the story continues on foxnews.com. i'll see you with my cohost andrew smith 9:00 p.m. eastern, will be expecting to see you. until then, good night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." according to your numbers, the democratic primary race is constructing to become really a two man contest. a lot of people in the race but the outline is clear. on one side, you have the candidate bernie sanders who wants to turn this country into a conference of welfare state. looked up and every aspect of american life to impose a new economic order. sanders is not hiding what he wants to do. he's running on what he wants to do. his main rival is michael bloomberg, the former mayor of new york. bloomberg has shot to about 15% nationally in the polls from

nowhere, essentially. he's suddenly leading the race in the critical super tuesday state of florida. what is mike bloomberg running on? that's a trick question, actually. bloomberg isn't running on anything. not because he has ideas, he has plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream. but bloomberg does not think anything matters but he's not running on ideas. not trying to convince voters of anything. he's not making arguments or working to change their minds on policies that they care about. he's trying to buy them and the presidency. it's the single most cynical political campaign run in this country and bloomberg is trying to subvert our democracy with cash and is going all in the do it. according to latest numbers, bloomberg and spent more than four to $17 million in advertising so far in this race. his nearest rival has been $40 million, that's less than a tenth. joe biden, the man who they told us it is a front runner spent 3.3 million. say that again to the at least

the 417 million lubricants pumped into the race just on advertising. that's just the beginning. the number could go higher. nothing like this has ever happened in america. bloomberg's spending is, and pick your metaphor here, us and i'll be breaking over our political system. when the waters receded, there's nothing left. it's been flattened and wiped clean by the wake of mike bloomberg's wealth. the tallest figure in the landscape, only one left upright. that's his plan for all but admitted that his plan. watching your disavowal stop and frisk, the single most successful policy he had as mayor of new york. >> i defended it looking at it too long because i didn't understand the unintended pain it was causing two young black and brown families and their kids. i heard their pain, confusion, and anger, i've learned from them and i've grown from that. >> tucker: think about what

you just saw. it's not the normal pandering. mike bloomberg believes passionately in gun control, it's a signature issue. stop and frisk may have been the most effective gun-control policy ever administered anywhere. it took thousands of illegal firearms off the streets of new york. new york democratic voters decided they don't like it, they don't like stop and frisk it without pausing, bloomberg gravels and the taxes on legacy. why did he do that? because he doesn't care. he will do whatever it takes. they say politicians are ethically flexible and, of course, they are pure this is different to read something ominous about it. bloomberg can change his core beliefs because he doesn't think his beliefs are relevant to the outcome of this race. only his wealth matters. the horrifying fact is he may be right. how wealthy is michael bloomberg? the richness of the russian oligarchs, ladled mickelson, is worth about $24 billion. michael bloomberg could

literally give away twice amount, or spend it on a presidential race and could still be five times as rich as donald trump's. it's still hard to imagine how much money that is. bloomberg can seize power. a ruling class which worships money above all sees nothing wrong with it, they are equal to eager to help bloomberg with it. they are libertarian on economic matters, something that shared with only a tiny fraction of the population. no normal person things the widening wealth gap is a good thing. it's obviously making america unstable. but mike bloomberg has been one of its chief beneficiaries. he will defend the current system above all else. there is a reason he is a favorite of finance moguls and tech commissars. again, this is a total departure from anything we have seen before in the history of this country. say what you will about donald trump, but in 2016 he ran for 2016 on ideas that large numbers of voters actually liked whether or not they liked him.

secure the border and counterproductive wars fight the fascism of political correctness. in selling those ideas, he spent about half of what hillary clinton's bad. but bloomberg cannot be bothered with selling ideas or having a platform. doesn't care what the this is the nightmare scenario that campaign finance reform activists to tell us about. they were right about one thing. our system has been vulnerable to people like michael bloomberg for a long time. he's the first one is actually try to do it. you should be alarmed by his campaign for president. democracy doesn't break when voters choose unwisely. they sometimes do. democracy collapses when what voters want becomes irrelevant. jason nichols is a professor of akron america's studies at university maryland african-american studies at university of maryland for this remind you of the expected rise in blue brings polarity among

african-american voters. you did not things would happen. why is this happening? >> it's the ubiquitous of his ads, they are everywhere. how well he's done in the things he's done for african-american communities whether they are out of context or what have you. i think the thing is he is not coming on shows like this and answering difficult questions. he is drowning out any kind of, you know, criticism that may come for things like stop and frisk. you and i will have to seriously disagree whether that was effective. that was completely ineffective. he's able to drown it out with his own advertising for it he doesn't have to answer any questions. he's probably not going to come out of the media until after super tuesday. he's the winner here, he wins because he has money, a luxury

that elizabeth warren didn't have or that bernie sanders didn't have when they faced a tough criticism, particularly when it comes to race, they had to go to the media and answer those questions. he's avoiding everything and just making stump speeches and putting out ads. >> tucker: by definition, and i hope i'm honest enough, i hope i'm honest enough to say that this is an attack on democracy. when you overwhelm the system with your personal wealth. are you bothered by the fact that it's working? >> so, i think it's working in the short-term but eventually i think particular african-american voters, they are going to want answers. they are going to want to know when you have people like charles blow and other influencer pluralists are saying, stop and frisk was a violation of your constitutional rights. when they start asking, well, you've given to the campaigns of

rick snyder, who's responsible for the flint water crisis. when you get into lindsey graham, when you give to rudolph giuliani, we want answers and he's going to have to sit there and answer it and we also know that bloomberg can be a very surly person. he's not energetic like donald trump, which is what i think won donald trump the election, it's not money, he's a charisma. he's not an intellect or anything like that but he has tons of charisma, something bloomberg does not have, so he's going to have to go out in front of these audiences, answer these questions, and i really do not think it's going to bode very well for him. >> tucker: that's the hope. we hope democracy kicks in at some point. professor, thank you coming on. appreciate it. michael tracy is an independent generalist meaning he thinks for himself unlike most journalists. we are happy to have them here tonight. take three steps back which i

know you do for a living and tell us what it means for the country. >> here's an interesting way to look at it. in the past few years, mike bloomberg has come out in public and said that he couldn't win the presidency, so he wouldn't even bother trying. and that was the characterization of his vision of his presidential fortunes in just the past few years. what is the national governing agenda? welcome in a man's to a of hyper corporatized smog surveillance state culture liberalism for which there is apsley no constituency to a mass scale. in the national electorate. >> tucker: may i stop you there? you look at the numbers and there is no constituency for the politics of the google board of directors. most people did not want that. >> shocking, right?

so bloomberg rightly surmised that he was not going to go and win the presidency on the strength of his political convictions because they are completely ugly and despicable and alien too much of the country, so what has he done? he has had this vociferous focus purely on bashing donald trump, because there is a constituency for that. whatever kind of behemoth data analytics and polling team that he's assembled correctly related to him that among older paranoid liberals, and some independents, there is some widespread pitch vacation that donald trump could win a second term for it rather than campaigning or visiting hymns of the media are doing anything resembling what the ordinary course of action would be for prisoners or candidates, rather than doing any of that, he's putting together these sleek, cutesy ads going, i've got billions, i spent 400 million plus so far pure that's chump change for me.

that's what my wealth appreciates two in a given week. i do not know what the interest increased their exactly, but he saying, look, i can go after trump all these petty characterological issues as people are confused as to what trump's personal it is sick and seas are to this point, but there is a constituency who look at to the magnetic field and say, my goodness, on the interested in these internet scene debates among the democrats. i was in new hampshire and talked to a lot of standard democrats who did not care about the differences between a bernie sanders or an elizabeth warren or a joe biden for they just desperately wanted to beat trump and bloomberg recognizes that. he says, i'm uniquely equipped to beat trump, i'm going to flood your daily consciousness with these tedious ads that have been marked tested to press your emotional buttons. that's what he's doing. like you suggested, this is the

most brazen, oligarchic intervention in the history of american electoral politics and it's not even close. it's hugely disturbing. whether you are on the right or left, anywhere in between, you should be incredibly alarmed at what's going on here. >> tucker: and yet you are one of the only people on the internet saying this which tells you how corporatized our media has become. michael tracey, i hope you come back on the topic. it's good to see you tonight. we have more on the michael bloomberg campaign, which we can't say enough, you should be worried about. not as a conservative or liberal, but as an american. bloomberg not considering one but two former first ladies to use as is with low running might. we'll talk with mark steyn ahe ahead. new york's laws are unveiling all sorts of accomplishments that bloomberg had. criminals are celebrating for that's next.

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>> tucker: welcome a bit of good news from the political world today. governor blackface or however were calling him, ralph northam of virginia, has stopped his effort punishing his entire state as penance for his disgusting personal failures by the house passed a bill that would ban the sale of so-called assault weapons, your so-called deer rifle, it would've made may thousands of law-abiding people felons by banning all magazines capable of holding more than a dozen rounds. but today, four democrats in the state senate join the a table the bill in chambers. in other words, it's now dead

and that's a victory for law-abiding citizens everywhere. they try again camille , you'll hear about it first right here. speaking of law and order, new york's new builder from law has proven to be a real blessing for criminals across the country. charles barry is a serial criminal has been arrested there 139 times, including six times just this year and it's still february. after each one of these arrests, he's been released immediately after a hearing. after his most recent arrest on saturday, mary gloated about the power that new york's new laws give him, given bail reform, it's lit! it's the democrats, the democrats know me and republicans fear me. you can't touch me, i can't be stopped. verbatim quote. he bragged about the money he stole and which so far he's based zero because one says. watch this.

>> tucker: according to new york lawmakers, the guy you heard throwing racist epithets as a victim and you are the big oppressing him. bernie kerik, great to see you tonight. thank you so much. if you really cared about the city you ran, guys like that would be punished, wouldn't th they? >> guys like that would be punished. if you get rid of the mayor and you get rid of the governor. this is the governor's responsibility. it's irresponsible. it's dangerous. and this demonstrate -- charles barry's arrest demonstrates why giuliani's policing in early

1994 to 2002 was so successful in reducing violent crime by 65% and reducing the homicide rates by 70%, 50% of the people we arrested jumping turnstiles, a basic violation of a low level misdemeanor, were wanted on felony arrest warrants and four felonies and crimes they committed in the city this guy is completely out of control and you can't do anything to him. the judges, the prosecutors, nobody can do anything to him because of the bail reform law that governor cuomo signed into effect. >> tucker: you think of all the nice people in your from all backgrounds, working hard, paying their taxes, raising their kids, and lawmakers are taking the sides of this guy over and against them. and, tucker, it's not just him, it's others like him.

we've had people in the last six weeks since january 1st, we've had people arrested on the rape charges, let out, rerape, people on felony charges let out, murder. this has been going on the last six weeks and at some point somebody -- this isn't brain surgery. they are sitting around in a circle jerk right now trying to figure out what to do about it. they have to change it. the mayor should be standing on his pulpit screaming at the top of his lungs to fix it, and he's absent. >> tucker: is the political system so paralyzed in new york that no one will be punished for this? i can't believe anybody willing to defend this monstrosity in public, but would people be voted out of office over these few things? >> i would hope so. you have to go back to what happened in 1994 when rudy giuliani was elected. people elected rudy giuliani because crime was at its

highest, no economic development, will real estate wasdropping, and atd people of new york city said enough is enough, we have to fix it. for the first time, tucker, in 25 years last week, i saw squeegee guys at the lincoln tunnel. it's absurd but we are going back to where we were in the 1990s, early 1990s, 1980s. it shouldn't be. >> tucker: people in charge are suicidal and decadent, i would say. bernie kerik, great to see you tonight. great to see you as always. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: bill kristol's friend john bolton didn't testify about impeachment in public but he still doing every thing he can to sell his book. his latest comments after the break with our as our special programming continues.

>> tucker: welcome back to "tucker carlson tonight." our special programming pin jumble and did not get the war with iran he craved, but he's ensuring that he's getting sprinkles on an ice cream sundae. as if they could be any creepier. imagine, john bolding on an ice cream sundae.

the the white house reviewing hisbo, say they are planning to censor it bit matthew whitaker is acting former attorney general and he joins us tonight. i'm not going to ask you about john bolton eating ice cream because we agree that's repulsive. but what do you make of -- sorry about that. what do you make of his book and what do you think it will contain? >> first of all, tucker, no doubt there is significant policy areas on this. even before he became national security advisor, this is the same man who wrote on a notepad, 10,000 trip to columbia when venezuela was a hot-button iss issue. there was a very strong desire to have a very strong american foreign policy of sending troops wherever in the world they might go, which is inconsistent

oftentimes with what president trump ran on in 2016. what i think this is is an attempt john bolton to sell more books. we know most of his disagreements and most of his thoughts on foreign policy, so he's got to stay relevant and talk about and make it sound like there are things in addition to the sprinkles that come with his book, there's actually some ice cream in his book, i do not think that's going to be the case. we already know what's going to be in most of these books. >> tucker: this is a question probably may be outside of your lane as a former attorney general, but what do you think the audience is for a book that promotes attacking iran? what percentage of americans would be interested in something like that, do you suppose? >> i don't think -- again, i do not think there is a very big audience for that. i don't sell books, so i don't have a lot of experience and what people want to read about. but again, sending troops to columbia or baiting iran, taking over syria or the middle eats

, there is a reason that donald trump won the election because he wanted to get us out of the east, the decade-long war, not send troops to other places. >> tucker: i have to ask you, roger stone as you know is being sentenced on thursday, this thursday the 20th but he could be going to nine years for lying. meanwhile, another liar, liar, demonstrably, andrew mccabe is enjoying a paid gig at cnn, not the first liar they hired, after learning they won't be prosecuted leaking to the press and lying to the fbi about it. mccabe said he was offended that he was at any risk at all for lying! watch. >> you been on the air with me on fox as a banner front being called a liar. >> to be removed from the organization and unfairly branded a liar because that was

the desired outcome by the president has just been one of the most sickening and demeaning experiences of my life. >> tucker: what do you make of this? andrew mccabe who had actual power, not prosecuted for lying, which he did. roger stone facing nine years. how can we take this seriously? >> well, there is a problem where the american people are going to look at these examples and there are other examples of general flynn and george papadopoulos as well where it does look like there is a two-tiered system of justice. in 80 mccabe's case, the ig's report lays out the factual basis for a case. he was referred to two criminal i sat in a chair as attacking attorney general and i know how hard it is to bring cases and to charge people, so i can understand. i trust bill barr that these difficult decisions are being well considered and being made

for the right reasons. but at the same time, it's very difficult based on what i've learned and what i've read in that inspector general's report, as to why andy mccabe's not been charged and i'm hearing that everywhere i go from ordinary americans. it just does not make sense. >> tucker: people who believe in this country and one to believe in our most basic systems, particularly our justice system, it rattles me. i appreciate you coming on tonight. >> i'm glad to join you, tucker. thank you. >> tucker: the president's acquittal was a victory for everyone, even people who don't like him. for three years, washington wasted untold thousands of hours, untold millions of dollars, trying to invalidate the 2016 election in which tens of millions voted. the next election is almost here so it'll be a great time for congress to spend some time, i do not know, putting the opioid epidemics or policing tech companies, or preventing china from plundering our country, doing something useful for once.

on saturday, house speaker nancy pelosi refused to acknowledge that the house impeachment effort even failed. >> the presidency is liberated, asking you about them credit politics on not asking you about it here. he's acquitted -- because you can't have an acquittal unless you have a trial. he had a did not had a trial per the headlines can say acquitted but he's impeached forever, branded with that, not vindicated. >> tucker: eric swalwell of california but may be not the brightest member, told us it could be a time for a second impeachment. this time, the president's high crime is not wanting roger stone to die in prison. >> do you impeach him over this, roger stone and the sentencing? >> we are not going to take our options off the table. we don't wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him for it we want to work on prescription

drugs, background checks, infrastructure, but we aren't going to enforce democracy just because he ran from us once. >> tucker: thank you so much for coming on. so you would think as a political calculation, impeachment is the one where democrats should never mention again because it did not help them, the numbers are clear on that. why are they still holding on the possibility of another impeachment? >> i don't know. every time i hear pelosi speak along with wal that would be more enjoyable. >> tucker: i hear you. >> we've heard for over four months that he's worse than hitler, nixon, we are going to prove it, and what did we get? as a partisan country, we got trump's approvals up, a democratic party is about as

popular as hemorrhoids and a lot of the country but i do not think the calculus went well. it's frustrating. if we are really honest about this, ask ourselves the question. should congress provide oversight over the executive branch? the answer to that is yes. the constitution calls for it and we need for the house and the senate to provide that sensible oversight. but doing so requires a degree of nonpartisanship and it requires the american people to believe that there is a fact based to this. pretty hard to convince the american people or anyone who is watching that that could be possible knowing that from day one, swallwell -- >> four, pelosi have been saying impeach the president from day one. we aren't doing what we should be doing, but secondly, it underlines a point. that we start to begin to think

that there was one party, there was only one dear leader. people start fearing that's the case, that we are slipping through this china/north korea business. people can start to make that argument if congress doesn't do their job. that's the ultimate cost when pelosi and schumer and the rest of the folks in the clown car don't actually do what they should be doing and what the american people want us to do. >> tucker: that's totally right. by the way, they could've peeled off republicans and achieve their end if they had been reasonable. instead they were insane and sunk their own vote. great to see you. thank you. >> always a pleasure. >> tucker: while you are sleeping, china has been busy ethically plundering our job, stealing our scientific research. here's something even more demonstrable, they may have control over america's largest pension fund and money from that fund apparently went to chinese different contractors at the

direction of the communist government of china. that happened. it's happening all over the country. we will give you details when our special continues. anies. it's unacceptable that americans pay vastly more than people in other countries, for the exact same drugs. but they aren't listening. they've just raised the prices of over five hundred drugs. president trump supports a bipartisan plan, that would force drug companies to lower prices. but the senate won't act. tell senate leaders to stop drug company price gouging and lower drug prices now.

♪ >> tucker: welcome back to tonight's special hour. 14 american cruise passengers have been flown back to the united states despite testing positive for coronavirus. meanwhile, fear of the disease had disrupted hong kong so significantly the city is battling a new menace, gangs of toilet paper thieves, we are not making that up. trace gallagher can confirm that. he joins us tonight. >> the u.s. initially said that nobody with the virus could get on the evacuation flights from japan back to the u.s., but during the bus trip from the

diamond princess cruise ship in japan to the airport, where it came in that 14 americans had tested positive for the virus. instead of turning those people back, they were isolated to a separate part of the airplane. four of those infected are now in quarantine at hospital near travis air force base in california, the other ten are at the university of the cup it as we learn today on the stairs, some passengers fibbed their way onto the flight. >> we were tested in japan and we made up the story that we were clear. in the flight overnight, we came down with a fever. >> you say you made up the story that you are cleared? what was that? >> we made up the story that no news was good news. speak of the fire is also changing business protocols including the cancellation of meetings and large conference sentences and implementing a new handshake policy. elbows are told to elbow bump.

research shows that large areas of china are shut down, including del mckay could impact more than 5 million businesses worldwide, 20% of those businesses are here in the united states. the new hot commodity, toilet paper, armed robbers held up thousands of rolls of toilet paper were at the nest made $130 per the robbers were later caught. only elite athletes are being allowed in this year's tokyo marathon. tucker? spewing toilet paper? low margin business, apparently. trace gallagher, great to see you. >> tucker: as china becomes mor, the chinese government finds it trivially easily to plunder america's institutions. american companies outsource their jobs and expertise to

china in return for a quick profit. university and labs hired chinese scientists who send their research back to their masters in mainland china. even our pension funds are in it. calpers is california's pension system. recently, a letter from indiana congressman jim banks revealed that calpers's chief investment officer had been recruited by a chinese espionage operation. it almost defies belief. congressman banks joins us tonight. thanks so much. for exposing the story which is shocking and i don't say this lightly. >> this is one of the more incredible stories of china's infiltration into our systems as you talk about, tucker. in this case, we learned that the chief investment officer of calpers is a graduate of something called the thousand talons program which, tucker, is

a program funded by the chinese government, the cc p, recruit viable individuals and place them in highly viable organizations, in this case overseeing the largest pension fund in america where he steere1 different chinese companies. what's worse than that, tucker, i served on the house armed services committee and the congress and every day i've been a part of working with president trump to rebuild our military. we made the large investment in american history and our military because we try to keep up with the china threat militarily. what we've learned in this case is that calpers is investing in chinese military shipbuilding and naval bases through this investment fund and even worse than that, they've invested in a company called pipe vision, a company developing technology is

used to spy on and persecute the uighur muslim community through different kinds of surveillance technologies but that's what the california private pension fund is being used for and i think that's a travesty and i: governor newsom to do something about it. >> tucker: one of the biggest players in american finance, which calpers is is being used to build the military of our chief military rifle. are the concerns this is happening in other states? >> i'm concerned it's happening all over the country and happening even in the thrift savings plan which is a federal pension plan as well, but this is the only case we can find where the fund actually employs a graduate of the thousand talents program, which makes it so clear and egregious, happening under gavin newsom's nose. we have to do something about it. what side is he on? >> tucker: that's a question

worth asking. calpers, wildly political, of course. congressman, thank you for bringing this story to light. depressing. >> good to be with you. >> tucker: michael bloomberg hasn't yet purchased the democratic nomination for the presidency, but seems like he is already thinking about who to pick as vice president. could hillary clinton be on the ticket yet again? michelle obama question mike we will have mark steyn for our special conclusion. vere ptsd, will take you down in the dump. after several denials, when i went to aspen dental, they gave me a free exam, free x-rays. the doctor comes in and then he's like, "you are in pain, so we're going to get you taken care of." i had no insurance. at aspen dental, we're all about yes. like yes to flexible hours and payment options. yes to 30% off dental services. and yes we'll take care of you, no matter what. call 1-800-aspendental today.

>> tucker: michael bloomberg has so much money, he could literally by max twitter with a personal check tomorrow morning. like so many twitter users, michael bloomberg doesn't know when to stop talking. over the weekend, a 2016 video surfaced in which bloomberg had this to say about, while recording, i could teach anybody to be a farmer. you dig a hole, putting the seed seed, add dirt on top, corn comes in top. bloomberg says you only need brains victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the cooper institute. he joins us tonight. what do you make about these marks from michael bloomberg? >> what michael bloomberg said in the past, what he says in the

present, what he said he said in the past are three different things. he thinks he was giving the history of the thousand years of agriculture, labor, et cetera. it's just a revelation into his soul. it wasn't pretty. he said he could teach anybody in the room. the idea that ancient or modern, you drop a seat in the ground, presto, corn sprouts? it's ridiculous. farmers then and now deal with weather, the with climate, chemistry, they deal with market coming to deal with government, it requires the most skill sets of any profession in the world. some of the most brilliant things in the ancient world, scientific treatises on farming and the idea that michael bloomberg can write all of that off as not enough gray matter? what he says that he was talking only about the past, he used the present tense, i could teach you in this room and he said that

people farming in the past, by implication the present didn't have the same degree of skill sets or gray matter question mike that's absurd for today's farmers, tucker, they are masters of gps. it calibrates of his ticket very small tolerances of calibration. they use gps, computers, the most brilliant people i've met in the world. i have a very strange life because i was schizophrenic, i lived on this farm where i'm speaking today, and i had a world of academics. i can tell you, i do not want to be mean-spirited, but the people i knew that made it in farming was so much brighter, so much more skilled than the people who were tenured professors. it's the truth. i'm not professor deprecating p, but it started to get a they live in the land kept so much different than michael bloomberg's lap manhattan. they deal with a lot of strange and tough people.

they combined the intellect with personal courage. i did pretty well in academia but i couldn't compete with people in farming for they were too smart and too courageous for me. >> it's funny how smart michael bloomberg thinks he is. we are almost out of time, he strikes me as a clever little, but is michael bloomberg regarded among smart people as one of them? like, genius of some kind? >> i don't think so. whawhat is he supposed to do question my keys offended professional women, minority youth, offended people who works with their hands, offended farming, you're starting to see the wooden whistle of michael bloomberg is a synopsis of a very isolated, insulated, egomaniac narcissistic and i do not understand that their credit primary. they lecture us about white billionaires and white privilege and they are almost all showing or outsourcing their primaries to the epitome of everything they said they hated.

it's a cruel joke, tucker. >> tucker: thieves! it's not flattering. you are smart. victor davis hanson, always a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: everything you heard about michael bloomberg is of course true, demonstrably. but he can still become president despite the fact that he represents essentially nobody in this country. waterproof? according to a scoop by "the drudge" report, bloomberg strongly considering hillary clinton by his running mate if it wins the democratic nomination. other sources tell this program his inner circles considering michelle obama as a running ma mate. author and columnist mark steyn joins us. what do you assess? >> those two options, the michelle obama one is the most likely one because obviously hillary brings with her a ton of baggage and it would mean that bloomberg has to be depending russia, christopher steele, the

dirty dossier, and all of that. all through his campaign. i think what he's doing here, he's essentially short-circuiting the entire nomination process. he is saying, forget about these guys who have wasted their time, these losers stumping in iowa and new hampshire for the last year, but forget about any of the last-minute saviors coming in at a brokered convention. forget about hillary and michelle being parachuted in for basically, i am the guy. there is a great security and arrogance about this. if you accept everything that victor said with a rich, i agree, and what jason nichols talking about earlier, he's basically saying the entire nominating process as it has been known is now irrelevant. i parachuted in, not a single person apart from three reitan righi'm already naming my

vice president a couple weeks down the road, i'll be naming my secretary of the interior. before super tuesday, i may hold my own g7 summit. at least half of those guys like justin and angela merkel will show up for it. that's how inevitable i am. that's what he's telling people. >> yes. but isn't that a self pulling property? i agree with you completely. it kind of works, doesn't it? >> yeah, i think so. in this sense, he's the perfect opponent. he's almost like a parody of the globalist and entirely disconnected from any kind of democratic accountability. it's not just he's obviously all the china connections, just his lifestyle. he could quite easily spend more time campaigning around his garden in bermuda than he does

around half of the american states. if you had to pick a perfect candidate to express the elites' contempt for self-government, this guy would be it. >> tucker: exactly right but looking at a corporate takeover of the country. in 30 seconds, do you think it's likely he'll get the democratic nomination? >> he might stumble through to the nomination. but it's not going to work in the general. he's been republican. he's been democrat. he's going for the democrats because he thinks they are the most vulnerable to this pitch and he might be right about th that. >> tucker: it's a hostile takeover. you've seen that before. mark steyn, great to see you tonight. thank you so much for that. >> sean: thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: it's an amazing moment we are living in pitt things are moving fast but were thinking about what it mean means. we'll be back tomorrow night and every weeknight at 8:00 p.m.

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