midnight heroes. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spend your evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for a brief and shining moment earlier this week, the national press felt a mild pang of conscience for mishandling theer covington high school story sod thoroughly. that moment has passed, a blip on the screen and the press is renewing its attack. giving their accusers a pass. first, a border wall battle, republicans and democrats in the congress held votes on two competing proposals that would have ended the government shutdown, but in theut end, it did not. ed henry was there and as always has the latest.

>> as i've often said, you could try to teach a goat how to climb a tree, but you are better off hiring a squirrel. actually i've never said that before until now.ri that was said by the republican senator, john kennedy. you see him there on the left and i'm quoting the republican senator kennedy who was trying to explain one plan pushed by chuck schumer there. kennedy's point being, we know a squirrel could climb a tree just as we know a wall or a barrier of any kind will provide some a kind of defense, he said the schumer plan would not get the job done on border security because it would open the government without money for any kind of barrier. a half-dozen republicans in the senate including lisa murkowski supported the democratic plan, she said the plan was flawed, but she wants to get the government open. she supported it anyway. joe manchin was the only democrat who broke for his party, he voted for the republican plan by mitch mcconnell that would open the government, but also fund the wall. make changes to daca.

many democrats had previously backed that.al neither plan got 60 votes, we are still stuck. senator kennedy said it is like a scene in pulp fiction, travolta accidently shoots a character named marvin in the backseat. kennedy said federal workers are innocent and they are caught in the crossfire tonight. in fact the president told reporters that he respects those furloughed employees and is now considering a third plan where he would agree to open the government for three weeks and get a down payment on the $5.7 billion for the wall or barrier while they negotiate. he wants the down payment tonight. there are also white househi officials saying in private, he is considering the possibility of finally declaring a national emergency. >> tucker: sounds like they're getting closer to that. ed henry, thank you. what exactly is the democratic border security proposal? would it actually secure the border? we had some time today so we checked and in a word no,

it would not. the democratic bill in the senate that i was just telling you about simply restores previous funding levels for the border patrol and other existing programs. you have to ask yourself when you consider that, was the border secure in december before the shutdown? no, it wasn't. and that is why we why are having this debate right now. how would it be more secure after a bill that doesn't change anything passes? it wouldn't be more secure and that is the point of the legislation, to maintain the broken status quo. let's be honest about that. meanwhile in the house, homeland security committee chairman bennie thompson says he plans to introduce a bill that contains billions for border security but nothing for a wall. thompson has a brand-new idea, he is telling us. he said he can secure the border with the marvels of technology. he told pbs that cutting edge machines can help us "identify those vulnerabilities on the border." thompson's plan can expect enthusiastic support from the congressman from tech land, speaker of the house nancy pelosi. here is her most recent suggestion for the border watch.

>> the positive, shall we say almost technological wall that can be built is what we should be doing. technology to scan the cars coming through the ports of entry, and that is to detect guns, it's like an electronic dog almost to detect drugs, gun, and other contraband. >> tucker: it is really like an electric dog that can detect contraband. on level, that is hilarious. we have laughed about it before, but it is also patronizing. you have to be totally ignorant of what is happening on our southern border to believe that more surveillance is going to solve the problem. we have an awful lot ofor surveillance technology there already: drones, cameras, sensors, radar, dirigibles. we have it there in part because the bush administration put it there. that administration spent more than a billion dollars on something called the secure o border initiative network. they used technology to watch about 50 miles of our southern border.

congressman bennie thompson himself called that program himself a "grave ands expensive disappointment." thompson was right about that. what's changed is that democrats now support grave and expensiven disappointments. they specialize in grave and expensive disappointments. they're pushing one now. that is shortsighted. leaving the politics aside, it's not a good idea because our southern border is one of america's most dangerous vulnerabilities. it is not a talking point. it is literally true and here's why. as of tonight, mexico is an intact country. will it remain an intact country? maybe but maybe not. mexico is a deeply unstable place. it's not an attack on the mexican people. it's an acknowledgment of what anyone who knows anything about the country will tell you. the national murder rate in mexico is five times ours. since 2006 more than 250,000, a quarter million people have been murdered in mexico. that includes hundreds of politicians and judges. there is a war going on there. it is spurred by drug cartels

that reach into the highest levels of the mexican government, not an exaggeration. the attorney general ofst an entire mexican state recently pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. the governor of a state on the u.s. border took bribes to let cartels operate freely,af which they did. then just the other day, mexico's previous previous president was credibly accused at trial in court by a witness taking $100 million bribe from "el chapo" guzman. a in effect, mexico has become a narco state. it is not even the most volatile country in the region. nicaragua is in severe turmoil. that's gets no coverage, but it's reall. parts of el salvador is largelyt controlled by gangs. venezuela meanwhile is literally falling apart. a recent brookings institution report predicted a total collapse of venezuela, which could happen any day, might create 8 million refugees. for perspective, that is more refugees than fled the entire syrian war. keep in mind, that flood of humanity upended all ofha europe.

something similar can easily happen here, to us and it likely will if we ignore the problem, which we are doing. and yet the position of democrats in the congress is that everything is fine and you are nuts if you disagree. nothing needs to be done. that is the definition of recklessness. in fact, it's worse than recklessness. it is like letting your kids play in traffic. you wouldn't do that to peoplele you care about. you would prevent that from happening. democrats have become extremisty on the question of borders, but you would never know that from watching television or reading the paper. the media won't say it. now will most republicans, b by the way. even in the trump administration, some officials seem intent on making nancy pelosi's case for her. the republicans are the real extremists here. here's what commerce secretary wilbur ross said today when he was asked about workers who aren't being paid during the shutdown. >> people might have to payd a little bit of interest. but the idea that it's paycheck or zero is not a valid idea. there have been ads run by

a number of the public sector credit unions. those have announced very low interest rate loans to bridge people over the gap. >> tucker: so more debt? more interest payments? that is the solution? no, it is not. those are the last things that most americans need. that was an idiotic thing to say. look for wilbur ross's words to be aired every day for the next three years on cnn. they know a propaganda win when they see one. it is a shame and it is also a distraction because it doesn't change the nature, the fundamental nature of this crisis. our borders remain b vulnerable, and the stakes are higher than they've ever been thanks to thet chaos just south of them. leaders who cared about this country would be staying up late trying to fix that problem.. democratic leaders are trying to make it worse. that is the bottom line truth. enrique acevedo is an anchor with univision and he joins us tonight. thank you for joining us.

there is actual chaos, i don't need to tell you because you cover the region in latin america. in mexico, it is ongoing, in salvador it is going on, nicaragua it is been going on for more than a year. in venezuela, it is boiling over. brookings says we can have 8 million refugees which would come not only to the united states, but neighboring countries. a lot of them would come here and have come here. why shouldn't we be taking stept to control the border? >> i think we have for the past half a century. the problem here is not border security, the problem is that border enforcement has become the only strategy. not part of a more comprehensive strategy in the u.s. we are suffocating the border by investing billions of dollars and making it one of the most, i would argue, the most guarded region in the entire world. taking the data and the numbersi the security presence in the

u.s., mexico border. it is like the one we have between north and south korea in terms of manpower. the border is secure as it's ever been. >> tucker: i'm just laughing. this is cable news. we don't have an hour. let me just say, if you are interested, look up what you just heard, it's invalid. u >> the manpower we have of the border -- >> tucker: here's the point. nobody makes an argument against immigrants, i am for them. we have over 20 million in our country whose identities we can't ascertainat because they are hee illegally. my point is about what could happen, not what's already happening. 8 million people could be displaced and moving ov north. if you had 100,000 people forming in tijuana, you couldn't control them. they would swarm the border. that is a real thing that does happen all over the world, it happened in latin america!

brazil has militarized its border. are they racist for doing that? >> they are taking venezuelan refugees, the neighboring countries, around 3 million. you are saying 8 million people. 3 million people have already left venezuela and they aree in neighboring countries. that is really unlikely. >> tucker: it is deeply destabilizing to countries that border venezuela because mass migration -- it doesn't mean the people are bad, i would do the same thing. i would get out of venezuela today, i get it!sa the bordering countries have a right to determine who comes into their country, it affects them.de look at what has happened to europe in the wake of the syrian civil war. in the face of this, it is happening right now and you and the other lunatics are telling us, it is just wrong to secure your border. on what grounds are you saying that? >> i've always said this on your show, we agree on this.

the u.s. has every right to secure its border. we don't agree on the strategy. you want to keep spending w billions of dollars in militarizing the border, want to spend millions of dollars in trying to seal the border, let's spend more money on the root causes of immigration. prepare for the humanitarian crisis we are facing, the new reasons why people are doing that.re >> tucker: i can't keep up. very quickly, let's isolate one thing. we need to spend money on the root causes. the root cause of what i think is imminent emigration from venezuela to here is the collapse of the government. what should we do? seriously. >> first of all i think, the contingents of venezuela come here legally, with visas. >> tucker: you said we need to discuss the root problem, that is the root problem. the maduro government is collapsing.

>> it's a good first step. >> tucker: what could we do about it? >> i know he's been manipulating the negotiations for half a century.s >> tucker: should we send troops there? >> i don't think a military intervention -- with the history. you are talking about central america, nicaragua and other countries. most of the refugees are coming from. it has to do in large part with a history of u.s. intervention. >> tucker: you're kind ofke undercutting your argument. you are saying the u.s. has to get involved in these latin countries -- >> not militarily. >> we send them a lot of money and it hasn't helped at all. we need to send them more money and they will stop coming here? are you making that argument? >> the reasons for people that are fleeing is different from central america. >> tucker: why not build a freaking wall and call it a day? >> if you want to talk about venezuela, diplomats, american

diplomats are remaining behind despite grave danger without being paid and that is truly heroic. if you want to talk about venezuela and the reasons for people fleeing, finding a peaceful solution to the conflict would help. the trump administration has played a positive role. >> tucker: that is not our country, and this is our country. i don't like the idea that you can be invaded and you are not allowed to do anything about it. >> look how well that has worked in the case of venezuela.d all over the world is backing the u.s. maybera the trump administration will learn that it works -- >> tucker: i will get the last word. if the rest of the world is backing it, it has to be bad for the u.s. that is a fair assumption. > i don't think so. >> tucker: i think so. after a very brief period,

instantaneous, the press is renewing its defensive against the dangerous catholic school children in kentucky, they must be suppressed. we will show you evidence after the break.

♪ >> tucker: the media's war against the menacing children of covington catholic continues tonight. the moment of regret has been forgotten entirely. yesterday on "the today" show, they questioned the terrified student nick sandmann. they suggested he had attacked a grown man nathan phillips by

not bowing down or running away. >> there is something aggressive standing there, standing your ground..iv >> tucker: don't just stand there. it is aggressive. today, that same anchor overst at nbc interviewed phillips, tho native american elder you've been hearing so much about. that anchor had no shortage of material to asking about his numerous false statements, which he has made on tape. his misrepresentation of his military record or this interview in which philip describes a group of passive, stationary children as a "lynch mob." >> the same faces at d.c. were the same faces of the youth that were surrounding the young black woman who was trying to get an education, the scorn and the scowls in the pictures there. the same pictures of when you see pictures of lynchings, the same pictures of folks were doing the lynchings. that is what these young people's faces look like.

>> tucker: this is becoming a society that speaks almost exclusively in cliches, that is a sign of decline. in the case of the tape we just saw, that was false, totally misleading and slanderous and lies like that will hurt these kids for life. maybe phillips could have beenen asked about that, but no, he got the softness interview network television has done since the princess di. watch this. >> he does wish that he had walked away. was that enough for you? do you think he should have apologized? >> i would be way down on the list of people he needs todo apologize to. >> did you hear anybody say, build that wall? it isn't audible on the clip, did you hear that? >> you know, i did hear that. i have seen some out there on the internet, where there's -- you can hear them saying that.

build that wall. >> how did you feel in that moment? did you yourself feel threatened? >> tucker: joe concha writes about media for "the hill" and joins us. i know the anchor you just saw was very nice, she is a nice person. that's is not journalism. that is nauseating, why didn't some producers say, you have to do a real interview at some point? this is a new story, do a news interview. i why weren't they willing to do that? >> or after the fact when nathan phillips said, i saw videos where you could hear the students chanting build thataw wall nbc news need to go back and review all the tapes and then once they come to the conclusion with every other news organization, no one has heard anyone chanting, build that wall. they have to tag it out, nbc news cannot verify what nathan phillips was saying. you're right about that being a softball interview. he was asked by savannah guthrig in the beginning, how are you doing? how are you feeling? how can you ask if you're savannah guthrie, the

self-awareness to justou know tt if you asked the 15-year-old kid that was exonerated by all those videos if he should apologize, how do not ask nathan phillips that same question? that is what people at home want, some consistency. you ask him to apologize and then you have to ask nathan phillips to apologize as well. >> tucker: conservatives spend a lot of time talking about how tough the media is, i don't mind when journalists are tough.a we never point out the real crime which is, they go soft on everybody else.gh everything's soft focus, just disgusting. >> the soft part, you are right about that. "the new york times" today did a full feature on black israelites, they were at no point referencing the homophobic slurs, the racist slurs and then juxtapose this with dan leven, "the new york times" reporter who tweeted out, "i'm a new york times reporter, are you in your

20s or younger at went to the christian school? i would like to hear how that impacted your life. do think he is going in with a nefarious agenda? you can paint any institution if you solicit enough people is a horrible place. whether it's a public school, private school, hebrew school, muslim school. this reporter's going to present a story that's going to be seen as objective by his editors to readers who won't know better to take down the catholic institution? expose christian schools. i don't word use this word oftt it's discussing for reporter to do this. >> tucker: i agree with that. thank you very much. you don't want to be a young man in america right now and that, again, is not hyperbole. look at the numbers. their economic prospects are worse. the education system is built to favor girls, and now their entire sex is routinely attacked with smears about toxic masculinity or their evil smiles. t

how do parents respond? let's say you have a son. what do you do exactly? melissa braunstein has thought a lot about this. she's a senior contributor to "the federalist." she's excellent, and she joins us tonight. this is a real question for those of us who have boys.el how do you respond to a culture that hates them for being boys? >> that's one thing i'm starting to figure out. we have three girls and we had our first son last fall. so we are new to the whole boy thing. but it is a huge question on my mind at this point because it became very apparent to me last year when i was pregnant and starting to think about these things that our culture is sending very different messages about being a girl in america and being a boy. my daughters are constantly told they can be whatever they want to be and whoever they want to be, which i applaud. >> tucker: me too. >> i feel like the messages being sent towards my son are much more negative and narrow. he's being already warned even at the size of a doll, that b toxic masculinity is an issue. to me, this is so ridiculous

that we are pigeonholing boys into this category. everyone is terrible. and girls, we are somehow able to recognize everyone is an individual. >> tucker: the effects are failure, suicide, drug addiction. you can see it in the numbers. this is actually a crisis, for real. >> yes. >> tucker: what do you do?. >> it is important in terms of boys, making sure they have positive male role models, especially fathers, to have engaged and involved fathers as much as possible. if not for whatever reason, people in the community that the boys can look up to who are demonstrating positive leadership role models behaviors whether it is being a scholar or teacher, a warrior, or any other of an array of things just to make sure that boys know there are wonderful ways to be a man. masculinity is not toxic, and there is no reason to be ashamed or to feel sidelines. >> tucker: the way you are is not a crime. it might be worth repeating that

to them. good luck. good luck raising your boy. he is lucky to have three sisters. >> thank you. >> tucker: thank you. big tech is becoming much more like big brother every day. china is leading the way on that. mark steyn has thought this through. what will our country look like in a hundred years from now? what about two? he joins us after the break.

♪ >> tucker: modern technology is supposed to make our lives easier and freer, increasingly though some suspect the gadgets we use every day are becoming tools to control us. a recent piece in wired magazine is worth reading, it captures this phenomenon. it describes what is happening in china right now under its social rating system. the lead of the piece, "a friend of mine who runs a television company in los angeles recently noticed an intern, an inspiring filmmaker

from china was walking to work. he offered to arrange a swifter mode of to transportation, she declined. he asked why and she explained that she needed the steps on her fitbit to sign into her social media account. i if she fell below the right number of steps, it would lower her health and fitness rating and that is part of her social rating which is monitored by the government of china.t a low social rating prevents her from working or traveling abroad." that is what is going on there. author and columnist mark steyn joins us tonight. i'm not paranoid by temperament, but it seems like this regime in the world's most populous country might be getting more attention than it does in this country. it is getting no attention and that makes me nervous. why do you think our press is ignoring this? >> i think you are right to be nervous.s. two centuries ago, the democracy

in america had this question,ri he said theoretically in europe the king wielded absolute power. in practice he couldn't do much. he's in his palace. an emissary might show up at your door and give you a hard time about something, for the rest of the time you've gone on with your life undisturbed by his absolute power. he wondered what would happen if the administrative stateoi evolved to the point where it could control every aspect of social life and individual existence. with three companies, amazon, google, youtube, facebook, we are now seeing dangerous signs in china, in europe, and in the united states of the alliance between big government and big tech. big government plus big tech

does equal big brother 24/7. >> tucker: what are the ways -- presumably like everything these things start in subtle ways, the fitbit example from the people's republic of china doesn't seemn' at first blush, authoritarian, they are not forcing that, they want you to be fit. cardio health is really important and if you want health insurance, you'll get your steps. but that is authoritarian. >> yes, it is. i think it is worth thinking about how quickly our thinking has evolved on this. if you remember after 9/11, the left made a huge fuss because president bush was supposedly monitoring what library books people checked out from the public libraries. not a lot of people actually check out books in public libraries. the library system is dying. as we objected to that just 15 years ago, we are now completely okay with the fact that everybody wears an electronic

ankle bracelet that lets people know where you are on the planet any hour of the day. that is the thing that we used to call the telephone.ne the telephone now tracks your movements and the three companies that are the principal repositories of that, for example amazon's deal with the cia and the nsa. google's design of a knowledge and access to knowledge compliance with the chinese politburo. in europe, angela merkel and emmanuel macron meeting with facebook to decide how the bounds of free speech that facebook will permit during its election seasons. the left and what is left of the noninternet media are absolutely silent on this and the threat it represents.

>> tucker: when the governor of new york says, if you dare to oppose me, you can't do business in the state of new york, you can't bank. that's when he had done to the nra in the state of new york. why wouldn't that be universal? >> i think that is right, we talk about amazon for example, they started off as an online book competitor with borders and then bought out borders as a business. it is now becoming essentially a retail outlet, a one-stop retail outlet for the world. we talked a couple of weeks agoo about the way that these companies are now developing an alternative to money. people think, it seems a -- ostensibly quite sensible to say let's give up checkbooks and paper money. but essentially what that means is that every time you spend $4 on a cup of coffee at starbucks, that the state actually knows where you are and that

transaction. we now live in an age where big brother is following you and unlike george orwell, we have largely accepted that. >> tucker: why were the luddites wrong? they'll be the topic next week.l mark steyn, great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: last year criminal justice policies changed dramatically in philadelphia after a new d.a. took office, he was backed by george soros, a massive scale back of law enforcement in the city. prosecutors stopped seeking cash bail for even some felonies, shorter shorter prison sentences. what happened? cause and effect? the most murders in a decade. we spoke recently with the president of? philadelphia's fraternal order of police, and here's what he told us. thank you very much for joining us tonight. philadelphia got a new district attorney as we just said with

the backing of george soros. he made changes to the way that crimes are prosecuted in philadelphia. what was the result? >> the result, this time last year the crime was through the roof. over the last year, there's been 6,500 less cases on the criminal justice center. crime is up. 4,000 felons on the streets running the city of philadelphia. everybody's pointing the finger to police officers, to the police commissioner. the fact of the matter is thats we are doing a job, he has decimated the philadelphia district attorney's office. he has a great disdain for law enforcement. he let go many prosecutors his first weekend, 31 to be exact. there's a 30% turnover rate, all that while we are trying to protect the community. >> tucker: an ideologue comesat in with left-wing backing and

guts the criminal justice system, crime rises on the police got blamed for it? is that what you are saying? >> everybody's pointing the fingers, what is the police going to do? the fact of the matter is, we have officers out there arresting people on a dailyf basis and they walk out the back of police stations.ti he is cutting deals with defense attorneys. he is cutting deals -- a couple weeks back, a felon who had 14 priors, he goes into a store and shoots the owner withp an ak-47 and he cuts a deala wh that victim.m. -- without the victim knowing. that's insane and it's not happening once or twice. it's happening so many times now thate the judges in the city of philadelphia are getting wind of it and they are starting to check and double-check and triple check these deals. >> tucker: what is the motive here to the extent that we know? why would an attorney want to let felons out of prison and give lighter sentences to people

who commit violent gun crime? why?n >> he was previously a defense attorney. he filed before taking office and i think he is turningg the district attorney office into a defenders association. i think he forgot the oath that he had taken to uphold the law and enforce the law in a city. he was prior a defense attorney and sued the city in the philadelphia police department over 70 times during his tenure. on top of that, he now has a do-not call list where he has ten officers, a few hundred officers on this list and i don't know how -- or he is not explaining how officers get on that list or ged off that list. what is the just because of being put on the list. he's running his own show on it's like a carnivall act. >> tucker: what is the effect on the poor neighborhoods? >> it is not, everybody is catching wind now. it is not just the victims of

these crimes, although that is very important because he is not letting them know anything. now it is the community that are seen people run rampant in the neighborhoods, shoot at each other whether it is poor, whether it's affluent, doesn't matter. it is across the city of philadelphia.ia they are not picking and choosing. we all are for reform and we are open-minded. the fact of the matter is, when you let 4,000 felons out on the streets, they are not going bacw and getting jobs anywhere that make any sense. they are back out doing whattt they did to put them in jail. that is hurting the community. >> tucker: the enemies of civilization. thank you very much for telling us what is going on inin philadelphia.ch i appreciate it. >> you got it. >> tucker: thanks. time for "final exam," can you beat the experts? t how is your short-term memory? c find out after the break. ♪

♪ >> tucker: the world has gone crazy obviously. we have a safe space for you. we call it "final exam," the game where experts face off o against one another to determine who has paid the closest attention to the news this week. the reigning champion is fox correspondent lauren blanchard. her challenger, sean duffy of

wisconsin, who defeated his own wife last week, who is also a contributor. lauren had the week off for training. do you feel rested and ready? >> i hope it will give me an advantage, these are two returning champions. >> tucker: you know the rules but i will restate them. hands on buzzers, i ask the questions and the first one to buzz in answers the question. you must wait until i finish asking the question until you answer. you can answer once i acknowledge you by saying your name. every correct answer gets you one point. lose a question and a point is retracted from your total. a are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> tucker: these are tough. i didn't know the answers. question one, this is a multiple-choice question. amazon's newest delivery system is a four wheeled robot that will bring your package to the door. that is what america needs. what is the robot's name?ll a, rover.

c, scout. >> it's scout. it is a little blue box. >> tucker: is it scout?t. ♪ >> amazon will use robots to deliver packages. the size of a cooler, they roll on sidewalks. they are designed to navigate around people and pets. >> tucker: unbelievable. it looks better than a clay pigeon. i bet 12 gauge sales will spike. , rry. thought experiment. question two, if you thought life couldn't get better than it is now, you are wrong. which fast food chain is now selling a scented candle that will make your whole house smell like gravy? >> kfc. they have the yule log and now this. >> tucker: the thing about your answers, they are very definitive. is she right? >> see capitalism at work, kfc announcing a gravy scented candle to fill your home with

that "incredible aroma of kfc gravy." >> i have studied very hard all week. i read a lot of news. >> i had no idea. >> tucker: this is a very tough one. we will see if you know this. >> is this multiple-choice? >> tucker: this is multiple-choice. we have to have an animal question. here it is. the craziest video of this week shows an angry animal chasing a group of snowboarders on a mountain in colorado. what kind of animal? a, moose. b, mountain lion. or c, a black bear? >> it would be a moose. >> tucker: a moose? i would've guessed a mountain lion. is it a moose? >> a moose is on the loose g and charges at skiers and snowboarders. look at this video! the giant animal chasing a group

in aspen, colorado. they say it followed them for half a mile. >> [laughs] >> tucker: they will kill your dog, by the way. they are the most dangerous. keep your dog away.. question 4, this is a tough one. there was a rare cosmic events a few nights ago and seea around the world.gh a super moon passed through the earth's shadow during a eclipse. it turned it a deep red. that was the name of this cosmic devent? >> it is a super blood wolf moon. doesn't that sound intense? >> tucker: is it like a double t rainbow? >> the super blood wolf moon. >> is that correct? >> incredible images of last night's total eclipse, known as

the super blood wolf moon. the rear cosmic event happened as a super moon. sunlight passing through theph earth's atmosphere turned the moon a rusty, brick red. >> you think the astronomy community as stayed t and germanic. they are pretty groovy. final question, we will wrap things up with one more multiple-choice. you can score a moral victory. if you're one of those people who can't put down your iphone, even for a moment, you are lucky. the new invention lets users do two things at once with the phone that is physically connected to their... a fork, hair dryer, coffee cup. >> it is a spoon and a fork. you can put it onto the case and scoop and eat. >> tucker: i don't know if you're reading the questions or not.nt is that true? what is the answer? >> a new phone case comes with a spoon and a fork attachment.

>> i did it. you don't even have to go hunting for a spoon or a fork. while you're busy tweeting. >> tucker: congressman, i still think you're the smartest member ofk congress. >> you are awesome. i'm not worthy.on >> tucker: if you get flattened by this 18-wheeler, you don't need to be embarrassed. i would be too. there is no chance. still the smartest in congress. you are a start. here's another erik wemple mug drink your coffee with joy. >> it doesn't say much for congress. >> tucker: that is that, thank you both.gh this week's final exam, play close attention to the news this week and tune in next thursdayis and see if you can beat our experts. we will be right back.

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♪ ♪ your plastic bags, then they came for the plastic straws. sense a theme here? if it is an organic polymer and it makes your life easier, california is against it. the latest example, the city of berkeley is targeting the single-use plastic and paper cups. having solved every other problem in town. the city council passed an ordinance that would require all businesses to charge customers $0.25 for the privilege of using a disposable cup. greg gutfeld uses disposable cups, he also hosts "the greg gutfeld show," he joins us tonight. greg, this signifies, laws like

this, the victory over the more prosaic problems that most cities face, like bad roads or crappy schools, obviously berkeley has already fixed those. >> yes, i love how they always do the samething. they never try to figure out who this might help or hurt. because who uses paper cups? generally working-classes going to get a cup of coffee on the street, they never examine the consequences of their actions etbecause none of their actions would be adopted, because they are so terrible! there is no proof that this theft -- it is theft -- will help the planet. you look at recycling, for example, none of -- most of the recycling, separating in bins, now we find out most of the bins end up in landfills because nobody is actually buying it. think of all of the time couldld have been better spent drinking. inside, we're sitting there, i absolutely hate it. i am for recycling, as you know if you watch "the five," you

hear my talking points over and over again, but it is economical. recycling is expensive, and it doesn't contribute to a betteric planet.nd neither does taxing the working class. so it can make you feel better. again, this is another virtue signal, tucker. it is a symbolic action that does no good. >> tucker: isn't it also incredibly frivolous? if you have a child, and i think our leaders should care about us as we care about our children, a child addicted to drugs and failing out of school, a pregnat in the seventh grade, the real problem is, i don't like the shoe laces, isn't that missing the point? >> these are easy things to tackle. there is a weird inclination to ban things. they mistake banning for productive action, when in fact it limits more freedom. let's look at the plastic straw. did they think about what that did to the disabled? the disabled need plastic straws, and they didn't think

about that.e because they thought it is polluting, there is an interesting fact. 95% of all the plastic waste inn the oceans comes from ten rivers, eight are in asia, two in africa. america is not polluting these oceans, it is other countries. yet we are doing this, harming the segment of the society that needs these plastic products. i actually gave you some hard news! >> tucker: you did, and i'm trying to digest it. if that is true, and i'm taking your claims on faith -- >> i made it up. >> tucker: i don't have the google machine in front of me, why wouldn't we say something te the countries that are actually polluting the environment? why can't we be mad about that? >> because that is no fun. it is no fun, tucker. we have to be in this left-wing universe, especially in the media, we are the oppressors. no matter what. we are at fault, we have to pay these indulgences. when you find out it is china or

the philippines, even brazil is more polluting plastics in the ocean than we are, then it is no use.olea you can't use it politically against the united states, so why bother? >> tucker: it goes back to the root cause, which is self hatred. t i don't hate myself, i would like to opt out of this system. >> i hate you enough for you. >> tucker: you do! you got us both covered. greg gutfeld, thanks for being with us tonight. >> i wish i could say that to you. >> tucker: more tech news, twitter recently cut down a parody account, called "beto's blog," it consisted of fake diary entries from the democratic front runner roberthe beto o'rourke. we don't know if they've complained about the twitter account, but the entries were spine tinglingly embarrassing. the kind of crap you wrote in freshman year after breaking up with your girlfriend after discovering marijuana. pretty amusing. here's a a selection. "i've been stuck lately in and

out of a funk. my last day of work was january 2nd, it has been more than 20 years since i was lastha nott working. maybe if i get moving, on the road, meet people, learn about what is going on where they live, have some adventure, go where i don't know and i'mha not known, i'll clear my head space, reset, i'll think new thoughts, break out of the loops i have in stuck" -- by the way, no periods in that sentence, just commas. or this, "ate at the girl, was last there in august of 2017, green chili cheeseburger. the table over asked if i was e to." my favorite, "found crab claws, maybe left by a bird, walked out on a pier. looked out, took some pictures, leaned over, scooped up water and washed my face. picked up beer cans that someone had left." and so on like that, hilarious stuff, but you can see why beto -- those those are actual quotes from beto's real online account. in other words, we couldn't make it up.

that's it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow night, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we have a surprise for you tonight. one night only, 9:00 p.m., sean hannity live from new york is next. >> sean: tucker, great to see you, great show, as always. thank you. welcome to "hannity." your way of life in this country is under attack. the crisis at our southern border is real, dangerous, and serious. on monday, border patrol agents apprehended over 100 central climbans attempting to over a section of the border wall. this in yuma, arizona, and meanwhile, radical far left socialists have taken control of the democratic party. they used to support border security, now it is about free markets, private industry, the american dream vilified by many members on the left. and the hate-trump media, along with their friends in hollywoodf literally want to block you -- i know this is almost hard to believe, the american people,