everybody. >> ukraine was vital to u.s. national security as well why don't they want us to see that cable? why don't they want us to see that cable? maybe -- ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker coral son tonight. you see the pictures right there. the senate impeachment trial is still going. in progress all day. forgiven if you didn't watch every single minute of it. imagine a movie written and directed by children whose ending you already know and by the way, it's 20 hours long. in hungarian with misspelled subtitles? that's what it's like. we have been monitoring it all day every day we will alert you if anything happens this hour. congressman adam schiff fittingly of burbank, california, schiff, whose sources say, had not a single friend in high

school, has been relishing his recent turn in the spotlight. he seems to have taken a break from joe mccarthy impression in which he repeatedly denounces political opponents as agents of the russian government. know trying a new role as a tough but lovable dean of students. schiff spent the entire day delivering a lecture about the terrorist of cheating like america was suddenly the world's largest middle school. watch. >> by inviting foreign interveterans and cheating in an election, to cheat in an election for precisely this reason. helping him cheat in the next election. to cheat in our election should we just get over it? this kind of cheating, really? if we are going to be honest and blatant about it, cheating. in other words, to cheat. >> tucker: keep your eyes on your own paper, class. but schiff didn't stay in character for long. at one point he seemed to switch abruptly from mr. chips to dr. strange love. the united states, schiff complained to the 19 viewers still watching confused,

quote: aides ukraine and her people so we can fight russia over there and we don't have to fight russia here, end quote. huh? wait a second, whoever said anything about fighting russia much less over here? is putin planning to invade the homeland? is milwaukee safe? do unseen slosk saboteurs move among us? what does adam schiff know about world war iii that the rest of us don't know? well, unfortunately no one on cnn or msnbc thought to ask him that. they were too deep in bliss to the mouth breathers on cable television and adam schiff speech is like a brainstem massage surging waves of ecstasy flood the central nervous system linear thought ceases. all that's left are satisfied grunts of pleasure. >> a very, very powerful and forceful speech almost two and a half hours by adam schiff. very, very strong case from adam schiff. >> it was a very coherent,

cohesive narrative something that the white house doesn't have. >> speech aimed at the better angels and i think adam schiff did a really great job. >> what do you think of the presentation by the lead house manager adam schiff? >> i thought it was dazzling. >> tucker: we want to apologize to any viewers under 18 who may have just watched that. it was obviously pornographic and not suitable for children. while we are at it another apology of sorts viewers of the show last night had to endure exceedingly long speech by congressman hakeem jeffer res of new york is a so-called impeachment manager. judging by his title you might imagine that mr. jeffries is some sort of statesman a figure in the political realm. not so. in fact, he is a joke. not only that but a race baiter. watch this. >> the president of the united states chose to pull the sheets off and reveal himself in terms of his tendency to be a racial arsonist, fan the flames of

hatred. accepting assistance from a hostile foreign power like russia is streefn news behavior. >> the president of the united states is a dangerous con artist. >> it seems that the trump campaign conspired with russian spies to sell out our democracy. >> we do know that every racist in america voted for donald trump. >> we have a hater in the white house. the grand wizard of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> tucker: now, wait a second. so the president is not only a klansman, but also an active russian spy. that's quite a combination. under normal circumstances a claim like that by a sitting member of congress would be headline news. but as it was, nobody seemed to notice. it's normal now. they are all inflamed extremists, they will say absolutely anything. here is maizy hirono an actual u.s. senator from hawaii telling you it's

ludicrous maybe a sign mental illness to believe that impeachment has been in the works since 2016. >> they still saying that we were out to get the president from day one. some kind of a weird conspiracy theory that i have to say weird conspiracy theory when people said the federal food pyramid was backward and carbs didn't make you thin or those wackos who claimed that iraq had no weapons of mass destruction or for that matter ufos were real. pure insanity like that. impeachment in the works for years? you would have to be a nut to believe that. well, unfortunately nobody passed the talking points to democrat al green so he just went ahead and admitted it. >> well, the genesis of impeachment to be very candid to you is when the president was running for office. >> tucker: oops. somebody accidentally told

the truth. don't worry it won't happen again tonight. have you got to love a man who talks with his eyes closed. we will still bring you a lot more on impeachment throughout this hour. at the core of the democratic case against the administration though is the claim that trump and the people who work for him are flouting the law. a government accountable office report makes several allegations to that effect. okay. but let's add some perspective to that how, for example, does this administration compare to the one that replaced? darrell issa knows the answer to that he chaired the house oversight committee during the obama years and then he retired. is he now running for congress once again from california and he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me on, tucker. it's good to see you even if it's remotely. >> tucker: it is. but, this is something that you are really in almost unique position to answer the idea that the administration flouted the law. that's being debated on the floor of the senate and other cable channels. do the claims against this administration. how do they stack up against

what happened in the last? >> well, seven times there were requests to get a gao study and seven times they found that the obama administration violated a number of laws related to their spending. one of the most egregious was actually when the e.p.a. was found not just to have spent inappropriately but to have a violated the lobbying and the propaganda law, anti-propaganda laws. meaning they spent your tax dollars trying to influence an elections. so, these things happen. and in all seven cases, the obama administration was found by the gao to have violated not once did a member of congress then say well, let's impeach him for it. even though in the case of a couple of the examples like the bigge bird bigger da biggery

some rule against. that they are suddenly finding this to be acceptable to impeach somebody for the same as the other charge, which is obstruction of congress. imagine how many times president obama said no, i won't give you the information. we went through subpoenas. we went to court in the case of fast and furious. we did it for more than half of his administration before we finally got all the documents. >> tucker: fast and furious. that was the scandal in which the obama administration allowed a flood of illegal firearms into mexico the result being that people were murdered. that's not speculation or conspiracy theory that happened was there an effort to expweech obama over that not at all. we heard the attorney general in contempt. we wept dowmplet we got a judge appointed by president obama to agree with us and eventually we got the documents. certainly i would have liked to have gotten the documents

faster. there is a process in america which is if the two branches of government disagree about the discoveriability of something, you go to the court and you get it resolved, this administration has been no different than the last administration claiming privilege. the difference is they have gone to impeachment over what we would have otherwise gone to court over. >> tucker: just to be clear to viewers. there is not an attempt to excuse away wrongdoing by anybody. if it occurred auto departure from the way things operate. watching the destruction of our institutions. this is a massive change, correct? follow up, in a case of fast and furious, where we go get those documents where president obama had claimed executive privilege, thousands of them did not -- not only didn't fall under privilege but they pulled

back their claim of privilege meaning the president wrongly used executive privilege to deny us documents for more than a year. certainly we could have said let's impeach him. that's not historically what we do. what we do is let the people of america decide in the next election. >> tucker: that's exactly right. this is very different from what we have seen before and it sets a precedent i don't think anyone is going to want to live with i appreciate the perspective you bring to that darrell issa. good to see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: what does this mean you? get caught up in this and watch this stuff on tv and perspective can evaporate so bring it back we knew exactly who to bring it to victor davis hanson. professor, you have been watching this, you are a his torn. what does it make yo. >> after the 22 months. all stars no, collusion they

found. we have michael horowitz, inspector general, no collusion. we had the fbi operate crossfire hurricane, no collusion. yet, they are talking about collusion. and russian collusion so what's going on? and there's no special counsel report. there is no bipartisan support. there is no public support. there is no specific crime. so that brings us second level of analysis. what's the strategy because they know they don't really have a case. my guess they feel if they can get it on tv maybe john bolton might flip, maybe? or hail mary or maybe they can get four or five senators to support trump and that will hurt them on their vote and flip the senate or maybe they think they can embarrass trump. referendum on how pessimistic they are about 2020 chances. apparently they don't think the green new deal or reparations or wealth tax or sanders or warren as candidates or michael bloomberg, they are not going to be competitive.

maybe that's the strategy. whatever it is, it's bizarre because they're taking a lot of risks. after the eemoluments clause and stormy daniels. they are sick of it. they want to call witnesses and i don't think hunter biden will be advantageous for them it's beginning to like like feeble joe biden is their only viable candidate. you want to know what the strategy is finally in the last level of analysis, historic live i think 2020 marks a watershed year in american history because from now on when a president loses his majority -- the majority in the house, especially in his first term, impeachment is going to be a vote of no confidence. it's going to be a political weapon and it's going to be used against a president and there's a lot of collateral damage. we have destroyed the whole idea of a whistleblower. it doesn't exist anymore. can you remain anonymous. you can have second or third hand knowledge. you can collude with the opposition party before you go to inspector general. and that's going to be permissible.

the fisa court is totally discredited. what schiff and nadler and pelosi have done is they have had a lot of collateral damage and i don't think we are going to put it all back together again. i think we are in a new ear wrath american history. it's going to be pretty scary. >> tucker: i wonder if the members of congress who are leading this understand that. some are leaving. some will stay. are they going to want to participate nate system that's so dysfunctional that it doesn't work at all which is where we are going? >> i think they are in some kind of cacoon. i think they just watch msnbc or cnn and talk to washington bureaucrats or go for a drink in washington. they have no idea how this plays in fresno or, you know, des moines. they have no idea what people are looking at this are saying wow, we have got all these problems with debt and we have got problems with healthcare and we have got problems in foreign policy and existential crisis with iran and north

korea and we're standing off with china and this is what we get? this whole thing is at the level of michael avenatti and stormy daniels again. it's pathetic. they can't sense what they're doing to the country. >> tucker: trying to nominate a guy who is a sheilis a forthe credit card co. thanks for that. >> thanks. >> tucker: turns out the president is not the only victim of the impeachment trial. of course you are if you of have a television. democrats are using it to help joe biden. they are using it also to hurt bernie sanders. that effort appears to have failed, in fact, backfired dana perino has context for that next. plus our coverage of the senate impeachment trial will continue throughout the day. sadly the man who bizarrely claim we carry water for the kremlin is now speaking. [laughter] adam schiff. how will history record his

efforts this week? we'll be right back. >> the vice president, ukrainian tells. it's not like in front of all those people the president is going to bring it up and so sondland goes up to his counterpart right after that on the sidelines of that meeting and he says, basically yank out the money until you do the investigation.

>> tucker: as you may have noticed if you live in this country the president's impeachment trial is underway monitoring for highlights and breaking news. one senator who is watching the trial is presidential candidate is bernie sanders of vermont.

over the last two weeks the press hasn't been pushing impeachment, they have been attacking sanders on behalf of elizabeth warren and joe biden and the democratic establishment, more precisely. much like impeachment, the attack seems to be back firing completely. here is new evidence. a cnn poll out today shows sanders leading joe biden by 3 points nationwide 27% to 24%. no other candidate has come close. in other words, by attacking bernie sanders, jeff zucker aappears to have made him the frontrunner. this shouldn't surprise you. cnn's attack on bernie was the most political hint since jeffrey epstein. dana perino hosts "the daily briefing" with dana perino. she joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> dana: thanks for making me laugh on impeachment day. >> tucker: it's true. as i watched that cnn debate. of course, being cnn, they are taking orders, right, from zucker. and they were told kill bernie. and i watched this and i thought this is going to turn the left against the media. and i think it may have. >> well, you know, it was pretty interesting to watch how many people would be not

aligned with bernie sanders on politics. but, to see how unfair that attack was, then defending him. and, you know, jesse watters our colleague he told me the other day he ran into bernie people we know how are but we want you to know fox has been fair to bernie sanders and cnn has not. that just happened the other day in jesse watters elevator even so it has to be true. bernie sanders, i think that poll, we will see if it's a trend. it might be an outlier. there is no doubt that he has amassed some power. the whole thing this week was with hillary clinton saying that bernie sanders isn't likeable, that nobody likes him. he doesn't care about being liked. he is actually loved. and that's where you see the organization that is happening, especially in iowa that shows him increasing his support there. and he would rather be loved than liked. he wants to be respected but most of all he wants to be followed. he has been saying the same stuff for 50 years.

his rise has corresponded with elizabeth warren's fall. >> tucker: i have got to say that her claim that bernie sanders is unlikeable did seem lacking in self-awareness. i don't accuse other people of talking too loud, for example, because it does seem like casting stones. you have got to wonder though, if you are a democrat running for president, the most obvious faculty moment is everyone is mad at the people in charge. the establishment is discredited. why would you want to tie yourselves to it? >> i do think that the bernie people have been mad at the dnc for a long time. they think that it was rigged against him. and a lot of ways bernie is the mirror candidate for the democrats president trump. dismissed by the pundits. >> tucker: exactly. >> only liked by the fringe. the establishment doesn't like them. he keeps amassing in power and support. i do think that he has a ceiling. whereas others might not. but, you know, we will see. i think in some ways you think that the trump people they put it out there that

they think bernie would be the easiest to beat. i don't know. >> tucker: i agree. >> i guess it is possible. i watch your program and you make some really good points about how the left is just really divided right now. i don't see how they put this all back together. iowa is not going to solve it for them. there could be three or four winners out of iowa based on their new rules which the dnc changed in order to help people like bernie sanders. >> tucker: people in washington are so dumb in their political analysis. i'm sorry. i have been here my whole life i can say that i hear them say so and so could never win. i am like that guy can win. because i heard it for a year and a half with trump. dana perino, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: democratic party and water carriers are bernie sanders. sea threat to them. when sanders' surrogate called joe biden corrupt in a op-ed and of course joe biden is corrupt. sanders didn't stand by her. instead, he apologized.

>> joe biden is a friend of mine. i have known him for many, many years. he is a very decent guy. joe and i have strong disagreements on a number of issues. and would will argue those disagreements out. but, it is absolutely not my view that joe is corrupt in any way. >> tucker: what's your view on joe biden essentially taking bribes from the credit card company wrecking your snrif sanders didn't say. he folded. he did the same thing four years ago he refused to attack hillary clinton over email scandal. he gave her a pass. how did she repay him? by attacking sanders and his supporters as sexist. while suggesting that millions who back him are a bunch of, quote, nobodies. a journalist at the gray zone, one of our favorite guests joins us tonight. great to see you tonight. two things, do you think that sanders' recent rise and we will see if it sustains but it's real. is the result of the establishment on the democratic side coalescing against him? >> well, certainly the fact that they are talking about him for the first time is

helping him because people are hearing him. there was essentially a media blackout for years in 2016 they wanted to ignore him and pretend he didn't exist. hillary was the queen and needed to be crowned. now that people are hearing him, they turn out, they like him. they launch these attacks. i can't speak as to why sanders won't attack them. i think it's as though he didn't learn anything from watching four years of president trump, the u.s. public actually likes it when someone stands up for what they believe and especially when they are an outsider. and there is obviously a concerted effort on behalf of the liberal establishment of the democratic party to push sanders to throw his progressive surrogates like zeper under the bus so at the end of the day his campaign stands for nothing. same tactic they used against jeremy corbyn and the labor party where they attacked him relentlessly and accused him of being anti-semite. he didn't fight back. if you don't fight back and throw your friend under the bus you are alone at the end of the day.

tuck the "new york times" who always is and was the organ of the democratic establishment. they led the charge against sanders particularly in endorsements. >> absolutely incredible. i subjected myself to watching this reality show, the "new york times" put together of their endorsement conversation saying they want transparency which i think is great as my colleague at the gray zone said i think a lot of us would like more transparency from the "new york times" as to why they support disastrous regime change wars in latin america and all over the world. i don't know why they don't want us in on those conversations. stunning to hear out of the entire room only one person, the editorial board was given each two votes only sanders is only mentioned once, they voted for bloomberg the same amount of times they voted for sanders. that's while no one listens to the "new york times" actually to make their voting decisions, it does offer a window in to the identity crisis faced by the

neoliberal corporate ruling class at the moment. they are really trying to provide this centrist, corporate conformist neoliberal imperial frankenstein and vampire sucking the world dry people rejecting it. their inclination was to go for warren. they knew they had to pretend to care about the middle of the country. so they went for klobuchar as well and didn't discuss any issues when they were making the decision. they made vague comments about electability. then when they did talk about issues. they praised klobuchar for her vote on the wars in syria and libya. while mean well this week in berlin, 12 world leaders are meeting in order to figure out to clean up the mess the obama administration made. >> >> tucker: that's exactly right. >> so they haven't learned that the country is rejecting them. >> tucker: nobody supports those politics other than the "new york times" editorial page. i wish we had more time. it's always a happy day when you are here. thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: impeachment is

putting the chief justice of the supreme court in the spotlight. senator josh hawley clerked for him at one point. he will join us later. impeachment trial continues throughout the hour. this guy still talking. we'll be right back. >> these fine lawyers over here want to persuade you that call didn't happen. that wasn't said or all he said was no quid pro quo. he never said, but you have to go to the mic and you have to want to do it. well, s --

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>> tucker: a fox news alert. the president's impeachment trial is continuing tonight. it's been going on all day in the united states sene. what exactly happened that we should know about and what can we expect in the days to come for those answers we turn texas congressman john ratcliffe who has assisted the president's impeachment team throughout all of this he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. >> great to be here, tucker. >> tucker: give us your assessment of what you think today meant. >> today was really boring but the president's defense team is really happy. we're happy the democrats decided to take a bad program they ran over in the house and terrible ratings with the american people and re-running it over in the senate right now. so we're listening to the exact same arguments that they made before that fell flat a few months ago. and i think that the american people see this for what it is, which is a

disingenuous attack on the president. i mean, the democrats keep saying our case is overwhelming, the evidence is indisputable now over in the senate they are saying but we need more evidence. i think people see through that they are already tired of this. unfortunately, tucker, this is going to continue for the next two days. it's not going to get interesting until the president's team finally gets a chance to present their arguments. >> tucker: that is when? >> friday late or saturday is when it will start. and i think what your viewers don't know is that the president's lawyers have been forbidden from participating in this process over in the house. it was a 78-day impeachment inquiry. the president's counsel was forbidden for participating in the first 71 of the 78-day process. so the american people are going to be hearing new arguments from the president's team starting probably -- >> tucker: impossible to know but i have to finish by asking. do you expect to hold all republican members of the senate? >> i expect to hold all

republican members and to pick up a bunch of democrats. >> tucker: if that happens, and i mean, it seems like it could, whats would the point of all of this? >> to dirty up the president, to influence the senate races, to make senators take tough votes. to beat up the president. to hopefully influence his re-election chances. this is going to be, you know, the president's arguments as they are presented to the american people as i have said over the last few days is going to be like killing a fly with a sledge hammer. this impeachment fails factually, legally, constitutionally. there is nothing there. our mutual friend andy mccarthy said it best. he said this is the seinfeld impeachment. it's the impeachment where nothing happened. where the president had a call where he asked for nothing and he received nothing. and unfortunately, it's just been a political circus that the democrats keep playing out. >> tucker: that's the worst part of it is post modern.

thanks for being here. >> . roberts became fed up with the changes between the house impeachment managers and the president's defense team. >> i think it is appropriate at this point for me to admonish both the house managers and the president's counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world's greatest deliberative body. i don't think we need to aspire to that high a standard, but i do think those addressing the senate should remember where they're. >> tucker: senator josh hawley was in the senate when that happened. he also clerked for the chief justice. he has a full perspective on it. he stepped out of trial an hour ago to talk to us briefly about what he saw. >> tucker: you were there when that happened. when the chief justice scolded the people talking on the floor. what did you make of it? what did that mean? >> it's really extraordinary. i can tell you somebody who

has actually worked for john roberts. i have never seen him do that before from any bench that i have seen him sit on. it was very pointed. it followed immediately mr. nadler's comments to the senate which he said if senators didn't vote for his amendment, then we were committing treasury. that was his order word that we were voting against the united states. it's really extraordinary to basically accuse senators of treason. i'm not sure what the implication was supposed to be except we are being unpatriotic by not agreeing to dilatory tactics. by the way, tucker, this was at 12:30 at night. they had been going on 12 hours just to delay about nothing. just to delay. and i thought the chief justice put them on the spot. >> tucker: not surprising this is a guy nadler accused political opponents working for a foreign government betraying country. that's what's the point of this. a display like that doesn't seem to help democrats. why are they doing it this way. >> listen, they are playing to their base. that's really what this is all about. they are playing to the msnbc cameras.

at one point, adam schiff actually said that, listen, people are still watching in california. i mean, this was about 11:00 p.m. i think maybe some people are still watching in california, so this is just playing to the base. >> tucker: here is what confuses me, senator, if you are watching this stuff on msnbc as you said at 1:00 in the morning, you already convinced the democrats don't need to win you over, so are they expanding their constituency by doing this? it seems like they are scaring some people in the process. >> no. i don't think this is about expanding constituency as all. they know how this is going to come out. they are messaging for it. nadler's comments last night where he accused the senate of participating in a cover-up. tucker, that's what they are going to say. he just got there too soon. that's what they believe. they are not interested in try their case. they are not even trying to put on evidence. they don't have any evidence. as it's become clear today. this is all about spin. >> tucker: i mean, you clerked for supreme court justice. you understand this process. you understand the constitution.

i'm trying to that i can this seriously because i'm an american and i believe in our basic systems. this seems a mockery to me. >> you know, i thought the thing that really to me emerged in today's argument that's interesting is schiff actually standing up and saying you can't trust elections in the united states. he said in 2016 the president cheated. not legitimate. he said the 2020 election may not be legitimate. may not be able to trust it. and, therefore, you have to protect democracy by overturning elections? that is their argument. it's no wonder that they don't actually want to have this trial. >> tucker: because everything is irony they accuse trust of undermining confidence in our elections. amazing. thank you for joining us. i know you are taking a break from the trial in progress we appreciate it? >> thank you. >> tucker: this whole impeachment trial appears to be designed to help joe biden. but biden seems determined to sabotage himself with lunatic statements on topics like immigration. tell you what he said next. plus, continue to monitor what's going on in the senate tonight as the impeachment trial continues. >> quid pro quo for the

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>> little pencil neck adam schiff. [cheers and applause] got the smallest, thinnest neck i have ever seen. [laughter] >> tucker: congressman schiff and president trump aren't friends. we're not going to lie to you. but in the president's impeachment trial, no matter how mad schiff may be, we already know what's going to happen. mitt romney may vote to convict. but in the end the president will be acquitted anyway. nobody doubts that not nancy pelosi, not mitch mcconnell. not even adam schiff and his least lucid which is most of

the time. the real question about impeachment at this point is who or who will not publicly testify before this trial entsdz? it would be nice to hear from some people specifically hunter biden, his arrangement with burisma is at the very heart of this story. the president wanted to investigate that rankment because it was so corrupt. he will call you a putin stooge if you are. if you take millions of dollars from a company in a foreign country and then you are fire that country's top prosecutor is not a big deal says adam schiff. he has been totally honest about why he doesn't care. watch? >> are you open to, in principle, a witness exchange so that republicans can, for instance, call on hunter biden? this isn't like some fancy tease football. that's not the purpose of the trial and the senators shouldn't allow it to be

abused in that way. >> tucker: that's kind of refreshing. schiff was completely honest. he putting joe biden's corrupt display would be devastating to the biden presidential campaign. that campaign, it turns out, must be protected at all cost. destroy biden and the whole impeachment thing will be for not. now, they tell you that the democratic establishment wants joe biden as the no. knee in the first place balls is he moderate and can win. is joe biden actually moderate? he hugs people. that doesn't mean he is moderate. is he just not a threat to the lifestyle of democratic leaders. on immigration, for example, he is not moderate by anybody's definition. in a recent interview with vice. biden explained that even illegal aliens who commit drunk driving offenses ought to be allowed to you stay here forever. watch. >> you only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that's committed and i don't count drunk driving as a felony. >> tucker: have a few beers like whatever. drunk driving kills thousands of americans every year. democrats used to tell you a

lot about that biden doesn't care not in i will lyles are doing it. after the drunk drivers cause a crash they get free healthcare for their injuries while their victims may not. do you get free healthcare no but biden would like to give to people here illegally that's okay. after all, according to biden illegal aliens are more american than you are. he said it. watch. >> these kids have come. they have done well. most of these kids -- there is a lot of them and they are not just hispanic. they are asian, pacific islanders as well. and they, in fact, have done very, very well. in many cases they are more american than most americans are because they have done well in school. they believe what they -- the basic principles that we all share. >> they are more american than most americans are. more american than you are. shut up you foreigner. in the same interview biden vowed to protect drunk drivers. he also said americans must pay reparations to illegal

aliens for what they have done to them. >> separated by the federal government deserve any kind of reparations or any kind of restitution for what they suffered? >> yes, they should be made whole. they should be made whole in terms of first and foremost getting back with their families reparations is repairing damage. some of you part of the latino community. talk about let people know the anxiety the children you know of parents who may have an illegal parent, undocumented parent in the country. it's enormous anxiety and so that's why we should be finding them the kind of help need to restore their competence, restore their sense of who they are. >> tucker: he said it illegal quickly undocumented. go ahead and drunk drive. give you free healthcare is that moderate? goodman writes for "the washington examiner" and we are happy to have her tonight because she covers

all of this. thank you so much for coming. so, from the very beginning, the assumption has been because of his temperament that biden is this moderate guy with broad appeal to swing voters. is that still true? >> i mean, look, i think people look at this, dui comments and they say why didn't biden do anything about this when he was vice president? obvious deported 100,000 illegal immigrants who had dui convictions. and i don't remember joe biden saying anything about this at the time. the question is why is this an issue for him all of the sudden right now? >> tucker: it's just a little weird because your average american born 18-year-old lives in terror of getting caught using a fake i.d. or drunk driving. flight at the are telling us that's totally cool. fake documents, drunk driving, no problem. >> yeah. down plays in a way also the seriousness of drunk driving. especially flown drunk driving. there is usually more factors to it in those states to get a felony.

things like, you know, if you cause an accident that results in an injury or if you have a young child in the car. usually other issues like that and it just seems to kind of down play this severity of it to say -- >> tucker: a little strange honestly. i watched the video. you can watch it yourself on youtube of joe biden saying that his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver. it's weird for him to be saying that drunk driving -- >> i want to say as you probably know, the family of the man who had been driving that truck he was not driving drunk and there was no -- he was never charged with drunk driving. >> tucker: whether or not it's true he claimed it. do you think that democrats in washington who conceived of pushed and are now defending the biden candidacy are now worried about it? >> i think that they would have to be. i mean, when he is talking about reparations, things

like that shows you how far democrats are shifted on illegal immigration in the last four years. president obama had more illegal immigrants than any other president at a higher rate. and now you have joe biden coming out and taking very different positions on this and where was his criticism of this at the time when he was vice president and should have been able to do something about it. >> tucker: real quick, is there majority support in this country for reparations. >> i have not seen the polling on that, tucker. >> tucker: biden hq whatever that is. thanks so much. great to see. >> great to see you. >> tucker: stulg suing hillary clinton for a lot. even the clintons are paying attention because it's that much. the ongoing coverage of the impeachment trial in the senate.

adam schiff has finally relinquished the microphone. no word on whether they had to tear it out of his hands. that's congresswoman joe lofgren of california. >> produce them by september 16th. this included the transcript or actually the call record of the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky.

>> tucker: we took adderall so is we could keep awake during the impeachment trial in the senate. tulsi gabbard has been targeted from the beginning by the democratic establishment. they hate her for the crime of opposing wars in countries that are not in our national interest. now in a new lawsuit gabbard is accusing gabbard of defamation. trace gallagher has more on that. >> 50 plus-million-dollar lawsuit accuses the former secretary of state damaging her campaign by spreading false accusations when she knew they were false. hillary clinton never mentioned tulsi gabbard by name when she made the comments back in october during the podcast of former obama advisor david plouffe, but her russia finger pointing drew a very strong connection. listen. >> i think they have got their eye on somebody who is currently in the democratic primary and moving her to be the third party candidate. she is a favorite of the russians. they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.

>> sites and bots is a reference to gabbard's strong support on social media. gabbard states she is not a russian asset neither russia or anybody else controls her presidential campaign. she denies a third party run. also, talks up her years with the national guard and her four terms in congress. tulsi gabbard believes the opposition from hillary clinton began back in 2016 when she supported bernie sanders in the democratic primary. clinton's spokesperson responded to the lawsuit telling fox news quote that's ridiculous. tucker? >> tucker: they are grooming her. unbelievable. trace gallagher, thanks so much. tulsi gabbard by the way is often a guest on the show plans on joining us tomorrow night. a quick note about one of our guests, glen greenwald a reporter of the intercept has been on the show. charged in brazil. accused of committing a series of crimes for printing text messages between government leaders as part of an expose on official corruption there if convicted he faces a long-term in.

so harshest prisons in the world. he could die in them. greenwald is an american citizen. he could probably find a way to fly back to new york tomorrow if he wanted. is he refusing. he pledging to stay in brazil and fight. we are not surprised by that at the height of the russia hysteria greenwald stood alone on the left and call the witch-hunt what is it was. dozens of times he came to this channel and say what's true at great cost. former friends hated him for breaking ranks denounced him. some are still attacking him but he bold forward anyway because he thought it was the right thing to do. he is that tough and self-directed. that's something to be admired and we do admire it. glenn greenwald we do root for you. that's it. we will be back tomorrow sworn enemy of lying smugness and group think. good night from washington. continue to monday tort impeachment trial of the president on capitol hill

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