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of biblical proportions.l what he means his old testament, real wrath of god type of stuff, fire and brimstone's >> river and seas boiling. coming down >> 40 years of darkness, from the size, earthquakes and volcanos. >> dead rise from the grave. >> human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together. mass hysteria. >> tucker: sorry, that was from 1984 clip from ghostbusters, things have gotten much more dire since then. human sacrifice, the dead rise from the grave, cats living together, those were the old predictions. we would be lucky to get off that easy now. a new generation ofio democratic office holders is thinking bigger than that.t. and far more apocalyptically. move over, al gore, these kids are serious. watch. >> we're like the world is going to end in 12 years if don't address climate change and your biggest issue. [applause] is your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it? and, like, this is the war -- this is our world war ii.

>> tucker: okay. to recap the terms of this conversation. this is a matter of total war. the world will end if we lose that war. any consideration of cost is immoral. that's what they are saying. this isf not the language of compromise and moderation. it is the language of fundamentalist theology. just a few years ago they were telling us we could fight global warming with carbon offsets and slightly higher gas taxes. now they are demanding we give up airplanes and walk to work. you have got to give it this. the greenak new deal does make kind of internal sense. hysterical predictions require hysterical reaction. half measures don't cut it when you are fighting a world war for the future of this planet. maybe that's why democrats seem all in on this.oc every single democratic senator running for thee democratic nomination right now has endorsed the green new deal. cory booker a vegan lawyer

who represents wall street describes the fight against carbon at least as significant as the fight against adolf hitler. watch. this a lot of people going back on the green new deal. impractical and too expensive. oh, it's all of this. if we used to govern our dreams that way we would never gone to the moon. and when the planet had been in peril in the past who came forward to save earth from the scourge of nazi totalitarian regimes? we came forward. >> tucker: who came forward when the germans bombed pearl harbor, we did. let's take this seriously for a minute because it isis at the center of our national conversation. let's concede global warming imperils the earth and mass immigration of americans to fight it south landing craft on the beaches of this generation wants normandy. no cost too high and no sacrificee too extreme. cory booker is out patent. stipulate that's all true and not flagrantly insane. who exactly is our enemy in

this war?? well war done, of course. carbon is poison. al gore told us that 25 years ago. who is the biggest carbon dealer onge planet earth? the el chapo of co 2. 2you probably assume it's america because nobody has bothered to update you on this question. but, in fact, it's not america. it's not even close to america. it's china. china is now the undisputed king pin in the carbon trade. china throws more than twice the amount of deadly carbon into the atmosphere than this country does. china is the problem. that's true even if you are a regular environmentalist who still believes in theeg earth and are skeptical of perceived climate theology because china is also the biggest physical polluter in the world. china dumps almost as much non-degradable plastic into the ocean as the rest of the world combined. they have not banned drinking straws in shanghai. so it's pretty clear. if you are worried about killing polar bears and poisoning fish with mercury, you should be very worried

about china because they are the ones who are doing it. but nobody in our ruling class seems to know this or care. you don't see democratic activists professional environmentalists camped outside the chinese embassy in protest. nobody is demanding sanctions on china until they stop polluting. that screeching moron ocasio-cortez isn't telling china to give up coal and oil and natural gas and nuclear power within a decade. no way. the left isn't doing any of that because the left loves the chinese government. it's their model for governing. just a few years ago the california governor jerry brown flew, yes, flew all the way to the chinese mainland to praise its fascist government for its environmental leadership. ha ha ha. for real. you see what's going on. the green new deal is not about the environment. just like gun control is not about school shootings and speech codes have nothing to do with sensitivity. nothing is what they say it is. what it's really about is

punishment and control. the green new deal is a religious document. it punishes america for the sins of its prosperity. the only atonement it offers is turning over full control entire u.s. economy to the democratic party. that's the indulgence they require. they are using moral blackmail to get it of course they u are thee democrats always do. nate learner executive director of build the wave and he joins us tonight. so, nate, we are being told that we need to fight world war ii on behalf of the environment but fight it against ourselves is what they are saying. we have to wage war on our own economy. why wouldn't would he be turning this effort outward towards the world's biggest polluter china and forcing them to clean up the globe? why aren't we doing that? >> that's a really fair question but how can we ask china to step up to the plate if we're not doing it ourselves? ocasio, cortez, for example is, no position to demand china when our own governmentnt refuses to invest the funds and resources that weou need to into changing our energygy infrastructure.

so we need to start leading the way on this. we need to start showing this is something that can work and create jobs and strengthen the economy. >> tucker: no, no. >> and then ask them to join us. > tucker: i have heard that argument, that's been the kind of way that the left evades the question for the past 25 years. but the new numbers. >> or advances it. >> tucker: it's not an answer because china emits double the co 2, more than the united states does. >> three or four times the size of us. >> tucker: you are making excuses for them. we are talking about the future of the earth here. we could be gone in 12 years this is existential crisis. i'm taking the rhetoric of the left seriously they are not taking their own rhetoric seriously. if they did they would assign actual blame to the world's actual largest polluter and that's china. instead they make excuses well china just needs inspiration from our moral leadership. no why don't we say to china this is war, you are the enemy because you are destroying thehe protective ozone layer that protects the planet and we're going to forcean you to change your ways? why don't d we do that? >> all right.

a lot of things to unpack there. let's start with the rhetoric. this is not rhetoric the will end in 12 years. what ocasio, ortez was referencing the u.n. panel report o on climate change that came out recently that said global energy infrastructure does not dramatically change in the next 12 years it will be too late. i so if we don't drastically change the way we produce energy, we're -- 12 years from now. >> tucker: the point you are making it's really serious and i'm. >> it's very serious. >> tucker: i don't know if that's known or not, actually. but i'm assuming that you are right and i'm taking your assumption and reaching the logical conclusion which isus if this is really serious we need to get after the people who are causing it. >> right. >> tucker: it's china. >> yeah. >> tucker: you made excuses for their behavior saying they can't really do anything until we lead the way. >> i didn't say that no. >> tucker: you did. >> i said we are not in a position to approach them and ask them to join us. >> tucker: right. >> we pulled out of the paris climate agreement. >> tucker: the paris climate

agreement didn't ask them to reduce their carbon. what? no, it actually allowed them to increase the carbon they emit into the atmosphere. >> give an example of where the u.s.' priorities are now. amp >> tucker: that's insane, if you really believe this why aren't you telling the biggest polluter in the world to knock it off and you don't.el why aren't we. >> if you look at china. false narrative that they're not investing. >> tucker: false narrative. >> they are not investing anything right now in green energy. they are reducing greatly. >> tucker: i don't know what green energy is i'm telling because it's such a large category it halls no meaning. i want to go to the science. the science tells us they are emittingci twice the carbon we are. yet, you are making excuses for them and saying we need to do it first because why? t that's like saying we can't fight authoritarian regime because we have voter fraud problems. no, they are destroying the earth and you are making excuses for them. and allth a the environmental groups are taking their money and don't you think you should be ashamed for doinghe that. >> not chinese money. >> tucker: yes, they are. >> first of all, not saying that the chinese should not stepep up to the table.

>> tucker: step up to the table? they are destroying the earth. >> they should absolutely do. this of course calling on them to do this as much as we are. i'm sayingng we cannot politically approach them. >> tucker: what do you mean politically this is not geopolitical. it's moral. >> ask our government to goo join>> us and when we won't do it ourselves. >> tucker: you are telling us wee need to shut down every power plant. >> we need to put our money where our mouth is. >> tucker: i'm not talking about money i'm talking about savingeth.. a moral rhetoric of every democratic presidential candidate right now today and applying it to a foreign country that they like much more than they like the united states and you are making excuses for that country.or >> i'm not. i'm approaching this from a very logical standpoint. >> tucker: really? >> saying that the u.s. government cannot demand. >> tucker: why? >> they should demand but it's not going to be effective unless we are always doing it ourselves.. how does that not make sense you? can't tell someone to join new a fight if you are not fighting that fight yourself. >> tucker: really. >> go fight climate change we will do it too.

don't worry about it. we have to show them we are invested in this. >> tucker: they are polluting twice as much as we are. they are the world offense biggest polluter by a factor of 100 percent. >> they are. >> tucker: making excuses. >> we are america. why shouldn't would he be leading the way. >> tucker: we have a higher standard. >> we do have a higher standard. we are the united states of america. >> tucker: we have to wage world war ii against ourselves. >> have the chinese join us. we cannot expect them to join in this fight if we're not doingno ourselves. i don't understand how you are not getting it. >> tucker: it's their crime and we should told them accountable for it? >> we should hold them accountable. >> tucker: we are the guilty wones. nate, i get it thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> tucker: high speed rail is central to the green new deal which says that rail would replace cars. okay. does high speed rail work? has it been tried anywhere? how abouts our biggest state california which was trying to build a high speed rail

line between san francisco and l.a. yet, yesterday, it cancelled that route. why? because it didn't work. the cost rose to a staggering $77 billion. chuck devore has watched $this up close. a former california assemblyman and vice president of the national initiative of public policy foundationio and he joins us tonight.it chuck,s what was sudden lay california story is now a national story because light rail is a centerpiece of the green new deal. why didn't it work in california? >> well, it got too expensive. the travel times were way too slow. ticket prices were about double what you would pay forer southwest airlines. and it became very apparent that they promised something that they couldn't deliver. they said they were going to have this project that would have all this private money and investment. it wouldn't have to cause taxes to go up. look, they haven't gotten a penny in private investment. the federal government has put $3.5 billion into it. and now they are in material breach of their agreement with the federal government. i think the federal government f should ask for

that money back and use it to build the wall. >> tucker: i'm just a little bit confused because it sounds like it's not that it didn't work in california. it sounds like it was a flaming disaster. a fireball of lies and embarrassment. and so why would you take that and make it the centerpiece of your energy policy? >> well, you had a lot ofor crony corporatism and big labor involved in selling this to the public. so, it narrowly passed in 2008 with obama at the top of the ticket. got 52.7% of the vote. it was backed by corporations like see men's, the locomotive manufacturer out of germany and big labor. and it's basically been a crony corporate gravy train from day one. now, the problem is at the rate they are spending money, they wouldn't finish the route for about 100 years. r and as i recall, we are all supposed to be dead by then. isn't that how it's supposed totois work. >> tucker: actually, i think it's 12 years. what you are saying is they

are paying off their campaign contributors and calling it an environmental policy. chuck devore i appreciate you coming on and clarifying. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we have a fox news alert for you. congress on the brink, apparently, of working out a government funding deal to end the f shutdown over a border wall. david has the new exclusive reporting on where we are in those negotiations and he joins us right now. david? >> hey, tucker, good evening. some members of congress are clearly in favor of this border security package. others say not soo much. president trump has made it very clear he's unhappy about the language we are told all indications are that the president will sign it. in fact,ig the white house hasn't even seen the final package at this point. we're told that text is being worked out but thebe president and his team will see it at some point tomorrow. february 15th is the deadline. that is friday. for members of congress to get a package to the president. now we are told that it's possible there could be another shutdown. however, presidentnt trump has backed away from that in recent days.wa

tucker tonight we are learning majority leader mitch mcconnell is expressing concern and accused democrats of adding what are called poison pill provisions intoil the deal. a source s tells "tucker carlson tonight" one allows, one of those provisions allows small town mayors to veto any part of a wall built in their specific jurisdiction. democratic aides tell fox news they're optimistic the billl will pass in the house. there is democratic concern that. conservatives may turn fellow republicans against the deal that would fund the wall not at 5.7 billion but instead 1.4 billion for additional 55 miles of 5 a barrier tucker late this afternoon house freedom caucus talked about introducing a continuing resolution to fund the government for another week, basically just kicking this down theus road for another week, re-setting while these negotiations continue. if that doesn't happen, tomorrow is expected to be the final vote. the deadline is friday so certainly we will be in the 11th hour on this budget battle, tucker. >> tucker: cliff hanger after cliff hanger, daviduc spunt for us. thank you very much.

>> sure. >> tucker: congressman ilhan omar becoming a standard bearer for the party. apparently this is interesting. she is immune from criticism. we learned that today. why is that? i will tell you after the break. ♪

♪ check in from afar with remote access, and have professional monitoring backing you up with xfinity home. demo in an xfinity store. call, or go online today. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: congressman woman ilhan omar is picking another fight this time over sports. in a new letter to usa power lifting omar attacks the organization because it opposes having a biological male compete against women in a lifting competition.

omar claims ludicrously that biological males have no advantage over women. that's in defiance of about a million years or so of evidence to the contrary. it doesn't matter though omar's letter is the latest case of powerful people on the left bullying anyone they can'ton control. you saw the same thing with the gay marriage debate. any christian owned bakery that doesn'tis want to bake a cake in ruin. those are the new rules. what about muslim owned bakeries, do the rules apply there too? steven asked that question a while back and he found pretty much what you would expect. lots of muslim owned bakeries will not bake wedding cakes and we are not complaining about that private business owners shouldn't be enforced to engage in they find immoral.in the left doesn't agree. so, where is the letter from congresswoman omar demanding that muslim bakeries whom won't bake these cakes be shut down? we are s still looking for that letter and what about omar's own mosque, by the

way? does it perform gay marriages? and if it doesn't has he complained about that has she denounced them. we called her office today to find out. they haven't replied yet. we suspect we will be waiting for while for an answer. y but we are always open to one. congresswoman omar is starting a lot of fights recently for a newcomer she is in the center of many newsto stories. today on capitol hill she berated the new envoy to venezuela elliott abrams accusing him of being a liar and attacking him over the iran contra affair that took place more than 30 years ago. here spartan of it? >> more than 800 civilians including children as young as two years old were brutally murdered by u.s. trained troops. you later said that the u.s. policy in el salvador was a fabulous achievement. yes or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch? >> that is a ridiculous question.

>> yes or no. >> no. >> i will. i will take that as a "yes." >> i'm sorry, mr. chairman, i'm not going to respond to that kind of personal attack. >> tucker: congresswoman omar of course is a refugee to this country she was born in mogadishu spent most of her time political life attacking this country as immoral.f she also supports a number of policy ideas like the green newne deal that don't make mathematical sense. she is also for abolishing ice. so there are things you could criticize about the congresswoman but you are not allowed to criticize her. a new piece in politico argued that. now why? well not because what he what she says is factually true but because, of course, of her identity. quote: the g.o.p. strategy risks the backlash the party that has problems with women and minors continues to focus its attacks on women of color, end quote. not a woman it disagrees with you about on woman of color. their color is t the most important part to the people of politico. msnbc agreed with this, of course, in a segment

yesterday one of its guests said it was quote not a good look for conservatives to attack congresswoman omar because she is a woman her actual views are irrelevant. it's about her identity. michelle malkin is a syndicated columnist and olauthor and she joins us tonight. michelle, thank you for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. tuck tub one of them that the rest of us are deprived an interesting debate over the issues when that debate is shut down on the basis of characteristics, you are thisf color the person you are talking about is that color no more conversation. we don'tio even get to hear what the issues are. >> yeah. it is cheating the american public of a true, honest and vigorous debate on very important policy matters. land i also feel a little bit left out, tucker. because this immunity shield is only provided to certain privileged women of color who.enor [laughter] >> good point. claim certain ideology over the last 25 centuries i have never had this privilege who is handing out the wonder

woman bracelets deflect all bullets of criticism because i have never gotten one. it's that double standard of the attacks that women and people of color who are conservative or limited government or libertarian never enjoy that ilhan omar has. and it's not just the left that claims this privilege for these radical racist, hateful women like ilhan omar nationals in the beltway call them conservatives like jennifer reuben at "the washington post" carrying water for these people.to and you look at the hearing today that you showed a little clip of, what was that? it was coordinated kabuki pink hasode achieved itsam dream of having essentially an ideological intern now sitting on the other side of the aisle carrying water for them. amazing.r r >> tucker: what i find so striking though if you are making the argument that people should be -- people

of one color should be allowed to say one thing and people of another color can't say that thing because of their s color, that's by definition a racist argument. you are a racist if you are making that argument. again, by definition. and, yet, it's the same people who make that argument who are always denouncing everyone else as racist. >> yeah. >> tucker: what do you make of that. >> well, i diagnosed this at least online as what i call silicon valley sharia. a perfect example, of course is that ilhan omar is allowed to tweet heinous vile things jewish woman first to criticize her before she was elected isvi banned from twitter. and this is insanity when you have louis farrakhan i guess a man of color who is allowed to call jews termites on twitter. is he still on twitter and ilhan omar is still on twitter and the brave critics of jihad and this narrowing of what's allowed in public debate are increasingly being

de-platformed. because of these people on the left smell fear, tucker carlson that they have been get away with it. > tucker: i totally agree with that because the cowardice of a lot of people in washington who should be p defending their people and right to speak honestly in public have run away. i agree with that completely michelle malkin. thank you tore saying that. >> you bet. >> tucker: not allowed to have voter i.d. we are told because it's a form of voter suppression. is that actuallyt true? is it a factual matter? is it a matter of social science? thank heavens somebody decided to run the numbers on that and check. we have got the findings for you after the break. ♪ g symptoms of hepatitis c. man 1: mine... ...caused liver damage. vo: epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. vo: whatever your type, ask your doctor if epclusa is your kind of cure. woman 2: i had the common type. man 2: mine was rare. vo: epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate.

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>> tucker: just about every modern country requires a photo i.d. to vote. when america starts to implement the same laws they are described as racist bigots engaged in voter suppression. that's fake, of course. it's all diversion. that's a law and you should ignore it. a new study shows just how fake it is. two university professors took a look at voting patterns in 10 different states and they found that voter i.d. laws had no effect at all on how much each group was able to vote. legal voters are perfectly able to get photo identification.an something you knew already and that these laws are only a problem if you want to vote illegally. but helping people to vote illegally is, of course, the

entire point of preventing voter i.d. laws as we knew. harmeet dhillon is an attorney she joins us tonight. it seems like the evidence is pretty clear on this from this study. >> yes. actually, tucker, the two economics professors, one at harvard business school and the other in university of bologna used data from catholic works with progressive groups on these issues. they examined 1.3 billion different data points and they had data on gender, race, sex, gender. and political affiliation and they were able to states strong voter i.d. laws 10 of them against the ones that don't. there was statistically no difference whatsoever. and so that really rebuts the left's mythology that voter i.d. laws are directed at suppressing particularly the minority vote, et

cetera, on the theory that elderly or minority or poor people are unable to get i.d. you and i know you can't operate in society today without i.d. and we need it for some reasons. really encouraging data. >> tucker: you can't have a job. you can't fly an airplane. you can't cash a check. you can't get government benefits. you can't do anything.'t it was prima facie absurd they still waxed self-righteous any attempt at voter fraud is suppression. i wonder if the right, if republican also begin to do something they almost do on any topic is push back with facts against this demagoguery. >> you raise a good point, tucker. we as republicans tend to become very intimidated when everybody or anybody says the r word. you are racist. you are racist. and we really buy into that demagoguery and back down. i hope to see more republicans step forward and say we are not racist. we are trying to protect the integrity of every single vote. i'm an immigrant to this country and the right to

vote is very precious and something that people don't have around the world. the way we casually water it down in this country by allowing people to vote who are not entitled to vote and 3 million illegal aliens plus in california, for example, is really shocking it's time for it to stop.ni i'm glad to see this data from non-not from a conservative source but from objective professors, economists and i hope that we will begin to start pushing back on this false narrative by the left. >> tucker: yeah, the only reason they keep using it because it works and republicans run and hide every single time. i mean, is there any other reason to oppose voter i.d. laws except to prevent voter fraud. >> i can't think of any. and on the flip side, and as these two professors point out in their study, the effect of voter i.d. laws does increase confidence among the voting population. in the outcomes of these elections and we certainly need more of that as well. >> tucker: that is such a smart point. i'm losing confidence. i have always had confidence in ourlw system and anymore. harmeet, thank you very much. >> my pleasure, thanks, tucker.

so many stories recently you may have noticed the press rushed to judgment before the facts come in. russia, the boys from covington and thought story around jesse the actor in chicago. the press keeps reaching premature conclusions but always conclusions that favor the democratic party. why is that? after the break we will tell you. w ♪

♪ >> tucker: it's been two weeks now since actor jussie smollett said that he was attacked in a racially motivated hate crime outside of his apartment in chicago. so far police have not found the perpetrators. they have not found videotape of the perpetrators in the neighborhood festooned with cctv cameras and they have rejected the phone records of smollett gave them saying they are heavily redacted and insufficient.

some other parts of the story coming under fire as well tonight. c trace gallagher has been following this investigation and joins us with the latest. trace? >> hi,e? tucker, in his first interview since he was allegedly attacked empire star jussie smollett emotionally told good morning america that he is, quote.e. pissed off, watch. >> what is it that has you so angry? is it the attackers? >> it's the attackers but also the attacks. >> trace: meaning those now skeptical of his story. smollett claims two weeks ago he went to a 24 hour sandwich shot and on the way. home two men shouting racist and homophobic slurs beat imup and put a noose and yelled this is maga country. chicago police said his story is p credible but so far have been unable to find any supporting evidence. they do have surveillance videoo showing smollett before and after the alleged

attack but nothing of the attack itself. and no video of any suspects. smollett claims during the attack he was on the phone with his manager but when he finallyy turned over his phone records, chicago police rejected them because they were heavily redacted. that's key because the manager says he heard the attackers shouting homophobic and racial epitaphs. smollett says the records were blacked out to protect the privacy of his contacts. initially smollett received outpouring of support but one of his neighbors now tells our corporate cousin of the "new york post" he doesn't believe him because half the neighborhood is gay. n the other half is black. tucker? >> tucker: thanks a lot, trace. it's looking increasingly possible that the attack you just heard about may not have been the attempted lynching it has been hyped as. it doesn't matter. it's too late now to those who only casually follow the news they will hear only the press' initial breathless coverage which showed the evidence as an obvious hate crime. yet another consequence of donald trump's america.

another trump voter bashing someone on the street. of the media are still treating the story that way. despite what we have learned in the w last two weeks. a recent piece in the online website apparently daily beast arguedtl that we should believe smollett on the basis of his skin color. that sort of openly racist politically motivated journalism is increasingly the norm. covington worked the same way. supposedly we could tell a few high school boys were evil because of the way they looked and the way they smiled and the way their parents presumably voted. take a look at buzzfeed's supposed smoking gun of the president ordering his lawyer to lie to congress there was no proof it was true there never was any proof of it but because it matched an established narrative everybody knew what to call it. >> it would be certainly a bombshell information. >> buzzfeed latest bombshell report. white house slamming a bombshell report by buzzfeed.

>> if the buzzfeed bombshell is true. >> bombshell report. >> tucker: thesaurus, please. dumb supreme a weakness for news cliches., unbelievable. stuff like that happens every couple of weeks. nobody inle the press ever seems to learn or change? why is that? joe concha writes about this stuff for a living for the hill newspapersp and he joins us tonight. so, joe, i'm recognizing the repetitive pattern of behavior where w people who are supposed to soberly digest the facts and bring them to the public are instead jumping to wild conclusions to comport with political beliefs and then not apoll devising or changing. why is that? >> because, tucker, how do you learn from when you are a little kid all the way through an adult with a career. you learn by being held accountable for things. if you make a major mistake and it's funny because we talked about, this the mistakes are never made, let's put it this way.

when also a was the last time you saw a major mistake in big journalism piece any big outlet against a democratic lawmaker. when mistakes are made there is never almost with exceptions ramifications, suspensions, actual firings. if you know you can get away with something, you just keep doing it one thing i'm noticing with this story here, tucker, if you google jussie smollett and attack, almostst every headline i says attack. there is no word, it's very key here before it alleged attack. when you take alleged out, it becomes fact. like pearl harbor was attacked. when you take alleged out suddenly it becomes absolute truth. so, in this case let's put it this way. if i'm a journalist i remove the noise here. i remove the fact that smollett is a celebrity. i remove the fact that he is anti-trump. that's not a big surprise. i remove the fact that these were pro-church alleged attackers that went after him. and i want to find evidence to support the claim. how do you find the evidence? smollett said he was on the phone during the attack with

his manager. all right. so man says he was attacked by two men, right? so if he is on the phone, then, therefore, he should turn over his phone records. when he does he heavily redacts them and his excuse is he doesn't want the chicago police to see his contacts? okay, how about the manager? has he turned over his phone? reportedly he hasn't. when you take that evidencece out of this story you have to question it. when i watch that interview tomorrowrr with robin roberts on abc, she better press him on that point. why wouldn't you turn over the only evidence that'sav available if we haven't seen this on camera? [laughter] >> tucker: she is not going to press him on this. it looks to me like maybe this guy got over his skis,ik m made up the story. we have seen this a lot. maybe it's's real. i don't know. i do know that two sitting u.s. senators harris and booker both immediately shoot statements calling this a lynching. now, that scares people it divides the country. it's racially inflammatory. if it turns out this isn't real, should they be forced to apologize for doing that? >> the only way they will

apologize, tucker, is if the press presses them on that. you made this comment. you read back the comment. now we have learned and, again, we don't know but let's say we do learn, what do you have to say now? you know that's not going to happen. and, look, it's that theme that we talked about over and over again. all trump stories, almost all come from a foundation of guilty. whether that's yes, trump must have collusion with the russians therefore is he guilty. the coming must have attacked the native american. therefore is he guilty. when you come from that foundation of course these are the conclusions that are going to be drawn, tucker. >> tucker: that's exactly right. we have known this for generations. any good editor makes certain that his reporters are honest enough not to act like this. hinobody cares anymore. joe con charges thank you. great to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: well, the trump miadministration is pushing for nationwide paid family leave. what would it be like for america to have a truly pro-family government policy? and is that one of thosefa policies?

we know of at least one country that's trying to makeha its politics help and protect families. we're going to speak to an official from that country after theo break. ♪ california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones.

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and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. ♪ >> tucker: president trump recently called for nationwide paid family leave in the state of the union address. fde today his daughter met with republican senators to push a proposal for that. it's start but a few weeks off from work really better than an economy in which it only takes one working parent to support a family? what a country that took pro-family policy seriously look like? it might look like hungary like a poet communist places hungary has a low birth rate. rather than trying to fix that.

with immigration and importing new people making serious attempt to help middle class family have kids and raise them themselves. spoke to hungary's foreign minister aboutok that. here's what he said. >> tucker: his first priority as leader of the country is increasing birth rates and marriage rates. i can't think of anyone else who says that why does he say that? >> absolutely. we understand very well that if we are not able to turn around the negative trend of thenf -- unfortunately a phenomenon all over europe then we will definitely not win the future. and we want to win the future. so we need more kids. we need to turn around the negative tendencies so we have put together an action plan. we have formulated our economy policy in thiss direction. so the question in the efamilies better to be brave enough to have other kid must not be an economy

decision anymore. this is where our policies put the focus on. >> tucker: truly conservativeve position. our plan here in the west is to let the depressed people die off and replace them with people from other countries. what do you think of that plan? >> this debate has been there in europe for a veryer long time. whether migration is the right answer for the challenges on the labor market and on the -- our demographics position is totally different. we think it must be up to decisions of certain nations and countries whether they want migrants on the territory of their country or not. it must be the countries themselves to make decisions he cwith whom they would like to live together. our answer is that migration is not the right answer but it comes to challenges on the field of demographics or the field labor market. it's family policy modernization of the

education. having more kids, helping the families to be able to have higher living standards and create a situation where families, parents can be brave enough to have more kids. >> tucker: could you end with telling us you think the most important thing that hungary has done to encourage people to get marriedd and have children? >> well, actually, we have formulated our economy policy in the way that supports families. we introduced a flat tax system and if you have kids, then you have deduction fromav your tax. you get exemption from payingax tax baled on the number of kids being raised in a family. so if you are around -- around average salary and if you have three kids or more, you basically do not pay personal income tax. which aleaves a lot -- let's say a significant amount of money in your pocket.

and the family in order to be able to raise your kids and we have introduced obligatory kindergarten. of which is free of charge and in elementary school most of the kids get free meal and free books. this is what we do on the high school level as well. so in order to allow families to be brave enough to have more kids, we have put together this family policy and this economy ogpolicy. >> tucker: i rarely thought we could learn something important from another country. i think in this case we can i appreciate you explaining it to us. >> thanks for the invitation. it's been great being here. >> tucker: thanks. imagine living in a country like thatng that made it possible to enable families.r since ray recorded that in orfeo hunk gary has went even further, plans to exempt with four or more children from income tax for the rest of their lives. that is a crazy idea, why no it's not a crazy idea

it's a great idea. former cia chief john brennan lies constantly but this time this rare time he told the truth about what he thinks and it's deeply revealing about where we are and where we are going. we will show it to you after the break.ec ♪

>> tucker: you would be shocked to learn that after twot years, the senate intel committee has found no evidence that donald trump colluded with russia. some kind of packed in the basement of skull and bones to steal the election. former cia chief john brennan says don't worry, though, congressional investigations don't matter. on the robert mueller's investigation is the real information. watch this. speak it we should be willing to accept with whateverde robert mueller comes out with. he has access to a lot more than the senator hassan intelligence committee. >> tucker: in other words, our elected officials don't deserve all the facts. only an unelected prosecutor should get all the facts. wait. wasn't this all supposed to be about protecting democracy? for the left, democracy is really just the ruling class

wants. don't buy the hype. none of it is real. that is of rose. we'll be back tomorrow. 8:00 p.m. they show that if this were an enemy of line come up with prosody, smugness, and groupthink.it hopefully with goodyear. sean hannity standing by in new york. hi, sean.. >> sean: standing by from the swamp. both places are swamps. they charge you a fortune to live here.ta you pay less in taxes. thank goodness for you. welcome to "hannity." while construction on the southern border, guess what, it's now underway. according to another report, "washington examiner," miles ofe desperately needed, brand-new steel barriers are under construction all along the rio grande valley. this portion of the ball was funded with federal money previously negotiated by the trump administration. nobody seems to report that. we've also repaired a lot of the bad walls that were out there. and there is no construction. meanwhile, this garbage deal that i've been telling you abou