we watch the rally in southwestern ohio. have a great evening, everybody. preevent >> president trump: that's two protesters on tomorrow night, the headline wie protesters protesters. you don't have an of second one? ♪ be one welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president is speaking a we will be taking portions of the live, especially t newsworthy moments. we also going to get to it last night's debate, tulsi gabbard of hawaii hit kamala harris harder than anyone has so far. a remarkable moment here will be talking to kelsey gever life you were not, we are going to go back to the president, speaking in ohio. >> president trump: from the fields of the great pocahontas, who is now lying and cheating her way to the presidency if possible. she's trying to win, remember? she defrauded people with her

credentials. she said she was indian. and i said, that i have more indian blood and then she does and i have none, i'm sorry. and we drove her crazy. and we drove her crazy. that's a good thing, not a bad thing. and she went out and she had a blood test done and it came out 1,020 points. he said somewhere back there, hundreds of years ago, there may have been an indian or it may have been a statistic a statistical error because it was so small, which was. anyway, the guy was like from her group. you wouldn't be very happy right now and we have a man that campaigned so hard, relentlessly. and i came in, we did a rally where we had people like this. it was packed. the day before the election.

and mike dewine, he won that election and he won it easily. mike dewine. [cheers and applause] and we have and then who is running for governor of kentucky again and he has done an incredible job. and you know, sometimes you can do such a good job that not everybody appreciates it but they had a lot of problems with pensions at a lot of tremendous problems that a normal governor would never have been able to correct. but when you correct it, you make yourself a little bit less popular. but he had no choice and they had no choice. it's a great, great state and he has turned out to be a great, great governor, matt bevin.

[cheers and applause] >> tucker: we will get back to the trumpet event and monitoring every minute of it. we will bring you news, of course paid right now, the president's talking local politics but we will get back to him shortly. as promised though, there's a lot to unpack from the democratic debate last night. four years ago, democrats came up with a new and untested political theory, they could win the white house, their strategist promised, if only they called enough people racist. that was the plan. hillary clinton, phone, thought it was brilliant. by election day, she had announced half the country as bigots. in the end, it didn't work, they would not surprise me, turns out that when you tell people you hate them, they don't care for it. what voters strongly prefer a comeback should is when you try to improve their lives. it's not complicated. yet, somehow, this is the remarkable part, if you think about it, democrats have, in the three years since they lost, steadfastly refused to learn

this lesson. improve people's lives, they will tell you? no thanks. they think their job is to improve people. they think voters are disgusting and immoral. they want to force them to be half as virtuous as they are. for the second election cycle in a row, that is the democratic message. you are disgusting, try to be as good as we are. that message was on floor of display last night of the candidate's debate. to pick among countless examples of it, washington governor jay inslee brains americans for the coming end of the world. >> we cannot work it out here we cannot work this out. the time is up here to our house is on fire. we have to stop using coal in ten years and we have a president that won't get that done to get off coal. save this country and the planet. that's what i'm on board for it. >> tucker: okay, so let's take carbon emissions really are responsible for it will become the change but we don't know that. science has not proved it.

sorry. it is not proven. but just for the sake of argument, let's speculate that it's true. carbon cause of climate change. china has by far the world's biggest emitter of carbon. so shouldn't governor inslee, who cares very deeply about climate change, turn his wrath on the chinese? will come of course. but he didn't. and never will. because for democrats, is always default of americans voters. kirsten gillibrand of new york bragged about that time she brings some of the tourists most deaf rick people in america about being too privilege. even as they languish in chronic unemployment and dropped dead by the hundreds of thousands from a widely ignored drug epidemic had the real problem is their white privilege. >> i don't believe that it's the responsibility of corey and, like to be the only voice that takes on these issues of incident institutional racism.

i think as a white woman of privilege who is a u.s. senator running as the as the president of the united states, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that are being listened to and i can talk to those white woman in the suburbs and talk to them about what white privilege actually is. my responsible is not to only lift up those stories but explained to communities across america like i did in ohio, to a young mother, does this is all of our responsibility. >> tucker: yeah, they are privilege. just too much privilege grade that's a problem. not to be outdone, julian castro attached americans for daring to complain about illegal immigration to their country. open borders? that's just a right wing talking point. and then a single breath later, castro called for appealing a law that makes it a crime to enter america illegally. watch. watch. >> open borders is a white ring talking point and frankly, and disappointed that some folks on

this stage have taken the debate. the only way that we are going to guarantee that we don't have bradley's separations in this set country again is to rip peel the immigration and nationality act. >> tucker: and cory booker and then that meanwhile is in the process of transitioning to a brand-new identity. he spent most of the inning sounding like a nation of islam recruiter rather than a deeply e son of two ivy and executives which is what he really is. >> there are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that tough on crime phony illiterate that got a lotf people elected but destroyed communities like mine. >> tucker: mr. booker, barking at the former vice president. poor vice president. communities like mine that were destroyed by you, joe biden. cory booker drew grew up in a

here inching park new jersey peer the black population of parenting part? 0.6%. less than 1%. the poverty rate for families in harrington park? literally zero. not a single family in harrington park is poor. not one. that's where cook hori cory booker grout. so the only way that joe biden's crime policy is distorted in his hometown is by allowing presidents to move out and gentrified brooklyn. cory booker is by far the most privileged candidate running for president in either party this year and that's fine, not his fault. it's the relentless lying about it that so degrading. can any of these candidates win a general election? in it at this point, no care they can't pay they are not impressive enough. joe biden was the parties one real hope and after last night, it seems pretty clear conclusively clear, really, that uncle joe is heading for a well reserved retirement.

>> the fact is, the bills that the president, the future president, that the senator is talking about, if you agree with me, go to joe, 30330 and help me in this fight. thank you very much. >> tucker: biting couldn't even locate his own came pan website that joe 30330 website? it doesn't exist. in fact, i think it's been bought by pete buttigieg or something. what it tells you a lot about joe biden. don't be fooled by the current poll numbers. and if another candidate doesn't step up soon and start talking like a sane person, so was the democratic party, lease for the cycle. jenny perino, she joins us tonight. dana, i'm starting to think that none of these candidates is capable of winning. >> it could be. you know, i'm reminded of something bob beckel told us a few years ago, he said that in

1984, right before the election come about six weeks before the election, the mondale campaign put out a poll and they decided to add a question at the end of the pole and the question was this -- do we even think we need to have an election? and it was something like 90% of people were like now. we are good. and he said he knew that it was probably going to be a landslide. i i'm not suggesting that's going to be the case. we are so far away from where we are. however, we have had nine months of this campaign. elizabeth warren and kamala harris, they were out early. cory booker, you have a lot of information. you have no 25 candidates but 20 people who work or on over the last two nights and nobody is setting the world on fire. and in fact, one of the things they spent last night doing was basically picking apart the

obama legacy, the obama presidency, which was only three years in the rearview mirror. that was something that was very telling to me because if you watch every moment of those debates, and i did, i think that if barack obama, the candidate of 2008 have been on that stage last night, he would have been considered a moderate conservative democrat. the party is leaning so far left that he might not have even been on the stage and you saw today, obama staffer and former cabinet officials, derek holder, rahm emanuel, they all said wait a minute guys, why are you coming after barack obama? shouldn't we all be focusing our firepower on donald trump? and they didn't do that and i think it's interesting that over the last couple of days, nothing has really changed. i think joe biden is still going to be the front runner when all of the polls shakeout. >> tucker: biden's performance though, last night, really didn't raise, i think, questions about his competence as a

candidate. >> well, he did better, if you're a democratic voter, okay, he did better in this debate than he did it the previous debate appeared in the fact that he is a front runner and was able to survive relatively well on stage, no one is going to right in a big celebration for joe biden yet but i think he was able to right the ship a little bit and i think that's the point to steal the top tier. >> tucker: the hostility toward biden from the left, and biden is a member of the left, i mean, biden, the issues, really isn't different from any of the other candidate standing up there but they don't trust him and they don't like him and they are sniping at him pretty relentlessly. i don't think i'm imagining that, am i? >> you are not. in fact, even mayor de blasio had the gall to basically go after joe biden the entire time the why did he do with that? if you are in a debate, tragically, you want to get attention by going after the person that the front runner. it would be interesting to see how joe biden would match up

against warren or sanders because that's where the real tension in the party is. people in the democratic party are dismayed to hear you had michael morgan out there today saying michelle obama is our only hope and that's another fantasy. if they don't deal with the reason that they lost in 2016, and really deal with it, they are looking at a situation like i had with bob beckel. let me also draw you a contrast real quickly. the last two nights democrats were in michigan. that is a state that they lost by an inch but they need to win a by a mile. they spent the last two nights basically out liberal leaning each other to the left. meanwhile, what is president trump too? he went to ohio tonight, why did he go there? every republican needs to win ohio pete he wanted by nine points and he doesn't want to leave anything to chance and he took this opportunity to say okay, but i draw a contrast between what everybody wants on the left tonight and me and let you all decide. and if joe biden is one of the biggest problems, you still to win the electoral college grade i know i'm a broken record on

that, however, it is true, and until pete buttigieg has his dream of dismantling the electoral college, which is going to happen in our lifetime. when joe biden said he wants to get rid of fossil fuels in ten years, do you think that president trump isn't going to hammer him on that in those three states, indiana, ohio, and kentucky? that's the perfect reason to. joe biden doesn't need to do that but he can't straddle the fence nevada all things progressive and still hold onto what he says is the majority of the democratic party. >> tucker: really quick, tell me why michelle obama getting in is a fantasy. >> well, she's never going to do that. i think that is the case. let's say, if michelle obama decides to get in the race, i will donate a month salary to your favorite charity. how about that? because i think -- >> tucker: my favorite charity will be the stop michelle obama the from becoming president

charity. >> i just think, she doesn't even like politics for they have a great life. she doesn't want to run. in fact, she might not even be able to run. if barack obama is going to be too moderate for this new crowd, then i don't know if even michelle obama would have a chance. but she's not going to run. do you think she's going to run? >> tucker: i don't hear but i do think that this field is weak and i've never seen a group in a primary taint themselves into boxes fax to the in them. >> i agree. if you have 25 people and out of those 25 you can't find anybody, and you really think the former first lady of the nine states is going to come in and save you coming of a much bigger problem on your hands and trying to win 2020. you have a bigger problem going into 2024 and 2028. you are looking at me so skeptical. >> tucker: no, i'm not. i'm processing. dana perino, thank you so much. we are going to rejoin the president. he's in ohio talking about energy policy.

>> president trump: oil, the number one producer of national gas. the number one everything having to do with energy. number one anywhere in the worl world. we are reversing decades of calamitous trade policies that let other countries to pillage our jobs, plunder our factories, and devastates ohio communities and communities in every state. the era of economic surrender is over. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: when you look at what they've done to your jobs over a period of time, nafta was one of the worst deals ever made and probably the worst deal. you still have empty buildings, empty factories, but now, they're getting filled up pretty fast for being knocked down for brand-new ones.

we have hundreds of new companies pouring into the united states. my first week in office, i was through the united states from one of the last administrations, worst salads. it would've destroyed our automobile industry, it would have destroyed manufacturing in this country. and maybe that's what president obama months. when he said you can't produce manufacturing jobs anymore in the united states, because he would've signed a trans-pacific partnership and he would have right. i had told them. and by the way, trans-pacific partnership would have destroyed the automobile industry in this country. already, they shift down 30% of your jobs to mexico, under the new usmca, that's mexico and canada, we have to get them to vote on that because that's in an incredible deal.

but under the new, it's going to be very hard for companies to leave you, to fire you, to go down, to make their product, whatever it may be, to send it back into the united states with no tax, all we end up with is unemployment and taxes and empty buildings. so they've got to vote on the usmca before i took office, foreign countries ripped us off, but america is not being pushed around anymore. do you realize that? [cheers and applause] >> president trump: i think i got that from working in ohio for two summers. we've taken the toughest ever action to stand up to china's trade abuse and i just announce another 10% tariff on

$300 billion worth of chinese products that come into our country. [cheers and applause] and that's on top of the 25 croissants that we take of $250 billion coming in from china and don't let them tell you, the fact is, china devalues their currency, they pour money into their system, they poured in. and because they do that, you are not paying for those tears, china's paying for those tariffs. [cheers and applause] for the last 20 years, china has taken hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars out of our country and now, we are stopping the theft of american jobs, we are stopping the theft of so many other things happening,

including intellectual property. they steal our intellectual property. and you know, i think i want to try and make a deal with us but i'm not sure because the word is, i feel, they want to wait until they get -- they are praying. they are praying. they would like to see a new president in a year and a half so they could continue to rip off the united states like they've been doing for the last 25 years. they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden, who has no clue what the hell he is doing, . they would slay to sleepy joe, sarah, just sign right there. oh, okay. i will sign. they've been losing hundreds of

billions of dollars to china and it has to stop. president xi is a good man. he's a friend of mine. he understands it. and until such time, as there is a deal, we will be taxing the hill out of china. that's all there is. if foreign countries don't want to pay a tariff, i have a simple solution. make your product in america, come on back to the united states, come on back to ohio, there is no tariff. there is no tariff. [cheers and applause]

>> president trump: banks to steal tariffs, hundreds of thousands of tons, think of this, were dumped on our shores. end steel is like something else. it's not quality. they were dumping garbage. they call it sand steal. they collect dirt steel. it was mixed up. it was bad stuff. and we didn't want to use that for our jet fires and for our beams that will the buildings. but they were dumping tremendous quantities of steel and what was happening is, united states steel and all of our companies were going virtually out of business and i stopped it. i put on a 25% tariff, billions of dollars is now pouring into our treasury, and our steel companies and our steelworkers are coming back. [cheers and applause] right here in ohio, nucor, a

great steel company, and a steel company that is doing great again. nucor has announced an 85 $85 million upgrade in marrying. steel announced plans to build a new $150 million deal mill in tioga heights and cleveland clients announced a new $700 million plan in a very good place that i like a lot, toledo, toledo, ohio, . and this was unthinkable because four years ago, steel plants were closing. they weren't expanding and they were into building new plants in florida, north carolina, south carolina, all over, not just ohio. on issue after issue, democrats

have forgotten who it is that they are supposed to represent. they forgot. i wonder why they forgot. the job of elected officials is to represent american citizens. the radical democrats. it even support deadly sanctuary city is which are released dangerous criminals onto our streets. sanctuary cities. and many of the places that have sanctuary cities and many of the people that live there, they don't want them. they don't want them. they are dangerous, they are not good, here, are just a few examples. in san francisco, an illegal alien was arrested no fewer than ten times in the span of less than one year for numerous counts of burglary and theft yet, each time, san francisco defied federal authorities and

set him free. and bad things have been when they set him free. a sink sanctuary jurisdiction in california recently released a criminal alien from jail, the vy next month, the same individual was arrested for rate and then, beyond anything you would even believe, a horrible thing happens. but yet again, he was released back into your community, after a sanctuary city in new jersey released an alien charged with domestic violence, he was arrested in missouri, for the murders of three people. in the bizarre world view of the third and hard left, they have no problem destroying the lives of innocent americans for a single politically incorrect thought. what they want to virtually, and you know this, you know this,

they want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have committed horrible crimes and a murderer. [boos] >> president trump: republicans believe our cities should be a sanctuary for law-abiding americans, not criminal aliens. [cheers and applause] and, yes. we just won a big lawsuit last week. in fact, one of my lawyers, for winning the lawsuit, is here tonight. i gave him a little reprieve. we need a lot of lawyers in the white house. we can sue so much so unfairly but we are winning those lawsuits left and right. one of them is here. he said i would love to go to a rally. i said, i will go into a place

called cincinnati, ohio. you deserve it. we just won the lawsuit on the wall. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: we just won the lawsuit on the wall, did you hear that? and we are building the wall faster and better than ever. it's time for democrats to end sanctuary cities and jackson release. you know you do? you tax them and then he released them. and you say will you please report back in four years from now? what only 2% come back. you know i? because they are not the smartest. they are not the smartest. they are the ones we don't want to have come back. only 2% show up. catch and release, we could end it immediately if the democrats

cared. so what we are doing is something else. weird keeping them out altogether but we are replacing random migration and we are replacing the water system how about the lottery system? how about lotteries? this was chuck schumer. you put the name in a basket, the country puts the name in the basket, and you pick people out of the lottery. well, let's see, this one is a murderer, this one robs for banks, this one, i better not say. at this one, another murder of her leaders and gentlemen, another murderer. think of this. do you think they are going to put their great citizens, they are great citizens, they are great people. you think those people are going into a lottery? no. and then, we get these people coming in and we hold it against the country. the country isn't based on that. the country, just take a look, look at the people they put into

these lotteries. it's a disgrace. and how we've done this for so many years, folks, how we have done this, it's an immigration system that's totally broken and we are going to win the house. we are going to win the senate. we're going to win the presidency, and we are going to do a merit-based immigration system. merit-based. [cheers and applause] merit-based immigration. and we need that. because we have companies coming in from all over the world and we need good workers, we need good people. we are down to 3.5% unemployment. we need people. but we want people to come in based on merit, not based on some lottery put in by a government. [cheers and applause] democrats have never been farther outside the mainstream.

liberal politicians want to eliminate private health care and force everyone all to the government plan. remember the lies from the previous administration? if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. 28 time, one lie after another, 28 times it was said and it turned out to be a total lie. [boos] my administration is defending your right to choose the plan ends doctor that is best for you. [cheers and applause] we are offering right now, plans up to 60% cheaper than obamacare and we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. always. always.

[cheers and applause] virtually every top democrat, also now supports late-term abortions. [boos] and then you have a governor of virginia, it's not only late-term abortions, it's killing the baby after the baby is born. how about that? think of that. think of that. that's why i've asked congress to prohibit extreme late-term abortion because republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from god. [cheers and applause]

democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, and they are the party, frankly, of socialism. [boos] the republican party is the party of freedoms, the party of the american worker, the american family, we are the party of the american dream. [cheers and applause] it i'm fighting for you each and every day. i had a great life. i used to get great publicity. nobody got better publicity. i had such a great life, it was so easy. my great wife, the first lady, milani i, she said, she said you

know, you've always been a hard worker, you love to work. but you have your life was a lot easier in the olden days. but i love it. i know i love it? because we are accomplishing so much, nobody ever thought it would be possible to do the things that we are doing. even a thing like right to try, right? right to try. they have been trying to get that for years and years and years. that's people that are really sick, terminally ill, they couldn't get medicine. we have the greatest doctors, the greatest clinics, the greatest technicians in the world. they couldn't get anything. they travel to asia, if they had money. they traveled to europe, they traveled all over the world, hoping for a cure. if they had no money to just go home. they died. they had no hope. for 44 years, they've been

trying to get right to try. we are so advanced in medicine, we have a lot of things that probably work or possibly work but we weren't allowed legally to give that to these people that were so sick. you know why? because they didn't want this drug if it didn't work for the people but the people were terminally ill. so what got it approved? it wasn't easy. it was complicated. the insurance companies didn't want to do it, the government didn't want to do it, [cheers and applause] the doctors didn't want to do it. tremendous liability. but our country didn't want to do it, they say, well if it doesn't work, we are going to get sued, i say, so they will sign an agreement, very strong,. take all liability away from the united states. from the drug companies, from the doctors, all liability. they are terminally ill, let's try it. and you know what?

it's been a miracle. so many people have done so wel well. it's great. we got it done. what i said about the agreement thing, they had these great lawyers and they said gee, that's a good idea. they've been working in this industry for years. they said that's a good idea. how about getting it to me in two hours? right to try, it's a great thing. but we have some neat things like that. i have lists that you wouldn't even believe. we going to pages. were releasing a pan to allow companies to release lower-cost drugs from other countries. it's a very unfair system. our country pays the highest prices in the world. last year, it was the first time

in 51 years that drug pricing for prescription drugs actually came down. now, we are going to bring it down by a lot. we are going to bring it down a lot and now, so other countries, here's an example. canada pays half the price for a lot of drugs that we do. so we have a great governor in the state of florida, ron desantis. he calls me out, , and he's doig a great job, and he was at three and he went to 70. that's a pretty good increase, right? ron desantis, great governor, he comes to me and he goes you know, if you buy the drugs, if we buy the drugs, because this is so botched up, we have a middle man, it's not a good situation. he said if i could go and buy the drugs from canada, i could say 50%. i said do it. do it.

and if you can buy them from europe, because the system, like remember, used to scream when i was winning states, not getting the delegates that i was entitled to, and i say, the system's range. well, the drug system is rigged. it's rigged. so if we again but can buy the same drugs made by the same or mystical company from europe or from canada or from other places, at a big deep discount, we are doing it and we are giving them the right to do it. [cheers and applause] it just happened today. >> tucker: the president is speaking in ohio. we are monitoring every moment of it. we will bring you news as it happens. as promised, we want to unpack the democratic debate from last night. make no mistake about where the polls are. joe biden is despite what they may tell you, not the democratic front runner. senator kamala harris of california is. she was employing plenty of doublespeak last night to make sure she doesn't lose the lead.

lisa boothe has more on that. she joins us tonight. so, lisa, clearly the harris campaign believes that they are on the pole position here and i want to maintain that. how would you assess her efforts to keep her front runner status last night? >> i thought she got her by kate by senator tulsi gabbard. look, kamala harris reminds me a lot of hillary clinton where she is smart, she presents herself well, but she has no core conviction and that's very evident in her ever changing position on health care. just to walk you through the timeline a little bit, on her position, in 2017, she cosponsored bernie sanders medicare for all dill which eliminates private insurance, she was the first democrat to do so in 2017. then, in january of 2019, she doubled down on eliminating private insurance, even if you

like your plan. then you go to make, she walks that stance back, fast-forward to june, if you're still listening on this, fast-forward to june on the first of 8, so it's during the first debate, she raised her hand again think she would eliminate private insurance only to walk it back the next day and then fast forward to this week where we are now, she is now introducing her own plan, trying to put herself in between bernie sanders on the left and joe biden on the right and essentially what her plan does is in ten years, it moves everyone to a government run option but it includes a marketplace for private insurers that are regularly heavily regulated. but here's the kicker. it still kicks everyone off of their employer-based plan and here she is talking at the end about you doing just that. >> yes. it's important that i explained that because i think there was a misinterpretation of that on this debate stage tonight. employers right now offer their

employees a private plan. i am separating the employer from the health care. so you have the option of signing up for a private plan under medicare but it's not going to be through your employer. >> a talker, think about this. that's how most people get their health care is through their employer. we are talking about a hundred 56 million people. so democratics are not, whether it's medicare for all or whether it's kamala harris plan that she just introduced or talking about mass destruction to america's held her, if you go back to 2010, i was in that election cycle. i had a front row seat. along the care cost 60 seats in the house, six senate seats solely on that issue alone and i think they were talking about these mast instructions once again. speak >> tucker: i mean, didn't labor unions oil to the democratic party for the last hundred years spend decades and decades and decades negotiating health care plans for their

members forgoing salary increases to get those plans and then kamala harris, a democratic, and staying on of that is valid anymore? how does that work? >> that's a point that representative tim ryan brought up during the first line of the debate. he brought up that very point when he was sparring with senator bernie sanders and some of the other democrats on the stage about this. the thing i don't understand is, if you look at it, 90% of americans are insured and if you look at gallup polling, and think 70% believe that their coverage is excellent or great. so i don't understand the concept of going in with a wrecking ball to what americans already believe is excellent or great. senator chuck schumer actually made this point in 2015, looking back on the 2010 midterm elections but he said look, we blew it as a party because there is such a small percentage of registered voters that are impacted by obamacare. we shouldn't focus on all these other issues that are important to the middle class and i really just think that democrats are

put putting themselves in a really dangerous position by moving forward and talking about once again, mass destruction on such a large scale for it 156 million people which is kamala harris' plan alone. >> tucker: yeah, it's like transgender bathrooms for the sake of a small group, everyone not to turn their lives upside down. lisa boothe, great to see you. a reminder, there is a trump event in progress in ohio. we are monitoring it for news for the moment. the important moments will air right here, we guarantee a chemical he also promised to cover the aftermath of the debate last night. we just talked about kamala harris. so far she's got them pass from the press on her presidential run. they want her to be the next president so they are overlooking her back on. she was a former prosecutor, as you know, but her lead brand as a crusader for prison reform. no one called her on it until last night. grossman tulsi gabbard of hawaii

definitely called her on it. watch this. >> there are too many examples to cite but she put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was at the panel for marijuana. she blocked evidence that would have screened an innocent man from death row until the courts force her to do just so he or she can people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of california. there is no refute for that and the people who suffered under your rain is prosecutor, them an apology. >> tucker: that was an electric moment. it might be why congresswoman gabbert was the most googled candidate since the debate last night. she joins us tonight. congresswoman, thanks a lot for coming on. so, i haven't heard anybody say what you said. why are you the first person to say this? >> look, voters deserve to know the truth. the decision that the american people have before them is a

critical one. the decision that the democrats have before them about who their nominee should be is a very important one. they deserve to know the truth about the candidates that are before them and especially on this issue of criminal justice reform that's impacting so many people across this country because it is so broken and it is an unjust criminal justice system. senator kamala harris, who is in a position to be able to make a difference, when she was serving as attorney general. and as i pointed out last night, she did not fulfill that promise that she claimed to have, which is to be a champion for the people to be a champion for the oppressed. in fact, she did the exact opposite. she made decisions that ended up hurting people. that ended up hurting minorities, hurting poor people in the state of california, which is concerning to me for someone who wants to be the president of the united states and frankly, is claiming to be a prosecutor president.

>> tucker: i think, this is a really interesting debate. this topic deserves a real debate. you have a perspective. she has her perspective. it was hear them both. she would not engage with you and that's what i found contemptible but actually fascinating. she dismissed you and her spokesman dismissed you even more savagely as a prudent apologist. what you make of that? >> a couple of things prefer small, what i was showing was not a matter of opinion pure these are widely reported facts and reports about her tenure as attorney general in california. her career as a prosecutor. and we are not talking about something that happens, you know, 30 years ago or 50 years ago, these are things that she did in her last job, just before she was elected as u.s. senator and she could be held accountable for them. so, answer for it. the voters deserve to know. but you're right, she refused to answer the questions, she refused to engage on the debate stage, and the responses from

her and her campaign, after the debate, was basically to lobby cheap smears and basically say that i am a trader or foreign agent to order trojan horse or whatever was in trying to feed those talking points of the media. so, you know, this is concerning on many levels about how senator harris would govern as president. that if there are those who are critics of her or her record, you know, for me, i am two-time veteran of the middle east deployment. i'm a soldier, currently still serving in the army. i'm a sitting member of congress, and she is smearing me in this way. imagine what she would do to anyone else. >> tucker: it's a fair point. that's a fair point. it's a refuge of the contemptible. what'd you think of cnn's debate? the way that they ran it? were you satisfied with that? >> i think it had a little more

decorum then we saw in the first debate. but you know, look, i wish there was a more fair and balanced approach in how every candidate would have the right amount of time to address these important issues that we face. there are many of them, 60 seconds and 30 seconds, short periods of time to be able to dig into these issues. so this is where i am looking forward to be able to continue to build the support for our campaign, to make it for the qualifications for the next debate in september and october. >> tucker: the one place you don't want to be in washington is outside the status quo, as you are. that's when you start getting it from all sides. >> this is -- you know, a lot of the conversation around this and the things that we are talking about, again, really come down to valuing this role, this job as president, and that most responsibility of commander-in-chief and appreciating the freedoms that we hold dear in this country.

you know, if i had the honor and privilege of serving as president president, i can guarantee you that if there are critics to my record or people who disagree with my policies, t going to label them as foreign agents or traders. having this vigorous debate is a part of who we are as a country and it's something that we've got to appreciate and actually honor the voters and the people of this country and making sure that we are providing them with the truth and the information that they need to make the best decision possible for them. >> tucker: amen. tulsi gabbard, thank you for coming on tonight. we are going to rejoin the president, who is speaking come as you know, in cincinnati, ohio, tonight with supporters. >> president trump: we have tremendous potential to go up. with your health, we will elect a republican congress to create a safe, modern, fair, and a lawful of immigration.

we will enact trade deals that ensure more products are proudly stamped with those four beautiful words, made in americ america. or, made in america. you can use either one. made in america, made in the us usa. we will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine and i see what they are doing. i see it. they show me. the things we are doing in our country today, they have never happened before it. we will be ending the aids epidemic shortly in america and curing childhood cancer very shortly. [cheers and applause] we will defund parentheses, free-speech, religious liberty,

and of the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] and just remember, with the democrats, there is no second amendment. you can forget about keep and bear arms. you can forget it. above all, we will never stop fighting for the values that bind us together as one america. we will never, ever stop fighting. we support, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] we stand with our incredible hearers of law enforcement.

[cheers and applause] we believe in the dignity of work and we believe in the sanctity of life. [cheers and applause] and we believe that faith and family, nongovernment and bureaucracy, are the true american way. we believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and always be proud patriotic americans. [cheers and applause] and we will always live by the world's of our national motto, in god we trust. [cheers and applause]

two days ago, i spoke at the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly and jamestown virginia was beautiful. it was incredible. i was, i must tell you, i was reminded of so many great things in our country. we have been blessed with such remarkable and priceless heritage. we are the greatest republic on the face of the earth and we are going to keep it that way. [cheers and applause] every day of my presidency, we will never forget that we are americans and the future belongs to us. the future belongs to all of you, the future belongs to the greatest movement in the history of our country.

[cheers and applause] and with your help and your devotion, and your drive, we are going to keep on working. we are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. [cheers and applause] we are one people and one family saluting one great american fla flag. [cheers and applause] we all share the same home. we all share the same hearts. we all share the same love of almighty god. [cheers and applause] together, with the great and proud people of ohio, we are making america wealthy again. we are making america strong

again. we making america safe again. we are making america great again and with your vote, and 2020, we will keep america great. thank you, ohio. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: i was the president speaking in ohio tonight, going out on his signature song. you can always get what you want by the rolling stones. a short time ago, the president went after one candidate particularly hard from last night. watch this. >> they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden who has no clue what the hell he is doing. they would say to sleepy joe, sir, just sign right there. oh, okay. i will sign.

>> tucker: two nights in a row of debates on cnn. last night, remarkably, after two years of russia obsession, russia and robert mueller were not even mentioned. instead you saw john lamont asking questions about the rep the president being a racist grade i was the first night it was the second night any better than the first? here's a hint, no. >> why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide that exists in this country today that has been stoked by the president's racist rhetoric? after the president's racist tweets attacking baltimore ends elijah cummings, the mayor of baltimore such as president, help us. send the resources that we need to rebuild america. so what would you do for baltimore and other cities that need help? >> tucker: chris plante, the host of the chris plante show, he is back again tonight to assess his former employer, cnn. chris plante joins us.

if so, there was don lamont out there. the president's racist! both questions were pretax to calling the president a racist route he gets a childish thrill from that. is that a legitimate question? >> no. this whole thing is a love fest. we've got jake tapper on there was a former democratic hill staffer. he worked for the former democratic who married chelsea hilton. now on msnbc, and of course, there is don lemon. there are no hardball questions. there were no god check questions. there are no track questions. they are all going to see each other on a hot tin roof on martha's vineyard. it's august, they are going on vacation together in a couple weeks. their kids play together, they go to school together, it's corrupt. the system is corrupt, what can i tell you? you know perfectly well that it is. we all know perfectly well that it is and it's not really even a political debate. it's a television show.

and cnn is part of the democratic party's apparatus. that's that. >> tucker: that is that. and when you say hades this kind of loose conspiracy of personal affiliation, you are saying that because you've seen it. >> oh, yeah. i've seen it firsthand. i know people that work there still and look, i can watch and i know how to read what they are doing and i know most of these people. they are not terrible people but they are democrats and the team is the team. it's a team effort. if you don't know that, you haven't been paying attention. >> tucker: that's right and you are not seeing it through the correct one. that's exactly right. great to have you tonight. the former fbi director leaked classified memos in an effort to stoke the bogus russia investigation pair that is a crime to reports today indicate he will not be prosecuted for that crime. mark penn is a former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. he joins us tonight. mark, thanks for coming on.

roger stone is facing the likelihood of life and president for being accused of lying it during the course of the investigation peered what should he think when he sees jim comey get a pass on committing a much more profound crime? >> even by itself, the roger stone prosecution was the most egregious trying to trip him up at the last minute or to find something on him when they couldn't find anything in his personal life and arrest him with guns and cnn ablaze here if you look, i think now, they have discovered that, you probably committed crimes but we are not going to prosecute him. so we just going to get a slap on the wrist. that's was to happen here. >> tucker: how disparaging is that? does this make you as sad and cynical as it makes me about our justice system? >> we are not having any accountability for an investigation that was clearly a partisan investigation i didn't

have a real basis which tied up the country for two years. but, you just saw that debate and there wasn't a single question or answer suggesting there was a trump rush russia conspiracy. that whole thing was gone. right? after two full years, we know it was a fake investigation. a partisan one. is anyone going to be held accountable? that's the question on people's minds now. >> tucker: yeah. in ten seconds, the answer is, what you think? is someone going to be held accountable? >> i'm dubious but hopeful because there's a lot left to investigate. >> tucker: you. there's an awful lot left to investigate. mike pence, thank you so much. unbelievable amount of news tonight. and so much in time we didn't have time to finish final exam could have no fear, final exam will appear tomorrow night. a day late, but even better. it's like wine, a little better with age. you will enjoy it more of it as it for us tonight.

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