>> martha: that is the friday of august 23, 2019. but always as an outcome of the story goes on and on. we will see you back your monday night at 7:00. have a great week and everybody. it tucker carlson is up next. is the musical ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special inside the issues addition of "tucker carlson tonight." we want to open with less than breaking news. this is not a fox news alert. i was go, congressman seth malden of massachusetts dropped out of the race for the democratic nomination. if you've never heard of seth moulton? dorgan menomini have. he served in the united states rinker new york four times but other than that he hasn't done much other than that collecting useless culture gaze and running for office. what's interesting is what he's being forced to drop out of the race today. by any sane standards, walton is a thoroughly liberal democrat. on every issue.

he's more left-wing then barack obama was on the day he left office. three years ago, he would be considered a liberal firebrand. not anymore. boy the lunatic standards of the modern democratic party, seth moulton is now a flaming moderate and that's the kiss of death. moderates are not welcome in the democratic party any longer. watch what happens for example at the last debate when congressman kim ryan of ohio urged his fellow liberals to take a practical considerations into account. they treated him like a man with an infectious disease. watch this. >> 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've talked about giving free health care to undocumented workers when so many americans are struggling to pay for their health care. i quite frankly don't think that that is an agenda that we can move forward on and when did we got to talk about the working class issues that. the people to take a shower afterward who haven't had a raise in 30 years.

if we focus on that, we can win the election. >> not a lot of applause for that. then one form is congressman john delaney tried to encourage his party to restrict its ambitions to the physically possible, elizabeth warren ordered him to be banished from wonderland forever. >> i think democrats win when we run on real solutions on impossible promises but when we run on things that are workable, not fairy tale economics. because you know, i don't understand why anybody go through all the trouble of running for president of the united states just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for. i don't get that. >> tucker: you and your reality-based ideas. how dare you! begun. demented, obviously, but as a political matter, it has been highly effective. when he dropped out today, congressman moulton noted that quote, it's evident this is now a three-way race between biden

and warren and sanders and really it's a debate about how far left the party should go. except, there isn't really a debate. the farthest left candidates are winning of the nearly 20 people in the field, only biden, warren, and sanders can muster more than 10% of support. which in fact makes it a two-person race if we are going to be honest about it and why wouldn't we be? biden may be a decent person but he's fading. he says with things a lot and he did it again today in new hampshire. listen to this. >> my senior semester they were both shot and killed. imagine what what happened if god forbid barack obama had been assassinated after becoming a defective nominee. what would've happened in america? >> tucker: imagine that you are biden's clinical director sitting offstage and all of a sudden he wanders into unscripted territory and says imagine the assassination of

barack obama. you've got your head in your hands and frequently at texting reporters try to get them to deemphasize a peerless balance, this is not an attack on joe biden get he's knocking to be the nominee. he's not can be the president did i mean, seriously. he is not. so the actual race comes down to warren and sanders. sanders. competing visions of how to achieve the same socialist fantasy. warren's promising reparations based on skin color. that's popular. sanders wants a government takeover of the entire energy sector. okay. they will be working to out crazy each other for the next six months. that is a dynamic and guaranteed to produce yet more extremism. and it has some democratic leaders worried. yesterday for example, the dnc voted on a proposal to hold the debate focused exclusively on climate change. why would they do that? well, because the solutions the candidates would promise live on television are insane. spend $16 trillion, then airplanes, seize control of the

entire u.s. economy. okay. the trust of rian's love stuff like that. normal people find it terrifying. even the party hacks here in d.c. don't like it and that's probably a complement honestly. you really think nancy pelosi believes climate change is an existential crisis? of course she doesn't think that. plus, she flies private peer barack obama can say whatever he wants about carbon emissions, shook his chin come and be very concerned but when you are spending 15 million of your own dollars on a beachfront date in martha's vineyard, you are not too worried about the oceans rising where the problem is, the democratic base doesn't get the joke. democratic primary voters believe the talking points. and very soon, they will be powerful enough to nominate their own presidential candidate. and when that happens, it's gonna be a very different party. david jeffrey is an old-fashioned kind democrat. he's a lawyer and former obama campaign advisor and he joins us tonight. so, david.

you're not gonna put this on tv but i think -- let's just stipulate that it's very likely that joe biden is lucky to be a likely nominee. you have the other two, the only one that's were getting real poll numbers. are on the record supporting a series of proposal, maybe there -- but they're really unpopular. ray space, restitution, reparations, i mean, nobody's for that. i could get down the list. i don't think these guys can get elected on the stuff. do you? >> ? for as well, i don't agree with you about joe biden. he is the front runner. i think a lot of things are gonna happen between now and the primaries and then going through the primaries, anything can happen. one thing to make clear to your audience is that the issues the

voters care most about like health care, gun control and abortion actually all of the democratic candidates basically agree and they are more in line with that the majority of voters than tron. if you look at the recent polling, even a news poll from last week, from last week, shows that 50% of the electric favor and assault weapons ban and dros against it. >> tucker: here's what they don't favorably let me just first day biden, i think is a total hollow person and will say anything and has no moral beliefs but i think his temperament is basically moderate. i think he likes other people. i like that about joe martin. i'm not attacking him for ideological reasons. i just think that he's flaky and getting flaky here. i think you don't i'm talking about and i really just don't think that anybody really believes he's going to be the nominee so there's that. second, on gun control and abortion, most people say yeah come on for gun control, i'm pro-choice, but the democratic candidates have come out for taxpayer financed abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy and this come out on the gun question in favor of forced gun grabs, like hops showing up your house and sing give me a gun.

they are on the record saying that. people don't support those things where that's too far. that's too radical. and you know it. >> welcome i don't know which candidates are talking about right now. the eight to ten candidates that actually have a chance to win do not support radical positions like that. >> tucker: that's not true, every single one of them supports taxpayer-funded abortion through the third trimester of pregnancy. >> no, no. they supports taxpayer-funded abortion according to roe vs. wade. >> tucker: hold on, is there a single candidate -- no, you're wrong there and i'm sorry. >> roe vs. wade makes clear that you can regulate state-funded abortion in the third trimester. >> tucker: i know it abortion is but i'm just asking is there a single candidate running right now of biden, warren, and bernie sanders come of those three, the only three getting over 10% in the polls, any of those supports restricting

abortion at any time in any trimester and restricting federal funding for it at any time. and the answer is no and the point is, that's what it so far out of the mainstream it's unbelievable. they'll support all of them giving free health care to illegal aliens but what percentage of the population supports that question mike >> biden is not trying to change roe vs. wade in roe vs. wade makes clear that states can regulate abortion in the third trimester bridge so you're wrong. he does allow and support those states that is decided to regulate it which almost all of them have for the third trimester. now, with respect to the fact that -- you keep saying that if someone kind of quote on pollution that sanders and warren are going to enter it at some point not true. the top person is biden and there are several others who are more moderate than sanders and warren who also have a good chance of getting hot, catching fire, and -- >> tucker: that's not true. we are so far away from the primary still. we will see. look, i want a moderate person in the race but i don't want

crazy people on the stage. but i'm not in control and neither are you. anyway, we are out of time. >> i would just say the trumpets -- there's a lot of fatigue for trump and if the democrats put up a moderate candidate they likely will win. >> tucker: they have a decent chance with a moderate, no chance with a socialist. good to see david. thank you. bernie sanders already known for being a hard-liner and now he's proving his credentials on both global warming. his million ounce climate plan says that the government federal government is going to take over the entire energy sector sector. one fit of the economy. watch desperate >> we need to do is have an aggressive federal government saying that we are going to produce a massive amout of electricity from wind and otr sustainable energies and we will travel it out and by the way, we are going to make money doing that but you can't nibble around the edges anymore but we have to transform our energy system. that means a massive increase in sustainable energy. >> tucker: this guy literally knows nothing about energy.

helen carr is in a radio host, he dresses to napier at holly, the plan that he is headlining is that in any normal year, it would be considered the most radical thing any presidential candidate has ever proposed from the founding of the double president day and yet in this environment, it's gone without notice. what exactly is he calling for? >> as you said come he's calling for the nationalization of the energy industry and, you know, remember barack obama said that we can't drill our way out of this. well, we have drilled our way out of it and, you know, if we want to prove barack obama right in retrospect, we will nationalize the energy industry and then we won't be able to get our way out of a pure look at venezuela. once a prosperous country, one of the world's leading exporters of oil, more oil in the ground than saudi arabia. now they not only export much oil it all but they have a black out all the time.

i mean, that's bernie sanders view. look, he got called out by a college kid yesterday in chico, california. the kid said will look, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and bernie got all huffy as he did with martha mcconnell a couple months ago. he said well come on and i want to, why don't -- what he would have to i have to walk? pointed out, -- >> tucker: why doesn't he fly commercial by the way like everyone else feel like i do. how can you call for other people to make deep sacrifices in the way they lives and their standard of living and the way they keep their homes for example and you are flying private? how does that work? >> look at leonardo dicaprio peer look at these conferences and topples to save the world. you know, you mentioned barack obama blinded beachfront mansion on martha's vineyard for 15 million pit how much do you really think is a problem, i mean what about al gore on the west coast?

he bought the place in montecito a decade ago. he obviously doesn't think there's a problem. i don't think they want to debate on climate change because it's a loser issue. i mean, jay enzi was the climate change candidate and he dropped out of the fight. people understand this and if you give in, on climate change and have a debate, i mean, what's next course mark of the going have debate on abortion or repealing the second amendment? or do they want to talk about genders? you know, msnbc, you probably saw this, one of the host today said that it's incendiary to say that there are just two genders. joe biden said there are three genders dependent on the facebook page you go to, there are eight, 773. the democrats want to have a debate on how many genders there are. >> tucker: it would be nice to get a coalition of high school biology teachers. you know and i question mike to kind of stand up and stand up for silence, please. >> is it subtle silence?

not the democratic party. we want a brilliant snob. great to see you. leaked emails made it clear that the 2016 democratic primary was rigged against bernie sanders and in favor of hillary clinton. now it's looking like the 2020 race might have similar problems. tulsi gabbard has logged at least 2% in several dozen poles but the dnc does not want her on the debate stage and they are claiming now that those poles are not certified poles so garber likely won't make the next round of the primary debates. michael tracy has been following this from the very beginning gritty joints tonight. so, i don't know exactly how many of our viewers are going to vote for tulsi gabbard, probably none. but we can all agree that tulsi gabbard is a valuable voice and we should hear from tulsi gabbard. and it seems to me, i do want to be paranoid, but it sounds like the democratic party, they don't want her voice included. am i being a conspiracy person?

>> you might be surprise, she does tend to generate actually a somewhat significant among even conservatives and libertarians notwithstanding the fact that she has a fairly straightforward left-wing policy agenda but she has something about her, i don't know, ambience that draws an idiosyncratic range of support from across the spectrum and i think that has robbed certain people the wrong way. i'm not gonna allege a conspiracy as to why she is likely to be excluded from the next debate but i am going to allege that the criteria to the dnc is using to determine who is included and who is excluded is laughably arbitrary. as i mentioned in an article that i wrote this week and a real clear politics, gabbard has gotten over the required bulling threshold in two separate poles and two separate early primary states. "the boston globe" as a newspaper with the widest circulation in new hampshire and the post and courier is the newspaper with the wildest

circulation in. gabbard has got her place at 2% or more in both published by those two newspapers but the dnc and its bizarre mysterious infinite wisdom has decreed again arbitrarily that those poles are not approved. they are not, you know, they don't satisfy some weird criteria that that nobody can quite ascertain so while i'm not going to allege an overt conspiracy although it's true that everybody from dawn of a zero two elizabeth warren allege that the previous primary cycle was quote, rigged. but, you'd be forgiven for having that impression given how obscure and sort of inscrutable the criteria that the dnc is using this time around to it i'm not saying that sulci should necessarily have special privileges or that the rules weren't laid out a month ago which they were about the rules don't seem to hold up to any kind of logical scrutiny. that's the problem.

>> tucker: and we know for a fact they despise her because she's challenged their neoconservative assumptions about foreign policy and god bless her for doing that. michael, thanks roach much for joining us tonight. good to see you. we learn today that there is a supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been diagnosed with another occurrence of pancreatic cancer. ginsburg is 86 years old. last december, she was treated for lung cancer. ginsburg is an impressively tough person. we wish her the best and hope for her recovery. at the same time though, we are hoping for the nation's recovery as well. today is another reminder that ruth bader ginsburg won't always be on the supreme court. and we fear that her exit, whenever it comes, will unleash yet another wave of hate, threats, and cruelty from the institutional left. it's been less than a year since it happened the last time. progressives then were willing to destroy any reputation, any institution, any human life to prevent preserving their grasp

on political power. they have the entire country houses with a mixture of insanity. we can't survive repeated outbreaks like that. here's hoping that this time our friends on the left can take a deep breath and calm down. yes, everyone wants political power, we understand. what a supreme court seat is not worth destroying the country. while, the ceo of overstock.com, patrick byrne, just gave one of the wildest interviews in the history of this channel. martha maccallum talk to him and she joins us to listen and discuss what happened and what it meant. it's really interesting story. and then, seen and spent two years pushing the russia collusion hoax. now they've hired one of its chief perpetrators as a contributor. a proven liar. tell us the truth. all right. we will tell you when and why and what, next. ♪

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we'll give you 300 dollars for your time. call now to get your comcast business 10 minute advantage. comcast business. beyond fast. >> tucker: welcome back to our inside the issue special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." overstock.com ceo patrick byrne resigned yesterday from the company he founded after baffling investors with the press release about the american deep state. martha maccallum hosts the story with martha maccallum of course every night, 7:00 p.m. eastern right before the show. she spoke with byrne right after he resigned and it quickly became one of the weirdest things i've ever seen on television. you can judge for yourself. byrne says his relationship with russian national maria butina who is now in prison was a political espionage scam set up by the feds against america's top politicians. he was part of he said. >> see you and help the

government a couple of times, they reach out to you, what did they ask you to do? >> i don't want to go into the nitty-gritty right now. he has what it is. this was all political espionage conducted against hillary clinton, rubio, cruz, and trauma. this is not a theory of mind. i was in the room when it happens. i was part of it. >> tucker: so further on he saw that his handler and his operation was none other than the disgraced fbi official, peter strzok. watch this. >> the men in black as i called them it showed up and ask for this third favor and anyway, i'm not going into the details right now but i didn't know was that the orders but i did then last summer watching television and here's the punch line. here's the punch line people. last summer watching television and some congressional hearings i figured out where those orders came from. it came from a guy named peter strzok.

and carlin, mccabe, call me, that was who sent the orders. >> you are naming a bunch of fbi people there. >> all, it has been confirmed to me that my injections came from peter strzok. >> tucker: he constantly predicted that the story that he is explaining what exposed to jim comey any ends, too. >> peter strzok would watch the snow down and say that he's full of it. i haven't no idea about anything that he is talking about, i would imagine. >> he will get i can tell you. peter strzok, you want to see a former director his pants? part of me. go stick a television camera on peter strzok or let's just say james comey and let's say the name patrick byrne pretty will see a former director of the fbi his pants. >> tucker: want to make of all of this? we can dismiss out of hand and

say he is crazy but maybe we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand, actually paired we talked to martha maccallum about it just moments ago. he is the conversation. >> tucker: eggs are coming on to name like everyone in america, i watch that interview. you'd do just spelled out and i'm not exactly sure what to make of it so i'm grateful that you are here to tell us your impressions. what'd you you think? >> you know, it was a surprising interview. it's a very surprising story. but i had spoken to you a couple sources that are close to the investigation who said that it's possible that he may be telling the that you had created that sort of the way that they are looking at it at this point. he turned over all of his tax and documents and emails to the justice department of that investigation back in april. he met with them twice back in april 5th and april 30th. there is at least enough of the seed of a threat there that they are hearing him out. he says this is the key to everything. he says i was there, i saw what happened, and basically he is

suggesting that what he thought he was a part of, he said he has worked as an asset for the federal government a couple times before on things just to be hopeful and when they reach out to him this time he thought he was doing the same thing but he said it became very clear to them at that after some point it was on a law enforcement issue but it's a political espionage issue and that's when he says, you know, his feelings about the whole thing started to turn. that being said, you know, andrew mccabe has responded, james comey has respond, they say they've never heard of him and that nothing about the weight of what he described is the way that things happened in this investigation so there you have it. >> tucker: so he does a pretty good imitation of a delusional man. i mean, that was my instinct washing it. but the allegations he's making are some of them are general others are specific and very serious and so you would imagine that the agencies involved would immediately shoot it down but you said you have spoken to

high-level sources who haven't shut it down. >> yeah, you know, and i think the way to describe it is that they are saying that you know, he may be time the truth. there may be something there. i don't know for sure. this is obviously part of an ongoing investigation, john drums investigation, and we will see if anything comes of it from there but he claimed when we spoke last night that he claims that bellmawr is going to uncover what he says of the greatest american political scandal of all time and keep in mind that what we have been going program for the past two years with the mueller investigation was one side of this investigation but the other side and he and origins of the investigation is just beginning to read he also says i'm not the only one who was involved in this, was an asset that was a part of this and i also think that there is enough kind of mention out there surrounding this investigation that there is a belief that it wasn't just carter page and the phis application. it's that if there was this kind of attempt, this kind of effort to sprinkle some scandal around and see where it would land and see if they could find on things are connected to president trump, an insurance policy if you will, it was likely that they would try it in

an effort number of different places. do an extra say not. so we do know, it has been confirmed that he did have a relationship, a romantic relationship with the russian woman now in jail who was expose its bite. in his allegations, he was asked by the feds to have that relationship. is that right question mexico will come he says he met her on his own and then they began becoming interested in her because she was a rush in and in the united states and she was interested in meeting up with olivia's political types but he says camino, then they started encouraging the relationship and he claimed on another interview that they told him to go back and re-it initiates an intimate relationship with her but here's where things are fuzzy because he said to me i never touched her, we were close friends, he says he respected her, he thinks that she is a very smart person but one civic claim clear that she was looking for ways to connect with the trump administration, she mentioned he said donald trump jr. wanting to

connect and meet with him and that she sort of moved away completely from wanting to investigate the democratic side of the equation. he said about a third of them believe that there was deftly something that was up with this relationship and with her. >> tucker: what a story. what an unbelievable story. >> it is coming out? >> tucker: it turns out it may be as your reporting suggest, it's possible that some of this is a rail which i guess shouldn't surprise us. for gaia, it's interesting that andrew mccabe says some of what he describes is not the way we do things and then he went on to say, you know, i don't know, i've never heard of him before a few days ago. so we will see where it leads. sku on martha, that was great. great interview. thank you so much for coming onto napier great to see you. well, former and asking asking fbi director andrew mccabe disgrace himself may be more than any other single person during the two years of the russian collusion hysteria. the hoax but he was one of the perpetrators of that hoax.

as recently as last february come he was suggesting in my falluja vision interviews of the president of united states might be a russian spy. at the time, we noted this. americans put a lot of trust on the fbi, they had no choice, it's our top law enforcement agency. fbi officials are supposed to be adults, supposed to be immune to hysteria and fads and above all, and the into political pressure. and when it comes to russia, andy mccabe sounds worse than any cnn anchor. not to brag but that was a precious observation as of today, andy mccabe is literally a paid cnn contributor. joe concha writes about media for the hill, he joins us tonight. so joe, the question is, andrew mccabe is a liar. he was fired for lying from the fbi. did cnn hire him in spite of that her because of? >> i think it shows that this is now strictly more of a business

then anything about journalism. it seems that the question now is, okay, are you in a position of power kush michael kay. here's your stage. go ahead, go on. look at michael avenatti. he got on cable news hundreds of times for the small span because he hated the president and spoke about politics and even russia when he wasn't qualified to do it and what's mccabe by the way? he lied under oath three times to the fbi as you said, told anderson cooper that the president was a russian asset so think about this. if you lie to the fbi and we are applying the michael flynn standard here in terms of sentencing and going to jail, andrew mccabe shouldn't be on cnn. he should be in jail because he's committed the same crime that michael flynn has but instead, he will go ahead and you will see him on cable news and it's a complete a service to cnn viewers where their integrity is going down for lack of a better term a black hole.

>> tucker: cnn this morning suggested that he had been wrong to because he was fired two days before his pension was to be investigated. ending, it's -- shame has no role there. goat joe concha, it's great to see you tonight good thank you. have a great weekend. no place in america welcomes more illegal aliens then merrill lynch. now, it two illegal immigrants have been arrested for rating an 11-year-old girl. that story as next as our special continues. it is good news: (woman) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right

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>> tucker: welcome back to our inside the issues special. the bureau of justice statistics just released a new report showing that noncitizens have dramatically increased as a portion of federal arrests. in 1998, for eczema, 37% of all federal arrests were of noncitizens. laster, noncitizens had risen to 64% of all people arrested by the feds. again, 64% of everyone of the

federal law enforcement officials arrest as a non-american. amazing. overall, the raw number of noncitizens getting arrested more than tripled despite being just 7% of the country's population. at least officially. noncitizens are 24% of direct federal drug arrest, 28% of front arrest, and 15% of all prosecutions in the u.s. district court for nonimmigration arrest rates of the next time i nhl um grads are more law abiding that we are, they are lying. of course they're lying here they are always line for there to fling lying about that. so it's easy to have this data remain abstract though until it actually affects where you live. montgomery county, maryland, is a place that is been affected. it's a place that's gone all over itself to accept illegal aliens. now two illegal immigrants have been arrested for rating an 11-year-old goal. one of the purposes perpetrators or fry files an order for removal. he was never deported. a host of wma radio here in

washington, d.c., and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. so it sounds like there have been quite a few alleged sexual assaults by noncitizens recently. >> yes. particularly montgomery county america. one of the richest places in the entire country and it's right here 20 miles away from where we are sitting right now and this county has been dominated by the is illegal immigrate rates over the last month. we are for ella megan illegal immigrant's at that have been an montgomery county, maryland. now what makes my karma county unique is that it's a central county they don't like helping the feds with illegal immigrants for it when they'd take a look and illegal immigrant into custody, and could do ones that have detained is by the federal government, they don't tell them here they won't let them know. and parts come in just the past me, we had an illegal immigrant who committed a rate allegedly against a woman when she was blackout drunk had they taken into custody, he has since been released on bond and they never turn him over to i.c.e. >> tucker: that's unbelievable he had so this is --

we've seen other examples but i'm not sure we seen a concentration this intense of ways that ordinary americans are being hurts physically by the political imperatives of the left. >> the irony of this is just not americans that are being hurt, it's also illegal immigrants were being victimized by the people that are committing these. we are finding is disproportionally the people were impacted by this are often on the same immigrant communities so the counting is negative is a man named mike eldridge. he had stomped on preheating so trump and i.c.e. are committing acts of terrorism by enforcing the law. he said he brings fear to the community. welcome i got to say, mr. county executive, what brings fear to the community more, enforcing a liminal illegal immigration laws or allowing to be released into that community so they can commt crimes again? >> tucker: has anyone noted this to them to him? >> well, what's interesting is the story of the 11-year-old who

was were brutally by two illegal immigrants, it was radio silence from montgomery county leaders. they know how bad it is for the signs of their leadership and in fact, they were partying on the beach in merrill lynch in ocean city, maryland, during this period having a conference refusing to respond to any media requests. it was over 24 hours later, the first response came from a county spokesman and blame the federal government for the fact that these illegals committed these crimes. they said it's their responsibility to enforce federal immigration law. they should've done it. if they would have it, this wouldn't have happened. >> tucker: that's unbelievable. mann, county residents are furious. they are absolutely livid. and they are not the only ones. they don't know what the rules are put in there and are not supposed to talk to i.c.e. you are montgomery county leaders are so consumed with self-loathing over all of this and trying to get us out of the way that they have told the cops, well, you can actually contact i.c.e. in the case of severe crimes but what that

means is totally opaque. not clear at all to local law enforcement officials and they say these guys, these leaders are making up the rules as they go along. >> tucker: a little late for the children aboard being. it quickly, with the name of the county executive again? >> mark eldridge. he's a montgomery county executive and is at the center of all of this chaos. he hates donald trump more than he likes his own residence. >> tucker: yeah, well, he's not the only one. then colonies, thank you for the report. president trump just escalated the trade war with china. can the u.s. when that work? that's next is our special continues. it is good musical ♪

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>> tucker: welcome back to our inside these issues special. the trade war with china just became a lot more in science. earlier today china announced new tariffs on $75 billion worth of american goods. as i have been, president was spotted on twitter and announced a 5% increase on tariffs other than $550 billion of chinese goods. author of the book china threats. gordon, thanks a lot for coming on. here's the obvious thought. trump is the first president in my lifetime to challenge china in this way on trade for the chinese don't like it. they have an opportunity to hurt the american economy going into a presidential election thereby getting rid of trumpet why won't they do that? >> of course they would try to do that and i think that's what they are trying to do right now with these tariffs and also retaliating against u.s. companies. but tucker, the whole thing about this is that they are

running out of bullets. first of all, they sell us a lot more than we sold them. also, you know, they can go after u.s. companies in china but the problem is, they then undercut their reputation for being a reliable number of global supply chains and that's what made china rise. getting factories into china good now, they are pushing factories out of china and that's really bad news for the chinese communist system. >> tucker: but maybe that's the key to it. it is a condiments system and it's not a democracy and if leaders can absorb a lot more pain than our leaders can, becae they are not accountable to voters, they can kind of do what they want to does not give them an advantage in the short-term question mike stickel gives them a little bit of advantage but you know, we haven president trump show so much more clinical will then xi jinping and by the way, xi jinping of course doesn't haa formal election coming up like president trump does next november but xi jinping actually has an election every day. remember he is now totally

accountable because he took power from everybody else. also, he is the institutionalized communist party which means you know longer has those rules that protect him so i think he has a very low threshold for risk ande vulnerable than president trump's. president trump can lose the election, cheating pink can actually lose his life. >> tucker: that's a smart plan. what's the next step in this point that you anticipate question mike >> more tears, more tears, more tears bid the chinese are supposed to come to washington next month for the 13th round of negotiations but like the 12th round, those were not important. those were like an hour or so, they were in shanghai, they were just talking points. i think that if the chinese actually do come to d.c. next month, it's going to be basically the same thing. the chinese need to hurt a little bit more become before they become realistic but xi jinping right now is it a point where he can avoid to compromise so i see more friction ahead. >> tucker: interesting.

do you think that the chinese will be willing to damage the u.s. economy? >> yes. i mean audi have tried to do that, they will continue to do that. that's the only thing they can do is try to affect the american electorate but you know, people in the united states are now starting to see how the line china is and they are starting to rally behind the president. not everyone agrees with what the president is doing but i think everyone agrees with his goals and that is really important. that's the first step to getting a unified country. >> tucker: i think a lot of people in washington side with china and missed his people to think outside of washington, i think you are right. gordon chang, thank you, you are such an assessor of this. thank you. it's friday it so it's time for the dan bongino news explosion. our favorite former secret service angel enjoins us ahead with his stop top stories of the week. next. ♪

>> tucker: it's friday so of course we want to cap off the week as we always deal with a dan bongino news explosion. our former new york city cop is here with a rapid rundown of the top stories from the past week. dan bongino, the ladies and shuttle men. >> always good to see. i have my three phase for the week. new stories for the start with number three. oh, boy, is this a doozy. listen, there's no better way to establish credibility as a news now is when you promoted the collusion hoax for two years. and then to hire the guy who basically has been investigatedt the collusion hoax for about two plus years. cnn income in case you missed her today, hired annie mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi. you know, tucker, i wonder who went into the room with a focus group at cnn and said yes, this is a great idea. let's hire this guy. we -- i mean, i get a come only ten people in this airport actually

watch cnn but still, not the best move towards getting your credibility back. i'm not crazy, right question mike probably not the best guide. just throwing that out there. >> tucker: a guy that just got fired for lying about 20 minutes ago? yeah, probably not. >> and he takes shots at us question mike it's hysterical. i love it. moving on. we can't go a week without a bill de blasio story. of course, socialist mayor of new york bill de blasio who had a little bit of a mishap. he was supposed to make it to this union meeting to give a speech and his flight was canceled so he decided to remote end but there was a little bit of an issue with his voice. check this out. this is kind of hysterical. >> i guarantee you working people like every industrial country in america, i guarantee people by law, paid vacation, every year. yes. that is now -- listen, bill is holding steady at 0%.

he is hanging in there. he is holding a study zero. don't worry. i know you are a big fan of bill de blasio here there is nothing happening. his campaign is holding rock solid at 0% per talk about a gins campaign. we did not manipulate that by the way for that was the actual voice that came over. there was some kind of a sound bite problem but it was so perfect. >> tucker: every time i hear bill de blasio i think we have a real problem with democracy. i don't know a single person, including liberal democrat, who doesn't think de blasio is lazy, dumb, incompetent, and wrong. there's not one person i've ever met who admires a bill de blasio. i've never met someone who voted for him and yet he is a two-term man. how does that happen? >> the guy gets up at like 8:30, 9:00 in the morning. is that even if it is logically possible after 40? i'm serious. like we were kind of joking like one was the last time you got up at 9:00 a.m. like when he went to sleep at five? does that even happen? like who does that is a normal functioning adult no less than

mayor of new york city? no wonder the guys magically holding at the astounding doughnut of 0% in the polls bridge is phenomenal. all right, my last story, our number one story of the week, joe biden just cannot -- i mean, what a gas machine. it just never stops. we have to object the fox news channel to update for the gas. but this one, i just want to throw this out there. the golden rule of politics, don't ever ask a question you don't know the answer to bridwell, joe biden decided to interview peter doocy at the network and ask them, will come of you seen any bigger crows out there to which peter doocy responded on well, yeah, we hadd like 12,000 people last weekend biden looked totally shell-shocked. don't ask a question you don't know the answer to you. that's the golden rule politics. >> tucker: poor guy. i just -- it just seems like he is fading. >> it is. i almost feel bad for them. i really do. >> tucker: dan bongino, great to see you.

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lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. i will be gone monday and tuesday for a work-related trip that i will be back again on wednesday and i will see you then. have a great weekend. hannity is next. ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of hannity. issues converting america. i'm dan bongino into night for sean. we start with some shocking news to me from the supreme court. after last three weeks, 86-year-old justice ruth bader ginsburg was treated for a malignant tumor on her pancreas. joining us out that more is the full post of fox news tonight also fox news chief legal correspondent, shannon bream's. >> and i we are learning more details about the health talent challenge for the supremes all this court justice. she announced that she has undergone radiation certain therapy in new york for the cancerous tumor and other than ca