you are our midnight heroes. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. for generations california symbolized everything that was great about america. the most beautiful place in the world. snow capped mountains but it was more than a vacation spot. california supported the biggest middle class. and had a gleaming infrastructure. making the american dream a reality. now the state of california is known for a different set ofdi images. needles and feces in the street. policies that prioritize illegal

aliens over american citizens. it's a symbol of everything that has gone wrong with the country. trace gallagher joins us. >> for governor gaovn newson california is humming along nicely he said and he says now -- apparently somebody forgot to remind the governor that 40% of his state's population lives near poverty and has the highest taxes in the country and cost-of-living and this. july 1st california drivers will pay 6 more cents a gallon for gas taxes. that is on top of the 12 cents

last year and on top of having the highest gas prices in the country. it doesn't appear the drivers are working. also beginning background checks on customers buying bullets. and noncalifornia residents can no longer buy ammunition here mmperiod. finally a study by homeless advocates say people on skid row have less access to bathrooms than syrian refugees. but putting in more mobile bathrooms would cost $57 million a year. it's not going to happen. got to believe the homeless don't feel like they are winning either.. tucker. >> tucker: what a disaster. trace gallagher, thank you for that. the governor doesn't see a problem with the state as you just heard.

tens of thousands of middle classue families have fled and continue to do so every year. meanwhile gaovn newsome travels to central america. victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution. also a lifelong californian. professor hanson joins us. thank you so much for coming on. in what sense is california a third world state? >> it has all of the symptoms of wwhat we associate with failed states. the highest basket of income tax, gasoline taxes, sales tax and yet its schools are rated in the last 10%. one third of the nation's

welfare recipients live in california. a fifth of the populations below the poverty line. a fifth of the homeless people live inn california. a very tiny but affluent elite. the most billionaires. and the largest under class and part of that and governor newsom has got it wrong. 25 years ago when we had prop 187 that cut off health care but not emergency health care to undocuments immigrants. that passed by 29% of the population. that fueled up pete wilson's -- itco was very popular and that t rid of a deterrent factor and people wanted to come to california often illegally and they resided here illegally and that was part of a perfect storm

what at the same time 4-6 million people said if i'm going toon pay the highest baskt of taxes and get the words roads, infrastructure and public schools and among the highest crime rate. san francisco has the highest property crime rate in the united states. then i might as well go to nevada or florida. the third wind in that per storm was the growth of silicone valley. google, face book, apple would be capitalizing about $3 trillion. wein created a wealthy class tht was not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology. when jerry brown retired he went to grass valley with his pension. dial an feinstein didn't put her kids in the public schools.

nancyci pelosi railed about education but none of her grandchildren were in the san francisco public schoolsls so we created a very wealthy class that doesn't mind-taxes because it has ways to navigate around that and the social service and the people outside are like pheasants that cannot survive so they drift off and we're left with a romanticized indigent class and a royal elite that doesn't care about the vanishing middle class at all. >> tucker: from thehe outside professor this does not look like a sustainable system at all. do the people running it sense that or do they think they can continue forever? >> they all have one thing in common. if we look at gaovn newsom and diane feinstein ordinance see pelosi or zuckerberg they are

all multimillionaires and in some cases multi-billionaires so they have a psychological penance they feel good about being virtuous in the abstract but meanwhile on the ground level we're sort of ligh -- lik- we see things like type us. we see epidemics of hepatitis a. we've got 140,000 people living on the streets in california and we built a high-speed rail system that we canceled and now out of shame or i guess pride we're going to try to build merced to bakersfield a high-speed rail to nowhere. 99, i-5 and 101 have never achieved their intended results

of six lanes. we dream of a post modern high speed rail system that will never be built. >> tucker: it's a lot like a a - warrior. funny you said that. >> it is tragic. thank you. >> tucker: as we told you last month the three west coast states of california, oregon ann washington have more than 100,000 homeless living on the streets on any given night. they have thrown tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to the problem. but none of this has made any of this better and instead the problem has gotten better steadily. christopher rieu go said local governments are ignoring the most obvious driver. and that is the opioid epidemic.

thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: you say the main cause -- also hiding in plain site and it's drug addiction. >> yeah. that's right. i think we have an addition crisis that is being disguised as a housing crisis and if you look at the numbers some of the estimates are that up to 50% of the homeless are addicted to opioids and 80% of the people that are unsheltered people living in cars and tents and rvs suffer from substance abuse disorders. only 6% of people on the streets say it's because of rising rents while at the same time 80% of people are suffering from addictions and that is the clear cause. nobody wants to say it but until we address that we are not going to be able to solve this

problem. >> tucker: there are no opium fields in this country. they come from mexico largely. so this is a foreign possible ski crisis as well. why does nobody say that? >> i've spoken with the field office here in the city of seattle and they site that 80% comes from mexico and 20% directly from china. so what i have and estimated is that we have a $1.8 billion annual business supplying heroin and tent natural to the homeless population. this is a tremendous amount of money and we're sending truckloads of cash to mexican drug cartels.

>> tucker: you have the numbers and they are able to be backed up. why is no one else saying that? >> that is a great question. we don't have perfect data. this is the best data that i think is available. i think the kind of ideological factions that are in the dominant position in california, and oregon and seattle, washington, they don'ttt want to say there is an addition crisis because itha conflicts. and they also want to avoid stigmatizing addiction. than digging into they have chosen to ignore it. garcetti has an outline of the sixha causes of homelessness. not one of them is drug addiction. so they've adopted a policy of

denial and deflection and the results you can see it on the streets. it's not working. >> tucker: they are liars. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: last week she compared them to racists. this week senator gillibrand said they thud not be allowed to beio judges. does that mean she automatically gets the democratic nomination? we'll tell you after the break.

>> tucker: well for more than two years virtually everybody in dc has pretended to know with absolute certainty that the government of russia was responsible for hacking the dnc servers back in 2016. anyone who descents is attacked and silence. okay. but how much do they actually know? do they really know that? even our own intel agencies have been taking a third party's word for it. f lawyers for a third party. their word forr it. now the federal government has admitted it has never seen the full unredacted version of the private sector report from crowd strike that blamed russia for the hack. never seen the whole thing? huh? catherineth has more. >> according to a new fueling roger stone's attorneys are demanding a full copy. they argued there could be

information helpful for their client. this back and forth began back in may. and the government said their copy had redarkses and the dnc lawyers told them it has nothing to do with blaming moscow for the hacks. that theme redacted material concerns steps taken to reimmediate the attack and to harden the systems against future attacks. according to counsel -- the government argues -- because he is not charged with conspiring to hack the democrats. critics say the government has taken the word of the dnc's

legal team who has a vested interest in the outcome. >> tucker: catherine, thank you very much. >> you're welcomed. >> tucker: believe it or not just a decade ago christia crist gillibrand -- she believed in a border and she said that too but moderate positions are not how you become a democratic presidential c candidate in 201. only extremism will get you there. so now by the day gillibrand is adopting out language issued positions. now she said pro-life people should not be allowed to serve as judges in the country. watch. >> one out of four women in america access abortion services and a woman has a right to make all of those decisions and if you're telling me today that women don't have that right

you're so backward looking that those judges are not the type of people we should be appointing. too backward looking. >> tucker: too backward for christian gillibrand. lisa booth joins us to discuss this and other stories from the democratic race which she has been following. jaww a gape for months. >> thanks, tucker. it's because i'm forward-looking. this interview she did with new hampshire public radio -- she basically likened pro-life beliefs to racism. that is how far she has come. that is how far she has come but what we see, this is just pandering. this is desperation from a candidate who has struggled to gain traction with such a

crowded primary field. she is registering at 0% who just reached the benchmark of 65,000 unique donors where you have miriam some who reached the benchmark before you and what was so pathetic is she is a senate from theta state of new york soof the fact that she was struggling to hit the benchmark demonstrates how pathetic her campaign is right now. and another candidate is new york city mayor bill de blasio -- saying that president trump should be impeached for treason. listen to this, tucker. >> what happened the other day changed my mind because that was treason what he said was openly treasonness. that is the last straw. they should begin impeachment proceedings. >> talking about the conversation that president

trump had with george stephanopoulos. h taking opposition research from a foreign government. he also has been pushing for this legislation that the new york legislature is looking at giving driver's license to illegal immigrants. >> i belief in driver's licenses for all. all new yorkers regardless of immigration status should be able to get a license the right way. >> so we've seen this complete embrace of illegal immigration from thehe left. as you know tucker we also saw california looking to give health care to illegal immigrants. castro looked at decriminalizing illegal border crossing. we're going to keep saying this crazy rhetoric from them as we

move forward. >> tucker: it's i the people wih the most antiamerican candidates are the first to accuse other people are betraying the country. am i imagining that? >> no i think that is true and in the case of christian gillibrand. she is my least favorite candidate. this is someone -- she has no beliefs. she is not beholden to anything. it's thehe same problem that hillary clinton had but gillibrand is so much more transparent about it. you mentioned the nra. increase in deportation for illegal immigrants and now calling for the abolishment of ice. moving so far to the left. it's very radical. >> tucker: neither one is going to win. both should stop degrading

themselves. be quiet. maybe people will respect you. great to see you tonight. well, the u.s./mexico border is 5,000 miles from africa so why are hundreds of african migrants ared streaming in? there is a reason. we'll tell you in a minute.

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>> tucker: we've got a fox news alert for you tonight. the white house has announced that one thousand additional american troops are being dispatched to the middle-east after what it says is an iranian attack in the persian gulf. the acting defense second said these attacks "validate the reliable credible intelligence we've seen by iranian forces and theirth proxy group that threatn the u.s. personnel and interest

across the region." so far iran has denied any of this. some allies are skeptical as well. the united states narrative is being questioned even in japan. saying it's not convinced that iran is responsible for what happened. second of state mike pompeo said the proof is "unmistakable." colon powell made a similar case 16 years ago about iraq and we're still paying a price for that misplaced uncertainty. for decades the foreign policy issue with the biggest effect on your life has been the permanent crisis on the u.s./mexican border.

but it is not actually with mexico or even with latin america. no. it's become ourer border to the entire world. here is one example. since may 30th more than 500 african immigrants have been caught. ro most of them came from the congo, am roone and angola. some of them passed through more than half a dozen countries. many of them already know where they want to settle. places like portland, maine where friends and family have settled before them and where they know the accommodating government will provide them. why the surge? well one reason is that europe

is cracking down on its own migrant crisis. but also simply word-of-mouth which is globe. millions of people know. if you can show up illegally and say the right words you will get permission to enter the united states. once you do that it's likely you will never be forced to leave. it's a failure of political will and will continue until america's leaders decide that the borders actually matter and will defend. an interview with ax ohio pete buttigieg said the endless blood could be a political ploy by president trump. >> immigration is more useful to this president as a crisis unsolved than it would be as an

a achievement. >> so you're saying the president is using the border crisis to get reelected. >> the president needs this problem to get much worse. i don't think he cares if it gets better but he certainly doesn't benefit from comprehensively fixering the problem. >> tucker: so really it's trump's fault that illegal aliens are spilling across the border. this is the most flagrant example yet. this is quite amazing. the border crisis is not an inconvenience of president trump. he was elected in response to the border crisis. the crisis is a product of choices by our leaders in washington. choices they'veve made over and

over for decades. to democrats have made it because they decided a new pool of voters is better than appealing to the existing pool of voters. their plan is working. look at california right now and look at what texas and arizona are swiftly becoming. there is no rush to fix things. that is not a sign of failure. it's a sign of success. andrew arthur is a former immigration judge. he joins us. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >> tucker: just to take out of circulation mayor buttigieg's accusation right off the top, he is claiming that the president is pushing for more illegal aliens to come into this country. does that seem likely to you? >> that is completely contrary

toon everything the trump administration has done. threatening tariffs in order to get mexico to defend itself southern border and we're seeing unprecedented cooperation out of a government that is hostile to any idea of stopping migration through mexico to the ups. the president is actually making the president of mexico step down his rhetoric and to put troops on the border and to stop those individuals. we see in the guatemalan government begging for help. the president is asking other countries to do what congress should be doing. the democrats in congress don't want to. mr. benazi buttigieg is deflect. >> tucker: that is a lie that is

so ambitious you've got to stand back in awe and respect to say something that absurd but when african migrants are coming in by the hundreds is there a clear sign you've seen that the system is collapsing. >> that is probably the clearest sign. because those individuals are paying tens of thousands of dollars because they know they are going to get into the united states and they are going to be able to remain here permanently. and the trip which many of them make goes to ecuador, columbia up through central america. each one of these countries is an a sigh lump granting country. they are not. because their ultimate goal is tost come to the united states d live and work here permanently. this is what i saw with somalia. it has become a new group of nationals from central africa who have heard how open the

american borders are and want to exploit them donal-- exploit th. >> tucker: this flood could be abhorrent. >> in the absence of support from the united states congress we would be overwhelmed with individuals from poor countries who have literally sold everything that they had to make the journey to the united states. w the "new york times" reported that she didn't have one dollar to her name by the time she arrived in the united states but they doo it because they know they are going to come here and when looking at a u.s. wage every day it's a sparkle economic decision to make. until congress acts it's going continue.

>> tucker: it's going to overwhelm our country and change ourom country completely and our viewers should know that. thank you. every year an increasing number of transgender athletes enter women's athletics. we'll talk to one of them after the break.

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forr that. this time it's alissa millano. she is wrong on basically every issue but she was right that one time cpl said nothing in response. turned the other cheek and pursuing a new healthier path in life. no. that would be a wise idea but that is not what happened. instead cpl broaded for seven months and then today tweeted about millano -- >> tucker: well, cpl is a lot of things that has more things to worry about. how to pay the next electric bill. the condition of his immortal

soul but that's not his style. but i have to say alissa m a lis millano, cpl. hard to say. transgender athletes. biological males dominating their opponents in many sports. the arts letic organization may have to g go to court to protect the right of females of performing. a track athlete. this year she failed to qualify in the 55-meter dash by two

spots. turns out two of the competitors who beat her were biological males who were able to enter the race because they identify as transgender. she joins us along with freedom attorney, christian a holcom. thank you for coming on. so salina tell us your story. didta we misstate that? you were in a race and two biological males were allowed to compete and you were not allowed to compete. >> yes. that is correct. and if those two athletes were not competing then i would had been the 6th girl and moved on and advanced. >> tucker: did you raise your voice and saying anything about this? >> yes. i have been vocal since earlier this winter and my mother has been for about a year now. >> tucker: and what was the>> reaction that you got when you

said something about it. >> i'vee gotten nothing but support from my teammates and from other athletes but i have experienced some retaliation from school officials and ccoaches. >> tucker: tell us. what kind of retaliation?re >> i've gotten some difficult requests for me to complete in practice and if i don't fulfill these requests then i cannot compete at all and this never happened before. it only started after my parents met with thets school principal. >> tucker: hmmm. is there any chance of this being undone? >> absolutely. girls like salina should never be forced to be spectators in their own sports but that is what is taking place when you allow biological males to participate. title 9 was designed to make

surere girls have an equal shar. they've filed and are in the process of filing a title 9 complaint asking the department of education to step in and restore a level playing field for salina. >> tucker: do other girls on the team feel the way that you do. that opportunities are being taken from you by biological males? >> yes. no one in the state of connecticut is happy about this but no e one has enough courageo speak up and i have not been the only one affected by this. we missed out on winning the state championship because of the team the transgender was on. >> one of the athletes now holds

10 records inside the state of connecticut that was once held by 10 individual girls and was established over a course of a 20 year period so, it's unfair to t allow biological males to dominate them and take away opportunities not just to medal but to be at the podium and to advance at the next level of competition and even compete for scholarship. >> tucker: it's grotesque and insane and it hurts women and girls. you are a brave girl, salina for standing up in what is intense pressure to be quiet and obey. thank you very much. great to see you. it's not exactly margaritaville but dozens of fans say they were wasting away from a mysterious illnesses. we'll have an i update after the

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>> tucker: the problems continue to pile up for tourists in the dominican republic. the state department confirmed the death of a ninth american citizen there. meanwhile, dozens of jimmy buffett fans fell ill in a visit to the country. trace gallagher has an ominous story for a weekend he joins us with more on new developments. take, teresa. >> a 55-year-old new jerseyy man died in the dominican republic a few days ago. we don't know if he fits in the common demonenators that he suffered heart attack or water on the lungs or drank alcohol a or drank from the hotel room mini bar. but he was vacationing for a friend's birthday and he complained of feeling hot at the pool. he went up to his room and found dead the next morning. a jimmy buffett fan group from oklahoma stayed at the hotel riu palace. 114 of them went to the d.r.

47 got sick. we are talking severe cramps, chills, aches, vomiting. some of the people were sick for more than two weeks. the group's organizer who was sick for 19 days and lost 14 pounds says there is a common link between them all. watch.re >> everybody that did get sick at one time during the trip either swam at the pool where the swim-up bar was, or they drank something from the swim-up bar. >> another woman said she spoke with the others at the hotel who were not parrot heads and they also got sick. the centers for disease control and prevention is now looking into at least one of the cases. some of the travelers think the illness could be related o to pesticides because the workers are constantly spraying it. that would mesh with the colorado couple that were ill in the d.r. and got home to be diagnosed with the pesticide poisoning. the dominican republic asked the fbi to help with toxicology

exams following the death now of nine american tourists. tucker? >> tucker: thank you for that. believe it or not, it's been serve years since coloradoot became one of the first states to fully legalize marijuana for recreational use. advocates said at the time it's progress. this is progress! we'll improve public health and public safety to get rid of the backward, ineffective, reefer madness drug laws. all the cool people agreed. is that what happened? no. it's not what happened. instead, a few people are getting rich while the state struggles with a new public health crisis, that is a crisis by the way. even "the washington post"in admits it inad a piece today. colorado law is supposed to restrict the marijuana sales to those 21 or older. right now, in denver, legal marijuana stores are e everywhe. they outnumber starbucks and mcdonald's combined so for

teenagers, getting access to marijuana is easy. that includes the t.h.c.c. exceeds what is possible even a few years ago. 50 fold what was available when you were a kid. after years of decline, omarijuana use is rising again. thanks to years of the pro-weed propaganda many perceive it as a safe drug, lower risk than alcohol and tobacco, which it's not. in 2005, 165 children visitedd the children's hospital in colorado to treated for paranoia, psycho a psychosis, cyclical vomiting, and other symptoms of excessive marijuana use. by 2015, it increased to a five fold increase. kids don't need to be in the hospital to be suffering. more and more health research showing that the marijuana use is devastating to the still developing brains of teenagers. a doctor told the "washingtonop post," "i hope we don't lose a generation of people before we become clear we need to protect our kids' brains."le

right now in colorado, nobody cares about protecting children. that is true across the country all of a sudden. the state voted to further deregulate marijuana? why? it's not complicated. in 2018, the colorado businesses sold $1.5 billion worth of legal marijuana. the government took a cut of $266 million. that is the answer there. just as with immigration, trade or empowering big tech, lawmakers sacrifice the well-being, in fact, the future of the society to cash in now. they are day traders. they don't care about you and they really don't care about your grandkids.f the war for the soul of the democratic party continues. nancy pelosi trying to tamp down the party demands for the immediate push to impeach the president. alexandria ocasio-cortez says that is not acceptable. the party demands impeachment,t, she says.

if pelosi won't give it to the party, then she is part of the problem. watch.iv >> impeachment is incredibly serious.s. this is about the presence and the evidence that the president may have committed a crime.e. in this case, more than one. >> so how real is the progressive frustration that speaker pelosi said so far and she seems to be really holding on, that she is not ready to do that? >> it's quite real. i believe that there is a very real animus and desire to make sure that we are -- that we are holding this president to account. >> tucker: richard goodstein has been around the democratic party for a long time. he is an attorney and a former adviser to both bill and hillary clinton and joins us tonight.nd thank you for coming on. >> sure. >> tucker: who is more powerful, pelosi or alexandria ocasio-cortez? you will say pelosi of course. but the question is, if you were running for congress, as a democrat, right now, whose endorsement would you rather

have, pelosi or ocasio-cortez's? >> so the democrats are in the majority because of all the districts that went from red to blue. aoc's district went from blue to bluer. nancy pelosi is speaker because of the red to blue people. so if your district was super blue, having aoc in your corner would be cool. but it's interesting that nancy pelosi used to be seen as this wild-eyed liberal. here she is standing up to the liberals on impeachment, medicare for all, green new deals. making her seem downright moderate. god, so you wonder whether behind the scenes, aoc and w pelosi have a deal going on?ha who would have thought that was possible in 2019? >> tucker: do you think honestly that ten years from now there will be any people like you left in the democratic party? 50-ish white guys worried about the medicare for all. will there be any left, honestly?

>> so the biggest block of the house democrats are the pro-business new democrats. 101 of them, more than progressives, more than the black caucus, more than -- i so i understand there is an interest among some to paint democrats being crazy left.. it just happens not to be where the leaders of the party are and the biggest block in the house is at least. it's just not debatable. >> tucker: yeah. it's where the -- you are right. you are absolutely right. but it is where the energy isy and where twitter is. everyone is bowing to the will of the lunatics. in ten seconds, are you disagreeing with them? >> we'll see how democratic presidential primary voters, whether they are bowing or whether the reason joe biden is now in the lead may be because there are more moderates than there are on a twitter. i think we know that as a fact. >> tucker: we'll see how that works out. i'm not hopeful for him. we'll see. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: we are out of

time.. we'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn and the sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. dvr actively can figure it out. stay tuned, sean hannity takes over right now. >> sean: you are the sworn enemy of a lot of people. >> tucker: yes, i am. >> sean: by the way, welcome to the club for you >> tucker: i will take that as a complement to. >> sean: it is meant as one. i am proud of you for that. good job. welcome to "hannity." buckle up. tonight, major progress on multiple fronts in our quest for equal justice. at this hour, john durham's investigation into the origins of this pressure witch hunt now causing massive panic among man deep state officials, including many at the top of the uppern: echelon of the cia, again, not rank and file. remember last week "the new yorb times" reported durham's investigation "provoked anxiety in the ranks of the cia" and