subscribe. his is excellent. i learned a lot about him that i never knew before rising star in his party to be sure. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two long years the institutional left told us they knew exactly what the mueller router would say. they said it would end the trump presidency and save this nation. congressman adam schiff who sits on the intel committee and would know gave us a preview. schiff said he had seen with his own eyes proof that the president of the united states included criminally with the government of russia. buzzfeed, a noted cat blog said it had conclusive evidence that trump obstructed evidence. abc news momentarily tanked stock prices when it reported that trump had ordered his national security advisor to talk to the russians and so on.

the mueller report is going to prove all of these stories true. and then the report came out and turns out that none of it was true. it was all a lie. how did the people who told and repeated those lies respond? they could have done what decent people do. they could have resigned their jobs, tearfully apologize for misleading our country and moved to paraguay in shame. they could have done that but they didn't. instead they do what they always do. they became more aggressive. they decided that actually the mueller report vindicated everything they have been saying since 2016. it's all there it's just being hidden by that dastardly attorney general robert barr. william barr, whatever. barr. up there with papadopoulos as an enemy of the people. >> just having him sit for a hearing or locking him up enough? >> i would be happy to have him sit for a hearing and i think you have to have him locked up unless he agrees to participate and come to

the hearing. >> the house and the senate each chamber has an inherent power to compel a witness to testify if that witness just refuses. and that includes arrest and even includes jail. the house is powerless unless the house takes some action. >> we have what's called inherent contempt proceedings which means we send the sergeant of arms out to hand guff the individual who is declining. >> who are you going to handcuff? >> i'm going to start with mr. barr. >> tucker: cuff him, lock him up. send him to jail. the man who is the attorney general for less than three months must be imprisoned for his crimes whatever those crimes are and the president must go on trial too. you might think that the clearance of no collusion must be good but no it means he must be impeached. >> to participate in our

elections to obstruct justice and cover up during the investigation. [crowd boos] there must be consequences. there must be accountability. we must get behind the house of representatives if they pursue impeachment of this president. [cheers] you almost wish his campaign wasn't over so we would get new clips of the hat bouncing and hand gestures. did you hear what he said? he said impeached no matter what the cost, impeachment is a theological imperative. watch. >> are you concerned that impeachment talk may actually help the president's re-election? >> i'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president he will get reelected. >> tucker: impeach him before the people choose him as their president again. that's how democracy works. now, watching all this you might assume that the left has lost control of itself and you would be half right

the democratic base has been emotionally incontinent for quite some time. they are getting worse, not better, and you can thank the internet for that the people who run the party are not crazy. they are cooley rational. they always have been. they want power. that's all they want, whatever it takes. these people don't throw fits unless it serves some higher political purpose. and this fit does serve a higher purpose. they are trying to divert attention from a much bigger story. remember when trump said the obama administration had been spying on his campaign? the democratic party's boot liquors went absolutely crazy the second he said it they rushed to the nearest television studio to mocket very idea. >> president trump has a new favorite word and every time he uses it, he is lying. and that is the word spy. >> his baseless claims of spies. >> so-called spy issue, first of all, there is absolutely no evidence there was a spy. so it's really a fake issue. >> he wants you to believe that his campaign was spied

on and it's one of the worst things we have ever seen from government. >> tucker: i think looking back the vcr, one of the great inventions in human history may be fire the wheel the vcr it allows us to preserve people's claims on tape and then play them back. the group you just saw were hysterical at the idea that trump might believe there was spying on his campaign. they were hysterical because they suspected it might actually be true. and now we know that it was. in fact, according to recent testimony from a high-ranking fbi official, the spying turned out to be far more extensive than trump expected, even james clapper had to concede that. >> using under cover agents is a standard and legitimate technique that is widely used in investigations. that technique has been used to thwart a lot of counter-terrorism plots in

this country so i'm sure there are protocols and standards for using an agent and i'm sure that's the case here. >> was it spying? >> well, yeah, i guess it meets the dictionary definition of spying -- of surveillance or spying. a term i don't particularly like. >> tucker: yeah. the guy who ran the spy agency doesn't like the word spying. eric felton broke this story that there may have been more than one government informant embedded in trump's campaign he wrote it for national review online and he joins us on set tonight. >> tucker, how are you doing? >> tucker: i feel like most people who thought maybe trump was on to something kind of vindicated tonight. even those who thought there might have been spying are not prepared to learn what have you reported which was real spying. >> well, what's interesting about it is you had jonathan math if a deputy assistant director of the fbi sort of head of intelligence analysis and he was put

together with peter strzok you remember peter strzok? >> tucker: very well. >> core two people and putting together the trump investigation, the trump-russia investigation at the beginning of august of 2016 pete strickland sent a text message. always the text messages from pete strzok in which he wanted to organize what they were going to talk about at their first organizational meeting and at their first organizational meeting they talked about chss confidential human sources and liaison, which is fbi term for working with spy agencies whether it's the cia or foreign agencies. so from the get-go, right from the beginning, the investigation using spies was on the table as one of the things that the team was going to use. >> tucker: so now there is evidence that there was more than one. >> right. we know that christopher

steele was a confidential human source. >> tucker: right. >> we know that stephon halper was a confidential human source. this is the cambridge professor. and we know that azraaturk pretending to be stephon halper's assistant was a paid informant. >> tucker: some of these were paid with u.s. tax dlanchts stephon halper has been paid lots and lots of money. he does analysis papers for the defense security agency writing position papers that he gets paid $300,000 for and ends up being a way in which the money for stephon halper is paid out of sort of the black bag. what else interesting is that jonathan maffa is closed door testimony back in august on capitol hill was asked just how many confidential human sources there were in the

investigation? and he couldn't answer the question. if it just been one or two or three, that would have been easy. instead he had to say well, there were confidential human sources, i just don't know how many there were. >> tucker: shocking. shocking. hopefully we will know. thank you for that reporting, eric felton, good to see you. >> good to see you, tucker. >> tucker: mollie hemmingway has been covering this story and has been for the federalist. she joins us tonight. why haven't we heard stephon halper long standing government source and as eric felten said recipient of u.s. tax dollars i believe is he still in london why hasn't he been answering basic questions like. this amazing investigation going on where we had the russia hoax this allegation that the donald trump campaign treasonously colluded with russia that stole the 2016 election that ended with a fizzle. robert mueller failed to indict a single american for that and then we have what

eric felten wide ranging campaign against the trump campaign that used human informs, national security letters, wiretaps, the azra will will will will wilazraturki don't believe that's her real name. four who were surveilled at least. we don't know so much about this. and the media show a lacking lack of curiosity. the "new york times" broke this story and down played it and said don't worry this doesn't actually report. we will tell you about this spy but it doesn't support donald trump's contention he was spied on. completely supports the corn tension thought campaign was spied on and need to cover it with the same rigor they devoted to the crazy conspiracy theory that they fell for for years. >> tucker: donald trump controls actually air quotes he doesn't control as much as we have seen. controls the fbi and cia right now and could dispatch them on phony pretext as

obama did to them sick them on the presidential campaigns of his opponents. aren't they worried about that? >> there is an actual issue going back many decades of a complex within the government that is not very politically accountable. but for the first time in two years we actually have -- >> tucker: why is that the not an attack on democracy. >> a huge threat warned about from every president from eisenhower on or every president has been concerned about from eisenhower on. there is now finally political accountability at the department of justice. that's why you see so many people upset that we now have an attorney general who has expressed merely an interest into looking into this. he hasn't said that he is going to go after donald trump's enemies or anything like that. he says i would like to know more about how this began. and what protocols were followed and the media and various people who are in the agencies at the time are just absolutely -- >> tucker: this is why congresswoman spear and rubio guy are saying he should go to jail? >> right. >> tucker: the attorney general my find out why this spying was allowed and for

that point he should go to jail? >> great plan to spend all this years conspiracy theory to delegitimize donald trump's election. if it turns out to be a boon for him all the things he said about it were true and nobody was indicted for treasonous collusion with russia is not something they are psychologically prepared to accept at this point. why people react so strongly. a year ago we were told any critique on robert mueller was an attack on the public. it was a threat to the rule of law. we couldn't have administration of justice if we even criticized in any way robert mueller. what's going on then with this extreme criticism of william barr simply for saying he would like to make sure that our federal eggs that areggagencies taxed with lw enforcement were following protocol. >> tucker: sitting member of congress says he should be in handcuffs for that i hope they never get power. i mean that mollie, thank you, great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: hillary clinton says the 2016 election was stolen from her. she is not the only democrat who has decided you never need to concede an election.

that's for losers. great mark steyn responds after the break. ♪ ♪

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wisconsin. we don't think the tour is going to appleton any time soon. she did make it to l.a. the other day where she implied that the 2016 election was, quote, stolen from her. watch. >> i think it's also critical to understand that as i have been telling candidates who have come to see me you can run the best campaign. you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: yep, they stole it. they stole it she is not the only democrat disputing election outcomes. failed georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams says she won her election at a fundraiser in houston over the weekend abrams told her audience i'm here to tell you a secret that makes breitbart and tucker carlson go crazy. we won. i am not delusional. i know i am not the governor of georgia, possibly yet.

whenever they tell you i am not delusional which is also the guy next to you on the bus tries to assure you it makes you wonder in reality abrams did lose that race by more than 50,000 votes. that's not a close margin. the great irony in all of this is the democrats say that trump can't accept election outcomes house speaker nancy pelosi just told the "new york times" she worries whether the president will accept the 2020 results if democrats win by a narrow margin. she felt the same way about the midterms. she recalled before last november she believed quote if we win by 4 seats by 1,000 votes each he is not going to respect the election because everything is projection. sigmund freud called it mark steyn is the best-selling author and really the best guest on tv and joins us tonight. so, here is yet another example, mark, of them accusing you of what they are doing. are they not aware that they are doing it?

>> yeah. yeah. i think hillary clinton is totally unaware when she says that you know, you run the best campaign and all the rest of it she is actually clutching at straws as to why the inevitable candidate did not win. but, this is really the flip side of what you were just talking about with mollie right now. these two stories run in parallel. the democrats essentially provide political cover for all these fbi types monkeying around, wiretapping and surveying the opposition because if the democrats didn't lend it political cover, we would also see it for what it gilad shaliwhat it is.going rog. the investigation of george papadopoulos and co provide cover for the democrats as to why trump's republican

victories are never legitimate. in a sense these two things operate on twin tracks and support each other. whether you have someone like stacey abrams actually saying we don't need to concede anymore because this entire system is oppressive and out to get us. the democrats are coming close, actually, to making politics entirely impossible. and when you do that it doesn't actually leave much else except civil war. by delegitimizing this process, they are actually playing with matches. >> tucker: when you say that the election is illegitimate because the system is illegitimate because the founding documents are you will legitimate because the people who wrote them are racist. at a certain point aren't you saying i don't need to play by your rules i will seize power when i can? >> stacey abrams' argument unless i win the election was rigged. and hillary clinton, who is a far more senior figure

than stacey abrams actually came close to saying that on stage in los angeles because i didn't win, the system musting rigged. and actually when you read that nancy pelosi thing, i don't think trump is like that at all. i think if trump were to lose narrowly, he would sound off on twitter. he would say the presidency is for losers. living in the white house was so degrading after you have lived in trump tower, i'm going to build a fabulous new trump resort in kazakhstan, screw you all. he would have a ball. if he lost he would have a ball and he would be gone. but what the democrats have done for the last two years, in particular hillary clinton, it's hillary clinton's refusal to lose tied to what we have been talking about with all these deep state guys going rogue, in alliance with foreign intelligence agencies.

eavesdropping, monitoring, trying to entrap american citizens. that's -- these two crimes are actually the same crime and one half supports the other half. >> tucker: very smart as always. mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. great being with you. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: silicon valley is dramatically stepping up its efforts to see you lens the appoint it disagrees with. anything right of center. it's not your imagination. it's happening right now before the 2020 election. for the purpose of influencing that election. facebook just banned a number of prominent conservatives earlier this week, essentially wiping them off the internet. the rest of us are supposed to think that's okay. the latest victim is the conservative clermont institute wanted to buy google ad to promote university gala. google refused to sell ads essay that violated

ethnicity policy. read the essay yourself, nothing racist about it, actually. not even close. google now says that decision was a mistake and it will allow clermont to purchase ads now that clermont complained and gone public including on this show. interesting how those mistakes always go in exactly the same direction. one of the most famous attorneys in america on the question of big tech and its threat to our liberties and she joins us tonight. harmeet, thanks a lot for coming on. >> hi, tucker. >> tucker: it was a mistake. how many times have we heard from from some big tech company or another when caught silencing conservatives? >> we hear it every other day and tucker i'm not delusional and people are actually discriminating against conservatives every day this way. and they are gas li lighting us it was just a mistake you imagined that the chilling effect every time this happens publicly is it keeps normal conservatives far from the boundaries. it keeps them from saying anything that they think

might be controversial and because these rules that they have are unwritten and constantly evolving and being made up all the time they make a mockery much the contract between consenting adults and they simply people don't know where they stand. it's really anker wellian type of a situation. >> tucker: newspapers are all but dead. radio is in decline in general. cable news speaks with one voice with the exception of a very few shows this among them. social media that's the entire political conversation. that's where it takes place if you control the terms you control the outcome of the election won't you. >> you will. republicans are ignoring this at their peril. i feel like cassandra. i keep saying. this we are going to lose every single election going forward if we don't put a stop to this bias. now, you know, some either conservatives who are being paid off by big tech or simply ill informed say oh,

well, this is just competition. this is just the market. if you don't like twitter or don't like facebook go make your own. these are all statements made by people who have never started their own companies and are paid by think tanks. they don't know what it means to start a business. that is include chris. these companies have all built themselves up to the point of monopoly power on the back of protectionist government regulations decency act section 230 and others. now that they have got therein and crowded out everybody else, they are now changing the rules on us. so from last year facebook advertising that it was going to allow controversial pages on the right and on the left up so there could be a dialogue. today they are simply snuffing out people completely. now they are snuffing out people who probably you or i don't necessarily hang out with, listen, to or follow or like. that's not the point that's how they are doing it nobody protested when it was alex jones and now not protesting a few more. pretty soon people closer to you or me or ourselves.

>> tucker: it will be us. when republicans lose every election that matters in the next cycle and wonder why, i wonder why our message didn't get through? okay. i hope they wake up. >> exactly. exactly. it may be too late. >> tucker: harmeet, great to see you. please continue sounding that alarm nchtsd thanks, tucker. >> tucker: here is kind of amazing fact that could should be on the front page of every paper. a secret department of defense program paid researchers to run psychological research on people who said they encountered ufos, apparently warehouses were rented. it sounds kooky. this is actually being reported by the "new york times" where metal from downed ufos could be stored. what? when did that happen and why did nobody tell us? we will tell you what we know after the break ♪ my reputation was trashed online,

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: well, a lot of people believe that there might be life on other planets. apparently a lot of people who do work in the u.s. government, which, secretly over the years, we now learned, has spent millions on a program that investigated ufo reports. so what did they find and does that program still exist? we asked fox news [inaudible] to explore that question for us. >> we have fearlessly reported on previous reports of ufo sightings or what the military sometimes called unexplained area phenomena. detailed by navy pilots and other members of the military. it's a situation that the pentagon takes the world's interest in when they release some declassified documents that made it clear that the government is keeping an eye on the skies and potential ufos a bit closer than anyone would have expected. that release included the now infamous video of 2017 of what is clearly some kind of flying object that

honestly does not match any of the physics i remember learning about or any aircraft design any of us have ever seen outside of science fiction. but the story actually got a little more interesting. it turns out former u.s. senator harry reid of nevada put together a multi-million-dollar investigation into the pentagon's ufo files and it included a real life fox molder cast with cataloging not just those documents related to ufo reports but also to collect actual debris. in fact, a company was hired to modify buildings in las vegas to store metal alloys and other materials that were reportedly from sites where these unexplained events happened. people who have had encounters have been tested for any physical changes, military personnel were interviewed about what they saw. now, we know what some of them saw from the 2017 video captured over the pacific when multiple military officers confirmed this mysterious sighting, including pilots and radar

technicians. the program catalog then revealed to the public what was found has been cancelled, tracking ufos by the military isn't stopping. in fact, they are going to keep it for a simple reason. the military needs to know who is doing this and what their intent is now, unfortunately, this means we may not get to see those detailed reports, those mind-blowing videos or as one of the pilots said of something seen out his window truly radical technology. all the data they collect they simply end up in a chart that shows an uptick in sightings and their location as we all collectively wait for those documents to be declassified. i want to know where it's coming from and i want a tour of this warehouse to see these metal alloys. this is kind of amazing. >> tucker: they say they have multiple sightings per month. >> this isn't like once a year. >> tucker: no. >> can't say it's a falling star. this happens a lot. >> tucker: not a drunk guy in new hampshire? >> no. these are very well trained

pilots and military personnel. >> tucker: pay loads. >> you hope you know what they are looking at. i hope they know what they are seeing. >> tucker: brett larson, thank you very much for that. >> thanks, tucker. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: well, one of the things you most frequently heard then candidate trump say was that china was ripping us off. yet, more than two years into his presidency the trade deficit with china has actually grown quite a bit, dramatically, really. last year the united states ran a 419 billion-dollar trade deficit with china. for perspective, that's enough money to pay off our country's entire resolving credit card debt. instead, that all goes to the fascist government of china. now the president says in response is he planning to increase tariffs on some chinese products to 25%. he announced that last night. with perspective what this means we go to michael pills

bury the author of the book 100 year marathon china's secret strategy to replace america as the global super power. thank you very much for coming on. is this a new chapter. >> yes, it is. the president got upset if that's the right word. perhaps infuriated by the chinese reneging on what they had promised in writing over the past few months. and i think he probably sue this as a test of strength by his friend xi jinping. the radicalization, therefore, was very swift. the tweet came not too long after the president learned of china taking back concessions it had made in writing. actually, i knew about some of the details of the agreement, i was quite impressed. i praised the president directly. have you done more than any previous president to get this far. but i had a faint feeling,

tucker, that the chinese leadership had not really blessed this agreement that apparently is what happened. the chief negotiator has the rank vice premier well-known economist and reformer in china. he signed a number of studies 10, 15 years ago. one is called china 2030 trying to reduce the amount of state control open up china's markets not steal intellectual property. to say make him the chief negotiator was a test of him and perhaps he went too far. the book i wrote is about the hawks in china the nationalistic i like steve bannon let's call them the steve bannons of china got ahold of these concessions and these texts which we keep secret. we don't quite know who in china can look at it. it's 150 pages long. apparently there was a reaction in china that we are not going to accept. this take it back.

but when president trump heard about it he has immediately responded with these harsh punitive tariffs being increased on friday so now we are in a whole new chapter as you say. >> tucker: it's amazing. very quickly, if this happens,. >> yes. we assess 25% tariff levy on some chinese imports into this country, that upends a lot of their model, right? >> yes. it hurts them we don't know exactly how much it hurts them. but the first round of tariffs brought them to the table quite quickly. there is reasonable to believe it's still possible to get a deal. but the first step the chinese have to take and it might happen as early as this week is to undo their reneging. the next step will be to close the deal on the enforcement mechanisms. i think the reason china is doing this is this fight between the hawks and doves or the hawks and reformers. it's not over yet in china. when the side loses over there, they don't go home

and mope. they get put in jail. [laughter] >> tucker: great point. thank you very much for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: china's communist government has a long history of putting people in jail. rounding up ethnic muslims and assigning them to reeducation camps. the victims are mostly uighurs an ethnic group who live in the northwestern part of the country. those who live in the camps travel restrictions, ethnic profiling vehicle checkpoints et cetera. uighur officials are not allowed to practice their religion, go to mosque or fast during ramadan. the goal is to destroy all traces of weaker identity. it's textbook ethnic cleansing. the international left doesn't seem to care. millions of muslims rounded up and put in camps barely are mentioned from liberals. why? because it's happening in china and not ke kentucky. therefore, it's okay. joe biden clearly paid attention to high school history class first he said

republicans want to put african-americans back in chains and now he said they want to bring back jim crow. remarkable development next. ♪ ♪ everyone's got to listen to mom.

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>> tucker: democrats running for the nomination this year obviously in an arms race to see who can make the most flamboyant statements and push the most aggressive racial incitement. joe biden is the presumptive frontrunner. here is part of what he said to predominantly african-american audience in south carolina over the weekend. watch. >> last year 24 states introduced or enacted at least 70 bills to curtail the right to vote. and guess what? mostly directed at, quote, people of color. i see it we got jim crow

sneaking back in. no, i mean it. >> tucker: the guy is an idiot obviously. the question is what does it do to the country when you say things like that and what exactly is he talking about? is a single word that you just watched on television is it true? is it rooted in reality in any way? that's a real question because you are going to hear more of it max burns is a democratic strategist he joins us tonight. max, there was a -- i think the conclusive study on this was just done in february out of harvard on the question of voter i.d. laws which are by far the most controversial, right? republicans say we need them because they obviously are hedged against voter fraud and democrats say they are racist. here is what the study found. we find that strict voter i.d. laws have no significant effect on registration or turnout. they do not decrease the participation of ethnic minorities relative to whites and it goes on like that. it's conclusive. why is no one acknowledging the facts of this? why are they still calling it jim crow? >> you say one study and joe biden is only wrong in the

sense that thinking that jim crow was ever actually gone away. i mean, african-american voters, latino voters have experienced having their votes invalidated for decades. i mean, look at north carolina where they just throw their votes directly in the trash. there is nothing more interpretivsuppressive than tha. >> tucker: no evidence anyone's votes were thrown away in this generation and in north carolina and in the specific case you are talking about on the basis of race. that's a lie as you know. second of all. >> they had to redo the entire election, tucker. >> tucker: but there is no evidence just to restate as someone who is familiar with exactly what you are talking about that anyone's votes were discarded because of the color of their skin. that's just not true. to say otherwise is to suggest you don't know what you are talking about or misleading our audience. i want you to respond to the study that i cited which is not written by right wingers that voter i.d. laws have no effect on voter turnout. they are not inherently discriminatory.

do you have another study that shows the opposite more current than this one or bigger. >> here's the problem and i'm glad you mentioned the turn out question. here is the problem with the turn out point in that study. the turn out doesn't show you how hard people had to fight to get there. if a black voter has to work twice as hard to get to a polling place to register to vote at all that, is not an equitable similarity to a white person's vote. >> tucker: no, no. but voter i.d. laws are separate and distinct from the question of proximate result polling places are i think i'm too little teller. everyone lies for political effect around here i am arguing a point of fact i guess. maybe i should give up and become a demagogue like everyone else. i'm talking about voter i.d. laws. voter i.d. laws do not, according to the study. the definitive study on it don't suppress african-american voting turnout. doesn't make it harder. i don't know what you are talking about. >> correct. the fact that african-americans are turning out in those numbers even with the hurdles they have to face, the difficulty

in getting a license, the difficulty in even finding apology places. >> tucker: how patronizing can you be? how difficult is it for black people to get driver's license. >> only 11 states in the country require to you have a license to vote. oddly enough those states that are largely effecting democratic leaning voters, african-american voters all make it expensive to get a license. expensive to get copies of your own documentation. >> tucker: obviously you don't care about what you say is true or not. let me ask you two quick questions is it racist to require an "today" fly on an airplane or stay in a hotel or to cash a check or get welfare benefits or to do anything? >> none of which are your fundamental constitutional right to vote. >> tucker: what about to have a job new can't have a job without a government i.d.? >> would you agree you have a fundamental constitutional trite vote, tucker? >> tucker: fundamental constitutional rights to a lot of things to own a gun and to vote have a job. all of these things require an i.d. but none of that is

racist only voting? >> in fact, tucker, you know buying a gun doesn't require a i.d. first off. >> tucker: i doubt have you bought many guns. i have. yes it does. i just bought one. i can't deal with this. max, thank you. >> i'm from virginia. i bought a gun without a driver's license with cash at a gun show. >> tucker: not at a gun show or gun store. >> largest gun show in virginia you do not need a license to exercise your right. >> tucker: max, i appreciate it thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: new york city mayor bill de blasio is running for president. there is no one in new york who thinks de blasio is impressive. why is he running for president? how unprison i unimpressive is ? we will speak to the world's leading expert on de blasio's unimpressiveness after the break.

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bill deblasio is regarded as a crown. shows up late to everything. he is planning a presidential run. seth covers him for the city journal and joins us tonight. who is bill deblasio? >> i thbl is the week he will announce. bills is a mayor who won consistently on low turnout. driven by the public sector unions and the nonprofit class mostly funded by the city. he expanded spending in the city from 72 to 90 billion dollars. funded by the stock market and wall street which he detests.

bill deblasio's motto is there is plenty of money in this country. it's just in the wrong hands. >> tucker: bill deblasio was the driving force behind decr decriminalizing public urination? >> yes, and public marijuana smoking. we are not at the level of san francisco yet with feces littering every sidewalk. we might get there soon, and the subways are a real mess. deblasio takes an armed convoy to the gym every morning. drives 11 miles there and back at 10 a.m. most new yorkers are hard at work at desks at that hour. deblasio likes to go to the gym and eat at his favorite cafe. he does this to stay out of the

political bubble. this is a common touch. >> tucker: if bill deblasio runs for president, we are rooting for him. i hope you will be your deblasio correspondent. johnny is the executive director of the american conservative, a fantastic site. what would a conservative economic policy look like? >> thank you very much for having me. there are two fallacies in the american economy. first is bigger is better and the second is free-trade is better. better for who? in the case of corporate

monopo monopolies. this was something thomas jefferson was so concerned about he wanted it in the bill of rights. high industrial production results in lower wages for workers. who benefits. the multi--national corporations with no allegience to america or our system of government. if multi-national corporations had their way they would do away with everything that conservatives value. borders and family and church and the concept of citizenship. anything that gets in the way of the individual and the market they want it gone. they want complete control. >> tucker: every word you said is true. given and obvious. why in the world would you have politicians in washington who call themselves conservatives who have made their first

allegience to these corporations that have no loyalty to the united states and hate everything conservatives say they are for? >> i don't know. but the good news there is a long republican tradition and american tradition going back to the american founding of standing up against concentrated corporate power. it poses a threat to our political, cultural and economic will being. it's time that conservatives and republicans and president trump take the moral high ground back from the left and make this issue front and center in the 2020 election. >> tucker: the left is the group defending the economic status quo and bezos. those are all liberals. >> they are willing to sacrifice their belief in a society that works for everyone.

it's the perfect time for conservatives to take this issue back and put american citizens, families and workers first. if republicans can do that, they can build a majority that will last for a generation. >> tucker: the chamber of commerce and libberar tans i don't like it. you can't do that? >> we can do whatever we want. >> tucker: thank you very much. that's something to think about. we will be back tomorrow night 8 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. i am encouraging you to use the dvr attached to your television. good luck with you.

good night from washington. we have a surprise for you, ladies and gentlemen. as the camera pulls back and our screen goes to black here in washington, in new york city -- >> sean: you are just wasting time to hit the post! >> tucker: [laughing]. >> sean: he's 15 seconds early or late. they know it's true. this means stretch. tucker, great show. >> tucker: thanks. >> sean: no surprise "hannity" 9 p.m. on the east. buckle up the. the democratic mob is out of control. it's a psychotic state of denial. this is the truth and reality