you have so much free time. >> martha: that's the story, thanks brian. we will see you tomorrow, and tucker carlson is taking over from d.c., right now. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the united states as every fourth-grader learns as a meritocracy. what does that mean? it means that the leaders are not inherited their position, our leaders are selected on the basis of merit. and then up they go from there. only the smartest kids we are told to get into yale. like incandescent mines like cory booker and chris cuomo. nerds they call themselves with false modesty. the ordinary among us meanwhile go to rutgers.

in this country the hard truth is, and get used to it, pal. is the most impressive, naturally rise to the top, that's what they tell us. do you still believe that or, are we and starting to suspect that the whole meritocracy speech might be an elaborate justification for keeping mediocre people in charge? before you make up your mind on the question, consider russia. it's not the nation of russia that hasn't changed in a while, russia is still a cold and vodka soaked and only margina marginay relevant place. and to them, versus the most single most important country in the world. and, that he stopped a u.s.

senator in his tracks and all but accused him of spying for russia. watch this exchange. >> in december 2018 a ukrainian court ruled that ukrainian officials had violated ukrainian law by meddling in our election. that was reported in "the new york times." >> according to "the new york times" a couple weeks ago, u.s. senators were briefed that actually this entire effort to frame the ukraine for the russian meddling of 2016, of which you just made this case that they've done it. actually, this is an effort of propaganda and this is a russian intelligence propaganda campai campaign. and that helps people like you to say things about ukraine. are you at all concerned that you are doing russia intelligence work here? the one while g chuck, now that you put it that way. that's pretty funny.

but what's funnier or weirder is, we now know it's not really a story. it never happened, there was no collusion. russia didn't pack our democracy. the whole thing, and that's unexpected defeat in the last presidential election. and that's the russia conspiracy theory. that and that conspiracy theory has died and was killed in fact by robert mueller. and that's the steering information of the public and informational. people like that could be contrite and maybe even humbled after the mueller report came out and proved to years of hyperventilation wrong. but no.

they are more obsessed with russia than they have ever been. chuck todd went full joe mccarthy yesterday. >> the fact that russia was so aggressive did not exclude the fact that president poroschenko actively worked for secretary clinton. now if i'm wrong -- my goodness. senator kennedy, you now have the president of the ukraine saying he actively worked for the democratic senator. you realize the only other person settling this argument outside of the united states is this man, vladimir putin. >> tucker: vladimir putin. are you now or have you ever been upon a vladimir putin? you would think -- they would say things like that out loud but of course they never do. not only are these people unwise and hysterical, they are also kind of dumb. and because shifting mental gears is hard for dumb people,

people are still pretending that russia collusion is the most important story there is. it's like robert mueller never delivered his report. >> donald trump takes -- he's acting as a russian asset. he's amplifying talking points put together by the kremlin. >> i can't come up with a possible explanation for all of these elected officials seem to just want to turn our government over to vladimir putin. >> this time the enemy is russia which seems to have consumed one of america's great political parties. >> the constitution is a piece of paper that they would rather rip up or cut into segments rather than defend this country at all costs. and, they joined the bad guys in the world, and the republicans at-large seem to be okay with

it. >> that was led by a kremlin asset. the words of been ex-communist dictator, rather than any person in america. we are in danger. this is really irresponsible. keep in mind that everything we just play do aired in the past two weeks. if you excluded debunked conspiracy theories, could any of these people actually tell you why vladimir putin is so b bad? why is he so bad? he's bad. todd says, speak slowly so i can understand. what makes vladimir putin worse than a whole long list of american allies? let's try the king of saudi arabia for example were the people who run the emirates. the people who are on that payroll. why is he worse than them? they couldn't answer that. for chuck todd and the rest of

the dummies, vladimir putin is isn't a real person with country and police comic he's a living metaphor. and let's put his picture on the screen. can we get his picture on the screen? please. the irony of course is that prudent for all his faults does not hate america is much as many of these people do. they really dislike our country. and they call other people traders? because they are mouthing the talking points of prudent. these are people who don't know anything about russia, who don't speak russian. who couldn't identify three in russia. the rest of the world is not quite that dumb, as dumb as that may be, it's not quite that dumb. the french president, he has called nato "brain-dead" because nato exist to provide common defense and yet it has with the fall of the soviet union in 1991, nuclear energ entity.

in the united states, he has said to have closer relationships with russia, not more hostile ones. so does that make him a stooge of prudent? is he a puppet of moscow? or could he just be rational leader, the kind that we don't have looking out for his country's interest. russia is not america's main -- and the united states ought to be in a relationship with russia aligned against china. china is currently murdering tens of thousands of americans every year with fentanyl. it's pushing our life expectancy down. that's how profound a threat this is. many of our politicians run interference. in california, politicians

boycott, he denies that china is a dictatorship at all. watch this. >> china is doing a lot. >> they are now moving glance away from the city's, and the communist party wants to stay in power and china and they listen to the public. public says i can't bring breathe the air. he has to satisfy his constituents or he's not going to survive. >> he's not a dictator? >> he has a constituency to answer to. >> tucker: speaking of stooge stooges, the dictator is not a dictator. that is prima facie disqualifying and yet no one has even noticed. bloomberg's comments have gotten not 1% of anything russia

related. though that tape makes you wonder, most of washington is already in the tank for china. the emperors are gone, and congressman, is it odd to you having serve this country for a while and lived in it even longer, and they don't agree with doing the bidding of russia. like where did this come from. >> nothing surprises me with some of the mainstream. this and more sanctions on russia than ever before and this white house who gave the ukraine tank busting javelin missiles which the previous white house, the obama administration wouldn't do and somehow, the president is saying this white house will help prudent, that's the most ridiculous claim i've ever heard.

and i loved your monologue, i think you nailed it exactly right. >> tucker: i should say for the record that i'm totally opposed to these sanctions and i don't think we should be at war with russia. we should probably take the side of russia. >> tell me why -- it can't be both. so look. you have -- the obama administration, he said president trump -- i don't get their logic at all but, i don't get much of what they are doing. they've been putting the nation through over the last several months. >> tucker: wouldn't you think -- there would be at least a moment where people say,

probably concede that we were wrong. we could continue to bombard you with allegations about russia. >> you are never going to get that especially from folks that you highlight a new monologue, they just double down and keep pushing on. and that's what you see from the democratic party. and what did he do? he moved on to the whole ukraine story that we've now been living there for the past two months. they never backed up and apologized, they never admitted they were wrong, they kept pressing forward. when she called that imposter that's a problem.

they've never accepted that fact, and they are out to get them. they go from one thing to the other and they never apologize when they are wrong. > >> tucker: things are getting radical and crazy. john davis, cofounder of "the federalist" who has covered the russian nonsense from day one pretty ably. he joins us tonight. so, maybe this is an unknowable question but what is the obsession with russia? what kind of mind frame would you need in order to conclude that russia was the greatest threat america faces. that seems insane to me given the evidence. >> i think it is a little bit insane and i think it goes to the fact that after the 2016 election when donald trump beat hillary clinton there was some kind of psychotic mental break among the collective democratic mind where they couldn't accept that donald trump had fairly and squarely beaten hillary clinton. they came up with some sort of excuse or some rationale to explain how the big bad orange

man could have taken down the political savior. they couldn't accept that she was unpopular so they had to come up with some of these increasingly bizarre political theories to explain the failure between her and trump. the more deranged and delusional they get, it's a real problem. at some point i wish they would sit them down and tell them they could get some help. >> america needs help i would say assembling a coalition to oppose the single most aggressive and fastest growing country in the world. the greatest threat to us which is china. why wouldn't we enlist them? >> honestly i don't think a lot of these people care about national security. it's absurd to say, they might be run by a madman, but to say they are the number one threat is absurd. it's clearly china and they are

taking over wide swaths of the sea over there. they are belligerent toward our allies and they are stealing our goods and our trademarks and our intellectual property. then they are rushing in illegal drugs and opiates and, it's absurd that anyone would ever look at russia or any other country for that matter. we actually need a single unified cohesive plan to counter china because they are the threats in the next entry in our country. >> tucker: thanks for that sean davis. richard goodstein is a advisor and a frequent guest to our sh show. just the other day, some of our finance plutocrats were over in china sucking up to xi jinping and the elderly fascist leadership of that country which is flooding our nation with deadly drugs. nobody said anything about it which was totally cool.

>> the fact of the matter is i think they look to the government to be the ones whether it's about flooding the funk country with vents and all are other things and i think they look to this administration to do it and frankly they are a little wanton in that regard. so should they be? yeah. if you are a business person and want to be a stand up, you should say something. >> this is not a small esoteric thing, this is like the head of every fund in new york. every private equity guy, they are all over they are doing this. if they all went to iran tomorrow or russia tomorrow, do you think someone would say something? >> obviously every private sector entity has a certain moral that they want to observe. >> russia and iran, neither one of them has murdered, i don't

know, 50,000 americans in the last year and a china with fentanyl. there is no call for sanctioning china, why is that i wonder? >> we talked about for the first 15 minutes about how russia is kind of harmless or better than that. again, boot and murderous journalists and birders opponents, murders people in the u.k. and attacks our democracy. somehow or other, it's like boys will be boys. actually no. i don't think people see it that way. >> tucker: i don't want to live in putin's russia, i don't. i live in d.c. for a reason, because i like it here. saudi arabia has a much greater foreign policy than russia ever has and yet, half of washington is on the saudi payroll. and nobody says anything about it because they are lying hypocrites. why shouldn't someone say something?

>> i think a lot of people in the private sector said something when he was hacked up. the fact that this administration didn't is shameful. >> tucker: why don't we spend a full hour on the show and read slowly a list of the names of d.c. residents, republicans and democrats who takes out a money. if you had at russia influenci influencing, that would be full-blown crisis. >> the problem is, our president says he trusts putin over our intelligence agencies and that's a problem. he says i don't know why russia would attack our democracy and then they say thinking we are all say, they wouldn't. so when nancy pelosi says all roads lead to prudent, she's onto something. >> do you think russia is a bigger threat to the

united states? >> the fact is, i don't think china is out to undermine our democracy because they are not as offended by our democracy as putin is. putin and china -- so who hacks more government agencies? russia or china? >> except for the fact that mueller and the committee run by republicans, russia is the one trying to undermine the democracy. i'm not saying china is blameless -- >> tucker: could it be because they have overseen the greatest sellout of the americas? i would say that richard burr is part of the problem and i would say more broadly that what you see in the past 20 years as a systematic betrayal of america beginning with china's admission into the wto where our entire duck industrial sector

collapsed. a small number of people got rich doing it and they've never been punished and they should be. if it includes republican senators, good to. >> and i'm saying everyone in the republicans establishment is pointing fingers. >> tucker: because they are stupid and corrupt. joe biden is still pulling at the top of the democratic race, why is that? some amazing and baffling sickness from joe biden which thankfully are hilarious. don't miss it, we will be right back.

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>> tucker: remember corn pop? one of the greatest stories of all time, joe biden story. he told the group about booting a small-time delaware gangster from a wilmington pool. the whole thing was so weird that nobody noticed until just the other day that biden was saying a lot of other weird stuff too and exactly the same time. stuff about here, for example. >> and by the way, you know i sit on the stand. i get hot, i have hairy legs. that turned blonde in the sun. and the kids used to come up and reach in to the pool and rub my leg down so they could wash the hair come back up again. i learned about roaches and kids sitting on my lap, and i love kids jumping on my lap. >> i don't want to focus on it too much, and biden also claimed

he was ready to take on kim jong un thanks to their many past interactions. >> putin has no illusions about whether i know him or not. the same with the president of china, xi jinping. we spend a lot of time with these folks. they know, they know. and they know that i know. >> and, it's not on this plane of reality, and maybe biden is just getting old. maybe this is a new avant-garde art form. no malarkey.

that question and others. >> he paid some fancy consultant $30 million. they tried out in the eyewash tour which pulled quite well with african-americans i belie believe. and that they tried the no fat doodle tour and that actually worked well with some feminist. the final one, i think this would have been the one to go to. the no cockamamie fiddle final,

dag nab it tour, which documented really strongly. it's a critical constituency for biden in iowa. we talk about the moderate lane, the socialist lane, the even more moderate lane but the hairy leg lane has been wide open since beto instagram himself shaving his legs back in our august, and, that was an opening with this soup legged candidate. >> and its absolutely nothing

weird about sitting a 7-year-old boy on your lap and inviting you him to smooth down your leg hair and then watching it rise again. i believe in fact that 7-year-old boy was the junior lifeguard at the pool, yu young kim jong un. and that's why he is terrified of biden. this is like the macro political question his primary goal of getting the nomination for whatever party he belongs to. >> i think the balance helps him. if we he weren't crazy and talking gibberish, we would be talking about how corrupt and squalid he and his family are.

and hunter buy in and wanted to charge them $40. >> tucker: i should let my viewers know that none of this is scripted. i don't just throw out whatever comes out to the top of my head and those are your responses. >> it's like a biden campaign appearance. mark steyn, thank you. >> despite all the tape we just played you, which is real, joe biden remains quite competitive in the democratic race.

over the weekend in north carolina, pete buttigieg who is apparently a mayor of a small town in the midwest nodded along while a member of the audience explained that actually there's no such thing as an illegal immigrant because america itself is a claiming what was taken from them in the first place. watch mayor pete's head nod as this person speaks. >> whenever people say we call people illegal aliens and all these things that are not human or certainly not christian, why can't we just own in america, the people that are trying to come from mexico here are coming back to the land we stole. we have to have some hysterical comic historical clarity. >> tucker: keep in mind that's one of our christian leaders. the radio show comic in indiana,

are you surprised by this? mayor pete nodding along and who ever this character is goes on about illegal? >> no one who actually listens to pete buttigieg is surprised. he is a radical and he is locked up in policy with warren and sanders. and it's only a question of how fast pete buttigieg wants to go. he also comes from this very radical place. they tried to ping him as a centrist and a moderate, and if you are nodding along with the idea that reverend barbara put out there, that the reason and that is a radical, radical position -- >> what is he saying, the conquistadors and

their descendants have a profound claim on texas. he's first desperate for that boat, is desperate for the black vote. he knows he has a problem. these are two people who are very much when he was mayor of south bend, there was a pro-life center that went in and got zoning approval, and he vetoed it. so this is very much in his belly with to try to wax intellectual and be like him, you bring up a very good point reverend barbara, window actual point is made and certainly there is no truth into the claim

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>> tucker: the left wants power as you know, that's a given. that's the whole reason for

existing, really. the problem is finding a good excuse for seizing power. these days their favorite excuses is climate change. that's something that you are willing to precisely define and for good reason. they launched an anti-global warming coalition called world of zero saying it's just as important as beating adolf hitler, and the only way to win the war is to get the left total control over the economy, your country and your life. our voters actually ready to give up power over their own life to john kerry and friends? a new poll suggests maybe they are not. justin haskins' head of the editorial institute. give us a sense of the public's view of this. john kerry and others are totally unwilling to have a conversation rooted in science. they said they speak in airy and historical generalities.

what does the public think of that? >> what we found in our recent poll is that less than half of all likely voters, all of the efforts in academia and all of the efforts by political losers like john kerry to try to convince people that there is an x essential climate change crisis headed our way 80 years into the future or 12 years into the future if you believe alexandria ocasio-cortez. despite half of that up less than half of likely voters say that they believe there is a human caused climate change crisis and it's much less than half of independents. these are the people that democrats need to win. i don't mean to give them political advice but if they have any chance at all of winning in 2020, and yet they don't seem to get that memo. >> tucker: this is a world were against climate change. the single largest polluter and all matter of co2 by far is china.

this doesn't make any sense to me, try to unravel it if you could. >> john kerry said they need to mobilize an army. while here's what you could do without army. invade china, invaded india. because those are the people who are producing significantly more co2 emissions than we are here in the united states. >> they are causing a climate crisis. of course not. >> tucker: so they are for declaring war on themselves but not for the people causing the crisis. >> this has nothing to do, they know that co2 emissions are causing not and they don't believe that it is. they know that there is nothing they can do in the united states, absolutely nothing. nothing that europe can do. absolutely nothing. it's all in the hands of china, india and countries like that

and yet you never hear john kerry speak a word about that. it's all about with the united states has to do. they want us to commit economic suicide in order to have more political power. that's what this is all about. >> you sound like bloomberg, making excuses about the fact that china is building a new coal power to power plants. it's honestly confusing. >> it is confusing if you are trying to approach this with logic. this isn't logical, it's all about power and control. and right now, china is not a convenient enemy. a convenient enemy is russia. if russia was doing all of this you can bet that narrative would be completely different. >> tucker: vodka make and doesn't a lot of co2. cities across america are getting dirtier and more

dangerous thanks to radical proclaim, criminal prosecutors. why is this happening? it's happening because certain people are paying for it. we will tell you who they are and why, after the break. if you see wires down,

treat them all as if they are hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. >> tucker: in cities across the country left-wing extremists are becoming of all things, prosecutors. they are getting elected on an agenda that favors criminals over decent people and undermines the rule of law. how is this happening? is there suddenly a grass national groundswell of support for crime and lawlessness? no, there is not. most americans believe in order and they always have. what's happening is an end run around democracy. a small group of left-wing mega-donors is drowning local elections with tidal waves of

cash. as it turns out, that works. we've already told you in some detail about how hunger hungarian billionaire george soros got to gary krasner elected district attorney in philadelphia. violence in that city immediately and predictably went up. people died and in philadelphia they have. by any measure the larry krasner experiment has been on ugly disaster. they'd like to bring it to your account and they are trying to do that. chesa boudin was elected d.a. in san francisco. even dirtier and more chaotic. he pledged to effectively legalize, and he dismissed the prosecution of criminal gang

members as a "especially racist." although he didn't explain how. he promised to do away with cash bail entirely. even in america's most flamboyantly liberal city, this was too much for a lot of people. when you tear down the justice system only the criminals thrive and everyone knows that. been in the end, he was elected anyway by a narrow margin. how did he do that? with a committed backing of silicon valley's ruling crash, class, he won the support of caitlin krieger. krieger who was a living parody of a silly out of touch rich lady gave him $27,000. it's hard to imagine she wouldn't have done that if she had the possibility of living with the consequences of it but of course there wasn't any chance of that. she was a billionaire. she could live behind the gates and protected by her own police force if she wanted to.

the same is true of elizabeth simons, daughter of hedge fund leader james simons. if you sense a trend here that's because there is a trend here. scratch the surface and you will find that the destruction of california has been paid for by the very rich. the guilt racked heirs of inherited fortunes have long been a major force in left-wing politics of course, and the more they despise themselves, the more left-wing they tended to be. what's new is the burgeoning coastal billionaire class. over time through hard work and innovation, conservatively they have political instincts. people like that understand they have hit the lottery. they have earned it all fair and square, but deep down they know it's a crock. so to settle their conch consciences they found radical

causes. you pay the price in the end. this is how proposition 47 was passed in california in 2014. since it became law, crime has surged in california. on the bay area rapid transit system for example, violent crime has more than doubled. murders, assaults and have jumped by 114%. and that's more than any place in size in the country. why because criminals understand the rules. they know they can't be punished. authorities and sacrament as they the members of shoplifting rings bring calculators into stores to make sure that thefts come in under $950. the law allows them to steal with impunity.

how did it happen? you know the answer. the money left about the election. george soros brought in $2 million. the storage tycoon gave another 1.2 million. as did venture capitalist nick pritzker. sean parker gave a hundred thousand to the effort. terry thune, wife of dustin moskowitz gave 150,000. that allowed him to become a billionaire while still in his 20s. moskowitz and his wife are now reportedly worth more than $12 billion. now if that sounds like a lot, possibly an obscene amount for 35-year-old who separately done anything, moskowitz agrees with you or pretends to agree. ". and i are stories of this capital, he told business

insider a few years ago. it belongs to the world. just because all that money belongs to the world, it doesn't mean the world gets to decide how it spent. ask him and he ruling class they could care less about what happens to ordinary people and ordinary parts of america. thanks to the projects they fund the country streets are danger, dirtier and more dangerous. the moskowitz's feel like incredibly good people and in virtually enlightened people and that's what matters. in fact that's all that matters. lisa page plodded with her boyfriend to stop a from presidency and now she's talking out loud for the first time. hear what she says, coming up next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: lisa page, former fbi lawyer said a bunch of text messages during the 2006 campaign, and then we never heard from her. what did she say? trace gallagher knows the answer, he is here to tell us. >> former fbi attorney lisa page says she is done being quiet after the president of the united states called her names. his attacks are "sickening." it was so hard not to defend myself and let people who hate me control the narrative. i decided to take my power back. conservative critics wonder why she decided to control her

narrative by giving your first interview to molly john fast of "the daily beast." in anti-trump journalist who often mocks the president on twitter and says hillary clinton's presidential loss was the worst night of her life. during her interview, lisa page defends her text messages within fbi agent peter strzok who she was having an affair, in 2016, writing "trump is never going to become president, right? right!" and strzok responds "no, no, we will stop it." want to believe the path you throughout, that being deputy director andrew mccabe that there is no way he gets elected, but i'm afraid that we cannot take the risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die before your 40. lisa page says that techs were taken out of contest the mimetic context, but she fails to explain the context. this is before michael horwitz is said to put out his report on

the trump-russia investigation that some believe will be. finally we should note that we don't know where lisa page is currently working, but we are working on it, tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, 3:00 p.m., incurring all this week. good to see. back tomorrow, apm, sean hannity right now. >> sean: ra, tucker, thank you. welcome to "hannity," we start with a top news alert. a tonight bombshell story surrounding the deep state and the upcoming fisa report, expected one week from tonight. this might explain everything paired remember, we were supposed to be getting the fisa report in may, june, july, august, et cetera, et cetera. ag barr said he expected the report in may. if the report we are learning about tonight is true, we might now have an explanation for the entire hold up. look at this. "the washington post" is reporting that attorney general bill barr has expressed disagreement with the key finding i in the upcoming inspector general report surrounding the