because the american public. >> martha: mercedes, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> martha: that's "the story" september 3rd. see you tomorrow night as "the story" goes on. tucker is up next in d.c. good night. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and buck to "tucker carlson tonight." we have momentous news this evening from the world of democratic politics. senator kamala harris of california has ended her presidential campaign. what does this mean for america, you ask. where do we go from here? who will lead this nation forward through darkness into light? all good and fair questions. in time, once passions have cooled and despair is con jeeld into a sorrowful wisdom we will know the answers. for now it's enough to pause and celebrate what was a brief but electric moment the single most profound and transformative if scripted moment in the history of this country. here can you relive the

blessed moment how the wise men of our press corps heralded the arrival of our new messiah kamala d. harris. >> the person she sounds like the most is barack obama. >> she wants to speak truth and to defend the america. she says she knows and believes. in. >> kamala harris is now running for president. and she is one of the top tier candidates. >> there is a new challenger to trump and she is drawing huge crowds senator kamala harris of california kicked off her campaign this weekend surrounded by look at that crowd. trump must be envious as hell. >> they are not white guys. about time. i think it's diverse and we have two african-americans in this race. >> what struck me was her word choice. how she kept on saying we, we, we. >> i think she is going to be top tier right out of the gate. >> tucker: hear that? top tier right out of the gate. so stupid. almost unbelievable. and yet it is a measure of

the media's ability at least in the short-term to sell almost anything, even something as synthetic as totally synthetic as the kamala harris for president campaign. they did. because for a while harris looked like a real candidate. at one point she even seemed to dominate a debate. remember this attack? >> i'm gonna now direct this at vice president biden. i do not believe you are a racist. but, you also worked with them to oppose busing. and, you know, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public school. and she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> tucker: you know, they used to say you could leave a twinkie outside forever and it would never get rigid because it was that fake. that was kamala harris. but what you just saw turned out to be the apogy of her

campaign. it evaporated making joe biden look bad isn't much of an accomplishment. it's not that hard. harris had to admit that actually she didn't really herself support mandatory school busing because voters of all colors hate it because it's actually insane. pretty soon tulsi gabbard was attacking harris for her past as a prosecutor. then it was all over. harris was mired in the single digits. she never got out of them. campaign was doomed. by october harris knew she was done. she started making preemptive excuses for failing chanks of getting picked as somebody else's vice president. the problem she complained was how racist and sexist america is. >> what i describe and what i believe to be the elephant in the room about my campaign. >> what is that? >> electability. >> what do you mean? >> electability. you know, essentially is america ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the united states? >> america was ready for a black man to be president of the united states. >> and this conversation happened for him. there is a lack of ability

or a difficulty in imagining that someone who we have never seen can do a job that has been done, you know, 45 times by someone who is not that person. >> tucker: okay. makes a lot of sense. good point kamala harris. wait a second, joe biden, who is white, is getting far more support from black voters than kamala harris ever did. so that means that america is racist? how exactly does that work? never mind. stop asking questions. a logic is bigotry. listen instead to msnbc explain how the failure of some silly dill tant's campaign means that america itself is bad. >> the narrative around the democratic primary very bullish towards white male candidates and lukewarm on women and minorities. >> for some reason the media seem fixated on issues about her campaign and her electability that we don't see with other men and there is no other reason that you can explain it, i believe,

other than sexism. >> i think this is sort of silly journalism. under lying that is this deep level of sexism that's out there. more of it on the republican side. >> there is a very serious problem and i believe that it has everything to do with the fact that she is a woman and she is a black woman and black woman of mixed heritage being indian as well. it seems so difficult for people to get past the fact that she is not a white male. >> tucker: yeah. it was very difficult for people to get passed that fact. that's the thing that really hated about kamala harris that she wasn't a white male. black voters hate it especially. they were enraged by it. and that's why they back joe biden as a form of protest. keep going, msnbc. tell us more about how the civil rights thing works. wait a second, cnn wants to jump in on this, too. go ahead jeff zucker channel. what exactly is kamala harris' failure mean to you? >> we are going to be ending the year with a lot of older candidates, several white candidates. so this is something that certainly the field is not

ending inasmuch as a diverse fashion as it started in. >> i thought that was a really interesting point jeff made this becomes an older and whiter field for the top field candidates. >> it certainly does. the field is looking a lot whiter and a lot older. >> tucker: oh, whiter. day by day the progressive brain is shrinking like apple left in the sun. for the left there are now only three possible explanations for why things on earth happen. racism, sexism, or russia. if phenomena cannot be attributed to one of these three things the left is baffled like a dog staring into the middle. racism, sexism, putin, nothing else is real. what's a limited world view to put it mildly. in fact there could be other reasons that kamala harris failed. just the other day, for example, the "new york times" profiled its campaign as it went through death rattles. details like this one. extensive polling led harris

to believe there was great value in the word truth so she titled her 2019 memoir the truths we hold. no word on whether she actually read the memoir. continuing the quote and made the similar phrase the centerpiece of her early stump speech. let's speak truth. for once the "new york times" was not exaggerating. that's what she did. watch this. >> one of the most important values that i think we must fight for is to speak truth. to speak truth. >> we have to speak truth about it? >> we speak truth and we are loyal. >> that we speak truth. >> let's speak truth. >> let's speak another truth. >> let's speak truth. >> we must all speak truth. >> so let's speak some truth. and we need to speak that truth. so we can deal with it. >> let's speak another truth. let's speak truth about our economy. >> and let's speak the biggest truth. the biggest truth of all.

>> tucker: so here's a little quiz for those of you at home thinking some day about running for president. is it enough, if you want to be president, simply to repeat the same word over and over and over and over again like a magic? will that get you elected president? probably not. more details from the "new york times" piece we are quoting now. she dropped the saying about truth out of a belief that voters wanted something less gauzy. today her aides are given to gallows humor about just how many slogans and one-liners she has cycled through. 3:00 a.m. summer before the trump focused justice winter. go on. pretty hilarious. it would be unfair to blame the failure of her campaign just on messaging. the substance was off, too. harris campaigned, you will remember, maybe you don't, on a teacher pay raise and a middle class tax cut but then found out to her surprise those policies didn't seem to be resonating for democratic primary

voters. then she was down playing her own ideas and trying to find a new persona for herself. in other words, and this is the problem, kamala harris is a 55-year-old woman who still has no freaking clue who she is or what she actually cares about. that's why she lost. and thank god she did. quinton james founder of checkive pact. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. explain if you could, how kamala harris losing to joe biden among black voters is evidence that smirk racist? >> tucker, thanks for having me on. first of all, man, that entire monologue was extremely disrespectful. let me tell you why. >> tucker: i mental it to be. she is a politician. i get to disrespect her if i want. >> unfortunately, as a person of color in this country, we have to work twice as hard. get twice as many credentials only to be able to be given an opportunity to work or play on a field where the goal posts are moved. but if you are rich and white in this country, you

can buy things on when you don't have credentials. >> tucker: i went to college. i heard the lecture but maybe you can answer a simple question why are black voters not supporting kamala harris. >> i will get. >> tucker: spare me the academic crap. everyone is bored of it. >> considering the issue of voting for joe biden or kamala harris or cory booker same way voted or hillary clinton or barack obama. is racism. black voters would rather put the question mark of what will white voters do? will white voters be okay with the black candidate? maybe not. maybe it's only safe to vote for the white guy. and that is the country we live. in and that is why kamala harris was forced out of this campaign because institutional racism. >> tucker: wait, wait. >> we hear about every week, tucker. that's why we are in this moment right now. >> tucker: i'm sorry, when you are on my set you will have to the a least make points that logical people can understand.

>> correct. >> tucker: i will ask to you explain them. so far you haven't managed to do that. >> you asked me a question about black voters and i gave you an answer. >> tucker: how is it the fault of conservatives that african-americans. >> i didn't say conservatives. >> tucker: african-americans and democrats supported joe biden over harris. >> i didn't say conservatives. i said black voters in south carolina are concerned about what will white voters think at the polls? >> tucker: how do you know that? you so i-slow down. you are making a claim. where -- do you have evidence of this? >> what we saw in 2008 when white voters said you know what? we think this barack obama guy is serious. black voters overnight switched their support from hillary clinton to barack obama. >> tucker: hold on. is there i -- i covered the 2008 campaign. i don't think you did. i'm asking -- hold on. i'm asking for actual. you want to be treated like a rational adult who understands what he is talking about i'm doing that and i'm asking you for evidence to back up what you just said. you said white voters are

afraid to support kamala harris because of racism. where is the evidence for that? >> i'm sorry, what? white voters are -- what i'm saying. >> tucker: black voters you claim are afraid to support kamala harris, where is the evidence? >> white are black voters not supporting kamala harris or cory booker in this? number one, they haven't voted yet. that's number one. two, what we are seeing right now with the races in the white house, the white supremacist in the white house folks are concerned about how are white voters going to vote. right? and if i'm going to cast a ballot for somebody, i got to take into consideration what the country is going to do. and so, yeah. black voters are concerned about white people right now. >> tucker: i get this is your little pet theory. i'm asking do you have actual evidence. do you have polling data. >> i gave you an example what happened in 2008. >> tucker: 2008 was almost 12 years ago. >> it's the last time we had a competitive democratic primary with black candidates. >> tucker: no evidence in 2008 that just happened. >> i just gave you an example. >> tucker: i covered it.

you didn't. >> i was on the campaign. i saw it happen. >> tucker: are you going to seriously graham with what happenegrapple.oh it's the racie voters. huh? >> here is another fact, tucker in 2008, we saw the most diverse congress elected in history. what we also saw black women congressional candidates on average raised a million dollars less than white woman running for congress. why is that? why does a candidate's race still impact how much money they raise? >> tucker: i don't know you have to ask democrat voters in hollywood. your analysis is so shallow and dumb it's hard to believe that you put on tv as expert on this stuff. >> why aren't there any black women in congress elected as republican? >> tucker: i don't want to have a conversation about your super shallow racial views. i want to ask real questions about politics. you don't have answers. i'm afraid this is boring and not getting anywhere. >> i'm sorry, tucker.

>> tucker: dave rubin hosts the youtube. there is a serious question here. i don't always lose patience with guests. maybe there is another explanation other than racism, sexism and russia. it's just too limited world view for me. i'm bored. so what's the actual explanation? why did kamala harris lose? >> well, tucker, let's speak truth here. right? let's speak truth. the reason that kamala harris is out is because she was a horrible candidate. >> tucker: yeah. >> she is an authoritarian, and that was very obvious to the progressives who are authoritarian. the irony of everything that you have said in the lead-in here is for all of the people on msnbc and cnn and all the blue check twitter atti calling everyone racist and sexist. do you they realize this was a democratic primary. so they are calling the democrats racist. it's one thing they usually just call the conservatives racist and the trump supporters racist and the rest of it. they are actually calling

themselves racist now. they are calling themselves sexist now. kamala there is many reasons. tulsi really took her out. >> tucker: i noticed. >> that was one of the real moments and i don't think she ever recovered from that. the moment for me was when they were talking about banning assault rifles as an executive action and joe biden said the correct answer, which is that if you are going to do something, it has to be constitutional and she smugly smiled and joked oh, joe can't we say yes we can no, we can't. we still do have the constitution here. and while i often wonder if the progressives care about the constitution at all. i think a lot of people saw that moment and said whoa, this woman wants to do things that have nothing to do with the prescribed powers of the executive branch. so she was a terrible candidate and for anyone calling the rest of the democrats racist and sexist right now. you might be right but you might want to look in the

mirror. >> tucker: yeah. she was totally shallow person who had no idea who she was and why she wanted it be president. ted kentucky derby 1980. waste of all of our times. if not for the press we wouldn't have taken her seriously in the first place. dave rubin a speaker of truth on this topic. good to see result. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: new report said bill and hillary clinton traveled to the jeffrey epstein sex ranch. you can't make this stuff up. trace gallagher has details on these bizarre new developments. stay tuned for that.

♪ >> tucker: bill clinton spent an awful lot of time

with jeffrey epstein on private plane then told us he had no idea that jeffrey epstein was a sexual predator. no idea. it wasn't very plausible now a new report indicates the relationship was even closer than anyone knew before. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has all the details for us tonight. trace? >> jeffrey epstein's new mexico ranch has been compared to the series west world it has elaborate cowboy themed village also doved baby making ranch "new york times" reported that epstein wanted to simultaneously impregnant 20 girls at the ranch to improve the human race. only epstein property he ever stayed in was his new york city town whom. security expert brought in to set up surveillance systems at the ranch tells the daily mail that bill clinton frequently visited there and hillary and chelsea clinton also visited on a number of occasions. the security guy says the former first family stayed at a guest house in the

cowboy village not the main house. the security expert also reportedly says the former president was epstein's closest, quote: celebrity mate. and virginia roberts, the woman who claims prince andrew had sex with her multiple times while she was 17 also says she saw bill clinton on jeffrey epstein's private island for a dinner held in clinton's honor. clinton and his spokesperson deny that. though bill clinton says he only flew on epstein's private plane four times even though flight logs show he took 26 flights on the so-called low leta express. bill clinton's office maintains he did not know anything about epstein's crimes. the security expert by the way also said that on some parts of the ranch, surveillance cameras were not allowed. tucker. >> tucker: thanks, trace. great to see you tonight tammy bruce hosts and she joins us tonight. some pars of the epstein

ranch surveillance cam ares were not allowed. >> i bet. >> tucker: what do you make of all of this. so creepy i can barely stand it? >> we are both laughing because this is so creepy. creepy dark laugh that it's inexplicable. here is what is fascinating. the focus has been on bill clinton and the flights he is taking. this story clearly places hillary clinton in that same realm. but it's not just that dynamic. here now we have hillary clinton with a link to jeffrey epstein. we clearly know of a strong link with her and harvey weinstein. ronan farrell just this week came out with an admission that not only, of course, we know through his book that she tried to have associate push him off of the weinstein story, but now he is saying that their relationship changed after he investigated weinstein. so this is not a woman who is caught up in some kind of a circle and is shocked by what is going on. she tried to punish ronan

farrell for doing his investigation and now while she has never talked about epstein to say nothing of her husband's. all three men clearly accused of rape. other two sex trafficking. how does that work that hillary clinton is in the link with all of those men while maxwell, the associate of epstein is effectively a fugitive. her life is over. prince andrew's life is over. his daughter's lives they won't be royals and won't have the same future as expected. bill clinton is still being urged to run for president. she is the only one with links to all three of those men. >> tucker: if she runs, do you think it would be fair to ask her this ranch apparently had an 8-person quote party shower. i would ask if i were covering the campaign. what do you know about this? did you ever see the 8 person party shower? did you ever see it?

what were you doing there. >> basic questions. is it a coincidence that these are the men in her life? >> tucker: great point. >> what is it about these men that she thought was fine but then why find out that two of them, at least, perhaps two of the protest prolific abusers of women and rapists in last half a century. >> tucker: i know you are not a mat mathematician. i don't want to put you on the spot. what do you think the odds of that are? >> i think i would probably in one day be struck by lightning and win the lottery. those odds are higher than this -- these choices who you associate with is a choice. and she has made remarkable choices and interestingly, these two men also relied on a unique kind of protection that we still don't understand the perfectly. how did they get away with what they did for so long. >> tucker: it's a great question. >> they have a common thread. that common thread is named hillary. yet, we keep focusing on bill. i would say that these kind

of questions. this is just the surface, i'm sure. we need to ask those questions and she should be asked them and she should answer them because. >> tucker: we don't even know where the money came from. how did jeffrey epstein get so rich? how did he afford an 8 person party shower to new mexico and molestation island? i thought we had a press corps in this country. if you can't answer that question, you know. i know nothing to do with ukraine. it might be worth noting. >> if we are willing to ruin various lives of people associated with him. why is a woman who seems now to be associated with him not facing the same scrutiny as other -- and she is. >> tucker: great question. >> more complicated web than maxwell or prince andrew. we just want some fairness across the board. >> tucker: amen. the great tammy bruce. thank you for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: modern american economy has made people in the finance world very rich. richer than ever before. how is it working out for everyone else? we'll investigate and tell you what hedge funds did to

one small town in nebraska. we went there with cameras. that's after the break. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: if you spent any time driving around america recently, you may have noticed that an awful lot of america seems to have slind up and died. take a drive around maine look at the abandoned paper hill. and elm tri factory ringed

with barbed wire. outside of the coastal cities scenes like this are everywhere. this is your country now. shuttered car dealerships next next to defunct restaurants and methadone clinics. that's america. community after community. huge swaths of the united states look like that now. so what happened? well, a lot of things happened. some of them are complicated and hard to change. but one of the big factors in this slow-moving disaster is the utter transformation of the way our leaders think about the american economy. during the last gilded age, 125 years ago, america's ruling class may have been ostentatiously rich and they were. go to newport rhode island for proof. it was recognizable american class. tycoons accumulated fortunes but they also felt some obligations to the country around them. steel tycoon andrew cancer nationy wrote steel libraries for the edification of people beneath him.

john rockefeller and others set aside huge portions of their wealth and some cases property to make this country better. yellow scone, acadia national park, et cetera. maybe most significantly in january of 1914, henry ford more than doubled the pro-veiling factory rage $5 for 8 hour day. ford didn't have to do that but his company was succeeding and he thought he should. some historians trace the to the american middle class to that decision. it is nearly impossible to imagine a big company doing that attitudes are too different. average finance mogul workers costs to be reduced or eliminated entirely. private equity isn't building a lot of public libraries these days. instead the model is ruthless economic bay distressed company. outsource the jobs. liquidate the valuable assets and fire middle management and once the smoke is dump to the highest

bidder often in asia. happened around the country. made a small number of people phenomenally rich. one of them is a hedge fund manager paul sicker who according to forbes has amassed a personal fortune of $3 billion. how he made that money was by purchasing sovereign debt from financially distressed countries. countries that were in trouble. usually at a massive discount. once the country gains any stability. bombard government with lawsuits and massive public relations campaign originating here in washington until he made his money back with interest. the practice is called vulture capitalism. feeding off the carcass of a dying nation. in some ways not so different what singer and his firm elliott management have done in this country and to this country. over the past couple of decades elliott management has made billions by buying large stakes in american companies, then firing workers, driving up short-term share prices and in some cases taking government bailouts insult to injury. bloomberg news once described singer as quote

the world's most feared investor. and that tells you a lot. no one is even pretending paul singer's tactics are good for anyone but paul singer and his fund. consider the case of delphi, the automotive parts supplier. during the last financial crisis, the consortium of hedge funds including singer's elliott management purchased delphi. with singer and the other funds at the helm, the company took billions of dollars in government bailouts paid for by you. obama's auto czar compared those tactics to extortion. but they continued anyway. once they had the bailout money, the funds moved most of delphi's jobs overseas and then either cut retiree pensions entirely or shifted the cost to taxpayers. with later financial commitments at home and cheap factories abroad, delphi's stock soared. according to investigative reporter greg palace of the 25 delphi plants when they started buying delphi's debt. only four were still operating in the united states by 2012. that means tens of thousands of unionized and white

collar workers lost their jobs. paul singer's hedge fund cashed out for more than a billion dollars. see how that works? well some countries including the united kingdom have banned this kind of behavior. it bears no reaccept blabs whatsoever to the capitalism we were promised in school it. creates nothing. it destroys entire cities. it couldn't be uglier or more destructive. why is it still allow you had in the united states? the short answer because people like paul singer have tremendous influence over our political process. singer himsel himself was the second largest donor to the republican party in 2016. he has given millions to a super pac that supports republican senators. you may never have heard of paul singer which telling you a lot in itself. in washington he is rock star famous. and that may be why he is almost certainly paying a lower effective tax rate than your average firemen just in case you are still wondering if our system is rigged. oh yeah it is. tonight we want to tell you more about how paul singer does business. story begins in a small town

called sydney nebraska. population 6282. two hours outside denver, sydney is the long-time home of a sporting goods retailer cabela's which sells fishing and hunting gear. disclosed 11% stake in da bellas pushing the board to sell the company. cabela's management appearing a long and costly fight with singer announced it would look for a buyer. at the time cabela's was a relatively healthy company. posting nearly $2 billion a year in gross profits off $4 billion in revenue. it didn't seem to be any immediate need to sell. but cabela's sold anyway after being pushed. so one year after singer entered the equation, bass pro shops announced the purchase of cabela's. the company's stock price surged. within a week. literally a week paul singer cashed out. bought the stock for $38 a share. sold it for $63 a share.

his hedge fund made $93 million up front and likely more over time. in sidney, nebraska it was a different story. the residents of sidney did not get rich. just the opposite. town was destroyed. lost nearly 2,000 jobs. heart breakingly familiar cascade began. people left, property values collapsed and then people couldn't leave. they were trapped there. one of the last thriving small townness this country went under. we recently sent two producers to sidney, nebraska to survey the wreckage there and consider what happened. our producers wanted talked to more than a dozen cabela's employees. almost all of them refused to speak to us on camera all fear of paul singer. off camera they told us their story. here it is. >> sidney, it's a great place to be. >> this is sidney, nebraska, a small town two hours outside of denver. for decades the sporting goods retailers cabela's kept his headquarters in

sidney. as the correspondent grew more pros officer russ so did the town. >> big time opportunities. >> tucker: motto was turned on head elliott management hedge fund managed by paul singer took an ownership stake in cabela's. >> when we got the news this company is coming in from new york city and buying a huge stake in cabela's, that shakes things up. >> at the time cabela's was making more than a billion dollars a year. but paul singer's firm sensed it could make a quick buck by driving up the stock price by forging a merger. once thriving town of sidney lost everything. >> i cried the second i got the phone call. i couldn't help it. i bawled. >> tucker: that's how a long time cabela's employee reacted when she losing her job. >> that was my future. and now i didn't really know what my future is. >> probably looking at around 2,000 jobs. >> 2,000 jobs gone? >> tucker: sidney was

devastated. >> he ruined it. a good american town. and just destroyed it. >> tucker: runs the town's lumberyard. before the merger, business was great. >> we were buried, you know, with business. >> tucker: now his customer base has collapsed. >> how many new homes have been built since cabela's and bass pro have merged. >> one. >> one house? >> one hours. >> tucker: before paul singer's hedge fund in its sight. building boost. >> new housing subdivision to meet housing needs. all these great things are happening. instead, we are working our tails off to try to figure out a way to survive. >> tucker: people of sidney, it's been a disaster. those who want to leave sidney can't go. housing values are collapsed did he they'ring them there. for those who want to stay it's impossible impossible to find a new job. >> how long did it take you to find a job. >> just shy of five months. >> is it as good as your old

job. >> no. not even close. >> tucker: if sidney collapsed wall street cashed. in singer sold out before the complete. the fund made $100 million. >> they don't care. they don't care about rural nebraska, small town. >> i hope paul singer is proud of what he did. if money is that big of a god to him. he is a pretty sick human being. >> tucker: as we were doing that story, we were warned repeatedly by people around washington, don't criticize paul singer. that's not a good idea. and as that package played i got the following text from a very well-known person in washington. holy smokes i can't believe you are doing. this i'm afraid of powerful singer. we will see what happens. ben sasse, this may point to the point -- the texter was making. ben sasse is a u.s. senator who represents the state of nebraska. sidney isn't that large. you might think the death of his town in his state my might be a concern to ben sasse. a senator from nebraska. so far it doesn't seem like

he has ever commented what happened to sidney. we looked hard and see if there was a time where he commented on the destruction of sidney or supply a statement about what happened there. ben sasse's office didn't even respond to our producers. that's odd. but then here is one possible explanation for that during his senate run, ben sasse received the largest possible donation from paul singer. well, the least impressive people in american media all agree on one thing, people who disagree with them can't be trusted. in fact. they must be working for russia. we will explore the ongoing rebirth of mccarthyism in this country next. ♪ my parents never taught me anything about managing money.

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over on nbc on one of the sunday shows that people used to pay attention to but no longer do. u.s. senator john kennedy of louisiana was on there along with chuck todd who was the host he made an argument he didn't like. he didn't rebutt the argument. not capable of that. instead of he did what so many he accused senator kennedy of being an agent of russia. >> senator kennedy, you now have a president of ukraine saying he actively worked for the democratic nominee for president. i mean, now, come on. i mean, i have got to put up. you realize the only other person selling this argument outside of the united states is this man vladimir putin. >> tucker: so in a normal time, we would all recognize that for what it was. an embarrassing and low moment. accusing people without evidence under of cover of journalism of acting on behalf of a foreign government? there is a name for that actually it's called mccarthyism. we went through a period where that happened. we learned nothing, apparently or the left didn't.

that's literally what it is mccarthyism. after calling people racist. it's the press' new favorite baseless allegation to throw around. nor evidence of that yesterday on msnbc. one of their anchors and one of their guests agreed that senator kennedy must be working for moscow. must be. watch this. in defiance of facts, intelligence assessment, reason, senator john kennedy was out peddling vladimir putin's talking points. >> i mean, this is a guy who has a degree from oxford. he is not an unintelligent manual. he comes out as an alleged russian asset on television. >> i don't understand the proactive work on behalf of vladimir putin's kremlin. >> i don't understand it either. >> tucker: yeah. must be disloyal. aaron mattie journalist with the gray zone. he joins us tonight. aaron, thanks for coming on. escalated past three years to the point where formerly mainstream journalists are looking into a camera and saying yeah, i don't agree with him. he must be a traitor to the

country. what do you make of that? >> what is so funny about the indignation about senator kennedy's comments he was pointing out a documented fact. there was ukrainian meddling in 2016. no secret. ukrainian officials leaked information that exposed some apparent corruption by paul manafort and it was consequential. it led to paul manafort's resignation from the trump pain. and the stated intent of ukrainian officials was to weaken the trump campaign because they epghted to help elect hillary clinton. and, you know, it's strange to see pundits pretending that didn't happen. and what they are trying to do that conflate that with a different theory. proven that's true. that is the one that trump tried to put forward in a phone call with zelensky. appears to be saying it wasn't russia that was behind the hacking of the dnc. and then it might have been ukraine. it's true there is no evidence for that theory. and, it's fair enough to point out that but, what also ironic here the people

indignant about that claim by trump are accepting the claim that russia hacked the dnc. even though there has been no evidence yet. there have been claims by intelligence officials but those same intelligence officials gave us the whole scam that was the trump-russia collusion. >> tucker: may i stop. there do i think you are one of the more credible voices on that i should say i don't think we agree on politics. have you followed this carefully. at this moment, december 3rd, 2019, we still don't have actual evidence that the russian government hacked the dnc? >> we have had claims from an intelligence process that was managed by john brennan, who has a very sketchy history including being caught lying to the senate when the senate was investigating the cia torture program. we have indictment from robert mueller. that indictment as i have written about at real clear investigations has serious holes. trump raises this theory in this phone call with zelensky that it might have been ukraine. what i think trump should do and what i think all journalists should be

calling for is let the public see for ourselves what the underlying evidence is. we have been told by discredited intelligence officials it was russia. that intelligence should be released so everybody can judge for themselves. >> tucker: i don't think you understand the rules aaron mate. if you don't take at value the claims of retired officials present or retired then you are working for russia. [laughter] >> the irony here, tucker. >> tucker: we are almost out of time so sum it up for me. >> on this point right now, there is a huge scandal that you have highlighted on your show which everyone else is ignoring. intelligence officials told us that syria carried out a chemical weapons attack. now we have whistleblowers at the opcw raising questions about that. nobody on either side is talking about that. >> tucker: shame on me for not doing that story every night. thank you for reminding me. that is an actual scandal. >> aaron mate, thank you for coming. >> thanks for having me.

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>> tucker: newly elected d.a.'s in some of america's biggest cities many backed by george soros what they care about emptying prisons and shack ling law enforcement no downside on

either account. shield themselves with taxpayer funded body guards. new york city being played by mob based crime. work together to lewd stores or target vulnerable individuals. near washington. attacks like this are up 50% o'er the last year. local television station chronicled the problem. >> he hit me three or four times on the side of my head. broke open my head. i was bleeding quite a lot. >> i was trying to fend off one guy. he knocked me on the ground and took my wallet. >> these are the stories of victims of largely random attacks on the streets of the district. the one thing in common the suspects were large groups of teens, video shows teens throwing a man on to metro tracks back in september. and take a look at this video. up to 14 teens stomping and punching. even spitting on two men outside a dupont circle hotel in july. >> tucker: chadwick moore is a new york journalist. he joins us now. how did this ever happen,

chadwick, i'm confused. >> i think it might have to do with this progressive insurgency infected our nation's largest cities. make no mistake, this is very planned. we see in the same problem spreading from our once great cities which are increasingly becoming more third world and dystopian flowing from one city to the next. you see the same problem. the same violence, the same crime homelessness, addiction, spreading from new york. los angeles, san francisco. seattle, and you can trace it back to essentially what's being established is this sort of progressive collections of city states. instead of their leaders, their mayors, their municipal leaders carrying on the place they have been elected to management they are looking outward. ideologues. not city managers. they care about climate change and social justifiable and ambitions are global. not even national or local. they are not the 21st century ceos that our

dying cities desperately need. they behave more like smarmy tell evangelical list and aloof 17th century monarchs. look what's happening. our cities are falling into chaos they don't know how to manage these places. criminal justice is only one area. you are right to bring up police law enforcement being castrated. mayor's who don't support them and freeing criminals on the street. basically look at seattle, 48% of police reports aren't even investigated in seattle. that's not because the police force's fault, that's the fault of the people higher up in the police force no longer going to process civility crimes. no longer process crimes they think might be deemed looking racist or persecuting a certain bunch. >> tucker: it's a very deep point you make. they are not managing at all. they are. >> absolutely not. >> tucker: making airy statements to the globe even as their own cities degrade as ours is, unfortunately.

chadwick moore, great to see tonight. >> thank you, you too. >> tucker: out of time sadly the hour has passed fast. back tomorrow 8:00 p.m. the show that is the enemy of smugness lying and group think. guess who is next? sean hannity from new york. >> sean: thank you. we have a lot to cover tonight. breaking right now with just hours to go until the schiff show moves to the judiciary committee. of course, the psychotic trump hating impeachment hearing rage which is really not and i will explain in a minute house democrats have finally released the document outlining their allegations against the president. the so-called trump-ukraine impeachment inquiry report. it's really just a coup report. nothing but an insane convoluted 14,000 word diatribe concocted by their fearless compromised, corrupt, coward, congenital liar that would be adam schiff, their leader. report is chock-full of nothing but conspiracy theories. left-wings opinions, conjec