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someone to us and a boat named amen, there is no it wasn't him. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington, i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." what a weird day it was in washington. hard as it may be to believe, two weeks after the release of the mueller report. but on capitol hill tonight they are still yelling about russia! it's as if the most exhaustive federal investigation in a generation never even happened. it's as if the russia collusion story was completely real and not a ludicrous hoax published by ruthless partisans. it's as if facts no longer matter at all, only emotion and ambition and the overriding will to power.
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these apparently are the new rules in washington. the attorney general william barr learned of them today as he was summoned before the congress. angry democrats interrogated him but the letter he wrote in march summarizing the mueller report. you might wonder why anyone would care about that letter, the entire mueller report was subsequently released right after the letter. that report is now available online. anyone can read it, you can read it if you want and then draw your own independent conclusions about what it says. you don't need bob barr's help, his summary is irrelevant. now partisans on cable tv are pretending otherwise. let's be very clear, what they are giving you is opinion. it's not fact and they should be honest about that. barr letter means nothing. again, that is fact, not opinion. so what was the point of today's hearings? w while part of the point was to allow people like me like mazie hirono to perform for the cameras. a few years ago, virtually no one outside of hawaii had heard of her. she was considered forgettable
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even by standards of the u.s. senate. now she's a celebrity on cnn. technically she remains unimpressive, she's never written a single bill that you have heard of. but when the cameras rolling, she will repeat literally anything or staff puts on a card and her no matter how extreme and stupid it might be. here she was today. >> mr. barr, the american people know you are no different than rudy giuliani, kellyanne conway or any of the other people whonc sacrificed their once decent reputation for the liar who sits in the oval office. he once turned down a job offer from donald trump's concerns were legitimate. you didn't know bob mueller supported your conclusions but you knew that you lied to. i wasn't surprised. you did exactly what i thought
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you would do which is why i voted against your confirmation. but now we know more about your deep involvement and trying to cover up for donald trump. being the attorney general of the united states is sacred trust. you have betrayed that trust and america deserves better. you should resign. >> tucker: reading it right off the card. hand her the card, there you go. she will read it. deep involvement in a cover-up. bill our role read the letter on march 24th. that means that for three and a half long weeks america was under the false impression that donald trump was not a russian agent. two cory booker of new jersey that sounds like a sophisticated disinformation campaign run by, you guessed it. russian agents. >> we have here documented a
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level of coordination with a foreign adversary sharing polling data. and, your conduct seems to be trying to normalize that behavior which is why i think you are in such a serious momeno that is eroding the cultures of this democracy. so let's get into some of this specifically. >> tucker: eroding culture as of this democracy. we can only guess as to what that might mean. spartacus did on explain himself.an but if you wanted to undermine democracy, probably the first thing you would do is ignore the expressed will of the voters. instead, you create slideshows to what the actual population wanted. or, if the priorities they expressed. instead, you pretend that some irrelevant letter that bob barr wrote back in march is more. important than all of it, more
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important than the opioid crisis where the ongoing invasion fromo central america for our southern border. then, you want mazie hirono back on tv as much as possible screaming about a cover-up, and that way maybe no one would notice that the roads were crumbling or the suicide rate was rising. or that you or reasons you could never explain were intent on wasting more money and more lives in syria or yemen or venezuela. you continue to live up hatred in the population and division needless to say it, so you employ slogans like white privilege or toxic masculinity to make people really hate each other. over time the population would be so mesmerized and afraid they may not even notice that you are wrecking the country. if you want to undermine democracy that's exactly what you would do. dana perino is one of our favorite people and she can break down everything, she does every afternoon on "the daily briefing" which wes wash religiously like a stalker but
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not. she joins us tonight. so take three steps back. what is this really about? is this the groundwork for impeachment? s >> even though you have democratic leadership, the speaker who can tap the brakes on impeachment, democrats i think about 70% of them, and, i have to tell you you can't have a better communicator. people are watching this hearing and people who didn't like president trump are completely of another mind. but objectively as a communications person as an unflappable witness, he is
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deeply briefed. he just to run the office of legal counsel of which a lot of this is to be debated over andd it basically ended up, america's favorite forwards today were were, my time is up. all the members of congress, they said i guess my time is up because i didn't feel like he was basically running circles around them. there are some things you can split hairs on, but i think the two basic things that he promised in his confirmation hearing to those very same senators. one, mueller will not be interfered with, he will be allowed to finish his report. and that came true. number two, he would make the report as quickly as possible and transparently as possible which also came true. quibbling about a summary that was six weeks ago when the full report is out for anybody to read if they wanted to seems a little bit to me like being way over the top.
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so i do think that someday you will see elizabeth w warren. it will be interesting to see, do biden or bernie sanders, either of those to say, let's do impeachment? then you will know they want to go for it. >> tucker: i agree with your analysis completely and i was s amazed by the number of supposedly sober and they have another line. >> they have another line theyav keep using, they look at everything that barr did not say and they would say that's incredibly telling. they can decide what they i'm going to t tell you. >> tucker: clearly the leadership on the democratic side is does not want impeachment. what happens if that happens do
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you think? >> well, i think pelosi will try to slow walk it in the house. in some ways he would imagine that the trump campaign would think, fine. knock yourselves out. talk about impeachment. that's really not good for anybody. for all thekn issues that we talked about, you can't even talk about filling the pot holes in our roads and bridges. those of the things that people really want to talk about. for impeachment it has to be somebody that i think wants to be the front runner in the democratic primary to say, that's enough. let's not do that. i don't know if any of them are strong enough to do that. >> tucker: i agree with you. that would take some courage and i would be impressed if someone had the strength to do that. thank you for that analysis. i appreciate it. alan dershowitz is a retired harvard law school professor. he joins us tonight.
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thanks for coming on. summarize if you would, i know you are paying close attention, the attorney general's behavior in this process. how has he done, do you think? >> the bottom line is that barr is right and mueller is wrong. he defended verye articulately his conclusion there was no obstruction of justice, the president can't obstruct justice by firing, by pardoning by doing anything that article two of the constitution authorizes him to do. mueller and report take a different view of that. that's a very interesting constitutional legal issue. barr gets the better of the argument historically in the best precedent comes when barr was attorney general when he pardoned caspar weinberger on the eve of his trial and the special prosecutor said he did that to obstruct the investigation. he did that to prevent the culmination of the iran-contra investigation and yet, nobody suggested that a president can obstruct justice by pardoning.
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the president can't obstruct justice by firing and after you put aside all of the stuff or did he or didn't he mislead, did he or didn't he misstate something, the bottom line is he is right and mueller is wrong, the president did not obstruct justice. >> tucker: since we have the mueller report, subsequently sy come up much of it is redacted, not too much -- why is barr's letter relevant in the first place. >> it's not. it's a moot issue. you said something one day and now, you are saying something a little different on another day. but it has nothing to do with the substance. let every american read the mueller report and read my introduction and read the letter and tohe see if you think if the was misstatement, i don't think there was. the conclusions that barr started were absolutely correct. no collusion, no conspiracy and insufficient evidence to charge
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obstruction of justice, those conclusions were correct. the mueller people worked very hard on the report were disappointed there wasn't more nuance or content but now everybody has that so judge form yourself. >> tucker: you don't think substantively anything has changed after today's hearing? >> i don't think anything changes. i think barr put it exactly right, his job is over. that's it, decision not to prosecute, move on. if people want to investigate, if there are other mechanisms of investigation, okay. the justice department under his authority is finished, they have done their job. >> tucker: is the president vulnerable to impeachment charges, will he be impeached? >> i think if he were to be impeached it would be in violation of the constitution. it specifies tracery, bribery, other crimes and misdemeanors. the mueller report found no sufficient evidence of any crimes. i don't think congress has the power to redefine what a crime is and say we think there is
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obstruction of justice. i don't think he's in any danger of impeachment. i think he's in danger of a thousand cuts by legislation,sa investigation, subpoenas, court cases, further investigations of his finances before he became president. i think impeachment is off the table. some democrats running for president will want to impeach, they will make the same mistake republicans made when they impeached clinton. they will lose public support for that. what's going on in venezuela and around the world today, the president needs to get maple to get back to governing. when i fly in an airplane, i root for the pilot. i don't care whether he's the democrat or republican. the president is the pilot, he has to be given the breathing room to govern. we had the investigation, it's over. i love what barr said, let's stop weaponize in the criminal justice system on either side. i have been making that point
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for two years, get back to legislation. >> tucker: i don't want to lock her up and i don't want to ioimpeach him. thank you very much, good to see you tonight. venezuela is still in turmoil, one reason the country got this bad in the first place is that it's government disarmed its population, very much like what the democratic party has said out loud it would like to do in this country. .details next.
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>> tucker: venezuela remains in some chaos today. the country's opposition leaders continues his effort to topple nicolas maduro's government. trace gallagher joins us now. >> throughout the day thousands of people gathered in the streets of caracas demanding the ouster of nicolas maduro but there is littlema evidence to se the balance of power has shifted toward the u.s. backed opposition leader juan guaido. despite having the support of the united states and 50 other nations, he has been unable to secure the loyalty of top military leaders and some of those leaders went on television last night proclaiming their loyalty to nicolas maduro, although the trump administration believes many of those leaders are just covering their tracks. the predictions of mass defections have also you have to materialize, though the director of venezuela's intelligence agency did breakce ranks with nicolas maduro late yesterday.
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today want to go addressed his supporters urging them to ramp up the pressure, it's in spanish so read the captions. [speaking in foreign language] [speaking spanish] >> close to achieving national security advisor john bolton thinks maduro is still being propped up by the russians and the cubans. think the key point is that this afternoon 20-25 cubans left in venezuela, i think maduro would fall by midnight. >> if he does not fall, plan b is very unclear at this point. >> tucker: thanks a lot for p that. venezuela's rotten government has been in power for a long time and it's been able to pull
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it off in part because of the rules over a population that is not armed. the only people with guns are members of the military or criminal gangs, sometimes working for the government. law-abiding citizens are at their mercy. even msnbc had to admit this because it's true. >> you have to understand gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. if the military have the guns, they have the power. as long as nicolas maduro controls the military, he controls the country. >> tucker: so this is one of those ideas that is now floating around in the democratic primary, as you are aware. eric swalwell said it out loud, let's take the guns away from the population. here we have a case study in what it looks like when that happens in venezuela, tell us how that population got disarme disarmed. >> in 2012 the legislature
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passed and implemented what amounted to a gun ban. if it had the appearance of a change of an licensing system but at prohibited people from acquiringe arms and in 2013, the dictator maduro announced all gun stores would be closed, so it's impossible for anyone to legally acquire a firearm or ammunition. the venezuelan government also has the same theory that you see when peopleou talk about gun buybacks in the united states, as if the government owns a gun, it's going to buy a gun from citizens. in venezuela, the law says all guns are owned by the governmene and the government can recuperate to them as they say at any time. that is why people are defenseless against what you mentioned before. it's about 400,000 criminal gangsters are trained by the
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cumin government and terrorists from columbia and they really run most of the regions of the country. >> tucker: if ordinary people don't have guns at home it must be an incredibly safe country it must be the promise of gun control, is it an incredibly safe country? >> it has the second-highest murder rate in the world behind only honduras, it's an incredibly dangerous country. it was dangerous before the gun law was passed in 2012 but things seem to keep getting worse and worse. the hugo chavez-maduro regimes have always been kleptocracy is based on running the government is an organized crime syndicate for the principle of theft. that has infected a lot of society, it's a terribly ofdangerous place. >> tucker: i'm starting to think that a lot of the precepts of american gun control schemes may not be right.
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if you take guns out of the hands of most people, your society doesn't get safer, the government may turn against you if you can't fight back against them. is there any upside to gun control in venezuela. >> maduro said he was doing it for the children but you see the dangers of what happens when the government becomes more powerful than the people. it's like throwing fire extinction are out of your house and you're depending on your other checks and balances and he destroyed those as well. >> tucker: he was doing it for the children, i didn't know that. that is such a great detail, a detail i will never forget. thank you very much for that. progressive activists in denver are promoting a law that would legalize permanent homeless camps across the city, what would that mean for the environment? open space, water, and the middle class. we'll tell you after the break
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>> tucker: homeless encampments you see everywhere in this country, inside of what were once america's most beautiful cities. you don't see many families in parks in those places, you will see plenty of tents and needles and human waste. denver, colorado, isn't yet a world famous for its homeless problem but that may change. in an upcoming election, activists are pushing a measurew calling the right to survive. if passed, the law would allow the home homeless to set up pet encampment in any public space in the city. jeff shoemaker is executive director of the greenway foundation which preserves open space in the city and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. you served in the state legislature, you don't see very partisan. you have spent a lot of years
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working to enhance the environmental quality of your city and the open spaces so you seem like the person to ask -- what effect would this have on the environment if passed? >> the challenge of 300 and the ramifications to our parks and open spaces, the natural areas and our rivers is significant damaging. what will happen under the measures involved with 300 is any park, any public space, any riverbank as a legal resident will allow anyone to use these parks and priceless amenities as bathrooms. at the end of the day, we will see challenging results of that in terms of degraded water quality, the south platte river in denver is now healthy enough that cold water native species of fish have been reintroduced
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and are not only surviving but thriving, this will go away under measure 300. m >> tucker: fly fisherman of america, thank you for your work to make thatuc happen. the point you just made is such an obvious point, you allow people to use parks and rivers as a toilet, it's going to hurt the environment. why isn't there an uproar against this idea? >> i think there is a challenge based onon the language in the ballot measure to fully understand what to measure 300 does and doesn't do. i would like to talk about what it doesn't do in terms of compassion for the homeless in denver. it provides no housing, no foodh no clothing. it provides no mental care, nooo physical health care, it provides no education, no employment, no independence. it does nothing to take dependency and addiction and turn it as we all t want into independency and sobriety.
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what the measure 300 does by affect is it says any part, any civil right is a protected residents as is any vehicle in the city and county of denver. my vehicle is now a residence, i can park it anywhere on any street in the city, certainly in residential areas and that is my civil right protected residence. this is why no service provider that we know of is behind it. i don't know of any first responder be at a fire, police, or medical caregivers that are behind this measure. i find it sadly to be without compassion and care and the solution, in my mind it is almost a rejection to the homeless. i will finish with it says to
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the homeless weather 15 below or 115 above we have no way of helping you with that. >> tucker: don't turn denver into calcutta. thank you for what you have done for the physical environment of that city. >> i'm part of a great team, thank you. >> tucker: denver isn't the only place where things seem to be falling apart. at depaul university a frequent guest on the show, we are always honored to have him. recently he wrote a piece on the federalist arguing that israelha has the right to annex the west bank, you can agree or disagree but at the college where he works students and faculty were so offended that they launched a campaign to destroy him. thousands of students joined a letter to center him and the faculty condemned it as an abuse of academic freedom. if we wanted to give them a chance to ask bond that he joins us now. next very much for coming on.
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you took a position that not everyone agrees with but it does have a large constituency, it's not an unheard of position and it's no crazier than what most of your colleagues are saying on a daily basis. why are you being censured for that? >> because i've taken a very positive pro-israeli stance in a very anti-semitic culture on college campuses and pushing for movements and divestment against israel. i'm a conservative independent who speaks his mind very clearly and will not be silenced. in that article, besides defending israel i made the point that israel is the only democracy amidst a bunch of illiberal regimes that don't respect human rights and individual rights.
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people at large took offense at me defending israel and defending my right to defend israel's rights to defend itself against a war that was lodged against it in 1967 by jordan. the students have claimed that i am racist, xenophobic, cold for my removal, that i am in islamophobia and that i am guilty of advocating ethnic cleansing and which i am not. >> tucker: it's ludicrous. we have some video of the protests against you on your campus, there it is right there. tell us what we are looking at. >> i was not there but i think you're looking at the arts and letters building in which students are calling for -- calling for the president to fire me, calling for my downfall, calling for
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professional professor hill to be dumped, all sorts of accusations against me. i was made aware of the video yesterday. >> tucker: we are watching them throw paper, watching them litter which they are good at, any idea what they are throwing down from the balcony? >> they are throwing down quotes from the article, tweets that i have made which i have discussed on your show, they've taken sections from my book in which i defend israel and defend american exceptionalism, we've discussed this on your showom before and they have taken some of these quotes out of context from my book and from my article and throwing them around campus, accusing me of the and siding with an apartheid state which they claim israel to be, and i apfend israel is not being an apartheid state. >> tucker: hysterical children
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have taken control, we can only hope this moment passes soon and is revolution burns itself out. we are rooting for you, one of the great voices i would say. godspeed and i hope you will come back and tell us how it goes. the novelist brett easton ellis released his first nonfiction book and it has outraged the vocal left and for good reason. he joins us next to discuss that book, we'll be right back.
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the 2016 election. that's what they did today and it won't be the last time. unfortunately there are still problems starting at the border which has basically collapsed.ly this newly released footage of the border patrol shows about 111 migrants across the mexican border into arizona, border patrol agents were able to apprehend them. those migrants will likely claim asylum, many of them will be admitted temporarily into the united states and no one will ever be deported, nobody ever is. that's how it works and it works because congress doesn't care about fixing it at all. his best selling novel american psycho, brett easton ellis satirized the yuppie culture of the 1980s but now h he is released his first work of nonfiction. it's called "white," the book has a target, victimhood culture. he says it's anoo attack on generation wuss and young
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progressives in general. we recently spoke with them and here is he said. you have been famous for so long, decades you have offended people, did you think you had it in you to offended new generation? >> definitely not, i'm never trying to offend anybody and i am always amazed how i managed to trigger generation after generation after generation. i thought this was a pretty benign book and i didn't think it was going to be considered as political as it has been considered within the mainstream press. i never thought it would be as controversial as it hasgh becom. it certainly my most controversial book i've written since american psycho and i find it tors be mad. >> and i don't think of you as a bpolitical person, i have followed your career for all of these years, i don't think of you as a right winger or anything and i read this piece by molly john fouts who who ist
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supersmart i will concede but she dismisses you as a trump cologne why are try writing you off as a right winger when you haven't written a right-wing book? >> if you don't adequately condemn trump, if you don't come out and agree with the hysterical overreaction to tromp, then you are colluding with him. i have dealt with this the last two or three years with my podcast -- i'm probably not your typical trump supporter, i definitely didn't vote for him. i'm a freethinker in many ways and i did see something wrong with the portrayal of trump in i the media, i thought the media was covering him in a way that wasn't necessarily truthful. i talk a lot about this on my podcast. even though i wasn't a supporter necessarily, just because i complained about the way the mainstream media was dealing
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with him, i suddenly got branded a conservative, some kind of psycho right wing guy when actually i'm pretty nonpartisan, i'm in the middle of the aisle. >> tucker: who has been angriest about this? >> certainly the liberal side of the mainstream media has takened this book to be a kind of betrayal because as you said i've never been a politically -- a political person. for some reason because i talk about a lot of hysterical liberals i know o in los angeles who lost it all over trump, entitled people i know who felt they were somehow, this massive betrayal had happened because trump had won. i covered this in my podcast and covered it in "white," somehow
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i'm a trump supporter when all i'm trying to do is find out the truth and talk about the reality of the situation. >> tucker: you are a novelist most of the time so you think outside the constraints that most of the people are bound by and the political world -- how long do you think this can last? how long can we have a society where creativity is banned in freethinking is illegal and anyone who steps outside theis parameters is crushed, can this go on forever? >> it can't. this is the one thing that has bothered me the most about the left. as a creative it is something that worries me. i often wonder how you can be a writer, an artist, a director or filmmaker and align yourself with a party that is basically subsidizing an authoritarian language police on what you can say, what you can't say, how you can express yourself, how you can't express yourself. m
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i don't understand how this is not more worrying to the creative community. where's it going going to end u up? what is the t dead end of this censoring? i don't know. there has got to be some kind of pushbacko on it because neither side likes it. the left doesn't like it in the right doesn't like it and somehow we are enthralled to this end we are all following it and i'm not sure why. >> tucker: you definitely pushback in this book and congratulations on the bravery it takes to write a book like this righthe now. i appreciate it. a male power lifter has just smashed four records in a single meat for female power lifters but some bigoted people say there's a problem with that, we'll attack them after the break. the mueller report is out but
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♪ >> tucker: imagine what it's like to be congressman eric swalwell in california, he's running for president but one of nearly two dozen democrats running. he needs a niche, but skateboarding and socialism are taken so we need to different path. he decided to come off like a parody of a cringing self-loathing beta male. so yesterday for example tweeted this, "do you know howoa many times the word "woman" is mentioned in the constitution? zero. that is unacceptable. women must be equally represented and equally protected. #e.r.a. now." so he had a point, we checked and "woman" does not appear ind the constitution and neither does "man." "trans" also.
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as a matter of fact, white, black, gay, and straight, they got there. weirdly, the amendment he wanted to pass wouldn't add those words either because despite his pandering, the constitution is not the bigoted document he wants it to be.ll it's actually for all americans regardless. some congratulations are in order tonight for power lifter mary gregory. gregory competed at a 100% raw powerlifting tournament. gregory competed in nine events and won all nine of them, setting four records in the process. that was a triumph ofec the human spirit. of course, some people are unhappy about it and some people always complain. in this case, they argue gregory had an unfair advantage because of being a biological male with a lifetime of physiology and male hormones. people think these sports should be reserved for for biological women, that women are somehow different from men. you know why they think that? not for any good reason, not like there is a mountain of evidence
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visible to anyone who goes outside or has functioning senses. they think that because they are incorrigible bigots... powerful people tell us that every day and threaten our livelihood if we disagree with that so we buya the idea completely withot any reservation at all. so congratulations to maryer gregory for being one of the greatest female athletes since caitlyn jenner. msnbc, if you are watching, you may have noticed that they could not contain their excitement during the attorney general testimony. lindsey graham noted thatei mueller's report found no evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. brian williams wouldn't have it, though. he cut into call him a liar. >> so what have we learned fromn this report? after all this time and all this money, mr. mueller and his team concluded there was no collusion. if there is no underlying crime -- >> we are reluctant to do this, we rarely do, but the chairman of the judiciary committee just said that mueller
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found there was no collusion. that is not correct. that phrase, or the lack of it, it's absent from federal code. the no collusion mantra is so foundational as to why we are here today that we decided to flag it when we heard him use it yet again, back intoo the chairman and the committee. >> tucker: c [laughs] just another fact-check from a guy suspended for lying. i want to be a nice guy but please, get somee self-awareness. the only time something like that happened, an hour laterly they cut away again to say barr is a big fat liar, too. watch this. >> so much has been said here and placed on the record by the attorney general that starting with nicole wallace, we want to correct some of the records against, of all things, what it says in the mueller report. nicole? >> i'm not going to dance around this. he's lying. he's lying about what the
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mueller finds around one of the critical flash point in the obstruction investigation. >> tucker: [laughs] when you are turning to nicole wallace is a fact-checker, you have gone all the way. joe concha writes about media for "the hill" and he joins us tonight. i like brian williams. he's funny, i always like when i talk to him. and he has gone full msnbc. he should be on msnbc news, still got the voice but this is pathetic. >> conforming to the highest. i grew up down the new jersey river, is a nice guy by all accounts. the environment that he is in, he realizes that he has to give his audience comfort food. what they want to hear at this point. and the scary part about that is that he could just pivot into what he's becoming now, which is completely and totally partisan. remember, he was the anchor of the "nbc nightly news" for many, many years. he's gone for dan rather, i would say. rather was the anchor, the evening and good for cbs from, i
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believe, 1980 2-2 thousand five. these guys were people that you chose it because they are they are, cbs, nbc, giving you the news and now they have gone completely and totally to onend side, to the left, and they destroy their legacies in the process unfortunately. >> tucker: speedy water so we se wallace, who is never been a journalist -- i mean that despite the glasses routine. this thing where they do this -- she's been a flack. i met her when she was jeb bush is black and she's always been like someone who spends on behalf of politicians. so how is she being referred to -- how is she being used as a source of truth? it's bizarre to me. >> yeah. if i'm msnbc in that in that situation, i would be use pete williams, who is a great journalist. use them for a fact-check instead. we are seeing here, especially
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in other cable networks, is putting in republicans, people who are conservatives whether that be nicole wallace or anna navarro, and they just go -- more than sometimes democrats or liberals, going completely and totally anti-trump to get this perception that somehow even republicans are turning against the president. then you look at the gallup poll and it shows that loyalty to thh president is about 90% of his party but the perception of the cable news networks are trying to give on cnn and msnbc is tht everyone is turning against this guy because he's that bad. >> tucker: so what you are describing is a political campaign where every segment is plotted out as a propaganda shell in order to deliver a message totally disconnected from what's real. >> it seems that way if you believe polling, then you see what's on television, the two disconnected things completely, justis like this constant obsession with collusion is something at the american people almost didn't care about. every poll use our leading up to
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the mueller reports, that was completely and totally true. so yeah, that's the whole ball game here. tucker, collusion wasn't proven here. brian williams saying, no, no, no, it wasn't, and collusion they are trying to prove is between president trump and bill barr and rod rosenstein? bill barr work for george bush. george w. bush. at last checked, the bushes don't like the trump's, so to think that he suddenly decided to throw away his career for this guy that he barely knew before he took over, some sort of conspiracy, same with rosenstein, who was willing to wear a wire to invoke the 25th amendment, it is so ridiculous. that is the conspiracy theories that are out there. >> tucker: we have ten seconds left. totally sincere question. do i look more credible if i pause and use my cvs readers in the middle of this? should i do this regularly like nicole wallace or no? >> all, gladly. 15 points to your iq and 15,000 to your bank account. i used them when i was single.
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y,>> tucker: you are a wise man, joe concha. thank you. thanks, we'll be back tomorrow, 8:00 p.m., they show that thata sworn enemy of lying come up positively, smugness, and groupthink. dvr it. more than anything, watch this man who takes over from new york city. >> sean: tucker carlson, slow news night, anything happening? >> tucker: [laughs] >> sean: it is really slow. great to see you. great show. buckle up welcome to "hannity". let me give you a quick headlines and the details we will follow. nobody else will report. the mueller witch hunt is completely over. it is done. nobody listened to the attorney general, and yeah, the attorney general admitted today, everything we reported the last two years, full criminal investigations are now just beginning. imagine that, a talk show host is right and so many in the fake news industry are wrong. we will get to all of it but
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