thanks. >> martha: this is "the story" for wednesday february 26. the "the story" continues and goes own on and on. bret and i will be in raleigh, north carolina, live town hall and we'll have part of our show after that. democracy 2020 marches on. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. last night was the last debate before voters in 21 states go to the poles. tells you quite a lot that many party leaders are panicking over what they saw on that stage. we'll tell you what happened and tell you what it means. but first, this is a fox news alert. the coronavirus is continuing to spread worldwide in a deadly outbreak in the united states appears to be inevitable. that's the word from the cdc. officials have confirmed a case in california with an unknown origin. possibly indicating a local

spread. we're not quite sure because testing in this country is still minimal. the nassau county, 83 people are being monitored for possibly carrying the disease. governor cuomo have freed up money for that. a president held a new conference about the coronavirus. he said the situation in this country is under control. >> the vaccine is coming along well and speaking to the doctors, we think this is something that we can develop fairly rapidly, a vaccine. the united states is now -- we're rating number 1. we're rating number 1 for being prepared. this is a list of different countries. i don't want to get in your way. we're not going to loosen the travel restrictions. that's what saved us. had i not made a decision very early on not to take people from a certain area, we wouldn't be talking this way. we'll be talking about more people. i took a lot of heat. some people called me racist because i made a decision so early. we had never done that as a country before let alone early. so it was a bold decision.

turned out to be a good decision. >> tucker: during that news conference, the president announced he was putting his vice president, mike pence, in charge of this potential crisis. so the headline tonight is the coronavirus is coming in some small way at the very least. it's already here. what does it mean for us in the united states? dr. marc siegel is in omaha and been there a couple days. more than a dozen coronavirus cases were sent to omaha for quarantine and monitoring. thanks so much for coming on. >> hi, tucker. >> tucker: how do you assess what the president said and put this news, if you would from california into context for us. >> tucker, i think we're concerned now about entering another phase of community spread in the united states as you said. we have some concern about it, but i also -- a growing worry in the country but i also want to offer some comfort. i'm standing outside the global center for health security at

the university of nebraska medical center. we've been here two days as you said. the doctors here, the nurses here, even the patients here are playing a role of investigating this virus. we found out it's more contagious than the flu. we found out how it's spreading and the patients are responding to treatments, the new anti-viral drug appears to have some benefit. these doctors and nurses are leaders around the country. they're getting on the phone, getting on conference calls and teaching the medical centers around the country how to deal with an upcoming quarantine situation. take a look. >> i was not frightened till yesterday. >> this is from omaha. >> this is my room. the quarantine unit. >> this hospital is at the very nucleus of the american effort to defeat the disease. they just started clinical trials for an anti viral

medication. we spoke to dr. andre khalil running the trials. he's optimistic. >> i think the data that we have a available suggests it's promising. >> last night a 15th patient arrived. >> we saw the patient arriving from sacramento. coronavirus. >> some of the best physicians in the country are inside here figuring out what the coronavirus is and how to treat it. if the coronavirus spreads around the country, are you going to be able to teach other medical centers? >> we are. we have been for many years. >> dr. jeffery gould is chancellor at the university of nebraska medical center. >> watch what's going on in singapore, western europe, et cetera. if they can't contain the virus, i'd say we're next. >> dr. gould walked us through the building with the quarantine center where doctors have things almost under control. >> these are tell investigators that bring you down to the quarantine unit where the patients are being kept. >> in another part of the

medical center, we went to the entrance of the bio containment unit where coronavirus patients go if they're in serious condition. >> so this is the main entrance to the bio containment unit. >> nurse coulter is co-manager of the unit. >> if this door is open, the doors on the inside cannot open. >> the drug trial is happening inside. most of the action is in the quarantine units where patients wait to see what the future holds. >> i'm isolated. you know, i have three people a day that come in and at breakfast, lunch and dinner. that's the only contact that we have. >> tucker, tonight you saw on the piece, jerry goldman, who i interviewed, the patient broke the tooth and she couldn't get a dentist in to help her fix it because of a quarantine. they had to send in bondo, tucker. back to you. >> tucker: amazing story. thanks, dr. marc siegel from

omaha. as inaffectses -- infections surge, there's more new cases outside of china than in it if you believe the numbers from the chinese government. should we believe the numbers? gordon chang is author of "the collapse in china". thanks for being here. how would you assess the state of the coronavirus in china right now? >> yeah, we don't know, tucker. as you point out, the chinese government hasn't been telling the truth. they say the number of infections has gone down. that would be a great story but unfortunately, it coincides what president xi wants people to do. he wants them to go back to work. so i'm afraid all the statistics show a subsidance go along with notion of getting them back to work.

we should be suspicious of the numbers. >> tucker: what is interesting, the promise of globalism is that the world will cooperate and act together in concert for the benefit of everyone. all of a sudden, globalism is a weakness in the middle of a rising pandemic? >> you're absolutely right. when you have globalism, when you have international commerce, when you have a lot of tourism, these diseases spread quick live. one of the important things the trump administration did is at the end of january, to i'm piece these travel restrictions and these quarantines. that's the reason why we do not have an emergency situation in the united states today. if we had kept our borders open and that's what china wanted us to do, we would have a problem. as president trump has said, he took a lot of heat from the chinese. they went after him every day with propaganda asking him to, demanding him to open the borders to the u.s. he didn't do it. it's to the credit of the

president of the united states. >> tucker: propaganda that many in our press corps said it's racist against china, one of the most racist countries in the world but racist to us to stop flights from china. what do you think the actual economic situation is like in china right now? >> i think the chinese economy is contracting. oil demand is down 20% year on year. they have cancelled a number of important events including canton fair, which was scheduled in april. that's the big trade show that we have seen maybe only a third, maybe 40% of china's workers have actually returned to their jobs. housing is at a standstill. on and on. car sales for the first 16 day of the month were down 92%. so china's in contraction right now. >> tucker: finally, are you satisfied that we know where this virus came from? >> no. we don't.

we have a lot of information, which goes both ways. you know, the lancet, the british mel call journal, said many of the initial cases did not come from the wet market. that's the predominant theory. this started in the wet market. could have also started at the p-4 bio safety lab. i'm not saying that's the case but you can't rule it out because there's a lot of science right now that is casting doubt on this notion that came from the wet market. >> tucker: yeah. this is the problem with entering to global partnerships with countries you can't trust. you can't trust them. gorden chang, thank you. good to see you tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: there was another democratic debate last night. it's the last democratic debate before the south carolina primary this weekend and then super tuesday. so how did democrats feel after having watched it? turns out the word that keeps coming up again and again and again is nervous meaning panic. they have good reason to feel

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>> tucker: last night's democratic forum on cbs wasn't the final primary debate of the season but likely the last one that will matter between tonight and the next debate, a total of 21 states and that includes california and texas, will hold their primaries. by then it was almost certainly be over. so you think the candidates would use the time to talk about things that voters cared deeply about and for a brief moment, one did that. in his first answer, bernie sanders brought up wages. he said they ought to rise faster, which is true.

how could they go up with the open borders he's demanding is unanswerable. but at lease he answered it. michael bloomberg is not the frontrunner. he would like to be. when given his chance to speak, he went to the issue he believes voters care about most. the fact that bernie sanders is a secret russian agent. >> vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping you get elected so you lose to him. >> tucker: so that's what bloomberg's consultants told him to say. lessons here, dumb people get rich. one audience was powerliful moved by bloomberg's attack, the other candidates. at the mention of vladimir putin, the stage erupted. it sounded like a radical book club from the 70s. old people yelling about the cold war.

russia, russia, russia! pete buttigieg is 38 but seems a century older, jumped in with his theory what trump and his puppet matter want is political chaos. buttigieg seems totally convinced that nobody ever said that before. by this point, the moderators on cbs gave up. the chaos putin hoped for descended on the debate stage. and then sanders attacked america, a country he hates. here he is explaining the american criminal justice system is actually more repressive than communist china's. >> we have a criminal justice system today that is not only broken, it's racist, got more people in jail than any other country on earth including china. one of the reasons for that is a horrific war on drugs. >> tucker: oh, the war on drugs! bernie sanders talks about that

in every speech he gives. a declining country with a sad underemployed middle class obviously needs to smoke a ton more weed. that's bernie's solution. fire up a bowl. numb out. maybe you won't notice. so where is this weed going to come from? bernie has a plan for that, too. black people will sell it to you. no kid something watch this. >> i'll tell you what else we're going to do. we're going to provide help to the african american latino native american community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market. >> tucker: that's a real clip, by the way. so first they fill black neighborhoods with abortion clinics. now the frontrunner is encouraging more black kids to sill drugs, this is the party that loves black america. doesn't sound like it. whatever. joe biden changed the subject by making loud noises. biden has lost his ability to

speak clearly. that's got to be frustrating for anyone. in biden's case, it has led to a series of rage eruptions. >> bernie hasn't passed much of anything. the fact of the matter is -- no, no, no. >> i get to answer that. >> the fact is -- >> you're out of time. >> i'm not out of time. you spoke over time and i'm going to talk. the fact of the matter is, look at what is happening here. look what is happening here. >> tucker: the crowd roared because screaming always elicits roars from crowds. our animal brains at work. those trying to follow what biden was saying, deaf people reading on closed caption, it was a profoundly confusing moment. biden hopped the tracks and became a fiery derailment plunking off the bridge to a gorge below. >> i make it to clear to china,

we're going to continue to move closer to make sure that we can in fact prevent china -- prevent north korea from launching missiles, to take them down and if we don't -- why am i stopping? nobody else stops. >> okay. [laughter] >> tucker: why am i stopping, he asked? because disjointed sentence fragments are productive. a few months of now, he will be reciting alan ginsberg poems at bus stops. and elizabeth warren won't be president. she's very unpleasant. you'll be in paraguay by the end of the first elizabeth warren administration just to stop the noise. she can tell she's doomed. she's not stupid. she decided to spend her remaining time destroying michael bloomberg. that's a nice way to go out if you think about it. it's a service to the country.

last time it didn't work. instead warren just humiliated herself. >> i was visibly pregnant. the principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. pregnancy discrimination, you bet. i was 21 years old. i didn't have a union to protect him and i didn't have federal law on my side. i packed up my stuff and i went home. at least i didn't have a boss that said to me, kill it! the way that mayor bloomberg -- >> i never said that. >> -- said to one of his pregnant employees. >> tucker: whoa, wait a second. we have news emerging. did you just hear elizabeth warren say there are circumstances in which encouraging abortion might be wrong? whoa! don't tell planned parenthood. she will lose her funding. warren's story about her own pregnancy could have been the most depressing. the story is a lie.

it's been debunked by her on tape. but warren keeps telling the story with exactly the same inflections and pauses and hand gestures. keep in mind, this is a person that was once a tenured harvard law professor. she genuinely had a good book at one point. people respected her. now? now warren is degrading her some with some transparent whopper to show you how oppressed she is. by the time this is over, she will be hillary clinton. pacing her back yard with a bottle of wine and sending bitter tweets about trump at midnight. it's pathetic and sad. it's universal this year. everyone in the democratic field has been greatly diminished by this. it's not because they're all bad people. not all are bad people. it's because their ideas are absurd. dana perino is here. she's one of the experts on what will happen. >> that was a good run there. a good run.

i loved that. >> tucker: well, i was -- i'm confused after watching this. by the way, i'm enjoying it and i hope it goes on forever. it's the 12 days of christmas. why are these candidates still in the race do you think? >> think -- a couple of things. our party structure is no longer strong enough to get people out. the debate structures are terrible. what they have done is given you these thresholds to hit in fund-raising, for how many donors you can get and the amount you can get in the polls and that has not narrowed the field. the other thing that is interesting, elizabeth warren tried to do what chris christie did. he took out everybody else in the last debate instead of president trump who was the frontrunner. elizabeth warren spent the night going after mayor bloomberg because she has distaken for because he earned a penny and became a billionaire. my friend that teaches at a

university and he's not a big liberal but he said elizabeth warren's style reminds him of the students that he likes the least. i think all of us went to school with somebody like that. i was surprised that something like mike bloomberg didn't say the story of you for being fired is a lie while you were pregnant. she let's bernie sanders skate. all of the things that bernie sanders was saying, nobody touches him. they leave him alone no wonder he's the frontrunner. >> tucker: it's bizarre. elizabeth warren that was a smart person in my opinion and said interesting things in years past has degraded herself. >> she's looking at a vice presidential slot. i think obviously she knows this is not happening. biden likely to win south carolina this weekend. maybe not by a ton but he will win and super tuesday it's clear she won't make it. >> tucker: bloomberg is still

the main potential challengers to bernie sanders. did he come out stronger or weaker? >> the worst debate ever was last week, then you could only do a little bit better and i think mike bloomberg did a little bit better. let's see in the super tuesday states. he's polling kind of third or fourth in a lot of those states. he's able to get some recognition. the debates are not inspiring. joe biden winning in south carolina mike make people wonder, is he a better option if you want an alternative to bernie. that's far-fetched. i think the bernie sanders thing is happening and you see speaker like nancy pelosi say let the chips fall where they may. all the candidates are great. i'm going to sit back here and not worry about it. they're going to end up with somebody that is like george mcgovern in 1972.

>> tucker: watch biden announce his victory in north carolina over the weekend. sorry. that was mean. probably true. a pelosi today just said look, if sanders is the nominee, of course i'm on board because i'm a loyal democrat. you think that is true? if sanders is the nominee and you think he's the most likely, will democrats in washington get behind him do you think? >> yeah, i do. what do they want? they want power. if he's the only ticket out of town, you better get on board. right? so yes, i do think they will. they'll put brave faces on and some people that behind the scenes, nobody will say it on the record except for james carville who is willing to. if he's the only one, they're not going to stop him. if bernie sanders can show in south carolina that he can have a more diverse population vote for him like in nevada, it's hard to take that away from him. >> tucker: i think that's right.

the great dana perino. thanks so much for that. >> thank you. see you later. >> tucker: one of his less lucid moments, joe biden claimed that half the country has been killed by guns in the last decade. if that's true, why is it so crowded? we'll tell you. plus, biden's ambitious claims about his personal history. it's like a harvard degree times ten. we'll be right back. they grew their first tomatoes right here. and when it snows, the kids go sledding right there. the frels family runs with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. because this is more than just land, it's home. search "john deere 1 series" for more.

>> tucker: during the democratic debate, job made a remarkable comment about gun violence in this country. >> 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when bernie sanders voted on this. more than all of wars in viet m vietnam. >> 150 million? that's more than half the country dead in ten years. that's a lot of empty buildings. presumably he meant to say 150,000. that's a number of gun homicides in this country during that period. democrats are doing their best to drive that number up. how? by attacking police and letting criminals, real criminals go free. instead of fighting gun violence by fighting criminals, they're trying to destroy the nra and take guns from people that

didn't vote from them by assault weapons ban. do they work from johns hopkins, the answer is no. we have a second amendment advocate for us tonight. thanks for coming on. there seems to be a connection between the lack of gun control knowledge and firearms. people don't know what a round comes out of our what a muzzle is and they're posing as expe s experts. am i imagining that? >> no, you're not. we're talking about one of the most important constitutional rights in this country but they're calling themselves leaders don't know the first thing about the subject they're talking about. they get their talking points, get in front of the camera and spew misinformation to millions of people and the people believe it. >> tucker: so what is

interesting is that the same people that lecture you about science and climate change and look at the data, they ignore the data when it conflicts with their social engineering so johns hopkins shows assault weapons bans or there's no evidence to show that they reduce mass shootings. so this would end a lot of studies have shown this, even the federal government. why is this not a death for assault weapons bans? they don't work. why are we still pushing this? >> agenda. i go back to this point. it's the overall goal, which is control. they don't really care about what the facts say. what they want is to restrict the second amendment to -- o --

oh oblivian. if is not about saving lives. they would be saying how do we balance protecting people's rights while trying to save lives in some manner that makes sense and that's plausible without taking away people's constitutional rights that as far as i'm concerned, i'm not willing to give up for the sake of saying, you know what? i feel safer when i'm not safer. so that's the problem with this conversation as a whole. they really don't care. what they care about is gaining control. >> tucker: yeah, controlling the population. armed populations. if they cared about gun violence, they would focus their efforts where gun violence is the biggest problem. but they're against that. it's great to see you. >> absolutely.

>> tucker: no, finish up. >> for them, it's too multifaceted for them. they don't want to do work. they don't want to get the job done. when you talk about the places that have the most gun violence it's a socioeconomic issue. it's not a gun issue. if it was, we would see the violence widespread. we don't. it's concentrated in specific areas. areas are pattern to these areas not being addressed. that would require them to care and to work. >> tucker: it's true. >> they'll go into these places and say oh, we'll give you gun control and leave and never show up after elections. >> tucker: if someone is trying to make you powerless and helpless, you should be nervous. it's not a good sign. great to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: well, joe biden's chief claims the presidency is longevity. he was in the senate a long time. i'm 50. he was first elected the year i was born.

so all that time in office obviously has given a tremendous set of accomplishments to brag about. to hear biden tell it, he's the single most accomplished politician in the history of this country, a statesman, a think, a scholar, a lover and a fighter, a national hero. >> i spent more time with president xi than any world leader before we left office. i was able to convince him to join the international agreement. nobody up here has dealt internationally with any of these world leaders. i'm the only one that has. >> domestic abusers can't get an ak-47. that bill -- >> i wrote that law. >> that bill -- you didn't write that bill. >> i wrote the bill. >> okay. you did that. >> took them out of the hands of people that -- >> we'll have a fact check.

>> let's look at it. i wrote the bill -- >> can i respond? >> i wrote the bill -- >> i helped set up that office in the presidency. the president's office. what we did with ebola. i was part of making sure that pandemic did not get to the united states, saved millions of lives. >> why should anyone have faith that you're the one that can get this done now? >> because i'm the only one that ever got it done. >> tucker: i'm the only one that ever got it done. all makes you feel bad for al gore. all he did is claim to invent the internet and never got passed it. people are mocking him to the day. joe biden gets up early. he setting up drugs courts on thursday, meeting with xi jinping friday. he's a savage. with the discovery of his arrest in south africa, you wonder what he does that he forgot about.

maybe he discovered viagra. maybe he invented yoga pants. that's another achievement biden would brag about and he would deserve praise for that. maybe next week after taking on corn pop at the top of the chain, he came up with the peanut butter sandwich. you know what? let's go further. how do we know he didn't write the greatest law of all, the constitution of the united states? why not. we're tearing down statues of other founders. let a new founder take their place, joe biden. howie carr, radio show host joins us tonight. this guy doesn't get a lot of sleep. with that many accomplishments, it's like he never stops moving. >> tucker, you know, homer simpson used to say doughnuts is there anything they can't do? now we can say the same thing of joe biden. he can do anything. i think this is one reason why

legislators, whatever level, have a hard time moving up through the executive branch. you mentioned al gore. john kerry, you know, i voted for the 87 billion before i voted against the 87 billion. they always pick and choose. you know, joe biden has just taken it to its logical extreme here. he does everything. notice last night he didn't take credit for voting for the iraq war. he had to be reminded of that by bernie sanders. at least bernie sanders admitted, hey, i made some bad votes now and then. you never hear that from joe biden. he's never made a bad vote. he didn't mention clarence thomas confirmations hearings either. you didn't get -- that's the way he is. you didn't mention -- what about the -- he knew eight presidents. three intimately.

remember that one? >> tucker: no. i don't. quite an admission. he's been around for 50 years. he was vice president of the united states. you'd think that he would be secure. he's so overeager and insecure. desperate to prove that his life meant something. how sad is that? how poignant is that to watch? >> it goes back too to college. he goes to speak to the black college group. he says i was the first white student at delaware state. then he's bragging, he says he quit the football team at delaware, which is a division 1 school. now he's -- now he was a varsity, get a letter at the university of delaware. probably he would have been the starting quarterback. you know, he could have beaten out joe flacco, the guy that won the super bowl for the ravens. you know, everything that happens, he was involved in it. you know, it's an amazing rumor in 2008.

he was bought on to the democratic ticket because he had gravitas. i mean, i thought it was absurd. now it's -- it's really sad that he's -- they didn't even ask him last night about the south african adventure. you know, with being arrested. only he wasn't arrested. he was looking for nelson mandela -- >> tucker: he did time fighting apartheid. exactly. on the enemies. prison changes a man. howie carr, great to see you. >> always a pleasure, tucker. >> tucker: thank you. well, there's no shortage as you've seen of hilarious and bizarre moments at the debate. dave portnoy will assess what we saw. "the new york times" has been a leader in pushing the russia collusion hoax for years now. now the president is suing the "new york times." that hasn't happened in awhile,

a sitting president suing the "new york times." the attorney for the president of the united states in that case joins us next.

>> tucker: the trump administration won a victory in federal court today in its ongoing fight against the nation's many sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants. trace gallagher has the details on what happened. trace? >> tucker, this is a big battle victory for the president. it means he might go on to win the war. back in 2017, the administration moved to withhold about $400 million in federal grant money from city and states that implemented laws where they refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants. the cities and states filed

lawsuits and lower courts ruled if their favor. later the more liberal third, seventh and ninth courts of appeal upheld the lower courts saying the administration had to give up the grant money. now the second circuit court of appeals in new york has sided with the administration and because there's now a major conflict between the various circuit courts, it's likely the supreme court will step in to make the final call. decide from the court leaning 5-4 conservative, scotus has said the federal government maintains broad power over states when it comes to immigration policies. tucker? >> tucker: interesting. trace gallagher, thanks for that. the white house is hoping for yet another court win. today the trump re-election campaign filed suit against "the new york times" for libel over the russia collusion hoax. specifically the lawsuit concerns an op-ed the payer published in march of 2019

accusing the trump campaign of reaching a "quid pro quo" with the rush government in 2016. jen ellis joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: summarize for the nonlawyers what this suit alleges. >> fits it's important to clarify this is the donald trump campaign, the plaintiff, not the president or his first capacity. what we're suing for is to hold "the new york times" accountable for their false and malicious statements that were publishon march 27 of 2019. their piece alleged and claimed in fact that there was a quid pro quo or a conspiracy between our campaign and russia for an exchange for e-mails from hillary clinton and exchange for pro russian policy and lifting of economic sanctions.

it's provably false and the times new on march 27 that that was false and they published it anyway with actual malice, which means that they knew it was false at the time of publication and also that they willfully ignored the truth. it wasn't disregard but ignored everything on the record. our lawsuit shows four prior instances of the times own reporting that has debunked that claim and the mueller report fully exonerated the president. >> okay. you're saying because they ran reporting showing claims in the op-ed weren't true that they must have none they weren't true? >> of course they knew. of course they knew. they ran with these false statements anyway and they made factual assertions that were knowingly false at the time and never reached out to verify or for comment before they ran the story. so of course, america stands for freedom of the press and freedom of speech but that limitation on

that freedom is when you knowingly publish false claims with actual malice. >> tucker: right. accusing someone of treason as they did: what are you asking for? >> asking for damages in millions that is not specified in the lawsuit. we're going to look forward to a full vindication and holding "the new york times" accountable, this is not something that any publication or any publishing platform should do. they're misleading the readers. they went so far today in their response to our lawsuit to continue to mislead the reeders. saying because this was published under the flag of an open said that this was an opinion statement. no, this was a statement of fact ran as a true and when in fact it was knowingly false, provably false and they had absolutely no legal right to run this. >> tucker: right. they used to fact check the op-eds. maybe they don't anymore.

jenna ellis, interesting story. thank you. we talked to dave portnoy last week about the presidential debate. he almost choked on his beer. we asked him to come back. he joins us after the break to assess what happened last night on stage. stay tuned. neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference.

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>> tucker: democratic leaders in washington say they are feeling very concerned after last night's debate, but what did viewers think? isn't technically the president, but he is el presidente. he came out last week to assess that debate. he is back tonight. dave, thank you for coming on. you weren't super impressed by bloomberg last week, i think it is fair to say. you used the word "vomit" several times in your assessme assessment. did you reassess? >> i don't think anybody came out looking very good. he blended in. i'm not sitting here singling him out. this was a war, this was like "anchorman." it was sort of embarrassing. i don't know, if you watch this, they are all raising their hand, all screaming over each other. i don't know a

they do it on a ton of game shows, time is up, your microphone is off. i would never be intimidated to stop talking. if you talk the longest and the loudest eventually you get the floor. i tweeted this out, if i was an alien on earth, and these were the people competing to be the president, i would invade. it is embarrassing. i don't know if it's any different between democrats and republicans, they just scream at each other and look like morons, and kindergarten with no teachers in it. it is disgusting. >> tucker: two questions, why would you invade? because they look so weak they are easy to take over or for their own good, or both? >> i would probably invade both for their own good but they're probably going to be looking at each other, battling each other and then walk right by them in

the white house. it's literally insane. these are supposed to be intelligent people screaming at each other. i was stomach we just live, i would throw stats, figures, nobody knows if it's driven by by the time tomorrow rolls around, yeah, biden can't go out into everyone in america was killed by guns last year because we are still alive but unless you screw up that badly, nobody knows. it's just a shouting fest, that is all that is. that's all politics are. >> tucker: what about the moderators? what is that? shouldn't they be keeping control? >> tucker, it's really simple. shut the microphone off. 30 seconds, your microphone is off, you're screaming at air. is that revolutionary? how hard is that you do? buddy, your time is up come on he is banned they do it all the time. your time is up, beep, you can't talk anymore. am i the only one to think of

this? instead they scream at each other. it's insane. >> tucker: you've got some loud guys in your office. you don't put up with this kind of stuff, do you? >> this is what it looks like but here's the thing, our guys aren't running the country. we are idiots. everyone looks at us and says, there out there yelling at each other, locker room environment, these are the people criticizing us. these are the people we are. by the way, i wanted to say this, i'm wearing an armani suit, that is one of the reasons i came on because if bernie gets elected i didn't want him to steal it for me so i wanted to get some use out of. >> tucker: if elizabeth warren gets elected, you're going straight to prison. [laughs] >> who knows what they're doing. they're going to be too busy -- again, i'm smarter than they are, they just yell at each other and i go around the corner. honestly, shut the microphones often this isn't just democrat-republican, they scream at each other, make stuff up, who knows, how do i pick what happened? how could anybody pick between these people?

how? >> tucker: one of the greatest debate assessments i have heard, great to see you. back to markham 8:00 p.m., they show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. sean hannity takes over now. >> sean: a lot of news, welcome to "hannity." quid pro quo joe and we have the exclusive and tonight i will go one-on-one with our radical far left new york city mayor bill de blasio and his opinions on bloomberg and bernie sanders but we start tonight in south carolina. the democratic parties in a state of shambles. 251 days until you, we the american people, you will be the ultimate jury, you will render your verdict. democrats are in the midst of a full-blown political crisis. last night's debat