in his 28 year career, he served in korea and vietnam. telling a local paper i never felt i was anything but an american doing his job. that's the "story" for this monday night. thanks for joining us. >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a lot going in the world from iran to north korea and china. we thought we would get out of d.c. and go see the world. we are in japan in central tokyo on the roof of a building. the g-20 summit will take place later in the week. the president will come over for. that we will interview him as he does. until then, all eyes are on the democratic party. the first two democratic debates will be held this week. 25 candidates in the race all desperate to stand out from the others. not easy when they agree on everything. how do they do it? by attacking each other.

they are eager to stick knives in the front runner joe biden. he took hits for not loving abortion enough until recently and caucusing for fellow democrats 55 years ago. how does he get back in the good graces of voters? by saying lunatic things. watch this. >> i think donald trump may have reawakened sensibilities in this country to say we can do just like our generation was awakened when dr. king and robert kennedy were anassinated. i am back in. >> tucker: that's unbelievable. sitting across from al sharpton.

biden's weekend was still better than some candidates. we are joined now by lisa booth who has been covering this scramble for the democratic nomination. >> hi from new york. >> tucker: good to see you. how was pete buttigieg -- we are far away. but we are getting reports back from the united states that buttigieg had one of the worst weekends i have seen any democratic candidate have in a long time. >> it was a tough weekend for him. on joe biden, what is interesting, joe biden has been ahead, but i think these comments and the flip-flop flip on the hyde amendment will undercut the narrative he is the most electable candidate. buttigieg went home to south bend to face a crisis. there was a police shooting of a black man. he went home and this is what he

faced. watch this, tucker. >> [shouting]. >> sure. >> [shouting]. >> we are going to allow him to speak. if everyone can just calm down. >> i would love to be able to finish my reply, if that's okay. >> obviously pete buttigieg facing a lot of criticism. the challenge is if you are launching your presidential bid on your mayoral record and you face this scrutiny back home it makes it difficult to run on that record. he talked about the rev revitlization in south bend. he faced criticism of lack of diver diversity with the police

department. logan's mother expressed that publicly. not a good look for the mayor. he is facing a lot of scrutiny. >> tucker: buttigieg is running as a military tough guy. from the clip you just saw, he sat there as people screamed at him looking like a weakling. did he ever say stop yelling at me? >> he didn't. you are facing an unruly mob or angry audience, it's tough to have a reasonable conversation. that's what he tried to do but to no avail. it doesn't look depend. another democratic that is challenged is mayor bill de blasio. someone who struggled to find his footing. he was in south carolina and only 15 people showed up to one of his events. he is not finding any traction

at all as you can see there. he got the endorsement of the mayor of orange burg, south carolina who is one of the 15 people there. not that excitement for him. he is struggling. we will see if he can make anything of being on the stage this week and the democratic debates. he is struggling to get traction. >> tucker: reality still matters at least a little bit in the united states. good to see you. a little bit. senator elizabeth warren you would think would already have a way to stand out. she wants to break up big tech companies. but it's not enough to win over the left. over the weekend we went for identity politics hard. tweeted out support for gay reparations. here's the quote:

our government owes them more than 50 million dollars for the tax code left them out. we must right these wrongs." this is the president of the independent women's voice. tammy, great to see you tonight. reparations for gay couple who would have gotten married. 1, wouldn't this be a transfer of wealth from the middle-class to the richest people in america? b, what did barack obama and hillary clinton who stood in the way of gay marriage get a pass? >> bill clinton and hillary clinton had the defensive act don't ask and don't tell. they ignore this. that is interesting is the

foolishness of this. she is pandering to a group of people but it's an insult on that group of people. she complains about people's greased. yet the left and the democrats are talking about who owes you more money or what you deserve from other americans. it service the left by reducing us to warring tribes. it makes you jealous of your neighbor and family members. when you can get married in a state but not at the federal level. here argument is the 3 extra years we gave those individuals, she is saying it should go back to whenever you got married. where does that end? for those of who never got married, maybe we would have 20 years ago, shouldn't we somehow

get some tax break for never being able to do it? and the backwardness of laws? let's say the death tax, it it's retroactive and judged unconstitutional, wouldn't we want that to be retroaccive to every family that paid the deathtacts. it's a reason we don't have -- laws that are retroactive. it's isolating another group that the democrats say they own in pandering to individuals and it's an insult to us. i think obviously i have always believed -- i know many people have in american -- that all americans deserve the right of every other american. the attempt to have us look at each other as the enemy has to stop. that's what she is pandering to

now. >> tucker: the interesting question, maybe senator warren will explain, will the gay couples who receive reparations still pay reparations to relatives of slaves? great to see you tonight. a congressman caused a lot of problems for the democratic party. reporters are taking a closer look at her past and they support the claims that omar created marriage fraud. first we come to you live from japan. we will hit the streets of downtown tokyo. the fish market in tokyo. been here about 24 hours. we went through a minor earthquake and it's monsoon

season. hence the slicker. we came down here for this. no idea what is the seasoning is. we are here for the g-20. we will be in tokyo all week. everywhere we go, ramen. lots of ramen.

>> ♪ >> tucker: welcome back to "tucker carlson tonight" live from toyko, japan, ahead of the president's visit to this country for the g-20.

back in the united states the congresswoman from minnesota created problems for the democratic party. reporters are looking at allegations from several years ago ignored in the media that she may have created immigration marriage fraud. she married her first husband only in a religious ceremony and legally married her second husband. omar separated from him in 2011 and reconciled with persy. according to the washington examiner, they were still living together for her entire marriage to elme. so was that marriage a sham from the first day?

omar herself can probably clear that up, but so far her office has refused to answer any questions about the matter. steve is a republican representative from the state of minnesota. he joins us tonight. i am not sure i explained that clearly to the viewers. give us the quick overview of how likely it looks that congresswoman omar committed marriage fraud? >> it's very likely actually. a lot of these documents have been dug up. david steinberg and others have done a great job over the last 3 years. the minnesota failed to act. the minnesota media is liberal and attacked to the pc culture they are not doing their job here. i think it begins with the star tribune needs to take down their

picture of omar posted on their office wall. that's what we are dealing with in minnesota. i appreciate you covering this here tonight. this whole thing -- my involvement began a year ago when i discovered then state representative omar was find for the third time as a freshman representative here in the state of minnesota by the campaign finance board. then i discovered she had taken money from the public universities in the state that the committee upon which she served made funding decisions. it was a direct violation of minnesota house rules. the interesting thing is representative omar covered the whole thing up by waiting a full 5 months and violating the law to cover it up so that she could make it past her endorsing

convention which happened 3 days before she posted the information and avoided an inquire re. -- >> tucker: if he committed marriage fraud, what would be the motive? >> some are saying maybe -- i know the leading thought is it might be the student aid fraud. both her and elme were students at the university of minnesota. some of the stuff the washington examiner covered yesterday, it actually showed that both of

them and all three, omar, elme and hershey, lived at the same address on 2 different occasions. two going to the inside north dakota state university. the media in minnesota is unwilling to act. >> tucker: you come to the country and you hate us and we can't say anything about it. representative, thanks for joining us tonight. --. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: the trump administration was close to launching a major military strike on iran. but at the last-minute the president pulled back and thank goodness he instead of being praised, trump came under attack for that. on the right a radio show host accused the president of being a weakling of not launching a

trillion dollars war over a broken robot. >> what the president did yesterday. i called it a u-turn. >> i think it's very important for all of our decision makers to recognize the weakness is provocative. a world in which response to attacks on american assets is to pull back or to accept the attack, is a world in which america won't be able to successfully defend our interests. >> tucker: so iran is going to invade new jersey because we have not started a war. democrats denounced the president also. try to follow the reasoning. >> from the beginning of the presidency, taking a course of escalation with iran. we pulled out of an anti-nuclear

deal that gave us transparency into their nuclear program. >> it's like somebody setting a fire to a basket full of paper and put it out. he helped create the crisis and then stopped the attacks. >> there is no question in my mind that president trump put in place a series of events that led to that event. >> tucker: that's kamala harris's position. it not trump that is eager to start a war with country after country it's the rest of washington starting with the national security advisor vanillate. -- john bolton. the president pointed that out on "meet the press" this weekend. >> i have doves and hawks. i have some hawks. john bolton is absolutely a hawk. if it was up to him, he would take on the whole world at one time. okay. >> tucker: [laughing]. president trump are not typically that honest.

he's a liar -- he was honest there. this is an editor of the american conservative and called the president's decision on thursday the night donald trump game president. jim, great to see you tonight. you have a president pulling back from war and is attacked by both sides. what is going on? >> the structure in washington is biassed in favor of war. when president trump bombed syria twice pundits said that was the night donald trump became president and showed he was a real commander-in-chief. all of these other people that say trump is a wreckless and out of control chief executive are doing nothing to restrain him or enforce congress's institutional prerogatives and that include democracy. you have people on the never trump right and the democratic

party that say trump is unfit to command. unfit to be president. they want him to oversee a major war in a country larger than iraq. disappointed he did not commence the attacks and think there is no inconsistency to that without there be a permanent secretary of defense. totally bizarre to me. >> tucker: so maybe they feel that way because they understand that the war would be prosecuted and it is being pushed by people who hate trump and this would be a triumph of permanent washington over the voters. >> it will be a ri trump. -- triumph. yes, they don't have a nuclear end. they prefer diplomacy to war. we have seen war after war where

the things we set out to do to keep american safer from islamists were not accomplished and they became more powerful than they were before. even when we had a military response to 9-11 in afghanistan. from afghanistan through yemen, we have seen results that i don't think many americans are pleased with. for washington to be calling for a war in iran is incongruous to me. >> these are the same people telling us we have to accept the populations of the middle east coming to our country. >> we can redraw the borders of every country in the middle east

and we are inviting the world here at the same time. it's a head scratcher. it makes sense to people in washington. >> it's almost like they are trying to destroy our country. it's funny. jim, great to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: here's a weird story. christopher steele who created the trump dossier held secret meetings with a state department official before the last election. why was that official nominated for a spot? and the police release their first meeting with jussie smollett with the hoax noose hanging around his neck. coming to you tonight from toyko, japan, ahead of the g-20 summit. we'll be right back. libre 14 dam

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>> tucker: there is news tonight in the jussie smollett case. police in chicago released a body cam footage with their encountier with jussie smollett the night he faked his famous hate crime. >> the first piece of video shows the brothers heading to or coming from the area of the alleged attack on the night police say the two brothers were paid to pretend to beat jussie smollett. another piece of video is the moment chicago police entered actor jussie smollett's apartment for the first time. a man who identified himself at jussie smollett's director led them the police up to smollett's

apartment. the police ask if smollett wants to take the rope off and he said i just wanted people to see and then he said they poured bleach on me. here is that moment. >> do you want to take it off? >> yes, i do. [inaudible]. >> [radio chatter]. we saw video of the brothers later being arrested. last friday a veteran judge ruled that a special prosecutor will investigate this entire case and jussie smollett could be charged all over again. smollett maintains his innocence. >> tucker: matt, thanks a lot man. newly released documents show

the trump dossier office christopher steele was in contact with a senior american state department official just before the 2016 election which is odd. according to the deputy assistant of state, when she met with steele he was either tore have this released before the election. why was a state department official meeting with steele at all. we don't know the answer but congressman nunes of california is trying to find out. he requested any information they have about the meeting. congressman nunes join us tonight. thank you very much for coming on? >> i am sitting in your chair. >> tucker: oh, good. you should come to toyko. you have heard back from the fbi? >> not yet but we gave them to friday. if they don't give it to us by

friday i will refer it over to the state department. they knew we needed everything to do with christopher steele. this is in that lane without a doubt. >> tucker: you didn't have this information during the whole span of your investigation? any legitimate reason they withhold that from you? >> no legitimate reason. worse than that, tucker, it's way worse. this is in october of 2016. why is that date important? that's right before they get the fisa warrant on carter page. this is more evidence that shows they knew before they went to the fisa court that christopher steele was a big problem. she pointed out things like in that the russian consulate in miami was running this operation to help trump.

there is only one problem. there is no russian consulate in miami. >> tucker: well, this was a pretty open propaganda effort by christopher steele to influence the outcome of the election? >> the clinton campaign and democrats were paying christopher steele to do this. we were never able to interview christopher steele. the brits have a lot of answers to give to the united states. the guy was paid by the democrats. to do what? dirty up donald trump and make it look like he had tied to russia. the only one who had ties to russians was the democrats themselves because christopher steele was talking to russians. >> tucker: of course. he said it himself. they always accuse you of what

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>> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: we are back live from toyko, this morning standing on the roof of a building downtown hed of the president's visit later in the week. news out of the dominican republic. the number of american tourists killed there keeps rising. tonight at least 12 people have

died. most after suddenly falling ill or just after leaving. the hard rock hotel linked to 2 deaths has removed fill bottle liquor dispensers. what is in that dispenser killed by people. we are joined by a toxicologist and a professor of medicine. doctor, what in a mini-bar could kill a tourist? >> right now we have no answers, but we have lot of questions. any toxin that could be in a bottle that people then swallow could cause problems. what precisely that toxin is, is unknown.

the hint it's in mini-bars or the liquor dispenser. it could be an inhaled toxin or something topical. the deaths are curious. these people have very few in any pre-existing illness and suddenly succumb. we don't have answers. >> tucker: now, at least one report suggested that bootleg liquor meth annole might be to blame? >> methanol was mentioned. that can cause damage to the lungs if inguested. -- and it's quick. the pull monary edema causes

respiratory arrest. other times of alcohol, other alcohol derivatives could be a toxin that could explain the acut acuton -- acute on set of death. >> tucker: could a single shot of bootleg of this alcohol kill you? >> that depends on the size of the individual. it distributes through the body. it could affect somebody who maybe 100 pounds. that kind of dose could cause grave illness. in a larger individual, however, one would have to think the dose required to cause such damage would be much greater.

maybe several shots or 8 ounces. >> tucker: doctor, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> tucker: it wasn't long ago that democrats told you they were in favor of save, legal and rare abortion. no longer. many candidates said the efforts to restrict abortion in georgia and alabama are racists. we spoke with stephanie curry of the family policy alliance about this. here's how the conversation went. the numbers are remarkable. african-american women are much more likely to resort to abortion. they are targeted by planned

parenthood. you made the point this is not new? >> absolutely not, tucker. planned parenthood and abortion have been targeting the black community. that's nothing new. planned parenthood intentionally target the black community. 80% of their facilities are within walking distance of black and brown neighborhood. since roe v.wade, 30% of the black population has been eliminated through abortion and some areas more black babies are aborted than are born. >> tucker: so if you carry about people or a community, you want them to have children. i love my children and i want them to have their own children, right? if you don't like someone, you

want them to stop reproducing. why does nobody say that? >> you know, the pro-choice party of today really has a degrading argument against women. it's almost racist in that black women are incapable of raising their own children or providing safe and healthy environments for their children or quality education. and the only option available to them is population control. >> tucker: this is how we got planned parenthood in the first place. affluent white individuals who were worried about too many black babies were being born. why is that stigthat not --

attacked to, to planned parenthood? >> that's right. they targeted the black community. you are able to target a baby specifically based on traits. >> tucker: that's right. i hate to say this out loud. the only black leader who said anything about this is farrakhan who i am not endorsing. why was it left to farrakhan for saying this? >> that's an excellent question. i asked myself the same thing: why aren't we speaking up more? the pro-choice's message has been so effective. they have been using it for over a 70. -- century. i made the point over 100 years ago, the message was my state and my choice.

today that argument has become my body, my choice. but, tucker, look when over 30 to 50% of the black population is killed in one generation that's genocide. >> tucker: that's right. they can say they love you, but when they put abortion clinics in your neighborhood, they are lying. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez is giving tips on how to sabotage u.s. immigration enforcement and the knitting community on

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>> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: we are back live from toyko ahead of the g-20 summit where we will be talking to the president later in the week. back in america, the president spent last week warning he was ready to unleash "ice" agents into sanctuary cities to deport the thousands living here illegally who ignored court

orders telling them to go back to their country of origins. mayors across the country vowed to resist the effort. >> we are not going to cooperate with "ice" in any operation to roundup and deport our residents. >> [cheers and applause]. >> tucker: they clap as their city falls apart and everyone who can leaves because it's a cesspool. democrats backed up the mayors effect. people who live in gated communities like nancy pelosi said enforcing america's laws is pointless and maybe even evil. >> what is the point? i won't even go into what the motivation might be for that. >> tucker: congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted on the subject. she urged supporters to report

"ice" sightings and hide illegal aliens in their homes like the underground railroad. the president called off the raids backing off from doing something he ran on 3 years ago. buck hosts the buck sexton show. thanks for coming on. put this in perspective? what was the president calling for pulling random people off the street? >> no, looking at individual whose evaded their day in the court and have an outstanding deportation order against them. they will are not just here illegally. but there are specific orders this person should be deported. what he has shown by putting this out there the individuals who oppose this the democratic party now are opposed to any enforcement of immigration laws.

they would find some reason or fear mongering campaign for doctor why this should not be done. -- where is illegal immigrantion bad? they don't think it's bad. >> why should i pay my taxes? members of the congress, democrats are telling me you don't have to follow federal law. you are virtuous if you don't. why am i following it? >> they are pushing for lawlessness on imgreg. -- immigration. alexandria ocasio-cortez and many another. "ice" officers are going into communities and put themselves in situations where they could be in harm's way and you have

alexandria ocasio-cortez acting like these are storm troopers, people who are not doing what they are doing which is enforcing federal law. no one denies this is existing federal law. members of the congress that said we don't want to separate families. they separate families all the time for medicare fraud and a lot of things. americans. >> tucker: millions of americans are separated from their families because they fell a foul of some law. you wonder at a certain point if lawmakers are encouraging the population to ignore the law, how long before everything falls apart? >> why don't we just pick the laws we don't want to follow? they are rooting against law enforcement with abolish "ice." the fbi caused troubles for

trump but the other law enforcement, they don't count anymore. >> tucker: free speech is the biggest threat to control the white house in a year. they are suppressing speech even on knitting website. it has more than 8 million members. this week the company banned user from expressing any support are in the president of the united states. their point is the position of 63 million american voters is "white supremacy." expect other websites to do the same thing and your freedom to erode more. this is one of the smartest people in the building and joins us tonight.

melisa, on you on this website? >> i know nothing about knitting. but i checked the whole thing out. it's on the front of the website. it says this is done in the spirit of inclusiveness. they are including people. that's why they are doing this. we can't provide a space that is inclusive of all and allow support for open white supremmesy. it says support of the trump administration is support for white supremacists. half of america are now white supremacist. they say you can still participate, you just can't talk about it here. i am confused it this policy. what could have led to this?

was this a huge incident? i have not seen a lot of crocheted maga hats around. i called and emailed. we have been trying to get in contact and so as the "new york times" and everybody else. there are no quotes from this company anywhere. there is no indication of any incident that brought this about. i hope this is not like the jussie smollett situation where they are trying to get national media attention by putting up this policy on their website. they are not telling us about anything that happened. i have to wonder if it's brilliant marketing on. their twitter page it has a black lives matter sign on the top. maybe they know their customer well and that's what they are

after. pr, there you go. >> tucker: i know a lot of knitters. i don't know who are radical. politicizing everything has a cost. >> we can't have nice things anymore tucker. >> tucker: good point. great to see you. we will be back tomorrow from toyko. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. to new york city with sean hannity. >> tucker: you are 13 seconds late. >> sean: i have no clock. we are 13 hours off. i won't take it personally. welcome to "hannity." buckle up. this is the week that we the american people will really get to see for the first time