she is definitely a "midnight hero" and that is what all of our midnight heroes are all about. most trusted, and great you spent the evening with us and coverage tomorrow morning 9:30 a.m. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." former congressman beto o'rourke gave a speech to kids at the university of virginia yesterday in charlottesville. beto had ato microphone, speakig to a group of students at a small amphitheater, and for a moment, if you close one eye, it looks convincingly like a campaign event. there were volunteers in matching t-shirts, fussing over logistics. o'rourke himself wore a slightly dopey uva basketball cap as he spoke, wearing other people's hats is what c you're supposed o do when you run for president. to be clear, running for president is what beto o'rourke says he is doing. it is all a little sad when you think about it. o'rourke is not going to be the president, at least of this

country.o his campaign is dead, totally dead. it went toes up last week from a fatal overdose of buttigieg. not everyone has heard the news, the mourning hasn't even started, but beto for president is over. he is jeb bush now. future generations will remember beto o'rourke, if they recall him at all, really, as a media story. h remember that guy with a weird nickname that all of the dummies on cable news fell in love with in a single day? that was bizarre. and it was bizarre. >> i saw him for the first time just a month ago when he sat down with oprah, and me and the rest of the people in the audience thought wow, this guy has this dynamic, positive energy. >> yeah, he has that brought talent, he is very obama-esque. >> womens voted for him in the suburbs of houston because they had a kind of beto crush going on. >> he is wholesome and earnest, somebody, "the texas tribune" said seeing him is like a "jesus christ superstar," seeing this guy in front of people, he

has a celebrity aura about him. >> the rock 'n' roll loving 46-year-old caught the nation's attention. ♪ his offbeat social media post appealing to a younger generation, even taking them skateboarding at whataburger. >> tucker: keep in mind, that just happened. the frenzy just occurred, it was just last month. college-educated adults in an advanced country with air travel and air conditioning, talking like that in public. pretty embarrassing, my gosh. but before we get too judgey about it, a confession, we did it too. beto's magic distorted our journalistic objectivity for a second, may be the skateboarding or the weird resemblance to a young bobby kennedy. whatever it was, we lost control like everyone else. beto loves rock 'n' roll, says gma. he is not like everyone else, he doesn't do stuffy speeches or policy programs.

he is not going to bore you with entitlement projections or some scary stuff about the korean peninsula. beto has a skateboard and wears nirvana t-shirts. his vision for this country as 1995, the year he was living wai uptown in this walk up, working as a man, knew this dude at west 112th street withs some of the stickiest bud in manhattan. a little heavy, but sweet. it was a good time. beto wants to bring us back to that time. we got a little carried away, sorry about that. it all seemed so innocent then, back a few weeks ago, back in march of 2019. it was beto and us and a dream. it was a simpler time. we thought anything was possible then, we thought we could write our own story. we didn't know that even fairy tales end, and one day ours did end. the magic turned to dust, bitter in our mouths, like a peyote button, one day the music died. bye-bye, miss american pie. bye-bye, weirdly youthful middle-aged white guy with a

fufake hispanic nickname. there is a new heart heartthrob in cable news, he is younger, he is shallower, he is even less experienced. he's got an even weirder name, plus he is gay. the perfect candidate for voters who say they love diversity but don't want to vote for stacey abrams. this candidate could have been created in a lab at cnn, and might have been. there is no stopping a man like this. at least until election day. on some level, beto must know it is over. he is no genius, but he can smell it. more than six months before the first votes are cast in iowa. he will keep raising money, his one real skill, but his political career is done. cue the sad nirvana playlist. so what are the lessons of the sinking of the ss beto? here is one: he should have run on something. it is hard to win on charisma alone, hillary clinton recently discovered. so why not be the one person in the race with real ideas?

they don't have to be big ideas, how about any idea? beto could have tried that, but instead he strung together cliches like>> one of those word games. remember mad libs that you used to play with your brother on the road trips? the long, seemingly coherent sentences that when you read them, don't actually mean anything. beto was big on those. here is beto doing that on the green new deal. >> this country was willing to sacrifice men and women all over the united states to make sure that we defeated germany, that we won that war, and for the following 75 years, we made this world safe for democracy. the green new deal called that service and scaled, scale of commitment, when it talks about the challenges wef face today. >> tucker: those are the questions that beto asked to just yesterday att uva. so the question for the rest of us is: are voters ready to suffer, i don't know, 400,000

u.s. combat deaths for the sake of the climate? what does a carbon dioxide canal look like? co2 side pan, will we bomb tokyo again with firebombs? how would that affect the temperature? this is stupid, none of this is real. the green new deal isn't a deal, it is a wish fulfillment posing as legislation. but here's the thing, beto kept a straight face throughout that talk like he sincerely meant it. who does that? mediocre people do that. mediocre people tell implausible lies and demand that you pretend to believe them. is beto a mediocre person? we will let you decide. in 2017, beto o'rourke gave a total of less than 1% of his income -- one-third of 1%, to be precise -- to charity. keep in mind, he is a rich, very rich. here is his explanation for why he did that. >> i served in public office since 2005. i do my best to contribute to my

community, my state, and now, of my country. there are ways that i do this that are measurable, and there are ways that i do this that are immeasurable. there are charities we donate to that we have recorded and itemized, others that we have not. but i tell you, i am doing everything i can right now, spending this time with you, not with our kiddos back home because i want to sacrifice everything to make sure that we have truth with everything that we've got. >> tucker: okay, so save that tape.'v that is from uva yesterday, and you're going to want to download that and keep that for your grandchildren because beto, pedestrian as he is in so many ways, didca something that has never been done or attempted by a politician before, unique contribution to american political life. beto has just made the case that his entire life, beto's entire life, is a kind of charitable donation.. all of us get the gift of beto,k

just because he is here. every time beto speaks, it is like endowing a library in burma. or curing shingles in malawi. or battle in childhood obesity in appalachia. or sending mosquito nets to the congo. every time he talks, when he tweets, it is an act of charity, something that makes this worldh wiser and better smelling. beto is such a good person that he can write himself off his taxes if he wanted to. thete irs would have to let him. his goodness is so clearly deductible, no lawyer would contest that. but beto doesn't do that, he doesn't shirk his duties. he will pay the extra tax because he cares that much. now that you think about it, it is almost that he will never be president. ben shapiro hosts one of america's top podcasts, "the ben shapiro show," the author of the book "the right side of history," and we are happy to

have him on set tonight. >> i don't know how i kept a straight face while you did that. [laughter] >> tucker: there are so many levels here, but i do believe this is the end of the beto o'rourke phenomenon. >> yeah, i think he is toast. >> tucker: what lessons should we draw from y what we just saw? >> you can run in the moderately as a bobby kennedy candidate so long as nothing newer is on the block. buttigieg came along and haddi intersectional credibility. the problem for beto had the problem of being straight and also white. just like bobby kennedy was. buttigieg is gay and takes precedence, and speaks more languages, including norwegian, and he doesn't just play guitar, he plays piano and does it with ben folds and the whole deal. buttigieg has basically stolen all of his momentum, and i think you're right, i think beto is toast here.bu >> tucker: speaking norwegian and playing the piano. i'm being sincere, actually

impressive. i'm impressed by them. but they are not really policy prescriptions, they are not ideas that are going to improve america. neither is who you sleep with relevant to running the country so far as i can tell, or any of these criteria meaningful. where's the part where we get to debate their ideas for the country? >> the problem is obviously that there is only one thought leader in the democratic party right now, and that is bernie sandersy what you are seeing is a bunch of candidates who are attempting to steer into the bernie sanders lane. there is no room in that lane, bernie sanders has occupied that entire lane. you talk about candidates, the one who keeps shouting ideas from the rooftops is on native american candidate, elizabeth warren, who keeps spouting ideas every 5 minutes. here is a new policy prescription, why is it anyone paying attention to me? the answer is because you are in bernie sanders' lane. he is the thought leader in this lane. in the moderate lane, there are no thought leaders, they are just a bunch of people with platitudes. biden is presumably be thought leader, but he doesn't have enough thoughts to be a thought exactly is going to come along and occupy that lane while still being able to

win over theng woke intersectiol base of the democratic party? whoever does that has a possibility a nomination can right now, buttigieg can do that only insofar as he can speak platitudes that sound moderate, but when he has pegged down, as you noted,d, he is just as far left as bernie sanders. >> tucker: telling us what a great christian he is, abortion up until birth, spare me yourni christian talk, please. it is absurd. i'm struck by bernie could be the one guy -- i want to have a conversation about ideas,st because i think it is important, and clearly we need to make changes the way the country is going, but bernie doesn't seem to be an ideas candidate when you listen to him, he almost never says anything interesting, why is that? >> his ideas are so radical, but they are consistent. so everyone has followed him out to the range. medicare for all, what you will see is every democrat pay homage to medicare for all, footnote, we don't really want medicare for all, want a gradual plan to achieve medicare for all sometime in the future. everyone is trying to imitate bernie.n

bernie is the guyut who is runng this race. he is any position right now that trump was in a 2016, everybody in themp democratic party is running, afraid to tick him off because they hope he eventually will collapse and they will get his support, but he is riding 25% to 30% in all the polls, extraordinarily durable. i don't think that it is going anywhere. he can stay in that lane, win iowa, new hampshire, do well in california and new york. there's a reason democrats are running scared of bernie, what is puzzling to me is there so interested in what the journalists on twitter say, this echo chamber in the media, that they won't just go to where the mainstream of their own party is, which is the moderate area. joe biden is a terrible candidate, he is actually leading and most of the polls because he is perceived as a moderate. >> tucker: that's totally true! >> beto and buttigieg, thes reason both redoing well for a moment was because they were both perceived as moderate with all of the platitudes. when you get down to policy, it

turns out they want to be more like bernie than biden, nobody in the democratic party has the stones to run as a moderate inside the democratic party, even though io is probably the best possible way for them to win the nomination. >> tucker: i think you're absolutely right, and her diagnosis is that they are captive of social media. >> i think there are captive to social media, the intersectional, woke base afraid that they are going to be held hostage to the dictates of "the new york times" editorial board, people suggesting they are not wokek enough if they don't pay homage to the latest flavor, slavery reparations or whatever it is today. >> tucker: the person who gives the finger to that momhe gets the support of millions. >> i think that is right, and has a good shot in the general. but i don't think any of them -- >> tucker: get my support. someone would stand up and say i will take orders from you, how would that sound? t don't even care what they are for, i would vote for them. so desperate for that. >> that isot why they democrat were able to do that, they would win sweeping support. but i can't do that. we have been saying this for years, i have to do is not be crazy.

[laughter] >> tucker: so good. greatt to see you ben shapiro, great to see you. >> great to see you, too. >> tucker: all they have to do is not be crazy, and they can't do that. after the break, bernie sanders has become a rich man by attacking other people getting rich under our system of capitalism. now he denies his success reflects either capitalism or the american dream actually works. what is he saying exactly? we will find out after the break. and new developments in the ongoing corruption scandal that points to deeper corruption, almost total in our higher education. we will give you another set of details after the break. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: andrew yang is running for president of the united states. he is a democrat. we disagree on plenty of issues, but he is a serious person, smart, cares, and has a deep o understanding of the problems the country faces. he may be the one person running this year who is preaching a series of reforms that might actually help the country's middle class. one proposal is worth telling you about, the salary of top government officials. currently, the president of the united states make $400,000 a year. the position, of course is lucrative and the former president can give speeches for hundreds of thousands, and they do, they can serve on corporate boards. they can, in effect, spend the rest of their lives cashing in on the position they held as president. and they have. bill clinton has made more than $100 million from being a former

president since he left office in 2000. former cabinet members get rich, but on a different scale. it's not hard to see what this does to the country. our leaders have a big incentive to defend the winners of the current system because they are paid by those a winners. they go to work at banks because they make bankers happy. tech regulators join up with google or facebook. the only incentive to promote public good isat the kindness of their hearts. up against that, is all the accrued wealth of global capitalism. it is not really a fair fight. and not attacking anyone, just the way it works. the system itself is inherently corrupt, that's corruption, and acts inherently against your interest. yang has a solution that is not stupid: decrease the pay of our top officials by a lot, make presidents pay up to $4 millionu a year, pay top regulators $1 million a year. here's the catch, the president from joiningned corporate boards orr giving speeches for money. regulators banned from cashing

in on the private side of deals they regulate. they will make a lot more money while they do their job, but their only incentive will be promoting the good of the country, not enriching themselves afterwards. if yang's idea has a flaw, it is only that it does not go far enough. why not apply this to members of congress? hike their pay but bar them from cashing in on lobbyists or joining corporate boards the moment they leave. we should do that immediately because public service should be service. it is not a way to enrich yourself for life. if we did that, the rest of us could stop being cynical as we justifiably are about their behavior on capitol hill. speaking of being cynical about people's motives, bernie sanders is the most high-profile socialist in the world. but he doesn't live like one. he has become very rich, by the way, ironically, promoting a book about socialism and how great it is. sanders is a capitalist success story. we may say he embodies the american dream, but on this channel two nights ago he said

that is not the case at all. watch.ne >> when you wrote the book and made the money, isn't that the definition of capitalism and the american dream? >> no. [laughter] i mean, you know, what we want is a country where everyone has opportunity. i have a college degree. i'm a united a states senator. a lot of people don't have a college degree. a lot ofat people are not united states senators. what we are fighting for is a society not where a few people can make a whole lot of money, but a society where everybody in this country has the opportunity to live in security and dignity. >> tucker: a former bernie sanders surrogate that joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. i'm not begrudging sanders writing a book, good for him. it doesn't bother him he got paid for it either. i have two concerns: why not say it is in fact the american dream?m? you did something people found impressive and got rewarded, why not just say that?

>> i think the american dream is a much bigger idea. arguing that we have a select few, .1%, who essentially lobbied to get away with not paying taxes are not paying their fair share of taxes. so when we talk about bernie sanders making $580,000 or so last year on the sales of his book, that's not about the american dream, everyone should have the opportunity to be able to pay their bills, to be able to pay for their rent, to not live in debt. that is, unfortunately, the american dream. just a survival at this point for the american dream is not what we had in the '50s and '60s when millionaires and billionaires pay 70% in taxes. >> tucker: but then, okay, i get it, i got it, and some of what you are saying i agree with. and it's true. we need to have a country where ordinary people with an iq of 100 and no special access can raise a family, i completely agree with that. but why is burning pocketing the money? why wouldn't he be paying 70% tax on those book royalties voluntarily?

he wrote the book as a sideline project serving as a federal official, okay? so why is he taking all that money and spending it on a second home. i'm serious. >> the second home was inherited by a family member who passed away, so that is not what he spent it on. >> tucker: one of his second homes. >> this is a conspiracy theory that has been perpetuated on conspiracy theory blogs. but furthermore, who voluntarily pays 70% in taxes? we need a tax policy for all so we have a more equitable society. >> tucker: wait, wait, wait a second. okay, but he is in the 1%. and so am, i am not attacking rich people. again, i am one. i'm also not bernie sanders.ai bernie sanders is out there like, oh, people who make this money -- the same amount he makes -- should pay their fair share. i asked him,

why isn't he paying his fair share, 70%, the tax rate you cited? and you said who would do that voluntarily? >> because that is not the law! oh, come on, tucker. this is a joke. .1% -- lobbying congress, so they don't have to pay taxes, which is why allav roads are a mess, infrastructure is a mess, schools aren't functioning. >> tucker: i couldn't agree more. i couldn't agree more.ou i agree with every word you are saying. >> why not funding that -- >> tucker: i agree with every word you are saying. >> we need to make this about -- he makes it about the most elite not exploiting workers so they don't have to pay taxes. >> tucker: i'm going to give you one last chance, super quick.ve why doesn't anybody, whoever espouses these tax rates, ever i'll entirely pay them? >> because that is not how our government functions. where do you send that, the irs? that's not how it works. >> tucker: people do that. >> who does that? i would like to see one guest on your show that has actually -- >> tucker: i always wonder --

>> it is a good idea. >> tucker: you should disarm, but not me, you go first. the water is fine, jump in. >> we had a broad tax policy. the working people have an opportunity so the government infrastructure and schools are funded. >> tucker: i got it, i got it, i'm with you. good to see you. >> tucker, youth are so silly. >> tucker: the varsity blues college bribery scandal could be expanding to involve criminal charges against the kids who benefited, what? plus, adam carolla is here in los angeles to respond to that after the break. ♪ teen

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be happy. dad: you're always in your room with the door closed, what are we supposed to think? teen: i don't know. just so...down. i just don't care about anything anymore. mom: she's a smart kid. look at these grades. what is holding her back? dad: i don't know... teen: nothing going right for me at this point. not at home. not at school... it's just you and me, right buddy? depression was hard on me, and my family. but it turns out, i always had the strength to work my way back. i just needed someone to show me the first step... so i could be me again. >> tucker: lori loughlin and her husband have pleaded not guilty to charges that they used fraudulent means to get their daughters into the university of southern california. now prosecutors have widened the probe, investigating whether one of the daughters knew what her

parents were doing. trace gallagher has been on the story since day one. and joins us now. >> bad news for students involved in the scandal because legal experts indicate that somi of them could soon face their own charges bear the daily mail is reporting that lori loughlin's daughter, olivia jade, got a letter from the u.s. attorney's office in boston saying she was also subject of the t investigation. it is unclear if loughlin's oldest daughter, isabella,a, alo got a letter, but experts say prosecutors are making it clear they believe the kids knew about the cheating scandal and were willing participants. and it is hard to imagine the daughters didn't think something was off when they got recruited to be on the university of southern california crew team, knowing that neither one of them had ever rowed. they also had pictures on their application of them in rowing attire on rowing machines. that is tough to explain away. it is unclear if olivia jade has her own lawyer. this is also an indication of the cheating probe is not wrapping up, and instead is

expanding. in the meantime, lori loughlin is concerned that she and her husband, the fashion designergh mossimo giannulli, that their children will have to testify if they go to trial. they are in desperate need of a plea deal, and a source now tells "people" magazine that thn couple resents how the case is playing out in public, quoting here, "this is putting unspeakable stress on her and her family, havingng to play ths out publiclyti and fair game for jokes and memes foot also outraged by peopleke saying they are cheaters." of course, if they accept a plea deal or get convicted, they are cheaters. tucker? >> tucker: call me a cheater, trace. i'm a varsity rower. great to see you. you may notice the show is in los angeles this week. we had across town to the studios in race car garage with podcast host and our friend adam carolla.

he loves to race. covered a lot of ground. tonight, shares his thoughts on the college bribery scandal. >> famous actors have everything they want in the world, all of their needs catered to, whye would they of all people bribe their kids into college?? why would they care where their kids went to college? >> famous actors are famously narcissistic, and your kids, in their mind, in the mind of a narcissist, your kid is an extension of you. you put on a very expensive rolex, and you are not the rolex, but the rolex is an extension of you. you drive a rolls-royce, that is an extension -- what's the difference between your kid and a rolls-royce? your kid and a mansion? your kid and fancy jewelry? you really think about it, if you said would you drive a rolls-royce, would you wear an expensive watch? your kid is closer to you than that is, and a greater expression of you than the watch. and so the better your kid is,

the bigger the rolex, the bigger the diamonds, the bigger the rolls-royce. >> tucker: you are really a narcissist if you are seeing your children that way. and not as human beings, but as accessories. >> we all hate the moms, the pageant moms who take the 5-year-old, spray tan them, put all the makeup on, lash extenders, and "go that is what she wants to do."l we hate that mom. what is the difference? if you really think about it. one is healthy, your child is going to stanford. if the activity is healthy, but what motivates the activity, anyway, comes from the same place, right? so either mom is in the audience at the little miss sunshine pageant -- >> tucker: junior jacksonville. >> right, or the mom is at stanford doing this. it is kind of an extension of

the same mom. one is an educated, you know, wealthy, evolved mom, and the other one is a little more trailer trash, butom either way, all roads lead to narcissism to narcissism. >> tucker: i really wish the stanford mom could know how much she has in common with a pageant mom. >> the thing that is funny is the stanford mom would never stop making fun of the pageant mom -- >> tucker: of course. >> she would be looking down her nose, oh, honey boo-boo, have fun with your young child serving my child when they stop at the del taco 14 years from now. >> tucker: [laughs] >> but the place is the same. it emanates from the same place, it is just a different version of it. >> tucker: that conversation went on for quite some time, we iowill be hitting it again and again, we got a lot with adam carolla in town. chicago state attorney kim foxx claims she recused yourself from

the jussie smollett case, turns stout that is not quite true, or maybe true at all. newly released text messages reveal that she was pressured, or she pressured an underling to go easy on jussie smollett. matt finn is in chicago with the story unfolding. matt? >> the new text messages indicate that kim foxx continue to discuss the smollett case even after she publicly claimed she recused herself, and we now know that she did not legally recused herself from this case. on march 8th, the date smollett's 16 felony accounts became public, foxx texted "so i am recused, but when people talk of overcharging -- washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16? just because we can charge something doesn't mean we have to do.

appears that foxx was comparing him to r. kelly. as the another text messages from the date the charges were dropped, in part, "told we were dropping the case, and seems satisfied with the explanation." apparently not satisfied, hours after the text, he said justice was not served. foxx has responded to some of the texts she sent, writing in part "after the indictment became public i reached out to joe to discuss reviewing office policies to discuss consistency in our charging." in our use of appropriate charging authority. the attorney general is reviewing kim foxx's decision, the national district attorney association promote rebuked her for not recusing her entire office on this case. tucker? p >> tucker: matt finn, thanks for that report, live from chicago for us.

up ahead, breitbart and a number of other news outlets on the right are being suppresseds by powerful tech companies because they aren't reliable. interesting, waiting for that same standard to be applied to the perpetrators of the russia hoax. will be waiting a while. we will speak to the editor of breitbart after the break. ♪

>> tucker: so the people who run big journalism are always telling you we need to get a fake news,ake news, interest in the public, we need to get fake news off our screens. do you know that really means? it is clear what it really meann enforcing anan official narratie in stamping out all the sand. cnn and msnbc for example spent circle full years perpetuating the russia hoax. "the new york times" and

"washington post" won a pulitzer prize for it be the whole story was a complete sham and they were not held to account. there are still considered reliable news by the big tech companies. meanwhile, "the federalist," a pretty small website, got the russia story right from day one, and yet "usa today" recently blacklisted "the federalist" as an unreliable source, because they don't like their politics. the views on abortion, for example. last year, meanwhile, wikipedia's editorss banned the use of breitbart as a source because it was deemed "not reliable."a' meaning they hadn't helped stoke baseless fears about vladimir putin. apparently. alex marlow is the editor in chief of breitbart, and we're happy to have him on our show tonight.ly thanks for coming on. >> thanks for the time, appreciate it. >> tucker: what does it mean in practical terms that wikipedia users can no longer use breitbart? as a citation? >> in practical terms, what it means is that people who help would access wikipedia ial as a source are only going to get establishment media outlets to

source their claims. we know those claims, they treat full on hoaxes as fact. they have missed the seminal stories of our time. starting with the immigration crisis, which we startede reported on in conservative media, particularly breitbart, 2014, 2015. they missed of the brexit narrative, they missed the narrative that the establishment and our media and political classes and therrna coastal eli, losing touch with the working men and women, they missed that. they missed the election of donald trump, and now -- [laughter] >> tucker: not a big thing. >> a minor thing they totally bald, and now a year and half, maybe two and half years into the russia hoax, this is there mass suicide effort. will it be treated like that? no!ci because they are a bubble of elite, and now they treat themselves as if they will always o be correct. >> tucker: what is interesting is not just that they are evading all responsibility for what they did it, for the lies they told on the distortions that really wrecked our foreign policy among other things.

but that they are trying to suppress otherer news outlets which told the truth. how orwellian is that? >> you nailed it here, they are not suppressing us, they target you, they target us, they will target just about all of us right of center. and to serve as a right of center audience. not because we are getting things wrong. they're targeting us because we are getting things right. we got these key stories right, and we willng probably get the next key stories right. they're doing it in a methodical way. it started with google toying with the searches, which you have been good at reporting on with dr. robert epstein. twitter with shadow banning, ite was called a hoax at the time, turns out it wasn't that facebook had to change either algorithm because places like breitbart were dominating. wikipedia kicking us out, it shows up every time you use google and facebook, they rely on wikipedia. this is methodical, and they will continue to expand this. microsoft is now in the ndblacklisting game. they sanction all the places

that got the russia hoax wrong, and they treat places like breitbart and even the report, as fake news. it is ridiculous, they will continue to can -- they're going to decapitalize people, not just right of center views, they are with people who want a pipelines want to work in the energy sector, and don't want the green new deal. it's insane. >> tucker: since free speech is dying and it is not government killing it but big monopolies, sanctioned by government, do you know anyone in government who might be able to save free speech for the republic? why is nobody doing anything about this?s? >> i don't know, and that is exactly the question i was hoping you would ask. i do hope this is the most wapowerful audience and all of news, and i think it would be great if the people watching it understand that this is the battle. and they are trying to win the 2020 election by shutting down and sensor the outlets that might give voices to the voiceless, the people disenfranchised.

>> tucker: do you really think you are going to get reelected president if nobody can hear your message? >> absolutely. they see this crystal clear, and that is why they're trying to shut down you and me. >> tucker: alex marlow, come back anytime. thank you very much. >> thank you tucker. >> tucker: not too many things genuinely unite the democratic party. one that does is abortion. they want more of it. till birth, even after if possible. >> generations from now, our children and grandchildren will wonder, why did we do? what did we do when they were trying to take away a woman's right to control her own body? >> whether we are going to be arresting women for making decisions about their bodies. >> that should be a decision the woman makesod about her own bod. i trust her. >> what is at stake is whether or not we will continue to recognize or not a woman's right to choose. c

>> women's access to safe, legal abortions on the line. >> the decision over abortion belongs to a t woman and her physician, not the federal government, not the state government. [applause] >> tucker: sorn what is the motive behind all of this? the autonomy of women? a little abstract, not quite really what is going on. god bless former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams for telling the unadorned truth about it. this is about business, about making sure women can be obedient workers, rather than harried mothers. hurting business by restricting abortion, she says, is it legal. she said it right out loud, watch. >> we have to be friendly to business, and to the women who work in these businesses. you should not have to worry about your ability to control your bodily autonomy because of the governor pushing such an abominable and evil bill that is so restrictive. it is not only bad for morality

and our humanity, it is bad for business. >> tucker: there is something creepy about this. there are a lot of things about this topic that nobody ever says out loud, so here is one of them because it is true, you can look it up on the cdc website. african-american women are five times as likely as white women to get abortions in this country. in new york city, more black children are reported than born. thee democratic party will tell you forever that it loves african-americans.ti but why is it pushing abortion on them? by the way, why is it continuing to import low-wage labor to deplete the political power of people whose families have been in this country for hundreds of years? no one ever asked those question. somebody should. david webb hosts "reality check with david webb" on fox nation and joined us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. that is a question that always pops up in my mind, and i guess were not allowed to say, but i'm almost 50, why do i care? a sincere question. if someone says i care about

you, i really love you, you should consider abortion. does the person really love me actually? i don't think so. >> tucker, this goes to a level of dangerous action by the democratic party that hashi pusd something that has changed the culture in the black community, for young black women not beingn taught responsibility for their bodies, but actually being taught that if you are irresponsible -- and sometimes accidents do happen,ta let's be fair. youngom people do this and it happens. but if you are irresponsible, then it is easy to get rid of it. abortion is your answer, because they never want to solve the actual problem, tucker. think about it, you are a free market guy. we have talked about this over the years. if you reduce the rate of pregnancies, what do you do? you reduce the rate of abortions. if you educate young black women on what getting pregnant does to your body -- by the way, educate young black men, they play a role in this -- what it does to

your education,, to your earnins capability, to getting ahead in life -- and by the way, it keeps you in poverty. that rate of abortions with young black women, correlates to single-parent births, not just for young black women, but single-parent birth and poverty in this country. bck in medical terms, that is an epidemic. >> tucker: yeah, but i would even say on a gut level, i'm struck by it. if you love somebody, you love your own children, you want your kids to have as many kids as they want to have, because you love them and you want to see them reproduce, okay? so again, if i'm saying to you, probably shouldn't reproduce, and let me make it easy for you not to, what am i really saying to you?du that is not a message of love, i don't care what anybody says. you know what i'm saying, that is not a message of love, it is very different from that. >> it is something very dangerous because you are destroying the culture in the future of young women and young

men, for that matter, let's not forget that half of the equation. you are tearing the family unit apart. you are tearing the community apart. you are not teaching them to grow up to be responsible people. it's just something that is so dangerous that we have to look at it for what it is, cultural destruction by a bunch of liars in power. >> tucker: yeah, that is true. david webb, thank you very much, great to see you. last year, and we are glad this happened, plastic straws were purged from restaurants. man, those were dangerous. but the people who did it are still unhappy and they have a new target, something else to be angry about and take away from you for your own good. we will tell you what it is after the break. ♪

>> tucker: the government

thought long and hard about how to completely humiliate patriots owner robertas kraft, he wasn't immediate charged and they suggested he was involved with human trafficking in his 70s.e that is a far more serious offense but having the reputation prosecutors admit it was untrue and they have no evidence. they are still intent on humiliating him so they are trying to release a recording of him allegedly meeting with women to receive sexual services. if the video does show that, it is by definition pornography, why would we want to see that? how does it advance the cause of justice? it doesn't. it doesn't help the public in any way. it only hurts robert kraft. this is about the state and the press colluding, as they so often do, to humiliate people they don't like and keep in mind they can do it to bob kraft and they can do it to you. in a blitzkrieg campaign last year, liberals across american got plastic straws banned in

many cities and restricted in an entire state. life got worse for normal people but not bad enough. now liberals in california have a new target, not something there is too much of like heroin or human feces on the sidewalk, those are everywhere but that is totally cool, human expression. they are going after hotel shampoo bottles. a problem you didn't know existed. a group of lawmakers want to ban those completely and anyone who breaks the law could be fined $500 for every offense. tammy bruce, she is a radio show host and president of the independent women's voice and joins us tonight. do you feel safer now? >> i feel weirdly safer that you are in california and i'm in new york. >> tucker: i [laughs] >> this is a proposed bill and it is stupid. you have people, of course they are saying it's aboutt the plastic in the ocean but here'ss the truth, a headline in forbes last year, five asian countries dumped more plastic into oceans than everybody else combined. china, indonesia, philippians,

thailand, vietnam, the united states is not the problem. californians strangely enough are not the problems and yet they banned straws and the plastic bags and now it is the little tiny shampoo bottles that you can't have them in hotels or in any kind of rental or the resort because we are going to a save the ocean. the problem with this of course is that people think they are doing something to help the problem and they are not. as you mentioned, in california you can relieve yourself on the street, you can smoke marijuana to your heart's content but god help you should you have one of those bottles of listerine. that now is the problem. take a good whiff of california air because with the poo on the street and with nobody being able to shampoo, it will start smelling pretty bad in the golden state. >> tucker: there is a reason they call the golden state sadly. this is an assault on cleanliness.

you are totally right and i didn't connect the dots because i'm in california and a little high if i am being honest.ag it is an assault on cleanliness. >> the tiny bottle suggesttl there are droughts all the time and when you get me shower the tiny bottle says to you, make it quick. you have enough for me, a quarter's worth of shampoo. don't linger in there, this is a brief visit. they are saying they should put in dispensers, like a spa and then you will spend an hour in the shower using all the water and then of course that will be a crime.ng i'm waiting -- >> tucker: the law of unintended consequences. >> that is right. everything they touch makes it worse. that will be the issue at all. trust me. i will go buy a hundred of those little bottles when i leave here and that is all i will use in my bathroom. >> tucker: i agree along with incandescent lightbulbs. tammy bruce, great to see you. we are out of time, things go fast and life goes fast. enjoy every second of it. we'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., the sworn enemy of

lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.. good night from los angeles. sean hannity is next. in-n-out burger was closed last night but we will even hit it right now. >> sean: wait a minute. 8:00 your time, it's not closed. thatse is 5:00. closed, it was drive time. you missed the opportunity of a lifetime. >> tucker: fake news, you're right. >> sean: culinary recommendation, you missed it. tucker, good to see you. buckle up for tonight's "hannity" and brace for impact. tomorrow morning the mueller report will be released and the mueller madness begins. our sources telling us, minimal redaction. the american people will see this and still the media mob of democrats, trump haters will get their one last itsy bitsy chance to bes