♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" tonight. according to numbers over theca weekend, the democratic primary race is constructing to become really a two man contest. still in thele race, but the outline of the future is getting clearer. on one side of a candidate, bernie sanders, who wants to turn this o country into a comprehensive welfare state. he plans to upend every aspect of american life in order to impose a new an economic order. if sanders isn't hiding planning to do very he's running on what he plans to do. his main rival is michael bloomberg, the former mayor ofs new york. bloomberg has shot to above 15% nationally in the polls from nowhere, essentially buried he's

suddenly reading the rhythmic vertical super tuesday state of florida. what is mike bloomberg running on?on that's a trick question actually. bloomberg is running on anything. not because he doesn'tan have ideas, he's got plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream but bloomberg doesn't think any of that matters. he's not running on ideas, he's not trying to convince voters of anything. he's not making arguments are working to change their minds on policies they care about. he's trying to buy them and hence the presidency. if the single most cynical political campaign ever run of this country. bloomberg is trying to subvert our sonography with cash and he's going all and to do it. bloomberg has spent more than $417 million on advertising so far in this race. his nearest rival, bernie sanders, has spent 40 million, that's less than a tenth. joe biden, the men they told us was themi front runner, has spet just 12.3 million. compare that, let's say it again, to the at least 417 million bloomberg has pumped

into the race, just onus advertising. and that's just the beginning. they say bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion of his own money by election day and the money could go higher. nothing like this has ever happened in america. bloomberg's spending -- pick your metaphor here, like a tsunami breaking of our political system. when the waters recede, there's nothing left. it's been flattened and wiped clean by the weight of mike bloomberg's wealth. bloomberg is the tallest figure on the landscape, the only one left operate. that's hisis plan. he's all but admitted that's his plan. watch him here to set out stop and frisk, the single most successful policy he had as mayor of new york. >> i defended it, looking back, for too long, because i didn't understand than the unintended pain it was causing two young black and brown families and their kids. i heard their pain, their confusion, and their anger and i've learned from them and i've grown from them. >> tucker: so think about what you just saw.

it's not the normal pandering. mike bloomberg believes passionately in gun control, it's his life's mission, 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, the democratic primary voters have decided they don't like it, they are against stop and frisk. so without even pausing, bloomberg gravels, as you just saw, and attacks his own legacy. why did he do that? because he doesn't care. whatever, they're only words, he'll do whatever it takes. they say politicians are ethically flexible, and of course they are, but this is different, there's something ominous about thi it. bloomberg can seamlessly 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? for context, the richest of the fabled russian oligarchs is worth about $24 billion. michael bloomberg could literally give away twice that

amount, or spend it on the presidential race, if you wanted, and still be five times as rich as donald trump is. it's hard to imagine just how much money that is, but with that money, bloomberg could suffocate all opposition and seize power. aa ruling class, which worships running above all, sees nothing wrong with this. they are eager to help bloomberg do it. like bloomberg, they are heligiously libertarian economic matters. that's a position that shared by only a tiny percentage of the population. no normal person inn this county thinks the widening wealth gap is a good thing. it's so obviously making america unstable, but mike bloomberg has been one of its chief beneficiaries. he will defend the current system above all else. there's a reason he is the favorite of finance moguls and tech commissars. again, this is a total departure from anything we have seen before in a history of this country. say what you will about donald trump, but in 2016, he ran for president on ideas that large numbers of voters actually likes. whether or not they liked him. secure the border, and

counterproductive wars, fight the fascism of political correctness. in selling those ideas come he spent about half of hillary clinton spent. bloomberg can't be bothered with selling ideas or with a platform. he doesn't care with the public' thinks, that's why. he believes he can one magnify overwhelming voters with his money. this is the nightmare scenario for campaign finance reform act activist used to tell us about. that right about one thing, our system has been vulnerable to people like michael bloomberg a long time. he's just the first one was actually tried to do it. you should be alarmed by his campaign for president. democracy doesn't break when noters choose unwisely, they sometimes do. democracy collapses when what voters want becomes irrelevant. jason nichols is a professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland, he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: kind of unexpected, in my view unexpected rise in bloomberg's popularity among

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

elizabeth warren didn't have or that bernie sanders didn't have. when they faced tough criticism, particularly when it comes to race, they had to go to the media and answer those questions. he is avoiding everything and just making stump speeches and putting outt ads. >> tucker: by definition, and i hope i would be honest enough to say this even if i agreed with michael bloomberg, which i emphatically do not on most things, but even if i did i hope i would be honest enough to say rais is an attackt on democracy when you overwhelm the system with your personal wealth. are you bothered by the fact that it's working? >> i think it's working in the short-term but eventually i believe particularlyly african-american voters, they're going to want answers. they're going to want to know, you know, when you have people like charles -- other pleinfluencers are saying look, stop and frisk was a violation of your constitutional right. it when they asking, you've given to the campaigns of

rick snyder, who is responsible for the flint water crisis. when you've given to lindsey graham, when you given to rudolph giuliani. we want answers. that he's to have to sit there and answer 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 was charisma. he's not an intellectual or anything like that but he has tons of charisma, something that bloomberg doesn't have. he's going to have to go out in front of his audiences, and i really don't think it's going to vote very well for him. >> tucker: that's a hole. you hope democracy kicks in at some point. professor, thanks so much for coming onto may, i appreciate it. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: michael tracy is an independent journalist, which means he thinks for himself, unlike most journals, happy to have him join us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. take three steps back, which i know you do for living, and tell

us what the bloomberg campaign means for the country. >> here's an interesting way to look at it. in just the past few years mike bloomberg has gone on public and stated that he could won 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, because what is his actual governing agenda?ag well, it amounts to a kind of hyper corporatized smog, surveillance state, cultural liberalism for which there is absolutely no constituency on a mass scale in the national electorate, so bloomberg rightly surmised the -- >> tucker: may i stop there? i just want to be absolutely clear on that point, you've looked at the numbers, and there is no constituency for the kind of politics of the google board of directors. like most people don't want that. >> shocking, right? so bloomberg rightly during

surmised that he was not going a go and when the presidency on the strength of his political convictions because they are despicable and ugly and alienate too much of the country. so what has he done? he's had this vociferous focus purely on bashing donald trump, because there is a constituency for that. whatever -- correctly relates to him that amongst older paranoid liberals, and some independents, there iss widespread just petro vacation that donald trump could won a second term. so rather than campaigning or even presenting himself to the media or doing anything blsembling the ordinary course of action here would be for the presidential candidate, rather than doing any of that is just putting together this sleek kind of cutesy ads going after tom saying hey, you know what, i got billings, i spent 400 million plus so far, but that's just chump change for me so far,

basically what my wealth appreciates to want to given week or something, i don't know what the interest increase is their exactly, but he saying look, i can go after trump on these petty characte as if peope confused as to what trumps personal injury or secrecy's are at this point, but there is a constituencyer out there for tht to look at the democratic field and say oh, my goodness, i'm not interested in these debates among the democrats. i was just a new hampshire leading up to the primary and i would t talk to a lot of just standard democrats who did not care about thebo differences between a bernie sanders or an elizabeth warren or joe biden, they just desperately wanted to beat trump bloomberg recognizes that, he says look, i'm uniquely equipped to beat trump, i'm going to your daily consciousness with these tedious ads that have been market tested to press your emotional buttons and that's what he's doing. paying off like you suggested, this is the most brazen

oligarchic intervention and history of american electoral politics and it's not even close. it's usually disturbing and whether you're on the right or left, anywhere inth between, you should be incredibly alarmed at what's going on here. >> tucker: i got your one of the only people on the internet saying this, which tells you hopefully corporatized our media hass become. michael tracy, i hope you'll come back on this topic, it's good to see you tonight. >> absolutely, thanks, tucker. >> tucker: we will have more in the michael bloomberg campaign, which we can't say enough, you should be worried about, not even if you're conservative or liberal, but as an american. bloomberg is considering not one but two coformer first lady's as a runningt mate. we'll talk about it with mark steyn ahead. first, new york's new bail law as i'm doing of bloomberg's accomplishments, criminals are celebrating, that's next. ♪ president trump warned the drug companies.

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♪ >> tucker: well, a bit of good news from the political world today. if governor blackface, or clan robe or however we are calling him, ralph northam of virginia has been stopped in his effort to punish his entire statefo as penance for his disgusting personal failures. last week the virginia house passed a bill that would have banned the sale of so-called assault weapons, basically a deer rifle, it would've made thousands, many thousands, of normal law-abiding people into criminals, felons by doing that, by banning all magazines capable of holding more than a dozen rounds. please. but today, four democrats in the state senate joined republicans to table the bill in general, in other words, it'sbi now dead and

that's a victory for law-abiding citizens everywhere. but they try again. you can be certain you'll hear about it first right here. speaking of -- the bail reform law has proven to be a real blessing for criminals across the country. charles berry t as oak serial criminal, he works in the new york subway, informally. he's been arrested there 139 times, including six times just this year, and it's still february. after each one of these arrestees been released immediately after a hearing. but after his most recent arrest on saturday, gloated about the power new york's laws give him. "bail reform, it's lit. if the democrats, the democrats know me and the republicans, fear me, you can't touch me, i can't be stopped." verbatim quote. marie then bragged about the money he had stole for which so far he has faced your bansequences. watch this.

>> tucker: yeah. a member, according to new york lawmakers, the guy you just heard hurling racist epithets as a victim and you're the a big it was oppressing him. just so you know. former new york police commissioner joins us tonight, great to see you tonight, thanks soat much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so if you really cared about the city you ran, guys like that would be punished, wouldn't they?y >> guys like that would be punished he really cared about the city. it you get rid of the mayor. and you'd work on getting rid of the governor. as the governor's responsibility. it's irresponsible, it'sge dangerous, and this demonstrates -- charles barry -- charles barry's arrest demonstrates why giuliani a posthumous policing in early 1994-2002 was so successful in

reducing crime, violent crime, by 65%, and reducing the r homicide rate by 70. 50% of the people we arrested jumping turnstiles, a basic violation or a low level misdemeanor, or wanted on felony arrest warrants and four felonies and crimes they committed and other crimes they committed in the city. this guy is completely out of control and you can't do anything to him. the judges to 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 new york of all backgrounds were working hard, paying their taxes, trying to do the right thing, raise their kids, and lawmakers are taking the side 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 rape charges, let out, re-raped. we had people arrest himon felonies let out, murdered. this is o going on for the last six weeks and at some point somebody -- you know, this isn't brain surgery. they were sitting around in this circled -- trying toer figure ot what to do about it. the mayor should be standing on his pulpit screaming at the top of his lungs tomi fix it and hes absent. >> tucker: is the political system so paralyzed in new york that no one will be punished for this? i can imagine anybody is willing tofo defend this monstrosity in public, but will people be voted out of office over this do you think? >> well, look, i would hopee so and 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, there was no economic development. real estate values were plummeting. tourism was dropping off the charts and at some point the people of new york city saidt enough is enough, we have to fix it. we are coming back to that now. for the first time in 25 years, last week i saw squeegee guys at the lincoln tunnel. it's absurd, we are going back to where we were in the 1990s, early 1990s, 1980s, and it shouldn't be. >> tucker: the people in charge are suicidal. and decadent, i would say. thank you for that perspective, as always. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: will build crystals friend john bolton didn't testify about impeachment in public, but he still doing everything he can to sell his book. his latest comments after the break as our special programming continues. ♪

♪ >> tucker: welcome back to "tucker carlson tonight," our special programming. john bolton didn't get the war with iran thatgh he craved, fantasized about for decades, but he's ensuring he gets as much payback as he can with his upcoming book. today bolton said that leaks from his book about ukraine simply, and we are quoting, sprinkles on ans ice cream sundae, as if i could be any creepier. fimagine john bolton and an ice cream sundae. imagine the pistachio in his

mustache. bolton also complained about the white house were viewing his book classified material. he suggested they're planning to censor it. matthew whitaker is acting former attorney general enjoins us tonight. i'm not going to ask about john bolton eating ice cream because we both agree that's repulsive -- >> not a good visual. spoon i'm sorry about that. what do you make of his book and what you think it will contain? >> well, i think first of all, tucker, john bolton, there was no doubt there were significant areas of policy that he disagreed with the president even before he became national security advisor. one of those is iran. this is the same guy that wrote on a notepad, 10,000 troops to columbia when venezuela was a hot-button issue, so this is -- there is certainly kind of 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 really just enough time for 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 thatn come with this book, that there's actually some ice cream in this book and i don't think that's going to be the case. i think we already probably know what's in most of this book. >> tucker: so i mean -- this is a question probably may be outside your lane as a former attorney general, what 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 don't think there is a very big audience for that, and i don't sell books, so i don't have a lot oft experience in what peope want to read about, but again, sending troops to columbia or invading iran or sort of takingg over syria or the middle east, these are all things that i just

don't think the american people -- there's a reason that donald trump won an election and that was because he wanted to get us out of these decades-long wars and not send troops even other places. they were not exactly right. after ask you, brother stone as you know is being sent at sons thursday, this thursday, the 20th. he could be going to prison for nine years from lying. meanwhile, another liar, andrew mccabe, is enjoying a paid gig at cnn, not the first liar they've hired. after learning he won't be prosecuted for leaking and lying to the fbi, he says he was offended that he was ever any risk at all from lying. watch. >> well, you've been on with me on fox. there's a banner font calling you a liar. did you ever expect to be dealing with anything like this? >> to be removed from that 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: of what you make of this? andrew mccabe, who had come on mike roger stone, actual power, not prosecuted for lying, which he did, and roger stone facing e years, how can we take this seriously? >> there's this problem and there's other examples of general flynn and george papadopoulos as well where it does look like there is a two-tiered system of justice. in andrew mccabe's case, the ig's report lays out the factual basis for a case. he was referred for criminal charges by the inspector general to the district of columbia as u.s. attorney and i've sat in the chair both as acting attorney general and as a u.s. attorney and i know how hard it is to bring cases into 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 is very

difficult based on what i know and what i've read in that inspector general's report as to why andrew mccabe has been charged and i'm hearing that everywhere i go from ordinary americans that justice does not fmake sense. >> tucker: people who believe in this country and want to believe in our most basic systems, particularly our justice system, but it rattles them. it rattles me and that's a shame. i appreciate you coming on sunday. >> thank you. >> tucker: the president's impeachment acquittal -- even people who don't like him, for three years, washington wasted thousands, untold thousands of hours, untold millions of dollars trying to invalidate the 2016 election in which tens of millions of voted. the election -- and i would be a great time for congress to finally spend some time, i don't know, fighting the opioid epidemic or policing the tech companies or preventing china from plundering our country, doing something useful for once. democrats say they are refusing to move on.

on saturday, house speaker nancy pelosi refused to acknowledge that the last impeachment effort even failed. watch this. >> the president seems liberated. and this is about democratic politics, so i'm not asking you to criticize here, but he was acquitted, his poll ratings -- >> there was no -- you have an acquittal and less of a trial and you had a trial, you have witnesses and documents, so he can say he's acquitted in the headlines can say acquitted, but he's impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated. >> tucker: meanwhile, congressman eric swalwell of california, not the brightest member, and may the mostal enthusiastic, told us it could be time for a second impeachme impeachment. this time, the president's high crime is not wanting roger stone to die in prison. >> might you impeach him over this, over roger stone and the sentencing? >> you know, we're not going to take our options off the table, we don't wake up in the morning aknting to impeach him. we want to work with him on prescription drugs, background tracks and infrastructure, but

we are not going to let him just, you know, torch this democracy because he thinks that he's been let off once and we're not going to do something about it. >> tucker: a democrat, former cia officer, frequent guest on the show, nice to see you, thanks so much for coming on. you would think is a political calculation impeachment is the one where democrats would never mention again, because it did not help them, the numbers i think are clear on that. why are they still holding out the possibility of another impeachment to >> i don't know,n and every time i hear pelosi speak along with eric swalwell, i want to put my head in a car door and smash it repeatedly, because that would be more enjoyable. what i don't understand is -- right, we have been utterly focused on this impeachment stuff, we've heard for over four months the trump is worse than hitler, worse than nixon and they were going to prove it and what did we get as a party, as a country? we got trumps approval numbers up, the g.o.p.'s numbers up in the democratic party is about as popular asp, hemorrhoids and a t

of the country. i don't think that the calculus went well and that's frustrating and it should be to all of us. if we really are honest about this and we step back, ask ourselves the question, should congress provide oversight over the executive branch? and the answer to that is yes. we need -- 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 approach to this. but it's pretty hard to convince the american people, or anybodyt was watching, that could be possible, knowing that from day one, eric swalwell and schiff and pelosi and schumer and all the rest of them have been saying impeach the president from day one. so what is horrible than about that is, we are not doing what we should be doing from a w congressional perspective, but then second, it really underlines the point, doesn't it, that we start to begin to think that there is only one

party, or there's only one dear leader. people start fearing that that't the case, that we are slipping to this china and north korea business. and unfortunately, people can start to make that argument if congress doesn't do its job, so that really is the ultimate cost i think. one pelosi and schumer and the rest of the folks in the clownol 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 have peeled offff republicans and achieved their ends if they had been reasonable, but instead they were insane and sunk their own boat. brian dean wright, great to see you, thank you. >> always of pleasure. speeone so while you're sleeping, china has been assiduously, enthusiastically plundering our jobs, stealing our scientific research. our leaders know this is happening, they don't care. here's something even more remarkable. they may have had control over america's largest pension fund, and money from that pond apparently went to chinese defense contractors at thedi

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♪ >> 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 has disrupted hong kong so significantly the city is battling a new menace, gangs of toilet paper thieves -- of course we are not making that up. trace gallagher can confirm that, he joins us tonight. hey, trace. >> 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, word came in that 14 americans had tested positive for the virus. but 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 a hospital near travis air force base in california, the other ten are the university of nebraska and as we learned today on fox news, some american passengers fibbed their way onto the flight, wat watch. >> we were tested in japan i never got the results back, and we made up the story that we were cleared. and on the flight overnight, we came down with a fever. >> you say you made up the story that you are clear, what was that? >> well, we made up the story that no news was good news. >> turns out the virus is also changing business protocols including the cancellations of meetings and large conferencesre and implementing no handshake policies. instead, employees are told to elbow bump. and new research shows that because large areas of china are

shut down, it could impact more than 5 million businesses worldwide, about 20% of those businesses are here in the u.s. meantime, because of the outbreak in china, the new hot commodity, toilet paper. in hong kong, armed robbers held up a delivery driver and took hundreds of rolls of toilet paper worth an estimated $130. the robbers were later caught. we should know finally because of the coronavirus only elite athletes are being allowed in this year's tokyo marathon. tucker. >> tucker: toilet paper, it's a low margin business. trace gallagher, great to see you, thank you. ♪ >> tucker: as china becomes more powerful, the chinese government finds it trivially easily to infiltrate and plunder america's institutions. almost all of them. american companies outsource tieir jobs and eventually their expertise to china in return fof

a quick profit. universities and labs hired chinese scientists who then send their research back to their masters in mainland china, but even our pension funds aren't immune. a remarkable story tonight. calpers is california's public pension system. it has $300 billion in assets under management. 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 coming on and for exposing this story, which is shocking, and i don't say that lightly. tell us -- just give us a quick summary of what happened. >> this is really one of the marketable stories and examples of china's infiltration into our systems as you talked about, talker, but in this case we learned that the chief investment officer of calpers is a graduate of something called the thousand talents program,hi which is a program that is funded by the chinese government

and controlled by the ccp, the chinese communist party that's designed to recruit valuable individuals and place them in highly valuable places. in this case, putting him in a place to oversee the largest state pension fund in america where he's steered $3.1 billion to 172 different chinese companies. it was even worse than that is that i serve 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. it was made the largest investment in american history in our military because we are trying to keep up with the china threat militarily. what we learned in this case is that calpers is investing in chinese military shipbuilding andn naval bases through this investment fund. even worse than that, they've invested in a company calledd pike vision emma which is a company that's developed some technologies used to spy on and

persecute the muslim population through different types of surveillance technologies. that's what the california public pension fund is being used for. i believe it's a tragedy and i've called on governor newsom to do something about it. >> tucker: so one of the biggest players in american finance, which calpers is, is helping to build the military of our chief military rival, this is grotesque very quickly can you tell me is it just taken place in california? are there concerns this is happening in other states? >> i'm concerned it's happening all over the country and it's happening even in the thrift savings plan, the federal pension plan as well. but this is the only case that we can find where the fund actually employees a graduate of the thousand talents program, which makes it so clear and egregious, it's happening right under gavin newsom's nose. if he doesn't do something about it, we have to ask the question, which side is he on? >> tucker: that's a question worth asking. by the way, calpers, while the

political, of course, congressman, thank you so much for bringingg this story to lif, it's impressive. >> good to be with you. >> tucker: michael bloomberg hasn't yet purchased in the nomination on the presidency, but it is team is already thinking about who to pick as vice president. could hillary clinton be on the ticket yet again? michelle obama? we will ask mark steyn as our orecial continues. ♪

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>> tucker: michael bloomberg has so much money he could literally buy twitter, all of it, with a personal check tomorrow morning, and like so many twitter users, michael bloomberg doesn't know when to stop talking. over the weekend, and 2016 video surfaced in which bloomberg had this to say about farming, and we are quoting. "i could teach anybody, even people in this room, to be a farmer. it's a process. you dig a hole, you put in a seed, you add dirt on top, add water, up comes corn." according to bloomberg, you will need brainpower for the office jobs of the digital age. farming? anymore on could do that. robert had the same belief, by the way. victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution but also fifth-generation california farmer enjoins us tonight. professor, thanks so much for coming on, what you make of these remarks were michael bloomberg? >> i think what michael blumberg said in the past, what he says in the presence, what he says he

sat in the past are three different things. so i think he thought he was giving the history of 3,000 years of, you know, agriculture and labor, et cetera, but it's just a live revelation into his soul and it wasn't pretty because he said i can teach anybody in this oxford room -- he couldn't. the idea that ancient or modern you drop a seed in the ground and presto, corn sprouted, ridiculous. they deal with weather, they deal with climate, they deal with soil chemistry, they deal with pests, they deal with man, the deal with market, they deal with government. it requires the most skill sets of any profession in the world. some of the most brilliant things of the ancient world are scientific treatises on farming and the idea that michael bloomberg could write all of that off as sort of not enough gray matter -- and when he says that he was talking only about the past, but he used the present tense, i could teach you in this room and then he said that people farming in the past

and by implication the present, didn't have the same degree of skill sets are gray matter is absurd. today's farmers, tucker, they are masters of gps. they calibrate sophisticated machines to very small tolerances and calibrations. they use gps computers. at 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 then i had a world of academics and i can tell you -- i don't want to be mean-spirited, but the people that i knew that made in an farming so much brighter, so much more skilled than the people who were tenured professors. it's just true. i'm not professors, but as a person who has a phd -- it's a lot easier to be a phd than it is a farmer. they are the most brilliant, courageous people and they live in a landscape so much different than michael bloomberg's manhattan. they deal with a lot of strange and tough people.

so they combine the intellect with physical courage and i did pretty well in academia, but i couldn't compete with people in farming. they were too smart and too courageous for me. >> tucker: it's just funny how smart michael bloomberg thinks he is. we are almost out of time. he strikes me as kind of a clever little moron, but is michael bloomberg regarded among smart people as one of them, like a genius of some kind? >> i don't think so. supposed to appeal to moderates? he's offended professional women, he's a friend minority youth. he is offended people work with their hands. his offended farming and you're starting to see the wit and wisdom of michael bloomberg is really a synopsis of a very isolated insulated egomaniac narcissist and i don't understand this democratic primary. the election is about white billionaires and white privilege and now they're almost all showing or off sourcing their primers to the epitome of

everything they said they hated. it's a cruel joke, tucker. >> tucker: speaking of smart, this is not flattery, you are smart, professor victor davis hanson, always a pleasure, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: everything you just heard about michael bloomberg is of course true. demonstrably, dominic. but he can still become president despite the fact that he represents essentially nobody in this country. want proof? according to a scoop by "the drudge" report this past weekend, local bloomberg strongly considering hillary clinton as his running mate if he wins the democratic nomination. not all of his ideas are that appalling. another source told his program that is in a circle is also considering michelle obama as a running mate. author and columnist mark steyn joins us tonight to assess. what you make of this, mark steyn? >> well, i think of those two options, the michelle obama won is the more likely one because obviously hillary brings with her a ton of baggage and it would mean that bloomberg would have to be defending russia, christopher steele, the dirty dossier and all that fall

through his campaign. i think what he's doing here -- he's essentially short-circuiting the entire nomination process. he's saying forget about these guys that have wasted their time, these losers stomping iowa and new hampshire for the last year, but also forget about any of the last-minute saviors coming in at a broken convention, forget about hillary or michelle being parachuted in. basically i'm the guy. and there's a kind of great security and arrogance about this. if you accept everything that victor said with which i agree and that jason nichols was talking about earlier, he's basically saying the entire nominating process as it's been known is now irrelevant. i parachuted in. not a single person apart from the rewrite in votes in dixville notch an new hampshire -- none f those voters matter, i'm already

naming my vice president a couple weeks on the road, i'll be naming my secretary for the interior. before super tuesday, i may even hold my own g7 summit and at least half of those guys like justin and angela merkel would turn up for it. that's how inevitable i >> tucker: yes. but isn't that a self fulfilling 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 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. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: it's an amazing moment we are living in. things are moving fast but were thinking about what it means. we'll be back tomorrow night and every weeknight at 8:00 p.m. the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.

dvr it, if you can. have a great evening. sean hannity is next. see you tomorrow. ♪ >> sean: welcome to this busy news night. special edition of "hannity." we do the job the medium i will never do, expose the radical left that's taken over this democrat party. a lot of news tonight. we'll have all the highlights from the president's big weekend at the daytona 500, became the first president in american history to take a lap in, well, we call it the beast and for good reason. first, let's turn it over to an important hannity 2020 investigation. with quid pro quo joe's embarrassing campaign imploding, democratic party, they thought they had plan b. that name was michael bloomberg, the former new york city mayor has unlimited resources. alreadspt