in el paso, texas. have a great weekend. thanks a lot. on a plane this weekend. tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we expected a slow news output this evening. it's friday but that's not what happened. there's a torrent of it. if you are watching it from a restaurant have the bartender turn up the volume it's worth it. first we have new security footage that shows details of the fbi's pre-dawn raid on roger stone's house on south florida. three separate cameras captured all of it. from the moment that robert mueller's p.r. team from cnn arrived with a tripod to roger stone's arrest at gunpoint. you won't believe the t-shirt stone was wearing when they cuffed him. we're staying for that lunatics in the congress have a brand new plan to destroy our economy and

drive america into darkness and poverty it's called the green new deal and we will talk to one of its supporters in just a second. also the media are supposed to hold the powerful to account. that's what they always tell you. if that's true why are they sucking up to the world's richest man jeff bezos? why are they calling him bezos because he is the world's richest man. we have hilarious details in a second. first tonight, more chaos in the beleaguered commonwealth of virginia. that state's democratic governor and attorney general as you know have both admitted to blackface scandals. one of them has been called upon by democratic luminaires to resign and neither one has shown any intent to leave office. now, that state's slippery lieutenant governor justin fairfax has been accused of rape for the second time by a second woman. new allegations just hours ago. fairfax says he is not resigning either. for the latest on the glowing fireball of insanity that is virginia democratic politics, fox news ellison barber is outside the state

house in richmond, virginia. ellison? >> hi, tucker. calls for the lieutenant governor to resign are growing tonight. it's difficult to keep track of how many people have now come forward and said that he needs to step aside. all of this after a second woman came forward detailing a second sexual assault that she claims happened with justin fairfax, a virginia state delegate says if the lieutenant governor does not resign by the end of the weekend he will introduce articles of impeachment on monday. the lieutenant governor is denying all of the allegations against him and the statement he this. quote i have never forced myself on anyone ever. i demand a full investigation into these unsubstantiated and false allegations. he called the claims part of a vicious and accord nateed smear campaign. according to a press release from the law firm smith mullen they are representing a woman named meredith watson who says she was raped by now lieutenant governor justin fairfax in 2,000 when they were both students at duke university of the statement says quote

mr. fairfax's attack was pre-med indicated and aggressive. the two were friends but never dated or had any romantic relationship. the lieutenant governor was optimistic this morning briefly speaking to reporters as he headed to preside over a legislative session in the virginia senate saying we have our say, i'm confident, in the truth. tonight, in a statement, he is defiant and clearly says i will not resign. even though a lot of democrats now want him to. senator cory booker tweeted this, quote: the multiple detailed allegations against lieutenant governor of virginia are deeply troubling. they are serious, credible and corroborated by others. it is no longer appropriate for him to serve. he should resign. and now, attorneys for this second victim, they have come out with a new statement saying that lieutenant governor is trying to smear their client. they say they had heard that he had told various members of the media that she is crazy and that she had been the victim of a prior rape. they say that it is true that she was the victim of a prior assault. but they say that lieutenant

governor justin fairfax actually used that prior assault, which she reportedly had told him about, in order to justify the assault that he allegedly perpetrated. they say the pair had one encounter after the alleged assault in 2000 at a campus party and this is from the statement here. she left the campus party when he arrived and he followed her out. she turned around asked why did you do it? from fairfax answered i knew because of what happened to you last year you would be too afraid to say anything. we have reached out to the lieutenant governor's office on this new statement, tucker, we have not heard back. >> tucker: hard to remember a seedier story than this. ellison barber from richmond, virginia tonight. what's going to happen to the three top ranking democrats in the commonwealth of virginia. what's the standard for the rest of us in the wake of this standard. a progressive radio host chris joins us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: i don't know the truth of the allegations against the lieutenant

governor fairfax and i think he is due as we all are the right to explain himself and to have this adjudicated by some impartial body. so i'm not passing judgment on him or his accuser. i'm passing judgment on the self-appointed defenders of women who just a couple of months ago jumped up and down and told us that brett kavanaugh deserved to be in prison because we must believe all women. they are dismissing these women. they clearly don't believe them. where is mazie hirono and kirsten jill brand in all of this. where is the answer. >> i don't know that they have dismissed this women. i sure haven't. it seems to me like he is toast. like he is done. there will be an investigation but is he not surviving this. these women seem credible to me. the stories seem chilling. and we should all be appalled by it should this turn out to be some sort of real political hit job and i don't think it is then maybe he survives. barring that, his career is

over. and he needs to resign. now, i know we have two other democrats in top positions in virginia who also have issues that we need to deal with, and i have already called for the governor to resign on this show last week and i am not taking that back. i think his statements on saturday made it worse than they were on friday night. and we will see what people think about the attorney general. but i think people need to be consistent when they make calls for things. >> tucker: you are taking -- i mean agree or disagree you are taking a position that is undergirded by integrity, consistency is right. just as an american, i think i'm most disgusted by this mark herring character, the chief law enforcement officer in the state of virginia. purely because of the hypocrisy. he jumps up and down when he finds out that the governor has this yearbook in blackface and then it turns out that he appeared in blackface, too. so why shouldn't he resign? that's the most confusing part of this to me. >> you know, look, i think he came out and he apologized and i think

maybe, you know, we might determine that he should resign. he was 19 years old and he did something really stupid and quite frankly offensive and racist that should not be tolerated in this country. we will see what his state holds. the people of virginia should ultimately be able to make. >> tucker: no, no, you make a fair point. >> there should be some sort of petition to get rid of him. >> tucker: but that's not the standard. lock, i think voters should make all of these decisions if someone commits a crime in office impeach him. we have a method for removing people who shouldn't be serving and it's not twitter. my question is about the standards of the democratic party applies to the rest of us. so northam did something that was beyond the pale andco booker and all these other totally false self-righteous chest beaters who really have no, no reason to lecture the rest of us about how to live. i'm serious. i live here. but the point is they tonight apply the same standard to this guy because they don't want the seat to

wind up in republican hands. that's the actual truth as you know. >> you know, look, something needs to be said for the voters of virginia who chose three democrats for statewide office and something has to be done to preserve the will of the people. whether these three men should serve, that needs to be determined. i really think that the top two need to go right now. i think they are both unfit for office and the third one, you know, i think he is teetering on the edge. virginia needs to do something to make sure that the will of the people is actually recognized. and that's something that has to be determined. >> tucker: hypocrisy is certainly not a democratic problem there are a ton of hypocrites on the right, too. >> sure, absolutely. i call it out every week on my radio show. >> tucker: the intensity the hypocrisy in the last week is kind of hard to ignore. so, if you have appeared in black face you can't serve in public office. you can't stand on a public stage. you really need to be pushed outside of plight company. and now it turns out that all these prominent progressives have appeared

in blackface. i mean, that's a pretty high level of hypocrisy. have you noticed that or am i just imagining it? >> it's not all of -- it's two men in virginia and, frankly. >> tucker: no, no. i mean it's joy behar and it's. >okay. a lot of the people who are the quickest to judge others turned out to have worn this blackface themselves. you don't notice a theme here attacking people for what you do? >> i think that there needs to be something done about the people who serve in public office. it's a higher calling than, you know, in a higher standard than people who are entertainers and other things. we need to focus on that. we need to remove these people and we need to put people in there who care about virginia and care about the values that these men were elected to defend. voters of virginia wanted people like them there because of what they said on the campaign about their values and governance. they did not know about

their histories with women and with blackface and racism. now they know it and the voters of virginia should be heard and the voters of virginia. >> tucker: i just want to correct and we are out of time. i want to get the final word and correct something. apparently senator mazie hirono of hawaii has called on lieutenant governor justin fairfax to resign. >> good. and you will hear more. >> tucker: she is consistent that way. chris hawaiian, thank you verchris hahn, thank you verymu. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: let's say these weren't three progressive democrats at thatthe helm but te conservative republicans what would that look like. dan bongino joins us tonight. dan, i mean, do you notice the political imperative overriding moral concerns here? >> yeah. i mean, this is a very simple binary choice here, tucker. is it going to be power or is it going to be principle?

if the standard here in your principles are as the democrats have stated and i think a lot of people would agree that listen, blackface is unacceptable in a position of public prominence. you have to go. you handle that on your own later but you can't govern then mark herring has to got attorney general and the governor. that's the principle, right, tucker? nothing i'm saying is controversy. >> tucker: that's their stated principle. for the record i think it's ridiculous i think calling for infanticide might actually make it impossible for you to govern because it's murder. >> sure. >> tucker: dressing up like an idiot or being a bigot in college is something you should apologize for. i'm not sure that 35 years later it makes it impossible for you to govern. you are right. that's their standard and they have stated clearly. >> they have been on the record. notice how it became a little more nuanced, tucker, when they found out that the fourth person in line, the virginia speaker is a republican. now all of a sudden there is a little more nuances in the

argument. again, is this binary or is it not? if it's about principles which they have already stated openly, then you must call for both of them to resign. now, talking about the number two, justin fairfax, the lieutenant governor. i mean, we went through this with kavanaugh. if you have watched this station or any other cable news network we went through this for two troubling weeks where i don't think there is a democrat on the record actually defending kavanaugh. so, again, if the principle there is all women are to be believed, accusations are, in fact, enough evidence for you to leave and have you no right to defend yourself. then, tucker, this is all clear. the answers are clear as day by as you stated the democrats' own on-the-record statements they have already made. >> tucker: and i think that may be kind of percolating up to members of the senate. apparently kirsten gillibrand has just on twitter called for the resignation of lieutenant

governor justin fairfax. we will see what happens there. dan bongino, thank you very much. >> you got it. good to see you tonight. >> tucker: jeff bezos wrote a piece on medium yesterday saying he was extorted by the "national enquirer." is it true? i don't know. we know who is on his side though. the media, why? he is rich. exclusive new video tonight of the fbi raid on the home of roger stone. it's pretty unbelievable. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ from the very beginning ... it was always our singular focus, to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource, to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. and these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com. appointments available now. has been excellent.

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claims that he has been the victim of an extortion plot, not by isis or some international criminal sinsd cat out of a james bond movie but by the "national enquirer," the supermarket tabloid. the one you page through as you are unloading groceries from your cart. trace gallagher has been following this story since the beginning and he follows us tonight. >> he owns "the washington post" but jeff bezos chose to make his stand on a blogging platform called medium where he posted details of the alleged extortion including message sent to him from the "national enquirer," its parent company america media and ceo david pecker threatening to release intimate photos of bezos and girlfriend lauren sanchez unless bezos agreed to call off his investigation on how the enquirer got the pictures. then issuing a statement saying the investigation that uncovered the affair was not politically motivated. bezos refused of course i

don't want personal photos published but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption. america media has now spunded saying it wasn't blackmail the messages were good faith negotiations quoting again american media believes fervently that it acted lawfully in the reporting of the story of mr. bezos. but david pecker says the company will conduct an internal investigation into what if any action needs to be taken. and to up the ante, federal prosecutors are now looking into the "national enquirer's" handling of the bezos affair. as for how the incident mat photos were leaked in the first place, a reporter for "the washington post" says he has spoken with bezos' lead security consultant. watch. >> gavin debecker told us that he does not believe that jeff bezos phone was hacked. he think it's possible that a government entity might have gotten ahold of his text messages.

>> earlier gavin debecker the security consultant said publicly he thought the brother of bezos' mistress lauren sanchez played a role in leaking those private photos and texts. tucker. >> tucker: mr. muster with a candle stick. trace, thank you very much. so a lot of confusing parts about this story. one thing that is crystal clear is where the media stands. journalists love jeff bezos. now, some of them literally work for him at his personal p.r. operations/lobbying shop it's called "the washington post." even those who don't take his money directly think jeff bezos is great. why do they think that? because he is rich. he is the richest man in the world in fact. of course journalist also tell you their job is to hold the powerful to account. pretty funny. in real life the aciddously suck up to power. they can't help themselves. the more powerful the more flamboyant their graph ling. louis xivth never had more

self-afacing man servants. may i wash your feet sir? how about a hot bath. watch. >> bezos the wealthiest man in the world founder of amazon being the punch line of sorted affair to all of a sudden becoming praised as a hero of journalism. he has pulled off a master stroke in terms of recasting his own image, in terms of making himself look like a good guy again. >> makes us almost human. u.s. magazine is he almost like you and me and he is playing this brilliantly. >> there is a certain amount of bad assness jeff bezos makes us proud to work with him. they messed with the wrong guy and they have found that out. >> source close to bezos told me last night do not poke this bezos bear. >> oh, he is a bear now not not dorky with predictably mid life sad but obvious steroid problem. no he is a powerful

masculine bear. a grizzly don't mess with jeff bezos, growl. [laughter] jeff bezos is so tough that donald trump just can't handle him. there is only room for one alpha bear in this town so trump is trying to take out bezos bear with a far reaching secret conspiracy. seriously that's what they are saying. >> we know how he despises jeff bezos. still doing trump's dirty work. what is going on here. >> i don't know. the two leading theories seem to be that ami is either doing the saudi's "david letterman" work. presidensawed --sawedy's dirty r trump's. >> trump has had a hard on for bezos. it's no surprise that he turned to his good buddy david pecker at the enquirer to, you know, do a hatchet job on him. >> suddenly the left believes in the deep state. we can't let them bezos

bear. it's hilarious. and nauseating. all right. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez says her green new deal will save the planet. in exchange give up cars and airplanes and rebuild every structure in the united states. we'll also by the way need to invent brand new forms of energy that science hasn't conceived of yet. how much will this cost? that's unclear. how will we pay for it? unknown. how will make this happen? workers, obviously, anyone who is quote unwilling to work will still get paid by the government. night or day, not all oin other words, not all of the details have been worked out. law professor at cornell is advising alexandria ocasio-cortez on the green new deal and he joins us. professor, thanks very much for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: why would we ever pay people who are quote unwilling to work? >> obviously we never would and aoc has never said anything like that, right? i think you are referring to some sort of document that i

think some doctored document that somebody other than us has been circulating. >> i thought that came right from her -- that was in the backgrounder from her office is my understanding. >> no, no. she has actually tweeted it out to laugh at it if you look at latest tweets. apparently some republicans have put it out there. >> tucker: good. well thank you for correcting me. i mean, because it seemed a little ridiculous. almost as ridiculous as the idea that we're going to build enough light rail to make airplanes unnecessary. which i think actually is from. >> i don't know where you got that either, tucker. i actually believe that you are actually in our side about this. if you actually read the actual plan there is nothing about getting rid of anything. expanding many options. many things we want to be able to do now in addition to what we already do. where is the airplane disappearance coming from? i'm not really clear on where that originated? >> tucker: i could actually get it for you. >> that would be great because i keep hearing that. >> tucker: questions released by her office and i'm quoting from it. maybe this is fraudulent in which case i hope you will correct me.

so it says that the green new deal totally overall transportation and that would mean, quote, building on high speed rail at a scale where air travel would stop becoming necessary. hawaii senator mazie hirono responds to that by saying that would be hard for hawaii. i don't think that's made up. the senator from hawaii. >> no, no. apparently being mostly sunny understood, right? we are really talking about expanding optionality. we are not talking about getting rid of anything, right? we are talking about making it cost effective to move into modern forms of technology and modern modern forms of production which would enable people to cost effectively to transition to that stuff. we are not talking about requiring anything or prohibiting anything that's 1980s style environment. >> tucker: hold on, i don't want to you back away from what she herself has said august of this with the cawf yet a lot of this won't happen maybe none of it these are the ideas she is artic could you laghtd. >> i promise you, tucker, i won't back away from thinking she said. we are pushing forward. >> tucker: yeah, high speed.

>> yeah, very high speed going to supplant all fossil fueled in years. >> that doesn't mean prohibiting them. rendering them on athlete by doing something better. we can do it. this is america. we can do anything. >> tucker: it's nice to have a smart person on the show to explain. this what about air travel which is critical to our economy, this is a continental country. >> it stays the same. right? >> tucker: no, because that requires fossil fuel. >> that might, wait, we are not talking -- we are talking about carbon neutrality, remember? we are talking about net zero emissions that doesn't mean there is never any burning of anything, right? until we come up with solar panel flying airplanes, of course. >> tucker: i'm sorry to interrupt you. i just want to correct you. i just had because this seemed like we were making news on this show. the unwilling to work thing was in her backgrounder. that has been. >> no, no. >> that has been absolutely confirmed. >> definitely not. definitely not. >> tucker: so nbc and loss of other news outlets and

you are saying that's fraudulent. >> that's erroneous. there might be new details that you know about that i don't because i have been doing media all day. >> tucker: that was actually in the document. i read it as it came out. >> it's the wrong document, tucker. >> tucker: definitely the wrong document. >> that's not us. we certainly don't believe in anything like that, right? >> tucker: not guilty getting rid. >> rendering them obsolete. >> tucker: air travel is a huge source, a huge source. >> hence the word most before, right? we eliminate them for most purposes for what they are used now by rendering them obsolete. >> tucker: i have two gasoline powered cars at home. >> imagine how much better it will be when it's cost effective to drive electric cars. that can't be done by individuals. you have to coordinate. you have to have charging stations everywhere and, of course, individuals can't do that right? so in that sense the government is acting like an orchestra conductor here we are trying to coordinate some of that stuff that

could only be centrally coordinated and enable everybody to act individually within that framework, right? >> tucker: yeah, i don't fully understand what you are saying but let me just, i mean on the low end, this would be the most expensive thing that the united states has ever undertaken the second world war. and wondering in a country that has more debt than g.d.p. how would we pay for that. >> here's the key, right? we wracked up enormous debt to world war ii and highway system in the 1950s. here is a key point and take away. i hope everybody will remember. this remember that inflation is a relation. right? it's the relation between the quantity of money and the quantity of goods. now if the money that you are spending is resulting from the production of a great many more goods, you have no inflation problem. more production absorbs more expenditures. the problem with the $7 trillion that was spent during the bush years and tax cut was that it wasn't actually productive. even that didn't bring about inflation.

>> tucker: still not getting close to it by the way i'm getting all of this in my ear we will follow up on this next week and that unwilling to work line which you are obviously elm bare rared about and should be of course. >> not embarrassing. it wasn't us. we are not embarrassed by what's not ours. we are not embarrassed by what's not ours. clarify it's not ours. >> tucker: we will clarify that. >> yes we will. >> tucker: i hope you will come back. >> thanks so much, tucker. >> tucker: always grateful when people come on. including you thank you. well the billionaires of silicon valley are ripping off their employees and shifting the cost to you. one member of congress is offended by this anyway and he will join us after the break. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: back in the old days tipping was a straightforward arrangement. workers made a low salary but still a salary. then in return for a job well-done you added to their

base pay with tips. the system seemed to have the right incentives built. in the best employee he is in the right places could do really well waiters, for example. what if you took away the salary and left the lowest paid workers in our society with only their tips? what if the richest people in america were doing that right now and keeping it secret? well, it's actually happened. you won't be surprised it's the billionaires of silicon valley who did it consider insta cards company let's you order groceries online. already worth $7 billion. in an effort to boost profit the company changes the way it mays employees. starting last year every driver at insta cart guaranteed a minimum of 10 bucks for every delivery the good news. the bad news the company used driver's tips to meet the minut minimum. shifted payroll cost to the customer and shafted their own employees in the process. in one case, a worker who was tipped 10 bucks for a delivery received only 10.80 in total compensation.

that's a pretty good deal for insta cart 80 cents per delivery below minimum wage. two workers earn $10 each for delivery even the one got $6 tip and another $4 tip. in other words a bigger tip meant less base pay. if you did a better job for the customer the run insta cart just took more money from you because that meant more money for them. instacart ceo acted elm bared and stopped it doesn't matter because exploitation is now the standard in the brave new committee the donor class has created. almost all gig economy workers are contract employees that means they don't get health insurance and don't make enough to support themselves. taxpayers make up the difference with social programs. and that's one of the reasons your taxes keep going up so that the hipsters who run uber can afford to buy another compound in hawaii and write another check to the dccc.

if you keep it up sense tillable people will become socialist and if you keep it up long enough alexandria ocasio-cortez will be president of the country. that will happen. so can congress do anything about billion-dollar companies ripping off their employees? congressman row con that is a democrat who represents sole con valley. he is also an insta cart customer and been on these issues for quite some time and we are has been that he is here tonight. congressman, thank you very much for coming on. did i misstate the way it works. >> it's outrageous a 7 billion-dollar company ipo and basically having wage theft. they are stealing the tips that should go to the employees to lower their base pay. here's what's outrageous, also. because i use instacart the default tip is 5%. who tips 5%. usually you want to tip 10% or 15%. they actually have a lower default tip because they don't want to make it seem like customers should pay more. and then, if you do pay more, they are taking that tip away. i mean, it's just a scam.

>> tucker: you have been one of the only people in the congress to press an issue and i'm grateful that you have that's really important. where these companies basically send to the taxpayer a lot of their labor cost. they don't pay their employees enough. they don't even admit they are employees and then the public takes up the slack in the form of social programs. have you made any headway in getting the companies to pay for that? >> well, we had the stop bezos. amazon was doing that paying for food stamps and paying for a lot of the social programs. here the rich e. company in the world wasn't paying a $15 minimum wage. in response to that bernie sanders and i had that legislation. bezos announced a $15 minimum wage. they felt some pressure and did raise wages. that said, there is a long way to government i mean, these are mostly employees and as you point out they are being treated as independent contractors and here's the point. the digital revolution is creating an extraordinary amount of wealth. they can afford to make sure that there is a middle class. and i think it's almost ridiculous for these people not to see the divide in how

they are contributing to the divide. >> tucker: they can afford to make sure there is a middle class. i don't think i could put it better. i have to ask you because i can't control myself. you represent silicon valley. >> yeah. >> tucker: you are one of the only members of congress saying this out loud. what do they think of you. >> here's what i'm telling them. look, you are brilliant. you are doing innovations. if you want to make sure we have a unified country. then do some basic things. first of all, make sure everyone is participating in a benefit of technology. not that all the wealth is just going to a very, very few individuals. go out to rural america. i have been out to painesville, kentucky, west virginia, jefferson, iowa. we don't need to be outsourcing 200,000 tech jobs. why aren't we partnering with rural community to participate in the digital revolution. what's going on there? revolution and all of the wealth is going to a very few geographies. we want to have a unified country we have got to expand tech opportunity for other people. >> tucker: what do they say when you say that. >> they say we are trying, et cetera. i said, i mean, if you want to prevent a populist

backlash in this country to what's happening, you need to be forward-looking. you know when i went to beckley, west virginia do you know hot most popular teacher there was a pakistani american woman with a thick accent but she was teaching computer science to coal miner's kids who were going to get jobs. we have to create economic opportunity. we had half the country vote against the coast. why? because they didn't see that they had economic opportunity in the new economy? why don't we wake up? henry ford woke up when he had in the early 1900s and he said i'm going to double wages. by the way the other thing is who is going to buy the instacart groceries? >> tucker: good point. i wish more people were saying what you just said. i really think what you were saying is true. thank you for that. >> i don't think it's a partisan issue. >> tucker: it's certainly not a partisan issue. i'm sure there are things we don't agree on. i'm certain of it. but i agree with everything you just said. thank you, congressman. congress set age limits for cigarettes and alcohol because both are bad for

kids. is it time to do the same for cell phones, too? a libertarian disagrees. will join us after the break. shocking footage of the pre-dawn raid on roger stone's house. wait until you see the shirt he was wearing. pretty amazing. ♪

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>> tucker: if you read "u.s.a. today" this morning you may have seen the list the 50 worst cities in america in the highly non-coveted number one spot was a place called mendota, california a town of 11,000 outside of fresno used to be the cantaloupe capital of the world. now, sadly in mendota all the numbers are depressing. the unemployment rate there is maybe the highest in the country. half the city lives below

the poverty line. the per capita income in mendota is about $9,000 a year. crime, not surprisingly, is completely out of control. the former city manager of mendota says the city is ground zero for ms-13 on the west coast. last august the feds made more than two dozen arrest of ms-13 members primarily in response to 16 recent murders in the area. it's bad. the local police department is so outmatched by ms-13 that according to local media gang members have been threatening individual cops by name and with impunity. it's like another country. so what's so striking about this and so sad about it is it's the opposite of what they promised. here's how. a third of mendota's population farm workers. both republicans and democrats in washington are telling us right now that we need many more of those. and they are pushing for it. in secret talks at the white house. but, if what they are claiming is true, then why are there so many unemployed

people in mendota. this is a city at the center of america's most productive farmland. if you can't get farm work in the central valley of california, there is a huge problem. we clearly have a major oversupply of low skilled labor. we do. but we are planning to import much more anyway? because democrats and the chamber of commerce want it? okay. we know what the net result is going to be more sad, poor cities like mendota. it's lunancy. it's horrible for the people who live there and for everyone else. someone who cares about the country should say that because it's true. >> something else that's true too much time staring in the cell phone can lead to delayed cognitive development for children and lead to depression and self-harm. those are just a few of the perils that kids face when they have access to their own cell phones which are the portal through which they experience social media. many studies on this and all of them show that increased

use of the iphone and smart phones like it make kids sadder, slower, more isolated. they are also tied to depression and suicide risk. in a feature last week we suggested one obvious solution that somehow seems crazy but why would it be crazy. congress should ban smart phones for kids. they ban cigarettes and alcohol. why wouldn't they do this? radio host amy peacock didn't like that message. she texted us and says i want to respond because we are her fans we said of course you can respond, amy. great to see you. so i guess it's really simple. look, i know you are a libertarian and an orthodox one not an attack on you. you are consistent. if you accept that a society can regulate the behavior of children because they are not adults and they are not able to make adult decisions and so we can keep kids from buying marlboros at 15 or buying a 12 pack of malt liquor, why can't we keep them from hurting themselves with smart phones. >> first of all, you are assuming that i agree with those existing laws on the

book. i don't necessarily. [laughter] >> no, listen. now you can draw a distinction though, tucker. don't laugh, come on. [laughter] >> don't laugh, let me say. >> tucker: i'm laughing -- >> let me give you distinction. >> tucker: i am laughing out of distinction. you saying 8-year-old should be able to buy beer. >> we are principled, we are not hilarious. we are principled. draw a distinction between those two because you are talking about physical substances. and i might say very, you know, sort of in a rights-based theory way that maybe youth are not capable of making a contract for something that is going to do them physical harm. but, here, again, it's very important when we talk about government to make sure the government is operating on a principle of individual rights, which means the right to be free from physical harm. and so if you are going to talk about government getting involved or stepping in, i would look for evidence of some sort of

actual physical harm. i think, tucker, if you want to look at government and what do to improve kids. >> tucker: no one has ever died of an overdose of lsd. but it's clear that if you were to take a huge quantity of lsd the chance of becoming schizophrenic is higher we know that you can scramble someone's brain with drugs. >> let's standpoint. let's assume that cell phones are potentially detrimental. you talked about the issue of high use and mentioned in particular that app. facebook. of course high levels of use and facebook are things easily avoided. i don't even think the cool kids go on facebook. think about this. do we really want government more involved in raising our children? as it is, government is harming our children because we have government schools based on progressive education and i would look to them for youth

unhappiness that -- unhappiness among our kids. >> tucker: hold on. >> cell phones. >> tucker: you may be right. >> if you are going to ban something, why not ban sugar, for example. >> tucker: there is an idea. >> detrimental physical harm. >> tucker: by the way, i think that's something worth talking about. >> i don't think it is. i disagree with banning sugar. i think all of these decisions should be left to the parents unless you could show that a decision made by the parents to allow a kid to do something or do something to the kid is abuse. and you would really in order to have a law want it to be physical abuse. >> tucker: i think we are getting into that. amy peikoff thank you very much. thanks for letting me talk. bye. >> tucker: remarkable security footage of the pre-dawn fbi raid on roger stone's home, like a military operation. more extensive even than we imagined. we're going to show that you exclusive video after this break. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

. . ♪ >> tucker: well, earlier in the show we told you about jeff bezos, the richest man in the world and the alleged extortion plot purpose traited against him by the enk -- "national enquirer". amazon spent much of the last year to host the second headquarters. mayors and governors begged

like circus animals for the privilege to send tax dollars the richest company. new york vowed the most deeply and offered the biggest bribe and bill de blasio won. or seemed to. but now the "washington post" says the deal may be off. the post is a formal newspaper functioning as the p.r. paper for jeff bezos suggests that the opposition from the local politicians may be to blame for this. if so, that would be likely congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. ocasio-cortez may be the single most self-righteous person ever elected to congress. not to mention the least informed. but she is dead right on one thing. there is no reason that taxpayers should subsidize jeff bezos or amazon. hope other cities come to their senses on that also. new home security video shows multiple angle of the f.b.i. predawn raid on the home of the political consultant roger stone. unarmed, 62 of years old without a passport, barefoot. until now the only public

footage of the raid came from cnn which somehow knew to arrive one hour before the f.b.i. got there. acting attorney general matthew whitaker was asked about the cnn foot knowledge the testimony before congress today. here is part of it. >> are you familiar with the public boards or otherwise that a cnn reporter was camped out outside of stone's house when the f.b.i. arrested him? >> this wouldn't be part of the investigation -- >> i'm aware of that. it was deeply concerning to me how cnn found out about that. i share your concern with the possibility that a media outlet was tipped off to mr. stones either indictment or arrest before it was -- before that information was made available to the public. >> tucker: the new footage shows cnn arriving an hour before the f.b.i. did. it depects if they were arresting a drug lord. but for context, roger stone

is a senior citizen accused of false statements to congress. take a look at what happened. it's just before 5:00 a.m., an s.u.v. with a cnn camera man arrives first to the quiet street in fort lauderdale, florida. in minutes, the driver gets out and begins to set up the tripod. so far no sign that anything is about to happen. but the cameraman gets back in the car with the equipment to wait. almost exactly one hour later trucks with heavily armed men arrived at stone's house. cameraman jumps out, camera on shoulder and captures the footage. the feds assemble on stone's driveway, wearing assault weapons with 30-round magazines. tactical flashlights mounted to the barrel strap. one has a gun hanging by the strap while carrying a battering ram in the left hand. all of the men have side arm hollistered on -- holstered on their waists. a second camera shows another

angle of the raid. heavily armed f.b.i. agent approaches with the gun drawn and others stake out positions behind. this looks like a high stake's raid but the camera men is 40 feet away filming it all. one agent swings the firearm around as he scans and surveys stone's front porch. behind the home a third camera captures agents approaching the back of the house from the side yard. behind the property, a boat arrives with at least two agents on board. they shine a flood light into stone's home. back in front, an agent pounds on stone's door and finger on the trigger in case something goes wrong. they try again as he and his colleagues wait in position. within minutes, stone exits the home to greet the agents who have the rifles pointed at them. stone spins around trying to show he is unarmed. outfinds agent approaches stone from behind and cuffs him. it's just after 6:00 in the morning. it's still dark out. 20 minutes later the same

camera shows agents leading roger stone back in his house. he is barefoot. stone is wearing a t-shirt that says, "roger stone did nothing wrong." the f.b.i. and the corporate media tell us commonplace, by the book. it happens all the time. no, it doesn't. we will be back monday. 8:00 p.m. show that is the sworn enemy of the lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. in the meantime, have the most relaxing weekend with people you love. see you in a couple [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem]

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