>> enjoy the weekend. that is the story of friday, august 9, 2019 pair but as always, the story goes on. i will see you again tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern for the fox report. please join me then. have a great weekend. his musical ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" where we take a deeper look at the 2020 democratic presidential field. democratic primary has more than 20 people running right now but that doesn't mean that democratic voters have all that many options. in fact, they only have really three options. first, they can choose fire-breathing radicals, people who want open borders with mexico and open prison doors in our cities. >> i talked with scientists on the speed they are very clear could we don't have more than ten years to get this right. >> we can no longer allow a white nationalist to be in the white house.

>> the reality is that under my medicare for all plan, yes, employers are not going to be able to dictate the kind of health care that their employees get. >> this has to be the party that's not afraid to stay aloud, we are going to tax the hill out of the wealthy. >> or, they could she was probably well-meaning but doomed moderates, people who get silenced or outright booze when they suggest the democratic party can find itself to what might be possible. >> now, in this discussion already tonight, we talked about taking private health insurance away from union members in the industrial midwest. we talked about decriminalizing the border and we talked about giving free health care to undocumented workers when so many americans are struggling to pay for their health care. i, quite friendly, don't think that that is an agenda that we can move forward on and win. >> i think democrats win when we run on real solutions, not impossible promises. when we promised things that are

workable not fairy tale economics. >> tucker: then, often a category all by herself, there is marianne williamson. williamson may share the debate stage with other candidates but otherwise, it's not clear she's even in the same dimension. >> and now, it is time for generations of americans to rise up again. for an amoral economic system has turned to short-term profits for huge multinational corporations into a full god. everything that we are talking about here tonight is what's wrong with american politics. and the democratic party needs to understand that we should be the party to talk, not just about systems, but also about causes. if you think any of this one guinness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of a collectivized paper that this president is bringing up in the country, then i'm afraid that the democrats are going to see some very dark days. >> tucker: lisa boothe won't say which of these three options she is voting for until come the primaries but she is a senior

voice with fox news and she joins us tonight. that kind of is the tragedy, presumably, there are some nondemented democrats left. i mean, there are, and they don't really have too many options, do they question mike >> they don't and actually, i thought what was really interesting about last week's debates, they're sort of two prevailing themes that are goint now. one is this directional divide in the party and then the second is a generational divide and on the directional front, you showed some of the clips from john delaney calling out his party but what we saw on the first night of debates, use have these really radical progressive candidates like bernie sanders and was with warren on the stage and then you had all of these moderates like tim ryan, john delaney, john hickenlooper as well, and essentially, the message from the moderates was hey, look, we are taking on these policy positions that may play with primary voters but they don't in the general election and we see that i'm

pulling. even policy positions like giving health care to illegal immigrants, democrat primary voters may favorite that but if you look at overall voters, they oppose it by 28 points and gives a clip from john hickenlooper talking about this. >> this notion that you're going to take private insurance away from hundred 80 million americans who many of them don't want to get rid of it, many don't, and you're going into -- degree new deal make sure every american is guaranteed the government job that they want, that is disaster. you might as well fedex the election to donald trump. >> so clearly making every point of hey, look, we are going to throw this thing. if we are taking on all these radical policy positions, that are out of step with the general election. and i also thought on the directional front, something that was interesting, that surprise me, with a lot of the candidates and a second night taking on former president obam president obama's policy position who is still immensely popular with democrats, i thought i was a really

interesting take and i really surprise me. in the second theme i mentioned earlier on the den generational front, you've got vice president joe biden who is the leading candidate, who is 76 years old, and there was this interesting "new york times" article where they interviewed about 50 democrat insiders and one of the main concerns was his age. and his inability to deliver a correct message and we really saw that last week. take a look at this. [cheers and applause] >> the fact is, the bill that the future president here, that the senator is talking about, if you agree with me, go to joe 30030 and help me in this fight. thank you very much. >> so just a lot of stumbles there from joe biden. i think the nail was it on the head when he said the good news is for joel lanning, this is probably the best he can do in the bad news is, this is probably the best he can do.

the one so, i just want to end on this, inject some reality on, you are always talking to people, politics for a living, how many people do you know who voted who believe that joe biden would actually be the democratic nominee? >> i think it's sort of split but here's where things change and where i think things start looking different. even if you look ahead at the september debate, the requirements jump significantly. so the field probably is going to be cut in about half of who actually ends up on the debate stage and was going to be interesting as a lot of these moderates are not going to be on that debate stage. they're not going to hit the pulling requirement or the unique donor requirement as well and i also think if you are joe biden, you are more exposed because you then get follow-up questions from the moderator, there is also more time to speak, so i think he starts changing the dynamic when there's more exposure. >> tucker: time is not on his

side. lisa boothe, the great to see you tonight. thank you. 2020 could be the first year that the democratic party nominates a self-described socialist for president. even if they don't come almost every democratic candidate running right now has endorsed at least some socialist policies. what are these policies and may be more important, what how much what they cost and what they were question mike is there any evidence that they would? justin houston is a research fellow at the parlay institute and he joins us tonight. justin, we want to take all policy ideas seriously paired. clearly people in charge of screwed up the country so we are open minded always. but give us a sober analysis of some of the big policies these candidates are promoting. would they make the country better? >> no, tucker, and virtually, they would not make the country better. the vast majority of the policies being offered right now by the democratic party are going to be incredibly expensive, they have no way to pay for them, and the first want to talk about it of course is a medicare for all. a lot of people have heard that

this is going to cost $32 trillion over the first ten years. but what does that actually mean for middle-class people question mike they are being told that they are going to save thousands and thousands of dollars because they are not going to have to pay expensive deductibles and co-pays and things like that but here's the truth. we just conducted a study of the heartland institute and we found that middle-class americans are going to get absolutely screwed by a single payer health care. 40 million or 60 million american households are going to end up paying more in new federal taxes than they are going to get back in health care benefits. people who make $75,000.200000 a year are going to see their tax bills go up. we estimate by 12,000 to $15,000 per year. those who are in a hundred thousand dollars or more are going to see their tax bills go up on average by $20,000. the more money you may come the worse it gets. so single-payer health care, there is apsley no way to pay for that. and that brings us to our second point, free health care for all illegal immigrants. this is one of the most

ridiculous policies that is ever been proposed in american history. here you have 11 million to 29 million illegal aliens here in the country right now and that's probably a conservative figure, even if we assume that this is -- that we are going to pay out health care costs that matched what we are paying right now for medicaid beneficiaries, we are going to see costs go up. who is going to pay for that? and even worse -- >> tucker: let me stop you there. hold on. so you are saying that those costs will go up, those are just the cause of paying the health care of the illegal aliens question marks because that's right. and that's just the start. i mean, this is a big invitation to the world, to billions of people around the world, come here to america, we are going to pay for your health care. what's going to stop busloads or train loads of people with serious ailments from coming to the united states legally or illegally and for us to be treating these people? i mean, this is total madness and that is why basically no other country in the entire world does something like that.

so yes, this is a crazy proposal from the left. and my third big proposal, a federal jobs guarantee. this might seem pain compared to the other things we just talked about but this is an incredibly dangerous proposal. not only is he going to be very expensive, 4 trillion to $44 trillion according to the american action forum over a ten-year period, into putting on how many people are in it. but in addition, it's going to indirectly give the federal government power over the entire labor market because if they are offering people a living wage, anyone, living wage, which could be $15, could between dollars, could be $25 an hour, it means whatever means the democratic party candidates, if you are offering that, then how is a small business or a medium-size business supposed to compete with the federal government? you're going to have a million people leaving their jobs in the private sector to go work for the federal government. it and earn $20 an hour and free health care and free paid family

leave and all sorts of other things. even for to take jobs that don't necessarily need to exist. i mean, this is crazy stuff. >> tucker: it is crazy. and they are all for it, too. great to see you tonight, thank you. not every democrat in the race actually could be elected president. we recently identified for zombie candidates whose campaigns have died but they don't know it yet. we will visit our prediction is our 2020 special continues tonight. ♪ ["footloose" by kenny loggins] ♪

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>> tucker: welcomed back to our special broadcasts of the 2020 democratic field here just before the second set of democratic primary predictions here on the show, we saw the sum of the democratic campaigns have actually died already, they are a zombie campaigns. they are over. but the candidates don't know it. after the second wave of debates come our prediction appears to be holding up pretty well could we think it will stay that way. here's what we said. >> two weeks from right now, in 2020 democratic candidates will assemble on a stage in detroit, michigan, for the second wave of memory debates. officially, all 20 candidates will be running for president. but don't be full, some of them like kamala harris and elizabeth warren are actual contenders. at least theoretically, they could win. you can't say that for many of the others in the race. these are the zombie candidates. they are long expired but still lumbering around pretending to be alive.

as usual, the geniuses in the press corps are the last to know, they always are. you will probably see long articles and segments on television about candidate joe biden, how is he doing? but keep in mind, as you see these pieces, it's all a mirage. joe biden's campaign is deader than disco. it all happened so suddenly in may, biden seemed to dominate the democratic field and then one day, reported asked him a throwaway question about china. here's what happened next. >> do you have a comment on the chinese terrace? >> my answer is, yes, i do. the president has done nothing but increase the tariffs. the debt and the trade deficit. we have to have our allies with us. it's not just us. we have to keep the rest of the world together. secondly, we should -- labor should be at the table, as well as our allies because we should focus on the things that

we've been talking about for a long time. china's greatest violation is the way in which they steal our intellectual property. if we should make a quid pro quo, as i was speaking with president xi jinping. here's the deal. if anything has to be on, 50% by chinese to invest in china, guess what, mech it is the same thing. this idea of dealing with -- the only people that are paying the price our farmers and working people right now. he is going about all the wrong way. all vibrato, no action. >> tucker: got that? no action, you don't have that because there's nothing to get. not a single phrase in a single sentence made a single bit of sense. it was bizarre. it was entirely meaningless. it was pretty obvious right then that joe biden was not going to be president of the united states. that was may 14th of this year. that day, we called it. i ignore what they are telling on television. joe biden is not going to be

president. he probably won't be the democratic nonevent nominee. he is not capable of it. there is no reason to be cruel and get more specific than that but just watch biden and ask yourself, really? anyone who says that a guy come of that guy come is going to win a presidential election at the age of nearly 78 is either lying or deluded. >> tucker: will not so broad but we were right. almost of the day, actually, looking back, on may 13, the day before, biden led his democratic rival by an average of 27 points in the polls. that was the apogee, it was the high point. it's been a swift decline ever since. kemal has called biden a racist on the debate stage and he had no response for her. he then apologize for associating with other democrats in congress, bizarrely. and now, he has fallen to below ten points. in the state of california, he is losing. another candidate might be able to turn things around but biden can't. in fact, he should be retired

right now my chatting with strangers in the produce aisle. inside, is going to spend the next six months treading whatever it remaining dignity he has as he moves toward the inevitable affiliation of defeat for the third time. it's sad to watch. now that beto o'rourke has even noticed it happening. bito is occupied or not. he is living his own private health. back in march, things look very different. he was on the cover of "vanity fair" which is a magazine. he was rotting escape or come who is promising to take america back to the careless exuberance of 1993. data was live blogging strips to the dentist. everyone was pretending to think that was great. and then, pete buttigieg showed up and write everything. he was even younger than beto and even more when. located things started started to fall apart. even though he uses bogus mexican nickname, he still rich white guy who went to boarding school in columbia. that's on alive allowed in the

democratic party. he seemed directors recognize, by the way, they refer the first time, watch him grovel at the thought of himself it's because you're right, there are things that i have been privileged to do in my life that others cannot -- the systematic foundational discrimination that we have in this country, and every aspect of life, is something that i have not experienced in my lifetime. and i've had advantages that other cannot enjoy. i have my work cut out for me to be a better person and ensure that i am more mindful to the experiences that others have had different than experiences that i have had. >> so are those mistakes which mike would you say those are mistakes being on the cover of "vanity fair"? it looks elitist? what? >> yeah, i think it reinforces that perception of privilege and that a headline that i was warned to be in this, and the articles, i was attempting to say that i felt on my climb was in public service. no one is born to be president of the united states of america. least of all, knee. so, yeah, --

>> what about the part-time dead thing? you got sums flak for that one. speak up slowly, i deserved to be when i deserved appeared with those three words, the beto for president campaign died a well-deserved death. no one apologizes for it to his family for being himself or simply existing is going to get elected president. if you hate yourself that much, people have trouble liking him. a new college public new hampshire voters shows a beto o'rourke getting a total of 0% in the first of the nation primary state. 0%, nobody in new hampshire, likes beto o'rourke. ouch. but again, well-deserved hit another candidate out of the race. kirsten gillibrand audit to be celebrating this. if. fewer candidates to compete with, although, she can't celebrate because jill ran just killed her own presidential campaign. it happened last week in youngstown, ohio. famously one of this country's most economically depressed that he spared a woman came forward to ask a simple question of senator gillibrand which is

that, my community is falling apart. people are dying. they are in progress. so why is the democratic party lecturing me about white privilege? speak of the democratic party likes to throw around terms like white privilege. this is an area across all demographics that has been depressed because of an opioid crisis. so, what you have to say to people of this area about so-called white privilege? >> tucker: this might've been an opportunity for kirsten gillibrand. for years, she is not on every ludicrous fad the democratic party has offered no matter what it is. from the meat to the stereo to seizing guns from law-abiding americans. just this one time, children might distinguish herself by resisting and choosing the obvious truth over left-wing orthodoxy. but no, she was afraid to. so she did what she assumed she had to do, she stood on a stage and lectured a struggling woman from the youngstown, ohio, about her weight privilege. >> your suffering is just as important as a black or brown person suffering but to fix the

problems that are happening in the black community, you need a far more transformational efforts. so if your son is 15 years old and smokes pot, he smokes pot just as much as the black boy in the neighborhood but that black and brown boy is four times more likely to get arrested. that says to her dramatic racism. your son will likely not have to deal with that because he's white bread so someone says white privilege, that's all they are talking about. you and imagine saying something like that to someone from youngstown, ohio. it's absurd. and it's not just absurd, it's cruel. you have to be a nasty cold person to say that and jell-o brand is. voters can sponsor it she's done. and then there's cory booker. cory booker's presidential path was simple. eat a giallo start version of barack obama. he could be almost as cool, almost as historic as barack obama, if he would be president too. i was the chi collation pair but

his hopes died in the most possible way. live on national television he wins the first democratic debate with a plan. he was going to answer an immigration question in spanish great how's that for clever? it would show his cross-cultural appeal. he is a most 50 and went to law school but pandering in spanish might make him look hit. that was the hole. unfortunate, someone beat him to the gimmick. beto o'rourke, of course, had the same idea. he went first. cory booker was not happy. i was obvious to everyone watching. >> [speaking spanish] >> tucker: ouch. when you are the only man in america that beto o'rourke can dominate, it's over. sorry. a better look for in years from now, spartacus. and elizabeth warren is not a

zombie candidate, she is the opposite. her campaign has gone up and down but it's still here. we will break down her remarkably resilient run for president. after the break. ♪

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round of missiles, the second time it's happened this week. the pentagon says they were fired from the northeast coast into the sea of japan. this is the fifth round of launches to occur in less then three weeks. i'm jonathan hunt, back to tucker. >> tucker: welcome back to our democrat run for president 2020 special beer last year, elizabeth warren believe she would kick-start her campaign by releasing a dna test showing she might be related to standing both pete and said, her dna test shows she was far less american indian than you are. it was embarrassing. but somehow, her political campaign survived and in fact, it thrived. one reason is that she is offering a platform of serious economic nationalism. and that's always popular and for a good reason. but she's also carved out a niche as well as the most radical and aggressive candidate in the primary. watch. >> we live in a country now

where the president is fanning economic racism, environmental racism, health care racism, climate crisis is the existential crisis for our world. it's what every living thing on this planet at risk. donald trump disgraces the office of presidents every single day. >> tucker: blah, blah, blah appeared more identity politics. who is this person exactly? helen carr has followed elizabeth warren's career for decades as a radio host and he joins us to make it how we, thanks so much for coming on. so, why is it -- this is a sincere question for elizabeth warren has some i think pretty solid ideas about manufacturing and trade. they are very close to what donald trump ran on last time. why does she have to wreck the whole thing with these identity politics? the racism? the gender politics? to pretending to be an indian question mike all this dumb stuff. why does she lard out her

economic program with that stuff? >> i think she has to reach out to the base of the democratic electorate that is going to be voting in these primaries. i mean, the weirdest thing that most, absurd thing that she has posters this wealth tax but she says that if you have over $50 million in assets, liquid or a liquid come she wants a 2% tax on everything over $50 million. what could possibly go wrong chris moore to think everybody's going to but they're not worth 50 million? there were 12 industrialized nations that had this tax in 1990 and only four of them still do. it's those it just doesn't work as she spotted as this candidatf ideas but her ideas are insane. and so now, -- >> tucker: and also it's stale. i mean, i wonder why -- she is the most aggressive of the candidates. i makes me think shall be the nominee. i mean, she seems like she will say anything if she thinks it will help her. >> coming out.

she was down at some conference in new orleans, i think last year, and she said at the american criminal justice system is racist, front to back. and you know, a couple of police officers had just been gunned down and cold-blooded in massachusetts when she said this end, you know, then, a few years back she said i supplied the intellectual foundations of the occupied wall street movement. oh, great. hippies with bombs camping out shooting heroin. on the town commons, city streets. you know, she just says these things and has to walk them back but she has this school or strategy. i don't think it's going to sell very well hear the latest thing i'm reading is, oh, her consultants where these people are saying well, she appeals to joe's at six back. well, i don't see that either. i mean, i think the people who are thinking, if there are any left in the democratic party, it ought to remember the last two

democratic candidates to come out of massachusetts. john kerry and mike dukakis and they were both elitists and day, you know, joe six-pack's already through them. joe six-pack has alimony all the way. >> tucker: rate you when you gain the affirmative action system at harvard. not joe six-pack. good to see it. senator kamala harris, so far she has gotten a free pass from the president on her presidential run. they want her to be the next president so they are overlooking her back onto it she is a former prosecutor, as you know, but the president said her lead band as a crusader for resin reform here no one has called her on it until last night. congressman 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 asked if she had ever smoked marijuana. she blocked evidence that would

have freed an innocent man from jethro until the courts forced her to do so. she kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of california. there is no excuse for that end of the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology. >> tucker: it was an electric moment. it might be why congresswoman gabbert was the most googled candidate since the debate last night. she joins us tonight for 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 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 is in a position to be able to make a difference in that when she was serving as attorney general and as i pointed out, last night, she did not fulfill that promise that she said she had which was to be a champion for the people, a champion for the impress. in fact, she did the exact opposite. she didn't made a decision that ended up hurting people, that ended up hurting minorities, and hurting poor people in a state of california which is concerning to me for someone who wants to be the president of the united states and frankly who 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's got a perspective, let's hear the vote. she would not engage with you and that's what i found contemptible but also fascinating good rather than rebut what you said, she dismissed you and her

spokesperson even dismissed you later as a prudent apologist paid what you make of that? >> a couple of things. what i was showing was not a matter of opinion pair these are widely recorded facts and reports about her tenure as an attorney general in california. we are not talking about something that happened 30 years ago, 50 years ago, these are things that she did in her last job just before she was elected as u.s. senator. she should be held accountable for them to your cheese claim to be very proud of this record so, answer for it. the voters deserve to know. but you are right, she refused to answer the questions, she refused to engage on the debate stage and the response is from her and her campaign, after the debate, was basically two laws cheap smears and to basically say that i am a traitor or a foreign agent or a trojan horse or whatever it was and trying to feed those talking points to the media so, you know, this is

concerning on many levels about how a senator harris would govern as president. >> tucker: tulsi gabbard, things offer coming on tonight. beto o'rourke and his skateboard where the two most popular democrats in america in 2018. now, as presidential campaign is basically over. what happened to you beto's mojo? we will tell you as our

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>> tucker: will conduct to tonight special of the 2020 democratic field. robert francis beto o'rourke, still officially running for president pretty slick it's coverage and interviews and you will see him standing on the debate stage once in a while.

again, like any other candidate. but make no mistake, his campaign is over. he recalled his first right on this program. a long time ago we described how beto's campaign lost mojo to pete buttigieg. here's our analysis. >> former congressman beto o'rourke gave a speech to kids in virginia yesterday. beto had a microphone and was speaking to the students seated in a small empathy a year. for a moment if you close one eye, he looked convincingly like a campaign event. there were volunteers and massing matching t-shirts. he wore a basketball cap as he spoke because wearing what other people's caps went is what you're supposed to do when you run for president. and to be clear, running for president is what beto o'rourke says he's doing. it's all a little sad when you think about it. they'd all work is not going to be the president, least of this country, his campaign is dead. totally dead.

it went toes up last week from a fatal overdose of pete buttigieg grade not everyone has heard the knees, the morning his aunt started, but beto o'rourke for president is done. future generations will remember beto o'rourke, if they were call him at all, really as a media story. remember that guy with the weird nickname that all the dummies on cable news fall in love with in a single day? that was bizarre. and it was bizarre. >> i saw him for the first time just a month ago when he sat down with oprah and me and the rest of people in the audience thought wow, this guy has this dynamic, positive energy. >> yeah, he has that raw talent, he is very kind of obama asking indeed. so the fellows of houston who haven't voted democratic before because they have a beto o'rourke crush going on. >> he is awesome. check kevan smith of the texas tribune said it's like seeing this jesus christ superstar in front of everybody.

he has bad celebrity aura. >> of the 26-year-old cop the nation. his offbeat social media posts appealing to a younger generation. even taking the skateboarding at whataburger. >> tucker: keep in mind, that's just happen. the friends he just occurred. it was just last month. college-educated adults in an advanced country with a air travel and air conditioning, talking like that in public. it's pretty embarrassing, my god. but before we get to georgie about it, a confession. we did it, too. beto's personal magic distorted our journalistic objectivity for a second there. appeared a made up in the skateboarding or maybe it was the weird resemblance to ouyang bobby kennedy. whatever it was, we lost control like everyone else. beto loves rock 'n' roll. he's not like everyone else, he doesn't do stuffy speeches or policy programs, he's not going to bore you with entitlement projections or some scary stuff

about the korean peninsula. beto's got a skateboard and where is nirvana t-shirts. his vision for this country is 1995. that was the year he was living way out of town and this walk up and lit working for the man with some of the stickiest blood in manhattan. in the cut. a little heavy, but sweet. it was a good time. beto wants to bring us back to that time. we got a little carried away. sorry about that. it all seems so innocent then, back a few weeks ago, back in march of 2019. it was his beto and us in a dream. it was a simpler time. we thought anything was possible. we thought we could write our own stories here we didn't even know that even fairy tales and to end one day ours did end. the magic turned to dust and it's bitter in our mouths like a peyote button or still is ivan t. one day the music died. bye-bye. bye-bye weirdly youthful middle-aged white guy with fake hispanic nickname. you've been replaced. there is a new heartthrob and

cable news. he's everything that you were, but more. he's younger, he is shallower, he's even less experience. he's gotten an even weirder name, plus, he's. he is the perfect candidate for voters who say they love diversity but don't really want to vote. this candidate code is created an elaborate plan like cnn. there's no stopping a man like this. on some level, beto o'rourke must know it's no it's over. more than six months before the votes are cast in iowa, it's done. i'm sure he will keep raising money but his political career is done. cue the sad nirvana playlist. so, what are the lessons of the sinking of the ss beto o'rourke? here's one. maybe you should've run on something. it's pretty hard to win on charisma alone, as holy clinton recently discovered. so why not be the one person in the race with big ideas crush market doesn't have to be a big

idea, even, how about any idea? beto o'rourke could've tried that. instead, he just strung together cliches. it was like that where again, mad libs, that you used to play with your brother on the road transfer to get these long seemingly coherent sentences that when you read them, don't actually mean anything. beto o'rourke was big on this. here's beto doing that on the green new deal. >> this country was willing to sacrifice all over the united states to make sure that we defeated germany and that we one that and for the following 75 years, made this world to save democracy. the green new deal calls that sacrifice and service and scales eight. it talks about the challenges that we face today. >> those are the questions that beto o'rourke asked just yesterday. so the question for the rest of us is, are voters ready to suffer, i don't know, 400,000 u.s. combat deaths for the sake

of the climate? what does a carbon dioxide can now look like? a co2 side pen? when we get to bomb tokyo old again with firebombs? how would that affect the times or? among, this is stupid. the green new deal isn't a deal, it's a wish fulfillment. but here's the thing, beto kept a straight face throughout the talk like he really sincerely meant it. who does that? well, mediocre people do that had mediocre people tell implausible lies and then demand that you pretend to believe them. it is beto o'rourke a mediocre person: we will let you decide. in 2017, beto o'rourke gave a total of less than 1% of his income, one-third of 1%, to be precise, to charity could keep in mind, he's rich, very rich. pierce's explanation for why he did that. >> i served in public office since 2005. i do my best to contribute to the success of my community and

my states and now, of my country. there are ways but i do this better legible, there are ways -- but there are charities that we donate to. it but also, i'm doing everything i can, right now, spending this time with you, not with our kiddos, now back home in el paso, because i want to sacrifice everything to make sure that we meet this moment of truth with everything that we've got. >> tucker: okay, so save that tape. it's on the internet. that's from uva yesterday. and you're going to want to download that and keep that for your grandchildren because beto o'rourke, just as something that's never been done or even attempted by any politician before. that is unique contribution to american political life. beto o'rourke has just made the case that his entire life, his entire life, is a charitable donation. all of us get the gift of beto o'rourke just because he's here.

every time beto speaks, it's like endowing a library in burma or curing shingles in malawi or a battling childhood in appalachia or sending mosquito nets to the congo by the millions every time he talks when he tweets, it's an act of charity. it's something that makes this world wiser and kinder and more decent and better smelling. beto is such a good person that he could write himself off of his taxes as he wanted to pay the irs would have to let him. his goodness is so clearly deductible. no one would contend that. it but beto doesn't do that. he doesn't shirk his duty. he will pay the extra tax because he cares that much. now that you think about it, it's almost that he will never be president. time for a very special edition of the dan bongino news explosion p of the former secret service agent will join us in just a moment with the

most bizarre stories of the democratic primary so far. that's saying a lot. coming up, for our special feature. ♪

>> tucker: time now for the very special edition of the dan bongino news explosion. the fake news of the past become our favorite former new york city policeman is here to listen. it it has been a remarkably bizarre 2028 democratic campaign. dan bongino ladies and gentlemen, he joins us tonight. dan, good to see you. >> i had to take to heart this one because there were so many comical democratic stories up to the cycle so i distilled them down to four. here is number four. this one's great. remember old barney cartoon? shang is carrying? not at all cases. beto decided to go to the

dentist and share with the entire dental visit. the campaign has been a cavity ever since. down hill, over after that. i don't blame the dentist, i blame beto. he sometimes sharing isn't caring. >> tucker: i agree. and not all our cynicism is rewarded, interns, which is a great message. it's good. >> really, he's a narcissist. he thinks it so important that people want to see his dental visits. we don't hear but thanks for trying. we appreciate it. story number three, the 0% is. who hasn't invented the concept of zero? was at the babylonians or the absence of value altogether? well, that is swell well and a ball zeal. you absolutely atrocious politicians i have a hard time discerning which one is worse but at least one of them, at least squall well was smart enough to get out while he could still preserve the warm remnants of his reputation.

bill de blasio, he has no such concerns at all. there is no representation left. number two, kamala harris can't seem to to decide what she wants to be. she flips, she flops, she flips again, she did the old 540. 180, 360, 540 540 printed on health care, kent decided she wants to be tough on crime, loose on crime, she doesn't get it. thank god tulsi gabbard called her out in the last debate. you saw that. i didn't look great for her. and number one, joe biden, apologizing for being joe biden by joe biden can't seem to figure out who joe biden is. i had to right general is pure joe biden has taken opposing positions on health care, democratic senators the work truck, the hyde amendment, on busing, apologizing for joe biden is over. >> tucker: it's sad. but in your hands, it's also deeply amusing. dan bongino, great to see you, thank you for that. that's it for tonight special

edition of "tucker carlson tonight" good we will be back monday, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and, and groupthink. have the best we can with the ones you love. ♪ >> sean: welcome to the special edition of "hannity" beer and i'm dan bongino in tonight for sean. bruce ohr's throat to his or her out and let me tell you, the contents are absolutely devastating. we now have document and proof that the highest levels of jim comey's fbi's and the obama administration, knowingly loose information tainted with bias to target donald trump and everyone around him, everyone knew the dossier was garbage. a fraud was committed at the fisa court. trenton associates were spied on all over the world and the witch hunt was born. last night