the "story" goes on tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. tucker carlson takes over live from washington, d.c. good night. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am mark stein in for tucker who is gone fishing. gone whaling but put down the harpoon and will be talking to adam direct from the last whaling tavern in province town later. first, ice officers, the enforcement arm of u.s. immigration, across the country they are being hit with an escalating wave of violent threats. fox's trace gallagher has all of the details. >> mark, these threats are not

only targeted but replete with precise information. a florida group used by immigration and custom enforcement to provide facilities for immigrants caught crossing the border illegally. in disturbing video taken monday, protestors from black lives matter and never again took specific game at the former general counsel. his name is john. listen close. you will hear it. >> [shouting]. >> [muffled audio]. >> [bleep]. >> john, you [bleep]! just hours later 2 ice

facilities were shot at in texas. the location of the shots was no accident and the shooters targeted certain floors of the building occupied by ice. ice and the fbi point to heated political rhetoric and discourse as the motive behind the attack. remember just one month ago a man with a rifle attacked an ice detention center in washington trying to blow up a propane tank. the man was shot and killed by responding officers. >> we know where your children are. that's disturbing stuff. the wave of threats should be no surprise. but for months members of congress, presidential candidate candidates say the men and women

of ice are gestapos for trying to enforce the laws. victor, we appreciate his insight. kamala harris compared "ice" to the ku klux klan and marianne williamson said the ice raids are like the nazis rounding up jews in the 1930s. >> yes. aoc said they set up concentration camps. so they must be nazis. we know what we are spaceed to do about nazis. -- supposed. but we are told by the left not to connect violence to political ret vick. -- rhetoric. when trump said invasion, they connected to the deaths in el paso. this was a targeted ambush.

it was not a mass shooting. it comes on the wake of a lot of people are running for president who want to abolish i.c.e. or reform it. i.c.e. agents are persona non-gratta in most states. there is a de-personalization of these people who keep us secure. why are these attacks happening now? the answer is i.c.e. is starting to deport people with criminal records. we are not issuing green cards to people who will go on public assistance. mexico is helping out. some of the central american governments are feeling the heat and are worried about exporting human capital. we are about 25% down in

crossings and up on apprehensions. that should be good news. but we have to remember where we are in this party that took over the old democratic party. open borders are central to their electoral college strategies. they are panicking. >> this demonization, do you think it's a good thing? if you genuinely think as these presidential candidates and democrats suggest are nazis rounding up people for concentration camps, then you are morally obligated to taunt low-level bureaucrats with the fact you know where they sleep at night and know where their kids go to school. you know what pets they have and what food their pets eat.

do you think that's a good faith assault? or do you think it's entirely cynical? >> i think it's very dangerous. mark, while most of these candidates on the left weigh in on almost every shooting, we haven't seen them weigh into any significant degree to stop it. they could say my opposition to some of the practices of "ice" is not trying to destroy i.c.e. offices. they told us again and again that rhetoric can incite violence in some cases. they are not doing that. it's as if they feel these attacks on the "ice" offices might deter the perview of "ice" and that might spike illegal immigrant ion up a bit. i think they feel illegal

immigrants is central to the progressive movement. >> if it flips texas they win the electoral college now and forever. >> they do. one way of taking texas is saying anybody who supports i.c.e. is tantamount to a nassy and we know what we should do with you. they are prepping the battlefield so people don't speak out against this. >> thank you. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has done more than anyone to vilify i.c.e. she is accused them of running concentration camps at the border. >> the united states is running concentration camps on our southern border.

that is exactly what they are. they are concentration camps. the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing. >> yes, only if you have absolutely no idea what a concentration camp is. rhetoric like that makes alexandria ocasio-cortez's base of socialists super happy. did it do much for her congressional district? lisa is a senior fellow at the independent women's voice and joins us with the answer to that question. i was amazed by this. she is a rock star to the american left. she say rock star in hollywood and in silicone valley. if her own beginnicongressional

district she can only race $1500 lousy bucks. >> and the daily caller found out the number broke down to 10 constituents within her district donating to her. her district is heavily democrat. the likelihood of her being defeated it would have to be a strong challenge and not a republican candidate. >> it is weird. among the democrats you have congressmen who get donations from barbara streisand and ben and jerry but their own constituents are indifferent. >> she is more focus on becoming a national figure. the irony is if you look at the

obama administration, in 2014 or 2012 rather, they deported about 410,000 illegal immigrants. i.c.e. did. you didn't hear these criticisms. in the video you showed off the stop. that was a video that alexandria ocasio-cortez did in june. referencing concentration camps. calling the border facilities concentration camps and that brought criticism from jewish groups making that insane comparis comparison. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez is not just in a feud with anyone who thinks america should have a border. she is also in a spat with the founder of bar stool sports. dave made a series of anti-union tweets. he said he would fire any member of his staff who contacted a

pro-union journalist and accused him of breaking the law. doesn't care when 20 million illegal immigrants break the law breaking into the country. but to use it to shut down a functions business, infractions of the law are more important. dave wants a debate with . -- aoc. she is coy about that. dave, are you cowering? >> no, i would love to talk to merand have her debait. i don't think she will do it. -- we tried to raise donations. she sent out a letter. i doubt she will step to the podium. >> i saw a fascinating discussion on fox business about an hour ago who think that you were screwed. you are going down. you are finished. but some national labor review

board, trumps this first amendment thing with so-called freedom of speech. steve forbes a former presidential candidate thinks you should be quaking in your shoes. >> i saw the debate. the people that think i am going to jail, they are idiots. we are a comedy cite. we have no union at bar stool sports. the whole union debate, it's just a cite that i don't like. -- site. i was making fun of them. i wasn't talking about factories. i am talking about bar stool sports and making fun of our own employs. if you make a union i will crush

you and these morons who have no idea what we do jump into the fray. alexandria ocasio-cortez. o-crazy-io. i know donald will use. it i will get credit for that. they don't know what they are talking about. they jump into the mud. guess what? we the biggest day we ever had at bar stool sports. this was a guy who got dragged out of the super bowl in handcuffs. these people should spend less time tweeting and more time working. then they don't have to worry about the union. >> aoc who is only raise $1525 from her own constituents with a single tweet made more money for you? >> yes. again i don't think she has any clue of what we do.

she jumped in the fray like an idiot. if i had a nickel for every time they say i will serve a life license. >> dave, thank you very much. good luck with alexandria ocasio-cortez. that deserves to take off. tucker is coming back from his fishing trip. he will be speaking to adam ahead. and jeffrey epstein is dead. but the long tentacles of his depraved lifestyle stretch on. new developments for you. and breaking news from philadelphia. 6 officers wounded while trying to deliver a warrant to a suspect. all spected to recover.

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on him for 3 hours -- and falsified their reports to cover-up they fella sleep. they have been placed on leave. the warden of the jail has been reassigned. cameron is a former prison warden himself. he joins us now. rudy giuliani was asked about the suicide watch business. he said why wasn't he just on watch, watch? you don't just take him off suicide watch and treat him like any other guy who happens to be detained in there for a month or two. is it possible to do that, to

customize a scheme around one particular prisoner? >> i don't believe so. i believe what happened here was subsequent to mr. epstein's suicide attempt he was placed on suicide watch. that entails constant supervision by someone who sits outside of the cell 24/7. up to that juncture they had done everything right in terms of the suicide watch. the problem from my perspective is he was taken off suicide watch. i don't know why that would be. it's conjecture but i think there is probably a descent chance that epstein was able to convince or perhaps mamipulate a mental health professional to

believe he was no longer a threat to himself. once an inmate is removed from suicide watch he is moved into administrative detention where they are checked on once every 30 minutes. it sounds like based on what you are telling me, that didn't happen. that adds insult to injury and is unfortunate. >> let me ask you this then. most americans believe he was murdered now. it's surely the case that they believe that in part because this pile up of things that went wrong which would be totally implausible in a prison break

out movie. is this systemic or typical? >> i am afraid it is systemic. i have a great respect for the federal bureaus of prisons. 30,000 staff put their lives on the line every day. but congress needs to loosen the purse strings. that's a side issue. go ahead. >> no, thank you, cameron. that's insightful. we appreciate the experience you brought to it. it looks now as if it will be impossible to bring a civil or a criminal case against jeffrey epstein because he is no longer alive to answer to it. his estate is still this to be targeted and today that process began. epstein accuser jennifer rose sued his estate for damages claiming epstein preyed on her when she was just 14 years old.

it also targets three of his employees and his girlfriend and alleged predator and supplier of girls ghislaine maxwell. monic is a former defense attorney and joins us now. to the criminal business, do you think any potential criminal cases against ghislaine maxwell or anybody else will go anywhere or will that just fade away? >> when law enforcement being zeroed in and focussed on this epstein investigation, it's possible that criminal charges could come out against others involved. there is talk about the 2007 plea agreement that epstein signed that gave immunity to co-conpirato

co-conpirators. that has issues and may get thrown out. >> you are a former prosecutor. i am not. you i am just a lay man. that plea agreement was very whacky. they cut a deal with this guy and absolve his potential pals. >> never once did i and i don't recall anybody putting down we won't go after co-conspirators. it's like they are a 3rd party to this contract between the state and the defendant. what we do know that plea agreement violated the law. the victims had no idea what was going on. that could end up getting thrown out. law enforcement is so focussed on these co-conspirators that they should be worried. >> the civil cases. lower burden of proof.

will they go anywhere? >> yes. absolutely. epstein's estate has enough money. the plaintiffs only have to prove it's more likely than not this happened and in the "me too" era they have a goodness that with the jury. >> documents suggest that thanks to bruce ohr, fusion gps and the clinton campaign might as well as had its own office inside the department of justice. that's next on "tucker carlson tonight."

>> a federal judge shutdown the latest gambit by congressional democrats to advance their impeachment agenda. catherine herridge has more. >> the decision is a victory for the justice department and a setback for house democrats who

tried to link the request for secret evidence in the russia probe with an outstanding subpoena. the chief justice agreed that access to robert mueller's grand jury material and a subpoenaar separate issues. the grand jury material involves criminal issue and the suspect is a civil enforcement issue. so the mcgahn case has been assigned to another federal judge and the court action could go beyond the 2020 election. that conflicts with chairman nadler's public statements about moving quickly and voting on impeachment before the end of the year. a fox news review that special counsel investigators are having no problem finding jobs with no

obstruction charges. >> thank you. my goodness. that's judicial decision is almost too sane to be true. department of justice documents reveal how nearly all of fusion gps transmitted material from the trump dossier to her husband. a senior doj official bruce ohr. that filled the federal government. percolated all the way through and was used to taint the trump administration with bogus accusations of espionage before it was sworn in. tom is the president of judicial watch. they obtained those documents. he joins us now. tom, this nexus between one woman working for a group that is working for the clinton campaign who is married to a senior figure in the government. this is basically a classic

banana republic stuff. it's the merger of the party and the state. >> yes, bruce ohr is telling the fbi, i got this information. let's investigate the president. this is after president trump is elected. he brings in a flash drive with his wife's material on it. stripped from that material is the information fusion gps from the headers. they were trying to disguise the material. we get that from the fbi interview notes and documents described the material he sent to the fbi. it include a chart. people have to look at this chart. it's crazy. it's 80 names. she tries to tie all of them to russia, to trump. it's like an insane version of 6 degrees of kevin bacon. if you saw it on a wall, you would say who is the crazy person who created this? this is the basis for the trump

investigation and the fact that the senior levels of the doj and the fbi were using this material to target a sitting president tells you volumes about the corruption behind the effort to overthrow him. this is insane. >> a simple question. you asked for all of the documents. the communications between bruce ohr and this is mi-6 agent christopher steele after he was gotten rid of by the fbi. bruce ohr is still his pal. has there ever been a u.s. domestic process as interfered with by one foreign national as perpetrated by christopher steele? i don't understand why americans are not mad about that.

>> yes, the involvement of his former colleagues in the united kingom. and the australia government asked about this as well. this is an international conspiracy against the president. ohr and steele were working together and they hire the clinton campaign to push this material. the clinton gang were flooding the zone: the doj, fbi, the state and the wife of a senior justice department official. >> yes. it's an amazing thing. keep digging, tom. lots more to come. thank you very much for that. this is a fox news alert. a gunman shot at least 6 officers in philadelphia. this is a standoff going on right now. senior fox news correspondent rick is on the scene. what is happening?

>> well, we are standing right in the middle of broad street. we are in the north part of the city. the scene is just a couple blocks in that direction. a massive turnout of police here. this standoff has been going on for 4 hours now. there are 6 police officers who have been shot and 3 others who were injured in car crashes. responding to the scene. as far as we know negotiations are on-going with the gunman. a police source just told me the swat team tried to make entry into the location where the suspect had the weapons and has been live streaming as he is shooting at officers at the window and through the ceiling to officers pinned down upstairs. the swat team had to retreat because of the heavy gunfire coming from the suspect who is armed with an ar-15 as well as several hand guns. i am also told a girlfriend is

involved in these on-going negotiations trying to talk him down or talk him out. he has fired by some reports at least 100 rounds. the situation continues here in philadelphia. >> it sounds like they have bullets coming through the walls and the floors and the ceiling. stay on top of that, rick. stick with fox for any updates as the evening goes on. for you at home, what you have been waiting all hour for. tucker carlson making a guest appearance on his own show. that's next. if you live with diabetes, why fingerstick when you can scan? with the freestyle libre 14 day system just scan the sensor with your reader, iphone or android and manage your diabetes. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose levels any time,

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america cost more to attend and teach their students less. at what point should americans stop paying for worthless garbage degrees from schools that function as social engineering propaganda meals. tucker sat down to ask that question of adam corola. here's tucker. >> so your kids are about to turn 13. college is not that far from now. are you happy at the prospect of sending them to college or no? >> no, i am not. especially with the cost of college. also i don't know what they will learn in colleges these days. it seems weird to me they need to be shipped off somewhere to go to college. that's a weird concept to me. with all of the information in the world at your finger tips on your smart phone, the idea you will get in a plane and go across the country and go into a

brick and mortar building. you think about colleges: are there older buildings in the country than the colleges campuses? look, i grew up in north hollywood. the oldest building was a k-mart from 1974. you go to harvard or yale or princeton, the buildings are 300 years old. those are the oldest structures physically in our land. the notion we will send them there to have their brains sort of scrambled by a bunch of people who could not cut it in the private sector doesn't make sense. >> you got to the heart of it. all human information resides on this device in your pocket but we put them on a plane and pay $70,000 to send them someplace. maybe it's not acquiring knowledge. what is the point?

>> the notion -- knowledge part is null and void. you can quinch your thirst for knowledge about any subject on the computer. then it becomes about what about experience and social interaction experience? i would say drop them off at a business and let them be what they called me on the construction site -- the low man on the totem pole. can we say low man anymore? >> no. >> low -- i don't want to use a perjorative here. >> i don't know the answer the the pronoun is they. >> a low they. not on the totem pole because that's culture. low they on the barber pole? on the flag pole? >> definitely not on the flag

pole. >> low they on the telephone pole. let them learn to work. >> do we dare do that? i am with you 100%. i don't notice a lot of parents in our world who can pay for college, i don't notice them doing that. >> this notion of you are the first person to go to college in our family. isn't that a bygone era. people in my family went to college. i didn't go to college. i am vastly more successful than everyone in my family. dad -- where is dad? >> [laughing]. >> i am insanely more successful than everyone who went to college. you are talking to the wrong cat. my thing is get to work. work early and work often and get a job and see if you can better yourself along the way. the notion of dropping them off somewhere in a time when we made the concession there is no more brick and mortar anymore. you can buy a boat on the

internet. everything -- there is no more brick and mortar. why is the last thing from 300 years ago? >> has anybody provided a good answer to that question? >> no, the notion of college is when we grew up. you went out to breakfast which they put parsley by the side of the plate. why? that's what you do. does anyone want the parsley? no. that's what you do. at some point in 1988 the parsley went away. nobody was outraged. nobody went where is the parsley? how am i supposed to enjoy this with no parsley? it went away and nobody knew it. i feel like we could do that with college. if you want to be a doctor or

oral surgeon, we know those caveats. you need training and the sciences -- engineering. but for the humanities and general education, that's the parsley by the side of the plate. >> do you think -- so your kids will go off if they follow the normal script in 5 years. do you think 5 years from now we will have reached the point where they will say i am not that interested? i want to go work? >> i think my daughter who is more interested in the social experience will want to go. i think my son who is a little more brass tacks will see there is not that much benefit and kick it around for 4 years and build-up debt. i think my daughter will want to have the social experience. why wouldn't you? it's like a festival for 4 years

if it worked. the fire festival. >> and better accommodations. >> every rich slacker out. there the idea of going and parties and formals and soreorities and protesting against ben shapiro it sounds fantastic. >> you think your son will take a pass on protesting? >> i think he will be on ben's shoulder's with a bamboo stick swatting at antifa. >> how much of this system which you have devastated, it is the parsley on the plate. wanted and needed by nobody. how much persists because of the social anxiety of the upper middle-class parents? >> as we have learned from the usc and lori loughlin scandal

it's the narcissism of the parents projecting it on the kids. they want to explain that little dakota is off to stanford and jade is headed to usc. it's more about them. my feeling is that's very dangerous territory in any facet of life when you start becoming your kid and start getting reflective glory off of what your kids have done. there is a sports version of that is scary. there is a scholastic version that is scary. they are 18 and they are adults. they can fight in wars. don't make where they end up about you and what you talk abouta the cocktail parties. >> exactly. thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> a quarter million dollars for an opportunity to protest ben shapiro. that's a deal. take that.

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campaign trail in 2016, safe to say the president can have a lot of fun with how his rivals eat,t salivating, if you'll pardon the expression, while surveying the democratic field. the democrats have become the party of smog, coastal elite is him, and everything it comes with. with food, that makes them the party of veganism, artisanal arugula on the bed of even more artisanal arugula, and paying $27 for a meal. let them eat kale, as marie antoinette actually said before they misquoted her. cutting edge democrats want taxes on meat and want humans to eat bugs for the sake of lowering sea levels in the maldives in the year 2200. almost every democrat over 35 and holding office is running for president, to become president, those democrats have to go to iowa and try fitting in with the proletarian masses and

their grotesque appetites, and that means visiting the iowa state fair to each state fair food. bill de blasio tried to ban hot dogs from all city establishments in new york, but in des moines, he has to pretend to look happy chowing down on a corn dog. kamala harris tweeted out a photo of her eating a pork chop, and then promptly made up for it with a follow-up tweet commemorating a muslim, pork-free holiday. andrew yang walking around with a giant turkey leg, the turkey leg is actually out-pulling him in iowa. these are the states the democrats have gone to, maybe they can throw in one of those come along with $1,000 a month he wants to give every american. everyone in d.c. and new york city is eating expensive, handcrafted italian gelato, but in iowa, kirsten gillibrand had to make do with plain, old, ordinary

ice cream. pete buttigieg had the wildest time of all over the course of four hours, he chowed down on a pork chop, a fried bacon bulk blt, a root beer float, and, of course, several fried oreos. cory booker refused to compromise on his vegan principles, so he stayed away from all of the pork and turkey, and instead contented himself with a deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. of course, as soon as the caucuses are over, democrats will go back and try to get americans to eat soybeans and silkworms. not too bad, actually, if you deep fry them. some of them will get rich appeared al gore is the single biggest investor in the meat sue company beyond meat. the publisher of the excellent climate -- author of the politically incorrect guide to climate change, and he joins us now. al gore is basically online to become the world's first

post-meet billionaire. >> yes, i call it the first fake meat millionaire. he is invested, like he did -- you go back before president obama is elected, al gore came out with a list of green tech firms and companies that people should invest in. obama puts $2.514 billion of those 14 firms get federal money from obama. fast forward, this year, al gore invests in the fake meat substitute, made up 22 and ingredients including bamboo and potato starch, and now it is the most successful ipo at the same times his associates are writing reports condemning meat and climate. he is essentially lobbying for regulations that will enrich him once again. >> mark: had a lady talking about this the other night, she wants evan to switch from eating meat burgers to these beyond meat burgers. they have two burgers for a

book, $0.50 apiece, but the beyond meat berger is $17, so al gore is getting a nice royalty on those beyond meat burgers. speak with a democrat wins the white house, there is going to be a whole fake meat stimulus. the most successful ipo in 2019 thus far was timed on the eve of this big u.n. report appeared al gore, steeped in politics, regulatory powers, involved in this ipo with his company investment, and then it explodes. now you have the world talking about meat regulation for the u.n. chief himself said the successful u.n. agreement will result in skyrocketing meat costs. that's what they want to do. so what's the alternative? pea protein, that is what is in this al gore burger, made out of all kinds of weird ingredients like that. >> mark: okay. i don't think i'm going to have one after the show. have a regular burger with me. that is about it for us tonight.

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