal with that. that being said, mother nature is going to do things all the time that we cannot fully prepare for. there are -- i mean, this is -- there are things that are out of humans' control. and i think part of the problem is that we think that we can control everything and we think that if only the government is funded a certain way or designed a certain way or acts a certain way, that we can remove all acts of god or control all acts of god, i guess is a better way to say it. and we simply can't. and the answer for most of the people on the left and the progressives it's like well then we just need more money and more money and more money. and it's not more money that you need. it's more preparation. it's more understanding that some strange things are going to happen and there might be a snowstorm that you didn't expect, but your team has to be ready. you're in charge and you're the guy that's got to make sure that it's ready and don't sit there and be surprised and woe is me,

i got stuck in traffic just like everybody else. >> tucker: you create, i think every person does, a hierarchy of responsibility. not all the things you want to do are equal and important. before you curb carbon emissions and raise the self-esteem of school kids, shouldn't you make sure the roads aren't crumbling and they're plowed? it seems like these guys want a global reach and are forgetting their basic duties. >> yeah, there's basic things that government needs to do. put out the fires, plow the roads, make sure that we're safe, make sure that people aren't being mugged in the street, and that sort of thing. the california fire is a little bit different than a random snowstorm in new york. the california fires, i mean, this thing was absolutely massive. it was statewide. it's still going on, so it's almost a little bit uncomfortable to talk about it. i think there's 600 people missing at the moment. i lived in l.a. just coming up

on six years, and if i tell you in that in los angeles in six years, i don't think i'm exaggerating when i say we've had maybe 30 days of rain in about six years. you get a little drizzle here and there, but i don't remember the last time it rained there. if you want to talk about why that is and does it have anything to do with climate change, or whether it's manmade, et cetera, that's a healthy conversation to have. but the idea we can manage and control all of this and we always know why it happened and everyone not in charge suddenly knows they would be in charge and keep more people safe. it's that sort of armchair quarterbacking that makes everybody go, politics is just pointless. so we need leaders that are a little more nuanced and a little brighter and willing to go, it's not just about money all the time. it's about how do we really understand these issues. >> tucker: and maybe there's a limit to human wisdom. thank you. >> there absolutely is. >> tucker: there certainly is.

i bump up against it every day in my own livment great to see you. president trump has endorsed a congressional effort to overhaul the country's prison system. the first step act would reduce criminal penalties and increase funding for anti-recidivism efforts. this is being supported by a wide coalition. what to think of it? we call one of the people we trust most on this question. he's a former new york police commissioner. author of the book "from jailer to jail." he has seen both sides. thanks for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so address the concerns of people like me who think there are probably a lo of people who go to go to prison longer than they need to and it doesn't help any of us when that happens, but they're also worried about putting dangerous

people back on the street. >> i think there's two things. bad people that do bad things. they go to prison. some need to be there longer than many. and the system deals with that. but what you can't do, tucker, is you can't put people in prison and expect them to be there, learn how to steal, cheat, manipulate, con, gamble, and fight and then don't do anything for them, don't give them any programs, work ethic, discipline, life skills, and send them back home and expect they're going to be better people. at the end of the day, we have congressmen now sitting around washington in a circle jerk basically saying, b -- why is the recidivism rate going up? because you're not doing anything for the people in the system. this incentivizes good behavior, gives them programs they need to be better citizens when they go out on the street, and it

reduces the recidivism because they don't have to revert to crime and go back. not to mention, you have 2.5 million kids in the country right now without parents. that's another thing. the bill also brings parents and their kids closer together with the 500-mile rule. the bill is the best thing that's happened in criminal justice in probably two decades. and you have a couple senators out there that are opposing it. i challenge them to debate me or walk through a federal prison with me and see what's in the system for yourself instead of listening to a staff member. and i really urge them, and i would urge everybody watching, if you've been in the system or know somebody in the system and know what they've been through, call your senators and tell them get this thing done, because mitch mcconnell has the votes. he has the votes. he said two weeks ago, if i have the votes after the election,

we're going to do this and get it to the president. he has the votes. now we say, well, we may delay it until next year. i'm here to predict, if they delay it until next year, it'll never happen. they did this in '16. they were going to delay it until next year. it never happened. he has the votes now. to not do this now with the votes is an intention attempt to embarrass the president or it's some self-serving declaration by mitch mcconnell and the couple of people opposing it. i think it has to be done. we have never worked this hard to do it. i've been in washington, d.c. briefing, testifying, and speaking since 2013. you have newt gingrich, van jones, lindsey graham, cory booker, everybody under the sun is trying to get this done. they've got to do it now. mitch mcconnell has to do it now. >> tucker: well, you're one of the -- there's so much noise about this. i wanted to talk to someone i

trust. thanks very much. great to see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, a christian woman in pakistan needs to leave that country immediately or she's likely to be killed. one country's reaction to her plea says a lot. that's next.

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evidence. but her ordeal is not over. the lawyer who defended her has fled the country, but she's been forbidden to leave. her family has pleaded for asylum in the west. if her pleas are not answered, obviously she may be killed. cases like this are why the west created asylum laws in the first place. the uk has refused to shelter her, despite the fact that it has accepted countless other immigrants. they believe that accepted her would cause, quote, security concerns and unrest among certain sections of the community. ponder that for a second. the united kingdom gave us the rights that americans take for granted. core rights. all of those freedoms are now dying in britain. in their place remains fear, a

fear of offending the very people who have made it impossible to sustain those ancient freedoms. not surprisingly, cnn has used it to attack the white house somehow. "trump, take notice. you're the kind of religious extremists willing to behead you should not be allowed into your country. when we make room for him or people like him -- that story is not yet over. we plan to follow it. we'll be back monday night, 8:00 pm. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group thinking. we hope to see you there.

by the way, mike huckabee up next, in for sean. he'll be interviewing the white house press secretary, whom he knows well. it'll be a great show. have a great weekend. ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms". hello, i'm mike huckabee in tonight for sean. stick around, sarah sanders, i kind of know her a little bit. she happens to be my daughter. but first, this is a fox news alert. we are ten days removed from the midterms, but election chaos rages on in southern florida. philgi