raiders were not heroes. he will be buried at arlington national cemetery. that's the "story" on tuesday night. the "story" continues tomorrow night at 7. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a helpful hint about how your government works. if you ever see consensus forming in washington run. something awful is about to happen. it was a total consensus that our trade deals could not be better and helped everyone. america's manufacturing sector died and huge parts of the middle-class died. and then bipartisan consensus on the iraq war and weapons of mass destruction that we would find there and didn't. and there was consensus on the

banking regulation before the financial crisis hit. and consensus on an all-seeing state that is now scanning your face and reading your text. there was much debut about those policies. it should have been. a new consensus is forming about our southern border. it may look bad, but calm down, it's fine. everything is just fine! that's the new word from max boot a columnist for jeff besos. here's the latest. this is from boot's appearance on cnn last night. >> i am ready to declare a national emergency. it's not on the southern border. it's in washington, d.c., but the president who is lawless and

out of control. >> tucker: who is this guy? max boot calls himself a foreign policy expert. that title didn't mean anything. it allows boot to agitate for more counter-productive foreign laws. he demanded military intervention in afghanistan, iraq, syria, libya, iran and north and called for the u.s. to topple the saudi monarchy. boot fell into the russian collusion nuttiness for 2 years. it's hard to think of anyone in this country more discredited from max boot. going to him for foreign policy advice is like giving jeffrey damer a cooking show. the key is never apologize. never admit faults no matter what.

watch max boot explain the idea of toppling the libyan government was brilliant. we just didn't do it right. >> we did a great job of overthrowing gaddafi but nothing to secure the country. there is a similar lack of planning for our pull out in iraq. there was little sense of what would happen when u.s. troops left in 2010. we can't be quick in and out. it doesn't work that way. >> tucker: boot doesn't explain how it works. he doesn't need to explain. everyone knows his assumption is the same as washington's assumption. military occupation is always the right answer. sending somebody else's kids to a foreign country is always the right thing to do. when donald trump pledged to pull americans out of syria boot went crazy on principle. no troops can ever leave. >> there is nobody who knows

anything about the situation in syria who recommends doing this. this is a christmas gift to america's economy. this will help isis, russia and iran and hurt israel and our kurdish allies. >> tucker: what did max boot not say? he never explained how keeping americans s is in syria would the united states. nobody in washington cares. that's why no one asks questions about our current military commitments? are we over-extended. we have 175,000 active duty personnel serve overseas. american troops are posted in 158 different countries. there are only 195 countries on the planet. this map gives you the sense of a scale of it. there is no world war in

progress. this is peacetime. this is one place american troops are not. they are not on our southern border protecting us. they should be. we could use them. tens of millions of illegal immigrants live in the united states. we don't know the number or who they are. 100,000 more are showing up every month. over time, this is how countries collapse. max boot doesn't think it's a crisis. nobody in washington does. illegal immigrants is just a right wing talking point for trump. what they are really concerned about: medical care in moracco. luckily we have the african lion. u.s. military personnel participated. and the plight of the ethiopia

navy. our 6th neat is on. the navy bragged about new talks about building the ethiopia navy. do you feel safer? -- fleet. they transported 663 metric tons of relief supplies in the wake of a cyclone. that was nice. in honduras we have 400 american troops. the air base squadron helped extinguish an air fire and they are building water tanks in an elementary school. these are all good works. done at taxpayer expense by the

united states. but what about us? we are being invaded. no offense to the ethiopia navy, but we could use american troops closer to tijuana than africa. troops protecting our own people? that's fascism! only in washington do people believe that. this is a retired colonel and the author of a book. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. this is in no way to denigrate the service of our troops who improve the lives of foreigners in a lost different places. why is it so repugnant to the leadership they would help protect us? >> contrary to what brother boot is saying there are no armies waiting to conquer europe or

chinese armies ready to pounce on korea or vietnam or thailand. there is no imminent threat. these troops don't have to be overseas where they are. why are they there? very simply because special interests enrich the ruling class. the lobbies that exist. foreign and domestic have enormous money. it pays people on the hill a great deal of money to support whatever involves overseas contingencies. so the overseas presence is a cash machine. >> tucker: to get back to the first principles, the purpose of the u.s. military is to defend the united states? >> correct. >> tucker: if there is a threat to the sovereignty of the united states -- >> absolutely, tilt 10 of the united states code says just what i said.tle 10 of the

united states code says just what i said. and the army has the mission to protect suter. the army belongs on the border. -- security. can you add more custom officers. it's not just a function of the wall. they can't cope with hundreds of thousands of people marching over the borders especially when they are told if you reach the border, you have to be admitted. we need marshall law border. i spoke to people on the border new mexico, arizona and texas. they all said please send troops want send the united states army. >> tucker: we will put on the screen a list of places the united states military is committed. our viewers might not be aware of the scale of the commitment. this is not criticism of those troops who are doing their job well. they were sent by policy markers who see what they are doing in

denmark, finland and france as a good deed. but why would it be offensive to protect this country? i don't understand. why is one good and the are the bad? >> the democrats look south and they see voters moving across the voters. the republicans are afraid of losing votes. they lack the courage to stand up and say stop. those are the two problems. no one on the left will advocate for the defense of the border. they see in the future a foundation, a human foundation for a permanent dictatorship of the left. >> tucker: you spent your life in the military. if you were to ask your average front line infantry-man, would you feel better about protecting your own country's border or our kurdish allies in syria?

>> the average american sailor, airman or marine arrives in the middle east saying there is nothing here worth my life. so if i see something i will pull the trigger. they don't see anything there that justifies the loss of their life. they would all be delighted to defend the united states at our borders. particularly the mexican border without question. the generals are part of the ruling class in washington. they look at the same cash machine. how do we justify bloated ground forces and huge marine corp and massive investment if we pull back and admit there is no

justification for it overseas. >> tucker: great to see you. why should the united states have troop forces in 163 foreign countries if it fails to secure his own border. this is an international lawyer who advised president obama's campaign. it's a really simple question. it's not an argument against helping the ethiopia navy. they don't have water, so there is a lot to do. it's a question of priorities. why wouldn't you first put those troops on our border to protect this country? >> as you highlighted, our troops do great things all over the world. that's how we project power and build-up militaries in friendly countries. if we need to work with them in the future, we can rely on and them have a strong partnership with hem. ethiopia and denmark, our

soldiers are doing great work there. i think we all agree that america is the most generous country in the world. it's also the most powerful. it's the country that needs to lead right now. we are being challenged by china and by russia. china is doing some of those things. would you perfect american troops to do these things around the world or china? >> tucker: hold on! >> [overlapping talking]. >> tucker: i will stop your filibuster. we had your foreign policy for 20 years. we have funded a number of foreign wars. i would ask you at the end if that period is america stronger than in 1999? the answer is no, it's much weaker. it's not working so why keep doing it? >> well, first of all we didn't have my foreign policy. i didn't set the foreign policy over the last 20 years. i didn't support the decision to

invade iraq in 2003. i went to iraq during the war to help out. i think a lot of things our troops have done have made the world safer. we have new challenges we didn't have before like the challenge posed by al-qaeda when we were attacked on 9-11 and by isis in 2014. >> tucker: sure. american is safer by fighting al-qaeda and isis. i have heard the talking point. the justification for continuing to send aid to honduras, guatemala and el salvador, if we don't a lot of their population will move here. we have been sending money there for years and a 3rd of el salvador already lives here.

why do that? >> the immigration situation at the border is changing. 20 years ago there were a lot of mexican immigrants. >> tucker: no, i know the story. >> now it's people from country in central america. these are economic migrants. they face dire economic situations in their countries there are not jobs in that country. >> tucker: hold on. >> let me finish. >> tucker: no, because you are wrong. we tried it for 20 years. it hasn't worked. they are not facing dire economic consequences. >> they are. >> tucker: no. the percapita income in countries around the world is much lower than those 3 countries. we are not talking about

nigeria. 191 million people. >> but they are not coming to the border. >> tucker: why shouldn't they? poor people have a right to come here because they are poor. why doesn't the rest of the world have the right to come here? >> i never said they have the right to come here. we have to the right to control our border and turn them away. they will keep coming until we help them address their economic situation. we can ignore their economic situation. they will keep coming. they will come by boat. >> tucker: [overlapping talking]. >> let me make one point. >> tucker: one sentence, we are out of time. >> migrants from africa are going to europe in droves. they don't have a land border. they have by boat.

just building a border between mexico and the united states won't stop migrants. we should help these countries. >> tucker: right, it's our fault. >> it's not enough. it's not effectively enough. >> [overlapping talking]. >> tucker: and then you have cured pancreatic cancer which is probably easier. thank you. coming up washington was shocked when robert mueller failed to prove russian collusion. the attorney general wants to know why the investigation was launched in the first place. a major update to the college admission scam and possible prison time for a famous but deeply remorseful actress straight ahead. [ loud traffic sounds ]

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>> this process is going along very well. i think that from my standpoint, within a week, i will be in a position to release the report to the public. >> tucker: that's the attorney general of the united states bill barr. he promised to release a version of the mueller report color-coded redacted. molly is covering this story. what will we get and when? >> one of the big take aways the report will come quickly, next week. there are rules that prohibit the full release of everything

because there is grand jury testimony. we will have more information in a week. the issue is the same: the mueller probe without a single american indicted for russian collusion. that's a stunning end given how much we were led to believe something more dramatic would happen. >> tucker: as a post script, i would like to know how this started and why? >> that's the most interesting thing that came out of the hearing. people were asking tough questions. and the attorney general barr had reasonable responses. one thing he is interested in doing how did this investigation get going? we know it's not true there was a grand collusion issue that we were led to believe happened. why did people fall for this. were the processes that should have been followed, followed? i hope it's a legitimate investigation. it's crazy we have not had an

investigation this many years into it. but finding out how did it start? the all of the criminal leaks that were part of this. people were leaking classified information. i am not sure if anyone looked into or been held accountable. >> tucker: i wonder why. i am not even punitive on this issue. we had a case of mass histieria. -- hysteria. we should know how it started and why. >> i don't care the means we hold people accountable but it can't be something we move past on. >> tucker: i agree. >> in order to make sure this didn't happen again we need to know how this was allowed and people who were engageing in these behaviors need to be held accountable. if there are laws to be rewritten, they need to be rewritten. so we don't have people using

tools for going after actual enemies going against other people. >> tucker: there is like a ghost ship. it's like a run away robot. not aware the mueller report has been should and continuing to investigate claims of russian collusion and issue suspects. -- subpoenas. why? >> congress should do its own investigation. the issue with the intelligence committee on the senate side they have not done good work in the last couple of years. in general, they tend to view their role with agencies as being protected as opposed to oversight. our constitution says congress should provide oversight. when you think your job is to protect them and enable them to continue what they are doing, you are not doing a good job with oversight and not being

responsible with taxpayer money and with the constitution that sa says congress is an oversight role. >> tucker: schiff said he won't be satisfied until the totally unredacted version comes out. will we get that of the fisa warrants? >> he is welcome to pursue. i think that the fact is we spent the last several years claiming he had definite evidence of russian collusion. he needs to put up or shut up with that evidence. >> tucker: how about resign? >> he was obstructing investigations into how this conspiracy theory was running wild. he was communicating with people involved in the conspiracy theory. i think media should not just

treat him as someone you have is on without asking tough questions given how strongly he misled the american public. >> tucker: he disgraced himself. molly, great to see you. new and serious charges against actress lori loughlin in the college bribery scandal. we learn information about the jail time she might face. details after the break. i'with uncontrollederson who moderate-to-severe eczema, . or atopic dermatitis... ...you feel like you're itching all the time. and you never know how your skin will look. because deep within your skin... ...an overly sensitive immune system... ...could be the cause. so help heal your skin from within. with dupixent. dupixent is not a steroid,... ...and it continuously treats your eczema... ...even when you can't see it. at 16 weeks, nearly four times more patients taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin

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>> tucker: prosecutors are seeking jail time for a dozen parent who attempted to bribe their children's way into supposedly colleges and universities. federal prosecutors are hitting lori loughlin with more charges. trace gallagher has been on this story. >> for lori loughlin, and her fashion designer husband and 14 other parents, the new indictment adds a money

laundering charge which could up the jail time. it's money laundering because when the parents paid the bribe money to rick singer, they funneled it through his charity. they tried to hide the payment and clean. it the parents were charged with wire fraud because the feds say they broad the money from outside of the united states to commit a crime in the u.s. some parents will fight and a few parents who fessed up early and cooperated may avoid jail time. for lori loughlin, her husband and others, prosecutors say they won't listen to any plea deal that doesn't include at least 2 years of prison. "people" magazine said lori loughlin refused a plea deal because she won't accept jail. her younger daughter got an

application finally accepted which was denied because of purchthuation mistakes. and felicity huffman took a hit. her new movie won't be released and there is no new date. another motive will launch on october 28th. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thank you. tammy bruce is president of independent women's voice and an honored guest on the show. it seems like the takeaway is what we already knew, a system that tells us it's based on merit is nothing like that at all. it's a lie. >> it is a little bit. some kids get into school. they worked hard. maybe they used scholarships. working jobs going to school.

studied for the s.a.t. test and did well enough get to in. what we are finding is there is a part of the system where some young people were pushed out to allow these individuals to get in. that's the biggest problem here. taking a slot for an athlete who worked hard all their lives to get that scholarship. that's eliminated. some people say what is the harm? some young people were shutout of the process. in addition to the fact it's cheating. the actions taken by individuals who could have everything as they want. it's a remarkable thing for americans watch unfold.

the good news we are focussed on these actresses and they are behaving differently. the department of education is investigating the 8 colleges involved. this entire system has to be looked at. it's not just the 8 colleges caught being involved. it's an infrastructure of entitlement because of the liberalism that guides that institution as a whole. >> tucker: since we fund these institutions through tax dollars and tuition, why shouldn't we have transparency in the admission's process and know how people get into college? it's the gateway to success in our society. >> right. we have 8 universities, 6 are private. two were public. even in private institutions like harvard, conservatives complain that we give research grants to these private institutions. there is a lot of other things. there are a lot of other ways

the federal money flows into these institutions. i think it's naive to suggest it's just a few of these individuals. as a matter of fact, earlier this month we learned that harvard is investigating their fencing coach who sold allegedly his home to the father of a student trying to get in for half a million dollars more than what the home was worth. there is a lot of different things going on at the highest levels here. clearly, we see that the washington structure is dissolving. the problem with the fbi. it's scary to think that the higher education structure is corrupt. we have to face it. it's like if you have cancer, you have to admit and work to get the thing fixed. >> tucker: of course. tammy, thank you.

ivy league universities are some of the richest in the world. harvard has a 36-billion dollars endowment. that's more than the entire gdp of parguy. the federal government hands billion dollars to these institutions instead of funding border security. the organization opened the books to reveal how much they profit from taxpayer and exposed billions sent to community colleges with graduation rates of barely 10%. the founder of open the books joins us to talk about this. >> great to be on the program tucker. specific to higher education we found out-dated policies and a lack of in-house financial

accounting control. >> tucker: give me examples. if you don't to people who don't live in big cities, it's common low-income people are lured into schools and promised they will get a great job and wind up with only student debt? they get tax dollars too? >> there are schools that the american people have no idea they are fund. -- funding. hair and beauty and massage. the american taxpayer funded those schools to 3/4 of a million dollars. the tuition at those schools, sometimes exceeds that of big-10 universities. your empire schools and high end beauty schools, the tuition is over $20,000 peryear.

>> tucker: if you are analyzing versus return, is this worth it for taxpayers to subside this and students to pay this to get a license to cut hair? >> with student debt, you could make the argument that cost of student tuition, fees and room is the biggest financial scandal in america. it's exceeding conor lamb -- consumer credit card debt. last year junior colleges soaked up a billion dollars worth of federal financial aid funded by the american taxpayer. their average graduation rate is 12%.

we need to look at accredidation reform. >> tucker: there is a massive lobby in washington that makes this possible. higher education swarms the congress. -- is there is a more effective lobby in washington? >> maybe the fortune 400 companies. we looked at the salaries. at open the books dotdom. --.com, we captured every empployee working for colleges across the country. there is a new minimum wage. $200,000 a year. we found 43,000 employees in higher education make $200,000 or more. in california there are 10,000 public employs that make more than $200,000.

>> tucker: lastly. what percentage are administrators versus teachers? >> i don't have the break down of the professors and the administrators and the executives. however, in the 8 schools of the ivy league. it's a perfect example of how they gameday the system. 147 of these administrators that make more than $400,000 a year. 47 make more than 1 million dollars a year and 5 cleaned off collectively each $20 million. >> tucker: [laughing]. i went into the wrong business. i should have been a professor. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> great to be on the program. >> tucker: 2016 presidential election did not go at all like the media and democratic party hoped. they have a plan to make sure that never happens again. the details after the break.

>> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: determined to never lose an election again. the left has a new strategy to solidify the democratic majorities. democrats will enact policies that will make it impossible for anyone but a democrat to get elected. this person detailed their plans in a column for the "wall street journal." thanks for coming on. what is the plan to make changes to ensure opponent majority? >> in washington it's easy to get mesmerized by the green new deal and medicare for all.

it starts with hr-1 the first aboutil that speaker nancy pelosi introduced. for speaker ryan it was a tax bill. for nancy pelosi it's to federalize state election systems to make it hard to impose registration deadliest. felon -- deadlines. felons can vote after they get out of prison and the house went on record in favor of d.c. statehood which would create a larger senate with a larger majority to start a new congress with. >> tucker: they live in d.c. they an it's the most dysfunctional city in the world. they are cynical? >> precisely. if they can create more states that produce democratic senators, they only talked about the district of columbia which senator chuck schumer endorsed.

they are talking about statehood for puerto rico. what they call full voting rights for guam and other territories which means statehood. you could start with a small democratic majority in the senate and expand it with more stars on the u.s. flag and more states. >> tucker: are they making this an argument how america would be improved by this? >> it's encased in the argument about franchisement and helping people get the right to vote. really what they are trying to do is to create impediments to republicans ever getting back in power should we lose control in 2020. the start is changing state and not just federal but state election laws. weaponizing the federal election

commission to go after people who criticize federal officials. then you create more states. the thing that is the ultimate centerpiece and this sounds like it could never happen but it's talked about seriously, to pack the supreme court. expand the size of the supreme court so the balance of power there would be tilted radically in one direct and stay that way. >> tucker: i hope republicans are awake and concerned. thank you very much. appreciate it. will this plan work. does it make sense? we talk to an actual democrat about it. four ideas endorsed by the democratic presidential candidates. allowing inmates to vote while still behind bars. are you for that? >> it depends on the state law. in most states that's not an

option. >> tucker: bernie sanders is for it. >> tucker, let's talk about the hr-1. if you like the status quo and like somebody who could ask for $5600 as a donation and then have their lackey ask for 56-million dollars. if you like that, you would hate rh-1. it will restore some sanity to our politics against voter suppression and big money. >> tucker: who took more big money in the last election? >> we don't know. >> tucker: which campaign took twice as much money? hillary clinton. >> i don't think we know. because it's unregulated. >> tucker: every rich person in america supported hillary clinton so i think we know the answer. >> some of those rich people are

ambassadors are now. >> tucker: that's how the system works. lowering the voting age for 16. for that? >> again, what we are trying to do with hr-1 is safeguard against -- >> tucker: it's a joke that children should vote. >> across the country -- >> tucker: it's an attempt to whip up racism disparity. african-american in some areas had bigger turn out. but that's the opposite of the truth. >> no. >> tucker: they had a higher turnout than white voters. that's not suppression. that scarce people. >> it's a fact.

in georgia we know what happened. people were stripped from the voter rolls who were black. e >> tucker: saying there is suppression when african-americans voted less than white voters that scares people. >> i am just looking at the fact. you laugh. for those people it's not funny. >> tucker: no, it's not. richard, thank you very much. 900 foot 1 bottom apartment in san francisco rent for $4,500. you can see how repulsive san francisco's trash coveraged streets have become. our investigation into the crumbling state of california straight ahead.

>> tucker: health officials warn

about measles exposure. newspapers say the poor are digging through neighbor's trash cans to make a living. we are describing one of the richest cities in the world san francisco. look at what our reporter found. >> [muffled audio]. >> san francisco manages this through 8 city departments. issuing 400 contract with 75 private organizations with no unifying over sight by the city that signs out the money. >> it's a big good old boy's club. the people on county seats are fo former owners of nonprofits.

we will try better next year. why is my check? . the checks keep coming. >> industrial homeless complex? >> big-time. we have a pharmaceutical industry and a homeless industry. there are people in nonprofits making $250,000. you is ridiculous. that's ludicrous. >> tucker: that video will go up on our facebook page. you made an interesting point. this is a money making operation for a bunch of different nonprofit organizations. how did that work? >> it's very interesting. i had not spent much time in san francisco. when i was speaking to different people and talking to them about

the different organizations and private institutions and how the money circalates between these institutions and put back in such a way that almost enables the behavior that goes on in san francisco from a drug use perspective. it's like it's sustaining itself. there is the money. you move it around. don't really put them in a position to improve their life. just keep them constant. as he said in the video. they are pulling home $200,000 plus a year. it baffles me. >> tucker: well, when you keep people independent, you increase your own party. the democratic party looks to did this. it's not like san francisco is not spending a lot of money on this problem. they are. >> they are spending a ton of money in ways that doesn't really attack the issue in a way to solve it. it's weird. just this massive sweeping under the rug.

they have been doing this over time. now there is nowhere to put the mess. you have a bunch of rich people arguing with richer people about where to put the homeless people. it's nutty. >> tucker: it is. it's a beautiful city. what were you struck by? >> initially within the first 2 or 3 hours in san francisco i saw more open drug use in san francisco than i had seen in my entire 35 years of life. >> tucker: that's a sad and crisp summary. thanks. out of time sadly. back tomorrow night 8 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. dvr it.

good luck with that. and good night. but the fun doesn't hend. live from new york city sean hannity. >> sean: i love when you give me the biggest build-up ever. >> tucker: i mean it. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." buckle up. an avalanche is coming. i have been telling you about this. it will destroy if this is any remaining credibility of the tinfoil hat conspiracy theory and the rage media mob and the hate trump left and those who abused power inside and outside of government, you are about to face the justice many of you deserve. we made a promise on this program we will hold all of them accountable which is a central focus of this show. tonight