>> martha: great to have you both with us tonight for that is "the story." the story goes on, so we'll see you here tomorrow night at 7:00. have a good night, everybody. tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" as washington obsesses over the internal politics of nathan's thousands of miles from here, all the nonfarsi speakers are experts all of a sudden. our nation degrades in the in some cases fall apart completely. one place this is especially true, i place you would barely recognize is the city of san francisco. the first installment of our five part series on the destruction of that great american city coming up in just a minute. if you are in an airport over the weekend, you may have seen american troops on the move leaving their families on the way to the middle east. just a month ago, one in 100

americans were not thinking about iran but now suddenly we were on the brink of war. in washington, that's considered an upgrade. it's harder to get rich and powerful during peace time so our leaders have a built-in bias for war. so they decided on television studios over the weekend to describe in detail the type of violence they are prepared to wreak on a country very few of them know about. here is senator lindsey graham of south carolina. >> if the iranians hit american targets and american allies, we will respond militarily. if they hit us again, i would not want to be working at an iranian oil field because i think the president is determined to bring this regime to its knees if they continue to be provocative. >> tucker: meanwhile the secretary of state mike pompeo assured supporters that the "the escalation with iran" and suggested that the u.s. might bomb dozens of sites within the

u.s. itself. >> president trump saying there are 52 sites that the u.s. would target if iran retaliates. how is that consistent with what you say is your message of the escalation? >> entirely consistent. >> threatening to bomb mainland iran? >> the leadership needs to understand that taking off a terrace of the battlefield does not decrease the risk of terror. the increase of terror is increased by mps meant. >> tucker: the risk of terror is increased by appeasement. a good line. it may be true. it probably is tripping the risk of terror is also increased by bombing of the people's. that's in the stupidly true people did not consider us between a threat. but our leaders tell us that they are in seconds. what's striking how many people are willing to accept this and

critically. the other day, they were considered politically tainted and suspect. certainly on the show they are, work, and will be for quite some time. keep in mind, these are the people who invented hit they are the ones who prevented that he was a russian agent to spy on him. these are the same people who lied about iraq's weapons of destruction back in 2002 and by doing that got us into an utterly pointless war that dramatically weakened our country. people pushing conflict with iran are the same people who did that. it seems like about 20 minutes ago we were denouncing these very people as the deep state and pledging to never trust them again without verification. but now, for some reason, we do seem to trust them implicitly and completely. in fact, we believe whatever they tell us no matter how outlandish -- p23 did 9/11, they

are telling us! oh, okay, didn't know that. 15 of the night the hijackers were from sunni saudi arabia, but if you say so, mr. a nameless official, send my son to -- you've heard to my trusts after years of lying to me. the media will turn out fine. praying for it. we love this country. but in the meantime come apart of this captivation. andrew bates of edge knows a lot about war. he was in officer in vietnam. of course, he's a personal understanding of the toll of war. his son was killed during the iraq war in 2007. thank you so much for coming on. >> glad to be with you. >> tucker: we come up for a moment today, learn the united states was at the rest of

the iraqi parliament pulling out of iraq. a letter hit the newswire and swiftly corrected by the pentagon and the update was we are not leaving. what do you make of that? do you think there is a chance that we will leave iraq in the midst of all of this? >> sadly no. it seems to me that what's appropriate here is to widen the aperture, that's to say let's not talk about what happened with iran over the last week or so. let's reflect on the course of u.s. military policy in this part of the world for the last 20 years, 30 years. we have tried to fix the place. whether fixed means to spread democracy, eliminate terrorism, create order, we have broken the place and it seems to me that the key issue is whether or not to persist in this misguided effort. i didn't vote for

president trump. can't imagine voting for president trump. but he did promise in running for the presidency to get us out of this mess. and it seems to me that the assassination of general soleimani is not a step in that direction. pulling u.s. troops out pursuant to the stated preference of the iraqi parliament might be a step in the right direction. >> tucker: i'm concerned there is manipulation going on here and i wonder as someone who's been in and around government your entire life if you think it's okay for the rest of us to take it face value assessments whose providence we don't know, can never know, that come from people we just caught lying to us just the other day. we were announcing them as a deep state. in my case, it was heartfelt. these same people telling us things we can't verify equipment why do we believe them all of a sudden? >> i think the skepticism is

entirely appropriate. the afghanistan papers that were leaked in the released by "the washington post" a couple of years ago chronicled a long period of dishonesty, deception, incompetence, and there is no reason to think that the present administration with trump's advisors are going to do any better. it seems to me that the larger problem may not be conscious dishonesty, trying to pull the wool over our eyes. i think the larger problem is a mind-set, widespread in washington among civilians and among the military that somehow or other the use of american military power is going to solve our problems. and again, we've been at that for a 2-decades now. with no evidence that we are achieving any significant progress. it seems to me that it might be

the moment to try something different. try a foreign policy based on restraint, prudence, this policy rather than more force, more bombs, more killing. >> tucker: doesn't seem to make america stronger which is my concern, seems to make us weaker and i'm against it. thank you for coming on, congrats on your book. >> thank you. >> tucker: anybody think 19 years in afghanistan improve america, it hasn't. part of the problem is that tar pits like afghanistan and iraq and now iran distract our leaders from the business they were hired to conduct, which is improving our lives. that's why you vote for them. making cleveland better is a lot harder, a lot less fun than launching cruise missiles into syria and yet it's in cockily more important. you need to make legally better but it does not occur them.

we'd like to remind washington what their basic duty is, the basic duty is to improve their lives and that's why we are beginning our series american dystopia: a close look at what's happening and what's happened under leadership of washington to america's greatest cities, and may be as great a city of all san francisco. it's hard to wreck a city as beautiful as ever at cisco but they've effectively done it for the reality of that city as we spent time there is worse than you have ever heard, civilization itself is coming apart in san francisco right there in broad daylight on the city sidewalks which are littered with junkies and feces and dirty needles. it's more chaotic than downtown mumbai, india, literally. how did that more happen? we need to know. here's the first installment but a warning for and some of the footage we shot is graphic and disturbing and as you watch it, remember this: this is what they'd like to do to your neighborhood.

>> come pierre! >> tucker: at this intersection four blocks from city hall, drug addicts are looking for a drug to reverse an opioid overdose. paramedics rushing to help a man who overdosed on the sidewalk. >> this city is messed up. it's very messed up. >> tucker: such themes common in separatist or the city's left-wing officials enforce quality-of-life crimes life crimes like public, tracy mccray is a lieutenant in the san francisco police department. >> if i went into the store for a playstation -- >> if i smoke crack in the street, what happened? >> citation. >> if i camped on the sidewalk, what would happen? >> warning, may be a citation? >> if i broke somebody's car window, what would happen?

>> manage $50, citation. >> if i stole a wallet or purse? >> no use of force? citation. >> if i was carrying an illegal firearm, what happens? >> discharge? further review, back out on the street. >> tucker: those citations handed out the prosecutors who do nothing. >> right then and there, they'll make the decision whether it gets charged or not and the most times it's, like, no charge. nope, not charged. >> tucker: 90 criminals don't step foot in a courtroom. san francisco has the highest rate of poverty crime. transit issues have doubled from 2014 to 2018. >> as anybody, you know what, we feel it, crime is out of control and whether it's property crime and even violent crime, it's

scary. >> tucker: homeless people defacate on the streets. many go unreported because they know they won't be in force. >> you're in the police department! >> we are not immune to that at all. >> tucker: we filmed drug dealers selling drugs in broad daylight. >> do the police officers know who the drug dealers are? >> yes, we file a report, we have it albeit i can come back for my days off and they are back out on the street. >> san francisco has definitely become more dirty, more dangerous. >> i'll [bleep] kill you! >> tucker: rather than confront the drug use like a normal city, and enables the drug use by distributing 400,000 syringes every month. activists say it reduces the risk of disease. >> nobody wants to get hiv or

hep c, but the unintended consequences is insanity. >> tucker: even though the city builders that make leaders a needle >> as like a mine field because you never know what's coming around the corner. >> we give many needles as possibly can, they end up here. this is dangerous, disgusting, and it's got to stop. >> tucker: are produced carmen cruz spent a lot of time and services go and we have a lot more footage to show you from that city. if you've been there, know it, it's heartbreaking but you need to see it. our american dystopia series continues every night this week. tomorrow, we introduce you to a business man, small business man struggling to run a grocery store in the city where the law isn't enforced. hard to believe it's your country. you need to see this. after half a year, plenty of

questions how jeffrey epstein died. "60 minutes" over at cbs cast a new report that cast even more doubt on the official narrative. some believe on it, actually. we've got details on that next.

>> tucker: after five months of investigating this story, "60 minutes" last night released a deep dive into jeffrey epstein's death. like most stories about jeffrey epstein and how he died and how he made his money, the report didn't answer many questions he created as it raised,

"60 minutes close with discovered a note left by jeffrey epstein was not a suicide note. no what it was a list of complaints on how he was being mistreated behind bars. one of the weirdest and most disturbing parts was an interview with criminal pathologist he said the news that the news that epstein hung himself with was false. >> what do you see when you see these two things together? >> what i see here is this noose does not match the literature at their own remark. >> to the naked eye, doesn't look like there is any blood on this noose. >> that's right. this is like a clean noose that was never used to compress anybody's neck. >> says the wound is straight across the neck is more common when a victim is strangled by a wire or cord.

>> tucker: dr. michael baden joins us. thank you so much for coming on. you've done i think a pretty good job in the view of nonexperts like us in raising experts about the official account. what is your guest to what actually happened? how did he die? >> from the op topsy findings and i was there at the autopsy, the hemorrhages in the eye and the crushing injuries to the neck, the hired bolden in the adam's apple often found in manual or league your surest regulations, homicidal, and not found in hanging suicide. hanging suicide, there is no injuries to the neck. 10% of the time, there would be injury to one of the bones in the neck, but the three fractures, one has to be suspicious of a homicide even though the circumstances may not

suggested. the basic information, tucker, what was the body position in one it was cut down, nobody knows. the body was removed before photographs were taken. it's improper to remove a dead body -- it's a crime scene. there is no evidence as to what happened to the videos. did somebody cut the wires? a whole lot of circumstances that need investigation and more information. >> tucker: i want to clear, you went to the you stand in the thousands of autopsies. have you seen somebody who died from suicide who had all three

of those bones broken? >> in 25 years, when i was medical examiner in the new york city come up in all of the suicidal hangings that have occurred since attica in new york state, over thousands n various jails, none of had three fractures. >> tucker: not once? >> no. >> tucker: do you think without impugning the integrity of medical examiner who announced this a suicide, do you think it strange that the pathologist looking at the evidence would reach the conclusion that this was a suicide? >> i think it's strange to make the opinion before all the evidence is in. that's the concern i have. but strange things happen. the investigation was really closed off went about five days after the autopsy, it was closed as a suicide and that interferes

with the investigation from the forensic pathology points of view. >> tucker: amazing. it's an amazing conclusion coming from a doctor. thanks so much for that perspective. i appreciate it. geraldo rivera is the fox news channel's correspondent at large, meaning everywhere. tonight, he's on this show. thank you so much for coming on. you've been following this really carefully and you just heard dr. baden. what's your best guess as to what happened to jeffrey epstein? >> i have a best guess that if i can give you an overview -- why are we so suspicious? he had everybody from presidents to princes putting themselves in this's orbit. presumably, bill clinton the flu epstein's plain 47 times.

prince andrew visiting the mansion in new york. there are a lot of very powerful people who had reasons to be relieved that jeffrey epstein is dead and can't give testimony, can't give graphic accounts, presumably of what happened on the lolita express or on orgy island. you have the suspicions -- let me say parenthetically, i've worked with dr. baden everson's the warren commission select committee of the assassination of jfk pit he's highly skilled but in this case he's working for epstein's brother. what i think happened, in my opinion, when you have people like the attorney general of united states william barr, a person i trust, when he says he's reviewed the video and he's convinced that nothing untoward to happen, that it was a classic

suicide with a cascade of errors including the negligence and the fraudulent behavior of the guards who were on duty and supposed to check him every half hour and didn't check them from anywhere between eight or 11 hours? what would've happened if i was going to guess is that maybe somebody got paid off to be asleep on duty. maybe somebody in the prison itself was given some number or to ignore that salad. i can't imagine although it's entirely possible that someone took advantage of a corrupted camera system and one in there and killed this guy. >> tucker: i don't understand the answer to this. according to the "60 minutes" report, the guy who found the body was never interviewed by anybody. how can that be the case? >> the guards are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and

lying to federal investigators, so i imagine the lawyers have told them the clam up. those are the people -- one of them who found epstein in his cell hanging from the noose. the noose, why didn't it have dna on that? that's a very powerful piece of evidence to rebut the official account, but i think dr. baden's overall point is really the important one, tucker eric. why was this investigation closed? why not reopen it? why not have a grand jury? why not have a full-blown, full-fledged investigation that includes -- if you want to give these guards immunity, i wouldn't do that right now. but there is a lot of ways to gather data -- what exactly was the status of those cameras? which camera was corrupted? >> tucker: where did all the money come from? >> why was it removed day of? >> tucker: there's a lot going on it seems to me.

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>> tucker: it took two years, but harvey weinstein is finally going on trial. in courts today hobbling on a walker for a final conference, part of jury selection. trial expected to be next week all the way back in may 2018, you remember, he was accused of offenses by two different women. could face life if convicted. prosecutors filed new sexual assaultsexual assault cht weinstein. sounds like he's finished even if he avoids prison camille be permanently disgraced. do not forget, don't let anybody tell you otherwise, people knew what harvey weinstein was about for a long time. he's a very close friend of bill and hillary and chelsea clinton, the very same people who lecture you about your moral

shortcomings protective harvey weinstein for decades. put that down on your fridge, don't forget it. under current american law, every person born in our soil automatically becomes a citizen but doesn't matter if the parents are tourist to this country are here illegally, it there are even spies seeking to undermine our country. congress can change the law but they don't actually care so they want. what effects doesn't have? according to the center for immigration studies, last year about their to 72,000 anchor babies were born in the united states. the parents had no legal right to be here. those children allow their parents to qualify for a whole suite of services and the parents will never be forced to leave the country. one of many ways america's open borders turn into a disaster for this country. lara logan is a fox and best of journalist, hocks of the fox nation program "laura logan has no agenda." she journeyed to the mexican

border. she was harassed by mexican police. watch this. >> we have been asked to depart the area. they were here just asking around about the town. >> a policeman told you they lynched some people here? >> for safety? >> the safety of the town, he said. >> tucker: made it back to the u.s. and joins us. thank you so much for coming on. what was your assessment? we spend a lot of time talking about mexico. you are just there. the country feel stable, unstable? what did you think? >> tucker, the simplest way to explain it is the words of a dea agent what he said to me, if you take the illicit economy, take the illicit money and the drug money out of the mexican economy, this country's economy would collapse immediately. so there is no ability to

separate those things anymore in mexico. the u.s. state department, mexico is the only country in the world where they give us state-by-state ratings, safety ratings. every other country gets a country rating. they want to argue that certain parts of mexico are safe in other parts are not. but what i have said to many u.s. officials who have used that line on me is what i learned from mexican investigators and u.s. law enforcement that more than 90% of crimes in mexico are never investigated. for murder, that's 98% of murders. >> tucker: never investigated? >> never investigated never mind border patrol, there is no justice for most people in mexico and that's for the mexican people. >> tucker: first of all, it's a great story on its own terms. mexico is a big, important country and it seems to be kind of falling apart. that's not covered except by you

and a few others. but second, has huge applications for us as a border country. sounds like it's a flat-out dangerous place. >> it's an extremely dangerous place in one of the things as a journalist, i really wanted to understand why this extreme level of violence. why are some of the women murdered? why they murdered in such a brutal way? what i can understand because i pretty much spent most of the past year working on the border and on this issue and i learned, tucker, it's about control. it's about the most extreme form of control. they would fill themselves doing the most terrible -- they kill people in the most terrible ways. they figured out how to take the bottom of the feet off the legs and disembowel them and take the arms. i asked, it's just the head and the tour so that's left. they film it and send it to their family are the people they are threatening, if you don't pay your tax to your extortion money, this is what will happen to you.

i asked a mexican investigator, how long can you stay alive like that when you're just a torso and a head. he said, the longest i've seen is a week. >> we are just dealing with a very different culture. this does not happen in cincinnati with all of our problems. it's a very different place. >> it's different in some respects but to me the most significant thing that i've learned working there is that the cartels, the mixing cartels are no longer the drug organizations that most americans think they are. they started moving marijuana across the border in the '70s mostly grown in mexico? those are not the same organizations that you are dealing with today. for example the, which dominates the drug trade in america, they operate in 50 countries around the world. the least a new generation, they are more in 40 countries where they don't just do drugs, they control most of the global

trade in narcotics but you do not hear about real meth labs exploding anymore in this country because math is produced in super labs in mexico. 100% of the math worldwide comes from mexico. you buy cocaine on the streets of moscow or brazil? you are buying it from a mexican cartel. on top of that, they can stroll the street gangs in every city in america. what do those gangs do? they u.s. law form isn't does not properly catalog the drug cartels for that document car theft but they do not document cars stolen to move drugs, to move people up or they take money out of the avocado industry. there is industrial scale oil pipelines across mexico coming up in trafficking that's worth more than $150 billion globally. they have the narcotics,

extortion, kidnapping, the wealthiest criminal organizations in the world, the wealthiest organizations. >> tucker: it's an unbelievable story and i don't think i've ever heard it as well summarized as you just plaited out. thank you so much. appreciate it. our viewers who want to hear more, among them, check out "laura logan has no agenda" on fox nation and it's out now. up next, the regrets have the impeachment progress for more than a month. it was going to move to the senate but it never did. some republican senators are pushing to and the end the charade.trey gowdy joine break. with time, comes change

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and remove the president! they didn't want to do it, they said to her they were praying very hard, almost constantly. ashes. it simply had to be done. people of faith wanted the president impeached. so they impeached him. suddenly in a day, democrats lost interest impeachment. now, senator josh holly is proposing that the senate dismiss the articles passed by the house because they are not prosecuting them. the whole thing is bizarre. what does it mean? trey gowdy's the man to answer that question. joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. where would you assess where we are now? >> understanding the senate's frustration committee house's scott's initial prerogative is over but the impeachment articles are sitting somewhere in legislative purgatory.

i would file a motion to assume jurisdiction and set a trial date. i would do both things can assume jurisdiction so it doesn't remain in this constitutional penumbra which is where it is now. set a trial date a week from today and say, mr. iraq, if you are proud of your work product, show up for your jury. if you weren't, serious to begin with, i would i would not make the martha mcsallys of the world before i would set a n trial to begin a week from today. >> tucker: what's the thinking you think in pelosi's office right now? is it that they did not want to impeach, aoc forced her to essentially come a decided it was hurting them so they stopp stopped? is that what happened? >> it's a couple of things, tucker, it's never about removing donald trump from

office. that's not going to happen. i think it's about neutering his second term. there is a way to take oversight in the country, that's what the voters but that happens irregularly. it'll happen again in november. in the meantime, it's the media's job to provide that oversight. i will give you a dollar for every negative story you have read about nancy pelosi sitting on articles of impeachment and a constitutionally unprecedented way. i haven't seen in a of critici criticism. i've seen her lauded as a tactician but no criticism about this legislative purgatory she has the country inn. >> tucker: no. to that shills at "the washington post," it's whatever it takes. fungus min commits a great and clear explanation. >> thank you. >> tucker: impeachment was an

urgent america's national security was at stake. >> president trump is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and our national security. >> the president is an ongoing threat to our national security. >> the president betrayed our national security and betrayed the security of our elections. >> donald trump remains and has been a threat to america's national security. >> numerous crimes threatening the national security. >> threats against our national security that we cannot defend or dismiss. >> he undermined our national security. >> and compromised so you can keep power. >> we must act without delay. >> tucker: without delay! of course at the end of the day the delays were of the democrats. impeachment seemed to hurt the democratic party. one thing, it drove reasonable people out of the party.

one of these is congressman scott van drew of south jersey for this impeachment debacle and it has been for the democratic party convince you to leave your party. >> it was part of it. certainly was part of it. even the most bizarre behavior occurring right now, so important that it be timely, had to do it for the safety and good of the country. i voted no, as you know, i didn't vote for it because it was a week impeachment. it wasn't in my opinion an accurate impeachment and i don't think it should've been done and it harmed the country, split us apart, it really hurt the very essence of this nation i think in many ways. but they did it. so we finally did it and now the necessary paperwork, the articles of impeachment, have not been transferred over. >> you didn't go along with that! >> they knew i wasn't because i was very upfront with folks like you and everyone i could talk to

and really spoke to even some of the individuals in the house of representatives that were more moderate on the democrat side, more conservative. we had the blue dog at everybody deciding they would go along. i was very surprised because in essence i that they would stop it. that along other things i've believed over the years about america and the direction that america should take whether they were talking about a segment on strong borders, how we need to have strong borders of was going on in mexico. i just think we are going the other direction. democrats are going the wrong direction. they are not the old blue dogs i remember of years ago so i really came to the point -- it all just came together. it was an amazing situation where i heard from the white house and at the same time -- by the way, this is after i already voted my way. i didn't vote for the impeachment.

there was never any question that if you help us vote a certain way with impeachment can will help you if you want to change parties. never, ever. all it was is it all came together. i feel more comfortable as a republican, i've always been more conservative. frankly i feel like i've been liberated. >> tucker: how have democrats in your state and in washington treat you? >> there are some that have not been nice or don't talk to you. some that won't speak with you at all. i've had some amazing reactions because some people who are even our independence or undeclared or democrats, was not only the principal of where democrats are going and that's important. something i disagree with. it's the idea that i was told in speaking to you about this before in counties. one of the counties, one of the chairman said to me, you are voting for impeachment. i never had that before, someone spoke to me.

you are going to vote and you probably will get to rodden in this county. i said the, thank you very much, i walked away and thought about it and everything come together my mind. talk about quid pro quo! >> tucker: i'm glad that didn't work. >> it didn't work. it's such a wrong thing to do and that's why some people who aren't that political have been so amazingly supportive because it took that's what you did and did the right thing. >> tucker: don't cave to the thugs. that's the lesson. >> things for coming on tonight. i enjoyed it. thank you. >> tucker: golden globes host ricky gervais went against hollywood calling at their hypocrisy. mark steyn was there, don't miss him next. plus, our investigation continues tomorrow night 8:00 p.m. eastern.

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>> ♪ >> tucker: the fast few years hollywood awards shows have been skippable. that's putting it mildly unless you want to get desired about your short comings from the ruling class baphones. but last night at the golden globes the host gave a lecture to the actors themselves. >> the companies you work for. unbelievable.

apple, amazon, disney. if isis started a streaming service you would call your agent. if you win an award tonight. don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. you are in no position to lecture the public about anything. you know nothing about the real world. if you come up, accept the award and thank your agent and your god and [bleep]. >> tucker: that was profanity bleeped out. mark stein, what did you think of that? >> i love it because it's the contrary spirit which is absent otherwise in so much of our popular culture. he could have done a monologue about trump and climate change and all of the rest of it. isn't it so much more satisfying sitting in front of that

audience to take greta turnberg and harvey weinstein and shove it all down their gullett? 98% of stand up comedy is pandering. you can see it on the late night networks every night. the host is congratulating the audience on holding the correct attitudes. the comedians i like are those who say something they want to say and they don't care of if you find it funny. god bless him. tom hanks and meryl streep were sitting there with stone faces. i wondered if it was one ever these things they rehearsed it. but 3 minutes in, i thought no, no, he will win one for the decaying contrarying spirit.

>> tucker: maybe it was the moment where the rest of us realized we could be free if we gave the finger to our tormentors who terrify us. >> absolutely. i think it has to be someone on the inside. it's like the fool at a medieval court. you have to be inside the court as ricky is. i think that's one of the things that was best about it. this is not a political speech. he was talking to hollywood about the nature of hollywood. hollywood are the enablers of harvey weinstein and getting into bed with companies that do deal with the chinese. yet they are superiors. he is not giving a political speech. he was addressing the national institute of dentistry and discoursing on the character of

dentists. he discoursed on the characters of the people who dominate our popular culture. >> tucker: the worst people in the world pretending to the best. thank you very much. we will be back tomorrow night. sean hannity is right now. >> sean: thanks. happy new year. buckle up. we have a lot to cover tonight including an absolute beat down of hollywood by ricky. i just heard tucker. we have a lot more to get into. colin kaepernick back in the news and a lot of trouble for joe 330. first just 302 days away from the presidential election where you get the final say. you will decide the future of this great country of ours. we promise the best election coverage on television. we will have