>> i can't believe he fell asleep next to melania. >> that's a big no-no. >> we'll see you back tomorrow night. tucker is up next. >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president delivered his second state of the union address last night. hit a panoramic range of topics. everything from economic growth to childhood cancer. notable what esaid was, more interesting was the reaction he got. even on -- you expect to find some bipartisan agreement, record low black unemployment and unexpected energy boom that made us independent. democrats sat in angry silence. watch this response to the suddenly controversial suggestion that it's wrong to

kill children. >> i'm asking congress to pass legislationing to prohibi pro-- legislation to prohibit lat late-term abortion. >> tucker: for democrats, only flashes of cheerfulness came when president noted record number of women won election. democrats stood and cherried for themselves. some of them danced. we'll have more details from the speech in a minute. first tonight, we have still more news to bring you from that chaotic developing nation formallformally known oz as comh

of virginia. it seem to come out of nowhere just last week. first you remember democratic governor ralph northam casually endorsed legalizing abortion. hours after he said that, northam was found to have a picture of man wearing a klu klux klan uniform in black face on his med school year page. almost the entire democrats called on him to resign. among vocal was attorney general of volunteers mark herring. he was apaul-- appalled. then today herring admitted he appeared in black face. it was business casual for democrats in virginia. will reherring resign? will party leaders asking him to

resign. lieutenant governor justin fairfax. far fakes thought he -- fairfax thought he would replace ralph northam as governor. vanessa tyson said fairfax sexually assaulted her. at the time, fairfax was a body man for disgrace senator john edwards because the details here too perfect. tyson came forward. when she did, according to two sources, fairfax first response to the story from tyson was quote, f. that [ bleep ]. it's not feminist reaction. now lieutenant governor -- tyson released a highly detailed account what she said happy to -- happened to her.

it's all online it makes for realing if you care to read it. for democrats, the response to all of this ought to be really obvious because they went through something amazingly similar a few minutes ago. another professor from california accused of another public figure of far less serious crimes with far fewer corroborating details. democrats know they have to believe all women. they have told uglies that countles-- us acountless times e about vanessa tyson. watch presidential candidate cory booker, dismissed tyson completely today as unimportant. watch this. >> i think beshould be focusing on what's happening with the governor. you know you guys will focus on lot of things. my focus is on calling for the governor to step down. >> tucker: booker got better

things to focus on than some girl in california who's alleging sexual assault. cory backer will be disgusted by the cory booker you saw. back then sexual politics seem more important than race politics. now it's the other way around. never-ending car crash of intersectionalty. here's reminder. >> how we deal with survivors who come forward now is unacceptable. the way we deal with this allows for the continued darkness of this culture to exist. your brilliance shining light under this speaking your truth is nothing short of heroic. >> tucker: short of heroic then, it was a light in the darkness of our culture, cory booker, because, he's an incredibly good person. he went to yale. he was gong to shine to make this a better society. now, who cares about this woman?

will she shut up already. what did you make of this attitude. rob thank you for coming on. i'm little bit someone who sat figuratively at the feet of cory booker to learn how to be a good person to achieve the kind of enlightenment he has. i'm surprised by the abrupt change of tone. you're a hero coming forwards with allegations of sexual assault and shut up hundre -- h. >> that's really terrible. as you said in the lead up to the selling s -- segment, we just went through this with judge kavanaugh. democrat they need to be consistent with their message. i was consistent with judge kavanaugh, said these entitled to due process, innocent until

proven guilty. i think these allegations should be taken seriously. i'm glad the democratic party of virginia is taking him seriously. does he need to be removed, i said no. he's entitled to due process. it's not looking good in virginia. >> tucker: it's not looking good in virginia. what is all the black face? serious question, there are democratic leader who saying we are taking it seriously. how many have called vanessa tyson? i do believe in due process. fairfax could be innocent. when these allegations were made against republicans you saw democratic senators, call out the person making the allegations. booker said, you're heroic.

are they calling vanessa tyson saying that? >> no, they ought to be. it doesn't matter what side the aisle you're on. these are human issues and they are very serious ones. no, it's not enough people are coming forward to say this is a serious allegation. it should be investigated. the lieutenant governor said he's open to being investigated. let's see how far that goes. >> tucker: i don't know the truth. i wouldn't presume to claim otherwise. i did read the detailed account of vanessa tyson. i don't know anything about her other than her cd, she's got ph.d. from chicago. >> i understand that she just hired the same attorney as christine blasey ford.

>> tucker: if we're for due process, why we're demanding that ralph northam, whom i think should resign, on the question his yearbook page, before we even whether it was him in the picture, people were saying he should resign to offer an explanation. that's not exactly due process is it? >> here's where the tipping point was for me. he said that it was him in the photo. then he backtracked. he's a public servant. he lost the public trust. once you lose the public trust, it's just over. he's got to go. i have some -- i don't know if i take this seriously, i understand that he's seriously changing parties to an independent because he's lost so many friends on the democratic side. i might believe that. they got some serious issues. it's going to have ramifications

for my party. >> tucker: i agree. there are no friends in politics. only allies. what do you make of this character, herring, who's the chief law enforcement officer of the state, he said that northam need to resign. wait a second, i guess like a democrats in virginia, he wore black face too. why shouldn't he resign as well? >> he called for the governor to do the same. which blows in my mind. he knew this photo was out there. to his only credit, his only redeeming quality here, he told us this himself. perhaps, you can make the argument that he hasn't lost the public trust because he came forward with this information. he dressed up as his favorite rapper, curtis blow. that was 1980. i'm more concerned for the youth of today. you and i, we didn't have camera phones. i'm concerned about the youth of today with the technology.

>> tucker: not to brag anything, i wasn't wearing black face -- i'm waiting for cory booker to wailing in on -- weigh in on that herring guy. there's a republican if line after him. great to see you. thank you. what does the vanessa tyson story tell us about the current standards among class for allegations of sexual assault? it's a real question. important one. you're watching it unfold, three different stories, three different standards, for the rest of us, eating popcorn with jaws open, what are we conclude? >> tucker, i think it's very concerning when i see the rank of hypocrisy among the so called leaders in our country, hollywood, democrats and the

senate judiciary member who went after kavanaugh and said #i believeher. we always believe the woman. we believe her instantly. that is not happening here. the silence is deafening. i really am appalled by it. >> tucker: what do you think it accounts for? it was pretty unequivocal. for the record, i thought that kavanaugh deserved due process. i don't think we should believe all women. that's insane. people lie. that's why due process matters. i want to be clear. democrats were as clear that we automatically believe wimp what accounts for the change? >> looks like politics to me, tucker. as a prosecutor, you have to look at things neutrally no matter who the person is that you're considering prosecution. when you look at the allegations against justice kavanaugh and allegations against lieutenant fairfax, you have to look at

them with the same eye. that is for me as a prosecutor, would i bring this case, does this make a prosecutable case, are the allegations credible? what do both parties say? that is not what is happening today with dr. tieson's -- dr. tie soon' tyson's allegatio. >> tucker: if we politicize, people feel like they can't go to authorities. that's pretty clos corrosive. >> when you say thing likable all well, other side is saying there's something wrong with her because she didn't come forward many years ago. which is common, it shows victims they can't trust anyone. that's my biggest concern.

when victims come forward and many study have shown that survivors delay reporting abuse for years or even decades. we are telling them that they should never come forward. we can't have that as a nation if we expect to protect survivors and prosecute abusers. >> tucker: it's a fair points. nonpartisan point. thanks a lot for that. president last night attacked socialism in his speech to the congress. he praised the energy sectors. democrats weren't impressed at all. they like to eliminate energy sector in 12 years. barack obama top economic advisor is here to assess all this after the break. - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged

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>> tucker: socialism is in the news first time if a long time. they have pretty famous for calling for socialism in this country. the president userd his state of the union last night to respond to them directly. here's part of it. >> we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. we are born free and we will stay free. tonight, we renew our resolve

that america never be a socialist country. [applause] >> tucker: darn said bernie sanders. he wasn't impressed. he sat. democratic party is actually lot more divided. senator chuck schumer of new york -- it was more agreement from democrats on the question of america's energy sector which is the strongest most important part of our economy. they are opposed to the whole thing. >> the united states is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy.

[applause] >> tucker: that means that after a century of unstabled middle eastern country who hate us and support terrorism, america is all what we wanted to be. energy independent. democrats are upset about that. you just watched them. they are proposing to shut the whole thing down, the entire energy sector in a dozen years. ban oil, ban coal, ban natural gas. how is that for a platform? i'm confuse by this. i understand that there are some forms of energy that people find preferrablely to others. that's totally fair. the united states is now by some measures the biggest energy

producer in the world. no longer dependent on middle east oil. this was the goal we were striving for. we achieved it. democrats looked mad about that. why? >> well, i don't believe that democrats are mad about that. the growth of oil and gas in the revolution long predated president trump. >> tucker: it's not about trump. i'm not saying trump invented fracking. this was a bipartisan goal. i heard chuck schumer talk about it. we have to get off the middle eastern oil dependency that's forcing us to finance terrorism. we've done it, they hate it. >> it's not that it's bad. you're confusing two types of energy. one is about oil and fuels that are used in cars and transportation and other is about electricity and generation of the electricity, which is about the use of coal, natural

gas and there's been a huge increase in wind power and solar and lot of renewable sources. all of those things, the wind, solar, hydropower, those are in the united states. the allegation we're talking about throwing out the window, progress we made towards self-sufficiency is not correct. >> tucker: i'm reading the plan for the green new deal which is available online. it's insane and anti-american. here's what it says. we need if get rid all fossil fuels in 12 years. that would 19 n 19 -- that wouln no cars. that the position that lots of democrat have endorsed. you know that i'm telling the truth. that's crazy. you know it. >> that sounds extreme. i know a you have selectively chosen one. there are many different green new deal plans.

you have chosen a you feel is the most extreme. you're saying, -- >> tucker: i'm not saying every democrat agree with that. i think most democrats don't agree with that. they don't have the courage to say to the rising stars in the party, like a.o.c. and bernie. only tiny percentage of our power is produced by renewable. >> is your view tucker that we should therefore, not do anything to support or promote clean energy sources in the united states? that is the position of president trump and the white house. >> tucker: i'm saying there's a plan that has been discussed in some detail on "meet the press" that calls for eliminating the entire fossil fuel industry in 12 years. this is a real thing in heart of

the democratic party. >> if you take the subway, i'll be impressed. >> tucker: it's called the metro here. you're dodging the question. >> i'm not dodging the question. you didn't ask question. you're just taking statements. >> tucker: why won't anyone call out what it is. this is wreckless and crazy and anti-american? >> tucker, i'm an economic professors. i'm not a fan of socialism. socialism doesn't work. you are not doing a service when the people who advocate the most extreme version of the plan. which are the ones you're seizing on. their argument through research and massive investment, we'll get the cost of these alternative fuels and renewable source of energy down below what the cost of fossil fuels are today. >> tucker: that is an argument. i i would encourage our viewers

if they think i'm exaggerating this, just look it up. i agree with you. they'll change their views because it's crazy. it's important to call crazy a crazy. >> there are improvements to cost it is they predict it. >> tucker: we'll see. thank you very much. how did the rest of the country react to the state of the union? henry knows because ed enr en-- henry knows all. >> this story you will love. best part, cbs and cnnup they were forced eat really bad bowl of par image, big majority like the speech. these. the so called snap pole. it's the tiny little snapshot month watched the speech. millions of people. if the polls show the public

hated the speech, you can imagine some anchors might have reported that bad news glee. the cbs poll showed 76% approved what the president said. 72% said they specifically approve of the president's ideas on immigration. cnn had an instant poll, 59% said they are very positive about the speech. 17% said they were somewhat positive. that gives the president at 76% positive rating. it seem like cnn and cbs, maybe surprised by the results. >> tucker: i want to stress here for state of the union address, the president's partisan his supports tend to turn out and watch the speech. tonight, we saw heavily republican skewed union turn out to watch the president's speech. a very positive reaction from those who watched the speech

tonight. 59% very positive, 17% somewhat positive, 23% negative. >> instant poll here following the president state of the union. 76% of speech watchers said they approved of what they heard. 72% said they approved of the president's ideas for immigration. >> tucker: very solemn look indeed. we'll discuss it little more tonight. great to see you. the news media was far less receptive of the president's speech. guestsen other cable networks were horrified. they barked and bellowed. like this. >> i saw this as a psychotically

incoherent speech. >> there's nothing that was said last night that is credible, believable or memorable. >> the president of the united states did not mention climate change. it's a disgrace. >> tucker: it's just a disgrace. those assessments compared to the ratings of the former cia director john brannan. here he is. >> i think donald trump raised to a new level. lot of the issues including on the foreign policy and national security front. >> tucker: think about that. if you wanted to reassure americans that the core institution was stable. it was just a paranoid faint.

fantasy. john brannan last job was running the cia. the most powerful intelligence agency in the world. you hear 20 minutes later, we watch him play unemployed political consultant hack repeating the dumbest possible partisan talking points on late night cable. the question is, how did a guy that limited, rise to the very top of the federal bureaucracy to the agency with the most power and the most guns and the most knowledge. those are the questions you might ask yourself about john brannan. what happens to a country where basic questions are decided on the basis of a dna?

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call reputation defender at 1-877-492-6705. >> tucker: woman name stay city abrams gave democratic rebutted tool to the state of the union last night. she's a former state legislator in georgia. nevertheless, party leaders have big plans for abrams. her speech last night wasn't much. she talked mostly. herself. far more interesting, piece that abrams wrote in this month's foreign affairs magazine. the piece is called "identity politics strengthens democracy" if you want -- you out to read the piece. lots of adjectives and you get the point anyway.

it's clear. by embracing identity, americans will welcome more likely to grow as one. ponder that, the less we have in common, the more united we will be. is that true? of course not. it's absurd. even stacey ray ay -- stacey abs doesn't believe it. she doesn't bother to defend that premise. unity is definitely not what stacey abrams is interested in. just the opposite. what she's selling is bitter division. abrams spends the bulk of the piece calling what she describes the marginalized to unite against the dominant groups. who is marginnizized and who is dominant. it's not a small question. it's the only question that matters. everything rides on who's the victim and who's th the oppress.

the marginalized includes women, native americans, african-american and women and the lgbtq community. the dominant whoever who is left. that is only one group. you foe who they are so do stacey abrams. she said these people are responsible for the suffering of everyone else. we need to overthrow them. she uses language of violence and war to describe what must come next. politics is the most effective method of revolt. people get hurt in revolts. stacey abrams knows that. she doesn't hide it. demagoguery are make a certain kind of sense if you're only interested in winning lengthses and you didn't care what happened afterwards. that's where democrats are now.

it's highly unstable collection of interest groups. it's not a natural coalition. there's no reason all of these groups should be voting for the same candidate in every election. the only way to keep a group like this total is by inventing a common enemy that everyone can oppose. you're one of us if you hate these people. it often works in the short term. it worked for democrats in the jim crow south. problem is, these people, these dominant groups, stacey abrams, says, aren't some foreign invader. they're your countrymen. you're not supposed to hate them or hurt them, they is us. we're in this together. we're all americans. that's the most important thing. really the only important thing. stacey abrams doesn't see it that way. if sta stacey can win the next

election, it's possible this will work one more time. >> elections in this country used to be based on issues. that was the common agreement anyway. what would happen it a country in which power isallocated on yourgeyour gender and identity. what happens to a country that is run with identity politics? >> in the short term, it kind of works because the majority group doesn't play language with taken keeps quiet.

in the long run, it's untenable. how much longer i'll until whites say why don't we have identity. you'll get groups fighting against one another. i don't see how you can have a country in long run with identity politics. it may well create namely white nationalism what they claim to oppose today. >> tucker: have you ever seen stacey abrams, i don't mean to represent stacey abrams, she represents much larger group, which work we must embrace it. you studied this question extensively, you're a scholar. is there a country in that

produce stable nation? >> diversity is not a strength in politics. a strength in politics is unity. if you want to have a strong united country, you have the citizens to be united. we'll have a free country. you don't want everyone to be the same. you need to make an allowance. it is not good to promote division. i'm fine having hyphenated americans. if you emphasize the part that comes before the american part, i think you can recognize hyphenated americans. you emphasize the commonalities. the shared history, the shared devotions to republican principals and love the country. if there's one thing identity politics strong on is making you hate your country. making you disspies your path. >> tucker: last question, how is our division ever reconcile? >> i don't think it can be.

that's why i prefer the less we aced to have in america. bernie sanders is kind of last goods. gasp of it. you can't immediately tell which class you belong to. you can still have a country with progressive class-based politics. you cannot have a country identity ticket. >> tucker: thank you for that. nearly 10 million immigrants arrived legally in the united states since 2000. 10 million more come in every year. this show has taken pretty tough standing on immigration. we should say because it's true, lot of people who would help this country and ought to be allowed to stay here, from doing so. after the break we'll meet a harvard graduate trying to get a

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>> legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. i want people to come into our country in largest numbers ever but they have to come in legally. [applause] >> tucker: the president wants more legal immigrants. we got legal immigrants. two million came to this country in 2017. most of them came on the single fact. basically it's the similar based on genetics rather than merit. this has a downside. one we have not talked about

much. many qualified female who should be living here and would benefit the united states if they did are denied admission or the ability to stay. she spent a decade following the rules. she went to harvard, she speaks fluent english. she's highly qualified, she spent 14 years applying for green card. she join us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. what did you learn about the system? who gets in? >> the trouble with the legal immigration system is that, really only privileges family. 70% of green cards are given to people because of their family and whether they have a connection to citizen already. that's fine. you should be able it bring this spouse. there's really big imbalance.

only 10% of green cards are given to people because of their jobs and skills. >> tucker: did they stay to you, you're clearly dangerous do they even care about that? >> no, that's the difficult part of it. you spent 12 years working to be eligible to apply. i came here for college. i got all the right jobs. i got my employer's response for me and i waited in line. i did everything right. we applied, it took two years for thom -- to answer. >> tucker: would it the to been easier to go to tijuana and cross over and disappear into huge unaccounted mass of illegal ail yeens? >> >> tucker: i wanted to do the right way.

>> tucker: were you awarded for that? i did have lawyers who said i should marry an american. i did not want to do it that way. i wanted my life in america to start off on the right foot. unfortunately, that didn't work out. it happens to a lot of people. 14% of my graduating class was foreign. there are people who have big dreams coming to america. going to its great skills and create a life here. once they graduate, they have to leave. most of those 14% now live elsewhere. i can go to canada, u.k. or new zealand. >> tucker: last question, your english is perfect. you obviously love america. you spent more than a decade trying to stay here.

your simulated in way that's meaningful. >> simulation does not count. these unfortunate thing. when you're applying to become an citizen or citizenship test. you ask questioned about the constitution. when it comes to visas and green cards a doesn't play a role at all. >> tucker: thank you very much. elizabeth warren, we're going to bring you what you already know. warren described herself as american indian. downs -- stay tuned. a pouch--

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>> tucker: well, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren spent decades gaining our affirmative action by pretending to be an american. then she claimed her parents were forced to elope because her racist grandparents refused to accept one in the family. she may in fact be 1 out of 1,024th indian, which is for the record, much less than you are. the latest update in this saga comes in a form she filled out for the state bar of texas. she clearly states she's an american indian. >> when i was growing up in oklahoma, i learned about my family the same way most people

do. my brothers and i learned from our mom and our dad and our brothers and our sisters and those were our family stories. but that said, there really is an important distinction of tribal citizenship. i am not a member of a tribe. >> >> tucker: well, she's not a member of a tribe. cleared that up. author of the book "kennedy babylon." howie, i saw this. i almost feel sorry for her because obviously it's over and she's disgraced. but then i thought the boston globe made this lie possible. what have they said? they've covered her for years and defended her. how have they responded to evidence that they were lying all this time? >> they ran a story in september trying to cover for her and basically rounded up all the usual democrat suspects in all

these law schools saying it had nothing to do with her being a native american. it had to do with her great credentials. there's nobody at harvard law school or yale law school. that's just not where you get these people from. coming out here, i think due to opposition research, tucker, is we're starting to find out the outlines of this grip. like a small-time criminal starts with shoplifting. she starts with the cookbook, the plagiarized recipes. now she's files the application with the texas bar. nobody calls her out on it. so she just keeps upping the ante, a year later she puts in that she's an indian in the law school directory. and she's suddenly at the university of pennsylvania and harvard making major wampum for

many moons. she's done now. she's announcing her candidacy on saturday and then to seven states. she apologized nine times today in that press conversation. four minutes, nine times she used the word apology. she has a better chance of being president of the cherokee nation than president of the united states. >> she stole the identity of a racial group which she did not belong, but you're the bigot for making fun of her. just so you know. congrats on the patriots, by the way. well deserved. good to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we're out of time tonight and apparently out of security guards as well because while we were yapping somebody snuck into -- >> here we go again. >> tucker: he did. he just snuck in it.

howie knows boston. >> tucker: oh, he's unbelievable. he deserves the credit. he really was almost assassinated by the mafia in boston. no one believed him. he was almost killed, for real. >> i can tell you all about the new york mob. >> tucker: god fellas, godfather. that's what i know. >> i gave you ten seconds. >> >> tucker: i appreciate it. >> tonight president trump's address. wait until we show you the reaction and their analysis to the president's pivotal speech. and we have major breaking developments tonight surrounding robert mueller himself, investigating the investigator. shocking news also for the democrat party and what is going on in virginia.