friday, december 27th, 2019. i will see you on "fox & friends" bright and early then back at noon eastern for america's news had quarters. until then, have a wonderful weekend. >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am mark steyn and for tucker while he enjoys the christmas vacation with his family. for a 90% of the year, the democrat elites forever indifferent to christianity were actively hostile to it but during the christmas season, there are two changes, little ostentatious religiosity is useful to them. mayor pete buttigieg use the birth of christ to make a political point of tweeting "today, i joined millions around the world and celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth

came into this world not enriches, but in poverty not as a citizen or as a refugee. in frequently deploys faith as a weapon on the campaign trail. very confident that republicans are evil and also that abortion is biblically okay, perhaps until birth. >> you go through the new testament and every other word that comes out of the mouth of christ is about dislike helping those in need and you have a republican party dedicated to the opposite. they will be a reckoning over that. right now, they hold everybody in line with this one kind of piece of doctoring about abortion. which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morelli. then again, as a lot of parts of the bible to talk about how life begins with breath, so even that is something we can interpret

differently. >> mark: i think that's in reference to god's creation of adam which is probably not the most typical scenario. in but just following the lead of house speaker nancy pelosi that wants to think she is prostrate in the perpetual prayer for the soul of the president. >> in any event, i pray for the president of the united states and i pray for the united states of america. i ardently pray for the president of the united states. i don't hate anyone, a heart full of love and always praise for the president and i still pray for the president. i pray for the president all the time. >> mark: she is praying right now, it's a marvel she manages to find time for impeachment. how does the party usually feel about faith? that is better represented by

the views joy behar who accused vice president mike pence of being mentally ill due to his religion. >> one thing to talk to jesus, it's another thing when jesus talks to hugh. that's called mental illness if i'm not correct. >> mark: religion, it is so funny except when nancy pelosi is praying for you. rachel campos duffy is a fox news contributor and author of the children's book paloma wants to be leading freedom and she joins us now. you do get the feeling that they haven't even skimmed the cliff notes of the bible, the idea that wasn't asceticism and complying with the regulatory bureaucracy and going there for the senses. >> absolutely, and i've been nine months pregnant before, he

when i would have talked out of that journey and yet they complied with the law. so this idea that they were refugees, they are using religion to make a political point. that's why you understand that the greatest offender or not the democrats that are raising christ and christians from american culture in american politics but it is ironically donald trump the most unlikely person who has been the greatest offender, most fearless defender whether the issue is abortion, religious liberty, exemptions for conscience and health care laws. you can go on and on. christians understand it and that's evangelicals are supporting trump for their approval numbers for hammer at

77% and among that 77%, a majority of them don't just approve of them, they strongly approve of him, so those are the numbers, they are not falling for it. >> mark: if you are serious about your faith to the point where hate dictates he or political choices, are you really going to be impressed by some guy like mayor pete who doesn't give the impression that he has done anything more than the name of the new testament? >> what they're trying to do and what pete buttigieg is trying to do a signal to the democrat base to say i've got the goods here, i know how to speak the language and i can get those christians to vote because they understand that they need some of these voters in order to be donald trump because as i mentioned before, a lot of them

have been very impressed with the results for the values that they care about and the policies he's put forward and especially the judges that donald trump has focused so much on. be back that is fascinating what you just said there because it implies that basically, he is doing this to persuade doc and secular lists, it is fascinating. thank you for that, rachel. congresswoman alexandria causey of cortez is one of the most vocal critics of america's wealthy, have a green new deal was an excuse to redistribute the country's wealth and she says it's immoral even for billionaires to exist at all. >> idealizing this outcome of one day you too can be a billionaire is not an aspirational work good thing. >> do you think it is moral for individuals to -- to be live in

a moral world that allows for billionaires? is that a moral outcome? >> it is not. >> mark: elizabeth warren is trying to bolster her populist credentials by attacking pete buttigieg for his wine cave fund-raisers. >> the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine. billionaires and wine caves should not pick up the next president of the united states. >> this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. your net worth is 100 times mine. we need support from everybody who is committed to helping us defeat donald trump. >> i do not sell access to my time, i don't do call time for millionaires and billionaires.

>> mark: they talk the wine cave talk but can either of these candidates walk the walk? posted fund-raisers at expensive restaurants including one with a $3,800 bottle of wine. maybe she should have a few more, her fourth quarter fund-raising hole was just $17 million. a huge drop from the third quarter and as for aoc, she may not like those billionaires that you took funding from one. the democratic party attorney and he joins us. this seems like some crazy agatha christie plot to me, 12 candidates trapped in a wine cave and all trying to accuse the other one of being the real elitist, what is the point of this conversation, where are they going? >> purple numbers have dropped and because of that she has to

find a new line of attack. after going after vice president biden and after going the top-tier candidate, now pete buttigieg has jumped ahead of her and her chances of winning are going down. he has decided to go back to the same class warfare talking points. president trump is going to going to 2020 with $1 billion in his war chest. so whoever the democratic nominee is is going to have to raise more in order to be able to compete on the airwaves, not even talking about the amount of free media that president trump gets with every single tweet in every single time he opens his mouth, we are going to have to fight fire with fire and elizabeth warren's purity tests are not going to get us across the finish line. >> mark: it is more than just for money, one of the refreshing thing as last time is that he was a rich guy who didn't pretend he wasn't rich. they were something ridiculous about a figure like elizabeth loman who has lead a charmed

life pretending that she has a daughter of a cherokee janitor but whatever the latest version of offenses and this idea that he were arguing about the appropriate price point at which a democrat candidate can buy a bottle of wine and still be a man of the people. this is about a certain insecurity and how to present yourself. >> what it is is grasping at straws. i have a plan for this that attained her poll numbers coming out trying to appeal to this workingmen-based, what pete buttigieg has done is absolutely amazing. the mayor of a small town of south bend, indiana, and go toe-to-toe, people literally twice his age, that should be commended and putting a wall of

entry to a run for office rather than simply running on principles and then depending on other people to see the value of the campaign and reach out to donate. we have campaign finance laws on the books. they need to fund raise because without that, he will not be able to go toe-to-toe with someone like elizabeth warren. >> has that not a priority to you this electoral cycle? >> my priorities are fixing our health care system, fixing our roads in our schools, fixing the thing is on the kitchen table that americans care about, i don't think anyone is concerned about where that funding is coming from. >> mark: thank you for that, pete buttigieg has he mentioned his supposed to be a moderate but he is now advocating no jail time for possessing any drug at all. heroin, cocaine, whatever. and tucker will be making a

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immune in a recent campaign appearance, pete buttigieg called for decriminalizing all drugs. heroin, meth, crack, you name it. >> incarceration should not even be a response to drug possessi possession. >> across the board? so if it is meth or coke or ecstasy, any drug, incarceration isn't. >> that's right. >> mark: andrew yang is also calling for the same. >> mr. yang, you want to decriminalize the possession and use of small amounts of opioids including heroin, how would that solve the crisis? >> we need to decriminalize opioids for personal use and let the country know this is not a personal failing, this is a systemic government of failing and then we need to open up safe conception and safe injection sites around the country because they save lives. >> mark: former deputy assistant director of the fbi and he joins us, the thinking of

these democrat candidates seems to be that drug addiction, whatever it is is a victimless crime and that actually isn't really the case, is it? >> absolutely not, and they are talking decriminalization. what it really is his legalization and we now want to tell the youth of america that it's okay, it is illegal, which means it's okay to take shots of heroin, for women to sell their children into slavery for a hit of crack cocaine? i don't think so. this is a horrible message to deliver and it is not victimle victimless. people on cocaine don't hold down jobs if they are heavily addicted. people on heroin to rob banks and rob people. so it is not victimless. victims are one step removed and for them to suggest this, i am just baffled by it. i've lived in that world as an

agent putting people in jail who committed bank robberies and other violent crimes in almost all of them are addicted to some kind of a drug. >> mark: when donald trump was running in my part of the world in new hampshire four years ago, he thought that was a pretty scenic state with trees and lakes and mountains, and he was horrified at the way various addictions have taken their grip. have one thing in my broken down corner of the states lead to huge increase in poverty crime and it doesn't actually seem that difficult an equation even for democrats that more drugs and more drug use and more hard drug use leads to more theft and more property crime just to fund that habit. >> and more violent crime too. a lot of muggings and they keep talking about emptying jails. i put a lot of people in jail, i have handled prison riots. those people in jail need to be there because in many cases they are violated.

some nonviolent and we need to address that. but some criminals need to be incarcerated to protect you and me from their criminality. >> mark: do you think this is going to work for the so-called moderates even among democrat voters? >> i don't know about the country, it doesn't play in texas very well. >> mark: that is reassuring to know, this is a big issue for tucker and all the rest of us on this show. i think you for that. and now, here is a special appearance from the man himself, here is tucker. >> across the country in the pretext of safety, the left is systematically making this country less safe by depriving law-abiding americans the ability to protect themselves whether at starbucks or at city hall around a military base, gun free zones in so many cases haven't saved lives but instead have helped and lives. she is the author of stocked and

defenseless, how gun control helped my stalker murder my husband in front of me. she joins as now, thank you so much for coming on. so the subtitle of your book seems to be pretty self explanatory. recap what happened, if you don't mind, for as. >> my husband was murdered right in front of me by a man who was stalking me and i had to leave my vehicle by around locked in my vehicle because the restaurant we were at was a gun free zone and i obeyed that law. the man who was stalking me did not have a handgun carry permit, he brought a gun and illegally to a gun free zone and shot my husband seven times in front of myself and everyone in the middle of a busy restaurant. i will probably wonder for the rest of my life if i could have prevented that. i'll never know because i was denied a chance, i was stopped. >> that is a breathtakingly awful story. what is so striking about it is the point that you made that the man who did it, the murderer

wasn't deterred by the law because of course, he is a murderer, he doesn't care. >> that's what i've tried really hard to do for years is try to educate people about the dangers of gun free zones and how bad guys don't care. they don't care about the law. these gun-control laws really only impact good law-abiding people that make them helpless and defenseless to stop these horrible things from happening. >> normal people understand that intuitively and certainly when someone like you who has lived it whose the tragedy in your life explains it so clearly, you don't need to say more, but they were people who hear your story and still aren't convinced, what did they say to you? it would be more dangerous to have other guns in the equation and look, if the bad guy is the only one with a gun, guess who wins? >> people's hearts are really

troubled by the violence they see, mass shootings and stuff, normal people are upset by that and i understand it but once i hear your story in stories like it, totally sincere story like yours, hard to imagine they couldn't change their minds in the face of that, wouldn't you say? >> one thing that's really frustrating for me as you hear democrats talk about they want more and more gun control laws, then when it comes to it, take for instance the prosecutor for my husband's murder case, he did not charge the murderer with any of the gun control law violations. he was not charged with carrying a handgun without a permit, he was not charged with carrying a gun illegally into a gun free zone. those charges could have been put out there and got even more prison time. that prosecutor didn't do that. why do we have these gun-control laws if you're not going to charge these people? >> let me ask you one last question, do you think

nancy pelosi goes to restaurants without being protected by someone with a gun? do you think adam schiff would go to a restaurant without having someone caring a gun nearby? be mike i used to be a staffer in d.c. for congressman thomas massie and when i would walk in to work, i would see nancy pelosi outside leader getting in or out of a very large suv with personal security detail. she has detail with her all the time. >> they don't have the guns of the lycan gun free zones, do they? >> they do. >> and they bring those guns into gun free zones. >> her security detail does. and >> it almost seems like she thinks her life is more valuable than yours or the life of your husband. be back nancy's life is not more valuable than anyone else's. she may think that, but no. we all should have the basic human right of self-defense. >> amen. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> mark: that's a terrible

story. the last days of this decade are going the way the previous ten years weren't where in the middle of a brutal culture war, leftists are attacking a new film for being too white and a new play for being too male. that is coming up next.

>> the christmas season and the means family, home, good cheer and ratcheting up america's culture war. in seattle, a theater put on a stage adaptation of the robin williams phil mrs. doubtfire but a cabal of activists protested the play because it's about a man dressing up as a woman appeared in the words of "the seattle times," the play is "problematic because a man and address doesn't cut it as a punch line in 2019. not without serious and necessary conversations." a seattle radio host joins us. the minute i hear the words problematic and necessary conversations, i just want to

lock myself in may or pete's wine cave for a month. this is essentially an argument between two groups of liberals. of the theatrical liberals who put on the play and the other group of liberals who say you guys aren't liberal enough. what is the best way to pick the situation? >> we look at it for what it is, "the seattle times" decided to call this problematic and i'm with you, that's a term that doesn't mean anything anymore. >> mark: is a problematic term in itself. >> let's have a serious conversation, we've decided to elevate a small group of crazy people who legitimately believe that mrs. doubtfire's leading into the depths of transgender individuals which is not the case. they did an interview with a series of individuals that they picked out. one of them said it was unconscionable, one said this is a death sentence for transgender individuals to make jokes about a character who was not even

transgender. the character is not transgender so it is kind of ridiculous what "the seattle times" has decided to do here. this is not about the small percentage of people who legitimately think this is problematic. this is for the people to go one twitter and on facebook and you and i probably see them every day who want to tell you how elevated they are, how involved they are that they are looking out for people who are victims of something beyond their control, also that they can say they are heroes. they are not heroes, they are part of the problem. >> mark: is it also about the hierarchy of victimhood among identity groups because it does seem to be a conflict between a big part of the theater thousands of years and exist more generally and then gender dysphoria, so-called which is a completely different thing on a completely different scale. i think some drag queens were kicked out of the lgbt whatever

parade in the glascow scotland because the transgender -- in other words, there are internal contradictions as marx would say to the rainbow coalition. and at some point, the conflicts between transgender and feminists, transgender and homosexuality, transgender and transvestism are going to wreck the whole happy party. >> it is a race to the furthest to the left that you possibly can go so you can call yourself a victim. there are some -- you get some points in social media when you say you belong to a victim class. number one, because then you are pitied and then you have someone fighting for you and you always have someone fighting for you because they want to tell you that they are fighting for you, that you would not be able to exist and trumps america if not for them. and it's kind of ridiculous and almost to the point of parity and we talk about these stories almost every single day, so it is no longer a parody. >> mark: in the end,

everything will be banned. jason, thank you for that. mrs. doubtfire isn't the only problematic show to see, a new adaptation of louisa may alcott's classic novel is coming out, set in the 1860s in massachusetts and in response to the films release, "teen vogue" has denounced it for being too white. they wrote "it's time that classics that are constantly remade to better incorporate diversity. the same day "teen vogue" promoted an article showing nt fit as misunderstood heroes. has senior columnist at town hall and author of the new novel collapse. and he joins us now. what annoys me about this kind of thing is that it is not enough that we have in the vogue

crowd who can't actually make anything of their own that you'd want to go and watch him go and read but it's that they have to wreck everything that came before it too. why is it any business over there is to rewrite little women for being insufficiently woke? >> it isn't any of their business, it's another attempt to try and drive a culture war organized because a bunch of twentysomething middle-class girls with feminist dance degrees are board living in unparalleled peace and prosperity, so they have to gin up some sort of drama and what's better than to attack. let's hassle these poor young women and take something they love for their own weird purposes, for their own personal

drama, turn it into something ridiculous. >> mark: you make a good point there because the interesting thing about little women is a way of fighting the civil war, a terrible situation, not going to have much of a christmas and by the time we get to the next christmas, i don't want to give away any plot spoilers but the fact is, they actually looking for these pampered nitwits at "teen vogue" selling their readers on the joys of various practices as opposed to recommending they sit down and read a good book. >> i can't tell you how glad i was when i was asked to be on here to talk about a vogue article that it wasn't someone promoting high school. that was a recent one. it's been a while since i've been in high school but apparently i went to a very double one. >> mark: not enough of that in little women either.

i guess there point here is if we were doing this in massachusetts today, if louisa may alcott was writing little women in massachusetts today, at least two of the girls would be transitioning and one would be a and the other one would be running for president as the daughter of a cherokee janitor and that would more accurately reflect the diverse society massachusetts has become the why can't they just do what you do and write their own novel about it? >> they can create anything, they can only destroy. these are empty sold people. they don't have religion, they don't have any real culture. all they have his anger and that is their drug. anger with something that fills the void inside them, and we've got to raise our kids better and give them something besides social media fake out. i was in the army for 27 years, me and millions of other americans kept the barbarians

outside the gate. just to give them a taste of the real world. >> that would certainly be an interesting issue for "teen vogue," thank you, doesn't want to go into the void, if you've got a team, don't let them read "teen vogue." tina void is a better name for it, the fbi is expanding its probe of jeffrey epstein's associates. we will have an update on that case just ahead but first, it is time for final exams. see if you can beat the fox news professional. i look at them they are in our weekly news quiz, this is a battle of the giants, don't it coming next.

>> mark: you know what that music means, it means final exam, our weekly quiz where we see who let fox news actually knows anything about the news. and today, we have a fox & friends face-off. does everything in this building on the radio and tv but actually started six years with don imus who died earlier today. >> is a sad moment for me. everybody knows him as a good interviewer, smart, funny but knowing him personally, i can speak to the fact that he's so generous, i really owe him so much. hearing about his passing has really gutted me and what it has done. and i owe him so much. >> mark: try to win this one for don then.

you are playing against griff jenkins, we go a long way back back. we actually met at gitmo three years ago, one of us was just visiting and one of us was a detainee. i'm not going to tell you which it is. this is how it works. must wait until yo i finish ask. you can answer once and i will acknowledge you by saying your name, each correct answer is worth one point, get it wrong and you lose a point, best-of-five wins. so let's get started, question one, the fda just raise the age to purchase tobacco products in america. how old and must you now be to buy a pack of cigarettes? she hit it before. we have to go to griff for this. yes, because carly. >> from 18 to 21. >> 21, let's see if griff is

right. >> the legal age to buy tobacco is going up from 18 to 21 after president trump recently signed a bill that applies to cigarettes and e-cigarettes. >> is it unfair that i'm sitting on the couch while she is reading this. >> mark: the great thing is, i just love it when they were at 58-year-olds being carted that walmart, so now a whole new category. >> you don't have to go to gitmo yet. >> this is good news. >> make sure you wait for all the choices, a wild video was captured this week at a zoo in dublin, ireland, and it shows a young boy having a close encounter with a wild animal when the beast charges at him and tries to eat him. thankfully, the beast is stopped by thick safety glass. was it a grizzly bear, a tiger,

or hippopotamus? and it is griff. >> tiger. >> let's see if griff is right. >> stop what you're doing and watch this. >> inside the dublin zoo. i >> how come i can't get that at my mail? >> that is the best in dublin. you're thinking of putting in a patio door or anything, just go to that guy, he will hold it. question three, this is another multiple-choice question. in it looks like he is all over it. in 2-0 to griff but still everything to play for. according to a business insider survey, what is the rudest city

and all of the united states? is it a, new york city, b, chicago, c, los angeles? she has -- what do you reckon the answer to this one is? >> this one is a, new york. the insiders list. boston coming in at number five, followed by chicago, washington, d.c.. and the title of the rudest city in america goes to new york city. i >> we just had a demonstration of that because he was elbowing griff away from the buzzer the there. he was looking at me and all that stuff. we are just a few days away from 2020 when the times square ball will drop to ring in the new year. for one point, can you tell me

of the year of the famous ball drop in times square? is it a, 1907, b, 1917, or c, 1927? >> lose a point. get it wrong. >> 33.3 chance of getting it right. i have no idea what the answer is. so i'm going to split the difference and go with 1917. >> mark: you're going to go with 1917, the first year the ball dropped in times square, roll the tape. >> to get the ball drop ready, it takes so much work and preparation. but this is such a story tradition in new york city. the ball has been dropping in times square since 1907. in >> mark: of.

griff loses. in loses a point. so we have a sudden death tie now, 1907. until then, they never knew when the new year started. it was 1906 for 18 months. the final question, despite being released 25 years ago, which christmas song just became the number one hit song in the country for the first time ever? >> okay. i feel like it is sort of the way you're asking the question because it sounds like. believing you. i take it back. >> so you are questioning the way i asked the question. do you feel he should be allowed to say? >> how about we stayed at the same time?

>> i believe the correct answer if i have a correct, i have publicly ostracized and bans the song from being played on christmas day. accused of going the dark at the break, i believe it was mariah carey. in all i want for christmas. >> mark: all he wants for christmas is anything but that's all, let's see. >> only took 25 years but this song finally hit number one on the billboard charts this week. ♪ >> it is not a great christmas song. they made me hear it. in >> mark: that version of that song may be number one, but it sucks. this is the only version of the song you need. in ♪

i'm not wearing a tie red onesie. so that was actually number one in use pakistan. number 37 by accident. that is all for this week's final exam, so who wins the mug? it is going to griff, all he wants for christmas is a mug. >> it is the christmas spirit, i'll let you have it. you can have my mug. >> how about we share it? >> mark: so heartwarming, like one of those fascist hallmark movies they talk about. pay attention to the news each weekend, to an end and see if you can do better than fox news experts. we will be right back.

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>> oj simpson, armed and dangerous. >> baseball owners have cancelled the season. >> today is black monday. >> dig in. >> jeffrey epstein may be dead, but the investigation continues to his web of abuse. according to new reports, the fbi has launched an investigation of the british socialite, maxwell and other key epstein associates. ms. maxwell hasn't been charged with any crimes yet, but is

alleged to have been epstein's procurer who facilitated his abuse of young girls. ed gavin is the former acting chief of state for new york city child protective services, and he joins us. ed, this thing goes back a decade to that weird deal in florida that doesn't pass any kind of smell test. and glen maxwell herself gives the impression as she's walking around that she's in on the deal. whatever the deal is, she and other epstein associates are protected by it. what's going on here? >> she's been accused of finding teenage girls for jeffrey epstein. i don't know ms. maxwell, i don't know if it's true. all i know about ms. maxwell is she attended chelsea clinton's wedding in 2010 and she's a british socialite. so it's really hard to say. but what i do know is i conduct child abuse and neglect investigation s constantly on e

street. he was running a trap house -- allegedly, now, he was bringing underaged girls into a house, plying them with drug, alcohol, and money and they would provide him with sexual favors. >> everybody says that, even prince andrew said it was a bit like a railway station at -- at epstein's manhattan townhouse. by which he meant there were these young girls coming and going all the time. why -- why after this deal in florida was that not remarked upon by official dom in new york. >> human trafficking doesn't occur in a vacuum. most of the girls engage in activities with older men. they go back and recruit other girls and they usually talk. but what strikes me as really odd, and i still can't get past this, is how the assistant united states attorney alexander acosta in 2008 didn't file federal charges against jeffrey epstein. how come child protective

services wasn't notified? how come these children weren't taken to a municipal hospital. how come they weren't examined by a sexual abuse nurse examiner. these are questions. these children have parents. were diligent efforts made to find the parents. a routine lexus nexus check could have been performed and find anybody using that service. this doesn't make sense. i don't know where the police and the fbi were in 2008 and now we see an article in today's "new york post" they're going to swoop in and do this investigation, again, too little, too late. >> let me ask you this one as the token foreigner sitting here, do you think it's actually interesting that his royal highness and this british subject, ms. maxwell, are the ones that are in all of the pay papers and all of the big powerful americans aren't being mention in this story anymore? >> certainly interesting. again, it sells newspapers. that's probably why they're going to do it. with everything going on in great britain with an all oh it was marriages and the things going on, that's probably why -- >> we'll get into that a little later. thank you -- thank you for that,

ed. that is it for us tonight. tune in each night at 8:00 to a show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think. don't forget to dvr us. tammy bruce is in for hannity. have a great weekend. >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity, injustice in america." i'm tammy bruce. great to see all of you. i'm in tonight for sean, of course. for the hour, we'll cover the less troubled relationship with basic fairness and equal justice. we start with pelosi's rigged impeachment charade. according to "the wall street journal's" kimberly straszle, quote, it's not hard to imagine mrs. pelosi sitting on her impeachment articles through next fall's election campaign denying trump the ability to say he'd been acquitted even as an assured constant stream of