michigan. see you then. have a great weekend, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. there comes a time in every presidential administration when the people in charge realize they're not really in control, unforeseen events arrive. in an instant, every assumption about the future changes, heads of state die, wars erupt, natural disasters descend, epidemics rage. none of it was in anybody's plan. there's something about human nature that prevents us from preparing for this abrupt and radical change. we pretend the unexpected will never happen. but there's something in nature itself that reminds us it will. it's a terrifying realization. the rise of the chinese corona virus is that kind of moment.

the virus is becoming a pandemic. it could kill millions. it will reorder the global economy and change our politics. could the disease help to determine the outcome of the presidential election eight months from now? of course it could. it will. the leaders can't stop that. like all matters of life and death, it's beyond human power to effect. but they can respond to the threat in a way that makes this country stronger, not weaker. how can they do that? here's how. the first step is to take the virus seriously and convince the public that you are. in 1918, wood row wilson's white house downplayed the spanish influenza and refused to take obvious precautions to slow the spread. wilson had a pointless war in europe to fight. the generals couldn't be distracted from that goal. the government continued shipments to overcredit army camps across the country and pack them on ships to france. the virus spread exponentially.

50,000 contracted it. people died of the flu. could wilson have prevented that? not entirely. by early action, he could have improved america's odds. what does that look like now. they ought to be screening people when they get off of the planes from affected countries, at the same time, it's a solution we should be honest how much we can do to keep the virus from coming here. 100 years ago, the spanish flu killed the significant population in remote alucia islands before air travel. global pandemics are inevitable. there's too much movement to keep viruses isolated. we should acknowledge that. we can do our best to keep foreign diseases out of this country, but we ought to spend most of our time trying to figure out how to protect americans once diseases get here. still a lot you don't know, two things seem clear. it's highly communicable and the

elderly with pre-existing respiratory disease face the greatest threat from it. for most americans, the biggest risk will come not from the virus itself, but from the ancillary effects, people will panic. travel will be disrupted. markets will tumble. and most critically, hospitals will be overwhelmed. we're about to learn the limits of the health care system. conditions will be tough for the many thousands of americans looking for beds to recover from the flu. in seattle, they already are. things will be worse for anyone suffering from, say pan crete it's, a burst appendix, countless other health emergencies, people like this may not get care at all. the system won't be able to accommodate them. there are many implications for this. some of them are political. for example, is this really the time to invite the rest of the world to join medicare for all? probably not. that idea was always stupid. now it's clearly dangerous. on a practical level, saving americans from collapse is the

top priority. we need to expand emergency hospital bed capacity. we need to save life saving drugs and medical equipment, the basics. that's not as simple as it sounds or should be. the rest argue about sexism and transgender bathrooms, china took control of our health care system. china dominates the world market in pharmaceutical ingredients, compounds used in every essential medicine for blood pressure, cancer, alzheimer's, and many more come from china. key components in medical technology, ct scanners, x-ray machines, ultra sounds. as of tonight, more than 95% of all of the antibiotics in america are manufactured in communist china. ment 95%. the chief global rival has a total monopoly on the most important medicine in the world. that should worry you more than anything that the candidates are talking about. imagine watching one of your children die from an infected cut. china has the power to make that

happen. the chinese government is acutely aware of this power. last year, a prominent chinese economist suggested consulting off the supply of antibiotics to the united states as leverage in the trade war. that should have been the biggest story in america. the news media all but ignored it. why? it implicated them and their political party in one of the greatest crimes of our time. nine years ago, famously brilliant former president barack obama did predict a connection between china and the next global pandemic. obama got it back ward. he claims china would help us >> i absolutely believe that china's peaceful rise is good for the world and good for america. to the extent that we have a partner in addressing issues like climate change or pandemic. >> the people in charge have no idea what they're doing. to the extent they do, they're selling us out on purpose. we should have seen this coming. in recent weeks, we heard about disruption to the so-called supply chains.

think about what that means. it means thanks to economic changes that made a small group of business moguls incredibly rich, we no longer make the things we need to survive and prosper an as nation. people who hate us and seek to displace us make those things. it's not just medicines and x-ray machines, it's computers and phones and robotics and automotive components and machine tools and essential parts for aircraft engines, etc. apart from fossil fuels, it's almost everything and now leaders are talking about shutting town the energy sector, the last independent part of the american economy. this is sabotage. we're about to learn how undermined we've been. at some point, our leaders should be held account to this. for now, we need to work on it as if our lives depended on it. global warming is not the biggest threat, extortion from china is. in real ways the government from china control us.

to respond, we need a modern martial plan, one designed to rebuild essential american manufacturing, we should start tomorrow, with medicine and technology to fight thele kror ronna virus and with antibiotics. some oppose because it poses a threat to the arrangements they benefit from. americans will welcome it gladly even in the congress. manufacturing lifts every congressional district. shouldn't be hard to win bipartisan support. the sages on television will acknowledge any acknowledgment of the threat as racism or tolerance, joe biden has done that. ignore them. the corona virus is chinese. either rose in that country for the same reason american businesses have spent so many jobs there. lax health, safety sta standards, and indemocratic krurpgs. china did it to the world. it's not xenophobia. it's true. the biggest irony is a few

years from now when every last victim of this virus has been covered or buried, the chinese government could grow stronger and america weaker. china unleashes a pandemic and overtakes the u.s. as a result, that's too horrible an outcome to contemplate. too dangerous for us. you have toic ma sure we do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen. what is happening? the chinese corona virus isn't some fluke of globalization, it's the inevitable by-product of it. exotic diseases and the mass destruction they cause are the built-in costs of connectedness and they always will be. the people who told us there was no down side to living in a borderless world were lying, make them eat their words. strip them of their power. never listen to them again. in fact, and this is still the hardest thing for official washington to accept, this pandemic vindicates donald trump's entire political thesis. on the big things, trump was

right. trade, manufacturing, globalization, these are the issues our ruling class ignores and has ignored for decades, in favor of silly calculated distractions like gender warfare and race politics, things that divide us. trump by contrast ran on the issues that mattered and he won, precisely because the public was tired of being lied to and he should remember that. the white house reaction to corona virus so far has been uneven and limp. but it doesn't need to be. the blueprint for an effective response, response that not only protects this country but improves it is right there in the president's 2016 acceptance speech of the republican convention in cleveland. americanism, not globalism, will be the credo, he said. we're going to start building and making things again, all we need to do is start believing in ourselves and our country again. it's time to show the world that america is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before. there it is. that's the governing agenda in the age of the chinese corona

virus. abandon globalism, rebuild the country. make the things we need. a strong america is an independent america. there's no other way. mitt ryan is founder of american majority and author of the book, restoring the republic. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. corona virus comes to the country and we discover some of them for the first time the tools we need to fight the virus from our chief rival china. what lessons should we draw from that? >> it shows yet again the corona virus shows yet again, tucker, how dangerously dependent we are on the regime. 95% of our antibiotics are coming from china. 80% of the products used to make drugs domestically come from china as well. more troubling, tucker, most of the generic drugs that are used

to keep the military healthy are also coming from china. one of the things trump can do is bring the manufacturing of antibiotics and drugs home. give tax breaks, incentives. and look at how he can responsibly lower the regulatory state and how we do drug manufacturing in this country. this is an opportunity. we have to take a moment and seize it. i hope trump does that on that fron front. >> tucker: it's a clear path forward. i think it will be a time to hold the people make this accountable, name their names. explain why they did what they did. they undermined the country that's threatening to its existence. but now there's no path forward other than to become self-sufficient again, don't you think? >> exactly right. he should remind people of this dangerously naive approach that somehow we welcomed china to the wto. they'll become a liberal

democracy. we'll live happily ever after in a nirvana is a dangerous idea. what trump needs to do is call out the corporates that sold us out. but also, the reasons we offshored a lot of the production is the heavy administrative state regulation. and that's why it showed up a fact we shut down in 2004 as the chinese were investing a lot more money to the production of penicillin. we've been sold out by the corporates and the administrative state and the regulations. trump can address both of those very forcefully. >> tucker: yes, he has. i reread today his speech in cleveland referenced in this open. and he basically lays out the program in that to respond to corona virus now almost four years later. he's written a blueprint for this. i hope he uses it >> stay true to it. do not lose sight of it.

>> tucker: okay. amen. thank you. good to see you. chinese corona virus spreads across this country, public events are shutting down rather than risk mass infection. hey, trace. >> the most significant update to date, austin texas has pulled the plug on the south by southwest. that's the music, film, and technology festival that draws people from across the globe. but the pressure to cancel because of the virus was immense. more than 50,000 people signed an on-line petition and tech companies like apple, twitter, and facebook had already pulled out. last year, the festival drew 500,000 fans. but a half million pales in comparison to the 290 million students kept home from school worldwide. the united nations says 22 countries on three continents

have shut down schools because of the virus. only a handful of u.s. schools have closed, but that number would certainly rise. finally postmates and insta cart are still delivering the goods, but now they're offering it ding dong ditch style. drop the item or the food and get out. professionally known as noncontact deliveries. though grub hub, door dash, and uber eats are still only swapping food hand-to-hand. tucker? >> tucker: there will will be a lot of available food on america's doorsteps. trace gallagher, great to see you. >> yep. >> tucker: this is a fox news alert we want to bring you. the president made a surprise announcement. nick mulvaney is leaving replaced by congressman mark meadows. the president said i'm pleased to announce meadows will be white house chief of staff. i long worked with mark.

i want to thank chief mulvaney for serving so well. he'll become the special envoy for northern ireland. we'll continue to follow this, of course. e liz pet warren left the presidential race but she's doing her best to destroy candidates she dislikes. one thing she has a lot of, it's hate. tell you what she's doing. the leader of pink floyd, roger waters, of "the wall" and "dark side of the moon," he's here to discuss a political issue that he's interested in. the interview just ahead. these days you need faster internet

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>> tucker: i'd logically, warren is close to sanders. you would think she might endorse bernie sanders against joe biden, don't hold your breath. she hates them. she didn't attack ideas. nobody talks about ideas. that's too deep and real and important, no, ideals have no place in identity politics, come on, it's 2020. so warren trashed him as retrograde sexists. >> it's a real problem with the on-line bullying and organized nastiness. i'm not just saying he said mean things, it's ugly stuff that went on. we're responsible for the people who claim to be our supporters and do really threatening to

others -- >> it's a particular problem with sanders. >> it is. it's a factual question. >> tucker: you claim you're strong enough to be president, but you're whining about a bunch of bernie supporters on twitter? oh, there's a reason elizabeth warren isn't the front-runner, there's a reason she dropped out. maybe sanders wants to be grateful. you want an endorsement from the person elizabeth warren has become. we get more on the end of warren's campaign. boy, does she dislike bernie sanders and everybody in his world, holy smokes? >> the most interesting is bernie sanders wants the endorsement in this campaign. maybe they'll wait until there's a presumptive nominee in order to endorse the candidate. another thing was her tone here is similar to what we saw in the january debate when she refused

to shake bernie's hand after the debate. this is about the time when they were having a feud. and many early democratic primary winners told me that that moment dissuaded them from voting for elizabeth warren. of course, this is not something we're seeing from pundits. they're mourning the loss of elizabeth warren being the last female front-runner in this race. take a watch. >> no question for old men, you know, seems like a country for old men, it's no country for women presidential candidates. >> now she drops out of the race, voters have two men to choose from, two older white men to choose from. >> the glass ceiling is intact and i think that will be one of the major interpretations of elizabeth warren's candidacy. >> sexism and misogyny that exists that's so difficult for women running for president to overcome. >> you have a right to be tired of men running for president. you have a right to be tired of

watching men take the oath of office. you have the right to shed a tear today. >> there's still one more female candidate left in the race. >> tucker: that real? people are so entitled and tampered and narcissistic. are the majority of primary voters female? i'll answer the question, yes. i know you're trying to inform your audience. i'm going to stop. i'm sorry, i couldn't control myself. >> you would think that a lot of people would mourn this and this was a record year for women running for president. the democrats had more women running for president than ever before. instead of celebrating that, is this dampening the last two contenders in the race a little bit? that's one of the things i think of when all of this mourning of elizabeth warren's campaign. but, there is still one more female candidate in the race,

tulsi gabbard. the press has not been particularly kind to her. >> tucker: you think, because he talked to assad who saved all of the christians therefore she's evil. the last guy, the msnbc host, i hate myself -- resign your job and give it to a woman then. i'm serious. such a sexist country, just retire and give it to a deserving female. you should take that jo, emily, i think >> thank you. i'll send in my resume. >> tucker: okay. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you. >> warren admitted her final debate performances were a kamikaze attack to take out another candidate that she personally loathed, mike bloomberg. >> you outlasted mike bloomberg in this campaign. >> was he still in that race? >> no one could tell after you destroyed him on the debate

stage. a lot of postmortems on this campaign credit you with single handedly tanking his candidacy with the way you took him apart in the race. is that what you were trying to do? >> yes. >> do you take credit? >> sure. the point is he's not going to be the nominee and he shouldn't be. all of the things in his history mean that he could never launch any of those attacks against donald trump. think about the things we are going to need to talk about, taxes, history with women, embracing racist policies. when you're in charge, helping bah zillion nairs. wille couldn't launch the autocrat argument against him because michael bloomberg when he was mayor had the change in the law so he could hang on to power longer. >> the author of the book "panic

attack in the age of trump. why does everybody get so shallow? i thought we were going to have a debate about tax rates or foreign policy. and instead, it's about sexism. not sexiness, which is different, but sexism. everybody says sexist or racist? why can't we have a debate that's higher than your average freshman dorm debate? >> so hypocritical and thin skinned, right? warren and her surrogates are complaining how mean bernie people are on-line and she totally eviscerates in the debate with bloomberg, she destroys him. she's proud, she's bragging. it's fine. i thought she was at her most likab likable when she was tearing him apart. why is it fine when she does it but when anybody else is harsh or scrutinizing or critical, that's bullying and we can't have that. that's so hypocritical. that's the hypocrisy of the feminist activism that is always saying sexism.

they're holding people accountable and they're being rude or pushy about it, then that's -- that's fine. they get to do that. it's so hypocritical, right? right? am i crazy for thinking that? >> tucker: the party of harvey weinstein lecturing us about sexism? sure -- >> they won't let tulsi gabbard -- they changed the rules so she can't be in the same debate. is that sexism? perhaps? maybe, i don't know. >> tucker: yeah, it's distressing to see it. i will say if you're looking to hire someone to hate full time to express rage without end, elizabeth warren is a bottomless well of venom, isn't she? >> in the beginning, it was hold the rich accountable, reforming the society, the rules. but it quickly became for her about identity politics, political correctness, about how

a trans9-year-old should pick the next secretary of education. 99.9% of latino people hate the progressive speak of that kind of phrasing. and she was pandering to the wokest of the woke. she got the new york time endorsement, congrats. but it didn't matter. >> tucker: she's their kind of person. identity politics is narcissism, let me talk about me, my identity. stop talking about yourself for a minute. talk about america. they can't, they're not interested. robbie, great to sue you >> my pleasure. >> tucker: thank you. corona virus isn't the first example of china's influence over american life poisoning the country, potentially. hollywood has been freely empowering the communist government for years, kowtowing to them, grovelling to them. that's ahead. up ahead, roger waters. ♪

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he could have given each american $1 million and i've had lunch money left over. it's an incredible way of putting it. >> it's incredible way of putting it. it's true. it's disturbing. >> tucker: yeah, before we get two self-righteous, we have to admit a lot of us went to journalism in the first place because we were bad at math. we'd be hedge fund moguls otherwise. we won't be solving your crisis. even so, we have producers and they're supposed to be good at math. what happened to them? poor brian williams. >> tucker: for years, american industry has boosted our independence on china. but even companies that are not dependent on chinese factories are eager to placate the fascist regime in this country, a

country that would like to stop us on the world stage. the most servile china apologist of all, dragging inside the trillion dollar dilemma facing hollywood, the nba, and american business, he joins us tonight. >> thongs so much for coming on tonight, chris. thank heaven you wrote this book. this is a book that should be out a long time ago. glad it's not out now. tell us what the dilemma is. what dilemma is hollywood facing with china? >> the dilemma, it's an interesting one. if you look at the potential of the market for hollywood or really any business, it's a -- it's a vast potential. if you look at the movie business itself, in 2009, there were 5,000 movie screens. you cut to today, there's over 70,000. next year, no matter what the market is going to be the largest in the world. and it will continue to be so for a long, long time. so, the prize to get in that market is massive. and if you extrapolate that to all other sorts of businesses, you can see why american businesses do have a dilemma

that's especially part of the wokeness that occurred in the last six months which is, jeez, we're compromising american values, principles, national security interests, potential ip, in order to get access to that market. now that we're cognizant of it, now that we're self-aware of it, what do we do now? because we don't want to give it up. it's too big of a market to give up. and our shareholders are pressuring us to make money. >> tucker: so, i get all of that. they're amoral greed heads motivated purely by money. but why is it that they get to whip around and to judge their own country and its people for their perceived moral failings constantly? people would literally selling out our values or lecturing us about russia and every other conceivable issue. why? how can they do that? >> it's tough. honestly. i can tell you that i've been

come police it in it too. it's part of why i wrote the book. when you're in the fog of war, of doing cultural and commercial exchange, you lose track of some of the things that are important to you as an american. and it was only until after the darryl morrow tweet by the houston rockets gm in october where i went back and looked at the stuff that i wrote about and some of the adventures and journeys that i had in regards to making movies between the two-countries, and i realized, wow, i was just as guilty of this as everybody else. but the thing is it's very difficult to brush away the fog. now that the fog is out in the open. and like joe said of the brooklyn nets owner, he said this is a third rail issue that's been sort of kept undercover. it's out. we need to discuss it more and talk about it more and talk about it freely. because quite frankly, there's a huge opportunity in that market

to make money, number one. but number two is, there's no better way to spread soft power influence from the united states and from the west than to get culture into china. i mean, the chinese consumers love our entertainment. whether that's sports or movies or television content. they love the video games. there's no way to figure out how do we get the government in china to get the wind to our backs to allow us access to consumers without selling our souls as americans. that's the big question, that's the challenge we all need to talk about. >> well, you've got moral qualms about it, which raises you above a lot of your come patriots, thank you so much for coming on site. >> thanks for having me. >> roger waters has been in the music business a long time. he founded his group, pink floyd. up next, we'll be right back. tv just keeps getting better.

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>> tucker: it's been a year now since julian assange taken >> tucker: been a year now since juilan assange was taken to britain. now he's being expedited to face espionage. roger waters co-founded the group "pink floyd," he's been fighting to prevent assange's extradition. explain why. what are the charges about and why he's being charged for what it sounds like the things that journalists do every day? >> i can only assume that he's being charged it's about bit

like hanging a mag pile on the hedge and warning to other journalists that writes stories -- not writes stories, publishes stories that the powers do not want to be published. so it's a way of warding off other journalists in the future saying don't do this or we might lock you in prison for 175 years even though nothing you have done is illegal. >> tucker: so he's being -- yes. the reaction to this is surprising to me. broken down along political lines, to some extent, but not entirely. "the new york times" has a lock history, usually considered a noble history for the documents, the pentagon papers in the 1970s in vietnam. why haven't the papers come to juilan assange's defense. >> you have to ask the papers. i was wondering if you were going to ask, why hasn't the dog -- excuse me, the doj

decided to prosecute "the new york times" and the manchester guardian and "the washington post" all published the same information that wikileaks did. why is it they picked out juilan assange as an example and not the other papers? >> tucker: now that is a fascinating question. >> well, thank you. there are a lot more fascinating questions. >> tucker: is it just that -- >> well. >> tucker: right there, just to be clear, those newspapers published the information that he's facing 170 years for disseminating. >> they did. and the guardian newspaper, i have to say, two of the journalists who published the same information that juilan did on wikileaks actually have exposed the names and brought people into danger because they didn't -- they didn't concentrate on their work and redact everything as juilan did. juilan never put anyone in any danger. and the cia have owned up to this quite recently. so that story he spread that he

put lives in danger is nonsense as are all of the other stories told about juilan assan fwshgs e in the next five to seven years. he was quite right to go to the ecuadorian embassy and not go to sweden. we've since learned that the swedes would have extradited him. and there's not a hope in hell that juilan assange would get a fair trial in the eastern district of washington, d.c. it's because -- >> how you got so informed on this and how you got so involved in it? >> well, first of all, i was just starting a large tour when the video came out. i included it in my talk. so i should be -- if he's guilty, so i am i, i should be standing in the dark with him. they should be trying to -- they would haven't to extradite me. i'm in new york city.

every single night of the wall tour i did went on three years, the video of the young americans airmen carrying those unarmed people and those two reuters cameramen in the street. so it was published in many, many other places. quite rightly. and it has been of great value, i think, to all of us. i'm certain you believe in freedom of the press and freedom of speech. >> tucker: of course. >> and, you believe in -- well, i'm not sure that everybody who walks in the corridors of power does. because if they did, they would not be trying to extradite juilan assange from london. with his kangaroo court. they have him locked up in a glove -- bulletproof glass cage in the highest security prison that there is in the united kingdom banged up for 23 hours a

day in solitary confinement. and the only crime that he is being -- that he has been charged with and found guilty of is a minor bail infraction. it's a misdemeanor. it's not what you'd call a felony. >> tucker: that leads to the final question. in hanging in a lot of people's minds are the sexual assault i think charges that we read so much about that assange was facing. whatever happened to those? >> there weren't any. weren't any. they never happened. neither of the women involved accused him of rape, ever. this was a concoction of -- of the -- somewhere between the swedish police and the swedish judiciary, this story was allowed to develop into escape. and it was blown out of all proportion, it was completely

invented by main stream media for whatever their motivations might be. all of the smearing stories about juilan assange, all of this stuff about his cat and his personal habits, it's completely made up. if you look at the special reppertuer for the united states nations and released a really interesting report on all of that, actually, i saw him doing an interview the other day saying he was reluctant to get involve in the beginning because he read all of the stories and talked -- the guy -- and he looked into it and he said, it's all absolute nonsense. and when he wrote his report, he tried to get it published in "the new york times" and "the washington post" and the london times. and the guardian and and and. nobody would publish it. not a single word of it. there's a -- >> tucker: not surprised >> this is why -- this is why, tucker, it's so -- it's not

amazing, it's so great that you've got me on and we're even able to air the subject at all. because there is almost like what we'd call a d notice. you can't talk about it. we made up our mind. >> tucker: i'm against things you can't talk about it. you're not getting rich from doing this, i appreciate it. roger waters, thank you for that. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: good to see you. chuck schumer threatened a couple of supreme court justices this week. why did he do that? he's an abortions fanatic like the party he represents. tell you the depth of it after the break. this is big. double dozen big! it's captain d's new double dozen shrimp. yeah, you heard that right. two dozen golden, crispy shrimp piled high on one plate! time to double down when the captain is callin'. captain d's.

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>> tucker: chuck schumer's threats ag >> tucker: chuck schumer's threats against the two most recently installed supreme court justices got a lot of attention. they should have. the narrow focus on what schumer said obscured a greater ongoing trend. he threatened the supreme court because the supreme court is hearing a challenge in the law in the state of louisiana. that law requires the state's abortion clinics to be overseen by a physician to permitting privileges. it's not a ban on abortion, it's a safety requirement. in the 1990s, democrats said they wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. you would think they'd welcome a law like that. the current democratic party is not pro-choice in any sense, they're pro-choice, they're

zealots about it. it would have set a standard of care for children born after botched abortions. they can't have that. for the modern democratic party, every birth is a tragedy. it distracts mothers from their higher calling serving investment banks. abortion in contrast is an unmitt fwated good in their view. so good, a rally leader celebrated transgender people to stay female enough to have abortions of their own. not making it up, watch. >> let's hear it for senator schumer. let's hear it for all of the people who have abortions. let's hear it from the transfolks who have abortions. >> tucker: at the same rally, rashida thalib said it would be racist if they incentivize hundreds of thousands of black and hispanic babies >> my, my. they're obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look, what we stand for.

this issue is an economic justice issue. this issue is a racial justice issue. you know what? you're so freaking obsessed with what i decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn't even want to have sex with me. >> tucker: good luck getting that image out of your head. and actress busy phillips showed zeal and enthusiasm. when she wasn't spreading the good news of christianity, she was spreading the good news about abortion >> i will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods. or my experiences in childbirth. my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up with the moon. >> tucker: if abortion makes you happy, why is she acting like that? lyla rose founded the pro-life group, live action, she joins us to respond. is it our imagination. thanks for joining us tonight,

the so-called pro-choice people becoming a lot more extreme than they were. >> they're coming to the surface, all of the rage and anger that you see, understood beneath it is a lot of hurt. there's been over 60 million abortions since 1973. 60 million apportion, tens of millions of women, mothers, fathers, who have lost children to abortion. they have to keep justifying it. and what you're seeing from this rally from the actress, chuck schumer smugly calling out threats to the supreme court justices that want to defend human life, may defend it by taking out roe, you can see a lot of this pain, ultimately, the woundedness. there's 23, 63, 2,363 abortions every day. this is a problem that continues and leaves a lot of pain in its wake. >> tucker: and that's why they're happy about that. people happy with the things they did won't talk like that, do they?

>> the actress is really, really sad. she gettings up and she says her career, her car -- her hybrid car, her beautiful f-ing house, she said, were the reasons she was glad shed had an abortion as a teenager, those were the reasons she was able to succeed because she had the abortion. it's the antithesis of women's empowerment to say in order to have a nice car and nice house i have to kill my child. how did we get here as a country, these are innocent children and we deserve far beth better. >> tucker: they're lying. >> exactly. women, families, fathers, we deserve better than this. it's a tragedy and injustice. >> tucker: we should be compassionate, as hard as it is. good to see you tonight. out of time, we'll be back monday night at 8:00 and every weeknight a show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think. have a great weekend with the ones you love. try to put it out of your mind. sean hannity takes over next.

see you monday. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." a lot of news breaking a lot of news breaking this friday night while do you deranged angry lunatics fight it out. there was president trump fully focused on the job. serious issues earlier today. he toured what's a devastation friends in tennessee. multiple tornado killed at least 25 people including children. he vows to provide whatever federal assistance the state will need and then he flew to atlanta where he met at officials at