died. michael james, you are definitely our midnight hero. well, most watch, most trusted and most grateful that you spent the evening with us on friday. good evening and we will see you tomorrow, shannon bream ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last summer cnn reporter caitlin collins was barred from the white house event after she asked questions the administration thought were too aggressive. as an organization cnn has relentlessly attacked fox news over the years. on the other hand, reporters ought to be allowed to ask hard questions of public officials.s. executives here at fox didn't hesitate. they loudly came to caitlin collins' defense. so did "special report" anchor bret baier, so did this show.w. >> tucker: the big story in washington today is that caitlin collins over at cnn was prevented from covering an event at the white house

yesterday. caitlin worked for me for years. she is a fair and decent person and i don't think she should have been prevented from covering anything. >> tucker: whatever you think of cnn, caitlin collins is a great person defending her was not a tough call. thenhi the white house briefly banned cnn correspondent jim acosta, jim acosta is not a great person.ot he is awful. ask anyone who knows him. still, fox news stuck to principle. even awful people ought to be allowed to cover the white house. fox immediately filed amicus brief returning him to the press pool. acosta got his credentials back. you may dislike fox news there is no question about this channel's commitment to free speech. we defend speech, even when it's unpopular, even when the person speaking has attacked us personally. free expression is bigger than any one person or any organization. it is the very heart of this country. it's the foundation of all other freedoms. we really believe that cnn and msnbc do not believe

that yesterday the dnc announced that fox news has been banned from hosting any of the democratic party's 2020 primary debates. dnc chairman tom perez went on television to explain that fox news simply isn't a real news organization. >> at the highest levels of fox news they are not playing it straight. i do not have the confidence that we need to take such an important part of the nomination process, these debates and trust them to folks who at the top levels are consulting donald trump before they do anything. i couldn't do that. >> tucker: so that's a lie and everyone in the news business knowss it's a lie. our news anchors don't consult donald trump or any other politician before asking their questions. they didn't in 2016, they don't now, they never will. tom perez is arguing that a political party should decide who gets to cover the news.

amazingly, cnn and msnbc agree with him. hjeff zooker issued a public statement. he didn't do it in his own voice. he prefers to lurk behind the curtain. zucker dispatched creepy spokesman to deliver the party line. >> fox has journalists like bret baierrn who do a good job but every night in prime time democrats are demonized. they are attacked relentlessly by fox news prime timele host. it was always hard for me to imagine a democratic primary debate taking place in those hours when figuratively nancy pelosi and alexandria ocasio-cortez are constantly demonized and attacked. >> tucker: they criticize nancy pelosi screams munich. that's not allow you had. they must be excluded. needless to say ubiquitous wind bag anna navarro agrees with that. >> fox news is -- is tainted with -- it's not irrational. it's not illogical for the dnc to wonder and suspect if they can get a fair shake

from fox news or if they will be set up. >> tucker: you figured out the game by now. it's all projection. everything the left says is projection. whatever theyhe accuse you of is exactly what they are doing. every singlein time. they say they are deeply worried that fox news might rig a primary debate. fox has never done that of course, and never would. e has anyone else done that? well, let's see, in 2016 one's of cnn's paid on air contributors leaked a debate question to hillary clinton before the event. before the event. then they got caught. there is nothing more corrupt than that. somehow their media reporter kid forgot to mention that scandal. fox news state tv they will tell you mondayio chromatic strict m party line. really? ever watched fox news? there is far greater diversity of opinion on this channel than on any other news channels. those of us that worked at

the other news networks can confirm that because it's true. spend a day watch the programming for a day and then theirs and for yourself. jeffrey lord fired from cnn for the crime of defending donald trump too effectively.fo they claim fox management is partisan. that's not true.th those of us who work here know that just check google for confirmation. has any current fox news executive ever publicly boasted about plans to run for political office? nope. but jeff zucker has. zucker is a partisan democrat. he has said so many times. and that may be why zucker is so anxious to increase the partisan division in this country. that's exactly what he is doing by endorsing the dnc ban on fox. when cnn says this network should not be allowed toto host a democratic debate what they are really saying is that disagreement shouldn't be allowed. they m are making the case against compromise and against bipartisanship. we reject cnn's world view completely.

yes, this is a divided country. we have genuine disagreements. they are real. but we are all americans. we have more in common than we don't and that's why you will often see sincere leftists on this show. sometimes we are tough on them. but just as often we will nod in vigorous agreement. we don't have to agree on everything to h find common ground with someone. this iss america. nuance is allowed. you will see it here.l you will never see anything like that on cnn or msnbc. on those channels people are the sum total of their voter registrations. you are either with trump or you are against trump. it's a zero sum world. it'sor ugly and boring and incredibly divisive we will never be like that. the left embraces that view because it increases their power. they don't want debate they consider compromise immoral. they say that they demand total obedience. around the world the left is working to crush dissent as cnn applauds from the sidelines.

in france right now to name one among countless examples of it former presidential candidate maureen le pen is facing a criminal prosecution for tweeting out photos of atrocities committed by isis. le pen didn't endorse isis or its atrocities, no. le pen faces three years in prison simply for showing what fundamentalists islamic groups actually do. in australia whatever you think of him he has neverys advocated violence. he has never even been arrested. meanwhile radical muslim clerics enter australia all a the time. anope police is being punished purely for political views and no doubt that is absolutely fine with cnn. a what you are watching across the west is a new form of social control.. it's modeled on the vast system of surveillance and punishment that american h tech companies have helped design for china's fascist asregime. step out of line and you will feel the pain big tech

closes your social media accounts, your bank drops you. paypal won't allow you to earn money online. amazon bans your books. you can't travel abroad. you are a nonperson. cnn won't say a word about any of this. they haven't. they cheer. you are a bigot they will say motivated by hatred. they seem to have no idea they are describing themselves. joe concha writes about media at the hill and he joins us tonight. joe thanks a lot for coming on. fox defendedjo cnn's right to cover the white house to cover american politics in the form of an amicus brief on behalf of jim acosta who is very hard to defend but don principle we did it anyway and now fox has been banned from hosting democratic debates and they are gloating. tell me how this works. >> well, for one, jim acosta has called fox state run tv on several occasions. chris cuomo just did this week as has its senior chief media correspondent so, yeah, as you said it's not returned in kind. one thing to correct you on

monologue you said cnn had shared a debate question with the clinton campaign a singularly you mentioned that actually happened twice at two different town halls one they sponsored with another news organization.y one that they did solo. so this happened twice through donna brazile through the clinton campaign. it isthth interesting to hear them talk about. >> tucker: unbelievable. i didn't even know that that doesn't get a lot of coverage from their media critic zucker spokesman. >> i haven't seen that very much. bottom line unlike this network that brought in outside firm during the roger ailes controversy to investigate. cnn never brought in external firm to investigate f how that happened because that's a very serious thing, obviously. just unpack a couple things. you talked about how also said senior media correspondent talked about how democrats are d human on this network and that doesn't explain how tulsi gabbard appeared

on your show last week and tweeted after to her hundreds of thousands of followers video off thevi segment. doesn't explaingmt. why kamala harris did an interview on fox news why clague. john delaney, all presidential candidates appearing on the network but amy clothes but char said this to bret baier one of the reaches i came on this show i believe that candidates for officewh whether democrat or republican have to go not just where it's comfortable but where it is uncomfortable. but you know fox may not always be comfortable for democrats but i want to make that point. and tom perez, the head of the dnc doesn't understand the challenge that his candidates have. there is probably going to be 20 of them with no clear frontrunner because joe biden, let's face it, it sucks to be white and establishment these days. they have to stand out somehow. the way do you that is to get the voters that are in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, the states that trump won. florida, north carolina, arizona, and you don't do that by going on networks where most of the people watching are going to vote against donald trump anyway. >> tucker: also, if you care

about the country, then you t are going to encourage a free exchange and open exchange of ideas. this show aggressively pursues democrats. not simply to tear down do that and itear down think it's warranted but also to agree with because there are some things they are saying that are right. we complimented aoc for criticizing no, for paying the biggest company in the world to come there amazon. we complicated -- complimented her. she was right. and they don't want that. why wouldn't they encourage a conversation rather than shutting one down. >> i would think that would be the case. echo chambers are quite boring in a free exchange of reideas.n a free exchange of what your show does i have noticed against others and maybe this is a little bit of inside baseball a lot have panels like the brady bunch watching like six or eight people yelling. i havein only seen you do one on one. i have never seen you interview two or three people at a time. >> tucker: you never will. >> that makes for better television in terms of television in terms of the bottom line is that candidate donald trump

understood that to win he had to go on those other networks during the primaries. msnbc morning joe a regular guest. cnn he was on often and he got the nomination and that's what these candidates have to do. they want to do it but the dnc isn't allowing it to happen,g tucker. >> tucker: it's really a mistake. joe, it's great to see you, thank you for that. >> good to see you. >> tucker: well, express anything any dissent from the prevail fair trade coffee shop view on the television and the left will try to shut you down. trust me we have lived that. if you do it in real life they may physically attack you and call themselves victims. hayden williams learned that lesson the hardway last month. a he was attacked while trying to recruit conservatives at uc berkeley yesterday apparent attacker zachery greenberg pleaded not guilty to three felonies in the i incident. larry elder is a long-time californian one of the smartest and radio show host and he joins us h tonight. thanks for coming on. my first thought since have you been there i think your whole life, could you wear a donald trump hat or shirt and walk into griffith park in los angeles?

how would you do that? >> it wouldn't be advisable. i livees on the west side of los angeles and i wouldn't think about wearing a maga cap to anywhere like santa monica. you are literally asking for somebody tog hit you in the face. it's not just about hats. it's about bumper stickers during the 2016 election put a donald trump bumper sticker on your car and drive it somewhere on the west side and park it and leaf it for a few hours come back and see what happens. i had a show where i asked people to call in and asked whether or not your car had been defaced and whether you had a hillary or trump sticker. d everybody who called up who made a complaint had a trump sticker. not a single person who had a hillary sticker reported that he or she had his or her car defaced. it's a serious kind of thing. these people believe the other side, tucker, is not just wrong. they believe the other side is bad, is evil. that way they can justify taking these kinds of physical actions. the goodbo news though about the uc berkeley thing is the guy who did the assault, the pepper turned out not to be a student the uc berkeley assisted in getting the guy arrested.

>> tucker: good for them. have you seen anybody, since clearly we are in the middle of a moment but moments change, we are in a moment where one side is not allowed to express its political views in public for fear of facing violence at least in liberal cities you have. heard liberals saye wait a second maybe if we are punching trump supporter will anybodyre punch us? has anybody said this is a bad idea. >> i don't think so. you saw what happened when trump got elected in november of 2016. the academiact around this country went absolutely crazy a professor who likened trump supporters to terrorists. it's insane. and you look at the imbalance in terms of registration where weather democrat or republican you are looking at departments of polycy where 20 or 30 professors there one might be register you had as a republican. no no socialist registered as a a republican. nobody in women's studies registered as a republican. assuming has impact's on epthought and reach you have to conclude the more likely you go to college if you measure in humanities, most

people do the more likely you will come out left wing that's why tucker the democrats want to give you tuition-free college if you wereo likely be coming out republican we wouldn't have this education? >> tucker: why would you ever send a child to college i currently am. it kills me. at one point it's poisoning our kids actually killing some of them. killing the country we are opting out. how far away is that point. >> going to take the alumni to do something about it colleges depend>> on contribution from the alumni when they understand their kidsds are not getting an education they are getting indoctrination until then nothing is going to change. >> tucker: not impressive system and we need to be honest about that. larry elder, great to see you always is. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: green new deal impeachment, ilhan omar dividing the democratic party it is entertaining but you have to ask the question what unites all democrats? there d is really only one thing you are a racist. that's what they all

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>> oh it's unrealistic, oh, it's vague, oh it doesn't address this little minute thing and i'm like you try. [laughter] you do it. because you not. 'cause you're not. until you do it, i'm the boss. how about that? [laughter] >> that's right. >> tucker: that's great. i'm the boss how about that? meanwhile, nancy pelosi tried to down play impeachment talks last fall and then freshman congressman rasheda tlaib said that's not an option impeachment is at the very heart of her agenda. >> every single colleague of there issingle colleague of impeachable offenses. that's one thing that we all agree on. i think they all know the dangers of allowing president trump to continue to violate our united states constitution. >> tucker: yeah! well, it's>> getting pretty hard for long time democratic lawmakers the one who grew up in the system to contain their party's younger, more active vista wing as newt gingrich who

ran the house at one point observed today. these newcomers see the. party's current leaders as irrelevant fossils from an earlier time. >> if you are a freshman democrat, the three house leaders are the same age as your grandparents. i mean, they are not father and mother figures. these are grandparents. and i think if you think about a typical, you know, 27-year-old relating to their grandparents, you have some idea how they view nancy pelosi. she hassh limited control over them. a number of them frankly don't care what she thinks. so, i think the tension in that caucus is just going to grow every week. >> tucker: a former regional director for president w obama's campaign. thanks for coming on. it seems like what some of us have predicted for a long time is happening. the revolution is eating itself.ap >> yes. and you are exactly correct. these are the younger people. i admire them for theirouer

energy and enthusiasm. sometimes i just wish thatm. they would take the time to actually listen more and maybe talk less and learn from the experience. you know, i have been recently charged with being part of the old guard that's ineffective but we get the job done. and, you know, i think more americans across the country are falling to the centrist level headed category than the radical left. so i really think they would do themselves a service to just listen a little bit more tucker. >> tucker: maybe this is what you get when you don't run on anything other than not liking somebody. >> could be. >> tucker: jerry golden in the second district of maine ran on healthcare and he won. republican district h he won as a democratic because he a specific issue. but a lot of these other people just ran on hating trump and is he a mfer and i hate him more than do you that's not actually a platform, is it. >> no. and it's completely ineffective. it actually really harms what we're trying to accomplish because, look, americans the reason that we

have donald trump as president is because he was the anti-politician. i need for my party to get that i need for republicans to get that because americans areca desperate for us to work together and actually get things done and for congress to get to work to pass some bipartisan measures that there is an appetite for. >> tucker: so who is in charge? if you're nancy pelosi and you really see yourself as this figure in history, speaker, et cetera, etal cetera. and aoc shows up and starts calling herself boss, you have to neutralize her. would you ever be involved in leaking a potential fec violation against her i'm not a conspiracy nut but maybe pelosi had a hand in that? >> you know, i love to call out hypocrisy regardless of what side of the aisle that it's on. s so i appreciate that she is being called out for some of her own hypocrisy right now. nancy pelosi is doing a pretty good d job, you know, i have been a huge critic of hers forno years. >> tucker: yeah. >> right now she is doing a decent job of reigning in the party.

i like how she handled the green new deal yeah that's cuten now let's move on and was pretty dismissive of it ivbecause she knows it's not going to really fly with the heartland and the midwest which is where we have got to regain votes to be contender in 2020 and to keep the house. that's my biggest concern igright now. >> tucker: wouldn't it be useful if pelosi laid down the marker on that look we don't agree with the republican agenda that's why we are democrats. that's understandable. but thereem are some things that trump boy far the most traditional democrat ever to run as a republican is saying we agree with. why wouldn't would he be on his side for trade deals or infrastructure opioids? why not say that? >> we need to do that specifically.ht i'm glad you brought that up.in criminal justice reform, there is appetite. dick durbin said appetite in the democratic party for real border security. there are things we need to be working on and yes, okay, esayyou can say that donald umtrump said things that were

maybe egregious and distasteful about the charlottesville rally for example. but, okay. i get it but there are -- it's taking away to keep harping on that is taking away from the work that we really need to be doing and we will lose the house if we can't get actual things done for every day americans, tucker. >> tucker: yeah, definitely going to scare the hell out of normal people. i'm a little afraid. robin, great to see you, thank you very much. >> you too, thank you,uc tucker. >> tucker: lawmakers in the state ofst washington are planning to make homeless encampments legal statewide. huh. why t are they so determined to do this to surrender to chaos and decay? is there a reason? we will talk to someone from washington state after the break. ♪ arlson.

♪ arlson. ♪ >> tucker: last month the residents of martin county >> prompting the passage of bipartisan resolution with anti-semitism and a report by "the new york times" last week omares congress one ilhan of saying healthpro is role

lawmakers with allegiance to a foreign country. andd now back to tucker carlson. >> tucker: lastr month the residents of martin county kentucky received an ominous warning on facebook from their sheriff john kirk. here's what the message said, quote: law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist. we are broke. lock your doors, load your guns and get you a barking, biting dog. if the sheriff's office can't protect you, who will? that's real. imagine hearing that from your own sheriff from your own government? in martin county kentucky the median household income is $18,000 a year. almost half the children live in poverty. one of the poorest places in the united states. the county is so broke the sheriff's department can no longer provide 24-hour police protection. keepep in mind that in martin county the opioid epidemic is still raging. they badly need help from law enforcement. more thanim 50 years ago lyndon johnson traveled to martin county, kentucky to pitch his war on poverty.

clearly his solutions didn't work, obviously. but at least the goal was right. lbj wanted to improve america. that was laudable. that's the point of running america to improve it. our current leaders? not interested. not even a little bit. how do you know? well, consider that at the very same time that martin county kentucky ran out of money and, could no longer afford to protect its own people, washington was still sending huge amounts of mope to afghanistan to hire thousands more cops and we're still doing it. sincee 2002, congress has appropriated more than $78 billion in u.s. tax money to strength the afghan army and expand its police forces. even nowor afghanistan's cops are getting about a billion dollars a year. most of which, of course is, completely wasted as is most money we st send to afghanistan. just one tenth of 1% of theun money we sent to afghanistan could pay for policing in martin county,ne kentucky for a decade. apparently that has not occurred to max booed or

bill kristol or anyone else making foreign policy in washington. they care about afghans far more than they care about you. at least they are not subtle about it the message unmistakable. more sad evidence tonight of a country in decline seattle has one of the biggest homeless populations in america. more than 12,000 people live on the streets. that's more than san francisco has. the population is so hard of homeless in seattle rapidly moving from a nuisance to a genuine crisis. >> the campers on 5th and 5th 20 feet away from green lake homes are gone. >> it's a mess. >> piles of trash left behind. neighbors say not all the campers were committing crimes but many were. kristin says residents had to dealha with property crimes, theft, open drug use, and deafation on their yards. >> we are not going to shut reup because we are not safe. when our children can't walk down the street to the park -- >> tucker: this is what it looks like when a society collapses.

state lawmakers in washington though don't see it that way. they see it as a great opportunity. some lawmakersag t in the state have introduced a bill that would legalize permanent homeless encampments statewide. the garbage, the human waste, the needles that already routine features of life in seattle could soon be coming to parks and open spaces across the state of washington. lawmakers used to care about their communities they wanted orderly neat clean, wanted orderly neat clean, encouraging just the opposite. jason is a seattle radio host andal he joins us tonight. jason, thanks a lot for coming on. i hope i'm not overstating. this i have been to seattle which is one of the prettiest city notice world seeing the chaostice world and the filth that the homeless the i have a grant population has left there, why would r's any lawmaker want to expand that? >> i think part of the reason why they want to expand it is they have sort of leaned in to this idea of social justice approach to homelessness which on its surface you would say okay. but there is a lot of virtue signaling this whole idea that we under this new bill

that they tried to introduce that it would basically legalize the right. it's basicallysi a homelessness bill of rights. the right to survive in an unobtrusive way. they think that's a really good way to call themselves heroes. unfortunately there is a huge difference between survival and living. and there are a lot of people in washington state who are seeing what is goingen and saying you know what? i guess you are surviving while living in an alleyway or inor a park and using a sidewalk as a toilet but that's not living. and there is a group of people who actually want to get some results getting you off the street. we have got a lot of policies unfortunately that seem to make it easier to stay out on the street and quote, unquote, survive instead of actually living a productive life. >> tucker: i feel sorry for people who are i have a grants, homeless, drug addicts. i sincerely do. they are not the only people with an interest in this question. what about everybody else? what about the normal people with kids who just want to

live in seattle and they can't and their lives are diminished because of this? does anybody care about them at all?? >> when you ask they will say yes, of course we care but there are other people we need to care a little bit more about. the people who are living out on the streets and usually people like me and people who listen to the show. we always come back and say you could do both, right? you can actually support the people who are paying taxes, living in communities, not wanting their kids picking up needles in parks or stepping over human waste on sidewalks while also helping the people who are out there living out on the streets. and the funny thing is when you go to certain communities in washington state, marysville is about 30 miles north of seattle. they have a program in which they have an officer plus a social worker who connects with the homeless and they say very clearly to the people who f need help you either get the help or we are going to put you in jail. we will give you the help. we will put new a program and get you detox and put you in transitional housing. you either take that or we are going to make your life a little bit more difficult. that's actually worked. but that's a little bit too harsh for the folks who live in seattle who have this

greater influence in our state capital who want to push this ridiculous bill. >> tucker: i think the bill they are push something incredibly harsh, really harsh. vicious an attack on normal people who pay for all of this. an attack on civilization itself. does anyone say that. >> it's an attack on the people who actually are impacted directly by this. we should thought be making it easier to live out on the streets. every day someone is out on is that mucheone is out on harder for them to get back into a position where they are actually able to contribute to society and do so on their own. and it's just incredibly sad but yes, you are right. it also impacts the people who are choosing to play by the rules. you have tie a lot of people who can go into housing, into shelters, they generally say no. the ones who are not dealing with any sort of mental illness or addiction they say no because they don't want too follow the rules. i'm sorry we have rules of society. i follow them. you follow them. >> tucker: i don't care what they want. your job is to protect normal people and families. that's your job and anything that threatens them, you know, needs to take second

place beings, i would say. jason, thank you very much. it's great to see you tonight. good luck. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: time for what we think might be the most chaotic addition of final exam ever. greg gutfeld one the last couple of weeks so we brought in a ringer. we are worried about greg. he could get too powerful if he continues to win. tonight he faces off against a 12-time jeopardy champion a professional game show contestant, play along after the break. at midas, with every oil change you get a free tire rotation.

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♪ >> tucker: time now for final exam. typically we picked two hardened news professionals against one another to see who has been paying close attention this last week. tonight we have something a little different greg gutfeld won this segment the last two weeks and so before the streak continues and his egomania becomes unmanageable we have brought in a ringer tonight. is he 12-time jeopardy champion austin rogers. won more than $400,000 on that show.n he also hosts a podcast called a lot to learn. we should also add that there has been sad news about the health of jeopardy host alex trebek. he says he plans to fight

his illness and will continue to host his show.ll it is in his honor that we invite a jeopardy contestant on this evening. >> thanknk you very much. tuck. >> gregg: he is not a contestant he is a 12 time winner. you are a jerk. they didn't tell me that. >> tucker: we had to stop this. >> i did all right. >> greg: half a million dollars. >> tucker: by the way some of us are fans of your work mr. rogers we are glad to have you here tonight. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: for our audience i will repeat them. handsep on buzzers, i ask the questions. the first one to buzz in guess to answer the question. you must wait until i finish asking it before you answer. you can answer once i acknowledge you by saying your name.e.kn every correct answer is worth a point. if you get it wrong you lose a point. best of five wins. clear? >> greg: yes. i'm already going to lose. >> tucker: you never know. >> greg: oh stop it, tucker. >> tucker: this guy is really smart. i actually watched his segments. is he really smart.

see smart he is question one cory booker senator from new jersey, democratic presidential candidate was asked the other day in an interview how margaritas are made. what kind of alcohol is used? what very wrong answer did he give?e? >> greg: vodka. >> tucker: greg gutfeld. >> greg: vodka. i said it. uc>> tucker: vodka isn't used in a margarita, did he say that? >> greg: yes. >> what's in a margarita. >> in a margarita there is fruit and there is ice and there is vodka. [laughter] >> tucker: he was wrong but you are right. okay. you are one up. >>. greg: yeah one up. >> i'm a bartender also double terrible for me. >> tucker: that's hilarious. even after winning all that money you are still tending bar? >> yeah. because why wouldn't i? i getbe to hang out with my

friends and make money for it. perfect. >> tucker: i love that. good for you. >> greg: you can't retire on 400 grand. c >> tucker: my just saying i'm going to his show. >> three blocks from here called the gap west on 48th and ninth avenue. >> greg: i used to drink there it's a cop bar. >> there are cops there. i used to go to the gap all the time it's a cop>> bar. >> tucker: best thing happening on that block i know for a fact. question two. the national game show commission halls demanded this be a multiple choice question about food there is one on every show here is this week's. president trump just rolled outve another fast food spread this time for the north dakota state football team it wasn't just mcdonald's. they also had food from which chain was it a, taco bell b arby's or c if i can which i lay. >> greg: chick-fil-a. >> chick-fil-a they say chick-fil-a we could have had chefs. we could have.

we gotch fast food. i know you people very well. [laughter]w >> tucker: there you go. chick-fil-a. >> i'm impressed. >> tucker: they don't have these questions on jeopardy. >> greg: these are so easy that you are not used to it. >> that's exactly right. >> greg: so moronic, tucker, that they're below his intelligence. >> can you ask me about something about the battle of -- >> tucker: exactly. >> greg: who is adonis. >> reconstruction or maybe a book like something that people should read. >> greg: don't do that. >> tucker: i'm sorry. this is cable news. [laughter] question three which 2020 candidate admitted this week that he smoked weed a few times but gave it up when it caused him to cough? who is that? >> greg: bernie sanders. bernie sanders. >> tucker: was it really bernie sanders? that's disappointing we will see. >> a few times. okay. didn't do a whole lot for me. i recollection i nearly coughed my brains out so it's not my cup of tea.s >> greg: i might vote for

him for that when i smoked pot i just went toyota hospital. >> you odd.? gut get i got pair know a freaked out. >> tucker: this is part of an ongoing effort to make greg gutfeld lose. this is a 2-point question. >> okay. >> tucker: i'm a marinette i followow rules. question four. another multiple choice after this month there will only be one blockbuster video outlet left on planet earth. the home of the final video store is in which u.s. city? is it a, austin texas, b, bend oregon? c, yazoo city, mississippi? >> tucker: austin? >> i'm pretty sure it's in bend oregon. >> tucker: that doesn't sound right but we will see if you are right. >> rental store in bend, oregon will be the last one in the entire world. it's the same store our very own kevin mccarthy visited last summer. the only other blockbusterum in australia is closing at

the end of the month. >> tucker: amazing. you knew bend,d, oregon. okay. it's 2 to 3. [laughter] >> tucker: can you still tie it up. finall question. this is yet another amazing story out of the often overlookedf state of oregon. a man there was trapped in the snow for five days after car was stuck on aays after desolate rural road with no real food to sustain him the man survived on which fast food condiments? austin? >> it's taco bell hot sauce packets? >> tucker: that can't be right? >> greg: this is multiple choice?g: >> tucker: no there is only one choice like the old soviet union one choice and austin got it. >> there are no multiple choice in the soviet union:ive a scholarship? soviet. i married a russian. >> a man trapped in the snow with his dog he says he kept them alive by turning on the suv for heat every once in a while and that he also ate packets of taco bell hot sauce.

>> tucker: amazing. okay. congratulations. so this brings us and this is really a test on whether you watch this segment. >> rigged by the way. >> tucker: not rigged, i promise. we will go to traditional tie breakingom question. and it's this: what is the capital of the african nation of burkina faso? >> greg: wait, i think. >> tucker: yes, austin? >> quagadougou? >> tucker: it's quagadougou. >> tucker: our judges who are easily bribed and. >> you cannot give me that. >> tucker: you don't want it. >> i don't want it. >> greg: is he a fair man. >> that was unfair. >> tucker: okay. okay. then i will give you a second tie breaker question. >> i missed it. it was unfair. >> tucker: one of abraham lincoln's vice president was

from the state of maine. what was his name? austin? >> hannibal hamlin. >> tucker: paris hillmain you are right. you mr. austin rogers are winner. greg gutfeld. >> greg: you try so hard, tucker. >> tucker: i tried to help but i was subverted by our producers in new york. you know how it works.s. congratulations, austin. i will see you behind the bar. that's it for this week's final exam. t we will be back next week. pay attention to everything that happens in the news andnd see ife you can beat our experts. we'll be right back.

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left-wing outrage led to a plastic straw bands across the country. they were worse than dangerously unfashionable. but what about plastic bags? in a recent interview alexandria ocasio-cortez complained she gets too many plastic bags and then has to throw them away. >> i can be upset that i get ten plastic bags at the grocery store. and then have to toss out the plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough and that's okay. >> tucker: that is tough. clearly we need aggressive state intervention. the state of washington to prove a bill to band single plastic bags statewide. rhode island considering theag same thing because they don't have enough and connecticut literally failing. that state once a 10-cent bag tax with the budget deficit and bundle plastic bags under the as legal as fentanyl or a box off straws.

author and columnist of plastic straw mark steyn joins us, any plastic plastic bags under your sink? and i'm impressed by alexandria ocasio-cortez. because democrats now, for example, the democrats have never heard of until a couple of weeks ago but now it ranks high withinin the economy were obamacare. the way they feel about holstein destroying the planet the way they feel about reagan having >> only to say the sudden sense this is a boutique issue. we will be arguing about plastic bags at the time kim jong-un decides to drop the big one on cleveland. we'll look ridiculous.

what's awfully revealing about this is i think congresswoman oc asio-cortez sounds ungrateful inal the sound bite. i usually have my hungarian man do my shopping. but when i am in the grocery store you are standing behind a liberal progressive who has no plastic bags and produces a bag she's been carrying from price chopper to price chopper and has the food put in that. >> tucker: you mean the npr tote bag. >> the charlie rose tote bag or -- they are still good for the fundraisers. you take -- they take out the np

r tote bag. they have all of the groceries dropped in it. they don't have to have the plastic bags. there's no reason for this problem. she sounds as out of it as the famous clip of the first president bush marveling at the grocery scanner. which was misrepresented anyway. but in this case she found weird ly unwoke. where is alexandria's charlie rose tote bag. that's what we want to know? >>ba tucker: i think she thinks charlie rose is a tool of the establishment. i bet if you x-rayed her thought , she would be anti- charlie rose. next time i see her, i'll en courage her to get the tote bag. great to see you. >> tucker: that's it for us tonight. we'll be back tomorrow night and every weeknight at 8:00 p.m. to

see the sworn and totally sincere enemy of lying all of which are everywhere. good night from washington. sean hannity from new york next. >> sean: welcome. a brand new scandal with alexandriaio ocasio-ortiz -- cortez. also paul is going to weigh in on the state of the republican watch. we begin with a hannity watch featuring a sad and scary r