monday night at 7:00. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." how do you know if you are living in a free society? here's a quick test. are you allowed to say obviously true things in public? or are you forced to law as george orwell put it in 1948 freedom is the freedom to say 2 plus 2 is 4 if that is granted all else follows. what if you are required to repeat things you know aren't true? what if everyone who hears you knows perfectly you are lying but can't say out loud. what if they're required to nod along and mock sincerity as if it's all completely real.

that's what a pep rally in a police state thanks to the leader of bountiful potato harvest they chant even as they starve to death. get the same feeling as you watch the current race for the nomination. pete buttigieg was in that race a few years ago when best known for being mayor of south bend, indiana. he made the point all lives matter he said it because it's true all lives do matter no matter what they look like. every life has value, period. that's the message of christian grant and of the civilization that it spawned in the west that can no longer b acknowledged he apologized for wrong-think. >> 2015 you said all lives matter when you spoke about two police controversies that were happening in south bend. was that a mistake? >> what i did not understand at that time was that that phrase just early into mid especially 2015 was coming to be viewed as a sort of counter slogan to black lives matter.

and so the statement that seemed very anti-dine and something that nobody could be against actually wound up being used to devalue what the black lives matter movement was telling us. since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, i stopped using it in that context. >> tucker: i'm sorry i said all lives matter. i won't say that again. going forward only some lives will matter, whatever lives the party deems meaningful. i am pence tant and i stand corrected the crowd nodded greyly we are glad to see your change of heart. some dignity as he went through the motions of ritual apology. beto o'rourke who is 46 years old and still skate boards. he asked about his wife staying home to save the kids o'rourke fell apart completely grabbled and whimpered and abased himself and expanded the self-criticism and apology devised for how he was born. >> constructive criticism it

has already made me a better candidate not only will i not say that in but i will be much more thoughtful going forward in the way that i talk about our marriage and also the way in which i acknowledge the truth of the criticism that i have enjoyed white privilege, absolutely. undeniable. >> tucker: this is what maos tribunals looked like by the cultural revolution. by summer can you picture beto wearing a white dunce cap counter revolutionaries. pretty much everyone running as a democrat this year face inquisition write confessions of guilt bowing before accusers on social media and begging for forgiveness. kristin gill brand read her confession on live television years ago when running for a different office. once expressed sympathy for the idea of a border. looking back see is kealy

ashamed she can hardly believe she said something immoral. >> embarrassed about previous position on immigration. tell me about that. >> i don't think it was driven from my heart. i was callus to the suffering of families who wants to be with their loved ones. people who want to be reunited with heir families. i recognize as we all do that immigration and diversity is our strength as a country. i really regretted that i didn't look beyond my district and talk about why this is an important part of the united states story. >> tucker: transfediversity is r strength. i once was lost but now i'm find. just mouth the words. nothing liberal about any of this, obviously, it is purely authoritarian, woke fascism. power over ideas in place of thinking, obedience. in return for dissent punishment, lying as an official policy. and not just conventional lying, the ordinary truth

shading of every day life but terrifying full inversion lies the exact opposite of the truth the kind of lies that regimes who seek total control must tell in order to maintain their power. the latest of these lies is that low grade mafia figure al sharpton is in fact a legitimate civil rights leader. all of the democratic candidates claim to believe that now. this week they trooped over to his extremely tax except organization to pretend he is the new mlk. >> i know that referenced sharpton takes this platform seriously. this is not the place for talk. this is the place for action. people like reverend sharpton who has never stopped fighting for social justice. >> thank you, reverend, for your wisdom and witness and work. >> a deep appreciation to you for everything have you done not just organizing the conference but more importantly over the years to make sure that this

country can live up to the words founding documents. >> tucker: the reverend sharpton fighting for social justice. where were these people in the mid 1990s when al sharpton was denouncing a jewish landlord in harlem as a quote white interloper just before his store was fire bombed and 8 people were killed? beto was still a manny then. christian gillibrand was a lawyer working for the cigarette companies. none of them were woke yet. they are now. watch them clamor for an idea that not 20% of the base represents raced-based rap par rations. >> sheila jackson lee form a commission to study how to do reparations. >> when i elected president. [applause] >> would you sign that bill? yes. >> would you sign it?

>> if the house and senate pass that bill of course i would sign it. >> i firmly support congresswoman jackson lee's bill to study reparations. >> would you sign the bill for reparations? >> yes, i would. i already support that bill. >> there are things that we need to do in the country that have been a long time and coming. one of those is to move forward with reparations. >> tucker: well it's like an altar call. in fact, it is an altar call, the modern version. but the bigger version isn't will we get reparations in this country. the real question is do you want to live in a place where the ones like you saw on the screen have more political power where humor and dissent are criminal acts, where lying is the currency of public life names you don't know destroy you for thinking the wrong thing. you have familiar with that world. have you seen it before. it's called twitter. imagine if it had control of the u.s. military.

authority of the book we have overcome. thanks for coming on. define for us, if you would, what it means to be woke? everyone we just played on the screen i think would describe him or herself as woke. it's a certain brand of political philosophy right now. what is it? it's a nonconcept floating has no reason. woke culture means to instill in people a sense of invoking social justice or injustices that have been inflicted upon marginalized groups but really what woke culture is successful in doing is inel violating feel to ho don't agree with more rays as bigs, as ethno centric as racist. and it is a form of moral bullying, i think in terms

of coercing people what constitutes injustice when with a constitutes a justice might be open to moral debate we are shutting down debate, really by invoking a nonconcept woke is really a nonconcept it really doesn't stand for anything. i think when individual rights are violated, we have a right as a more society individual rights violated in this area. the concept of awoke culture is really a bullying movement to shut down free debate. to say shut down dissent when so-called received wisdom by members of the very, very far left have been challenged on their viewpoints. >> tucker: what you are describing is really a form of social control? >> social control. >> how could you have a functioning democracy, how could you have bliewrlism

under a system you just described? >> well, you can't. you cannot. i think that especially on issues that effect the public interest. that effect the public. you can't have a thriving democracy in which consenting viewpoints are criminalized or demonized for example with the recent going on with google and heritage foundation and the president of the heritage foundation being on the advisory board of the artificial intelligence advisory board and having all, you know, conservative viewpoints being criminalize you had shear an issue, tucker, i'm not an enemy of artificial intelligence. i think in areas where artificial intelligence can nefariously affect the sanctity and dignity of human life you do need to have religious viewpoints and conservative viewpoints that can properly frame and question and debate policies

and research projects and then actions that can effect the dignity and sanctity of human life to frame opposing viewpoints as a form of bigotry or criminalize them. >> tucker: there have always been totalitarian forces. why is nobody in power in that party standing up against them? >> because i think there is a system of fear and political correctness that has been -- that has really superseded truth. we have spoke about this on your show before. there is a degree of relativism that takes prevalence over truth and objectivity and there is -- and the preference for pandering to people's feelings and pandering to people's emotions take precedence over the truth

and i think people would rather appease feelings and emotions will will comes from divergent viewpoints and i think emotionality have taking precedence over truth and standards for adjudicating truth claims in this country. it's a form of moral cowardice that has taken in our quul temperature. >> i agree with that for certain. you are not a moral coward. that's obvious. professor, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> well, we have described woke fascism. we want to bring you now a premier example of it. it's our next guest. at that time anna mcgraph, a self-described radical intersectional poet. social justice and armed peaceful protest. her profound pronouns z, zim

and zer. tweeting to 240,000 followers. a sampling of those tweets quote the only bad thing about ebooks is that you can't burn them if they are offensive. if a sufficient number of feminist were to join isis we could turn it into a social justice movement. the police have asked me to stop contacting them whenever someone disagrees with one of my tweets and they say we are not living in a fascist state. now titania has a new book called woke to social justice. i would go so far as to say all knowledge is a patriarch call construct because it has been acquired over centuries of male totalitarianism. every time a man speaks therefore is he contributing to a culture of andro centric hegemony. we need to assure that men today are speaking more than men. this is why i never stop talking even when i have nothing of value to say. you should read it actually you really should because fortunately the author is not real. she is the work of english writer and comedian andrew

doyle who is by the way genius. maybe too smart for some of his critics on the left. twitter's cultural have banned and reinstated his twitter feed no fewer than four times. proud to have andrew doyle join us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: you write one of the best things on the entire internet i mean that as high praise. why do you think you so disliked by the people you are mocking. >> if i were the person being mocked i wouldn't find it funny either. part of the point of the character she is po faced very sort of privileged woman who still think she's is oppressed modern day feminist believes in nebulous thing called the patriarchy. she never laughs and never has a sense of humor about herself. one of the reasons i wanted to poke fun at whole woke movement it can't have a joke. can't handle a joke

constantly looking to be offended by absolutely anything even when there is nothing to be offended about. of course the woke poke aren't going to like this book. the fact that they don't suggest i'm doing something right. >> tucker: someone sent me one of your tweets some time ago and it wasn't clear to me whether it was real or not. you must get that a lot. do you have people who feel this is sincere. >> in the book i constantly quote general win modern social justice activists alongside what i'm saying. not a million miles away from each other. titania only way to stop the rise of fascism government arrest people for what they say and think. self-contradictory joke. authoritarian aspect that comes with the social justice movement as it currently stands. i think social justice

should be something that looking out for. standing up against racism, homophobia. the rest of it. the way it currently plays out nothing like that. actually quite sinister. >> tucker: i'm struck that you are one of the only talented comedians who has been brave enough to make fun of this. why is that? >> you will have noticed the comedians are constantly told to apologize for any joke that causes any offense at all. the problem with that there is not a single joke i could make that wouldn't upset someone in my iewd yens. i can tell a knock knock joke and someone could be upset because maybe their wife was crushed by a heavy door. you can't do anything to people being upset. comedians stop apologizing it happened in america with kevin hart he made some joke as few years ago on twitter someone has trolled through twitter to dig it up and discredit and you can't host the oscars anymore. he has to apologize all over

again. i think comedians should stop apologizing for causing offense. it's called the real world you will get offended. that's all fine, isn't it? >> tucker: this are supposed to be the bravest people in our society that's the whole point of being a comedian is bravery and you are one of like two people who lives up to that. congratulations. i hope this book does he have well it deserves it? >> thank you so much. thanks. i mean, i think certainly a lot of people are nervous about saying things offend. they know these people can ruin their careers. that's what they do. they go through everything have you ever said. let's face it go through anyone's emails and tweets, you can find something be taken out of context and make anyone look like a monster. >> tucker: i have heard. i have head about that. yes, that can happen. >> no. you are pure as the driven snow. it can happen to anyone. there is real power in that. people misinterpret what i'm doing say i'm punching down. i'm making fun of minority

groups but i'm not. i'm punching up. >> tucker: you are punching up. >> powerful woke elite. these people have so much clout. >> tucker: you just summed -- i wish we had more time. you just summed up my world view in a single sentence. you are punching up against the powerful and that's why they hate you. god bless you for what you are doing. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: the woke left destroys all that it touches. even touching itself may be the real lesson of the joe biden story. the frenzy over his hugging is continuing tonight. we will have the latest on that. plus, the parents who paid bribes to get their kids into college have been humiliated. could they wind up going to jail? we have update on that story after the break. ♪

>> tucker: actor jussie smollett had a chance to make his fake headache crime go away. demanded he pay $130,000 to cover the cost to the city of investigating his act of racial and political slander. but instead of paying, smollett remains defiant. now chicago is suing him. smollett says he is ready to fight. matt finn has been following the story from chicago tonight and he has more. hey, matt. >> tucker, this evening, jussie smollett's high profile criminal defense attorney mark geragos is defying the city of chicago writing a letter if it proceeds with pending lawsuit against jussie smollett geragos' legal team will demand rahm emanuel and eddie johnson give depositions citing how quote vested they are in this case. chicago demand dollars

$130,000 from smollett for overtime they spent on police report that mig's mayor and police superintendent insist was a hoax. smollett was novembered it he didn't pay 130 grand by this last thursday he could be be sued and paid three times the amount. smollett did not pay. this comes as police chiefs demand states attorney kim foxx resign for what they call history of anti-police and how smollett dropped the case. police alleged foxx did not prosecute other solid criminal cases they bring her and even let offenders enter offers without prosecution. >> when officers are coming into my office who has a broken kneecap, one of them almost had their finger bit off and we can't get felony charges? our officers are not punching bags. >> in a statement, kim foxx indicating she is not going anywhere. writing, quote: i was elected by the people of cook county to pursue community safety, prevent harm and uphold the values of fairness and equal

justice. i'm proud of my record doing that. and i will do so till the end of my term. i plan to do that through the end of my term. have a special prosecutor investigate kim foxx. tucker? >> tucker: matt finn from chicago tonight. thanks, matt. >> jussie smollett is not the only famous person facing a legal reckoning tonight. so are dozen of parents accused of bribery and fraud in order to get children admitted to some america's most prestigious colleges. at least one parent has already announced is he pleading guilty to the charges could actresses lori loughlin and felicity huffman face jail time. thanks for coming on, emily. the consequences, if convicted, these people face, do they include jail time. >> yes, they do. the two charges that loafer laughlin and felicity huffman and 32 others face

conspiracy to commit mail fraud and committing services fraud u carry a penalty probability of 20 years. point something out for viewers why this is such a big deal. prosecutors use both of these charges as a significant leveraging tool because of the high and long penalty subordinated with them, right? and you don't have to prove that there was a public loss of funds in the honest services charge. so, bear with me on these stats. 97% of federal defendants plead guilty and of those almost 50% get sentences below the sentencing guidelines. so there is a benefit to pleading out, right? and of those, almost 60% are because the government recommended it and the average sentence for that kind of fraud is 26 months. so my point is that while these individuals are facing literally 40 years in prison, the average, if they plead out, because of the decades they are facing, is actually only about 26 months. so it bemoves all of them, actually not to fight this,

if the evidence is overwhelming. otherwise, they will be facing a long time in prison. >> tucker: they didn't volunteer for the trump campaign in 2016, so they are probably not going to get 30 years is part of what you are saying. interesting. one last question. has anyone from the colleges been charged? >> no. the department of education has launched a probe into it. referral charges to the doj. the colleges under steward of funds and uphold federal compliance. a whole host of requirements that they have to adhere to. essentially the federal government is conducting extensive probe including how they conduct their application processes especially in the realm of student athlete and remains to be seen depending on the data found in that probe whether it's referred for criminal charges. >> tucker: interesting. bigger deal than we realize you had at first.

emily compagno thanks for that appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: joe biden says he won't apologize for hugging people. the press is mad at him. they believe biden must submit or be destroyed. we will have the latest on that story after the break. ♪ ♪

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but that's not prince harry's only view on parenting. not all of his views are insane. after a recent meeting with mental health experts he said that for the night that's the world's most popular video game offered for free online ought to be banned. a central part of the game is loot boxes grant digital awards for players. features make it deeply addictive half as much or more than alcohol. prince harry the government and parents should act instead of waiting for the quote damage to be done. a psycho therapist detect and how to redetect. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: what do you make of this? i have read many stories about the popularity of fortnite people playing for days at a time. i haven't read a whole lot about what the effects would be. >> it's very addictive that would be accurate.

a game highly stimulating. gets the brain going. kicks in the body's sympathetic nervous system adrenaline rush like most video games. also sort of reward. have you things like skins, the other thing that you mentioned. there is also for the player you have the ability to build things, there is a team work element. you aim and things of that nature. so all of those things coupled especially for kids creates sort of a psychological reward, all right? and it activates the part of the brain that reduces dopamine. the same substance that you will get from doing drugs. so, you know, addiction is basically that in a nutshell. whether you have kids that are playing this and getting this sort of psychological reward constantly they crave that and that's how you get addicted and lots and lots of stories we could share if i had time. >> tucker: kids addicted to fortnite what's the downside of being addicted to fortnite. >> downside what i'm seeing as a therapist and out

lecturing i gave a lecture last night and talked about fortnite. downside kids aren't paying attention as much in school because that's all they are thinking about they can't wait to get home and play fortnite spending a lot of time after school playing fortnite compromising academic work. leading to arguments with parents. there is chaos in the household. any parent whose kid has fortnite has likely argued with that child. to me the biggest downside the game is recommended for children over the age of 12 and there are countless kids under the age of 12 as young as 6 years old playing this game. >> tucker: it seems to supplant human contact. if you are spending hours a day playing fortnite you are basically locked in a fantasy world without other living people in it, right? >> that's right. the other argument people might make put a headset on and play with your friends which creates interaction. that's not real interaction. there is nothing better than actual face-to-face interaction and picking up on the nonverbal nuances and

stuff of the people in front of us. >> tucker: a society hose leader tell us always about the children, children are our future. wouldn't they have spent some time thinking through the consequences of something this ubiquitous? >> not whether you have billions of dollars to be made u the world's health organization tucker last june, actually and people probably don't know this. they have now classified gaming disorder as an actual diagnoseable illness. here in the united states there san actual disease, an addiction. classifiable disorder. the question is we can talk about banning things. maybe we need labels like we do on cigarettes that this may be addictive. this may be dangerous to your health. when you see kids. i see this on a daily basis. a kid that would be considered the nicest kid the teacher's pet have parents call me up and like 12 holes in the kid's bedroom every time they take a way a video game a kid freaks out. that's addiction. >> tucker: 30 years ago you heard people use the phrase couch potato. it was considered unattractive at best.

immoral at worse to spend a lot of time passively staring at a screen like a vegetable. far preferable to get outside. you never hear anybody say that anymore. have we given up on that idea? >> i fear that we have. i mean, our kids are more sedentary than ever before in history. that's why we have an obesity epidemic among kids. that's one of the reasons. the other issue here, tucker, the natural habitat for a child is the creative world. being outside, making shapes out of clouds, scraping your knees, having fun, throwing a ball against the wall. it's not about sitting in front of a screen. that's not in our human nature. it's not in the natural development for our kids. it's not what works for them. not what they are supposed to be doing. >> tucker: last question. do we know the effects on the developing brain of spending three, four, five hours a day playing video games? >> sure. sure. there is a lot of all the research of my book has covered all of this, okay? there is a lot of research since then come out brain

neuroplasticity. the brain, whenever engaged in anything highly stimulating for three or more hours per day grow neuropathways to adapt to that environment. the problem is when it adapts to the cyber world it can unadapt to the real world. that's why we are seeing so many issues with kids with poor coping skills, kids coming out of college and can't interview well during a job interview and social skills problems and so forth. >> tucker: interesting. tom kersting, one of the few people thinking seriously about this. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: joe biden refusing to apologize for hugging people. washington is going berserk over that we will bring you the latest after the break. ♪ ♪ everyone's got to listen to mom.

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>> tucker: it's been two weeks since robert mueller finished his investigation and found what few suspected, some of us expected pretty vehemently from the very beginning there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the government of russia. to that extent the case is closed. members of mueller's team want to continue the allegations in a series of leaks to the "new york times" they have complained that the report, despite finding no criminal activity, should be released because it is, quote, damaging to the white house. in other words, prosecutors working for the federal government no longer see their job as enforcing the job instead the point is a political vendetta in an attempt to influence narratives about people they dislike. how does that make you feel? is that a proper role of a prosecutor working for the federal government glenn greenwald co-founded the intercept and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. what do you make of this most recent "new york times" story about what apparently is in the report we haven't seen? >> well, it's similar to the

journalism that has fueled the three year hoax that has drowned u.s. discourse namely that the "new york times," "the washington post" gives anonymity to totally unknown people to make claims that are completely of any specifics unaccompanied by any evidence whatsoever. so that it's impossible to analyze and journalists see it and start celebrating online on social media and cable news as though it's some sort of a smoking gun. i don't really have personally any problem with having the mueller report published since i don't think that in this case, a special counsel is just acting as a prosecutor, they are also there to say what actually happened. i think we would all benefit from that so that we no longer have to have cia leaks trying to manipulate our brain. >> tucker: i agree. >> one thing we do know, tucker about this report. we know very little. one thing we do know that these complaints from these anonymous leakers whoever they are anonymous objectors not complaining about the section of barr's letter that reported that mueller

found no collusion. they are only complaining about the part where mueller said it's impossible to say one way or the other whether trump obstructed justice. so, it's amazing that actually the part about the know collusion got bolstered because even these malcontents complaining to the "new york times" nomination mustily ar anonymously we don't have the problem with the portion no collusion we have a problem with the obstruction issue. >> tucker: what about the people dismissed you are one of them as agents of the russian government. where is the justice for them? where do they get their reputations back? >> i think one of the things that we have seen over the last two or three years is that journalism more than ever is a profession of complete group think and mob rule in part because it's really difficult to be a journalist these days because of financial constraints. big media outlets are laying off huge numbers of people. if you are a young journalist the last thing you want to do is stick your head up and challenge the

prevailing consensus because you could lose your job or if you would lose your job it would be hard to get another job. and also twitter makes it so that journalists constantly talk to one another and create these sort of gangs that are designed to punish anybody who challenges their orthodoxies. and i think journalism has completely disgraced itself at the exact time that they are claiming that a grave danger to the republic is that trump is demeaning journalists. they have done to demean their profession with this behavior calling people russian agents who question them or trump supporters or apologists or denialists they have a whole long line of accusations and new terms to stigmatize anyone who questions their dissent and it's really effective for a lot of people who unlike us don't have a established platforms and it's been really effective to prevent them from being questioned or challenged. >> tucker: here is a question i have been wanting to ask you for two years. you are making your critique from the left. you are on the left and not

a trump fan. that's a tough position to take and have you maintained it this whole time. why were you able to maintain an independent perspective on this when so many others weren't? >> >> you know, it's amazing. if you think about it, the question is there evidence to demonstrate that there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government is completely berreth of ideology. doesn't matter whether you are on the left or right technological question. one of the things that's happened is that everything is so tribal blizzed, so they actually want you, if you are to maintain your good standing on the left to lie. they want -- they are demanding you lie. they are demanding you say that you see evidence and you see a convincing case for a conspiracy theory even if you don't really see it. i have to say that unlike establishment journalists like jeremy and matt tlaib and myself there were a lot ojournalists who are very

vulnerable who have the courage to incur the wrath of this profession in order to do what journalists should do which is to say what it is that they think without any fear who it angers and very few of them are willing to do that and they deserve a lot of credit for that. >> tucker: i agree completely. we have had tracy on this show a number of times another brave journalist. thank you very much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: joe biden is not apologizing for hugging people. of the press is mad about that. after the break, we will bring you the latest ♪ ♪

>> tucker: at the beginning of tonight's show we showed you all the candidates appearing at al sharpton's extremely tax exempt conference to pay homage to them. they weren't the only ones there alexandria ocasio-cortez came, too. she didn't come just to pose statprostate herself. >> the fight has been long, y'all, this is what organizing looks like. >> that's right. >> this is what building power looks like. i'm proud to be a bartender. ain't nothing wrong with that. >> tucker: oscar-worthy? we will let you decide. aoc has issued a statement i

am from the bronx, that's how i talk. that's not how you talk, actually. we have played a lot of clips of alexandria ocasio-cortez. she doesn't talk like that in a single one of them. that's fake. that's what that is. well, for the second week in a row there was a huge amount of news. an explosive amount of news. so what better time to debut a new segment idea dan bongino's news explosion. where our favorite former secret service agent reveals the three biggest news stories of the week. the explosive dan bongino joins us live. hey, dan. >> hey. wow. that's some intro the news explosion. man. >> tucker: i know. >> nobody. >> tucker: it's friday. >> nobody teases a segment like you. >> tucker: it's friday. >> the first story is rough being a former police officer, tucker, the worst cases you can ever respond to is missing children. we have this story where this guy shows up. he pretends to be a child who went missing in 2011, a

child by the name of timmothy pitzen i believe it is. he, of course, turns out is not timmothy pitzen. they have d.n.a. test a guy by the name of brian rini who has serious issues it appears. a horrible story. this was all over the news this week. and just, you know, i have beina former cop why would you do that? you get. >> tucker: awful. >> it was a terrible story. story number two though is really, i know an issue close to your heart and close -- an issue close to mine. listen, this noncrisis crisis at the border is completely out of control. and i say noncrisis air quote because the democrats, of course, want you to believe nothing is going on. i wanted to put this in perspective. i was looking at stories on, this tucker, i live in palm city, florida. it's not a small town but it's not new york city where i grew up. it's a lovely place. it's a medium size town. we have 23,000 people. in 12 days, we had to let go 17,000 people in the country illegally in just 12 days

who crossed the border. not vetted, we have no idea who these people are. basically the entire population of the town i live in. in 12 days. don't worry, tucker. it's not a crisis. everybody at ease in the studio. are you in d.c. today? everybody calm down, there is no crisis, don't worry about it. everything is a okay according to the liberal, really unbelievable. >> tucker: there is no crisis in their world. that's one of the reasons they can say that with a straight face. >> in their gated communities life is peaches and cream, buddy. no worries at all. cheap labor, gated communities, no problem here. >> tucker: totally true. >> we can go on all night. >> tucker: massive divide in that question. >> i have story number one. i was thinking about changing it after that aoc clip. what about is it about democrats constantly changing the way they talk. just be real. >> tucker: let me ask very quickly if you were in the audience how patronized would you feel if someone

talked to you like that mimicked that accent. >> almost as patronized when hillary clinton said we are not that -- i can't even do that accent. what was -- just talk. these are human beings. you don't have to patron nice them trying to be something you are not. it's so artificial and phony. speak of which, story number one in the news explosion i will tell you teased this segment, i better not disappoint. joe biden i watch your show, i'm not just a guest. i enjoy your show thoroughly. your interview with heather mcdonald joe biden and the touching episode was incredible. your opening segment where you had said, listen, let's not fall into this leftist trap and have this antiseptic sterile culture. you are right. but, tucker, there is two take aways from this from my perspective. number one, where the heck is barack obama? joe biden i'm not a democrat but i was a secret service agent proudly for barack obama. you know, i'm not a bitter

democrat. he won the presidency, you know, i was happy to serve. this guy served with you for 8 years. where is barack obama? >> tucker: that's a good point. >> he has been oddly quiet on this. second, tucker, listen, we know the liberal rules are nonsense. liberal rules are garbage. but if the liberal rules are and they are creed dough now is that women are to be believed, our rule is women are to be respected. victims are to be heard, absolutely. be investigated. but evidence is to be believed. in a due process society. >> tucker: exactly. >> liberal rule is women are to be believed no matter, what then democrats, if he is your nominee, we'll expect to you stand on your own principle. show us what you really believe in and ask joe biden to step aside if he wins the nomination. you won't do that of course, because this is about political power. this really has nothing to do with -- >> tucker: i do wonder though for 8 years biden was running around violating feminist law and hugging unwilling hugs and obama

never said anything about it? >> no. which is very odd, right? because is he supposed to be the tip of the spear of liberal ideology all woke, right? one more thing and i don't want to take too much time. listen, this is creepy though. he may not have been illegal or anything but it's creepy. and i think joe is going to have to deal with the creepy factor. no one likes a close talker. >> tucker: dan bongino, the explosion. good to see you. >> i hope i didn't disappoint. >> tucker: you didn't. in the past two decades polar bears seized to be mere animals. living symbols of mankind's global warming sins. in 2017 a viral video of a starving polar bear reached hundreds of millions around the world. the message was simple global warming is driving polar bears to extinction the only way to stop that is to give the left total control over the global economy. turns out that polar bears are not dying. they are not in dangered.

in fact over the past 50 years the population of polar bears seems to have quadrupled over population is the problem. susan crawford knows a lot about the subject the author of the book the polar bear catastrophe that never happened and joins us tonight. susan, thanks very much for coming on. >> you are welcome. it's a pleasure to be here. >> tucker: so this is news, i think, to most of us who imagine that would are down to our last couple of dozen polar bears. there are more polar bears than there were? >> absolutely. one of the things that happened back in 2007, we were told that polar bears were acutely sensitive to the effects of global warming. and as it turned out, the bears are much more flexible and resourceful than they were given credits for. one much the reasons that we know this is that it turned out in 2007.

the sea ice declined to levels until 2000 50. they have stayed down at that level for the last 10 years or so. so, rather than two thirds of the world's polar bears disappearing at that time, in fact, poll larry bear numbers have increased. >> tucker: you are zoologist. you know a lot about polar bears have you been attacked whose voice shouldn't be heard u they told us the polar bears were going extinct. you are certain they are not. why is this controversial? >> well, the original proclamation of polar bears becoming extinct or being

threatened with extinction back in 2007 was that polar bears were raised and used as an icon for global warming. >> tucker: right. >> this became an important callusman for the whole movement. and that whole level of argument is being protected and one of the reasons that i am being attacked is that i'm using the data, the scientific information that these biologists have collected themselves, i'm using that against them. and all of this information in the scientific literature. >> tucker: wait, so these are people who claimed that they are standing in defense of science. you are marshallly science, and they are attacking you. does that confuse you? >> yes, it does confuse me.

why i can stand on solid ground. the information i' m using to support my statements are in the scientific literature that they wrote. >> tucker: it's a remarkable story. and by the way. as i end i just want to say thank got polar bears are beautiful and noble animals. i'm glad they are not going extinct. you would think that people would be happy about. this you would think they would be happy. it turns out the whole idea that you could blame these polar bear decline on global warming probably saved the careers of a lot of polar bear specialists so it's their best interest to make sure that this concept stays in the public limelight. >> tucker: even though it's a lie. by the way, they don't care about polar bears at all and you clearly do. susan, thanks for joining us tonight and for your bravery. i know you have taken a lot

of crap for this and good for you. >> thank you. >> tucker: out of time. end of the week. back 8:00 p.m. monday sworn enemy lying pomposity, smugness and group think. have a great weekend with the people you love. hannity is next. snow, from >> sean: -- could not be more clear. the president spent the day today in california working to fix a serious significant crisis going on right now on the southern border. meanwhile several 2020 democrats spent the day in beautiful new york city. pandering to reverend al sharpton. we'll show you how pathetic, how absolutely extreme and out of touch this party has become. it is serious and dangerous. first we turn to our hannity watch on the