happy thanksgiving. >> mike: another wild week in the news. this week on "fox news sunday," chris wallace will interview. for my brothers paul and christian, that isat it for special report, i'm mike emanuel, good night from washington. ♪ >> tammy: good evening, everybody, and welcome to a special inside the issues edition of "tucker carlson tonight." i'm tammy bruce filling in for tucker this evening. don't worry, you will see plenty of tucker as he confronts issue from big tech issues of life and china's role in the heroin epidemic. but first, the showdown at the border continues. for weeks, the media explains the migrant caravan was a hoax to boost g.o.p. midterm turnout. >> they are telling you the, the existential threat to america is a bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles

away. these group of folks, we don't even know where they are.. they are way down there. >> they have been running on an imaginary caravan. >> this stupid [bleep] caravan. [laughter] >> you know, it's a lie that this caravan is a problem of that magnitude. >> programming on the caravan was propaganda. >> tammy: but now that supposedly made up caravan has indeed appeared. and the government of tijuana is begging for help andnd callg it a humanitarianij crisis. president trump's own efforts to secure the border are running into obstacles. the president recently blasted the 9th circuito of appeals for blocking his attempt at alterations for american asylum policy. >> it's a terrible thing when judges take over your protective services when they tell you how to protect your border. it's apr disgrace. essentially they are legislating. they are saying what to do. some judge sitting in some location very far away iss telling our incredible military and law enforcement

what to do and it's not right. i know that chief justice roberts, john roberts has been speaking a little bit about it and i think we have a lot of respect for him. i like him and i respect him. but i think we have to use some common sense, the 9th circuit, everybody knows it's totally out of control. >> tammy: president trump is also warning that he may have to shuton down the entire u.s./mexico border.ni >> if we find that it's uncontrollable, josh. if we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. >> including the entire border. >> the whole border. i mean, the whole border. >> tammy: chris hahn is a progressive radio host and former aide to chuck schumer. he joins us now. hey, how are you doing, dear? >> i'm doing good. happy thanksgiving, tammy. >> tammy: same to you.

we have very diverging opinions on what's going on there.e. you would have to admit, i think, the mayor of tijuana, this is a town that has dealt with immigration a great deal including with haitians. >> yeah. >> tammy: who they said got jobs there and assimilated very easy. they are concerned about the violence and consider it a humanitarian crisis. clearly that's happening in new mexico. what do you say tocl the mayor of tijuana when it comes to hissu attitude? is he being racist about this or is this a real genuine problem? >> no. he hits the nail on the head. >>t's a humanitarian crisis it is what i have been saying and other progressives have been saying the last three months. the president hasav been painting it as an existential threat to our sovereignty as the united states, as if we were being invaded by a foreign country. if i was a member of the border patrol, i would be insulted that the president of the united states did not think that i was capable of doing my job of protecting the border.if they have c faced these kind of caravans since the '90s.

this is not new. the president exploited this humanitarian crisis, which it is, for political gain. and i think sometimes he believes his own talking points when he talks about this stuff. and the judge in the 9th circuit that he was alluding to, he wasn't making up the law. the president was trying to take a pen to a law that congress passed and a former president signed. and presidents are not allowed to dopr that. the judge is enforcing the law. >> tammy: there is already disagreement on that, of course. the president is going to appeal. he will certainly prevail here. >> he will lose. >> tammy: we haven't seen this kind of caravan dynamic. h what we saw, off course, at the mexico-guatemala border, chris, is very indicative of the difference here. the complaint with tijuana is the violence here, the kind of -- the nature of what's been going on with this particular caravan. and also the caravans have not experienced a real commitment at the american border to stop them. so this is inherently different. there are thousands more individuals involved. now, many have taken mexico up on their ability to get jobs and to have some

healthcare and -- which is great news. >> yeah. >> tammy: at this point, you are looking at individuals from we know there is at least 500 criminals. we know we have got to be able to assess them properly in getting in here. b what do you think theys should be allowed to come in or do you think that there should be an orderly framework here? >> no. i think there should be an orderly framework here. from what i understand, people in this caravan are going to seek asylum, which is legally the way you can come here, one of the ways you can come here legally. i don't think they are climbing the wall. i don't think. >> tammy: they're climbing the wall right there. they are climbing the wall, as a matter of fact. of course, the president is going to make this difficult because we do have to have some order there. i'm glad you agree that we need to get some order. i know you want to talk about this, chris. >> nobody thinks people should climb the fence. that's not what we want.

>> tammy: they are also not going to rush, you know, barriers. at any rate, hillary clinton ran on continuing high immigration into the u.s.ba but in an interview with "the guardian," i'm sure you have seen hillary suggest time for year up to curb immigration to stop the rise of right-wing political parties. she said, "i think europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame. i think it is fair to say europe has done its partrt and must send a very clear message.ts we are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support because if we don't deal with the migration issue, it will continue to roil the body politic." chris, how is this not just transactional politics and throwing immigrants under the bus? >> hillary missed the point there. what's happening in europe right now is far right party are scapegoating immigrants because they can't figure the a way to deal with stagnant economy that has hit most of europe especially low skilled

workers of europe. e i think that former secretary hillary clinton missed the point completely they are, where she is giving aid and comfort to that thought that far right int europe. i completely disagree with her. >> tammy: wait, wait, chris. >> transactional at best. >> tammy: this is the issue. many people are shocked at this. this is all she has done. she has been a transactional politician from the very beginning. >> yeah.h. >> tammy: no way to explain the defense of marriage act and don't ask don't tell. the two worst cases of violating gay american civil rights in this country. when you actually in the 20th century decide to shred them because it was transactional because it was going to get them something. c both of the clinton's operate this way. this is why she lost in part because she's stands for nothing. the democrats stand for nothing realty stage. >> here's the thing though, tammy. she is just making a speech and blowing hot air. the president of the united states we talked about these things, he is the president of the united states. and his words need to be taken very seriously. i don't like what she said but i also don't like what's

being said by some far right politicians who hold officeik in this country who need to tamper down their talk about immigration. immigration made the countrymp great and continue to make it great. >> tammy: far righthe idea included apparently for president trump getting a daca deal for congress, which of course, the democrats -- >> -- yeah. >> tammy: declined.h are those the kind of far right ideas have you got or historically low unemployment for every group in the country? >> tammy, tammy, the president of the united states was offered daca for the wall. he accepted it until the far right politicians in the senate mitch mcconnell especially. >> tammy: mitch mcconnell far right. >> general kelly had to call chuck schumer and tell him the deal was off. let's be clear this president will make a deal daca for the wall before. this. >> tammy: chris, this audience is going to laugh at the idea of mitch mcconnell being ae far right politician. that is very funny. this is a bureaucracy we know it well. it's all transactional. that's what both democrats and republicans are reacting to. you had some interesting people elected during the

midterms because they are tired of the transactional relationship. >> we did. >> tammy: i think alexandria ocasio-cortez would suggest that she is unusual t and interesting. thanks for joining us. >> i think there are people with great voices i can't wait to see them grow. >> tammy: it can be interesting. you can see what happens to the women's march when it comes to that chris, thank you for being here. how is this forr irony yesterday fired fbi director james comey tweeted quote happy thanksgiving, got a subpoena from house tproduction. i'm still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions, but i will resist a closed door thing because i've seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion. it's likes he is talking in the mirror, right? let's have a hearing and invite everyone to see. twitter users quickly reminded comey that he, too, engaged in plenty of selective leaking and privatee conversations. dan bongino is a former secret service agent, an nra-tv contributor. you know him well. he is also the author of

"spygate, the attempted sabotage of donald j. trump." he joins us now. dan, welcome to the program. >> good to be with you tammy. thanks. >> tammy: obviously lots going on. james colonyou beclowned himself with those comments. a little bit of projection on his part. what's your take on what heom is trying to accomplish here? the republicans have done something at the last minute, i would have liked to have seen this six months or a year ago. why not resist? it's not like you are actually going to end up in front of any committee at this stage. >> let me hat tip you there for the absolutely perfect use of the word "beclown." that's exactly what jim comey did here. let's point out irony of jim comey's tweet asking for open hearing up on the hill. he wants transparency now. you do realize he hid the investigation, crossfire hurricane. the investigation into the trumppfi team. he hid it from congressional oversight for eight months. this is a fact. this is not in dispute.

in march of 2017 when questioned by congressional oversight, alesion stephonic from new york. when asked why he hit it for eight months he gave the most absurd answer -- he made a fool of himself. because the investigation was sensitive. tammy, the very reason they brief congress quarterly notwa every eight months but quarterly on these types ofrt investigations is because they are sensitive. comey really needs to dial down the twitter. >> tammy: he has gotten away with all of this. this is what is so frustrating. they're subpoenaing him and get in and comey says no, i'm not going to go. he knows he will fight it legally and the new session starts on january 3rd. we're getting into the christmas holiday.ts he knows that he is going to get away with this. in a way, it's like a dog and pony show. are you concerned now that the democrats will control the house, the senate still has the republicans still have the senate. are you concerned that, in fact, donald trumpe remains the only man of action, the only individual genuinely

interested in clearing this muck up because at this point it's been more of the same for the last two years from the republicans. >> i am concerned.ep but, ig horowitz.. michael horowitz, the inspector general, gave us an opening in the report on the hillary email scandal and the horrible handling ofof it by the doj and the fbi that has largely escaped liberal media purposefully by the way. at the end of the report he clearly states that you could not eliminate political bias as a reason for the fbi transitioning so quickly from the hillary email investigation into the trump crossfire hurricane investigation. what am i saying here? once this spy gate crossfire hurricane ig report comes out on that, which isn't done yet. i think jim comey is in a world of trouble. he is going to have to answer why they cut out a batch of my faith speech he gave the fact that hillary emailed barack obama on that private email. >> tammy: look. while the house investigations will end because it will be the

democrats, there is still the senate. we still have inspector's general. there is a lot of ways we can go.an and, of course, the fbi documents and classified documents that the president can declassify so americans can see what is going on. dan, thank you so much for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> thanks, tammy. >> tammy: we have a lot of tucker just ahead as ourur inside out issues special continues. middle america turned out big for donald trump in 2016. but many of them stayed home or changed their votes in 2018. tucker will investigate why coming up next.16 ♪ i am a family man.

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live special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" where we go inside the issues. we go to tucker as he tackles america'sn struggling middle class and why some 2016 trump voters turned on the g.o.p. in the midterms. >> donald trump became president two years ago thanks largely to a huge surge of support from the american middle class. they supported him because they are dying as a group the american middle class is shrinking in absolute terms and in many cases dying younger. they reached out to the president to help. but, in 2018, in the midterms we just had last week, a lot of those voters seemed to have drifted back away from the republicans. the house went democratic. republicans lost a bunch of senate races in states that president trump won two years ago. s how did that happen? what should republicans be doing to change it and what should be their positions moving forward? no one has watched more carefully than j.d. vance. he wrote the book "hillbilly elegy."y thanks for coming on.

i know it's been a week and it takes a while to sort these things out. eight days later one of the obvious lessons for republicans from the midterm election? >> so there are two things i point to. the first days, if you look at the 100 wealthiest house districts, 55 of those were democratic after the 2016 election. 73 of them t were democratic after the 2018 election. so one of the take aways is that republicans are continuing to become thewa middle and working class party and democrats are more and more popular among wealthy suburbanites. the second take away that is that the single most unpopular piece of republican legislation in the past couple of years wasn't donald trump's brainchild, and if you trust the media reports, donald trump wasn't even a huge fan of it, and t that was the health care bill that came out of the house republican leadership. poll after poll and person after

person i've talked to, i'm good friends with mike dewine, who eked out a win in the ohio's governor's race, the health care build put a millstone around republicans running in the industrial midwest. it was a a popular piece of legislation, and in some ways i think it is almost better it didn't pass i didn't go into effect causing even more damage down the road. >> tucker: sounds like what you are saying is that republicans as a party need to understand who their constituency is. it's different from what it was a generation ago. it really is the middle class party. maybe they should n i have middle class economic solutions to offer? >> yeah. that's absolutely right, tucker. i think that a lot of folks,y especially the "wall street wing of the republican party don't like to admit and don't like to appreciate thehe fact that the party has definitely shifted in this direction. you have got more and more working class voters voting for republicans like i said more and wealthy suburbanites voting for democrats. to me, what's ultimately causing that is that those voters are

incredibly socially progressive. meaning those wealthy suburban socialites are progressive. what you hear consistently from republican elites is that we need to moderate on the social issues and chart a really libertarian course on the economic issues. if you actually listen to republican voters, what they are saying is something like the opposite. they are socially l lservative. they like the views on immigration. they like the president's views on abortion. what they want us to do is stop hemorrhaging jobs too folks overseas. they want us to win trade wars against mexico and especially the chinese. and that agenda is ultimately, i think, where republican success in the future lies but, like you said, republican elites have t to accept that fact and i think, you know, we should be proud of the coalition that we have and try to build on it as opposed to being ashamed of that fact.ry >> tucker: how do you have a party run by people with the mirror image views of their own voters so the people who run the party are socially liberal and economically libertarian.n. the voters are economic nationalists and social

conservatives. how can they be in the same party? >> the long-term answer may be they may not be in the same party. at the end of the day, the voters have the m power. we saw that in the 2016 election. phe tucker, i'm sure you remember after a few of the6 republican primary debates there were a lot of professional conservatives, a lot of establishment republicans who would go on tv and say this or that thing that donald trump said would eliminate his chances. he blew himself out of the water he will never be the republican nominee. each time he said something he wasn't supposed to say, he got more popular among the republican base. to me, the question is not how do these two groups coexist, the question is do the voters of them i have the power in the republican party? i think the answer is obviously yes. it may take a little while for that to unfold. >> tucker: is it a democracy or not? you are right. that is the deepest question. l u j.d. vance, so smart. thank you. >> thanks, tucker.dv >> tammy: we have lots more from tucker tonight. we'll look at the threat from big tech and china's

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♪ >> tammy: welcome back. you are watching a live special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" inside the issues. we now go back to tucker as he investigates the frightening power of big tech. >> tucker: the man behind the book and the film "clinton cash" exposed the clintons foundation pay for

play relationships with foreign governments has a new film out this time the target is big tech. here's a preview of it. >> they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing by what your followers are presenting. b >> it's what google and facebook are doing on a regular basis. by suppressing stories, by steering us toward other stories rather than the stories we are actually seeking. >> it will always favor one online music service over another and one candidate over another. >> google crosses the creepy line every day. >> tucker: peter schweizer is one of the people behind this new documentary called "the creepy line" and it premiered this week. he joins us on set. thank you very much for coming on.ou so why should we care what google, a private company, is doing? s >> because they have an amazing amount of influence on the consumption of information and news in this country. 80% to 90% of searches are done through google. google not only collects information on us, which

threatens our privacy but they use that information to manipulate us to steer us in directions we don't want to go. it's affecting the voting that's taking place in this country, and some peoplee are arguing is determining the outcome of elections. >> tucker: well, so how could you have a meaningful democracy where the people rule in the face of corporate power this concentrated? >> look the mantra has always been you have got to have an informant electorate. the electorate needs to know what's going on. >> tucker: exactly. >> the problem is if you have voters who are not high information voters but theyly want to vote and they are going to go to google to guide them in the week before an election, and those results are skewed and there is overwhelmingnd academic evidence that they manipulate search results, you're going to have an electorate that is strongly influenced by the result. that undermines democracy. the fundamental problem is that people don't recognize that. they don't understand they are being manipulated and unless something is done about it, the future of the republic is under threat. >> tucker: can't have a t

democracy in those circumstances. just to back up, you said there is overwhelming academic evidence that google manipulates its search results. they deny that. >> yes, they do. here is the interesting thing, tucker. they denied this before. you remember 10 years ago yelp and trip advisors were accusing google to manipulating the algorithm in suppress them and push google related companies. google said absolutely not. these results are organic. we know the federal trade commission the european union and academics at harvard said that's wrong, you were manipulating the algorithm. their defense now is the same when it comes to political speech. the problem is that there has been numerous peer reviewed studies done by robert f. stein and others that clearly demonstrates they are suppressing news stories.in in fact, in the 2016 election, they found in all 10 search results from one through ten, google was suppressing negative stories about hillary clinton and pushing positive stories about and pushing negative

stories about donald trump. this, by a researcher by the way, who was a hillary clinton supporter, not a trump supporter. likeucker: this seems the story of the century. >> yes, huge story. huge story. overlooked because it's confusing. it's difficult to understand. and it's happening behind the curtain. it's "the wizard of oz" behind the iron curtain we are used to thinking about dan rather media bias. makes a snarky comment about george bush. that's visible for everyone to see. this kind of bias is hidden. we don't know what we don't know. and that's what makes it so frightening. >> tucker: it's a remarkable story and documentary. peter schweizer, thank you.inab i appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tammy: more great stuff from tucker. tucker sat down with a u.s. senator to investigate the deadly threat of synthetic drugs from china.se >> tucker: more than 70,000m americans died of drug ods last year, and nearly half of

those overdosedal on synthetic opioids like fentanyl. president trump signed legislation that should make it harder to ship drugs like fentanyl through the mail? will that be enough in the number one manufacturer ofre fentanyl is china. they seem uninterested in affecting the philosophy drugs in our country. it if china killed 30,000 americans by bombing campaigns or invading we might respond differently. senator rob portman one of the few on this topic for a while. he has just introduced legislation. the president just signed it f and he joins us tonight. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> tucker: it is a fair question. 3,000 americans died. in 9/11. we are at war for 17 years. 30,000 died just last year because of this. it seems to be all but unnoticed here in washington. >> i agree. je it's the underreported story out there. it's not that people don't care about it. they do. when i'm home i hear about it all the time and i attend town hall meetings every month. i ask a question how many of have you been directly affected. it's more than half of the callers, 10, 20,000 callers. it's a huge issue. sadly, ohio is one of the

states hardest hit. number one killer fentanyl. two thirds of overdose deaths last year from from fentanyl. it's a synthetic form of opioids, and we know where it's coming from -- china. we know where it's coming in through, and that's the united states postal service, a government agency. so, what we have done over the past three years, we have researched it, we have investigated it, we have put together legislation. it took us too long to get it done because ed there was some push back particularly g from the post office. in fact, there still. all we are asking them to do is to screen packages so that our law enforcement can at least stop some of this poison coming into our communities and raisent the price of this incredibly powerful deadly drug on the streets of our cities of our communities and also reduce the cost. >> tucker: good for you. and bless you for raising it and making noise about it consistently. what can the u.s. do to change its posture toward chinae to put somet pressure on the chinese government to clamp down within country?

>> that's a good question. i met with the chinese ambassador here. i have met with the chinese leadership there. i have raised it consistently. what they have said is two things. one, that they have made some of the precursors, in other words, the chemicals that go into making fentanylf illegal. they have in effect, scheduled them under the way we would do it here. and that they have begun, they say, secondly to crack down on some of these chemical companies producing it. but what they have done has not been effective. it continues to come in.y our investigation indicated that if you send somethinges by the postal service, from china, that it's guaranteed delivery. if you sendt' it through one of the other carriers, say fedex or u.p.s. or dhl, a private care yes, it's not guaranteed. why? because after 9/11 we required all the private carriers to provided a advanced electronic data to law enforcement to be able to identify suspect packages and to be able to stop this stuff coming. we didn't do it for the post office who said you ought to study it and come back to us withtu a report. they never have.

>> tucker: when we have talked about this, guest after guest on this show, the response i get almost every time well it's america's fault because it'sst our users who are consuming these drugs and dying after becoming addicted to them. do you think it's america's fault that 30,000 people are dying of synthetic opioid ods? >> it's both. we have a demand for drug that's insatiable seemingly. we also have this incredibly inexpensive poison coming on to our streets and to our communities. mostly from china. mostly through the postal service. so by reducing that supply, we can impact this. i believe, tucker, that over the last few years we have done a the lot. some with congressional legislation, some with the local level to push back on the opioid crisis and wouldh be seeing progress already but for fentanyl. in other words, it has year overwhelm the system. 4,000% increase in fentanyl overdose deaths in the last fiveen years.

fentanyl was not a big deal when i first gotted started on this but now it is. it has kept us from making the progress we otherwise would have made with prevention, education with more treatment, better recovery programs, more first responders having narcan to save lives that miracle drug that reverses the effects of the overdose. i think we will begin to see some progress if we can stem this flow of fentanyl. t >> tucker: very quick as a matter of public consciousness, how different would this be if this drug were coming from russia rather than china? >> i think coming from anywhere it should be something we care a lot about. >> tucker: i agree with you completely. >> i think we should be tougher and should actually be saying to the chinese in this case, you know, you've got to crack down in your own country, both for our purposes and if you don't as i have told premierly the second ranking liter in china it's going to be in your communities, too. this stuff is so deadly and so addictive that it's something that you should care about as well. >> tucker: senator, thank you very much. >> thanks, tucker. thanks for following this and thanks, you know, for raising the awareness on their. >> tucker: 70,000 people

die, it's worth paying attention to. i think. >> thank you. >> tammy: we have a lot more of tucker ahead as insidehi the issues continues up next. the effect concussions play in the nfl. how corporations are imposing their own brand of gun control on america. miss that want to stay right there. ♪ ♪averlife did you know not all fiber is the same? try citrucel. it gently relieves occasional constipation by absorbing water to make stools easier to pass, without causing excess gas or bloating. help relieve occasional constipation with citrucel.

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former players who says the nfl is fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying out the settlement it agreed to. here's whatme happened. >> tucker: thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. so, i know from watching the national anthem controversy that the nfl as an organization has a deep social conscience and yet i'm finding it hard to square with your allegation that they're refusing to pay players who are injured during service in the nfl.ay am i mischaracterizing that? >> only in the sense that -- no, i think you are characterizing it correctly. i don't think the nfl is in favor of the kneeling. you think they are? >> tucker: no, i'm just mocking because we have seen. >> oh, i gotcha. b >> tucker: they care a lot about people yet if what you are saying is right, it sounds like they are trying to stiff people with grave physical injuries. is thate right? >> yes. they want to look good but not be good. absolutely.

>> tucker: so, i mean, tell us -- give us the overview of what you think is happening here. >> so, in this concussion settlement case, i could talk to you about my players. i have 90 clients. and 95% of my players are african-american. 5% are white. none of them have been paid. i've submitted 41 claims. and 38 of them are in audit for fraud. over 99% of the players that are in audit for fraud are african-american. and i just believe that if this were a group of retired white golfers, they have been paid already. >> tucker: those are claims that are pretty hard to verify unless you have something in writing and i assume you don't. let's get to the physical facts of es it. are these players demonstrably injured? >> yes.s >> tucker: did the nfl know what they were doing posed a physical risk to them for

cte? >> the allegation, the complaint was that they and riddell helmet maker knew the damages they were causing to brains since the 1960s. >> tucker:us huh. >> they settled this case because they didn't want to be subjected to anyy discovery which would prove that out. >> tucker: interesting. why do you think that since the national anthem story has received so much coverage and so many at espn, for example, are taken the side of the players, that so few sports commentators have raised this issue with the kind of vehemence they brought tose the national anthem controversy? i'm a little confused. >> the nfl is very powerful and intimidating to sports broadcasters. they would pull their credentials if they didn't do exactly what the nfl wanted. it's our contention the nfl likes this controversy. it's a patriotic controversy. it shifts the blame from the nfl

to the players, and it shifts the focus from the trouble with football, which is thee causing of these brain injuries and the ruining of men, to rich players kneeling in protest. it gets the public to be mad at the players and not mad at the nfl. >> tucker: is there science on this question? what percentage of nfl players who played for a year or more, really engaged with the league, what percentage sustained permanent brain injury?ea >> well, a single concussion is a traumatic brain injury which would be permanent, so i would say between 99% and 100% of them. ann mckee up at boston university who did the cte neuropathological study also says that the statistics is in the high 90 percentile. >> tucker: what percentage of those see their lives affected negatively by those injuries? >> well, i have players that range in age from 31 all the way up until 70. they are all affected by it they all come in and have the same symptoms, the same

complaints and the same problems it's just where they're on the spectrum. how bad it has gotten. >> tucker: is there any way to stop the progression of this impairment? >> well, there are some studies going on. jupiter medical center down here in palm beach county has hyperbaric chamber program with joe nemeth that seems to be promising that it might work. >> tucker: it's a sad story. thank you very much for sharing with us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tammy: important stuff what's really going on there when we are all distracted by something else, right? our inside the issues continues just ahead with a look how major retailers are going beyond the law and implementing their own o versios of gun control. if that'st. coming up next. stay there. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> tammy: welcome back, everyone, to our inside the issues special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." the shooting in parkland,ns florida, has produced antigunal action across the country. and has not been limited to democratic lawmakers. ordinary retailers are getting involved, as well, and imposing their own form of gun control by the law doesn't even requirehe . fox's hillary vaughn went to investigate this new trend. here's what she found. [cheers] >> this is washington, d.c., the day thousands of antigun protesters flood the capital streets [chanting] >> students joining the march for our lives movement demanding new gun control laws after the mass shooting at stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. >> this is far too much. the fact that we have had all of these mass shootings and that we haven't done anything about it. >> i just would like to see this government do something. >> i do think change is coming.

>> when congress failed to act, activists found a work around. [closing bell] >> wall street. >> in all honesty, it probably is a work around because congress isn't getting much done. >> the idea that wall street could enforce gun control took off. >> business is in this odd place where it has leverage. clearly the banks have leverage. the retail organizations have leverage.rl they show this in the case of parkland. people expect them to use that leverage. >> within days, companies acted. citi group proclaiming all retail clients would be prohibited from selling firearms to buyers under age 21 and pledging to cut off business with customers who sell bump stocks or high capacity magazines. bank of america was next announcing they would no longer offer loans to o manufacturers that make assault rifles. the movement sparking controversy from some in congress like senator john kennedy of louisiana who argued big banks going rogue and creating their own gun control policy actually violates federal law. so, he introduced a bill

blocking banks thatro blacklist lawful industries from receiving government contracts. >> if they got in trouble tomorrow, i guarantee you they would both come to the united states congress, bailout asking for taxpayer money and they wouldn't say oh we only want taxpayer money from people who agree with our gun control.l. they would take everybody's taxpayer money. >> gun control advocates also won major victories at some of the nation's largest retailers. dick's sporting goods announcing cutting ar-15's from inventory at field and stream stores and stopped selling firearms to people under the age of 21 at all 845 of its stores. some businesses started targeting the nra. national car rental, enterprise car rental, even yeti coolers knicksing discounts for nra members. [gunfire] >> the nra says this blacklisting campaign against them has threatened their day-to-day operation. [gunfire] t

>> filing a lawsuit in u.s. district court in new york after they lost insurance coverage saying the push t to ban the gun group has costce them millions of dollars in damages. but joining the trend has also cost some companies millions. in georgia, delta airlines lost a 38-million-dollar tax cut after delta ditched their nra discounts. in louisiana, the bonds commission voted to block citigroup and bank of america from financing a 600-million-dollar highway construction project after they placed restrictions on gun purchases. >> they should be making sound business decisions that their shareholders not trying to be on the right side of what's popular politically. o >> tammy: hillary vaughn joins us now. great job. this is, withau everything going on in the world and elections and everything, this kind of stuff continues more under the radar. when it comes to the banks, they have historically used sometimes their power to affect really to implement discriminatory policies when

it comes to lending. the government has stepped in to stop that kind of dynamic, and yet now there are even republicans suggesting that it's the free market that is causing this. with your investigation, do you agree that this is a normal free market event that's's occurring? >> what i can tell is you that congress is weigh ago crack down on companies going beyond what they see to be somewhat constitutional rights or beyond the scope of federal law. when you see these companiesrpe making their own policy that runs counter to federal law, that's probably going to get them in a little bit of trouble. f we are seeing congress take up that issue. but, what's interesting is that you have to look at what is driving this. this there was a study done by global strategy group that says 81% of americans expect corporations to take action on political issues hours. 24 that's not a lot of time. you also have to look at what millennials and the factor they play in this and social media. there were tons of social media campaigns with #s urging companies to take a stand on issues. blacklisting companies if they don't.

46% of preliminariesli millennials actively research what political stance companies have before they decide to give them their business, but there are critics who look at this and say, where are we headed? is this a sustainable thing to do? that's something that, of course, congress is going to have to look at as well. >> tammy: private business is one thing. then you are dealing with banks as you noted in your piece that gets taxpayer dollars, that are propped up, especially after the mini crash in 2007 and 2008. as they are going against a civil right, right? against a constitutionally protected right is an entirely different dynamic. if you don't like the second amendment, engage politically, right? this is something very different and, yes, extremely worrisome. great job and thanks for reminding everyone of allt the other things going on out there that we need to keep an eye on. >> thanks, tammy. >> tammy: that is hillary vaughn from fox business. today is black friday speaking of retailing and business. f when we return, we will show you the worst cases of shopping frenzy from across the country. ♪

>> tammy: today is the most famous shopping day in >> tammy: today is the most famous shopping day in america, black friday. but instead of getting into the spirit of christmas, some shoppers are being consumed with the spirit of greed. across the country the race to get the best deal occasionally turned into iotright violence. t >> [shouts] >> hey, hey, stop, relax. [bleep] >> hit her in the face? >> yes. >> that's enough. that's enough. >> tammy: look, deals are great. shopping is a fabulous american tradition but it is not worth fighting over. especially in this economy. there is going to be deals everywhere all the time. let's just be nice to one another and then again on monday you have cyber monday. othat's going to be fabulous as well. so good luck out there and be kind o to each other. because we can be. we are americans.

that's it tonight, you guys, for our inside the issues the issues special of "tucker carlson tonight." the regular show resumed on monday and tucker will be back.ne tune in each night at 8:00 to the show that is the sworn enemy of l lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. also don't forget to dvr the show if you haven't already set that up. have a great weekend. "hannity" is next.t. ♪ this special edition of >> judge jeanine: welcome to thisfi special edition of "hannity" law and order in america. first of all, i hope everyone had a very happy thanksgiving. i'm judge jeanine pirro in tonight for sean.. tonight, republicans in congress subpoenaed james comey and loretta lynch but comey vows to resist. more on this explosive story later in the hour. andhe black friday mayhem. we'll show you the wild footage we have got of what pe