annftiecon. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. a lot going on tonight. it's been unbelievable 24 hours, news christmas. we are going to begin this evening with the most predictable thing that's happened. headline. president trump acquitted by u.s. senate. just happened. impeachment is finally over. the result was never in doubt. the whole thing was like watching titanic, really. >> iceberg ahead. [crashing] >> tucker: pretty gripping, no matter what happens in the opening scenes you know the boat is going to sink in the end. same in washington.

no matter how fervently democrats wished otherwise, the president was always going to remain in office. and as predicted, both impeachment articles failed in the senate today. obstruction of congress went down 53-47. the abuse of power charge failed 52 to 48. a lone republican, as you may have read, defected and joined the democrats. that defendant shall go unnamed on this show on the grounds that silly moral preening should not be publicity it is designed to garner. overlecture from a private equity guy? next thing you know some payday loan sleaze ball will be telling us he a would all going to hell. it's too absurd each for the ludicrous moment we are living. we will take that seriously as we decide al sharpton is a legitimate moral voice. back reality though now that impeachment is over maybe we can have our country back. from last september until today, ukraine was the only thing that mattered in washington. that's an awful lot of wasted time. for perspective, it's more

time that america spent declaring, fighting and winning the spanish american war. what do we get for it in the end? nothing, really. no tangible benefits at all. we did learn quite a bit about. so characters involved in the farce. we found out that adam schiff is a budding thespian. who knew? we also learned that nancy pelosi isn't simply the leader of a political party. she is also a woman of profound faith as well as bottomless sadness. her days are consumed by praying and weeping. >> this is a very sad time for our country. i say this to you with great sorrow and prayerfully. >> first, let me say that this is no cause for any joy. this is a very sad time for our country. it's really sad. we have to be very prayerful. i pray for the president all the time. >> this is a very sad time for our country. this is no joy in this. it's sad. >> tucker: wow. not a breezy person that

nancy pelosi. thankfully, now that impeachment has ended, pelosi can resume her light of spiritual contemplation. we will be returning to her vets industry duties at the church of third trimester abortion on market street and we wish her well. if there is any good news to come from impeachment we now know what really matters to our leaders in washington. if you guessed your safety, happiness and well-being we will have to pause here to giggle bitterly. it's definitely not that. sorry. what really matters to them and you have learned this is the nation of ukraine, which is somewhere near russia, as we have often been told these past five months, it is our highest and most sacred duty to support the people of ukraine. needless to say that includes giving them sophisticated weapon systems whenever they ask for them and never ever delaying the delivery of those weapons even for a moment. listen to honorary ukrainian adam schiff explain. >> the widely accepted fact of ukraine's importance to our national security makes president trump's abuse of power withholding of vital diplomatic and military

support all the more disturbing. we only deter russia by consistently demonstrating support for our friends, friends like ukraine. that is why it is so important to our security that we stand with ukraine. countries like ukraine, are fighting our fight against authoritarianism. god help us if it's not our fight, still. >> tucker: god help us if we ever abandon ukraine. hilarious. imagine if democrats had gone in another more conventional direction like drop ukraine talk and instead spent the last five months working on, i don't know, the student loan disaster or lowering insurance premiums or helping young people build functioning families? they could have done that, but they didn't. they ignored it. instead they jammerred on for months about some meaningless phone call with a ukrainian. nobody outside twitter ever cared. not for one minute. the country was always bored

by this. this after a few months, voters became annoyed and then they became disgusted and the final result was as predictable as today's vote was new gallup poll shows the president with the highest approval rating of his presidency. higher than the day he was inaugurated. who did that? democrats did that. impeachment didn't just fail, it helped the man they say they hate. but you shouldn't be surprised. of course it did. like titanic, the ending was obvious from the opening credits. only they didn't get it. we're joined now by donald trump jr. thanks so much for coming on. so what do you think the less lesson of impeachment is other than we owe ukraine everything we have. what's your take away from this. >> the obvious lesson is that the do-nothing democrats are going to just do that, impeachment didn't even meet nancy pelosi' own criteria when she set this out a few month's ago. the real problem is the democrats and nancy are so blinded by hate, hatred of

donald trump, that they can't even function. they literally cannot do anything. as they are pushing the russia hoax, donald trump is signing the usmca and getting that done. fixing nafta. okay. as they are signing the articles of impeachment, tucker, he is signing an historic trade deal with china. he still goes on, but their hatred is making them make very bad decisions. the american people see it. they saw it up front and center last night at the state of the union where he highlighted some incredible american stories. whether it be soldiers, whether it be just great americana and you see them sitting there not clapping, miserable. >> tucker: let me ask you the obvious political question. this was a political process with political goals. they are not stupid. it was clear from day one that this was likely to be counter productive. they wanted to hurt the president. they helped him. why did they do this?

>> because nancy pelosi has been pushed into the corner far left of her party. she is not the brilliant tactician everybody says she is. she has been bullied by a progressive left that has absolutely lost their minds. but the american people have not lost their way, tucker. they get it. they have seen through the nonsense. they see that the impeachment hoax, which they have been pushing, for three and a half years now, is just that. it's a hoax. okay. they couldn't do it with russia collusion. this is just version 3.0 at this point. they have lost that battle. the american people want to see them getting in there, fixing, maybe, infrastructure. we have plenty of things that we could do. infrastructure would be a great one for my father because he is actually a builder, not a politician. he would do incredible things for america with that. but they could tackle drug pricing. they could tackle any number of things. >> tucker: you are right. >> your viewers cannot name one thing they have tackled other than resist donald

trump and his record of success. >> tucker: not even sort of interesting mission for a political party. i want to ask about the vote today. so, let's say you devoted your life as, you know, as a businessman, buying companies and then firing a lot of people and offshoring a lot of the company and you got rich doing that whatever, a lot of people do that private equity. would you be in a position to deliver overwrought moral lectures to others? >> the gentleman who did that it's ironic when you look at his political career. he has flip flopped for political expediency on every major conservative issue that he says he believes in now that he is in utah again. go look at the record guys it. speaks for itself. track record on life. the reality is. this he has come to donald trump or his endorsement for money when he was running. he blew his chance bigly. he is so bitter about it he cannot let it go, tucker. he cannot do the right thing. he cannot do what the people

of his state want. he is purely, like nancy pelosi, just blinded by hatred because when he had his shot, he couldn't do it. he is more concerned about attempting to be loved by those who hate his guts, by the media, by the left, who destroyed his political career, who destroyed his presidential run than he is about doing what his constituency actually wants. and it's become now so transparent that you can't even hide from it. he is not brave. he is a coward. >> tucker: i just think it's funny that people who are so angry feel the need. rather than just be angry. i don't like you. feel it necessary to give you lecture. >> wonderful guy. look at the record. it speaks for itself. >> tucker: don, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> tucker: we are joined now by judge jeanine pirro. good to see you tonight. you have watched this whole thing from beginning to end. if you could just -- this

may be the last segment we ever do on impeachment, by the way. the honor is yours. what does this mean? wrap it up for us? >> well, i think what it means that, you know, people are smarter than the looney left thinks they are. that there are certain things that are fundamental and that is the right to defend yourself, the right to cross-examine, the right to call witnesses. how about this, the right to be charged with a crime. how about the fact that you have the right to at least be present? all of that was erased by the left. and as you say, and i get a charge out of this, tucker when you talk about ukraine until adam schiff told me it was important. >> paid 800 bucks for a crappy health insurance coverage but ukraine is more important. >> yes, of course. now we all know that thanks to him. but what we do know is this. in the end, tucker, this impeachment will enure to the detriment to the democrats. i envision and i hope i'm

right, a house that is republican. people are so fed up with these democrats who want to impeach, impeach, impeach from as he said the time he came down that golden escalator that they want them to work for the american people. who do these democrats think they are? they are so transparently transparent. all they are interested in is not you the american people, not blue collar successes. we want power, so we will let the illegals in. if they kill a few americans, you know, you will deal with it. what we want is power. you know what? that is going to, in the end, defeat them as well it should. and you know what? if they say impeach again, there is going to be a march on washington and i'm going to march this time. >> tucker: i don't think they are going to at this point. that would be pretty counter productive. >> you never know. >> tucker: i have to ask you about last night. this year we all know it got more intense here is if you didn't see it? >> america, thank you very much. [cheers and applause]

>> tucker: nancy the ripper. [laughter] >> she took off her mask last night. if you didn't already know it, her bizarre behavior has been, you know, of question for everyone. and it was kellyanne conway this morning. >> tucker: she was wearing a mask before. >> yeah. she was prayerful. she does things solemnly. she only impeaches, you know, if it's bipartisan. and all that. she's a liar. okay? and she was reading and distracting last night behind the president. i kept waiting for her to jump up and say he missed a word, impeach him. you know, she was just distracting. and what she has done she has proven to the american people that she doesn't respect them. she doesn't respect the tuskegee airmen. she doesn't respect the family of kayla mueller, she doesn't respect the family

of jody jones, the brother who was shot. anyone killed in a sanctuary city. this is about pure power. and when she is in the most hallowed halls of congress, behind the commander-in-chief, to rip up those sheets of paper is akin to her ripping up the constitution, american jurisprudence, everything that the president has done for the american people, from the economy, to school choice, to all of the things he talked about. she doesn't care about any of that. >> tucker: do you think it was planned? i mean, was this something that, you know, she contain? she is so mad she ripped it in half? >> i will tell you why it was planned. if you were really mad you took all those sheets of paper and you ripped them and you slam them down. she took a few and she did it this way. this camera might catch her this way. take a few more this way. and then she says, she said i ripped it up because there was not one piece of paper that didn't have a lie on it. she also said that the

president was deceitful on every page. she is wrong, wrong, wrong. and in the end -- >> tucker: wait, why not -- the president made a bunch of statements, claims last night. why didn't she rebut them, he said, for example, that the democratic party, the candidates would like to give healthcare to people who aren't here legally. and is that not true? in other words, why don't we have a debate about any of these policies. >> because she can't. if you put together all of the democrats running for president, every one of them raised their hand. i wouldn't even respond to it. i would just play the video. it's like everything else. the audio of the transcript. they say don't believe your lying eyes. don't believe your lying ears. if it is what they say it is, it's a lie. this is a game. it's a shell game. nancy pelosi is the queen of the shell game. and this is going to be her last term as speaker. she has lost it. and, do you know what? she deserves it because she is smarter than to buckle to

aoc, rashida tlaib and the rest of that crew. >> tucker: judge jeanine pirro, thanks so much for that i appreciate it. >> you are welcome. >> tucker: chaos in iowa, everyone saw it. the result bernie sanders hurt. huh. was that an accident? his supporters don't think it was an accident. it looks to them and to a lot of people, like the leadership of the democratic party will do anything to keep bernie sanders from being the nominee. one of his supporters joins us after the break. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: we still don't have the full numbers from the iowa caucus but the results so far, the ones we have been given, indicate a narrow lead for pete buttigieg who was once a mayor of a minor city in the midwest. a big win for the little mayor? not so fast. buttigieg's campaign had close financial ties to shadow, the tech company that completely screwed up the results on monday. then this, today, iowa democrats were caught apparently mistakingly giving hundreds of bernie sanders' votes to total to tom steyer and deval patrick. you add it all up and you begin to wonder are people trying to stop bernie? a lot of bernie supporters think they are. wouldn't be a surprise, actually. democratic insiders in the press, it's clear they will do almost anything to deny sanders the nomination. jimmy obrador is one of the very rare independent thinkers on the internet. podcast comedian. jimmy, thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> tucker: i'm not a conspiracy guy.

i don't think i'm paranoid. i'm looking at the accumulation of facts which grows larger every day. i'm starting to think there is a real effort not in public but behind the scenes to prevent bernie sanders from getting the nomination by the democratic establishment. am i imagining that? >> you are not imagining that. when i look at what is happening in the democratic primary and especially what is happening now in iowa, what i think is not only is democracy alive, but it's thriving. >> tucker: that's a good point. >> this is really, of course, this is the dnc right by where they took over the counting of the votes. did you know that they took over the counting of the votes. the dnc come in. apparently they don't have anybody who knows how to count stuff in iowa so they have to have the dnc come in. the dnc rigged the last primary against bernie sanders. those are the same people and by the way the same people who rigged the primary against bernie last time are the ones involved in making this app., right? so they got a bunch of people who worked on hillary's campaign that work now at shadow and they helped build this app.

all of a sudden -- here's the thing, tucker, i have seen glen greenwald make this statement before. if you would expect some of the mistakes to go in bernie's and dnc's favor. all the mistakes are always all the mistakes are always going in the establishment's favor. that's how you know these aren't mistakes. by the way, when they released those 62% of the vote they are going to release those results, how do they decide to stop at 62%? where is the transparency? why did they pick those counties? there is no transparency. this is obviously how are they going to cheat bernie? this is how they do it. if you know what the headline was all day yesterday and today on cable news on cnn and msnbc is pete buttigieg is in the lead. he is retaining his lead. that's the story they want everybody to know. and that's what half the country now thinks is that pete buttigieg won iowa. >> tucker: so many levels of irony here. pick out of a hat here is one. some of the same people who

are regurgitating this propaganda, counting the votes in iowa are the same ones who spent the last three years telling us that russia was subverting our democracy and that the sanctity of elections was the most important thing in american life. are you noticing this? >> i am noticing that apparently russians work for shadow and they run the iowa democratic party. apparently because so, yeah, of course i was one of the few shows that debunked russia gate and saw through that. this is all kind of tied together because russia gate is at result of the failure of the democratic party to present a platform that gets people who want to vote democrat off the couch to vote for them. so they can't actually offer them anything because they are beholden to their donors the same people who control the republican party control the democratic party. we don't really have two parties, right? so they have to do russia gate and impeachment and all these circus shows, right? to distract you from the fact that the democratic party doesn't represent workers anymore, that they actually represent big

pharma, health insurance, the military industrial complex and wall street. that's why all this is happening and that's why they have to cheat bernie sanders because he is going to upset their game, their money game. that's why they have got to stop him before. the first job of the democratic party is to stop the candidate who represents the workers and then and only then can they turn their attention towards donald trump. >> tucker: is that why we never have debates about the tax code? we spent spend a lot of time on bathrooms and these kind of peripheral social issues. i can't remember the last time somebody talked about carried interest. can you? >> tucker, as nancy pelosi is ripping up donald trump's speech, she is passing his legislative agenda. and, also, if you watched closely last night, you got to see her applaud donald trump's imperialism when it comes vis-a-vis venezuela. i know you did good work on venezuela. we all know these foreign entanglements cia plots that steal resources and give it to american corporations. they admitted so much.

john bolton grilled on fox news that's what venezuela was. you saw the one party rule last night. you saw nancy pelosi applauding and getting up with juan guaido who is a cia appointed puppet leader of venezuela. so you saw that's the part i like to call out. that's when they are both in bed with the intelligence community. they are both in bed with the military industrial complex and so, yeah, you are right. we are not talking about real things. we are talking about russia gate and ukraine. we are never going to talk about why wouldn't the democrats have complete control of the government? they gave us a right wing healthcare plan anyway. oh, maybe because there aren't really two parties. there is one party in america. and they're both controlled by big business. >> tucker: jimmy dore you will take so much abuse for doing this show. i hope you will come back. few independent thinkers. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: james carville knows a lot about winning presidential campaigns. he did it in 1992 getting bill clinton. you might not agree with his solutions.

probably don't. at least he was talking about the right things. would that be a good blueprint for democrats running today? yeah, but they are not. they are campaigning on revolution and that worries james carville. >> this party needs to wake up and make sure that we talk about things that are relevant to people. we don't win elections because we talk about stuff that is not relevant. we had a great experience in 2018. and the day after we started all of this goofy stuff. we are talking about people voting from jail cells. all right. we are talking about not having a border. i'm 75 years old. why am i here doing this? because i am scared to death. that's why. we have got to decide what we want to be. do we want to be ideological cult or do we want to have a majoritarian instinct to be a majority party? >> tucker: brandon wright is a democrat, a former cia officer and he joins us. thanks so much for coming on.

>> good evening. >> tucker: do you share these concerns. >> this guy is a little bit right and a whole bunch of wrong. here is what he gets right. and i applaud him for. socialism is bad. i can't believe we are debating that but here we are. bernie sanders also crazy, open borders. true. glad he is acknowledging glad he is acknowledging that ocasio-cortez believes in 60 trillion-dollar plans that will bankrupt the nation. all that is fantastic. he also went on to bash media for falling in love with these people. good job, james carville. here's the problem. later in that interview james carville said hey, if bernie is the nominee, i'm still voting for him. i'm watching this interview and i'm thinking that doesn't make any sense. if you believe that communism and socialism is bad, that it has killed tens of millions of people, why would you just shrug and say bernie is our guy because orange man bad. this is the sickness of the democratic party. we get a lot of people actually quite smart saying a lot of the the right things but then when push

comes to shove, they are like let's go with the socialist guy. i'm sure he is just a harmless old grandpa who believes in post offices. because that's really what bernie wants is just more post offices and maybe some national parks, right? which is absurd. because what we know, we have known for decades about bernie sanders, about ocasio-cortez and about the democratic socialists in america is that they have no intention of just building some more post offices, all right? or getting better healthcare. their goal is to take over the private industry in this country. absolutely. the way they do that by the way is they can't run as socialists. they have to run as democrats, push the party far left so they can build this base of progressives who have been hood winked socialism isn't all that bad. this isn't a conspiracy by the way. this is something that i have read anybody could read in website. document lays it all out. when i hear democrats say

hey vote for bernie he is a bad guy and crazy and believes in killing millions of people. of people. they also advocating and encouraging the political suicide of the democratic party. hey, let ocasio-cortez and bernie use the democratic party as some sort of parasitic host, right? that makes no sense. i want to ask james carville how is the hamster up here? is it running fast? i don't think so. it doesn't make any sense. >> tucker: we are almost out of time. of time. >> bottom line seemless. hit me with it. >> the other crazy thing is that this guy says at the end of the day socialism is just something that's shruggable and our main goal is to defeat donald trump. well, if it's to embrace socialism and communism, sorry, i'm voting for orange man because i ain't interested in the stuff that killed tens of millions of people. no thanks, goodbye. >> tucker: bryan dean wright, there is a lot going

on in the democratic party. you identified that without question. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> you bet. >> tucker: meanwhile, in the rest of the world the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down in china. more cases continue to pop up here in the united states as well. is the government prepared to fight what could be a global pandemic? the head of the homeland security department joins us straight ahead. before we break though, some sad news to pass along to you acting legend kirk douglas died today 103 years old. his father bought and sold rags for a living. douglas literally went from rag tolls riches. he served in the navy during the second world war and served in classics like the bad and beautiful in spartacus. remained an active public figure well into his 90's. a blogger making final post in honor of nancy reagan at 100 years old. kirk douglas. rest in peace. other money managersifferd

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>> tucker: chinese coronavirus continues to spread. the death toll now exceeding 500. that's the official number. in the united states there are now 12 confirmed cases of it. meanwhile, alarming videos trickling out of china indicate the virus is far from under control. chief breaking correspondent trace gallagher has always had the very latest. hey, trace. >> getting more evidence to cast doubt on the chinese government concerning the coronavirus outbreak. chinese officials put the death toll at 563.

new videos that we have not verified show multiple body bags in a hospital waiting room. the bodies are seen on the floor, in chairs. even lined up on gurneys and the pictures have generated immense social media reaction. primarily chinese citizens questioning the government's honesty. analysts say push back led to scenes where chinese military and police are seen marching down the streets enforcing curfews and quarantine. aimed at conveying the message that the chinese government is doing whatever it takes to mitt gate the outbreak. and violating government mandates have resulted in thousands of people being detained like this unverified video showing residents in south china near shanghai being forcibly quarantined in other words locked inside their homes.

we have also seen video from an american funded group showing residents forcibly removed from their homes and this video showing a man being arrested on the street for not wearing a mask. the man says because of the shortage, he couldn't not afford one. finally in this country, wisconsin has confirmed its first case of coronavirus raising the total number of u.s. cases to 12. and two planes carrying 350 americans evacuated from china are now at military bases in northern and southern california where they will spend up to two weeks under quarantine. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that this is obviously a very serious story. so we are happy tonight to speak to chad wolf, he is the acting secretary of the department of homeland security playing a big role in our response to coronavirus. he joins us tonight. mr. secretary, thanks so much for coming on. you, among other things, oversee customs, what are you doing to keep people who have this virus from coming in to the united states? >> the president has been very clear and giving clear direction which is to protect the american people.

over the weekend we took action to make sure that we are screening individuals both at our land, sea and airports of entry. so, what have you seen over the past number of days airplanes coming from mainland, china and any other individuals who have been in china for the past 14 days they are funneled to 11 specific airports. that's to make sure that we have enough medical professionals there to assess them and to determine what type of medical care they need and if applicable quarantine measures. doing that in air environment and similar measures at land ports of entry and our sea ports as well. >> tucker: so are you confident since there is a long incubation period for this verizon that you can identify the people who are infected? >> well, we are certainly taking our lead from the medical professionals at cdc and that's that is their medical strategy at the moment. again, we have this 14-day window that we are concerned about. that we are looking at folks, again, both in the air environment but also in the port environment. we have already run into several ships where we need

to make sure those individuals that may or may not be sick that may have left china or arrived at a u.s. port in between this 14-day period are assessed. so we are doing that and that's at the direction of the medical professionals at cdc. we are fairly confident with that 14-day period and again, if you are showing signs or you need to be self-or self-imposed quarantine you are taking those measures as well. >> tucker: how concerned should the rest of us be, americans, about this? >> i think you need to take it seriously. overall the threat to the homeland remains relatively low. we want to make sure and that's why we put these measures in place over the weekend. we want to make sure that that threat remains low. so that it doesn't spiral, again, with the medical professionals at the cdc we are taking our lead from them. their strategy continues to evolve. as that evolves the operators at dhs that are protecting your airports, your sea ports and your land ports of entry, we are going

to adjust as well. we have fairly specific measures in place and we feel very confident at this point. >> i want to ask you about another story. the state of new york under governor andrew cuomo is issuing drivers licenses to people here illegally. obviously a massive security threat to the rest of the country, giving government ids to people who shouldn't be here. what's your response to this? >> well, that certainly is disappointing. i would say we are talking about new york green light law which they passed late last year. aspect which you mentioned tucker provides driver's license to illegal aliens. another as specht which i'm more concerned about that law it prohibits access to ice and cbp customs and border protection access to dmv data. that's important for a number of different reasons. ice uses that as they are investigating cases. they are using personal data that they get from database individual's date of birth, photo, they are using that as they build that case. they can no longer do that because of what new york did.

cbp also uses that for national security purposes customs reasons and trade and travel. they use this data. so when we talk about cbp's trusted travel like global entry anyone who travels, they use that, dmv data to make sure that those individuals are low risk and meet the eligibility requirements. >> tucker: of course. >> i would say that today we sent a letter to new york indicating because they took these measures, that new york residents no longer are eligible to enroll in these trusted traveler programs. >> tucker: all residents of new york. the tens of millions of people who live there. >> they can enroll or reenroll in these trusted traveler programs that custom and border protection offers because we no longer have access to make sure that they meet those program requirements. we need to do our job. >> tucker: of course. and good for you. it's just that will be a shock to a lot of new yorkers. i support that completely. mr. secretary, thank you. i wish we had more time and i appreciate your coming on to explain that. >> thank you.

>> tucker: thank you. well, nancy pelosi, alexandria ocasio-cortez, the rest of the house democrats very, very angry last night. why were they so angry? we are not sigmund freud but we have some theories and they are next. we have

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♪ >> tucker: president trump gave a speech last night it was nancy pelosi who made the headlines. yet, she wasn't the only democrat begging for attention at the state of the union. other members of her party boycotted the speech and gave statements about their boycotts or they just walked out right in the middle of it. >> i just kind of snuck out and the press found out and so i sent the tweet out just explaining. but these lies started to add up disgracefully not shaking nancy pelosi's hand. how much can a guy take

sitting there listening to this stuck. i snuck out and went to face time my 5-year-old son before he went to bed. >> even the mention of brett kavanaugh is a trigger. just as a woman in america, the fact that he, you know, rightfully was accused. i couldn't stand still and not do anything about it. and i needed to walk away from that. >> tucker: it's hard to know what's better? on the one hand you have a sitting member of congress using the word triggered not kidding. she literally said i was triggered. and then the other you have another sitting member of congress telling you that he left the speech to face time his 5-year-old that somehow the press found out about it. how would they know? because they are all paying attention. he didn't send a press release or anything. why are they doing this? why are they so mad? you know the answer. they are mad for real. these are unhappy people. a lot of them hate their dads. dad hatred is a thread that runs through a lot of unhappy people in this

country institutionally they reward anger showing the party now miserable you are is the way to gain status in the modern democratic ecosystem. these are the people who wouldn't celebrate if they got a free car from oprah. >> this calls for a drum roll. all right, open your boxes. open your boxes, 1, 2, 3. [screams] >> you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. you get a car. everybody gets a car. everybody gets a car. everybody gets a car. keep >> tucker: oprah is giving out free cars and they are not impressed. tammy bruce is not impressed. good to see you. what's all the anger about do you think? >> you hit the nail on the head. a generation that's been

trained to be unhappy. it's victimhood. it's the fact that that's rewarded. that you are elevated you're almost lionized in the way the more angst that you have, and note there are things that we need to fix and things always in society that we want to make better, but that is no way to live. it's like there is this -- it's like a whiner's club as opposed to the fryer's club. you get together and they feed it within each other or it's like a bunch of little kids who you never quite get what you want as a little kid because you are not in charge and then you all go to the cheese cake factory and kick everybody under the table and you mug and you make fun of people over there. but, when you are dealing with children, can you dispatch them to their room. can you ground them. instead, we have nancy pelosi who is doing that last night. and it's feeding it dynamic of, yes, it's about authority. it's about not being in charge. it's about resentment. because they have been

rejected. i mean, the fact is, you know, they may have had the house of representatives. but what they are seeing, they are seeing the same numbers we are. the president's numbers continue to increase and americans, this is the crime now we are all committing. we are becoming happier there are fewer victims. drug overdose deaths. fewers are on food stamps. more millions of us have jobs. wages are increasing and that's not victimhood. i think that upsets them. >> tucker: i'm mesmerized by this tape. i just saw debbie dingell the congresswoman from michigan and she is angry and judgey. i'm just wondering, she was a lobbyist for the auto industry while her husband was representing detroit in the congress. there she is right there. i'm thinking you are literally a lobbyist while your husband was representing detroit. you have no moral standing to judge anybody. you should leave the room in shame, but, no. angry. >> the same point you made about mitt romney. these are individuals who

have scooped up a bunch of cash and play roles in this system. they, i think they simply believe, based on their party or who they think their constituents are, that if they are angry, somehow being angry means you are serious. but not really. americans know and the president, of course, has all the reasons in the world to be angry and to be upset. and he was actually restrained last night. he was happy, looking forward with an optimistic vision and that's the other thing you can't do when you are perpetually angry and mad and miserable. you don't see any way out. you don't see any solution because you are unhappy. for governing, as parents, as a good friend, whoever you are, you know, how we view the world is a choice. happiness is a choice. >> tucker: totally true. >> that effects the way that we handle the future. so at least the president remains a happy warrior and thank god for that and so do the rest of us, i think. >> tucker: at the root of a lot of this is narcissism. self-pity feeds anger. >> exactly. >> tucker: tammy bruce,

great to see you tonight as always. >> thank you, sir. >> tucker: particularly resonant moment is when the first lady gave the medal of freedom to a cancer-stricken radio legend, rush limbaugh, advanced lung cancer. that moment spurred some people it new levels of rage. speaking of rage. tell you all about it after the break. we also should have some results out of iowa. they are still counting in iowa right after this. we will have the very latest for you. it's interesting. stay tuned. your tax provider?

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been counted which means there are only 141 precincts left to get the returns in. and you see right there, it is buttigieg leading 26.5% of the vote, bernie sanders next. almost the exact opposite 25.6%. so less than 1% separate them and then have you elizabeth warren 18.3%. and joe biden now with 15.9%. what it does not show is amy klobuchar she is running about 12.1%. what this shows is it appears joe biden will beat amy klobuchar, which is at least somewhat of a boost for joe biden who says the iowa caucuses were like a kick in the gut. and it does not appear that joe biden will surpass elizabeth warren, which is bad news for the biden campaign you have buttigieg and sanders close call there the rest seem to be what they will be when the other 8% of precincts check. in tucker?

>> tucker: biden is at least beating amy klobuchar. this isn't turning out as he expected. trace gallagher thanks for that i prevent it? >> sure. >> tucker: one of the most emotional moments occurred when the first lady awarded the presidential medal of freedom who rush limbaugh who just announced he has advanced lung cancer. democrats sat in stoney silence. the press told us because they are both buffoons and totally predictable that honoring rush limbaugh was racist. >> donald trump gave the presidential medal of freedom during black history month to rush limbaugh. that is the most perverse thing i think anyone would ever imagine would happen during black history month. >> well, yes, he was trying to make appeals to the african-american community. it can't be forgotten that he was awarding the medal of freedom to rush limbaugh. >> rush limbaugh is a virulent racist. it truly cheapens the value of it. >> i thought that the medal

of honor. >> freedom. >> freedom. >> was supposed to go to people who actually did stuff. >> and i don't think it was lost on the black community that he gave that honor to rush limbaugh during black history month. >> right. >> sitting next to. >> tuskegee airmen on rosa parks day. >> tucker: no, whoopi goldberg it was not the medal of honor. howie carr is a radio host. winner of the victoria cross for gal lent tri, just kidding. what really happened author. maybe i'm too literal, rush limbaugh is a virulent racist? says alexandria ocasio-cortez a moron. what is she talking about. >> anyone on the air 30 years three or four hours a day is going to say a few things they have regrets for. rush has a lot less to apologize for, i would say, than al sharpton with his comments about jewish businessmen and greeks, et cetera, et cetera, homosexuals.

you know, he never eulogized the former member of the ku klux klan robert byrd as did hillary clinton. and he has never talked about how you have to have a slight indian accent to work that 7-eleven in delaware like uncle joe biden. i mean, this is ridiculous. >> tucker: why don't you say i disagree with rush limbaugh. why does every disagreement have to kind of be perverted into a race conversation? they disagree with rush limbaugh. that's okay. why do they have to call everyone they dislike a racist, period, every time? >> i think that's the way it is with liberals. if they disagree with you ergo you are a racist. it doesn't matter that rush limbaugh has raised millions of dollars for charities, betsy ross t-shirt more recently. he has done all of that. he is an historical figure in american politics, i would say, and in the radio industry.

industry. and, you know, he is a lot less reprehensible figure. i will tell you one thing, he never rode around on jeffrey epstein's jet unlike a certain former president of the united states. he never tried to cow ronan farrow into stopping exposes of harvey weinstein like hillary clinton's people did. it's ridiculous. it's really lowsome what they're trying to do. >> tucker: i would know exactly to the dollar how much of her own money alexandria ocasio-cortez gives to the less fortunate every year. i don't have her tax return. my guess would be right around zero in this range. these people. howie carr, thank you. >> another thing. >> i have got to go. sorry. great to see you. thanks. as noted, we are out of time. we will be back. the good news tomorrow night and every week night with a show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think. dvr it if you know how.

above all stay tuned. have a great evening. breaking news on multiple fronts. sean hannity takes over from here. hey, sean. hey, sean. >> sean: commentary howie carr was >>th sean: commentary, howie carr, was brilliant. that segment was amazing.al tucker, great show. welcome to hannity. game over the schumersc schiff sham show is done, it is finished. the president has won again and been vindicated yet again. the petty, irrational rage-filled trump-hating democrats, their state-run media mob allies have absolutely nothing to show for their three-year, never ending-do nothing for the american people, hate trump temper tantrum. h take a look. >> the senate, having tried donald john trump, president of the united states, upon two articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives and two thirds of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein it is, therefore, ordered