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in fact, it ought to make you suspicious. the world is changing incredibly fast out there, and it's fascinating and ominous and worth covering. but by and large, the media are all but ignoring it.no why are they doing that? consider the stories they are downplaying in favor of a protracted government hearing whose ending we already know. for starters, at this very moment, a serious viral outbreak is spreading across china, the world's biggest country. in just a matter of weeks, this new strain of coronavirus has generated almost as many new cases as sars did.in remember sars? two weeks versus three months. more than 100 people have died so far and that's just the official total. the real number is likely higher. hong kong has closed its borders with mainland china. l but, as of tonight, for reasons that are not clear, planes are still landing in this country from chinese cities. huh. by any objective standard, that's the biggest story of the

day, maybe the moment. a potential pandemic rising from asia. but that's not all that'sia happening outside the impeachment world. according to a new cdc report, the suicide rate in this country has risen by an astounding 40% over the past 17 years. last year alone, an additional 16,000 americans killed themselves, compared to the rate from 17 years ago. you likely know one of them. most people do know one of them. that's more deaths than the entire iraq and afghan war combined. and the hardest-hit sector of the population, you won't be surprised to learn, was blue-collar workers. the same group being crushed by wage stagnation, unemployment, and the opioid academic. co and theen opioid epidemic. being crushed, above all, by the loathing and contempt our ruling class so clearly feels for them. why are they dying? neglect is one of the main causes. more on that later in the show. meanwhile, as if that weren't enough, all of that, a well-known harvard university professor turns out to be a chinese spy. for real.

charles lieber, chairr of harvard's chemistry department, was arrested today for concealing millions of dollars in payments from the chinese government and then hiding his involvement in a chinese program to acquire foreign technology and expertise. if those allegations against him are true, lieber betrayed this country to assist our most dangerous enemy and he wasn't alone. authorities have charged a boston university grad student who apparently was secretly serving as a lieutenant in the people's liberation army and forwarded her researchrv from this country straight to beijing. that researcher is already back in china, so she will likely not be charged. another researcher caught smuggling 21 vials of biological material out of logan airport in boston. this is all happening right now. remember when america was shocked when the rosenbergs were caught stealing secrets and sending them to the soviet union? they went to the electric chair for that. today, chinese spies are so common in colleges and in

government, it doesn't even rate a story. so there you have it. three news stories, each more compelling and more inherently important than the impeachment farce we have been enduring. what do these stories have in ecommon? each one points at the selfish incompetence of the people in charge. maybe that's why the media don't want to talk about them. because their job is to protect the people in charge. by the way, here's one more story they are not telling you about in any detail. the growing chaos within the democratic party. with the first votes of the 2020 race less than a week from now, f falling apart. bernie sanders is all of a sudden poised to win the first three contests in a row.st historically, that's been a guarantee of a presidential nomination. now, bernie's rise has been happening for months, but like every major new development in the world, it's been slow to dawn on official washington, which has been wholly engaged in the emotionally satisfying ritual of hating donald trump. but now, bernie has arrived, and he's impossible to ignore. the democratic establishment is

waking up to a nightmare and they are horrified. no democrat in washington reallg believes joe biden is a strong candidate, no matter what they tell you. talk to them privately, anyone who knows him, and they will admit joe biden shouldn't even be running or, for that matter, driving. everyone agrees it is sad to watch.be their designated savior is finance mogul michael bloomberg. so, an elderly white male billionaire riding to the rescue of a party that, as a matter of official policy, hates white male billionaires. doesn't sound likely, doesn't? doesn't sound likely, does it? if this were a movie script, they would be laughed out of the pitch meeting.? come on, no one will believe it. this is washington, where purportedly smart people convince themselves of unlikely things and go with it.pu so bloomberg is the candidate they are backing, for now anyway. oh, but let's stop talking about depressing topics like chinese spying, global pandemics, b and imminent the rise of socialism in our country. let's get back to something something small and fun like

john bolton's catty new book. they hated him once on cable television. now he's their hero. why? why do they love john bolton? his book and the sideshow it represents makes it possible for the rest of us to ignore their failures. but it's still interesting, andd we are going to talk to jeff sessions tonight, president trump's attorney general and now running to reclaim his old seat in the senate from alabama. he joins us tonight. senator, thanks for coming on. you've been around u a long tim. in the republican firmament, as a conservative, and you run into john bolton and known him.lt you have to have because everyone here does. what do you make of his role in the impeachment saga tonight? >> well, i don't like the book. it's probably inevitable that something like that would leak. he is the national securityta advisor for the president of thl united states, to help the president achieve his foreign policy agenda. i don't like it. we don't have enough discipline in our government. we don't have enough respect for the chief executive of our

country, who is the unified executive, who gets to set foreign policy goals and not the advisor. i am uneasy about it.or i don't think it's a healthy thing.g. of course, the liberals and the democrats are using this inn every way possible to try to enhance and excite the impeachment fizzle going on. >> tucker: you had turbulent moments as attorney general. did you ever leak information to the press about your opponents in the administration? >> i did not. it's entirely unacceptable.>> it's an absolute wrong thing to do. e we need more discipline in this government. i tried to establish it at the department of justice. we went from three intelligence investigations to 27 in just a matter of months. i think we have tightened upus some things, but it really depends on the integrity and the personal responsibility and honor, really, of the people hired by the president who are

supposed to serve him and help him advance his agenda. >> tucker: when we spoke last week about the impeachment farce, your view was, as a long-time united states senator, knowing all the republicans in the chamber, that the republicans were going to stick with the president and there was no chance of a conviction. has anything you've seen in the last week changed your mind? are youu still confident of tha? >> i am reasonably confident of that. i'm not sure what they would do on witnesses, but it seems that the houseld had overwhelming evidence againstes the president when they returned the impeachment articles. we found out that's not true and i don't see anything else that would likely change it. i think the counsel who argued that even if this were all true, it's insufficient to sustain a removal of a president from office. this is huge. i believe that, and i have

believed that from day one, and i don't think we need to necessarily -- i don't think we should go forward. that will be up to the senators. they will wrestle with it. i mean, forward with more witnesses. so we will see how they decide. i think it's time to bring this to as conclusion because the fundamentals don't justify removal and conviction for the president of the united states. >> tucker: one final question, earlier today the "los angeles times" ran a storyt part off an interview they did with senator dianne feinstein of california, in which she seemed to suggest she wasn't convinced the president was guilty.at she didn't like the president but she didn't think he was guilty and she was considering voting to acquit. within a couple hours, someone clearly twisted her arm, and she issued a statement saying "i still dislike trump." what do you think is going on there? is there any chance that a democrat votes to acquit? >> i think a number of democrats

have to be worried about this. it's a horrible precedent that you have a dispute with the president, a party that controls the house may use that power to undermine the effectiveness of the president of the united states. it's not a right thing to do. which there's got to be a lot of democrats who are worried about it. >> tucker: you would think. i don't think anyone wants to live with this because it's too stupid. mr. attorney general,otr: senator sessions, great to see you. thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so, impeachment is going whether we like it or not. and it's continued to drive the people glued to their screens all day completely bonkers. disgraced serial liar and former cia chief john brennan, hard to believe he ran the most important spy agency in the world, but heer did. now he is a cable news yet upper. he recently said impeachment required canceling the state of the union for some reason. watch. >> one of the things that i worry about is we are going to have a state of the union very shortly while all of this is going on. >> is the state of our union strong? who's going to say that?

>> not just embarrassing but i think it's also very destructive to the image of the united states worldwide. so i question whether it makes sense to hold that at this point. >> tucker: john brennan is a little concerned the president might be able to talk in public, which as he is required to do by the constitution.t. how did guy like that run the cia?be honestly. honestly. oh, because obama appointed him. that's why. so, if you are tired of this, we have bad news foroi you. it's bad news for us, trust me, in the cable news business. elizabeth warren says that in the very unlikely event she actually becomes president, she will create a special task force just to investigate and punish anyone unwise enough to serve in an administration she doesn't approve of. a permanent feature of life here in washington. charlie hurt, opinion editor and author of a great book. "still winning. thanks for coming on. imagine looking at what we've

been through for the past three years and i would think there are people who don't approve of donald trump who think nothing is getting fixed. everyone's going crazy. twitter is dominating the conversation. this is bad, but if you are elizabeth warren, you say i would like a second helping. i want more. >> it reveals how utterly cluelesske she is. you think about the people who have been most deserved by all of this. it's not the people who like donald trump, it's the people who have been lied to by these people. they have been told they are going to remove trump over the russia scandal. now they're being told they're going to impeach him over this. it's all nonsense. they'vew been lied to. people get lied to enough, and at some point something breaks. that's when really bad thingshi happen. but think about it from their perspective. political persecutions are really easy. it's so much easier than governing.r especially when you have real problems like the ones you have laid out about china and the coronavirus. dealing with something like that, especially if you have really bad ideas about dealings

with these things, like thinking that we need tong send our boys, send all of our money to defend borders in syria while our own border with mexico is completely wide open. people that are that dumb who have ideas like that, of course they would prefer to do a political persecution. they will let all that other stuff happen, all the stupid stuff happen, but the political persecution is so much easier. >> tucker: i think that's exactly right. maybe i shouldn't even say this on tv.v. you are from and live in a very rural area. when you read these stories with the suicide rate jumping or the opioid o.d. rate jumping, that's not affecting any neighborhood.d where we are sitting right now. it's affecting more where you live, and i wonder how frustrated people become if they see their neighborsve literally dying and nobody here cares. what do they think? >> it's amazing how much people back home have completely tuned out of everything that's going on up here. they could not tell john bolton from captain kangaroo. they certainly do not care about

whatever was written in his book. which they do not care -- what are the ratings of these impeachment hearing? they are zero. nobody cares. except for people who sort of as a hobby find the political back-and-forth interesting. i find some of the debate interesting. you know, watching lawyers debate about what the founders intended, i find it mildly interesting. but it does nothing to fix anything back home. that's how donald trump became president. because he talked about things. donald trump, people overlook the fact that the 2016 election more than anything, it was more issue-oriented than any election in our lifetime. he talked about all these issues. i am conservative. why do i like him? i didn't think he was conservative. but things have gotten so bad, i'm not looking for a conservative. i am looking for somebody with some common sense. >> tucker: who can identify the issues. >> and who likes america. l tall order.nt

>> tucker: the person talks about the issues that actuallyue matter will win.n. charlie hurt, great to see you. well, the chinese coronavirus is starting to look like not a small thing but possibly a serious threat. according to elizabeth warren, the virus, a possible pandemic, is a perfect opportunity to complain about the same things she's been complaining about for a long time:os global warming and america being racist. that's next. also, the president holding aob rally in southern new jersey this evening.t. we are monitoring it for news. if there is some, we will bring it to you. we'll be right back. and then, cnn's experts ridicule the middle of the nation. georgetown and malibu and that dark space in between. sub-literate hicks who we hate. mark steyn joins us just ahead. >> that is partly him playing to their base and their audience and the boomer rube demo.

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♪ >> tucker: all of a sudden, the chinese coronavirus is looking like a real threat that could be a global epidemic or maybe even pandemic. it's impossible to know, but it's the kind of thing that could be very serious. very serious. thousands of cases already confirmed, more than 100 are dead. with a two-week incubation period, more cases are a certainty. so far, travel between the united states and china is completely unaffected. why?

who knows, but it is. elizabeth warren's fading presidential campaign has put out a plan for fighting coronavirus and other potential pandemics. one item is fighting global warming. huh?pa of course. naturally, one of the top causes of the disease is apparently racism. right, okay. this is not science. obviously. it's religion. whatever. in that spirit, warren's plan calls for "building equity protections in the funding for emergency preparedness." what the hell is this? senator tom cotton represents the state of arkansas, and he has a more direct plan. for containing the outbreaks. he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on tonight, senator. this elizabeth warren plan, parts of it are sort of serious and parts of it -- the main parts are totally deranged. what does racism and global warming have to do with the coronavirus? any idea? >> yeah, it's hard to figure on

that one, tucker. it seems like no matter what the circumstances, the answer is always more government and more of your tax dollars. look, there is very simple way to stop this virus from comingol to america more than it already has, and that is to stopir commercial air travel from the chinese mainland to the united states. that's exactly what i have urged the trump administration to do today, with, of course, caveats to make sure american citizens and their family members can be evacuated and appropriately monitored. that's the simple solution, not medicare for all, the green new deal. to address what, as you say, could be a global pandemic. this is an instance in which benjamin franklin's maxim is truly correct. "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." >> tucker: so as we started the show tonight, apparently some american carriers have canceled flights between mainland china and the united states. the administration has not, that we know of, weighed in on it yet. this disease, this virus is spreading at exactly the same moment when a chinese spy ring

has been uncovered, as you know, at harvard and in the boston area.. there's a lot going on here. it's very hard to see what would be the argument against taking these precautionary steps.itybe particularly considering hong kong, a china satellite, has closed the border. what's going on here? >> sure. so, tucker, the chinesee government has a history of dishonesty and incompetence, not only in general, but specifically related to infectious diseases.ot look at what happened with sars. in 2003. china is not acting like a government that has control of this outbreak. as you mentioned, hong kong has slashed travel from the mainland. china currently has more than 50 million of its own people in quarantine. that is more than the population of our west coast t combined, ad china has canceled school indefinitely. no matter what they say, china's history and, more importantly, their actions the last few days tell us that this is a severe outbreak that they do not have close to getting under control. >> tucker: why am i watching impeachment coverage all day?

i mean, you are in the united states -- it's not your fault, of course. you're in the senate. you are following this actual story. you are watching this garbage in washington. why are people focused on one and not the other? >> tucker, that's right. anytime i come out of the impeachment trial for a break,k, it seems like there's been reports of another thousand people have contracted this virus and a few more that have been killed.f when we wake up in the morning in america, i assure you those numbers will go up again. i suspect that months from now or perhaps even years from now when people look back at this time, coronavirus will be considered the bigger story than impeachment. i hope that's wrong. i hope we can get this epidemic under control before it reaches our shores in wide and far-reaching numbers. but again, we should apply an ounce of prevention here as opposed to a pound of cure after the fact. >> tucker: that's right. i am totally opposed to alarmism. there's already too much of it. but we should identify the real risks and focus on them.

this is a real risk. i appreciate your calling attention to it.pp senator, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: mayor pete buttigieg of south bend is running for president. his campaign is imploding, as left-wing staffers accuse each other of racism and micro-aggressions. it's just too great. you can't miss that segment. you will enjoy every moment of it.f plus, we are monitoring the president's reelection rally in the state of new jersey. breaking news may occur, and we will go there. we'll be right back. >> president trump: in our glorious battle to win american independence. george washington.'l this is the state where generations of tough and strong new jersey people, farmers and factory workers, built this country into the single greatest nation on the face of the earth, and we areti making it greater. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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>> tucker: you have heard a lot about how the democratic campaigns are in chaos, and they are, and it shows. elizabeth warren is making desperate accusations of sexism. michael bloomberg is spending $4 million a day and so far has gone nowhere. joe biden may not know what year it is.en but you haven't heard quite as much about mayor pete buttigieg of indiana. but don't worry. his campaign is imploding, too. the story in today's "new york times" profiles the turmoil inside the buttigieg 2020 effort. staffers are making race-based attacks on each other. that's not a good sign but it's revealing. the buttigieg campaign set racial quotas for hiring. 40% of the staff are nonwhite.

though, as "the times" noted, most of the buttigieg senior advisors are still the forbidden color. the campaign held two diversity themed retreats for staff and are holding two for local workers in iowa, nevada, south carolina. but it wasn't enough to nearly win him any african-american support. which is the most telling of all. all of the diversity initiatives have done nothing for buttigieg. and the campaign itself is now coming apart partly because of it. "the times" quoted someoney called alexis gonzaludo in buttigieg's fundraising department. we are quoting: "my stomach is in knots. it's like a bunch of white dudes." that's the worst epithet they can throw at you from the buttigieg campaign. the campaign sent a survey to

everyone working there, and we are quoting, "please only fill out the survey if you identify as a person of color." that's not racist somehow? their answers were "used to inform our white colleagues about privilege and micro-aggression." in other words, as an attack on people for their skin color. coming from people who lecture you about racism, that's totally fine. some of the sins they say staffers could be committing include interrupting someone in a conversation, not including people in an email, or confusing them with a staffer of the same race. now, to sane outsiders, it might be obvious why the buttigieg campaign is failing. they've been totally consumed with pointless racist feuding, narcissism, in other words, it's really the hallmark of the woke left. it's all about me and my identity. let's talk about me. enough about you. instead of actually talking to voters about things might care about, like their problems, which are manifold in this country. but it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that buttigieg's campaign is, even as it ignores the country, obsessed with policing micro-aggressions on its own staff.

a year ago, buttigieg had to perform a public penance for thn heinous crime of saying that in america, all lives are equally important. >> 2015. you said all lives matter when you spoke about controversies happening in south bend.n was that a mistake? >> what i did not understand at the time was that that phrase early in mid-2015 was coming to be viewed as a counter slogan to black lives matter. since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, i stoppep using it in that context. >> tucker: so here is the self-described christian candidate who knows god a lot better than you ever will, pagan, telling you that hes was wrong to say all lives matter. that is a christian candidate. okay. buttigieg himself is constantly denouncing america as a racist sewer where the bigots control every aspect of our lives. >> do you think people who support president trump and his

immigration policies are racist? >> anyone who supports this is supporting racism. our health care system is burdened by racism. we know housing is burdened by racism and schools are burdened by racism. yes, the uniform is burdened by racism, but it was far beyond that. it's a matter of concern for every american that we dismantle systemic racism before it ends the american project in our lifetime. >> tucker: i mean, come on. there are bad people in the country. there are horrible periods in our history. there are still problems, bad attitudes. but essentially, and you will know this if you go anywhere, it's a really nice country full of really nice people of all colors. the vast majority of americans, democrats included, treat each other fairly and humanely as people, not as boxes to check on a form, not as committers of micro-aggressions. but as human beings. irrespective of their race. but thema buttigieg campaign, n. that's a totally different matter.

chadwick moore is a new york journalist and we are happy to have them on the show. thanks for coming on. so, if you reach a point where your campaign staff are attacking each other because of their skin color, i think things are falling apart.r or am i overstating? >> right, i mean, look, this iss the best argument ever for against affirmative action, diversity hire or whatever, we are days away from the iowa caucuses and what are they fighting about? internal problems of race and diversity quotas. it's a good allegory for the democrat party that you get a bunch of them on a stage together and asked them about trade with china, something that americans really care about, and they will divulge into some diatribe about global warming disproportionately affecting transgender women of color. do people pay attention to them? i don't understand if they are even trying anymore. i don't know that they are so incredibly out of touch with this country that they actually think people want to hear these things and people are interested in these diversity quotas, race-based accusations.

when actually, like you said, most people tend to get along. >> tucker: yeah, people are nice. >> yeah, and you have millennial tyrants who've just sort of taken over. bringing campaigns down. >> tucker: what is so ominous is buttigieg, i don't know him, but just watching him, clearly pretty smart. he is certainly exactly what our system produces at the top. he's got every stupid credential we hand out. he has a chest full of medals that our ruling class has bestowed him. he is supposed to be the best we have. and he's worried about micro-aggressions? is this the best we can do? i don't want to think that. >> right, meanwhile, if he cared about race, why are we not talking about the black community in south bend, indiana? why aren't we figuring out? rather than, as we've seen the past few months, eating fried chicken with al sharpton,

drinking malt liquor in harlem. extremely patronizing! meanwhile, he has people working for him who are worried about micro-aggressions. what on earth? you want to talk about real racism, that's pretty racist.. >> tucker: drinking malt liquor out of a paper bag? >> in harlem. >> tucker: all of this is elite narcissism. none of it has any connection to people of any color's problems. i don't think anyone can get elected on this. >> absolutely. i don't understand with this party is. what is their end game? are they all sort of just shopping around for the next job? or do they actually think theypi can be president and beat president trump? i don't think any of them think they can. they are off on some weird universe trying to get a donors and fans. i have no idea. if they knew anything, former obama voters who switched to trump are the peopleth they shod be trying to win over in the rust belt.a mayor pete is from a rust belt

state. he should be uniquely qualified to talk to these people, and he talks way over their heads. >> tucker: and now he's stuck in identity politics hell, the cul-de-sac of race, gender, and sexuality. we will look back in shame on this moment. chadwick moore, great to see you. i hope you will come back. hillary clinton is promoting her upcoming totally not a campaign video documentary. [laughs] it's unbelievable! keep a diary. it's too good. that means more interviews, more and more interviews with hillary.'s where she says incredibly banal things, all of which lead backck to one thing, which is was overwhelming ambition. this week the venue is "variety" magazine. just weeks after calling tulsi gabbard a russian asset, clinton says she is fed up with the attacks on women running for president. >> the misogyny directed not only at the women themselves but at their supporters. it is so shocking.

i am seeing some of the same right now, some of the organized efforts to undercut, demean, belittle the women who'd been running and still are running in this election. >> tucker: hillary clinton can be a champion of women, anything is possible. we should also tell you hillary said she's not running for president, but she thinks about it all the time, and i know you're surprised by that. and she totally good. in fact, she might. >> i know you're not running, but do you ever feel the urge that "i could beat himim if i were, or if wish"? >> i certainly feel the urge because i feel like the 2016 election was really an odd, an odd time and outcome, and the more we learn, the more that seems to be the case, but i'm going to support the people are running know and do everything i can to help elect the democratic nominee.

>> tucker: okay. tammy bruce hosts a show on fox nation and she joins us. tammy, this is a hillary segment, but i want to broaden it a tiny bit because i can't resist. the class of people that begat hillary loves itself more blindly and with less cost than any group of people in the history of the world. can we agree on o that? >> we can expand it into the cul-de-sac you mentioned about identity politics. i think she smacked right into pete buttigieg there, with this new return to concerns for women. it's a remarkable thing and yet it's like groundhog day. coming up on february 2. it's a weird, repeating dynamic of what this woman is doing. it's a difficult framework because we've got hillary, who can't let go, and yet when you think about her complaining about how women are attacked,

isn't tulsi suing her now, for that accusation of being a russian agent? >> tucker: irony is dead, tammy. [laughs] >> maybe being a russian agentl. is in fact gender-neutral. maybe that's how she gets away with doing that, hard to say. but at the same time, remember this is a woman who didn't even have the emotional and moral courage to face her supporters on election night in 2016. she sent podesta to do it and he misled them. she had already called trump to concede, and he said there's more votes to count. it's not over. it was over. she didn't even face him. they are in the fetal position and they are crying because they had been lied to and misled for months. that's who this individual is. as it's very strange. i think she doesn't want to run. she felt she was entitled in '16. i think she feels entitled

because, you know, this is her second term, since she won last time. she doesn't want to run. she thinks she's entitled now to the nomination. watch for that brokered convention. people laughed when i said it. the democrats are disturbed and do not apply logic or reason to the nature of the decisions they make, including hillary. >> tucker: you're totally right. we just made our hotel room reservations for milwaukee in july. i'll see you there. the president has been rallying supporters in jersey. we have the highlights. over on cnn, they spent last night ridiculing americans as barely human losers. that's what they think. we've got the video and mark steyn. ♪ t

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♪ >> tucker: the sports world is still shocked tonight by the death of nba star kobe bryant

over the weekend. bryant and his young daughter and seven others died in a helicopter crash. bryant was travelling to coach his daughter's basketball team. it's a crushingly sad story. here is another detail about that morning you should know about. the last thing kobe bryant and his daughter did before they boarded the helicopter was attend church at the cathedral of our lady queen of the angels in newport beach, california. t the service they went to started at 7:00 a.m. but according to the priest, bryant and his daughter got there early for communion. it goes without saying that people who own helicopters can do literally whatever they wanth on sunday mornings. how many get up before dawn to take communion with their kids? kobe bryant did that, and because, unlike so many famous people, he was a generally people, he was a genuinely private person, we never knew that and now we do know it. what a sad way to learn it. cable news has struggled to get the american people to care as much as they are required to about impeachment and ukraine and russia. ah!

this might be worth some reflection. maybe other stories are more important to people who live here, like the fact they are dying younger. oh, no. for don lemon over on cnn, there's an easier answer.nn ordinary people are stupid, unlike don lemon, stupid. >> he also knows deep in his heart that donald trump couldn't find ukraine on a map if you had the letter u and a picture of a crane next to it. u it's an administration defined by ignorance of the world. that's partly of him playing to their base and playing to the audience, the credulous boomer a rube demo that backs donald trump. that wants to think donald trump is the smart one and y'all elitists are dumb. >> only them elitists know where ukraine is. o [laughter] >> tucker: yeah. there are a lot of lessons you can take from that tape, which is all over the internet, and

you should play it again and again, because it tellss the whole story of the moment we're living in. first, and most obviously, once again, the things they are accusing you of, not generally but specifically, are exactly the things they are guilty of themselves. o they are projecting, they are n externalizing their own internal problems and neuroses and laying them at your feet. you're a racist, say people who attack you for your skin color. you're an idiot, says don lemon, and that other guy with the beard. again, don lemon. this is the man, and we are not making this up, who once questioned out loud whether a missing airliner might have flown into a black hole. >> if it was hijacking or terrorism or mechanical failure or pilot error. but what if it was something we don't really understand? a lot of people have been asking about that, about black holes and on and on and on. they are also referencing the "twilight zone," a very similar

plot. that's what people are saying. i know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous? >> tucker: don lemon, the man who sincerely believes that the fruit-based cold desert is pronounced "sor-bet" is calling you stupid. we are joined by mark steyn. , sort of moments like this. it's great to see you, mark. as a rube who lives in rural america, how are you responding? >> that's cnn flying the democrats into the black hole. if you want more trump, this is how you get more trump. they might as well relabel the panel the trump reelection committee. that's what they are doing. this is actually the bipartisan establishment condescension summed up completely. 63 million people are credulous rubes, according to these guys.

by the way, the black hole theory, things like that come by every day on cnn. and msnbc. just the other day, lawrence trumpell suggested that droned soleimani as a favor to john bolton so that bolton would agree not to testify in the senate impeachment. >> tucker: larry o'donnell went to harvard. it's harvard. >> exactly. it's not going to stop. if bolton doesn't go for that, trump might have to drone justin trudeau. that's what they talk about on cnn and msnbc. and they are the ones who say that the 63 million people are just credulous rubes. i'd be interested if hunter biden could find ukraine on a map, and he's made millions of dollars from that joint.

>> tucker: also, like chris cuomo, a yale graduate. did you go to yale? i don't think you're smart enough to go to yale, are you? >> no, i certainly couldn't. i certainly don't have -- i mean, this is the idiocy of this. it's not a public policy difference anymore. it used to be that just republican presidents were stupid. now they are saying that tens of millions of americans are stupid. and in a democratic age, that's actually not going to help the people who advance that theory. >> tucker: imagine thinking that anyway. it's a deeply uncharitable, inhumane, cruel way to look at your own country. it's hard to imagine people feel that way. >> it is like a hot mic moment. that's what's so weird. it's like they are talking in the commercial break and they don't realize they are on air and that's how they really thinn of millions of their countrymen.

and actually, his line, rick wilson's stupid line, he's a republican party strategist. republican voters give money to the republican party, and the republican party gives it to idiots like rickck wilson. that bipartisan nonsense is why we are where we are today. >> tucker: exactly. man, we missed you last week. mark steyn, welcome back. >> great to be with you. >> tucker: president trump rallying his backers in new jersey. we have highlights for you. we'll be right back. ♪

♪ >> tucker: as promised, highlights from the providence president's rally in wildwood, new jersey. >> president trump: washington democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. frankly, they are crazy. these people are crazy. theyar are taking their cues frm socialists like bernie, left-wing lawmakers are pushing a government takeover of health care that would strip 180 million americans of their private health care plans, which many people like. we've won -- the money is won and we are now building that beautiful wall. and this powerful border wall i going up at record speed, and we just reached over 100 miles of wall. by next year, we will be over 400 miles, and shortly thereafter, it will be complete.

democrats are for crime, corruption, and chaos. republicans stand for law, order, and justice. say what do you want. those are the facts. we are removing these illegal criminals and gang members. we are literally taking them bys so many, thousands and thousands, and we are bringing them back. thanks to our tireless efforts of border patrol to secure our border. we will defend privacy, free-speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms, which is under siege. by the way, our second amendment is under siege. in virginia, they want to take your guns away. it's just the beginning. never going to happen, as long as i'm president of the united states. that i can tellng you.

>> tucker: the president speaking tonight in wildwood, new jersey. we are out of time. back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m.,ki te show that's the sworn andne sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. sean hannity takes it away. >> sean: alright, tucker. fiery speech. welcome aboard. i want you to listen very closely to this monologue. this schumer, sham, a schiff show, it is over, and i'm going to tell you why it's over. i listened closely to every detail of the president's defense, including the actions of quid and pro and quo joe and zero experience hunter and how joe shook down the country of ukraine. everyone looked at what hunter and joe did and were doing and said don't do this. hunter has zero experience in ukraine. no experience in oil. no experience in gas. no experience in energy.