invitation to walk. you are our "midnight heroes." congratulations to you both. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful that you spent the c evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two long years, thee institutional left told us they knew exactly what the mueller report would say. they said it would and the trump presidency. adam schiff who sits on the committee and would now give us a preview. he said that he had seen with his own eyes proof that the president of the united states colluded criminally with the government of russia. they said it had conclusive evidence that trump obstructed justice. abc momentarily tanks stock prices when they said 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. then the report came out, and it turns out that none of it is true. it is all a lie. how did the people who told and repeated those lies respond? they could have resigned their jobs, tearfully apologize for misleading our country, and then moved to paraguay and shame. they could have done that. they didn't. they did what they always do.t they became more aggressive. they decided that actually, the mueller report vindicated everything they've been saying since 2016. it's all there. it's just being hidden by that dastardly attorney general, william barr. whatever. suddenly he is right up there with putin and george papadopoulos as an enemy of the people. >> are you talking about locking him up somehow? >> we would have to have him sit for a hearing. he would have to have them

locked up unless he agrees to participate. >> they have an inherent power to compel a witness to testify if that witness just refuses. that includes arrests. it even includes jill. the house iss powerless unless the house take some action. >> we have what's called inherent contempt. we sent them out to handcuff the individual who is declining -- >> who are you going to handcuff? >> i'm going to start with mr. barr. >> tucker: let's just cough him. lock him up he had sent to jail: the man who's been attorney general for less than three months must be imprisoned for his crimes, whatever those crimes are. the president must go on trial too. you might think that being cleared of collusion by the mueller report would be good for trump, but no. it just means that he must be

impeached. >> we invite you to participate in elections to obstruct justice and cover up during the investigation. there must be consequences. there must be a -- we must get behind the house of representatives. >> tucker: you almost wish his campaign wasn't over. and it would go on forever. so every night we get new clips of the hat and the bouncing and that hand gestures. so great. did you hear what hee said? he said impeached, no matter what the cost. impeachment is a theological imperative. watch. >> are you concerned that it may actually help his reelection? >> i'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get reelected. >> tucker: mph him before the people choose him as their president again. that's our democracy, of course. watching all this, you might assume that the left has lost

control of itself, and he would be half right. the democratic basee has been emotionally incontinent for some time. they are getting worse, not better. you can think the internet for that. the people who run the party are coolly rational. 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 one does. they are trying to divert attention from a much bigger story.y. remember when trump said the obama administrationis had been spying on his campaign? the democratic party's bootleggers went absolutely crazy the second he said it. they rushed to the nearest television station to mock him. >> president trump has a new favorite word, and every time he uses it, he is lying. that is the word "spy." >> speak of the so-called spy issue -- first of all, there is absolutely no evidence. 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 that we've ever seen from government. >> tucker: i think looking back, the vcr is one of the great inventions in human history. it allows us to preserve people's claims on tape. then play them back. the group you just saw were hysterical at the idea that trump might believe they were spying on his campaign. they weree hysterical because they suspected it might actually be true. now we know that it was. in fact, according to recent testimony, the spying turned out to be a far more than trump suspected. even james clapper had to continue. >> using undercover agents is a standard and legitimate technique that is widely used in investigations. that technique has been used to thwart all lots of counterterrorism plots in this

country. so i am sure -- there were protocols and standards for using an agent. i am sure that is the case here. >> was there spying? >> well, yeah. it meets the dictionary definition of surveillance or spying. a term i don't particularly like. >> tucker: yeah. that guy who runs the spy agency doesn't like the word "spy." there may have been more than one government informant embedded in trump campaign. he wrote it, and he joins us tonight. >> talker, how are you doing? >> tucker: while, i feel like most people, kind of vindicated tonight tonight. even those of us who thought this are not prepared to learn what you found out, which was real spying. >> what's interesting is you have the deputy assistant director ofta the fbi. the head of intelligence

analysis. he was put together. with peter strzok as the core to people and putting together the trump investigation. the trump-russia investigation at the beginning of august 2016. peter strzok sent a text messag message.om in which she wanted to organize what they were going to talk about in the sort of first organizational meeting. and he talks about ch as confidential sources and liaison, which is an fbi term for working with spy agencies, whether it'ss the cia or foreign agencies, so from the get-go. right from the beginning of the investigation, using spies was onst the table as one of the things that the team was goinguc to use.he >> tucker: so now there is evidence that there was more

than one. >> right. we know that christopher steele was a confidential -- we know that stuff on helper was a confidential source. this was the cambridge professor. we know that he pretended to be his assistant. with some kind of informant. >> tucker: some of these people were paid with tax dollars, correct? >> yes, lots and lots of money. he does and analysis papers for the security agency, writing position papers that he gets paid $300,000 for. and it ends up being a way in which the money is paid out of sort of the black bag. but what's interesting is jonathan's closed-door testimony back in augustes on capitol hill was asked of just how many confidential human sources there

were in theve investigation. and he couldn't answer the question. if it had just been one or two or three, that would have been easy. instead, he had to say, well, there were confidential sources. i just don't know how many there were. >> tucker: shocking. hopefully we will know. thank you for that report. eric felten. good to see you. she joins us tonight. molly. why haven't we heard stefan halper, s long-standing government source, and as eric felten just said, long-standing recipient of tax dollars. why isn't he answering these questions? >> we have this i amazing situation going on where we have the russia hoax, treasonous league colluding with russia to steal the 2016 election. robert mueller declined to indict a single american for that. this is what eric felten has

just reported about a wide-ranging campaign against the trump campaign that used human informants. national security letters. wiretaps. this character, i don't think that is her real name. a government official who was sent to london to oversee the operation. we know that there were probably four people who weret surveilled at least. we don't know so much about this, and the media show a shocking lack of curiosity. they broke the story, but then they kind of downplayed it and acted like we are going to telly you all about the spy, but it doesn't support donald trump's contention that he was spied onr it supports it, and they need tt cover it with the same rigor that they devoted to the crazy conspiracy theories that they fall for for multiple years. >> tucker: donald trump now controls much of his own government. he controls the fbi and cia right now. sony pretext, as obama did to

him. stick them on that, aren't they worried about that? >> it 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 -- >> tucker: so why is that not an attack on democracy? >> people have been concerned about it since eisenhower. but there is no finally political accountability at the department of justice. that'see what 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 afterhe donald trump's enemies or anything like that. he said i would like to know more about what protocols were followed. the media and various people who were in the agencies at the time which is absolutely -- >> tucker: this is why they aree both saying he should go to jail? so the attorney general might actually find out why the spying was allowed? the extent of it, and for that,

you should go to jail? >> it was a great plan to delegitimize donald trump selection, and if it instead turns out to be kind of a boom fore him, that everything was true and no one was indicted, it is something that i don't think they are psychologically prepared to accept at this point, and that's why you are seeing so many people react so strongly. it was just a year ago that we were told that any critique on robert mueller was a threat to law. we couldn't have administration of justice if we even criticized in any way robert mueller. what's going on with this extreme criticism of william barr, simply for saying that he would like to make sure that our federal agency is that are tasked are following protocol. >> tucker: and that he should be in handcuffs. i hope they never get power. i mean that. molly, thank you. great to see you. hillary clinton says a 2016 election was stolen from her. she is not the only democrat

who's decided you never need to concede an election. that's for losers. the great mark steyn responds after the break. ♪ i have a vision correction number,

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♪ >> tucker: hillary clinton continues her grievance to her around thehe united states. it could be coming to a town near you soon. tickets at this point are heavily discounted. they are probably young people to go by the very end. it is never quite clear who hillary will blame for her election laws.n we know that she never blames

herself for her failure to campaign in key places like wisconsin. she did make it to l.a. the other day where she said that the 2016 election was "stolen" from her. watch. >> i think that 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[c you. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: yaphet. they stole it. they stole it. she is the only democrat saying this now. it gubernatorial candidate stacy abram says that she won her election. it she told her audience "i'm here to tell you a secret that makes breitbart and tucker carlson go crazy." we won, she said. that's reassuring. "i know i am not the governor of

georgia." whenever they tell you i'm not delusional, which is always with the guy on the bus tries to assure you of, it makes you wonder. in reality, she did lose that race by more than 50,000 votes. it's not a close margin. of the great irony in all of this is that the democrats say that trump can't accept election outcomes. nancy pelosi just told "the new york times" that she worries about whether he will accept the 2020 results of democrats won by a narrow margi margin. she recallsmb that she believed that "if we won by 1,000 votes each, he is not going to respect the election." [laughs] because everything is projectio projection.un sigmund freud. he called it. mark steyn, the best-selling author and really the best guest on tv. he joins us tonight. here is yet another example, mark, of them accusing you of what they are doing.

are>> they not aware that they e doing that? >> i think hillary clinton is totally unaware whenre she says that you know you run the best campaign and all the rest of it. she's actually clutching at straws as to why the inevitable candidate did not won. but this is really the flip side of what you were talking about with molly just now because these two. stories run in parallel. the democrats essentially provide political cover for all these fbi types monkeying around, wiretapping, and surveilling the opposition because of the democrats didn't lend political cover, we would all see it for what it is. the deep stayed gone rogue. at the same time, the deep states investigation of george papadopoulos provides cover for the democrats. as to why trump's victories,

republican victories are never legitimate. so in essence, these two things operate on twin tracks and support each other. but when you have someone like stacy abrams actually saying we don't need to concede anymore because this entire system is oppressive and out to get us, athe democrats are coming clos, actually, to making politics entirely impossible, and when you do that, he doesn't actually leave much else except civil war. by delegitimizing this, they are actually playing with w matches. >> tucker: when you say that the election is legitimate because the system is a legitimate because the founding documents, because the people who promote them are racist, at a certain point, are you saying i don't need to play by your rules? i'm just going to seize power when i can? >> well, the stacy abrams argument is endless i won, the election was rigged. and hillary clinton, who is a

far more senior figure than stacy abrams, actually came close to saying that on stage in los angeles. "because i didn't win, the system must be rich. and actually, with 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 lived in trump tower. i'm going to build a fabulous new trump resort in kazakhstan. screw you all, he'd have a ball. if he lost, he'd have a ball, and he'd 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 of these deep stayed guys going rogue in alliance with foreign intelligence agencies.

each dropping monitoring, trying to entrap american citizens, 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 silence the viewpoints that they disagree with. anything right of center. it's not your imagination. before the 2020 election for the purpose of influencing the election. facebook just banned a number of prominent conservatives earlier this week, especially wiping them off of the internet. we are supposed to think that is okay. the claremont institute, which wanted to buy google ads in order to promote an anniversary gala. a facebook to client to those. they published an essay that

violated their race and ethnicity policy. it really essay yourself. nothing racist about it. nothing close. google now says that theon decision was a mistake, and it will allow them to purchase adse they complain, and they have gone public. it is interesting how those mistakes always go in exactly the same direction. she is one of the most famous attorneys in america on the question of big tech and fair threats to our liberty. thanks a lot for coming on. so it was a mistake. how many times i we heard this from some big tech company wend they are found silencing conservatives? >> we hear it every other day. people are actually discriminating against conservatives. they are gas letting us by saying, it was just aa mistake. the chilling effect that occurs every time this happens publicly is that it keeps normal conservatives far from the boundaries.

it keeps them from saying anything that they think might be controversial, and because these roles that they have are unwritten and constantly evolving and being made up all the time, they make a mockery of the concept of a contract between consenting adults, and they simply think people don't know where they stand. it is really an orwellian type of a situation. >> tucker: think about this. radio is in decline in general. cable news speaksh with one voie with the exception of a few shows, this among them. social media, that is the entire political conversation. that is where takes place. you control the outcome of the election, don't you? well, and republicans are ignoring this at their peril. i keep saying this. i feel like cassondra. we areer going to lose the elections if we don't put a stop to this bias. conservatives who are being paid off.

or are ill-informed, they say this is just some market. if you don't like twitter or facebook, gonna make your own. these are all statements made by people who never started their own companies. they don't know what it means to start a business. that's ludicrous. these companies have all built themselves up to the point of a monopoly power on the back of protectionist government regulation. and others. now that they have gotten there and they o have crowded out everybody else, they are now changing the rules on us. so from leicester, facebook advertising that it was going to allowed controversial pages on the left hand on the right, that there could be a dialogue. today, they are simply stuffing out people completely. there's nothing out people who probably you are i don't necessarily hang out with, listen to, follow, or like. that's not the point. they are testing the waters. nobody protested when it was alex jones. and pretty soon it is going to be people closer to you or me or

even one of us ourselves. >> tucker: it will be us. when republicans lose every election that matters in the next cycle, we will wonder why our message didn't get it through. >> exactly. it will be too late. >> tucker: great to see you. continue sounding the alarm. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: here is an amazing fact that should be on the front page p of every paper. a secret program paid for secret psychological evaluations for people who said they encountered ufos. apparently, where houses were rented. it sounds kooky, but it was reported by "the new york times," period ofd metal from downed ufos could be stored. when did that happen, and why did nobody tell us? we will tell you what we know after the break. ♪ [music]

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: well, a lot of people believe that there might be life on other planets. >> 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 we now know that they investigated ufo reports. what did they find, and is a program still exists? to explore that question for us, he joins us tonight with the outcome.e. >> we have fearlessly reported on reports of ufo sightings or unexplained aerial phenomenon. other members of the military, it is situation that is interesting. when they release those documents, made it clear that they are keeping an eye on the sky and potential ufos. bit closer than anyone would have expected. that included the infamous video 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 t outside of science fiction. but the story actually got a little more interesting. it turns out harry reid of nevada put together a multimillion dollar investigation into the pentagon's ufo file, and it included the r real life cast of cataloguing not just those documents 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 happen. people who have had encounters have been tested for any physical changes.rv 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 siding.

now, the programs, like then revealed to the program has been canceled.ea they are going to keep it for a simple reason. the military needs to know who is doing this and what their intent is fury now, unfortunately, this means we may not get to see those detailed reports, those mumbling videos, or one of the pilots who said that he saw something out of his window. truly radical technology. it simply ends up in a chart that shows an uptick in sightings and their rotation as will collectively wait for those documents to be declassified. i want to know where it's coming from, and i wanted to her of this warehouse to see these metal alloys. this is kind of amazing. >> tucker: they say they have multiple sightings per month. >> this is unlike once a year paying him. at this is happening a lot. it's not a drunk guy and a field in new hampshire.

>> these areer very well trained pilots and military personnel. you are hoping that they know what they are looking at. i want to know what they are seeing. >> tucker: thank you very much for that. >> thanks, tucker. ♪ >> tucker: well, one of the things that you most frequently heard then canada and trump say was ripping us off. the trade deficit with china has actually grown dramatically. last year, the united states united states ran $419 billion trade deficit with china. for perspective, that's enough money to pay off our country's entire evolving credit card debt. instead, that all goes to the fascist government of china. the president says that he is going to increase tariffs on some chinese products to 25%. forr perspective on what this means, we go to who we often do,

michael pillsbury. dr. pillsbury joins us now. thanks very much for coming on. so is this the beginning of a new chapter of u.s.-china relations? >> yes, it is. the president obviously got upset, if that's the right word, perhaps infuriated by the chinese foreign nagging them on what they have promised in writing over the last two months. and i think you probably saw this as a test of strength by his friend, h xi jinping. their reaction therefore was very swift. though tweed came not too long after the president learned of china taking back concessions they had made in writing. actually, i knew about some of the details of the agreement. i was quite impressed. i praised the president directly that you have done more than any previous president to get this

far. but i had a faint feeling, tucker, that the chinese leadership had not really a blast this agreement. and thought apparently is what happens. the chief negotiator has the rank of vice premier. he is and well-known economist. he tenured 15 years ago what is called china 2030 to reduce the amount of state control and open up china's markets. not steal the intellectual property, make him the chief negotiator. a test of him. perhaps he went too far. with the book i wrote, it is about the hawks in china. let's just call them the steve bannon's of china. they got a hold of these concessions. which we keep secret. we don't know quite who in china can look at it. it's about 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 immediately responded that it is being increase on friday. so nowre we are in a whole new chapter, as you say. >> tucker: that's amazing. very quickly, we assessed the 25% tariff on some chinese imports into this country. what is that? that upends a lot of their model, read? >> yes. we don't know exactly how much it hurts some, but the first round of terrorist grow into the table quite quickly. there is reason to believe -- it is still possible to get a deal. the first of the chinese have to take, and it might happen as early as this week, is to undo it. the next step will be to close them on the reinforcement mechanisms. i think the reason china is doing this is this fight between the hawks and the reformers is note over yet. when one side loses arbiter, they don't just go home and mope

it. they get put in jail. [laughs] >> yes. >> tucker: thank you very much for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: china's communist government has a long history of putting people in jail. muslims into their camps. in the northwestern part of the country. those who avoid the cams live in a horrifying surveillance state with ethnic profiling, vehicle checkpoints,ec especially. they are not allowed to attend some mosques or fast during ramadan. the goal is to destroy all traces of wicker identity. here is that weird thing. thetb international left doesn't really seem to care. millions of muslims rounded up and put in camps, and barely a mention from liberals. why? because it's happening in china and not kentucky. therefore it's okay. joe biden clearly paid attention in high school history class.

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>> tucker: democrats running for the nomination this year >> tucker: well, democrats running for the nomination this year arere obviously an arms rae to see who can make the most flamboyant statements and push the most aggressive of rachel end. joe biden is the front-runner. here is what he said to a predominantly african-american audience over over the weekend. >> last year, 24 states introduced 70 bills to curtail the right to vote, and guess what? mostly directed at people of color.

you see it. we've got jim crow sneaking back in. no, i mean it. >> tucker: that guy's 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? as a single word true? is it rooted in reality in any way? it's a real question. because you're going to hear more of it. max burns is a democratic strategist. max, i think the conclusive study on this was just on a february out of harvard on the question of voter i.d. laws, which are by far the most controversial. republicans say we need them because they obviously are a hedge against voter fraud, and democrats say that they are racist. we find that strict voter i.d. laws have no significant effect on registration or turn out. they not decrease the participation of ethnic minorities relative to whites. but it's conclusive. why is no one acknowledging the facts of this? why are they still calling a jim crow?bi >> well, one study.

joe biden's only wrong in the sense that thinking that jim crow has ever actually got away. african-american voters, latino voters have experienced having their votes and validated decades. i mean, look at north carolina, where they just throw their votes directly in the trash. there is nothing more suppressive than that. >> tucker: wait. first of all, there is no evidence that anyonen votes were thrown away in north carolina. what are you talking about? that's all i do. hold on. you blew right past that. >> they had to redo the entire election, tucker. >> tucker: i am familiar with exactly what you're talking about. no one's votes were discounted. that is just not true. you don't know what you're talking about. you are misleading audience. i just 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 just inherently

discriminatory. do you have another study that shows the opposite that is more earned or bigger? >> i'm glad you mentioned that you are not question. here is the problem. though turnout 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 white person's vote. >> tucker: but voter i.d. laws are separate and distinct from the question of where polling places are. i think i'm too literal for this moment. everyone just lies for political effect, and here i am arguing a guess.f facts i maybe i should just give up and become a demagogue like everyone else. i'm talking about voter i.d. laws. they do not, according to these studies, the definitive study on it, they don't suppress african-american voting. they don't make it harder. i don't know what you're 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 and even findings a polling place. >> tucker: how patronizing can you be? why is it harder for them to get a driver's license? >> there arere only 11 states in the country that require you to have a license to vote, and oddly enough, they are largely affecting african-american voters, democratic voters. why is it expensive to get a license -- >> tucker: i'm sorry. obviously, you don't care about whether what you say is true or not.ti two quick questions. is it racist to require nad to fly on an airplane or to stay in a hotel or to get welfare benefits? >> none of which are your fundamental constitutional rights to vote.ut >> tucker: you can't have a job without a government i.d. >> you agree that you have a fundamental constitutional right

to vote? >> tucker: for a lot of things. none of that is racist. only voting. >> you know that buying a gun doesn't require an i.d., first off. let me point out the fact that -- >> tucker: i doubt you have bought many guns. i have. i just bought one. i can't deal with this. max, thank you. >> i bought one with out driver's license. >> tucker: n may be from a buddy you did. > at the largest gun show in virginia. you do not need a license. >> tucker: all right, max. i appreciated. thank. thank you so much. new york city mayor bill de blasio was running for president. there is no one in new york -- r why is he voting for president? howw unimpressive is he? we will speak to the world's expert on his own oppressiveness after the break. ♪ when i'm not teaching, i'm taking steep grades and tight corners. my essilor lenses offer more than vision correction

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>> tucker: new york city mayor bill de blasio is universally regarded as a clown. he takes a nap at city hall, uses police helicopters to avoid traffic. marijuana smoke wafts out of his mansion. he is planning a presidential run. he joins us tonight. who is this bill de blasio, who is now going to run for president? >> well, he says this is the week that he is going to announce. bill de blasio is mayor who has won my consistently on very low turnout, driven mostly by the public sector unions and professional nonprofit class. mostly funded by the city. he has expanded spending in the city by $20 billion per year from $72 billion to $92 billion this year. largely funded by the stock market and wall street, which he

detests. his new saying, his motto is "there is plenty of money in this country. it's just on the wrong hands. but i think we know whose hands it belongs in." >> tucker: he was the force behind decriminalizing public. >> that's right. decriminalizing marijuana smoking. all of which have contributed to a decline in public -- we are not quite at the level of san francisco yet with feces littering every sidewalk. he takes an armed convoy to the gym every morning. he drives 11 miles there and back. at about 10:00 a.m. most new yorkers are hard at work at their desks at that hou hour. bill de blasio likes to go to the gym and then get a croissant at his favorite cafe. he says that he does this so he can stay out of the political

bubble. this is what he does to be with the common people. >> tucker: if bill de blasio runs for president, obviously we are rooting for him here. you will be our bill de blasio correspondent. >> i hope so. [laughs] good to see you. republicans spent decades pushing free-trade deals. is that agenda in our national interest? it's an issue we have addressed quite a bit. we have thought deeply about it. the executive director of the american conservative. fantastic site. a very simple question for you. what would a conservative economic policy look like? >> thank you so much for having me. they are two fallacies about the economy that elites believe here in washington, d.c. the first is that bigger is always better. they love monopolies in the city. the second is that free trade is always beneficial. the question we need to ask is it is better for who? in the case of corporate

monopolies, this is something that thomas jefferson was so concerned about. he actually urged that jay medicine included in the bill of rights. it's clear, tucker, based on the research that high industrial concentration results in higher prices for consumers and lower wages for workers. and who benefits? it's the multinational corporations with no allegiance to america, to our system of government, or to the values that conservatives hold dear. in fact, if multinational corporations have their way, they would do away with everything that conservatives value. the nation-state, borders, family, the church, and even the concept of citizenship itself. anything that gets in the way of the individual and the market, they want it gone. they want complete control. >> tucker: why? every word you have said is tru true. given and obvious, once you think about it. why in the world would you have politicians called themselves

this -- they clearly have made their first allegiance to these corporations, which have no loyalty to the united states and hate everything that conservatives say that they are for. >> i don't know, tucker, but the good news is there is a long republican and american tradition going all the way back to the american founding of standing up against concentrated corporate power because it poses an existential threat to our political, cultural, and economic well-being. conservatives and republicans and president trump take the moral high ground back from the left and make this an issue front and center in the 2020 election. >> tucker: i couldn't agree with you more. the left all of a sudden is the group defending the economic status quo, defending jeff bezos, and the google creeps and a travis from huber. those are all liberals. >> that's right. they are willing to sacrifice their beliefs and equality and a society that works for everyone. it is the perfect opportunity for conservatives to take this

issue back, to fight for an economy that puts american citizens first, american families, and american workers. if republicans can do that, they can build a majority that will last for a generation, tucker. >> tucker: answer this. the chamber of commerce and libertarians don't like it. you can't disobey them, can you? >> we can do whatever we want, tucker. >> tucker: i think -- i wish we had 30 minutes because that was such an amazing summation. the cleanest description i have heard in such a short period of time. because thank you, tucker. >> tucker: i wish we had more time to talk about it because it really matters. unlike most things. we will be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn and absolutely see your enemy of lying, come pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we encourage you to figure out how to use the dvr attached to your television. something i've never mastered. good luck to you, those with

engineering degrees. good luck from washington. as the camera pulls back and our screen goes to black here in washington, in new york city -- >> sean: i give him a hard time. [laughs] >> tucker: sean hannity, ladies and gentlemen. >> sean: 15 seconds early, 15 seconds later. >> tucker: now they know it's you. >> sean: it's not a surprise. the producer is calling it a stretch. >> tucker: oh, but i'm enjoying it. >> sean: we love you. yes. i love the fact that -- tucker, great show. no surprise. we are glad that you are with us. buckle up. the democratic mob is out of control. grasping at straws. it is officially a psychotic state of denial. this is the absolute truth