and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's been an awfully long week. thank god we are ending it tonight with two pieces of good news. the first great britain is an independent countrys. again as it has been for most of the last thousand years. brexit has gone through.. so cheers to our friends in the u.k. in this country, the impeachment farce is almost over. that's our good news. the president will be acquitted. now, we knew that from the first day, ofrs course, which is one of the reasons this whole overhyped charade was always such an insulting waste of time. now it's official. even the wettest trumpw hating republicans in the senate are thoroughly sick of this. they want it over. and, yet, because once

started, nothing in washington ends easily,nc the process continues on like a ghost ship. here was the scene on the senate floor today. [shouting] >> oh my gosh! [shouting] [shouting] >> tucker: those are actually retail drunk shoppers in retail stores on black friday. same sickness at work. mobs of desperate people grasping at trinkets. to fill a void within. sad to way. let's try to find the actual tape from the senate. [shouting]

>> tucker: nope. once again, right theme, wrong video. jerry springer wasn't really in the senate this week. but jerry nadler was. check out what happened last night when chief justice roberts asked prosecutors to answer a final question. nadler and adam schiff raced to the podium all but elbowing each other out of the way tobo get one last blessed moment on c-span. watch this tape and ask yourself if you have ever seen anything with less dignity. >> could you please respond to the answer just given by the president's counsel and provide any other comments the senate would benefit from hearing before we adjourn for the evening? >> jerry, jerry.y. >> mr. chief justice, members of the senate -- i want to be on tv. no, i do. these people are buffoons, was thep really whole impeachment from start to finish narcissistic degrading pointless.

this nation deserves more but that would require impressive leaders. at some point maybe next week p we will look back on this whole chapter in shame. but for a for more days at least the hysteria will continue. it will likely increase. believe it or not. the media class just seem to be figuring out trump will not be removed from office before the super bowl. you obviously knew that obviously. they had no idea. they are literally stunned. over at msnbc a person called mara gay declared that if the results of the last election aren't nullified immediately democracy is dead forever. think about that for a minute. she clearly hasn't. it's kind of hilarious. actually. watch her tantrum. >> what's on trial is not just donald trump right now. what's on trial is the rule of law. what's on trial is our democracy. i mean, what a sad, sad moment after, you know, 300 plus years of democracy and by the way truth matters. i mean as a journalist, i just think that's what separates us from russia, from venezuela. if we don't stand up for

truth now, it will be too late. it will be too late. >> tucker: as a journalist, oh, as a journalist. [laughter] and that was your tip that mara gay isn't some fake democratic strategist they invited on a cable show like they often do. she is in fact a member of the "new york times" editorial board.rk not that it makes her a journalist. she is still the best they can muster. ponder that over the weekend.d. the politics editor of the root.com meanwhile told viewers that now that donald trump staying in office until november, nothing can stop him from becoming an authoritarian dictator. >> imagine donald trump deciding some time in june well i have heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants have voted in california. i have decided that during the presidential election california has to go undergo extreme vetting because we can't trust their votes. we are going to shut down voting in a state. this is literally the kind of thing he will do now. >> tucker: got that? trump is, quote literally

going to cancel the election in california. our biggest state. okay jason johnson. let us know when he tries. people like johnson are saying things likehi this because they arere so shocked their brains no longer work. they really thought trump was going to be fired at the end of impeachment. they thought a five minute phone call about hunter biden's corruption would be enough to undo an election that 136 million people voted in. like a creepy old man in a porno theater the press and democratic party allowed their fantasies to overstrip reality. they are about to be shocked back to consciousness very soon.ey the iowa caucuses are just three days from now. bernie sanders is likely to win there his only real rivalea is a man who should be having dinner at 4:30 at golden corral. party leaders don't want either one of them sanders or joe biden. their plan, the plan in washington is to force voters to back michael bloomberg a billionaire known for screaming ought people who drink the wrong soda. none of it seems very appealing. the democratic party is in trouble about to collide

with itself. that didn't need to happen. if democrats had just spent the last three years to i don't know a credible plan to lower housing crisis. middle class wages or fix the student loan crisis they might win the election you they didn't do that easy way out. wasted energy on wild conspiracies about russia and ukraine and while they were doing that their unhappiest most energetican activists forced their candidates to take lunatic positions on abortion, guns, race, gender, climate. you have name it. positions way out of mainstream even among democrats.s. it adds up to a disaster. and they know it's a disaster. that's why they are so upset. the good newsoo is as awful and stupid as impeachment was, in the end, it hurt the people who did it the most of all. we're joined now by congressman devin nunes of california. great to see you, congressman. so,. >> great to be with you. >> tucker: we got an indication from senator lamar alexander of tennessee late that we're not going to

get witnesses in the senate portion of this proceeding and basically there is nothing left. there is going to be a vote the president is going to be acquitted. why is ite continuing exactly. t do youte know? >> well, they have to actually get to the point of where they actually vote to acquit, which i guess is going to occur on wednesday. so they had to vote on the rules for that but i actually have some bad news for you tonight, tucker on friday night. i know you don't want the bad news. but the president is going to be acquitted but the problem is this isn't going to end. like i just can't imagine that adam schiff, after three and a half years of this nonsense and jerry nadler are not going to continue this. right? they are going to go back and subpoena john bolton. we're going to have the same exact thing that you have been seeing for the last three and a half years. i just think you should prepare. we thought onceha mueller collapsed completely. we thought okay, we're going to get on to business. and then out of nowhere this ukraine hoax appeared. and, look, this really is a

hoax. this was adam schiff and his staff concocting this all together with people who know each other. all these people know each other that concocted this stupid ukraine hoax that we have been dealing with in the last week in the astronaut. -- senate. bad news for you tonight. i bet even after the acquittal we will be working on this. >> tucker: since you are an elected official and know a lot about policy but also politics is there any evidence that this works? my candidates who win are the ones who speak about issues people care about. they don't care about this. why are democrats continuing to do this? >> i described it earlier this week as the democratic party is like the dog that caught the car they have been promising all this crazy stuff and now they are going to get somebody who is not even ay democrat bernie sanders as their nominee. a month ago i would say bernie is going to get second or third probably not going to win. is he winning in every state

including california which is the big prize which is essentially a month away. >> tucker: yes. >> he is winning in iowa. this could be -- if bernie wins on monday night, you have ane entire takeover by the extreme left of the historic democratic party. it no longer ceases to exist it will be the socialist party. >> tucker: a replay of what happened with donald trump and the republican party. the establishment hated him. tried recognition the system to prevent him from becoming the nominee ant it denied work. democrats are talking about tampering with delegates at the convention now. will that work? >> there is a big difference between trump and bernie sanders. >> tucker: of course there is. >> and i mean just in the politics of this. bernie sanders is a socialist. i mean, the guy spent his honeymoon in the soviet union.t. donald trump had -- you know, he had his own brand of politics that caught everybody off guard but he does believe in a few important things. he was very clear he was against the iraq war from

the very beginning. he wants to bring the troops home as much as he can he also wanted to redo trade deals. all things that people, including myself, were verys. skeptical if he could actually deliver on some of this. despite all the craziness and for three and a half years really since the end of 2015 donald trump and his campaign being under investigation by thehe feds, the clinton campaign, the democrats in the house. despite all of that, the guy is defying the odds. i would have never thought that we could have not only rewrote nafta, but actually h passed it. it was one of the most popular trade agreements ever passed in the house of representatives a and the senate. it's amazing what he has actually accomplishing despite everything. >> tucker: yeah and in the end i think that's what matters. thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you, a pleasure. >> tucker: we are at the end of it, what did it add up to who better to ask>> chris bedford senior editor at "the federalist."dd

thanks for come on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: you watched every second of this. what does it amount to? what does it mean?s >> it's also -- it's a very -- this is very much stupid as it seemed from the very beginning.. it's amazing tost watch these professional political watchersat on other channels act surprised. >> tucker: yes. >> we have known exactly what's going to happen since nancy pelosi won the house and held the senate. the impeach and acquit. the end. people are acting if we don't have an 18th witness for this trial then the whole world is going to catch on fire. the problem here is the democrats are blaming the systems. they have been doing this since the beginning. they want to tear down basically anything that doesn't work for them. >> tucker: yes. >> the election, thein electoral college, grading in schools. i mean, we just saw this in brexit. the u.s. senate. the whole world catches on fire if they don't get their exact results need to tear it all down. they will push again forts

that i think nunes is right. congressman nunes that this is going to continue. the investigation also continue. t the stupid will continue. but the senate at least will be freed up. >> tucker: it is stupid though. maybe this is -- i think this was apaul appalling. i haven't seen one piece of polling data saying this is a massive win for democrats. party is being taken over by people d who have going to destroy the party it. seems like a highly stupid path for them to continue going down. >> there was one week of clarity, you might remember, after donald trump was elected when everyone was kind of shell shocked and honest with themselves andnd said wow, maybe we have forgotten the working class of america. maybe we are not paying attention tout opioid addiction. maybe jobs going overseas is a bad thing. we should pay attention to this. it was quickly forgotten. buff knew it jeff sessionsve. was a kgb and klansman at the same time. this narrative has continued. that's not good for winning voters. if you actually care about

your family and your job is not to watch that you will insanity all day, then that's not helping you at all. none of this is helping you. and you are going to vote against it. >> tucker: can we rewind a bit? why do you think that moment of clarity pass sod fast in the lessons of the d election in 2016 were very clear. you forget about voters they will vote against you. democratic voters went for trump. democrats forgot that like within about a day. why? >> it was like a retreating army when there was just chaos everywhere and take care of themselves and think for themselves for a minute. the generals got back in charge wait, wait, wait, remember, they are racist. donald trump is a reyes. half of america is horrible. want system didn't work ands they say oh my gosh you are right. a couple russian trolls are the reason why hillary clinton lost. i guess her plane was rerouted from campaigning in the midwest. it's completely insane. and it's a denial but i think it's the democrats getting back into order and saying you are right, you are right. thisnd is not us. this is everybody else. >> tucker: you watch all this stuff and think this isn't happening by accident.

somebody orchestrated this and thought it was a good idea. those are the exact same people who telling us they must be in charge of the country. this seems like proof positive they should not have power. >> they shouldn't have power. and i think -- it looks like right now donald trumpe is cruising for re-election because he is up against a group of people who aren't doing very well. bernie sanders is the only maybe honest politician. he lies about numbers. but on the democratic side who is telling the voters exactly what he is going to do. all the dnc is trying to do is tear him down. all the democratic party is trying to do is destroy his chances ofch winning. whether it's with bloomberg or changing rules. and which means they are going to get a civil war on their hands because the voters are mad. >> tucker: you mentioned numbers. last question. what do you think, if you could put a number on it, is the audience the receptive audience for woke politics? like what number of americans actually likes that crap? >> i think you at the journalists and colleget students of d.c., new york,

and los angeles together maybe a few in san francisco and divide it by two. that's it. [laughter] that's not 270 electoral votes. >> no, it's not. >> tucker: chris bedford great to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: insiders frantically hope that michael bloomberg billionaire savior will swoop in and safe the party for himself. trying to rig that process to make it happen. we tell you how. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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♪ >> tucker: as you remember, during the 2016 election, leaked emails prove that the democratic national committee sided with hillary clintonat and rigged the primaries to hurt bernie sanders and the nomination worked. obviously. it wasn't even necessary, really. but, the fact that came out may have cost them the general election. democrats who work for bernie were outraged that was counter productive. four years later though, the democratic party seems determined to make exactly the same mistake. so far presidential candidates have had to raise money from thousands of individual small donors in order to qualify for the primary debates. why did the party do this?

because they wanted to prevent a wealthy billionaire, for example with no grass root support from buying his way onto the stage. oh, wait. but now they want a wealthy billionaire with no grassroots support on the stage. so the rules are changing. so michael bloomberg can rescue them from bernie sanders. today the dnc announced there will be no donor threshold for making its upcoming debate in nevada or nevada as they now call it. the decision drastically increases the likelihood that the napoleonic figure will win the debate. do you feel like have you seen this movie. >> it gets more ridiculous each passing day when you think it's impossible itit couldn't become more ridiculous. it becomes more ridiculous. here is a guy if you looked up his numbers recently he has gained about $2 billion in wealth over the last several weeks. spent 100 millionve of his own dollars on anti-trump ads.

president trump's numbers are going up during impeachment, during bloomberg's anti-trump ads trump's numbers is going up. is he buying 11-million-dollar, 60 second spot with his own money. you may recall just a short time ago as you started to describe the democrats are anti-billionaire anti-1 percenter, antimony in politics and the terribleer influence. >> tucker: that's what i thought. >> emoluments clause. how many does he have his fingers into. he is running and none of this is coming uphe interestingly on cnn, nbc, even among the other democrats so far. the dnc and the last time they stole it from bernie and the bernie bros are furious about this. they are positioning

bloomberg in there the billionaire with unlimited funds forget about all that eemoluments clause now. they have joe biden who god bless them take the remote control away, they have bernie sanders who had a heart attack and attended the revolution in 1917 and they have got elizabeth warren who is like the crazy camp counselor that you rememberou from, you know, camp high wafa who danced around the camp fire making wallets with war paint on it and she is completely berserk she wills have transgender. teenager approved -- >> tucker: 9-year-old. >> not even a teenager transgender child going to hollywood for that to approve her secretary of you were talking about it last night of education choice. these people are nuts. and if you are the dnc. have you got to be looking around l and saying can we throw, you know, a life ring s somewhere? is there anybody out there that can save us? >> tucker: is the lesson right now that america doesn't pay enough attention to billionaires?

let's let a billionaire decide for once? they don't have enough influence in our't society. >> again, were it not for double standards liberals would have no standards at all as a wise man once said. they just make it up as they go along. today they believe a and tomorrow they believe z. it's just extraordinary. look, tom steyer boughtt his way onto the stage. right? >> tucker: yeah, he did. and they are going to have two billionaires. i think they are going to squeeze him out. they only have room for one billionaire. the hypocrisy is astonishing or at least appalling if not iastonishing. >> tucker: i don't know what trump is worth. i have no idea. t >> right. >> tucker: he didn't buy his way he didn't spend his own money. >> no. it's extraordinary. i mean, the double standards are extraordinary. the hypocrisy is extraordinary. really it's corruption. this is corrupt. the dnc is once again rigging the rules to manipulate the process so the back room cigar chomping old school pauls are still

pulling the strings. >> tucker: i have got to say. i hope the bernie people will fight back. >> i expect they will. >> tucker: chris plante, great to see you tonight. thank you so much.illa >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: the press is wondering if they ignore the fact the president is about to be acquitted can they pretend impeachment extends for the next nine months? that's next ♪

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president's impeachment >> tucker: well, the president's impeachment trial is winding down finally. senators have rejected any additional witnesses but the final vote to acquit the president may havell to wait until next week, wednesday we are hearing tonight. congressman mike johnson. represents louisiana and is on the president's defense team. we are happy to have him in the studio tonight. thanks so much for coming on. e >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: what remains to be done? why wait until wednesday. u >> what remains to be done senators want to give speeches they have to allow a couple days for that monday closing arguments.ha r four hours. the defense side has not been using all the time. you don't have to run the clock out when you have the facts and law on your side. tuesday they have speeches that they can go in and pontificate. for a while. wednesday we finally get the vote to acquit. >> tucker: this is more of a tv question than a political. do we have to pretend it's significant can we ignore it? >> mostly we can no one has been watching this because it's so dreadfully boring. they regenerated the same arguments over and over and oh it's been painful to watch. i tip my hat to the senators who have been able to stay

awake. somehow for all of this. as have you been saying a couple segments this was all decided a long time ago. >> tucker: what do you thinkg the outcome is likely to be. will any republicans defect and will any democrats crossover. >> i believe and we expect it will be a bipartisan acquittal. two maybe three democrats and i think they are going to take a lot of heat over the weekend of people trying to twist their arms.nk i think they are going to do the right thing. >> tucker: there are republican senators who would clearly like to convict and expel the president mitt romney obviously would like to do it.co will he dare. >> he can't. there is no way. he has to vote to acquit. i mean, look 23 you look at this objectively as we have proven very well these are not impeachable offenses. there was nothing here. there is no treason and bribery and high crime and misdemeanor. they don't really have a choice. it doesn't matter how t much you dislike donald trump you can't kick him out of office and undo the results of the last elections no matter how hard they have tried. >> tucker: do you think this will happen again. >> i do. they committed to take him out.pe

our democrat colleagues unfortunately probably a majority of them have committed to do it again. so i don't think this ends. and it's a sadin and unfortunate chapter in u.s.an history and i'm not sure how we get out of it. >> tucker: pretty much of the one thing i never thought would become standard operating procedure. >> no. and they have opened a pandora's box. they weaponized impeachment. we are in for a long and dark road, i'm afraid. >> tucker: depressing. luckily your job as member of the defense team will end soon.. congrats on that. congressman, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: the president's acquittal is inevitable as it has been since day one that was clear,>> again in december and even when this bogus scandal exploded back in september. so now the press is scrambling for a way to keep the impeachment story viable yawning next week so their current phrase of choice is everything is coordinated in case you haven't noticed is telling you that the senate's trial is simply a quote fake acquittal. >> here's the deal. you cannot have a true acquittal if you have not had a fair trial.

>> no vindication and no real acquittal for the president because it has become a sham. >> he will not be acquitted. you cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial. you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and that. >> fundamentally and strongly agree with speaker pelosi's point. in the absence. of a fair trial, how can the american people conclude that justice was done? >> the president's acquittal will be meaningless. >> matt whitaker was the president's acting attorney general he joins us tonight. mr. whitaker, thank you so much for coming on. >> hey, tucker. >> tucker: seems like the other day they were lecturing us how the president was undermining public institutions. killing public faith in the system et cetera, et cetera. now they're telling us the trial that played out longer that it needed to in my view wasn't a real trial. >> it seemed boring like a real trial. [laughter] >> tucker: good point. >> in all seriousness, this is -- it's an impeachment

trial. let's not confuse a criminal trial or civil trial with sort of juries of your peers versus a senate impeachment trial which is what we saw where the house brings their case over and the senators makes the ruless and very clear the president is going to be acquitted. so the chagrin of all the folks in the video. this is the way the system works. if you bring a terrible kind of pell mel case to theth senate you will end up losing it and the president is going to be acquitted. >> tucker: i don't understand the talking points. you saw the speaker who has become hard eyed extremist. she said it's not a trial because you don't have witnesses and you don't have documentation. i thought the witnesses appeared during the housen. portion of the proceeding. so i thought there were like 17 witnesses and a ton of documentation or am i missing something? >> if you saw the slight of hand that happened today they were saying the president could have cross-examined witnesses in the judiciary committeeid but all the witnesses were heard in the intelligence committee.

so i was a little confused as to where they thought the president could have actually. >> tucker: we had a ton of witnesses. >> we had 17 witnesses we all watched them. >> tucker: they were on tv. i think we actually aired it on this show. i'm getting old so maybe i missed it. i don't want to be joe biden about it but we had witnesses. >> we had witnesses in impeachment proceeding. again, these folks expect it to look like a perry mason court of law and that's not what this is this is impeachment trial. this is the way the rules were developed. and this is how it ends up. >> tucker: i'm saying this as some in the news business but i kind of wanted an endless parade. i want to hear from the buffoons. i would linings to hear hunter biden explain how he got his masters in ukrainian natural gas plantation. >> thank god you are in the minority. most of us can't bear another day. >> there is a bit of mccob theater where folks do want to sort of see politics as almost a sport where we are entertained by it but you know fundamentally having served with this president,

it would be good to get impeachment behind us, have the acquittalrv p on wednesday, and get him get to continuing to move his agenda forward. >> tucker: if you don't think democrats really want to continue it? because as i have said 50 times i don't see any evidence they are benefiting from it. i think it's hurting them. their party is in disarray. they probably want to move on or maybe they do want to continue it. what do they want? >> they want the narrative. all about the narrative. listen, they played that in the house. first it was bribery. then it was treason. now we ended up with high crimes and misdemeanors which they didn't prove. all these senators both on the right and left saying you haven't met the constitutional standard. i think they want to keep the arguments and to bludgeon this president. but to have this whole thing over because they are not looking good. adam schiff, hisy team does not look good and i think some of these senatorsea aren't looking good. >> tucker: if you allege, you served as attorney general. if you allege bribery and treason, shouldn't someone call the cops at some point? this is like serious stuff that they're alleging. >> you should.

these are crimes.s. the thing we have also they are trying tog. convince us thought facts are so bad you must impeach. instead of saying a law violated and facts. compare the facts and law like you normally would in a court law. instead they are saying these facts are so bad and they just aren't. at the end of the day, this president has an ability to conduct foreign policy. he was concerned about corruption in the ukraine. we have seen the transcript. and that's the case is over for all intents and purposes except the congressman pointed out we have to listen to two more days of senators talking. >> tucker: i don't think went far enough he should have cancelled aid to ukraine.e. i there is no reason to send weapons to ukraine in my opinion. i'm on his side in that way. at least he delayed it. mr. whitaker, thank you very much. >> thank you, tucker. most americans are convinced in sixth grade took biology two sexes. up next interview a newspaper columnist fired for saying that canned, lost his job. 2020 at work. the trump administration set down strict new rules to contain the spread of the

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♪ ♪ >> an astonishing scene in new york city and hopefully not a harbinger of the future. hundreds of the antifa group colonized swarmed several subway stations vandalized the walls and put glue on turn styles flood grand central station in rush hour to confront police. five of them were arrested. the quote purpose of the protest was to demand the ann abolition of all thieves of the neww york city subway demanding money for subway ride is racist. demanded removing all police officers from the subway trains. normal left people

victimized by criminals trapped underground tubes with no one to protect them. criminals should be free to operate with impunity. that's their view. explicitly. we're following the story closely. we will have nor say about it on monday. the student loan bubble has grown to more than 1.6 trillion. that's just not an economic burden for young people. the ones who have to pay the loans off. the loans are shaping the basic life decisions they make and changing our society. according to a new study from lend key technology about a third adults between ages of 18 and 34 consider postponing marriage until they paid off student loans. one third also saidr that student debt with influence their choice ofud spouses. the survey didn't ask young adults about having children you know what it would have found. for young people debt means dreams delayed w or destroyed. it means families aren't formed. that's the kind of thing conservatives care about. k

that's why they exist to fix problems like that. this is the party of family values, keep f in mind. and, yet, at this very moment families are disappearing. why? well, we know why. it's not an unfixable problem. it's not a natural disaster. it's not even a matter of culture or values. it's an economic problem that people caused. congress is pumping tens of billions of dollars every year into student loans. those loans in the end don't help the students they enrich wealthy colleges and their overpaid administrators who hated you and then hike tuition by 6% every year. this is hurting the country badly and we don't have to tolerate it. we could change law in all kinds of ways. we could make colleges responsible for loans that default like every other beneficiary of loans. they could cosign. we could restrict student loans to schools that let tuition rise too quickly. if you are ripping off kids, we are not going to give you a federally backed loan so you can build another climbing wall or pay the minister ofld diversity 400

grand a year. we could bar useless programs only impoverished kids. so far we haven't done any of that. and one of the main reasons isis the republican party hasn't tried to do any of that. and that's one of the main reasons the democratic party, which is insane and getting crazier still has a i shot to win. they are not doing anything about student loans but they are talking about them. conservatives should talkns about them, too. they are preventing families from forming. we should care. well, the left wants to impeach the president for asking about hunter biden's corrupt business deals, but don't worry they also want to crack down on your ability to say what you want until this month john was a conservative columnist at the denver post. now he has been fired because he would not submit to transgender language dogma. there are only two sexes. that was a mistake it turned out.

they canned him for that we spoke to jon caldara recently. here is his story. >> it's remarkable story and i should say if you read the whole column we just read excerpts from it. other people it doesn't bother you and wear whatever you want and call yourself whatever i want. i read it.t' don't tell me to deny biological reality. am i -- >> -- it's not even that can you tell me not to deny biological reality but i'm rather libertarian. if you want to wear a dress, wear a dress. i'm pro-gay marriage. i'm pro-right to die. these things are your business. i believe the individual is sovereign. but that also means that i'm sovereign. if you want to wear a dress go for it. if you want to call yourself a woman. go for it. i will protect your rights. you deserve to be protected for that but in exchange as a sovereign individual, you don't have control over my speech. and what i have found is if you don't used the speech that the pronoun police give

you, you are going to lose your job. >> tucker: so you knew that this was something that they have no sense of humor on. they have crushed other people for doing what you did.av did you it anyway. why did you think it was important? >> it was actually a subsequent fact in a larger article.e. i was doing a piece on the associated press style book and for your viewers, that's the manual that writers and reporters use that their writing and grammar is the same. i said they aret pushing agenda through this book.wr you cannot say illegal alien but you can say undocumented when it said there are more than two sexes in the style book. obviously they are making a judgment call thaty is now pushing an agenda. when they said that the word they is now a singular world not a plural word, they are making a call. i was making a larger point about the a.p. pushing a t leftist agenda but i got in trouble for saying no, i think there is only two

sexes. that doesn't mean there is only two sexual identities. can you identify any way you want. but, to say there are two sexes is now a hate crime considered bigoted and can cost you your voice. >> tucker: none of this sounds like journalism which i was taught 30 years ago was t the process of describing reality for readers or viewers. why is the a.p. telling you something that is it's factually untrue but also taking a side in a political debate. why are theyls doing that? >> my job was an p editorialist. i run the independence institute in colorado. a think freedom.org think tank and but reporters are supposed to tell the truth. >> tucker: right. >> when they make the judgment that there are more than two sexes. think the headline the other week in the daily mail i think itly was said man gives birth to baby from woman's sperm. and it's two fibs in one headline.

it's not accurate. so, when it comes to science, we will say no to that because we need to push an agenda. i think in my case it was more of a we don't want people to feel bad and we don't want you to write in insensitive manner so youad can say what you t want to say, but you have to use your political opponent's words when you say it.ou that's not having your say. that's thought control and speech control. >> tucker: that's exactly right. violate your conscience and lie in order to appease the demands of people you disagree with. when did those become the rules?eo a >> what's odd about this, it comes from a movement that claims to be pushing tolerance, claims to be pushing diversity. no, diversity to progressives today seems to be more about skin color and your genitals and your sexual identity than it is diversity of ideas. and more importantly, diversity of speech. you might talk in one word using all the pronouns that you want to use. i don't speak that way and i believe people benefit from

hearing two different types of speech. that's why my column wases the most read columnat in the denver post, which is a struggling newspaper makes little sense to can the most popular column there. >> tucker: they fired you anyway. makes me so grateful to work here where we can say what we think is true. i wish you the best. thankay you for your bravery. i hope in the end you are rewarded for it? >> thank you for the attention. >> tucker: appreciate it. the trump administration has just announced new travel restrictions to stem the spread of the coronavirus. but it is seen the only question they're askingav is what's the skin color of the people making these rules? that's next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: this is our fox news alert, the trump administration seeing travel restrictions with the deadly coronavirus. foreign national administrators visited and now band coming into the country and american citizens who visited the province where it started are allowed back into the u.s. after undergoing mandatory 14 day quarantine. coronavirus is not a small thing, it's a big deal and thousands of lives are at stake and may be more. see an end, not even human life outweighs identity politics which is all important. a headline yesterday bemoaned the president's coronavirus "another example the trump

administration lack of diversity." thank you for coming on. i don't ever hear the complaintc about alzheimer's or cancer research. they are not divorced enough. -- diverse enough. it is not a concern to too? >> this is a reminder that cnn any opportunity no matter how absurd to try to criticize the president even when quite literally there are lives when people are dying from this list w is a public health emergency, and right now in this country but see an end can't -- cnn can't miss the opportunity to take some shots at the president of the united states no matter what the damage to its credibility. we would like to think that when something like this, the possibility of a pandemic comes up, maybe cnn can put away the t pathological trump syndrome. given what's happening right nol at the trump trial, they're going to look for a opportunity whether it's t trump handling of this or how he talks about this, this is very going to become an angle of attack and how the

coronavirus is handled with ther trump administration irrespective of what he does. >> tucker: i just can't helpum but notice that the attack is a very specific kind of attack and they have been infected by their own virus, a virus of politics which is brain destroying and you're watching it happen. elizabeth warren, beto o'rourke, it's insane. the idea that we have to care about the ethnicity of everyone, and according to the dna, even like notice what color are coronavirus researchers are, that's insane. >> this is the kind of test that people will put out sometimes,hi they will say half jokingly that if trump a cure to cancer, cnn would run a story about his tendencies in addressing public health crisis. people say this and they are joking and then something like this comes up where it's very serious issue, and then cnn still finds the most urgent thing, the virtue signaling of the identity politics and you said has infected the left.

really controls it, it's taken over the host now and not just a symptom of other issues. >> tucker: let me ask you a question about this. that occurred today? maybe this is a warning about globalization. i mean, here is a virus in a faraway province in china that threatens us.arar maybe one of the v reason that united states director of this year is that we are physically distant from the rest of the world and that's not a bad thing necessarily, or always a bad thing. could this challenge our views about how great a connected world is?y, >> when you look at the transition and the pandemic stretching back a long time, it's an issue that affects a long time. the amount of human density on top of each otherfe and then interconnectedness of flights much like today or anytime of human history, we are not ready for this and i will add that they spent so much time concerned about the 1.5-degree

theoretical rays and the temperature over the next 100 years and nothing like this are great grandparents living memory, killed 50 million people. but they would rather talk about climate change and get lectures by greta thunberg going all over the world. that's what we hear from that side of international. >> tucker: the destruction of nature, which continues to very brisk pace in china and throughout asia,ry they are destroying nature and polluting the worldd and dumping garbage into the ocean and killing fish. nobody cares because they are so obsessed with the climate. >> there's a political correctness as well, tucker, we talk about the handling of certain food and animals, that's a real thing but were not supposed to talk about that. >> tucker: i don't care, you should not be eating bats. no bat eating, okay? >> agree to.o. >> tucker: [laughs] great, a reasonable man, [buck sexton.

no bats. don't miss treat animals. that's it for us, to an end every night, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. good night from washington. that's the best weekend and coming up a "hannity" nth now. grou♪ >> sean: welcome to the big breaking news edition of "hannity live" hello miami! we begin tonight a fox news alert and tonight the witch hunt the schumer-schiff sham show, it is thankfully for the sake of the country, the united state senator denied the democrats latest witness and the vote to acquit the president is now inevitable and we will take place and know we expect 4:00 p.m. wednesday afternoon and the country can now hopefully finally move on from the partisan impeachmentnt sham