take over here in washington, d.c. we will listen to this as we head to the break. good night, everybody. >> let's watch. >> the specific instruction was that i have to go to the lawyers -- ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucke "tucker carlson tonight." here's where we are. tens of thousands of americans continue to die in their prime from drug ods. the middle class is still shrinking, housing crisis in our cities crushing generation of ambitious young people. china's economy is about to overtake ours. that's all the bad news right there. have no fear. here's the good news. washington is on it. your representatives in the capital city, this city, just spent their third day in a row yelling at each other about a phone call donald trump once made to some guy in ukraine. in other words the impeachment trial of the president rolls on tonight. if nothing else, that means that amateur these mean and full time congressman adam schiff gets to try out new

parts for the camera. yesterday you will remember schiff played the war time general imminent military invasion. the russians are coming, he squeaked. the russians are coming. watch. >> as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry, the united states aides ukraine and her people so that we can fight russia over there and we don't have to fight russia here. >> tucker: that's right, ladies and gentlemen. we could soon fight the russians here, inst. john's berry, not st. petersburg stock up on milk. today schiff revived the character you saw theological dimension war time general plus old testament prophet george patent meets jeremiah suddenly dropping references to god like the two were old friends. >> thank god putin said putin said thank god nobody is accusing us any more of interfering in u.s.

elections now they are ukraine. thank god putin says. i don't think we really want vladimir putin, our adversary to be thanking god for the president of the united states because they don't wish us well. we do not want them thanking god for our president and what he is pushing out. we don't want them thanking god for withholding money from our allies. >> tucker: say what you will, but as a piece in theater it had literally everything, dastardly old vladimir putin rubbing his hands together in diabolical glee. foolish americans little do they know my troops will be in phoenix by night fall. on other side god himself in heaven looking down in sadness hoping this lost nation will finally heed saint adam's prophetic warnings and obey. it was the age old battle good vs. evil playing out right there on the senate

floor. senator jim rich of idaho was not impressed fell dead asleep the other day probably wasn't the only one to do it. if it weren't for the fact that most senators can nap with heir eyes open it would be clear the whole chamber has been unconscious since monday. cable news, it's like christmas. "america's newsrooms" may be the last place in the english speaking world where adam schiff is still considered impressive. to the average news anchor he is not a bugged eye hysterical he a statesman. alexander hamilton reborn. get that man a musical. >> a very, very powerful and forceful speech almost two and a half hours by adam schiff. very, very strong case. >> i thought schiff's performance was a virtuoso performance yesterday. >> adam schiff did masterfully what all prosecutors trained to do he is a really good lawyer, period, end of discussion. >> also, i thought schiff did exceptionally good job

connecting his case to the founding fathers. >> i have to say watching that i thought adam schiff's opening was brilliant. >> this was a speech really aimed at the better angels. >> by most accounts it was a virtuoso performance that drew praise from all sides yesterday. a stunning recitation of the facts. >> what do you think of the presentation by the lead house manager adam schiff? >> i thought it was dazzling. >> tucker: dazzling, stunning, brilliant, powerful, forceful, masterful, virtuoso, whatever that means. those are the words the press uses to describe a man who has just called for a hot war against a nuclear armed nation. do the talking heads on cnn believe what schiff is saying? do they actually think russia is on the cusp of invading the united states? maybe they do. more likely they are not really listening to him. if the internal thoughts of your average news anchor were broadcast on the screen, and they should be, you would see they revolve mostly around hair and makeup do. my ears look big? these are not policy people.

they don't care about details. they just know for certain that schiff is on their team. that's enough for them. that's how they can spend the last three years study dustily pretending that adam schiff is a serious person and not a wide eyed conspiracy nut. to keep pretending that they need to ignore a lot of his actual claims the things he famed. very much including these things: >> you can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion. pretty compelling evidence. >> and there is significant evidence of collusion. there is ample evidence and indeed there is of collusion of people in the trump campaign with the russians. >> i think there is plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy. >> all of this is evidence of collusion. >> tucker: to schiff, collusion was everywhere, on facebook, on television, inside the box of honey bunches of oats sitting in breakfast nook of his apartment. at one point he suspected his cat, many cats. schiff spent the entirety of 2017 and 2018 talking just

like that. by the end he would accuse 60 million americans of colluding with vladimir putin simply by the act of voting for donald trump 2 was a conspiracy that profound. except it wasn't and that's the remarkable part. schiff was wrong. none of this ever happened. and we now know that conclusively. so is schiff punished for this? driven from polite society for falsely impugning the integrity of millions of americans with lies. no he wasn't. he got more famoused and more revered on msnbc. you can find him most weekdays now having lunch in the best restaurants in the city right across from the guys who planned the iraq war and got rich from subsecure prime time mortgages. he seems happy. why wouldn't he be? he got it all completely wrong. he wasn't punished. he was rewarded. that's how washington really works. keep that in mind as you watch adam schiff strut around the senate playing whatever character he has chosen. this the guy making the big decisions. this is the guy they admire.

kim strassel someone we admire. she joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. let me ask you the question i have asked every night this week which is what is the point of this exactly? >> i think it is to allow adam schiff to spread more falsehoods to the country. i mean, look, you just mentioned the collusion one. he has been doing the same thing again this week repeating at infinitum how many times i can't even tell you at this point saying well, you know, the president was installed by russia into his seat. russia won him this election. he cheated his way into this. there is simply no evidence for that anywhere. you know, you won't find it in the mueller report. you won't find it in the senate report. even if you buy the argument from the obama administration intelligence agencies that russia was trying to help specifically trump, no one has ever made the claim that that effort, in fact, succeeded. and, yet, out there he

repeats it as if it's a common fact. >> tucker: there is something scary about that and this is not a partisan point in support of the president. there is something about a person with a lot of power and authority in this country getting it completely wrong for years, hurting people in the process, exposed as a liar, as a fab blues, and not being punished and in fact getting more authority. what does that tell you about our system that that can happen? >> yes. and also, by the way, being lauded as a success in this? i mean, again, 180 degrees opposite. adam schiff has already failed in his job, okay? because his job as house impeachment manager is not to curry favor with the press or make the people in the gallery applaud him. it's to convince the jurors in the trial. he has convinced no one. and it's because of that lack of credibility that you were just highlighting and that we have talked about. the senate republicans know all of this history and they know a lot of the things he is saying on the floor were

biased or misrepresented. you don't convince a jury that way. >> tucker: does it worry you that the level of propaganda of dishonesty in this country, from the people who should know better, the ones that went to yale and the school of journalism that they are lying so much that no one will ever believe them again and that no one will ever believe that the system is on the level again ever after this? i'm worry about that. >> it is and it's become rampant. and do you want to know why? because the media isn't doing its job. all right in the media exists to call balls and strikes, to call out officials when they do this. and they advocated that role about three years ago. when they're no longer serving as a neutral umpire this is the behavior you end up getting. >> tucker: they defend the system they should be keeping on nest because they are a part of it. that's why. kim, great to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: one of the star witnesses during the house impeachment hearings was lieutenant colonel alexander

vindman. remember him? the guy who gets upset when people call him mr. . >> mr. vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistleblower. >> ranking member, it's lieutenant colonel vindman, please. >> yeah, it's lieutenant colonel to you, pow. you may also remember that lieutenant colonel vindman kept getting offered ukraine's top military post. >> you went to ukraine for the inauguration? >> correct. >> at any point during that trip did mr. danny luck offer you a position with the ukrainian government. >> he did. >> how many times did he do that. >> i believe it was three times. >> tucker: huh? just a quick test. you can administer to yourself. how many times has the ukrainian government offered to give you control of its military? zero? mr. vindman has been offered three times. pretty remarkable. here is something even more remarkable. this show has learned that even after saying what you just saw, even after testifying against his boss,

the president, even after admitting a foreign power keeps trying to recruit him, speaking of recruitment by foreign power mrs. vindman is still serving on the white house national security council right now. hard to believe that but apparently it's true. he is not alone either. jennifer williams is a mike pence aide who also testified in the same vein. she is still on her job, too. congressman devin nunes represents the state of california. he was unelected, unlike the people you just saw, he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. this is a small thing that represents something much larger, i think. not our job to go after mr. vindman. but how could someone like that keep his job on the national security council? >> well, there is a lot of problems with the the national security council and the trump administration is trying to get it under control. the knew national security advisor is doing what the previous national security advisors under trump didn't do. that is to try to reduce the size and scope so there's

hundreds and hundreds of people over at the national security council which, look, i have never been on the national security council but if you go back 20, 30 years ago during the reagan days, i'm told that, you know, you had a couple dozen people. maybe three, maybe four dozen people total on the national security council. obama put hundreds from all this, don't forget, you also have people that were on the national security staff that went over to adam schiff's staff, that knew the whistleblower. vindman, the guy, you know, he served his country, that's great. he wants to be called lieutenant colonel, that's fine. his brother is also there as a lawyer. so all of these people colluded and coordinated with the whistleblower. they coordinated with adam schiff's staff, so, you know, really what you had there a den of thieves there at the national security council and look, i have said this over and over and over again. i said this to mcmaster, i said it to bolton and i said it to the new national security advisor o'brien that they just need to get all those people out of there. like, if you were there and

worked for obama and you were a holdover, just, you know, get a used building somewhere on the other side of the potomac. just get them out of there. they have done so much damage to the presidency i couldn't agree with you more. >> tucker: why not say mr. vindman and your lawyer brother, take a hike. they are not in control of the government. it's not their government. no one elected mr. vindman to anything or his lawyer brother or any of these people. the government exists for our benefit and it's not working. and so why is it so hard to do that? i honestly don't understand. having spent my life here, i don't understand that. >> look, i have no idea. that's why i think i gave them very good advice which is there is plenty of empty buildings, look, thank you for your service. just get off the premises. >> tucker: go work for ukraine. >> spy on them. maybe he will at some point. >> tucker: yeah. i'm sorry to vent to you eye know it's as frustrating from your vantage as it is from ours. >> it is very much. look, i also think, tucker, there is more going on here.

i listened to your opening monologue and your discussion with kim strassel. what's happening today in the senate floor and last three days and last three months previously in the house of representatives, this makes joseph mccarthy the former senator in the 1950s look like nothing. it looks like nothing. remember, this is a man who has accused -- adam schiff has accused and pelosi the leaders of the democratic party have accused me of being a russian asset. tulsi gabbard, a democratic candidate of being a russian asset. the senate majority leader of being a russian asset. donald trump of being a russian asset. i think he even accused you of being a russian asset. >> tucker: he certainly did. can i say the irony is this city is brimming with agents of foreign governments and they're influencing policy it's just not russia. congressman, thank you so much. i wish we had more time. great to see you tonight. >> always a pleasure. >> tucker: one journalist tonight a friend of ours is reporting that president obama has told friends he may publicly attack bernie sanders. huh? the man who broke that story

joints us after the break. also continuing to monitor the senate impeachment trial. air quotes there. if something does happen, of course, we will bring it to you. >> when you withheld an oval office meeting that was critical to ukraine. and he did this for only one reason and one reason only. hi! we're glad you came in, what's on your mind?

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charles gasparino reports that president obama has told friends privately that sanders is the wrong nominee for the democratic party. not only that obama is considering going public with his criticisms of bernie sanders. fbn charles gasparino joins us with more. thanks for coming on. >> great. how are you? >> tucker: you are the first really to confirm it. what do you know? >> simply this: president obama believes that bernie sanders is both unelectable in the general election and he is a bring too far. i mean, if you think about it, president obama was a very progressive president. but he did put together a coalition of blue collar whites, african-americans, women, it was -- he did not socialize the banking system. he continued the bush bailouts. he did not socialize medicine. he created a new mandate obamacare. took a lot of flack from the bernie sanders wing of the party because of that now he is sitting there and saying

who, we have a candidate who is literally saying we should give away free stuff. he's not telling us how to pay for it. he -- the far left likes him. but he's basically unelectable. now, my sources are people, you should know, that spoke direct whether i president obama. they are democrats. they are people that work on wall street. they are much more moderate than you would say a bernie sanders supporter. but i will tell you this, tucker, people talk a lot about the frame fractures in the republican party, the conservative movement. what we have right now and, you know, president obama might not come out and do anything. i just want to make that clear. but what we have right now behind the scenes is a civil war in the democratic party. >> tucker: yes, that's exactly right. >> look at it this way. the old democratic coalition of african-americans, blue collar whites, women, and progressives, okay. that is the being framed. why is that? because you have on top of that, trained the whole

coalition essentially woke young white liberals who are far more liberal than the african-americans. far more liberal than white suburban women and angry and president obama knows this. he has hinted about this back in november. he made a couple statements to donors about this. i hear he is still talking about it. and, listen, he may or may not go public with this stuff. i think it's actually political. and i spoke with some democratic consultants, probably a mistake to go public. you stir the hornets nest here. you further disrupt this coalition. >> tucker: right. it? >> is definitely happening and under covered story. >> tucker: he doesn't need to go public because now it is public. >> that's true. >> tucker: african-american voters, you wake up and discover the most moderate part of the democratic coalition. >> absolutely. >> tucker: young white, unmarried democrats by farther most radical and they are moving towards conflict. amazing story. charles gasparino, thank you so much. >> any time, tucker. thank you. >> tucker: bernie sanders is not the only candidate the

democratic establishment hates and trying to destroy. from day one congressman leaders have opposed congresswoman tulsi gabbard of hawaii because she agrees with the 2006 party platform and thinks foreign wars when they are pointless are a mistake. hillary clinton suggested that she was working for russia. >> i think they have got their eye on somebody who is currently in the democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate. she is a favored of the russians. >> tucker: groomed by the russians hillary says of tulsi gabbard. this week gabbard filed a 50-million-dollar defamation suit against hillary clinton. we are happy to have her on with us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: you sued hillary clinton. no one saw that coming. why are you doing it? >> this is about my life. you know, for so many people in the., they are saying oh well, you know, this is just another news story. but this is my life we are talking about here. for me as a soldier, as every service member does i

took an oath of loyalty to our country. the country that i love. willing to put my life on the line for our country deploying twice to the middle east to do. so still serving in the uniform in the army national guard today for almost 17 years. the essence of this service, this love 6 country is who i am. so when you have someone as powerful as hillary clinton seeking to smear my reputation, essentially implying that i'm a tray tore to the country that i love, what she essentially is doing is taking my life away. so what this lawsuit is about is actually valuing the honor and the loyalty and integrity that every one of our service members embodies and saying that no one i can try to defame them. we'll not allow that to go unchecked. >> tucker: of course she is the woman's candidate of empowerment.

why do you think she singled you out as a woman and accused of you colluding with the a foreign government. that's not the hillary they want us to think she is. >> i think it was a very clear and intentional message if you dare to cross hillary clinton and her powerful allies that this, you too, will see your reputation smeared. you too will get the kind of false and baseless accusations we have seen from hillary towards me. she will silence anyone who dares to cross her. >> tucker: grooming you like you are the ma man yourian candidate. like have you gone to law school. what's her response been to this lawsuit so far? >> to my knowledge we have not gotten any kind of official or unofficial response important to point out this is all happening in spite the fact that i have

been serving as a soldier now for our country for almost 17 years, deploying twice to the middle east, serving in congress for seven, going on eight years on the foreign affairs committee. the armed services and homeland security committees. dedicating my entire adult life in service to our country. all of this aside, she still goes on and makes thee claimtheseclaims somehow i'm a r to the country that i love. >> tucker: looks like she is going to run for president. that's the sense you get. her spokesman says she is open to it on this show. do you think she is considering getting into the race? >> i have no idea. you know, i'm here in new hampshire. i'm focused on our campaign. election day in new hampshire here in 19 days. and i think the american people, what i'm hearing across party lines, democrats, republicans, independents, libertarians are coming to our town halls every single day. disagreeing on some or maybe even many issues but coming together around this central

point that you and i often talk about, about how our country needs to stop waging these wasteful regime change wars. we need a commander-in-chief who will work to end this new cold war and nuclear arms race. and redirect our taxpayer dollars towards really serving the needs of people here at home. that's what i'm seeking to do as president and commander-in-chief and prepared to do so from day one. >> tucker: people are shocked you sued her. i didn't find it shocking. she accused you of being groomed by a foreign power to subvert this country. we, of course, are rooting for you. congresswoman, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks. >> tucker: a decade ago you heard a lot of worrying about a swine flu and then the snake flu. now, china, biggest country on earth, battling a new virus transmitted by snakes and bats. is it a threat to us? how worried should you be? dr. marc siegel joins us. first update on the impeachment trial. the president may come himself to observe the proceedings there in the senate. we will tell you how and when next. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. the president's impeachment trial is still going on on capitol hill at this hour, needless to say. so far the president himself hasn't been there. that might change though in the near future. for details we go, as we always do, to fox chief breaking news correspondent our friend trace gallagher. >> for the record former presidents andrew johnson and bill clinton did not attend their impeachment trials but it appears

president trump is, at least, toying with the idea. saying this before he left davos, switzerland. watch. >> would you show up at your trial any day? >> i would love to go. wouldn't that be great? wouldn't that be beautiful? >> why don't you go. >> i would love to sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces. i would love to do it. >> auto so why not do it? >> don't keep talking, because you may convince me to do it. >> the president did acknowledge that his legal team might have a problem with it but since the senate controls most of the tickets to the spectator gallery, it was fair game that kentucky senator rand paul extended the invitation, quoting here: i heard donald trump would like to attend the impeachment trial. mr. president would love to have you as my guest during this partisan charade. the president has yet to rsvp but he did retweet senator paul's offer. senate democrats did not appear amused. patrick leahy said, quoting here: president trump also said he would like to testify under oath, that, i would like to see.

independent senator angus king who caucuses with the democrats said quote if he comes he should be prepared to answer questions. on the other side texas g.o.p. senator john cornyn said the president should conduct his other business rather than be distracted by this. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, once again, with the single most interesting nugget from the day's proceedings. great to see you. thank you. >> you too. >> tucker: congressman mike johnson of louisiana is serving on the president's defense team and joins us tonight in studio. thanks so much for come on. >> glad to be here. >> tucker: is the president going to go to the gallery and get hackled by the democrats? >> i would love that tuck puck if he did that and hypothetical needless to say, what do you think would happen? >> i think he would intimidate greatly the managers who are putting on this false case. we are in to the third day of the hoax now. i love what senator blunt said this morning he summarized it.

bless their hearts as we say in the south. they have about a one hour presentation the problem is we saw it for six hours over and over on tuesday. 8 hours on wednesday and today you see the drudgery is still dragging on. they are not convincing anyone. they are doing more harm for their cause and he would glad about that. >> tucker: i would like to see them stand in the press gallery and shout epitaphs in russian to the people underneath him i doubt he would do it. doubt convincing anybody. polling i assume. >> if you gauge the viewership for example the estimate is they dropped 20% of the viewers over yesterday. that's not a good sign for the managers. i have think there will be uptick on that when we get to finally present our case and we are really looking forward to that the president is as well. this hasn't been a fair fight until now, finally the truth will be presented and the president is anxious for that to happen and we are, too. >> tucker: it's a little baffling, i'm just being honest as a tv person how badly produced this is this is the party of hollywood. >> oh, yeah. liberals made the wizard of

oz and they can't pull off imimpeachment. >> drudge troy watch. managers are literally reading a script that was apparently drafted by staff. adam schiff is only one that has a command for the facts that the fact that he engineered and manufactured for this process. it's been abysmal presentation. it's funny to seat other networks who say it's just glorious, one of the greatest presentations ever. everyone knows it's not true. >> tucker: not not just glorious, it's brilliant. remarkable and something called virtuoso, do you know what that means? >> not in this context. it's not virtuoso. >> tucker: i will tell you congressman, it's virtuoso. they told me that on msnbc: great to see you tonight. thank you. >> you too. >> tucker: college student could be tonight the second case of the deadly chinese coronavirus. is there a threat to americans? clearly it is. is it growing? should you be worried? dr. marc siegel will join us next. continuing to monitor what is happening in the united

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♪ >> tucker: a mysterious virus spreading in china has gotten hundreds of people sick. at the top of the hour the death count has doubled to nearly 25 so far that we know of. now the virus is spreading to this country and fast. the string of coronavirus from bats and snakes commonly eaten in china to people. china has quarantined the city of wuhan in this country a case already confirmed. now a student at texas a&m may be infected with it as well. how serious is this? how concerned should you be. dr. marc siegel is the man we go to for these

questions. thanks for coming on. how worried should would he be? >> if we were in china right now i think we should really be worried. the chinese government is locking down five cities. as you mentioned, it began with exotic animals in a market. and these animals, by the way, harbor this virus. they pass from one species to another and then humans get affected occasionally. here's the problem it's now spreading from human to human. we don't know how many cases there are. i frankly don't believe it's only 600 cases. i'm suspicious' many more cases than that and many more deaths than that. that's the problem. it's going on in china. that's one reason that i would really urge people not to travel to china right now until we figure this out. here's the billion-dollar question, tucker. exactly how contagious is this from human to human? now, over here in the united states, i am much less worried because, as you said, we have one, possibly two cases. we have the centers for disease control and several other agencies on the job

monitoring these cases. isolating them. making sure they are not coming in contact with other people. but, there's another problem. which is that you can spread this virus without knowing it. it's a week to two weeks before you start to develop symptoms. even screening in airports has limitations. especially in flu season. you know, you screen for a fever, or you screen for a rapid heart rate that can be anything. there is a lot more flu out there than there is this. if we look back in history to the early part of this century when you and i were discussing this in one of the best interviews i ever had by the way we talked about sars which was a very similar coronavirus we said look, we are worried about, this we are concerned about it, we still don't know how contagious it is. and public health measures help to contain that and right now i'm optimistic that we can contain this in the united states. we still don't know though. >> tucker: i mean, this is not the first virus we have seen in china specifically jumped from animals to humans. you have got it believe -- we have to pretend all

cultures and behaviors are the same. it's not. mistreating animals. eating koalas and snakes and bats and dogs, which is common, apparently in this city wuhan, that's the reason that we have this, correct? caging animals too close together and mistreating them. eating them live. why shouldn't we say something about that? >> that's extremely important scientific point and you left out bamboo rats and badgers. but bats are often the reservoir for this. and we're literally talking about a culture where people and animals are living right on top of each other and as you mentioned, people are eating exotic animals that are not fully cooked and that's how it spreads to humans in the first place. most of the time it ends there. occasionally it doesn't. and this coronavirus is of the same family as i mentioned some more severe viruses that have a fairly high death rate, can cause pneumonia. we have got to contain and isolate. this and i think you are absolutely right that it starts with a culture over

there. >> tucker: yeah, and we should say that doctor, thanks so much for coming on tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: i suspect we will be talking with you about this soon. >> you bet. >> tucker: michael bloomberg is running for president. $60 million. one of the richest people on planet earth. spent more than a decade as mayor of the biggest city. most of the people who live there believe did he a good job. in politics distinguished himself as a savvy operator. bank rolled a 50 state effort to roll back gun rights and been pretty effective. by his 34erbments you would think he has nothing left to prove. at 77 he has decided to get into the race by so doing humiliate himself. less than a year ago in march of 2019, bloomberg said he was not interested in becoming president or running for it because it would force him to apologize for all of its achievements and even apologize for who he is. here's what he said. >> it's just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me starting where i am, unless i was willing to change all

my views and go on what cnn called an apology tour. [laughter] joe biden wept out and apologized for being male, over 50, white, beto, whatever his name is, he has apologized for being born. >> tucker: so everything you just heard in that clip is true. and there were very good reasons for mike bloomberg not to run for president this year. he must still know that you don't make $60 billion by being a moron. but then the consultants got to him and they flattered him. they appealed to his vanity which is considerable. and bloomberg decided to go ahead and do it and humiliate himself in the exact way he said he would have to. so back when he was mayor of new york, one of his biggest accomplishments was building what mayor rudy giuliani did reducing crime rate. bloomberg took a city already safer than most american cities and made it one of the safest cities on planet earth. one reach he was able to do that was because of his stop and frisk policy that policy took thousands of illegal

guns, the guns he is always talking about. illegal guns he took them off the streets along with dangerous criminals. and that saved lives. particularly the lives of young black men who are the most frequent victims of violent crime. that's a legacy. who else has done that? has amy klobuchar done that? no. bloomberg did. he could be running on that but no. the current democratic party requires candidates to side with criminals over normal people. so bloomberg abandoned his old faith for his new faith. watch. >> i got something important really wrong. i didn't understand that back then. the full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities. i was totally focused on saving lives, but, as we know, good intentions aren't good enough. i was wrong. and i'm sorry. >> tucker: there is something poignant about watching 77-year-old billionaires get woke. also something amusing about it. sorry for saving all those lives. my bad, will you please vote

for me now? [laughter] that's what he is saying. those are the words he is reading written by some 28-year-old wesleyan grad that works for him. bloomberg didn't stop there last year he was mocking beto o'rourke for going on the view and apologizing for his skin color. he was right to mock him. you shouldn't apologize for something you can't control. this week in tulsa, oklahoma, bloomberg did the many exact same thing. >> a as someone who has been very lucky in life i say my story would only be possible in america. i think that's true. i also know that my story would have turned out very differently if i had been black and that more black americans of my generation would have ended up with far more wealth had they been white. >> tucker: how much would you pay for the internal dialogue going on in mike bloomberg's head as he said that what's he really thinking as he reads those words? he wool never know. politico watched it and called it a bid for african-american support. right. people not so easily fooled. maybe he should call beto o'rourke how well that

worked. shouldn't be hard to reach him because o'rourke isn't too busy these days. as his campaign continues only more cringe worthy. a middle schooler with low self-esteem and rich parents he has had to try to buy his popularity. staffers for other campaigns take low salaries, live in motels to support a candidate they actually believe. in not bloomberg. bloomberg's campaign poaches staff with goodies. even at the state level people who work for mike bloomberg for president, there's a short-lived job could earn $12,000 a month. every staffer guess a free iphone 11 and mac book pro-on very first day. they are fed three catered meals. shockingly, all the gifts, the apologies, the self-abasement, none of them is working. all it's doing is embarrassing. like richie rich, michael bloomberg has to learn money can buy influence and power and cannot, even now, buy democracy. he is polling in the single digits and has been since the first day of his

campaign. because in the end, there is a god. he missed out on the last democratic debate before the iowa caucuses. in a desperate bid for attention his campaign triter account spent the evening comparing bloomberg's appearance to a meatball and posting bizarre statements designed to get your attention like mike can tell pathicly communicate with dolphins and mike can fit 9 d batteries in his mouth at one time. okay, show us. because he can't even do that imagine if, instead, on running on all the mistakes he made, running away from them, admitting to all the sins, like being born, bloomberg actually ran un apologetically on the things he has done built a massive company, made new york better. he still might not win. the democratic party is pretty broken, but at least he would li out on his final years on earth in dignity. he won't have that in the end. president trump's trial is not the only thing going on right now. harvey weinstein is also on trial in new york city. the testimony there has not helped hillary clinton or

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full day of the impeachment trial in the senate. it is still going on late into the night. we've been watching that trial all week and of course, we will continue to do it. if anything happens, you will learn it right here right away. there's a lot going on, including harvey weinstein's trial. if it wasn't from the prepack done my protection he received from many powerful friends. one of those friends was hillary clinton. he said that weinstein often bragged about his opposers to the clintons. yet, she claims total ignorance. she had no idea, no idea what he was doing. again, a trial testimony indicates she and her husband, bill, certainly her husband bill, spoke to weinstein every other day on the phone.

he joins us tonight. so, geraldo, you've been around a long time. you know everybody. >> i have. >> tucker: when you saw the testimony that, you know, weinstein always bragged about knowing the clintons. were you surprised? >> no. i had a flashback to when i met harvey weinstein for the first time. he was thanking me for my work in helping the president. he was very complimentary. he said way to go and made it very clear that he took it as a personal complement to him, a favor to him that i had been so strong. there is no doubt, i don't know if the clintons carried him in high regard. i never asked them about harvey weinstein, but there was no doubt that harvey weinstein thought that he was close to the clintons and took it personally that i had assisted

president bill clinton in defeating the forces of impeachment back then. >> tucker: i worked for a company 20 years ago that was run in part by harvey weinstein. i know him, but everyone in the company knew he was a -- everyone knew. used to light a cigarette in the elevator. could the clintons not have known? how could they not have known that? >> people recognize and accept what they want to. they have a different view of themselves. i can't answer for hillary. i just think it is unlikely, given that harvey was so, you know, impassioned about his defense of the clintons and thanking me for my work on their behalf. it seems to me unlikely that the clintons didn't hold him also in high regard, you've got to think. >> tucker: i got to ask you about the fox nation, "i am geraldo." what is that?

>> well, september will be my 50th anniversary and broadcast journalism and fox news and fox nation have graciously agreed to put four hours retrospective of my career, the biggest story in the early stage of my career. it was my expose of developmentally disabled people. over 5,000 people in horrible conditions. i busted in with my camera, expose it all for the first time. it was shocking and it led to a change in the way that population is cared for. now, they are in group homes, in a very much more humane, you know, wonderful environment. >> tucker: 50 years in journalism. i don't know how you've done it. in better shape than i am. >> well, i don't know about th that.

>> tucker: it's the mustache. thanks, geraldo. we are done, unfortunately. we are back though tomorrow night 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. stay with fox. sean hannity next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." we began tonight a fox news alert. we begin with major breaking news. we were right yet again. look at this. in a letter to the fisa court, the department of justice admitted that at least two of their applications against trump campaign associate carter page lacked probable cause and that the surveillance of page should not have continued. a stunning admission of guilt that they admitted. not only the rights were trampled, but that means all of the spying, yeah, that was happening too. we first will have a t