♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the democratic primary race has been underway for nearly a year now and finally we are closing in on the first months. believe it or not, the iowa caucuses begin three weeks from today. who is winning? nobody is winning although many candidates have already lost. the latest departure is new jersey cory booker he spent most of 2019 searching for a campaign theme, something to run on. in the end, he decided to become the woke-est candidate. watch him.

>> day one, i'll make sure that we and the i.c.e. policies and that the border policies that are violating human rights. >> we can't be blind to the impact of generations of racism and white supremacy written into our laws over centuries. >> we as a nation has not truly grappled with racism and what to privacy that is tainted this country. it continues to pursue used sell persist today. >> on the planet has been imperiled in the past, who came forward to save earth? from the scourge of nazis? we came forward. >> [speaking spanish] >> tucker: try hard! he promised to come forward and save the earth. but in the end, it didn't work. poor cory booker come and are leaving us with one fewer blue-eyed graduate in the race as explained on msnbc commits a moral strategy which leaves america bereft of essential

diversity. >> now that cory booker is out to me have one african-american contender left him with deval patrick. and andrew yang, both of which have not qualified for the next debate. the next debate is an overwhelmingly white debate, all-white debate, a lot of democratic voters who are wondering if specifically african-american women for their loyalty, how they will continue to make that case without having a field that looks like the voters are trying to get. >> tucker: and all-white debate? msnbc cannot imagine anything more offensive than that so how did it happen, this atrocity? it happened because the democratic party's races, they are telling you. turns out black and hispanic voters are not voting for black and hispanic candidates, they are bigots. that's msnbc's position for this week story line, there's always a story line, that bernie sanders is surging and in this case there is some truth to it come evidence that he is been the most recent "des moines register" poll shows

bernie sanders with a three-point lead in the state of iowa, sanders' main rival on the left, warren, she's now in fourth place. the race is far from over. joe biden may seem to you weak and confused for good reason but if you look at the numbers, she has he has not trailed in the national polls. the new latest monmoth poll has biden up, three way between sanders, biden. in new hampshire polls have bernie sanders and buttigieg battling for the elite. what is that u up to? chaos and the democratic party. with just weeks to go before the actual most begin, primary voters face a choice between a mediocrity, wild eyed political extremist, and a former mckinsey consultant to lectures like a sunday school teacher. that is not good. some of the parties are starting

to panic. many house democrats are frantically rallying behind joe biden as a default choice. they feel nominating sanders or warren would cost him reelection. when democrats panic, only one thing is certain to happen. somebody is about to be called a racist. in this case, that is fellow democrats were doing it which other. they are bad, bernie sanders campaign chair copied kamala harris and savaged joe biden as a bigot. why? apparently he once opposed to forced school busing. that puts him in the same category as virtually everybody in the country of all the races. everybody hated school busing no matter who they were. he was a klansman for joining. elizabeth warren is now claiming today that in late 2018 at some point, bernie sanders told her personally that a woman wasn't capable of being elected president.

did he actually say that, or is she lying? not for the first time. it's impossible to know and proof. that is hardly a barrier to saying. in fact, it's standard operating procedures. has democrats attack each other as immoral, the party is disintegrating and that's a sign that things are falling apart. case in point, freshmen, some in alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york is refusing to pay what can affect our dues to the democratic congressional campaign committee. she's accusing them of being insufficiently woke. she struck out on her own, fund raising for even more left wing candidates. on friday, she blasted her own party. america's left-wing party which is more left-wing than it's ever been, is not left-wing enough for a ocasio-cortez >> of those democrats who supported passing rules that were attacking the progressive wing of the party and attacking progressive candidates are no not's -- are somehow seen as team players. those progressive candidates who

are defending themselves are suddenly dead beats. it's a total and complete double standard. >> tucker: a double standard! ladies and gentle man, maybe sexism, racism too. bernie sanders being old is trying a different approach, bernie sanders did something unusual in the season. he attacked his rival joe biden on policy. watch what he said. >> joe biden voted and helped lead the effort for the war in iraq. joe biden has been on the floor of the senate. i'm talking about the need to cut social security, medicare or medicaid. joe biden voted for the disastrous trade agreements like nafta and permanent normal trade relations with china which cost us millions of jobs. >> tucker: it's an interesting moment. unlike all of what you hear these people yell at each other, and at you -- racism, sexism! those are legitimate criticisms, no matter what side you are on.

so how did joe biden respond to this critique of his record? he didn't bother to respond. watch this. >> do you have any questions about bernie sanders' comments on foreign policy? >> you are not going to get me on a fight with bernie. >> tucker: yeah, squint, chuckle. dismiss it as immaterial. bernie has got his own problems! joe biden has it exactly backwards. baggage? sanders has the least baggage of any democrat in this race, believe it or not. he is the least beholden to his own party. he's made it clear for years that he wants to overturn the entire american system. now that's appalling, without precedent but keep in mind that this is a country where a lot of people are suddenly fed up with the system. because of that, sanders' position gives him power. he's the most credible change candidate in the democrat party and in 2020, they could make him the most formidable challenge.

author of the popular book, "populist guide for 2020." thank you for coming on. it seems like bernie sanders really is surging. this isn't just one of those story lines of the week that you can dismiss as stupid. this seems may be more real than most of them. do you agree with that? >> it's definitely real. you see him at the top of "the des moines register" poll. even someone who used to work for the hillary clinton campaign said they have gone on to win the last six times in a row. this is a very real possibility that the democrats are facing. the establishment is freaking out because they don't know how to deal with someone who is telling some truth about the economy and about war. it's analogous that president trump has run and 2015 when you saw the exact same thing. all of these people who beat the wardrobe for iraq and side trade deals have no response. that is what you saw from

joe biden. he can't even deigned to respond to it. he voted for the iraq war. that's it. >> tucker: it's taking a taking a laud of democrats in washington by surprise and this is hardly an endorsement of bernie sanders. from their perspective, our future is a guidance to any socialist who was recovering from a heart attack? how did it happen? >> they run the country for 40 years and all the policies they put into place for this is what president trump ran on, the boiling anger in the american people. there was an nbc poll that came out months ago, 72% of americans fed up with political institutions, a slight majority wants to burn all of them to the ground. they agreed to that statement. they understand the system is not working for them and that is what bernie has been able to tap into. >> tucker: elizabeth warren is obviously vying for that leftward poll in the party

against bernie. here is her latest attack and i'm quoting, "bernie i met for more than two hours in december 2018 to discuss the 2020 election. among the topics that came up is what would happen if the democrats nominated a female candidate. i thought a woman could win that he disagreed." essentially, warren is attacking sanders as a sexist. is this an effective attack? >> it's not an effective attack. they are collapsing under the purity test they set for themselves. you are not allowed to impugn or ask the character or why this attack would be forthcoming at this time. the truth is elizabeth warren seems to be upset and other people were pointing out the other truth, upper middle-class white people are the people who support her, so they launched this attack against bernie in the use their media allies because anybody like you said in your opening, they want to cry racism and sexism, they don't understand an actual indictment of the economic system, this is what they resort to. >> tucker: the one thing about bernie that makes me think i don't understand what he's

running on is his position on immigration. if you are running as an economic populist and you're saying that we need a scandinavian style socialism or whatever, which has support quite frankly, you can't really have that position and support open borders, and yet reading it, that's what he's arguing. >> no, that's what bernie supports. he supports the fact of open borders, abolishing i.c.e., and increasing illegal immigration. he was on with lou dobbs not even ten years ago talking about corporate amnesty. in 2015, he called open borders a koch brothers proposal and in an interview, he acknowledged that illegal immigrants push down the wages of american workers. that, tucker, you cannot be a democrat today if you do not believe in the fact of open borders and bernie, who was a real economic populist ones in his time, has caved to the will cultural left on immigration and if he loses, it's because that is why. >> tucker: i totally agree with that.

great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez not apologizing for breaking ranks with the party. stiffing the democratic campaign made it clear that they will black list candidates like me. i can choose not to fund that exclusion. she went on, i regularly and happily fund raise for fellow members. i believe the democratic majorities should be transformative. that is why i give strategically. seems fair, no? francis joins us tonight. it seems fair? no? >> i don't know. if it for me, the last thing i would want to do a screw around with nancy pelosi's money. i would be very concerned about that. what aoc is saying that the dues are not compulsory. what it is is they give congresspeople an amount.

for aoc it's $250,000. for the big deal people who have committees on ways and means where you can extort companies for donations, those folks have to give up $2 million. aoc has gone out there and she raises small dollar donations from all across the country, but she's raised the most money out of anyone in congress last year, she raised $5 million. what the dccc says is need to kick in some of what you raise when you're out there to the parties so we can support candidates who don't have the fund-raising power. aoc is not a team player. we've seen that from day one. the problem is politics, especially in congress, is a team sport. if you don't have the majority, you really don't have any power. the party can come back and punish her by not putting her on committees, not letting her legislation see the light of

day, but she's not going on with the basic rules. she said things like, my college loans are still $20,000, yet i get a bill for $250,000? which is totally disingenuous because she raised 5 million. that money didn't go for her college loans but that's campaign money. she won't kick it into the party. >> tucker: she's exactly what nancy pelosi deserves, i think. great to see you tonight. >> it'll be interesting to see what happens tonight. i'm popping the popcorn. i want to see how these to go work it out. >> tucker: it's just wonderful. good stuff. richard goodstein has been around the democratic party for a long time. a lawyer and advisor to both clintons. obviously, like most democrats in washington -- like most sensible people, you're very worried about the possibility of a bernie sanders campaign, you probably feel that way. if you do not want bernie sanders, then why would the democratic party back a

credit card company shill like joe biden? if you back a statist like joe biden, shouldn't you be surprised by joe biden? >> democrats, independents, some republicans look at joe biden and their reaction is, maybe somebody can be in the white house who doesn't say crazy things or do crazy things or looking at twitter 24/7 because we are afraid of war or conflict or something like that. the credit card stuff aside, i'm happy to talk about it -- >> tucker: wait, are you making the case you should vote for biden because he doesn't say crazy things, mr. clean and articulate guy? >> biden, as you know, tucker, joe biden says do not compare me

to the almighty, compare to the alternative. he's going to be running against a guy who cannot pronounce the words "origins" or "anonymous." i'm prepared to take my chances. >> tucker: this is a sincere question! he was literally a shell for the credit card companies based in delaware. he was one of the forces behind the bank received a bill that shafted a lot of people in the middle class. in the moment when people are yearning for populist economics, that's your candidate? it's not a small thing, it's a major thing. >> they, the public generally looks at joe biden at somebody who's going to stand up for the middle american guy. if he does tax cuts, it's going to be for them, not for the rich. >> tucker: is that his position on the bankruptcy bill? >> i'm just saying, first of all it was a constituent company. he's not the first senator who stands up for constituents. >> tucker: is there anything uglier that hurts the middle class than credit card companies? >> it's the fact that the people in the middle class can't pay

for the combination of health care, education, and housing based on what they make. that hurts them a lot more than credit card issues. >> tucker: taking out 19% interest loans is the answer to enrich some bank and this guy is their spokesman? this is sincere policy critique, i'm not attacking his personality or senility, i'm attacking his policy positions. do you think you'll get the nomination with that track record? >> i think he gets the nomination because democrats look at him as again, somebody they can actually breathe easy and not worry. and the fact that he's beating trump in states that trump won, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. even florida. trump beats him nowhere and states that hillary won. democrats are pretty smart spirit incidentally, a poll came out since this "des moines register" poll that shows him a head and iowa. we are looking at margin of

error stuff and that "des moines register" poll. i'm not saying it's the end all. i'm just saying, let's not make too much of one des moines pool. >> tucker: will see. richard, great to see you tonight. thank you. for the 20th year in a row american soldiers are dying in afghanistan. why? how long will this go on? who is benefiting from it. the queen of england is reacting to prince harry and meghan markle's announcement last week. it's hard to believe we are covering a royal story, but we are. mark steyn will help us. that's all after the break. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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♪ >> tucker: the immediate aftermath after qassem soleimani's death, it looked like iranians were going to rally behind their country or not, i wasn't sure what would happen. they admitted to shooting down a civilian aircraft. trace gallagher has the latest on that. >> is day three of unrest aimed at the regime. it began when the iranian government admitted it shot down a ukrainian commercial jet, but now the anger is focused on government reform. calling on other leaders to step down. that has resulted in what appears to be iranian police firing live ammunition to disperse the crowd. we cannot verify the videos. president trump has issued statements supporting the demonstrators and calling on the regime to stop the violence.

meantime, democrats who heavily criticized the president for the escalation with iran and some even faulting him for the plane crash have remained largely silent at the rage towards the regime. the 2020 democratic candidates, only joe biden and amy klobuchar have spoken out in support of the people. journalist yasir ali of iranian dissent said, quoting, i've gone some through the prominent liberal accounts and none of them mention iran protest today. defense secretary mark esper denies seeing that intelligence. there are reports that president trump -- only if aggression led to te death of an american which happened in iraq two weeks ago. >> tucker: thanks for that. america avoided full-scale war with iran. such a war would be costly and a tragedy for thousands of

americans, but sadly there's another tragedy very much like that ongoing and has been for decades. over the weekend, two american servicemen were killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan. one leaves behind a wife and four children. the other one was 21 years old, just a toddler when 9/11 happened and american troops went into that country. these are the first deaths these year in afghanistan. sadly, and this is a poignant part, it's not clear what these men died for. possibly the same thing that more than 2300 american troops have died for us since the taliban was toppled in 2001. not much. it hurts to say that, but it appears to be true. the afghan war papers obtained by "the washington post" last year confirm these suspicions. our leaders have no strategy in afghanistan and our troops, this is their assessment, has been ordered to stay in the country indefinitely until afghanistan magically turns into belgium and it's not clear that'll ever happen. for more than a decade, america

has lost ground that the taliban. according to the pentagon's own estimate, 40% of the money united states spends gets diverted to the taliban or the pockets of corrupt officials. billions of dollars have been blowing on things like flying burger king into the country, with the goal of spending the pentagon's budget allocation so it's not cut the following year. by the metrics bureaucrats use, that success. for soldiers, it means more months spent away from their families in the path of harm in many cases. every year, the money we spend in afghanistan is enough to make every soldier currently deployed there a millionaire. imagine if we sent that money back to the communities the soldiers came from? but we are not doing that. some are coming home in coffins. two more, as we say. it's obvious what's going on, don't need somebody in washington to recognize the tragedy that's unfolding. anybody who pays any attention at all knows it's a tragedy. we need someone brave enough to

stop what's happening there for the sake of this country. doug mcgregor is a retired u.s. army colonel author of the book "margin of victory." such a depressing topic, two more soldiers killed in afghanistan. what is the pentagon's explanation for why this is continuing? >> i think they go back to the boilerplate reasons being used in the past to justify it. we cannot leave until there is some position in this government which we hope to set up which you point out is hopelessly corrupt. it's very likely to fold almost instantly once we leave. we've got to continue to back the police and the military there, which is equally disappointing. these are the reasons that are given, but the truth is it doesn't make any difference when we leave. it's all going to fall apart. but the good news is that once we are out, at least we will no longer be subsidizing the corruption and we will no longer subsidize afghanistan as the

global engine of heroin production, which it has become under our watch. >> tucker: it's such a distressing series of facts coming out of afghanistan. it's an insult of the thousands of americans who died they are that you've got to wonder why it's being ignored. i can't remember the last time i saw a newscast or news program leading with what we are doing that and why would she remain fit why is the country's news media ignoring us? >> for a couple of reasons. one, accountability is a dirty word. the press never uses it. i'm sure the general officers are identified in the afghan papers who routinely lied about what was or was not not happening in afghanistan. very interested in avoiding any accountability. the policymakers, politicians like joe biden and others that you have mentioned just recently all wants to avoid any discussion that would implicate them as coconspirators in all of this. and nobody wants to examine

where the money went and enrich many people here, not just contractor at the people connected to the system, this system of laundering money through contracts not just in afghanistan but all over the world that's supposed to support the military. a lot of reasons. nobody wants to talk about this. >> tucker: do you think that there is any chance in the next year that someone will take decisive action to end this? >> there is one man, only one man who can take decisive action and end this. his name is donald trump. he promised to do that a long time ago. he disappointed a lot of us because he has not been he could stand up tomorrow and pull us out but he needs to send everybody out of the oval office who keeps telling him, if you do that, and something bad happens, it's going to be blamed on you, mr. president. that could hurt you. he needs to say, i don't give a damn. this is wrong. what do i tell the families of these people recently murdered and in afghanistan for no reason at all, for no strategic

purpose, for no obtainable military objective? i'm telling you now i want our troops out. that's what we voted for him. he needs to do it. >> tucker: you are absolutely right and i think he wants to do it. let's hope he will. colonel, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: you got to wonder where "the new york times" is on this, the paper of record. the most important paper of the world. if you are a longtime watcher of "the new york times," it can be hard to settle on a low watermark. when did that newspaper abandon its duties as a news operation and became it has become absurd. theories vary on the subject. is it when the papers intentionally had the deaths of millions during stalin 'and in during the 1930s? when it was the height of neocon lies to plunge us in an occupation of iraq? those are serious contenders. here's our vote. just last week, this show

opposed the war on the grounds it wasn't an american's interest. for trouble, "the new york times" attacked us in a piece over the weekend. the paper denounced the show as immoral for opposing the war in iraq. opposing the war, it explained, is a "direct result" brace yourself, "for racism." let that sink in. if you not for killing persians, says "the new york times," you are bigot. that is their position. to prove it, the paper quoted, why are we ignoring the decline of our own country in favor of jumping into another quagmire. there you have it, said the times! another crazed right winger interest of his own country above more pointless wars in the middle east. what a racist! people should share the bombing of tehran. imagine writing a piece like that.

imagine reading that piece in your morning newspaper and continuing to subscribe. and yet, all of that actually happen. anyway, thank god it did happen. because 50 years from now, historians will wants to understand how america's ruling class went completely and utterly insane. and they will have "the new york times" to provide a road map. queen elizabeth the second on a decision on prince harry and meghan markle's plans to transition out of the royal family. we are covering it with mark steyn. meanwhile, america doesn't have a monarchy just yet but chelsea clinton proving that she's a child of a top politician is almost as lucrative as being a member of the royal family. we've got details on her finances. stay tuned. ♪ at fisher investments, we do things differently and other money managers don't understand why. because our way works great for us! but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first.

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>> tucker: here is the upside this all impeachment trial, we learn how it all really works in the ruling class. the tension of the jobs because all in form repeatedly so you don't forget that there is "no evidence" biden broke the law taking money from people hoping to influence his father. the sad thing is they are technically right. there is nothing illegal about paying de facto bribes by handing fake jobs to the unqualified family members of powerful people. since it's perfectly legal, naturally biden is in

the only one shamelessly cashing in on his family name, hardly. here is one offender, chelsea clinton. certified nongenius, since 2011 chelsea clinton has served on the board of a company called iac, media and online investment company. when she started serving, she was barely in her 30s, just a few years of nondistinguished work experience. but the iac paid for her like a seasoned expert, got a 60,000 year salary plus a quarter million in stock. here is the payoff, her stake and iac had grown to just under $9 million. the good news for chelsea is sitting on the board of the company has not been very demanding. at the same time she was heading millions from them, she was getting $600,000 a year for example from nbc to produce a handful of forgettable television segments. paying her another quarter million dollars a year. she's kept busy working as vice chair of the clinton foundation, writing bad children's books,

and lecturing america from her perch on twitter. read her feed sometime. it'll tell you a lot. she went to stanford, by the way, unlike you. how much money is that? the average american would have to work five lifetimes to $9 million that chelsea clinton collected from iac for doing nothing, but chelsea clinton did it in less than a decade because she had the right last name. just in case you are wondering. well, prince harry and meghan markle's announcement last week they'll step away from the british royal family shocked everyone, apparently even the queen was stunned, that the royal family held a private meeting and afterward the queen announced that she's entirely supportive of her grandson's decision to flee their country and cash in. but the drama is far from over. according to "the daily mail" which is always true, palisades fear harry and meghan will give an interview accusing the family of, you can guess this, racism if they are not happy with how things proceed. author and columnist mark steyn writes to explain all of this to we americans. mark steyn, welcome.

apparently, harry was caught on tape talking to bob iger, head of disney, begging him to give his wife meghan markle voice-over work? is it true? >> that is the absolute lowest point of a monarchy in the last hundred years. i think of all the pathetic things that the duke of windsor did after he entertained, abdicated the throne where he entertained wealthy americans and give them a sort of pseudo-glimpse into royal life, nothing like actually counting your wife available for "lion king 7" or whatever it is. that said, tucker, i would love to see any of the useless media interviewers subject or what go back you were talking about, hunter biden or chelsea clinton to the kind of interviews that

prince andrew had to sit through at the bbc or in fact the kind of press criticism that the duchess of sussex is getting in the papers today. you mentioned that the powerless chelsea clinton made 9 million bucks for doing nothing. the royal canadian mounted police are going to have to pick up a half-million dollar tab for harry and meghan security cost in canada. people are already beginning to chafe that amount. that would be a rounding error in chelsea clinton or hunter biden's expenses. >> tucker: that's a very good point. the british press, for all the criticism it's taken for being sensationalist and inaccurate, is actually more vigorous and honest than our own. >> i think actually we tap dance around some of these issues before. but i think one of the good things about it.

the percentage of the citizenry always resented, so for example when for the royal romanian air force plane, the media moan and whine about it because they resent these uses parasites. when you have a republic, it's a republic if you can keep it, because people like hunter biden and chelsea and the rest of them will try to steal it away from you. >> tucker: i just want to repeat it so this quote will live forever where good quotes live. the good part of a monarchy is a certain percentage of the population will resent it. mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: new york city going pretty well, they allowed a bank robber go free and commit

another robbery less than a day after being released. is the city of new york doomed? lawmakers will let the police protect the public once more? that's next. is

♪ >> tucker: massive change for new york this year, very few anticipated that bail laws change. cash bail abolished for simple felony crimes, and criminals are taking advantage. case in point, a man named jared woodberry arrested last week in the charged with robbing for banks at the end of the year but it turned out to be his lucky day. thanks to new bail laws, woodberry was out. the next day, new bail.

within a day he robbed another bank. dobby has faith in two weeks. the republican candidate for the congress of the united states. she is also a new york state assembly woman and the former candidate for the mayor of new york city. she joins us tonight. you joined us tonight to chronicle the decline the decline of new york. this seems like a quantum leap in the wrong direction. >> look, this is an overhaul that no state in america has seen in a matter of fact, you name one incident but so many more we can talk about. in christmas eve, you saw the illegal immigrant driving unlicensed who killed a mother of three. he left the scene, was caught, they released him back into the streets. we have a number of people assaulted including a police officer, orthodox jewish women

who were assaulted in a admitted hate crime. we saw a woman in the streets of new york city had her teeth punched out. all these individuals released and two of the three of them were rearrested in the same week. that's what's happening in the state of new york under a very bad law that needs to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed immediately. here in albany we are pushing for that, those changes. the governor has not given us a straight answer. he saying there something wrong with it, doesn't want to fix it needs to be fixed immediately someone's criminal history to consider that if they are a danger to society, to protect witnesses which this bill actually makes you release all these things seem to be addressed and people need to go to petition and sign now at nicoleformny.com. >> tucker: who is the constituent tory for this? are they the voters that, was worried about? who's for this?

>> interestingly enough, you have the democrats from all level of government, looking to release people from jail, alexandria ocasio-cortez, my opponent max rose both came out and supported this, supported the closure of rikers island. this is all part of the problem. >> tucker: wait a minute, max rose the purported moderate member of congress is in favor of this? >> he's not a moderate and people are learning that right away. he said he supported the bill form that cuomo has supported, he supported the closure of rikers island, he's joining aoc and the squad and nancy pelosi voting here. besides that, the thing here is the people of new york know it's wrong, the democrats know it's wrong, the governor saying that something needs to be done, and yet we are here now, the second week of session, nobody has done anything to address it and it's

been -- the republicans who are putting forward legislation for fixes and i've got to tell you, if it doesn't get the fix, there's going to be blood on governor cuomo's hands. >> tucker: people are going to continue to leave the state. why would you live there? nicole, thank you for joining us. the democratic primary field isn't the only bastion of leftism being blasted for having today's oscar nomination getting the same treatment. we'll tell you what happened ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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♪ >> tucker: it's award season in hollywood. just like the democratic party, everyone is yelling at everyone else about being immoral. just a year ago that hollywood was telling about its virtue. this year, some categories are a bit tailored. critics are saying that hollywood is a bigoted place. >> and "parasite." [applause] thank you so much. congratulations to those men. >> tucker: harmon white is one of the best film critics in the country. what you make of this? it's not really about the movies, all of the sudden, is it? >> no, it's not about the movies. it had nothing to do with anything except their own

petulance. you talk about the issue of diversity and skin color. it had nothing to do with that. it's really about social engineering, i think, where the media is trying to keep people at odds and separate from each other and keep people in a complaining mood. it's really about excellence and quality, then race has nothing to do with it. >> tucker: making us hate each other and causing us to ignore essential questions, which are, is a good or not? how long will this continue? >> as long as media thinks they can manipulate the public. instead of talking about good movies, get people upset about, oh, our tribe is not getting enough.

it's not about our anymore. it's about agitation and manipulation of the public. >> tucker: so, you watch films for a living. you review. you've done it for decades. is there any correlation between tribe and excellence? doesn't matter? >> no, it really doesn't matter. it doesn't matter, tokenism doesn't matter. setting quotas in the academy awards doesn't matter to anybody except media people who want to look good and feel good about themselves. >> tucker: is anybody, finally, and powered by this does anybody see their life improved by this? does it help anybody? >> i don't think so. especially not when movies like "harriet" are bad films. that doesn't help anybody.

>> tucker: this must be depressing for you to do this. >> it's depressing, but when i see a good movie like tarantino's "once upon a time in america." that's what bothers me as a critic. i want to talk about movies when they are good and when they are bad. >> tucker: it such a good point. thank you for being a rare voice for equality for good film. great to see you tonight. thank you. we are out of time, amazingly. remarkable how fast it all goes. tune in every night, 8:00 p.m. to the show that is and will always be the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we have snuck out to see what it's like here. good in some ways, not too good

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