not promise. prove. and now during the ultimate sleep number event, save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus 0% interest for 24 months on all smart beds. ends saturday ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for those of you without television sets you should know that today was the third consecutive day of impeachment hearings on capitol hill. how much more can america take. we will get to the side show in just a minute. first up the democratic party still has not decided who is going to challenge donald trump in next fall's presidential election. the field of 2020 candidates is one of the largest in history. pretty much everybody seems to be running from the former vice president of the united states to some guy who is literally the mayor of south bend. in case you are wondering is the fourth biggest city in indiana. smaller than evansville slightly larger than caramel that guy is running for president. there are are an awful lot

of people running in this race. range strikingly narrow. everyone is pretty much supposed to have the same views on everything. anybody to dissents a little bit is denounced as immoral or racist or agent of russia. in other words, the democratic primary race is very much like everything else the left touches. it's strident. it's intolerant almost unbelievably dumb. congresswoman tulsi gabbard of hawaii one of the very few willing to challenge the status quo. she is no conservative she is a liberal. she criticizes her party for becoming pro-war and pro-corporate monopoly. she did it again last night. watch. >> our democratic party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people it is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in washington represented by hillary clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military industrial complex

and other greedy corporate interests. >> tucker: oh. spoken like an old fashioned liberal. there is one left. but things are changed in the rest of the party. talk like this is a threat to the private equity community now the core of the democratic party. so their chief todie kamala harris immediately leapt forth to shut it down. >> i think that it is unfortunate on the stage attempting to the democratic nominee for president of the united states who during the obama administration spent four years full time on fox news criticizing president obama: spent full time criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the democratic party. >> tucker: you often hear democrats claim donald trump divides america. okay. well they want want to unite it one way unite the country speak to everyone who lives in the country. that's literally not

allowed. the left believes it's wrong to talk to people you disagree with. which is why they boycott this channel and this show. over the next hour we will have more clips from last night's debate we can tell you now the most important things were never mentioned. one word for example nobody mentioned last night was suicide. suicide was risen by more than a third since 1999. life expectancy wasn't mentioned either. dropping the last three years. illegal drugs only mentioned when they told us the war on drugs is racist and marijuana needs to be legalized. rest of it ignored. prescription drug companies were attacked but only charging too much for their products not for getting americans hooked on opioids, the drugs that have fueled the waive of deadliest overdose. 70,000. not mentioned. democrats did talk about inequality. everything for them is in racial terms. of course. some groups are well off because of their skin color they told us while others are not. they are oppressed. america is a racist country they argued again and again

and again. the truth, if you live here, is that opportunity in america is vanishing for almost everyone of all colors. in 1970, for example, 9% of 30-year-olds made more money than their parents had at that age. in 2014, only half did. those are actual numbers. that tell you a lot. they are not race-based numbers. they are numbers that tell you that the american dream is in peril. add to that far higher debt levels and most young people in the end are economically worse off than their parents were at the exact same age. so, opportunity is in decline. and that's a huge problem. there are a lot of reasons for it. one is this. big business support open borders for the rest of the world in order to keep wages down. we don't even know how many illegal immigrants live in this country. we can't even guess to within the nearest million. the best guest as of right now is about 22 million people. tens of thousands more

arrive every month. democrats don't want to talk about this. last night they never mentioned fixing it. in fact they pledged to tear down border walls we already have. can you imagine? instead of helping young americans to have the families they say they want and young people say they want to have families but can't afford it, no democrat addressed that instead elizabeth warren talked about expanding abortion as a quote economic right. and that really does he sort of of sums up perfectly the 2020 democratic party. you are poorer and sadder than your parents were but abortion is free. hope you are psyched about that. lisa booth joins us tonight with highlights, if you can call them that from last night's democratic debate. >> lisa: hi, tucker. >> tucker: bless you for doing it. >> thank you. i hope there is maybe some extra pay involved with that. [laughter] >> tucker: your award is in heaven, lisa booth. what did you find last night? >> it's interesting. you pointed out that exchange between representative gabbard and kamala harris.

the establishment hates gabbard because she had stepped down from that vice chairmanship from the dnc in 2016 and endorsed bernie sanders, the antiestablishment candidate. and right now what we are seeing in the democrat party is really a party trying to find itself and figure out what direction the party is going to go in. just the mere fact that there are so many candidates that are running for the nomination right now is an indication, underscores that divide. and so that wasn't the only exchange we saw last night in sort of the infighting in the democrat party. we also saw senator booker kind of highlight a generational divide between himself and vice president joe biden. watch this. >> i have a lot of respect for the vice president. he has swore me in to my office as a hero. this week i hear him literally say i don't think we should legalize marijuana. i thought you might have been high when you said it. there are people in congress right now that admit to smoking marijuana. while there are people our kids are in jail right now for those drug crimes. >> try to do a little bit of a joke there. he laughed at his own joke,

which is fair sometimes we all do it. look, the reason why senator booker is going after joe biden on this is you look at legalization for marijuana, almost 70% of democrats support that issue. so joe biden really stands alone on not fully endorsing legalization. we have even seen people like senator harris where you look at her record as a former prosecutor and then you look at where she is now, you know, bragging about previously smoking marijuana. so clearly the party has shift -- has shifted on that issue. but there is also this other exchange that i thought was really. >> tucker: may i just say no surprise when you have shafted young people so completely that they can't even buy cars, because they are so deeply indebt to colleges, which, you know, fund your campaigns which is what happens, you want them to be as high as possible so they don't even know how badly you screwed them. >> that's a good point. well, it's clearly joe biden doesn't want to do that

maybe he should support it then with some of the policies he is putting forth. anyway, there is also this other exchange that i thought was really interested. tom steyer and he is out there last night and he is talking about hey, look, i'm the only one running, my number one priority is climate change on day one i'm going to take action on climate change and then here comes joe biden. >> rachel, i'm the only person on this stage who will say that climate is the number one priority for me. vice president biden won't say it. >> i don't really need kind of a lecture from the -- from my friend while i was passing the first climate change bill, my friend was um, introducing more coal mines and produced more coal around the world, according great britain produces. >> right. so there is this "new york times" investigation and that is what joe biden is referencing. which is quite interesting because tom steyer has made this his number one issue

and it was actually a pretty, you know, well executed political attack, if you will by joe biden. although he did get the facts a little bit wrong. it was consumed that britain consumed versus produced but close enough for him. >> tucker: but it is true that tom steyer got rich in part. >> absolutely. >> tucker: from fossil fuels. it does take boldness path logical denial reality denial for him to run as the climate candidate. >> in fact, annual production for the mines that his hedge fund had invested in increased by, i think, almost 70% or 70 million tons annually. so it was a great increase in terms of the amount of money they put in and what they saw as a result of it. and he got rich from it. >> tucker: yeah. but he gets to lecture you about it. lisa booth. thanks so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: dana perino hosts the briefing with dana perino. one of the most acute political minds in this country. what do you think, dana.

>> one of those things like in a debate falls in a forest is there really a debate. it was very, very low viewership. it was a very boring debate by all accounts. i'm not just saying republicans and democrats all agree it was boring. maybe that's their strategy. hard to remember in history when there was a boring candidate that won the election. and one of these people is going to most likely one of these people will be the nominee to take on the most unboring candidate in recent memory. i would say that i thought amy klobuchar, the senator from minnesota, had her best debate and partly that was because she had more of a chance to talk. and then i also think that cory booker was compelling, he was thoughtful and super smart but neither of those two, despite like their great attributes neither of them has been age to gain a foot hold so far, tucker. >> tucker: so, i mean, where is this going? we are kind of -- i know we always say there is a long

way until november, but, actually. >> there is not thatch time. >> tucker: we are not that far. so, i mean, who is the frontrunner exactly? >> well, right now, so, i think there -- it's on a dual track. because of the way that the system works in the early states right now mayor pete buttigieg and, remember, tucker was it last week or the week before i said mark my words we will continue to talk about mayor pete because he is the only one that is showing some momentum. in the early states he is way up. he had a decent debate last night despite being the frontrunner in iowa and new hampshire, none of the candidates decided to take a swipe at him. they had plenty of opportunity. they didn't take it. he is actually the only person on stage that's really able to ad-lib a response. everybody else seems to have canned lines. so he is super polished. he does have a problem

though. he does not have a base of support with the african-american voters. and that is still in joe biden's lane. so the other angle is that you have national polls and that still shows that joe biden is up there. and i think partly that's, tucker, democrats in their minds, the only thing they care about right now is beating donald trump. they don't want the most exciting candidate. they want electability. and in their minds they still think that joe biden is it. even though somebody like david axelrod, who worked for barack obama, said that he was mr. magooing his way through his answers. that's not exactly a compliment. >> tucker: no. that suggests that he is likely to walk into the side of a building by accident or something like that. and there is some evidence for that, poor guy. dana, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> great to see you, thanks. >> tucker: well, as we said, wednesday night was yet another episode in the slow motion disaster film that is joe biden's third presidential campaign. first he awkwardly promised to show domestic violence who is boss. watch this. >> no man has a right to raise a hand to a woman in anger, other than in self-defense and that's rarely ever occurs. and so we have to just change the culture, period.

and keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it. it will be a big -- i really mean it. >> tucker: yeah. so, you can only beat women in self-defense. you just got to keep punching. you got to keep punching, that's the biden way. then biden tried to claim he has support of the only black woman ever elected to the senate. missing the fact that he was standing against a black woman currently serving in the senate. watch this. >> i'm part of that obama coalition. i come out of the black community in terms of my support. if you noticed, i have more people supporting me in the black community that have announced for me because they know me. they know who i am. three former chairs of the black caucus. the only black african-american woman that had ever been elected to the united states senate. a whole range of people. >> no. >> no that's not true. >> that's not true. >> i'm right here. >> i said the first. i said the first. the first african-american. so my point is.

>> tucker: as biden just told you i come out of the black community. now if we had an honest media in this country send the camera crew to his house to see how true that is mark steyn is author and columnist who watched every last embarrassing second of last night's debate. he joins us for a recap. joe biden, have you crossed over as i have from scorn to pity. >> yeah. i think actually his rivals and the at one point the audience was laughing at him punching domestic violence in the kisser. slapping domestic violence around. getting half a grapefruit like jimmie cagney in public enemy and shoving it into domestic violence's face. one of the problems is. >> tucker: just pounding domestic violence. >> yeah. one of the problems that joe

biden has is whether he is told he is woozy and unfocused and looks to be losing it, his solution is actually to threaten physical violence. he threatened to punch donald trump's lights out. in fact, the only reason to believe he has got any of this ukrainian problem he was slapping around foreign governments. listen you punk foreigners have you six hours to fire this prosecutor or i'm going to show you who is boss. when he is on form he is self-aggrandizing what a tough guy he is he calls corn pop esther williams. so, obviously, when you then ask him to talk about domestic violence or need for more transgender bathrooms or whatever it. that's how he looks forceful. when he talks about slapping domestic violence around, punching domestic violence in the kisser. the audience starts laughing. kamala harris starts rolling

her eyes and throwing her hands in the air. it's very sad. very sad. >> tucker: thoroughly bizarre. speaking of rolling of eyes. this happened today. our peter doocy who works here asked joe biden to react to news about the birth of his son's child. he is apparently a grandfather. biden didn't care for the question. watch this. >> mr. vice president, i'm wondering if you have a comment on this report in court filing out of arkansas that your son hunter just made you a grandfather again. >> no. that's a private matter. i have no comment. >> thank you. thank you. >> you are a good man. you are a good man. >> thank you. >> classy. >> so biden wasn't the most upset about the question. he kind of laughed. watch-one his campaign aides. watch the rage here. >> mr. vice president, i'm wondering if you have a comment on this report and court filing out of arkansas that your son, hunter just made you a grandfather again.

>> tucker: did we say that was a aide? i'm sorry, that was a journalist. bloomberg reporter jennifer epstein she does work for biden but only obviously in informal sense. what do you make of that? >> hunter biden is in the news. he is obviously correct -- corrupt. as we know. and there are reasons to delve into every aspect of his life. this is the american media that as we have seen at abc and elsewhere covered up for jeffrey epstein as we have seen at nbc. covered up for harvey weinstein. can you say what you like, tucker, about monarchy but, for example, prince andrew actually got fired by the queen after the media did their job in that bbc interview. the american media can't get an undeserving prince ling like hunter biden it would be too much to ask him to try to get him fired from the stuff he is on the take

from. >> tucker: that is such a deep point that i hope that our viewers will tape this and rewind and watch again what you just said. that would be -- i just summed the whole thing up right there as you always do. mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: well, coming up, more lowlife in the democratic debate ahead. impeachment hearings are still going on in washington. we will show you what happened today. after the break.

♪ >> tucker: well the world's impeachment scandal dragged into third straight day of hearings on capitol hill

today. by the end of it the average person watching still did not understand what exactly it was about probably because it was too boring for people to actually watch it. house -- honestly they watch it like they read moby dick like nobody actually gets to the end. but adam schiff, who is running the whole thing, he is the democratic member of congress from burbank, california had an explanation, he said if you don't see the need to impeach the president by now, then you are not quite as brilliant as he is. you are probably some illiterate prole, watch. >> their next defense, which is it's all hearsay. most of my colleagues i guess are not lawyers. lawyers out there understand just how wrong they are about what hearsay is, but let's just discuss this in termsis that all people can understand, there is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes they are above the law.

in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that. [gavel] adjourned. [applause] >> tucker: well, that guy is a winner. in a country of 330 million people, adam schiff is the only person who is impressed by lawyers. literally the only one. everybody else thinks they are loathe some. you are a lawyer probably don't understand it. you are not impressive like me i'm a lawyer. [laughter]do hilarious. l schiff, by the way as you know, lacking in some self-awareness that's part of the reason why he spent two years pushing the russia hoax accusing everyone who questioned him including us on this program of being a russian agent. >> look in the camera and say i know for the fact that the government of vladimir putin is behind the hacks. >> absolutely the government of vladimir putin was behind the hacks of our institution. >> tucker: of john podesta's b email. >> but also in europe. >> tucker: you know what?? you are dodging.

>> and tucker. >> tucker: look and say i know they have john podesta's emails they have them. >> ronald reagan. and you are r carrying water for the kremlin. >> tucker: you are making -- look, you are a sitting member of congress on the intel committee and you can't say they hacked. >> you will have to move your show to rt russia television. >> tucker: only in washington could a buffoon like that continue to ascend and become literally the chairman of the house intelligence committee. unbelievable where he is now. so what did we learn from today's hearing? for that we turn to someone with the iron constitution necessary to watch the whole darn thing.. that person, ladies and gentlemen, is mollie hemingway. what did we learn today? >> what's interesting is this is the conclusion of a very long period of impeachment proceedings and what democratsim needed was to really begin with a bipartisan consensus and then have it slowly build pulling off republican members of congress, getting

more of the public to agree that there was a serious high crime and misdemeanor. that did not happen. they didn't even begin with bipartisan consensus. there was actually bipartisan opposition to the impeachment proceeding. not a single republican would go through any of the day's hearings and peel away from the initial feeling that this was more theater than something serious. witnesses contradicted themselves. it was boring as you point out. so it was hard to pay attention to the details. and nobody ever made like an effective case for what a was going on here. and so you are seeing polling showing that independents are more likely n to be opposed to impeachment now than they were a month ago. swing state voters, there is no -- there has been no growing support. so, adam schiff,ou who was probably not the ideal person to run this, given what you just pointed out. he spent years lying and making false claims about treasonous conclusion with russia did not do a particularly good job with what he was given to do here.

>> tucker: right. i mean, of m course, the irony is that he was not the first choice. jerry nadler really should be running this out of judiciary he was consider inept and unappealing he couldn't do it. i wonder if this line of argument that he unveiled tonight that if you are smart, like a lawyer would understand. a lawyer would be impressed by the arguments i'm making. if you don't understand mr. and mrs. america, maybe you should consult your attorney answered will convince that you donald trump must be removed by impeachment. is that a winning message? >> it'ssa almost sad. i think he gave that message in part because he knew how poorly things had gone with this entire proceeding. but, you know, republicans had a big challenge here. they had an entire sort of media consensus agreeing with democrats that there was an impeachable offense. and they managed to make the case that this proceeding was not done in a fair manner. that there were legitimate concerns about ukrainian corruption. and that they should be investigated. and that, again, adam schiff was probably not the right

guy to be doing this. this so, it is a -- kind of a stunning turn of events from where we were led to believe we would be two weeks ago. >> tucker: yeah. i mean, if you are trump, you probably want this to continue. trump will probably be 65% approval by the end of it? >> that's what is so interesting about this. this was the best face that they had. this is when they controlledon the process completely. when they could do whatever they wanted. and now we have the news that this wasn't very compelling, and if they do decide to impeach,f then it goes over toci the senate where republicans will control the process and it won't go nearly so well and they can drag it out and, you know, the idea that you are going to come back after thanksgiving break and continue to push, this i'm not sure it's going to go as well for democrats as they and their strong advocates in the media think it's going to go. >> tucker: yeah. who would have guessed this? it was only 1998 that we went through. this no one learns anything in d.c., obviously. mollie, thank you.. >> thank you. >> tucker: good to see you tonight. made a lot more than you make. hundreds and hundreds of m thousands of dollars a year for a no-show job for the

board of the company of burisma. ukrainian energy firm. it wasn't thepa only shady arrangement however that hunter biden wasir benefiting from. a new report in the washington examiner rose month capital that's a firm closely tied hunter biden received $130 million in federal bailout loans in 2009 while maybere not coincidentally biden's father was vice president of the united states. okay. lonnie goodman is an investigator and joins us tonight. i have overstated the case here? are those outlines correct? >> that's what's going on. way back in the days of solyndra if you remember all the way back then in 2008 and 2009, the government created this bailout program called the term asset backed loan facility also known as tals.

the government was going to provide these very favorable loans to companies that agreed to incest in certain asset backed securities. and one of the companies that got these loans was rosemont capital which is a firm affiliated with hunteras biden. they received $130 million of these loans. and this was during a time, this is in 2009 when joe biden was vice president. and he was very actively promoting these bailout programs at the time. >> tucker: so i mean if you are the obama administration, wouldn't you want to be really, really rigorously careful to make certain that none of this money wound up benefiting the close relatives nuclear family of say your vice president? why would they allow this to happen? >> yeah. you would think. so i also want to mention the timing of this is very interesting. hunter biden joined up with rosemont capital to create an offshoot investment firm in june of 2009. called rosemont seneca. three weeks after that

rosemont capital got this loan. so the question is did this partnership have any connection to the loan and the timing of this loan and all of that. one of the problems with this program that critics pointed out back in 2009 was that there was a lack of transparency in terms of the process for selecting recipients for it. bernie sanders was a big vocal critic of the program and he grilled ben bernanke who was the head of the federal reserve at the time saying how do you choose the recipients of this? he didn't think the process was transparent. he was wondering whether there was favoritismon that was given out to certain people. they actually didn't release the names of the people -- of the individuals who got these loans until a couple of years after the fact. >> tucker: which is a tell right there. i mean, that'ss corrupt by definition. i hope you will keep pulling these strings.

mollie goodman, thanks so much for that. >> thanks. >> tucker: democratic plan for improving your life it now includes imprisoning the leaders of america'ss most economic sector. the people who brought you civilization to be behind bars. that's what they told us last night. details ahead. >> tucker: well, one topic that did not come up quite

>> tucker: well, one topic that did not come up quite as much in last night's debate is climate change. that's weird because as you know watching the democrats the past 10 or 15 years you know that climate change is existential threat meaning all of us will be dead very soon, thanks to climate change. last night only two democrats used t the phrase climate change. weird.d.y one of them was bernie sanders who revealed his plan to improve america. in one sentence, take the people who put the lights on and throw them in prison. >> what we have got to do tonight and i will do as

president is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. and by the way, the fossil fuel industry is probably criminally liable because they have lied and lied and lied. when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet and maybe we should think about prosecuting them as well. >> tucker: um-huh. they're criminally liable, the fossil fuel people because they knew what they were doing was wrong. but, wait a second, bernie sanders flew in private jets more than any other person in the race for awhile. may still be true. certainly a lot. constantly.. and, yet, he knows perfectly well that private jets, indeed all jets fly with fossil fuel. there is no solar jet. and that fossil fuel is destroying the earth and causing the existential crisis that is going to make

mankind extinct. he keeps doing it. why isn't bernie sanders criminally liable for destroying the earth? huh? i don't know. he never explained. instead he is telling us it's time it send the people responsible for creating civilization itself, which is to say people who provide cheap energy, which makes civilization possible send toes people to prison. what a moron, what a phoney. beto o'rourke is pursily gone from the democratic field he would have nodded in agreement with bernie sanders he got in his private plane and left. his views live on embodied in elizabeth warren. last night she called america's southern border crisis, quote man made. apparently caused by having walls.an once you get rid of the walls, no more crisis. elizabeth warren promised to use not making this up by the way to be cruel, you can check the tape, taxpayer money, your money, to tear down existing barriers on the mexican border. bryan dean wright is a democrat and former cia officer and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. so, do you think. j

>> you bet. >> tucker: given that we literally have no idea how many g tens of millions of people who are living here illegally, foreign nationals living here illegally. we don't know their names and who they are. the best use of taxpayer funds is to tear down existing barriers on the border and brings in some more? >> no. that doesn't make sense. in fact, a week ago barack obama himself said it didn't make any sense. he was meeting with a group of donors in d.c. and he said look, we don't need to tell the american people we are goingon to destroy stuff and tear it down.e right? elizabeth warren must have like holdand been my beer, we are going to tear stuff down. this is what has become the party. this is what you get by the way, elizabeth warren is what you get when a party throws out facts and reasonable analysis and says to themselves let's just stick with emotional flimflam arguments. let's just say that the border crisis isn't a crisis at all. it's manufactured, right? which is silly. if we actually look at the facts, tucker,e what the

facts tell us is pretty clear. last year this fiscal year u that just ended, 870,000 people were arrested that is fantastically horrific numbers. up 477 up 109%. the border crisis is real. it is not manufactured. and despite what some people will say in the party, it is not because you are nazi americans that you want a border. you want to enforce it, right? that's where we are. so what unfortunately, what the american people have to up in from coming 2020 is a party that believes in i one hand that we have, you know, national security, very important, russians are bad. but, on another, actually borders shouldn't matter at all. if you can get here, here it is, you cane stay here. right? if you can get here. castro walked across the border with illegals to make the point can you get here. once you are here, well, we can always y deport you, right? no. right? this is the abolish ice

movement, right? so, those leaders pushing forward with this idea that tice should be gone. it's time now to either adopt this new brand fantastic idea that if you get here or can you stay here and we are going to give you a bunch of free crap by the way, college, housing, jobs, it's silly.ch this is what the party has become. >> tucker: let me just say when castro walks across the border with the migrants, he couldn't communicate with them because he doesn't speak spanish. something he doesn't want you to know. brian. great to see you tonight. >> that's a detail. >> tucker: nfl player suspended indefinitely after assaulting a player with a helmet. now he is claiming he is the victim. a story that tells you a lot. now he is

>> tucker: now you will recall that for the entire duration ever the russia

investigation we were promised and told and forced to believe every single miller of robert mueller's team was a sober professionalhy diligently searching for the truth without any partisan concerns, much less hysterical delusion. we were told if we didn't believe that we were unpatriotic. now, that was a pretty easy idea to promote for as long as the investigation was ongoing because you couldn't ask any of the lawyers what they really thought. you couldn't see them. you never heard their voice. you didn't know what they were like. now it's over and the people who worked on the investigation are free to r take jobs in cable news and some are. told on msnbc mueller deputy andrew weissman who really ran the investigation pulled offxp the mask and revealed he is a full blown nut case. watch him explain that donald trump and vladimir putin are really on the same team. >> why was the president and ambassador sondland worried about the fact that theisis russians would undoubtedly in ukraine be able to hear this conversation? >> what is the scenario, why wouldn't they be? >> the issue would be because point if you are sitting there thinking i don't really care because the russians are going to be

siding with me in the 2020 election, then you are all on the same team. >> tucker: remember, this guy ran the mueller investigation. he thinks roger stone deserves to die in prison tfor lying about irrelevant text messages. and, yet, like so many people in power in washington, he is a total -- you you would not have dinnerer with him on a dare. he is just thought a hack. is he delusional. and that should really scare you. so the nfl player who ripped off his opponent's helmet and then attacked him with it is now trying to explain that he did it because his opponent is a racist. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher joins us on this developing story. hey, trace. >> hey, tucker, the unusual thing is that cleveland browns defensive end myles garrett brought up the allegedht racial slur but says he doesn't want to use it as part of his defense. the accusation was made during garrett's appeals hearing. and if you don't know he was suspended from the nfl indefinitely for striking pittsburgh steelers quarterback mason rudolph in

the head with his helmet. mason rudolph says the accusation of racism is an assault on his integrity which is far worse than the physical assault he endured on the field. quoting here this false allegation was never asserted by garrett in the aftermath of the game, never suggested prior to the hearing, and conspicuouslyo absent in the apology publishedon by the browns and adopted by garrett. but now garrett's head coach and many of his teammates are standing by him. watch. >> i know you wouldn't allow nothing likeno that. i know he wouldn't allow nothing like that. he kind of like carefree type of guy, do you know what i mean? i'm pretty sure he wouldn't lie about nothing like that.t. >> the nfl says it found no evidence to support garrett's allegation of racism. it's notable that myles garrett has been involved in a few questionable on field incidents including a late hit that ended the jet's season for ahi quarterback

trevor semian and punching tight end for the titans delaney walker after the whistle. tucker? >> tucker: unbelievable. that was a lot. trace gallagher thanks so much. >> yep. >> tucker: last night while the democrats were debating on stage during the debate someone in the state of california, one person, dared to express a view that was mildly out of sync with the prevailing left wing view in california and, of course, a mob of progressives got violent in response. someone was there and watched it and explains what happened next.

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>> tucker: well, the democratic party routinely thunders against intolerance. what does that tell you? they are the least tolerant of all, of course, last night you saw tulsi gabbard was shamed from appearing on the most popular news channel in the world, this one, the t same evening, last night ine berkeley, california, protesters tried to forcibly prevent a speech by ann coulter, watch. [shouting] >> hey hey, ho ho, ann coulter has got to go hey hey, ho ho, ann coulter has got to go. [chanting] >> tucker: shut down ann coulter because she is obviously very dangerous.

matt ronow is the president of uc berkeley college republicans. a brave man by definition and he joins us tonight. s matt, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me, tucker.er >> tucker: let's just skip to the end of the story first. what happened? was ann permitted to speak? able to speak. >> yeah, we were able to get in to speak and she gave her presentation. we had a rigorous question and answer period. unfortunately, due to the protesters though, over 100 people weren't able to come into the event that had purchased tickets, so there was a smaller audience we had hoped for. that's something we are going to be speaking with the ucpd department about what exactly was going on there. >> tucker: i hope discussing at high volume that's a violation of first amendment rights of everyone involved, obviously it's a state school. but, quickly, like why weren't they allowed in?? how couldn't they get in? were theyt threatened? >> protesters were forming basically a human chain blocking the entrance routes to the auditorium.

that's in violation of protest policy on the campus. so we are a bit unclear asas to why the university police department wasn't arresting these people and telling them they can't do this and letting people who had purchased tickets and spend money to come to our event to hear ann's speech. >> tucker: you are obviously a kind and restrained man, matt. >> thank you. >> tucker:se they didn't do that. they didn't allow your audience in because they are on the side of the protesters. >> yeah.ay i mean that's what a lot of people were saying. you know, the rank and file of the ucpd department. the general police officers are very nice and we were thanking them and they were happy to be there.y really i think this came order from the top chief of police margo bennett who has caused problems for us in the past. >> tucker: she sounds like a lot of fun. good luck, matt, you are a brave man. thank you for come on tonight. >> thank you, tucker.

cuomo, his brotherf is the governor of new york. he went to yale. g doing his job to get the brother impeached. he embarrassed himself in front of his own mother. we can't resist. we have the tape. stay tuned. mother. we

>> tucker: if you watched the impeachment hearings, you heard holmes say that he overheard a conversation between the president even though it wasn't on speakerphone. the president said, that's impossible. so over at cnn, chris cuomo, who went to yale, unlike you, decided to call if his mom and prove the president was wrong. here's what happened. >> mom? she probably can't hear me. mom, can you hear me? >> yes, i hear you. when you talk to me, i hear you. >> hi. how are you? >> i can't hear your mother, chris.

>> tucker: [laughs] the governor's brother. he went to yale, unlike you. hilarious. pretty great. we are out of time. we will back tomorrow. they showed that as a sworn enemy of lying come, verbosity , smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity, fly from new york. >> sean: thank you. we start with a fox news alert. four major breaking stories that we are covering. none of this is great for the democratic party, the deep state, or the mob media. i guarantee you that this was leaked on purpose to get ahead of what is coming. that is a huge crisis, because breaking just moments ago, another blow to the democrats' impeachment trade. b there is a report at this hour that an fbi official is now under criminal investigation for altering a document related to the 2016 surveillance of the trump campaign advisor, carter page.