if you don't love what you are doing. forg ♪ >> tucker: the president has been rallying supporters in sunrise, florida. we will have highlights from the scene coming up. but, first, good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it was supposed to be the most cheerful holiday season imaginable for the democratic party. for three years they fantasized about impeaching donald trump, lurid visions of trials, convictions, the helicopter lifting off from the last time from the white house lawn to the sustainedhe applause to the press corps here in washington. big orange gone forever. banished to mar-a-lago. the left back in power. order restored. it would be like the 2016 election never happened. like it was all a bad dream. that's01 what the democrats thought they were getting for christmas this year.

unfortunately for them, santa got delayed. they're not getting a pony this year. they're getting a bag of hair. instead of destroying trump, impeachment appears to have made him even stronger, like godzilla. it turns out that parading bureaucrats before the cameras to demand that you send money to ukraine -- shut up, no questions allowed -- isn't very effective as a campaign strategy. as a result, support for impeachment has fallen even among core democratic voters. here's the latest example. an emerson poll released last week found that among african-american voters, for example, just 37% now support impeachment. 38% are opposed,po while 25% are uncertain, which itself is significant. meanwhile in the same poll among white voters, 44% support impeachment. w not just white democrats. that's all white voters. think about that for a second. that means african-americans, though they remain the most loyal democratic constituency, tend to be more skeptical of impeachment.

in other words, in the democraticic party, it is white liberals who are howling for impeachment. the rest of the party not so much.t that's interesting and unexpected, and it has democratic leaders squirming. they promised their base impeachment. the press told them it was a sure thing. it's hard to back off from that. but going forward could devastate the party next fall. new polls from rasmussen and emerson both show the president's approval rating rising. if donald trump could get even half the figure among black voters that he'sf getting now in those polls, he will win reelection. that has cnn commentator ana navarro on edge. when she saw that poll, she tweeted "this is zero chance this is accurate. zero. the poll must have been zeconducted in the homes of bene carson, kanye, that sheriff guy with the hat and those two cubic zirconia and polyester spandex ladies." in other words, it's a lot like her party's reaction to 2016. keep talking and pretend it never happened. larry elder is a radio show host, one of our favorite guests.

glad to have him on tonight. mr. elder, thanks for joining us. what do the polls suggest to you?ol >> what they show to me, tucker, is the awakening has arrived. i have been talking about this for years. people like thomas sowell and walter williams has predicted for years when black people stop thinking about themselves like victims start thinking about schools, education, crime, jobs, they will begin to sever their relationship with the democratic party and that appears to be happening. in the polls have you mentioned rasmussen and emerson talkingg about 34% among likely black voters and 34.5% in those two polls. that is cataclysmic and earth shattering and apocalyptic if you are a democrat. that's why people like ana navarro are panicking. blacks ar look looking at an ecy with unemployment at an all-time low. support for abortion among white liberals, higher than it is among blacks. black people looking around

saying why am i wedded to this party? >> tucker: that's a good question. what's so interesting is gthat trump might be the candidate and we'll see. but who changes the calculation. because there is no message in the democratic party more consistent than donald trump is a bigot. they have stuck with that since the day he got in the race until present. i mean, there is one thing you know about trump. he is a racist. and yet. african-american voters seem less convinced than they were before. whatn is that? >> and if is he a racist, tucker, he is a bad one. again, unemployment for blacks all-time low. donald trump signed the first step act, that's prison reform that allowed 1,000 beneficiaries of that act to ieve their sentences reduced by an average over 70 months. 90% of these beneficiaries have been black men. if is he a racist, he is a bad one. >> tucker: so you think watching the first three years of the trump administration has actually changed minds?ti >> i think what's happened is a lot of black people naively assumed if only there were a black person in the white house who felt like i felt, who understood

me, things would be better. in comes barack obama, poverty for blacks increased during the 8 years from 2010 to 2013. black net worth fell 25% largely because black people lost their homes during the great recession, a recession brought about by policies promoted by people like barack obama when he was a lawyer he sued citibank allegedly for failing to loan to credit worthy black borrowers. because of that pressure that bill clinton put intoli effect the community reinvestment act with teeth that essentially pressured banks into lending people to who wouldn't otherwise get homes. many of whom were black people. the recession comes. people lose their homes and they lose their net worth all because of these stupid policies based upon a false premise that would-be black borrowers were not getting loans. so for people like these progressive people on the left, policies like $15 minimum wage, policies like licensing for professions. black people are looking at this and saying who is on my side?

these republicans that want to reduce regulations, or democrats that to impose regulations?ns >> tucker: you have 50 years as a political party to make your case. and, you know, maybe that's all the time that you get. by the way, it would be better for america, don't you think, if there were a little more diversity in voting patterns. you don't want to be able to tell someone's political affiliation by that person's skin color. that is not healthy, is it. >> that's not healthy. we forgot about illegal immigration., this is a president that wants to do something about it. and economists like george borhaus of harvard have documented the pressure on wages and the competition that illegal aliens pose to unskilled workers who are black and brown livingla in this country. you finally have a president doing something about this. people in the inner city are aware of what is going on. they are aware of the problem with illegal immigration. and this is a president who wants to do something about it. so you add it all up, and black people are beginning to rethink their traditional allegiance to the democratic party. the last time the support for blacks was this high was back in 1960 when richard nixon got 32% of the black vote. if trump gets 34%, it would

exceed that. that is earth-shattering. >> tucker: it is. it is. i never understood how mass immigration was supposed to help african-americans whose families have been here for 400 years. what's in it for them? i have never understood it. larry elder. >> it doesn't make sense. >> tucker: it doesn't make sense. i agree. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: in public barack obama stayed out of the 2020 race behind the scenes is he doing the best to shape his party. according to a new report obama has promised other democrat voters if bernie sanders begins to run away with the nomination, obama will get out there in public andn, try to sabotage his campaign. but obama also isn't willing to support his old running mate, joe biden. he has refused to endorse biden. he said biden lacks any bondid with iowa voters. so, who exactly is barack obama for? what's really going on here? dana perino, host of

"the daily briefing with dana perino" and she joins us tonight. >> dana: great to be in person. >> tucker: it is so nice to be here in your city of 8 million.au let's go through the list. obama apparently is not for bernie sanders to the point where he will actually step out and try sabotage him. we know that he is not for biden because he hasn't endorsed him. >> dana: we also knew that in 2016. h t h >> tucker: we also knew that exactly right. we also knew, i think to aa certainty, that he doesn't like elizabeth warren. that's well-known in washington. who does he like? who is he for? >> well, that remains to be seen. so one of the things that former presidents try to do is to stay out of the limelight. >> tucker: yes. >> you have to be disciplined if you are going to do it. you can't dip your toe in every once in a while and try to maneuver things from mind the scenes. also, anybody who is talking to president obama, they have -- you feel self-important. so then you are going to call politico or call other reporters and tell them i talked to president obama and he said this. don't worry. he can save us. but he can't. he has one opportunity to be a king makeer, right, at a the convention or a

peacemaker. if there is a contested convention. only one opportunity. if he blows it now, it's a little bit too early. i think it's pretty clear that biden doesn't have what it takes in iowa. let's look at the polls. it's not happening. >> tucker: right. >> it's interesting that we're at this point. less than three months before the first votes in iowa. and there are still new democrats getting into the race. >> tucker: yes. >> they don't have -- they can't pull a coalition together. from older people to younger people, to african-americans and hispanics, white liberals, academics, climate change people, they have all these different factions. c and that's because they have created them. >> tucker: yes. >> there is no one right now that can pull them all together. the only person that thinks they can do that is the person who won nationally twice, barack obama. c >> tucker: let me ask you. is this resolvable? i agree with your assessment completely. is this a resolvable problem? is there any currently available field of candidates anyone who would in our imaginations even

bring this coalition together? >> well, i think -- when i say that barack obama could be a kingmaker or a peacemaker, being a kingmaker means that you can say, all right, in my opinion, barack obama, this is the person who can pull everybody together and you try drive that. but i don't know. there is going to be a lot of resentment in the bernie sanders' wing of the party, it's healthy, it's vibrant. they have stuck with bernie sanders. they will be very mad. oh, barack obama is saying this? they're the same democrats who rigged the thing against me in 2016. >> tucker: sure. obama spent the last three years making america better? no. getting rich by talking to investment bankers and hedge fund moguls. it's true. he has nothing in common with, i would say the bernie sanders -- >> he does know how to win two national elections. that means something. hillary clinton didn't listen to him. the obama people were saying you have to go to wisconsin. you have to do these things. she didn't do those things because she knew better. >> tucker: i know you are deeply skeptical of my brilliant, and true, theory

about michelle obama coming in at the last minute. tell me why. >> because i'm right.ll i'm 100% right. i want you to go home and ask your wife. h is dana perino right? and she will say yes. okay. w michelle obama, she does not want to run for president. she has -- she is living her best life. >> tucker: yes.ha >> the democrats are still thinking wow,ke we need a savior to come in? even if that savior needs to come in, it's not going to be michelle obama. several months ago i bet you a month's salary to the charity of our choice, that michelle obama will never be a democratic nominee for erpresident. you look very heart-broken by that. >> tucker: i certainly don't favor her entry into the race. i think she can win. >> let me tell you one other thing. she is very popular right now. the moment she talks about policy or politics, it would evaporate overnight.al >> tucker: okay. let's say you are right. you may very well be right, you often are.

mostly are. in fact, then who is it? again, i don't see anybody running for president as of today who could get the bernie people and the finance community. >> i don't know who it's going to be. that's why we keep coming back. the democrats will have to figure it out. it's pretty interesting. look, america usually gives its presidents a second term. only twice since world war ii has that not happened. especially when you have an economy like this the numbers you were showing with larry elder. it's going to be fight. but when you have the electoral college stacking up the way it is and president trump already down there in florida running away with the show, it's going to be very hard for democrats. but they will come up with somebody. >> tucker: the left needs to calm down. that could happen and we can't -- do you know what i mean? we can't lose. >> but it won't be michelle obama. >> tucker: we will see. in dana perino, great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, the former mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg, hasce entered the presidential race.

he has done so with some style. you think beyonce can fire up a crowd? do you think liberace was a showman? you have never seen michael bloomberg whip up the masses into a frenzy, a hysterical frenzy of love as he did during his first campaign speech. watch this. >> as a child, and a boy scout, i was taught to believe in the promise and potential of america. and i have never been more worried about its future than i am today. and i offer myself as a problem solver and a doer. not a talker. we need a president who is ready to lead us where we need to go. someone with the experience to hit the ground ready to go. i am that person. and that's why i'm running. i'm ready to get to work. so let's get it on. >> tucker: let's get it on. very sexy man. it was like woodstock 50 years later but better in brighter colors. the democratic race just got blown wide open. how are the other candidates responding to this development? how can they respond?

[laughter] all right. enough of this sardonic take. for a true and honest reaction to what this means we turn now to independent women's voice, senior fellow lisa boothe. lisa, great to see you. >> so great to be in studio. >> tucker: i'm so happy. >> lisa: you didn't find that inspiring? i mean, it just screams. excitement and enthusiasm. >> tucker: i almost felt bad making fun of him though. it's pathetic. have you got to wonder on some level. all makes w sense at dinner. michael, you are so impressive and rich you should run. you get out there and it's not going to work. >> lisa: it probably isn't. but he has got a ton of money to spend. and this is the challenge and i think this is the fear of some of the candidates that are in the race so far. i mean, look for one week alonedi he is spending over $30 million breaking presidential history for the amount of money is he spending on tv ads that beats what president obama spent in 2012 in the final week of the campaign, which was $25 million. and just to put that shear amount of money into context.

that is more than half -- whats he is spending is more than half of the 50 million that the entire field of 2020 t candidates have spent this year combined. is what he is spending in one week alone. >> tucker: not to be old or anything, but i was there when steve forbes did something like this in 1996. what a nice man he is actually. but it got him nothing. do you know what i mean? is there any example that we can think of where a guy comes in who has no base of ohesupport but buys the nomination? >> lisa: this is clearly an unprecedented campaign strategy. is he skipping the first four early states. teis he focusing on essentially the superia tuesday states, looking at states like california and texas, so his strategy is essentially the hope that no candidate really emerges from those early primary states and then he can come in to those, you know, super tuesday states and try to capitalize off that. clearly this has not been met kindly by some of the other democrats in the campaign. they are accusing him of

trying to buy the election. listen to what they have had to say. >> mayor bloomberg, who has decided to use part of his $55 billion, not to buy a yacht, not a fancy home but to buy the united states government. >> michael bloomberg is making a bet about democracy in 2020. he doesn't need people. he only needs bags and bags of money. >> lisa: so if you didn't know, michael bloomberg is really rich. >> tucker: i hate to agree with them, but i kind of do. remember that thing campaign finance reform they used to talk about all the time? >> lisa: the irony, did you know if you are a presidential candidate you will be able to purchase television ads less than a super pac would. sim coming in as a presidential candidate. he will get more bang for his buck with the campaign ads he is putting up. what do i lose, right? i'm worth 50 something billion dollars. hti have all the money in the world. spending a couple hundred million dollars d is a drop

in the bucket. he gets to throw a hail mary i probably won't win but who cares? he gets to put all this money in to damage president trump in the process. for him, it's not that big of a loss. what is a couple hundredos million dollars to him? i would love to have that.e >> tucker: i don't believe that you can, at this stage, hurt trump by criticizing trump. >> lisa: i think what we saw in 2016 is money doesn't mean everything. hillary clinton spent more than double what donald trump did. it doesn't matter.p he was able to get enthusiasm. she was not. money can't buy enthusiasm. based off of bloomberg's first, his inaugural speech, i don't really know -- i don't see him exciting anyone. >> tucker: it bought him three terms as mayor. it's a weird city. lisa, great to see you. >> lisa: thanks, tucker. >> tucker: california is the nation's laboratory for ideas. some of them insane. what is the outcome?s neo futilism from one of the most unequal societies on earth. that's what california has become. we will tell you how. all the highlights from the president's rally in

sunrise, florida, tonight. that's all just ahead. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez introduced the green new deal. she wants single payer healthcare for everyone,leor even illegal immigrants, foreign nationals breaking our laws. she backs reparations based on skin color. she has even endorsed turnstile jumping on the new york subway. there are an awful lot of very expensive things alexandria ocasio-cortez says the government ought to

give everyone for free. but, don't worry, she says. they aren't free. they are just what she calls public goods. >> this is not free stuff. these are public goods. they are public goods. i never want to hear the word or the term free stuff ever again. [applause] already doing some of these neoliberal folks who are flip the script on us. >> tucker: seth barron is associate editor at city journal joinsew us tonight. lives in new york city. is she is a sign language interpreters like then finger wagging? rather than explaining something, use hand gesturestu to indicate a point. >> she is a caution, tucker. she is something else. what's interesting about what she said there and ife. you continued the clip you would hear her talking about investment.in and this is not free stuff,

this is investment. well, whenever liberals talk about investment, what you have to do is remember what they are talking about is spending. because if it were investment, we could look at their history of investment. the government does not do a good job of investment. look at the way they pursue economic development projects such as solyndra or in new york state we have seen cuomo's buffalo billions where the government tries to pick industry winners. infrastructure, look at public goods. states that have the worst infrastructure, new jersey, california, new york, areli high tax blue states. >> tucker: yes. >> statese that have the best infrastructure, texas, florida, tennessee, are low tax. in fact, florida and texas have no income tax. you know. >> tucker: they have good infrastructure. >> they have very good infrastructure. >> tucker: my test for big ideas

like this, does, in the details, does anything she is suggesting, demanding requiring, does any of it not make her more powerful? >> no. it all makes her more powerful because what they mean by investment and governments spend is just hiring more government workers and getting more o people dependent on the government. all of which increases her personal power, increases the power of the government and increases the power of her party. so that's exactly right. everything she is saying is just a power grab. >> tucker: i've got to say i'm worried and i sincerely mean that because i see alexandria-c ocasio-cortez's easy to make fun of. but she is tireless. she iss shameless. she is not an idiot actually. >> no, not at all. >> tucker: she doesn't know anything, but nothing slows her down and one of the famous politicians on america. on the right, defending against alexandria ocasio-cortez is who, exactly? >> um. president trump? >> tucker: president trump?

president trump for sure. but there aren't 15 others -- do you know what i mean? i'm sort of worried that she is never ceasing to make the case. after a while maybe she makes it? >> she is a dynamo. >> tucker: are you worried? >> i guess. i mean, she could -- i don't know how high she goes, what her ceiling is exactly. i don't see his or her going -- i don't see her going away. >> tucker: no. >> and she definitely has a lott of energy and a lot of appeal. >> tucker: yeah. i would like to know more about her district. i think we will send a camera there and find out. seth, great to see you. thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: middle-class voters have been the bedrock of the democracy. this is a middle class country, it can't be a functioning democracy. california the leading edge of everything middle class is vanishing. medium home prices twice the national average. country's highest gas prices. some of the highest taxes as well. the results of all of this? you know what it is. the middle class is fleeing california. the ones staying are falling into poverty. the state has the highest poverty rate in the united states..

california's measurement of inequality is identical to that in the republic of congo. literally. chris is a research fellow at the discovery institute and contributing editor at city journal, i which we clearly favor. he joinsns us tonight. chris, thanks for coming on. it has the same level of inequality as congo. unpack that a little bit for us, if you would. >> sure, yeah. if you look at the income distribution curve, it has the same level of inequality roughly as countries like the congo, nigeria, gwatney -- guatemala, el salvador. progressives in california like to paint this vision that their policies will lead us to a system of government and equality similar to the scandinavian countries. this is really a delusion.n. the reality is that the situation in california is much more similar as far as income distribution to countries like sudan than it is to countries like denmark, norway, and sweden. a >> tucker: you just pointed out

the central irony and maybe wee should be expecting this. because it's always the same. but the result is exactly the opposite. the mirror image of what they promise. they promise equality and they deliver the least equal, the most unequal society in our country. >> yeah. that's exactly right. you can really think of california as a state in three parts. you have a very affluent coastal corridor from san francisco to los angeles that has some of the most beautiful and affluent cities in the world. and youti also have then an impoverished interior that's characterized by downward mobility, failing businesseshe chased out of the state by state level political decisions and regulations. and then you have this third kind of endangered and imperiled middle class that is being hit harder and harder every year. you know, tucker, the average middle class family in california isdl not only paying some of the highest housing costs inin the nation, it is also paying a 10% sales tax and a 9.3% income tax. and the result is what% you

are seeing is almost a neo futile arrangement of social stratification. have you an elite social classed predominantly in those major cities that has really secluded themselves and relies on private amenities, private services, private schools. and increasingly dependent almost third world class of serfdom that is characterized by crumbling social services and extremely high levels of inequality. and the reality is that this is not getting better. it's actually getting worse. many of those policies that promised to uplift people at the bottom are actually depressing the folks at the bottom. and sending the middle class outward. >> tucker: and trapping them. i guess at this point this is almost rhetorical question. they promised us for generations for 30 years, at least my lifetime, that mass immigration will make us richer. it will spike g.d.p. california has more immigrationim than any state. has that happened?ha

>> no. and that's part of it. you see kind of the effects of immigration. you see the effects of some of the regulation coming at the statewide level. but what's really happening now is quite interesting. progressive political leaders have essentially failed to deliver those basicc services, to deliver those, on those kitchen table issues. what you are seeing the rhetoric from people like l.a. mayor eric garcetti, he is increasingly focused on abstract issues. things like gender identity. like climate change, like unconscious bias. where they are not pressured to actually deliver concrete and tangible results. they can really just signal to their base the right correct public attitudes and they can't be held accountable. you are seeing really a huge gap betweenac the rhetoric of progressive political elitese and the reality for the mass of the population in california. unfortunately, as this gap has widened, we haven't seen a political realignment, but i'm convinced that there is only so much longer before the public catches on, stops

being distracted by some of these abstractions. and really says what's happened here? >> tucker: half the state is living outside, but we are using the right pronouns, it's ridiculous. chris, thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: the d.a. in philadelphia, larry krasner, has made it clear that forr: him, criminals come first. that means even killers are getting out. we'll talk to the mother of a man who was murdered on the street. she said krasner denied her quest for justice. that's next. highlights from the rally int. sunrise, florida coming up. >> they forgot to tell you the last part. so we're keeping tariffs, we are keeping criminals and violent extremists out of our country.

>> tucker: philadelphia d.a. larry krasner made it clear his top priority is protecting the city's criminals rather than law-abiding citizen. that's bad enough in the abstract. it's easy to forget that this policy has real victims. it has destroyed the lives of real people.e. michael white stabbed sean scallinger to death after gloating online he was about to "cut someone." no dispute he did it. krasner would not charge him with homicide. the case was weakened by that so badly that white in the end wound up with just probation. now, last week

philadelphia's chestnut hill college invited krasner and white to its, quote, transforming justice conference. white was used an example. a standout example of criminal justice reform. linda is the mother of theed murdered man, sean. she recently spoke to us about it. >> tucker: i'm sorry about this, and i can'tpo imagine what it must be like for you to see the man who murdered your son held up as a hero. what is it like? >> outrageous. they are parading this person around as an example of criminal justice reform. it is appalling to me that they would do such a thing. obviously not understandable. went to a conference on fridayy for criminal justice larry krasner was speaking. my intention was to see what larry had to say, have an open mind about these things. to my surprise when i got there, michael white, my

son's killer, was on the agenda to speak on a panel outrageous. >> tucker: it's hard to understand. it is outrageous. it's also confusing. what was the point of this? why would college administrators allow this to happen?wh >> you know, i'm not certain that the college was actually aware of what was happening. at least what they presented to me was that they were not aware that michael white was who he was and that he was put on this panel. he did not end up actually speaking because at the 11th hour, they decided to change that agenda up and put two gentlemen who had been in prison for a very long time and had apparently not committed the murders that they were accused of, many, many years ago. obviously, two people that, you know, would warrant speaking on a panel like that, rather than putting someone like michael white up to make a mockery of the criminal justice reform that would be going on.

i completely can't understand it except a political agenda by larry krasner and the defense attorney, tiara bradford gray. it's unconscionable. >> tucker: this is your second time on our show and we are happy to have you back. >> yes. thank you. >> tucker: for the viewers not familiar with the back story.y.k this murder took place in public. the man who stabbed your son to death.ho and they had never met before. who stabbed him to death. later wrote a rap song about it. there is no question that he did it. so, given that, what would you say to larry krasner who is bragging about getting, in effect, gettingin this guy off, for your son's murder? what would you say to him? >> i would say you are an evil and very sick man. i mean, it literally rises to that level. this is not just a disagreement around prosecutor's strategy or something like that. i think i had mentioned to you before, i believe that he obstructed justice.

and that's exactly what happened. there is zero question that michael plunged a knife into my son's back with eyewitnesses surrounding him on a lovely evening in july. none. zero. so, this was theater at its best. ithis was completely orchestrad by larry krasner right from the beginning. and it continues to be astounding. i mean, this panel discussion that they were going to put this person on, if i can even call him a person, he is a murderer. again, i keep using the word outrageous, because it is so beyond my understanding of anything that makes any good, common logical sense. s >> tucker: so they can stab your son to death in the middle of written house square and in effect mock him and you in public. that's what larry krasner is doing. i hope you get justice in this case.

i hope you will come back and tell us about it. thank you for that update.e. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: former congressman patrick kennedy nearly destroyed his life with drugs and alcohol. now he is back from the brink. a new man with a report on what it is like to be sober after a lifetime of not being. he joins us next. plus all the highlights, the president's florida rally. stay tuned. ♪ so nice to meet you june, jay, ji, kay, raj, and... ray! good job, brain! say hello to neuriva, a new brain supplement with clinically proven ingredients that fuel five indicators of brain performance. neuriva. easy twist design.r. optimum control. introducing the all-new nutribullet blender combo.

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>> tucker: patrick kennedy had the kind of life that other people envy, the son of senator ted kennedy he was elected to congress at the age of 27 years old in the state of rhode island. like so many in this country, o he derailed his life with

substance abuse. kennedy struggled with cocaine and alcohol and pain killers. one night, he crashed his car right outside the u.s. capitol and was busted by capitol police. his life was a mess. in the end, he left the congress and was able to turn his life around. he sobered up and became a completely new person. ask anyone who knew him before. last year, he had his fifth child. he is now a mental health and addiction advocate and written a book "a common struggle, a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction." a we recently spoke with patrick kennedy. here's how it went. so i wanted to ask you tonight not simply about your political career or your advocacy, but really what i think is an inspiring story of a man overcoming addiction and finding a whole new life. so, if you would, just give us a quick picture. why is it worth being sober? why is it something people should want?

>> well, for me, my sobriety date is february 22, 2011. and i never could really count the days prior to that in almost 30 years that i was drinking and drugging. i and it was principally because i thought that i had it under control. that it wasn't as bad as it actually was. and, frankly, that's the single greatest characteristic of someone with addiction or mental illness is their lack of insight. for me, like for most, they have a moment of clarity. in my case, it wasn't my dwi. it wasn't numerous other kind of scandals that i had when i h was in congress. it was really this sense that i was really slipping and that i wasn't sure if i could ever make it back. i decided not to run for re-election because i really worried that, of course, my

disease, which by the way, is a progressive illness which means i was constantly getting into bigger and bigger jackpots, so to speak. and i was drinking more. i had to drug more. and i knew it was unsustainable. if i had taken back the time that i had before, really i thought i managed it pretty well. but, at the very end of my time in congress, i knew that it was catching up to me and it was only a matter of time. i was blessed to make it out of congress without having another kind of scandal. and that's when i felt like life had just passed me by. because i, of course, never thought that i had achieved my ambitions, which were to really go up the ladder,r, so to speak, in public office. i had nothing in my life. i didn't really know anybody. i had no family, for the most part. you know, for my own. and i'd lost my father.

so i really was in a place where i could reconstruct my life. because i really had nothing to hold on to that was part of my old life. i left where i had lived both in washington and rhode island. i moved to new jersey because there was a person i really wanted to be with. and even she didn't want to be with me if i wasn't taking every step that i could to try to get my life back on track. so, initially it was for her. but ultimately it became something that i really got to thrive off of, which means that i was starting to live a life that i didn't know was w possible because, of course,e, i had never given it a chance. and today, you know, i just had dinner with my five children. and i was running around my dining room because i had

put more ready whip whipped cream on my fig cake than they were allowed to have. and they said it was too much. we had so much fun. that kind of laughter and joy at something so small and so simple is what gives life its meaning and what really i think of today as o like the highlight of my day. >> tucker: i knew you before and after. and that's it. i just wanted to hear you saying that. i think it's the most compelling case that a man can make for getting sober, what you just said. i'm glad you started on their show and it's wonderful to see if things have turned out for you. what a true blessing. thank you, patrick kennedy. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: well, the president had a lot to say at tonight's rally in sunrise, florida. we will show you the highlights coming up next. dollars out of pocket. that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace.

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♪ >> tucker: president trump has been rallying supporters and sunrise, florida, tonight. here are some of the highlights of what he said. speak with the president of ukraine declared there was no pressure put on me. that's the only one that matters. no pressure. he said it all different ways. no pressure. they don't even know what they're talking about. it's a scam. it's a hoax. the ukrainian foreign minister stated and i quote "ambassador sondland did not tell us and

certainly did not tell me about a connection between the assistants in the investigations." never told him. i have never had a direct link between investigations and security assistance. okay, what that means, do you know what it means? it means we did zero. we did nothing wrong. nothing. we did nothing wrong. the lies of the democrats are being exposed. their schemes are unraveling. their crimes, that's what it is, crimes. did you ever hear this guy, corrupt politician, schiff. he made up my statement to the ukrainian president. he made it up. these are crooked people. but their crimes are being revealed and there are sinister plans are failing at a level that nobody thought would even be possible.

the radical democrats are trying to overturn the last election because they know that they cannot win the next election. they are attacking me because i am exposing a rigged system that has rigged itself at your expense and i'm restoring government of, by, and for the people. if you want to see what corruption looks like, then take a look. go further. slow, sleepy joe. i don't know what's going on with joe. when sleepy joe was in charge of ukraine's policy, his son. i call him -- where is he?

what happened to hunter? where is hunter? his son received millions and millions of dollars from ukrainian energy company. you know the reputation of that company. despite knowing absolutely nothing about energy. what business are you in, sir? . . so they brought it down from a massive unbelievable heart attack. you know, it is very dangerous for them to do, it is the world. believe it or not, the rest of the world and the leaders like and respect your president. we don't want to give in. and i like them.it is very sad. so then instead they brought it down a notch.

they said, he went into the hospital.it is true, i didn't w. why would i wear a tie? if the first thing they do is they take off your shirt and show us that gorgeous chest. [cheering] we want to see. we have never seen a chest quite like it. as we gather together for thanksgiving, you know, some people want to change the name thanksgiving. they don't want to use the term thanksgiving. [booing] and that was to also with christmas, but now everybody is using t christmas again.remembe? [cheering] but now we are going to have to do a little work on thanksgiving. people have different ideas why it should not be called thanksgiving. but everybody in this room i know loves the name thanksgiving. and we are not changing it. >> tucker: that is it for us

tonight. tune in every night. every night of the week. 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn and totally sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. set your dvr if you can figure that out. good night from new yorkrk city. sean hannity is next. ♪ >> sean: this is a fox news alert. moments ago, president trump wrapping up another massive rally. asis time in broward county, florida. by thehe way, look at this. supporters stood in line all day to get a spot inside this packed arena. which has a capacity of over 20,000. what democrat can do this? the big rally,an do this? bill o'reilly interviewed the president on his radio show. and bill has given us an exclusive clip from the one-on-one interview. great question and a great answer by thee president. you will want to hear that. needless to say, the democrats impeachment charade has only solidified the president's base and is now turning into an unmitigated political disaster for the left.