when the middle of nowhere... is somewhere. the all-new chevy trailblazer. ♪ at 7:00. president trump in pennsylvania. good night. >> tucker: there's a trump rally underway in the state of ohio tonight and of course we are following, we will bring you news of the develops including and specifically anything about the epic supreme court nomination fight that is starting this week. meantime good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."oo as you know, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg died last friday. she passed with cancer. it was a sad moment because death is always sad, and the who dies. death is coming for all of us someday. for that reason we ought to mark a person's passing with a bow of respect, take a moment for humility and perspective, meditate on the fragility of our own lives and the lives of those we love. for member that death is the one thing that unites every human

being. no matter how powerful we imagine we are, at some point, we will be gone, all of us. in our case, we almost never agree with justice ginsburg's decisions but on friday nights show we did our best to show some reference because that's the right thing to do. the left, by contrast, made no attempt at all. prominent progressives immediately descended into hysteriant and rage, unbridled rage.nd they told us that ruth bader ginsburg's death was more than sad. they said it was a national crisis that imperiled this country's freedoms. ruth bader ginsburg told us -- they told us single-handedly kept america from descending into fascism and tyranny.w now that she's gone, only her words can keep us safe. that's an odd claim, if you think about it, because it's supposed to be a democracy. no one ever voted for ruth bader ginsburg. no matter how much you liked her or agreed with her, she was, in the end, a single judge in a country of 350 million people. she was not god. yet according to the left,

ginsburg was all we have. we must obey her dying words as if they were a religious text. her final wish supersedes our foundingng documents. what would ruth bader ginsburg do? we must ask ourselves that and then do it. watch. >> as a nation, we should heed her final call to us not as a personal service to her, but as a service to the country, our country at a crossroads. >> honor her last words that she not be replaced until a new president is installed. >> she said my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. we believe that. >> her fervent wish is that the next president pick, that was the last thing she said to the public. >> we know who this man is buried we know who this man is.

this is a man who does not care about a dying woman's final wish. clearly. >> tucker: so turned on the volume and consider for a moment the reasoning here, the argument that they are making. nothing is more important than our constitution. that constitution is in grave jeopardy. that's why we must substitute an 87-year-old woman's final wish for the constitutionally prescribed process for filling supreme court seat. that's what they're arguing. got that? pretty amusing.pr keep in mind, we don't really know actually what ruth bader ginsburg's final words were. did she really leave this world fretting about the presidential election? we don't believe that for a second. if it were true, it would be pathetic, because life is bigger than politics, even this year. we wouldn't wish final words that small and anyone, so we are going to again choose to believe that ruth bader ginsburg didn't really say that, that in real life, she was thinking at the end about her family and where

she might be going next, human concerns, not partisan ones. but in practical terms it's irrelevant what she said. ruth bader ginsburg doesn't getu to pick a replacement from her deathbed. that's not how it works. we have a constitution we area supposed to be defendant, remember? and that's the whole point, the constitution. if justice scalia had some something like that nobody would have cared. we would have been embarrassed for him. thankfully he didn't say that. on some level democrats know all this. all this talk about ginsberg's dying wish it's ridiculous and insulting to all of us in our country. and they will stop soon. democrats have an alternative argument at the ready and it's one they've been honing all year. it goes like this, do what we want or we will hurt you. that's the real argument they are making. longtime cnn employee wrote this in the hours after ginsburg died. "if they even try to replace rbg, we burn the entire thing down," that thing being our

country that we built. on friday night another democrat tweeted instructions for how to begin that process. "we are now walking to mitch mcconnell's house to protest." more than 120,000 people liked that post, shockingly. the follow-up game of human it later, "his house entirely dark, significantly's presence out front. it's not clear that he's here -- it's clear that is not here as confirmed by a neighbor who's not fond of him. people are going home." that's not a protest, that's a threat. the point of it was to terrorize mitch mcconnell and his family. mcconnell know it was coming because that's how sin don't make seem to work out. the police guarding his house are probably the only reason it still standing. watch. >> [indiscernible]. >> we were fine! [indiscernible].

>> tucker: we shouldn't be surprised by that. it was just last year that another group of democrats gathered outside mitch mcconnell's home chanting death threats. it was all on video. we put up with that of course, so it's happened again. you get what you put up with. that's true of children, it's true of countries and we are putting up with us, so we shouldn't be surprised. who's doing it? well, trump voters are fascist, they tell us. one was the last time trunk voters threatened democratic politicians in their homes? it's hard to recall that happening. no. a the tactics are always the same and it's always the same people doing it. then in case mitch mcconnell didn't get the message, biden voters assembled at the home of lindsey graham, he chairs the judiciary committee. they wanted to honor ruth bader ginsburg's dying wisy by making sure that graham was intimidated. watch. >> [indiscernible].

>> tucker: these aren't spontaneous demonstrations, no, of course not. they are organized onth social media and they are happening for a reason. the democratic party has encouraged this extremism over and over and over again. nightly we tell you about it. but it never ends, it gets wor worse. last night the senate majority leader chuck schumer of new york held a. n press conference targeting mitch mcconnell by name. hard to imagine that, but it happens. schumer invited sandy cortez, the first term congressman from the bronx. here's what they said. >> if you want to get back mitch mcconnell's blatant, nasty hypocrisy, call your senator and tell them not to listen to mitch mcconnell, not to be afraid of mitch mcconnell. >> and to mitch mcconnell, we need to tell him that he is playing with fire.

>> tucker: we need to tell him that he is playing with fire. really? that's a threat. and on instagram, sandy cortez, america's most pampered revolutionary went ahead and suggested that democrats go further, maybe even embrace violence. watch. >> let this moment radicalizing. focus on voting for joe biden, i don't care if you like him or not. this is not over -- we win in november -- i'm sorry to tell you, you're not going back to brunch. we are not going back to brunch. that's not happening. >> tucker: we are not going back to brunch. so now you know what a freshman member of congress was doing standing at the podium with thee most powerful democrat in the senate. why would he choose sandy cortez? well, because sandy cortez doesn't simply represent a congressional district. she doesn't do that very well. no, or will knoll is as commander of the youth wing of the democratic party, direct

action wing, the thugs who have spent the last three and a half months burning and destroying in fsome cases killing on behalf effectively of the joe biden for president campaign. cortez and her followers use these tactics for one simple reason. you knows why. because they work. this summer a bar owner in omaha called jake gardner was attacked at the blm rights. a man jumped on his back and put him in a choke hold. gardner shot him in order to save his own life. it was clearly self-defense and that's what prosecutors concluded. but then biden voters took direct action. they took to the streets. what does that mean exactly? well, in this case, it means they gathered outside the home of douglas county attorney and they threatened him, their presence was a threat. and guess what? it worked. last week gardner was charged with manslaughter. this weekend gardner killed himself. see how that works? do you want to live in a country like that? megan hunt does. megan hunt is a state senator from omaha. she is glad jake gardner is

dead. megan hunt congratulated the mob on twitter for pushing jake gardner to suicide. hunt encouraged him to do it to others. as hunt rode on twitter, and we are quoting, "jake gardner is gone but the whites of premises attitude that emboldened him are still with us today." " "in other words, you know what to do. they should terrify you. if democratic leaders have decided that everything is allowed in pursuit of power, nothing is off-limits. give us what we want or we will hurt you. interns nancy pelosi can understand, that means maybe another impeachment. >> some have mentioned the possibility if they try to push throughhe a nominee in a lame dk session that you and the house could moveou to impeach president trump or attorney general barr as a way of stalling and preventing the senate from acting on this nomination. >> well, we have our n options,e have arrows in our quiver that i'm i'm not about to discuss

right now. >> tucker: oh, impeach the president, for what? for following the constitution's letter. for doing what the constitution tells presidents to do in the s supreme court vacancy. did that really happen? what would the trial look like? we accuse you of following the law? probably not going to happen. she knows that, that's why she's got other arrows in the quiver, she said. one of those arrows is direct force. on saturday, gavin newsom's chief of staff tweeted this. "i am ready to fly to d.c. in the middle of covid-19 and lay my body on the floor of the united states senate to prevent a vote from occurring before the next term of congress." if she did that, many would join her and maybeha they'll do it. maybe they'll come to washington and physically prevent lawmakers from voting. that's never happened before in the history of our country. it could happen now. people are calling for it. does that seem like extremism to you?

yeah. but if it does, keep in mind, you're the extremist. you're the one who's willing to do anything for power including use force. here's hillary clinton neatly explained that her sins are in fact your sins. >> what's happening in our country is incredibly dangerous. our institutions are being basically undermined by the lust for power, power for personal gain in the case of the president or power or institutional gain in the case of mitch mcconnell. >> tucker: okay, so if you're following at home i just want to be clear on how this works. democrats are so worried about your attempts to undermine our institutions that they in the end they have to burn those institutions down. sorry, your extremism data. laura ingraham is a host of "the ingraham angle" on the fox news channel, it airs nightly at 10:00, we are always happy to have them on the show.

thanks for coming on. obviously all of us are worried in the face of this within minutes of the passing of ruth bader ginsburg, the mob formed outside the homes of lawmakers. why don't democratic leaders say unequivocally out loud tonight, tomorrow, now, tell your voters don't do this anymore, no more "direct action" do you think it will do that? >> no, i don't. i think they've made an unholy alliance, tucker, with the far l left because i think they've kind of given up on convincing the rest of us that they could c raise our standard of living or life in the united states is going to get better under the policies. they're not even trying to argue that. they're doing climate change but it's not really going to put more money in your pocket or maybe take a vacation if you're a family of four. that kind of throw that out the window and it's all about the lovrevolution. the country is systemically racist, systemically, what has to happen to the system? the system has to come down.

i mean, the court -- i mean, i'm half expecting when you see stuff going on in d.c. over the weekend in new york, you're wondering if the building is going to stand at the end of all of this and schumer and pelosi, they made a decision to ride the wave of aoc andve directive "the squad," they hope to victory in november and if not,r then i think all bets are off as to what they're going to try to do to the country, but i think they've given up on trying to persuade us that they're going to raise t your wages higher thn trumpeted in 2019, which was a record, by the way, which nobody wants to talk about. >> tucker: i mean, they are a opposed to seeing a conservative set on the court, i understand that. i was opposed to bill clinton nominated ruth bader ginsburg.n didn't burn anything, didn't try to prevent the vote from taking place. we can see where this is going. this is moving towards violence. why don't they call this out out

loud on the floor of the senate and house of representatives from the white house and say please come in and plessis, chuck schumer, sandy cortez, call up your voters, stop this now? >> i think that kind of give up too in a way i'm calling it out to that extent because i think they know when the heart of hearts it's not going to work. they go on shows and they talk about the danger of all of this but again, everyone has to understand was watching this tonight, ourat entire system of checks and balances, separation of powers, 1992 and a passion for 93, i'm very familiar with how it operates. that entire system is up for grabs because they will die on the hill of abortion. i mean, this is about roe vs. wade. that's really what this is about and the deeper problem is america is a horrible awful racist country and since it is, everyone whoho is living has to pay in some way, shape, or form unless you're one of the elites,

tucker, you know those people, the rules never apply to them, or you're one of the oppressed or aggrieved and then you'll get some crumbs from the government. but abortion, reparations -- >> tucker: may i ask you one quick question though? a little bit off topic but it's a sincere question. why abortion of all the issues? i mean, there's so many things going on is country that need to be improved, so many hurting people, why is it this specific issue that convinces democrats we will actually torch the capital if we don't get it? why this? >> i think is robert bork set all those years ago, that was really the turning point in soms ways of the turn to judicial activism, more so than getting rid of the concept of judicial restraint. that's when the court just made it up. due process clause of the 14th amendment, they read this right to abort into the constitution and it was just made up and a lot of states outlawed abortionu but not all of them. so they wanted to take that issue off the table.

i think they realized it's like that old game, if you pull that little stick out of the game, the bunch of marbles come falling down and for them, that's really it for their whole judicial philosophy and they want to take power away from the people. they don't want the people in nebraska being ruled by their own morals. they want the morality of new york to supersede the morality of the rest of thede country. >> tucker: they don't have the power of life and death and they are not god and they can't fix that. >> precisely. >> tucker: laura ingraham, thank you for coming on sunday. >> great to see you. >> tucker: at least two senators on the republican side, lisa murkowski of alaska, susan collins of maine have announced that they would prefer not to vote on a replacement for ruth bader ginsburg until after the election. meantime, b democrats united in opposing -- nancy pelosi has even said impeachment is on the table as we just told you. in an interview on sunday, she didn't roll that out, impeaching the president and the attorney general as a way to

delay the supreme court nomination process. the author brenda book, member of congress from florida , book is called firebrand. packed with all kinds of pretty amazing revelations. he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. you have at least took all republican senators -- you are a republican officeholder, how should republicans respond to sitting republican senators saying we are not voting,re period, even though we know the nominee? >> there was no fervent wish provision of the constitution andrv the argument that democra, socialist and apparently collins and murkowski are making is that somehow like in the fourth quarter of a basketball game, everyone should just take a pause to determine who's going to be the coach next season. this is actually pretty simple. way the republicans have the power and we ought to use it. is there any doubt if democrats and socialists in the woke -- control the presidency and the senate, what they would do? there would be forcing us to

accept some blue haired genderless warlord from the chaz to be the next supreme court justice but here we have murkowski and collins rejecting to duties they have a senators and if they do that, there voters should reject them. trump supporter should not be taken for granted in maine, alaska, or anywhere else and if they are unwilling to do their and take a vote on who the president nominates, they shouln not have the privilege of continuing to serve in the senate. >> tucker: democrats will stand up and tell you with a straight face, proud of it, that men can get pregnant. they are not embarrassed of anything they say they believe. republicans, some of them, many of them, appear to be deeply embarrassed of their purported deepest beliefs. why is that? you work there. any insight? >> it's a shame that republicans don't at times fight with the same vigor of democrats, but remember, mitch mcconnellew views his entire legacy as the senate leader as tied to the judiciary. he literally wrote a book about it and if he's unable to deliver this result to the president, one has f to ask what is the utility of mitch mcconnell?

would put up with the things we don't like like his unwillingness to fight for the wall, his willingness to impoverish towns in america with these trade deals for global organizations, and we do it all because he is supposed to be a stud on judges and so it's time to end the hand-wringing and the bedwetting. mcconnell should put pressure on fellow senators, should lose funding for their campaigns,un they should lose committee assignments that they are unwilling to fulfill their duty. we have to confront our duties as public officials. one such duty is to --dv susan collins or celts of the senate should have taken about on merrick garland, so the susan collins of 2020 should certainly agree with the susan collins of 2016 that they should be taking an up or down vote. >> tucker: interesting. nice point. congressman, congrats on the book, by the way. >> i wrote in our how you and i stopped the war with iran a few times, people should check it out. >> tucker: great to see you, thank you.

again and again over the past three months we have watched people get arrested and then walk rightet out. prosecutors in many places aren't enforcing the law. they are not prosecuting. how do these people get in office, and who's funding them? we will tell you with some detail. plus, we are monitoring the trump rally in the state of ohio, the president said he will announce his supreme court nominee soon. here it nc is. >> as our nation mourns the loss ofe supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, i will soon announce a nominee for the united states supreme court. [cheers and applause] they say it's the most important thing a president can do. ♪

♪ >> protests pandemonium going from 0 to 100 in downtown miami moments after demonstrators defaced a statue while others spray-painted the words "george floyd," blm, black lives matter and the communist symbol. t police swarmed the area several news cameras captured cops making numerous arrests, one man pushed to the pavement while another was hauled away in cuffs. that's when the chaos broke out.

cops dressed in riot gear showed up and were [indiscernible] with frustrated protesters. >> tucker: most living americans who had ever seen seems like that, now they are common all over the country. what happened? they tell us of its about police brutality. police brutality has not increased. federal statistics show it's down. what's changed in many places in the nature of the prosecutors, the people whose job it is to keep you safe are instead making it easier for criminals to terrorize her family. that's not an accident. left-wing mega-donors like georggeorge soros realized eitho install radical das than it is to convince the public let their own cities burn. he has worked hard to elect district attorneys will nullify raw's stomach laws against writing and violence failing to enforce them. in portland, oregon, where violence has become a way of life, a political action community final $20,000 to mike schmidt's campaign this year. schmidt intern has announced he won't prosecute any of the writers who have turned portland into a war zone. he's already dismissed charges

against writing suspects, hundreds off them. in fact, one point he said the unrest in portland was "beautiful." but it's not just portland. bankrolled by george soros had spent more than $13 million in district attorney races in a total of 17 states. over the past few years, unfolded in florida, texas, pennsylvania virginia. in 2017 he spent roughly $1.7 million getting a single man elected in philadelphia, the district attorney. and as expected, he presided over a dramatic rise in crime. trying to do the same in los angeles. the governor of florida though stands apart. ron desantis. he is against this trend and for that reason florida is a very different state from the ones we justy mentioned. he's now pushing for a law that would mandate very harsh sentences for people who riot. in florida under this proposed law throwing projectiles at police officers would drop a

mandatory six-month jail sentence, toppling statues and barricading roadways would be a felony. ron desantis is standing apart from so many of our elected leaders, even republicans and we wanted to talk to him tonight about what he is doing in a state of florida. thanks so much for joining us, appreciate it and i appreciate what you're doing. >> happy to do it. >> tucker: this legislation they are proposing and backing. >> yeah, a number of things. you mentioned increase penalties for people who were involved in these violent demonstrations, that includes things like toppling statues, blocking roadways. we also have a provision that says any municipality p that defines the police, which is just an insane policy, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face, if you do that, the state government is going to defund you. we're not going to be sending you money if you do things like that. we also are concerned about watching minnesota, what happened, minneapolis, where the mayor just abdicated spline stomach was mom's ability, had standan back.

that gave them the ability to run amok. if that happens in florida we are waving sovereign immunity. you can sue the local government for damages for anything that happens to you and as you mentioned, with just letting people out, we revoke bail if you're arrested for one of these offenses and once you make your first appearance, the perception is you don't get bail beyond that because what happens in oregon, they go in, get their mug shot taken and then there right back on the street doing the same thing. how is that a deterrent? >> tucker: it's not. and this is going on for more than three and half months and it's memorial day weekend. i'm not aware of any otherth governor that suggesting what you are suggesting. why do you think that is? why do people put up with this for so long? >> we got a great response from this. part of it was we took action in florida when all this was happening at the beginning of june. i immediately bought up the national guard. we have highway patrol strike teams that are there. we actually prevented them from taking over roads because we had things done but i also thought to myself, okay, we handled it

right, we had a lot of mayors who did a really good job but we really want to keep playing lacrimal? once somebody throws a brick at a police officer during one of theseur demonstrations and then they have to go immediately to jail, they are going to stop. they're not going to do it. if they get away with that they are to continue to do it so i think this is important and by the way, your intro was [indiscernible]. it's all most like this writing was they are threatening to riot more, you're seeing more and more of this. if this is something that's coming down i the pipe. >> tucker: there's a reason people are moving there, not just the low taxes and good weather. has anybody on the other side come out against this yet, and if so, what's the argument against it? >> i think people reflexively on the far left have. i think that they just do the typical stuff that they do. some of the people on the far left, they are just antipolice.

i mean, they do believe in defunding the police and so when you have me standing in front of all the sheriffs and police chiefs saying no, you're not going to defund the police, we will defund you, you're going to jail if you harm a police officer, really any citizen, but they are basically caught in his position but i think it's important, we want this done as soon as we get it done, everybody running for office ini florida in the house or senate, they've got to take a position on this now, are you for law enforcement world of law or are you going to stand with thef mob? i know where i stand. >> tucker: and i think most people do, even democrats. most people believe in order. governor, i really appreciate what you're doing and i appreciate you explaining it to us. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: up next, joe biden delivered some very pressing and honestly veryde sad news for 200 million americans yesterday. we want to make sure you are sitting down as we show you the state because it's crushing. plus, we are monitoring the rally underway in ohio.

we will bring you updates as they occur. >> developing these great vaccines and that's going to be -- literally these will be done in record time, likey' nobody's ever done before. on november 3rd, ohio will decide whether we end the pandemic and return to record prosperity or whether we allow sleepy joe biden and his group of incompetents to delay the vaccine just out of the country. he actually suggested that he would shutdown the country. ♪

>> tucker: joe biden simply disappeared on saturday and nobody could find him, but fear not, he reemerged on sunday to assure everyone that he was okay. unfortunately, the rest of us might not be okay. joe biden was bearing some very disturbing news. watch this. >> it's estimated that 200 million peoplele have died probably by the time i finish this talk.

>> tucker: you might not even hear this, you may be dead. you may have died during joe biden's speech. check yourself. the message from joe biden's handlers couldn't be clear, the more you force joe biden to speak the more people will die, and keep in mind everyone of those deaths was donald trump's fault. >> if the president had done his job, done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. all the people -- i'm not making this up, just look at the data. >> tucker: he's not making this up. if trump had done his job, it's not clear wha what the job is, t somehow all of those 200 million people who died during joe biden's speech would beur alive today. hundreds of millions of people buried if trump had just waved his hand and made corona go away. just look at the data, says joe biden. keep in mind, in june he told us that 120 million people had died of the coronavirus. holy smokes. in february he said 150 million

people had been shot to death in this country. where does joe biden get these data, and who is his dealer? a lot of people are asking that question. watch. >> and i've got a debate coming up with this guy. you never know. you never know. they give him a big fat shot in the ass and he comes back out and for two hours he's better than ever before. theth problem is what happens after that? we are going to ask for a drug test, we are. i'd like to have a drug test. both of us. i wille take it, he will take i. >> tucker: joe biden has not yet agreed to a drug test buried dr. marc siegel is a fox news medical correspondent, we are happy to have them on the show tonight. thanks so much for coming on. 200 million people died during that speech. i think that qualifies as a national emergency. maybe i'm being hysterical, what do you think?

>> tucker, imagine if president trump said that. imagine how the wolves would be all over him if he made anything like that mistake. the word of course they used took over this is gaffe, but i have to tell you it's time we stop using the word gaffe. i've talked to many neurologists. i haven't examined the former vice president. i don't have a clinical diagnosis to make, but many neurologists have said to me these are not isolated. 200 million people dying, iraq versus iran, he keeps mixing up those two countries, there's multiple examples of that. and i want to put forth some ideas tonight. they are not proof, they are not even theories but back in 1988, former vice president biden had [indiscernible] in his brain using surgical techniques and he had aa bleed. studies show 50% long-term cognitive problem. what is cognition? it's thinking, its memory, it's decision-making. he's also got -- it's a medical atomic matter of public record. a swiss study just shown a

years ago in thousands of patients that there's a 3% per year silent stroke where you can't see it except for changes in thinking, tucker. 3% per year whether you're on blood thinners are not. so now president trump says, you know, we should have drug testing before debates. b and i'm thinking, why would he be saying that? well, let me tell you one reason,, tucker. there's a study that shows that for people who have mild cognitive thinking or memory problems, you know it helps? speed. you know what helps? adderall, a drug that i prescribe. these drugs can help in low doses for short periods of time. now look, and the olympic square testing o athletes, baseball games, we don't want anybody to juice. we're looking for competitive advantage. we are analyzing that. we want to make sure nobody takes advantage. look, tucker, this may be the most important election of any of ourta lifetimes. any of our lifetimes. there is so much at stake here.

one road towards the economy, another road, lockdowns. we need to make the right decision here and one road goes this way, the other road, a famous poet robert frost said the road not taken. we must take the right road, tucker. >> tucker: that's right. thank you so much for that, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: we told you last week about a story from a local news station in nashville, fox 17 about a series of emails between the mayor's office in the city health department. in those emails the officials appear to discuss whether to release to the public the very low number of coronavirus cases connected to bars and restaurants.ts that story understandably attracted a lot of attention. there's been some drama in nashville since then. pressure from the mayor's office, fox 17, the channel, has pulledat that start off its website. there are no longer reporting that the mayor's office covered up the coronavirus numbers. it's now been reported that some of those numbers were actually put out in august, so the public didn't seem to know about them.

the mayor's office claims emails suggesting a cover up or taken out of context. so we don't knowut the truth abt that because we don't have all the emails, but we wanted to keep youou up-to-date on what ws happening there and of course we will bring you more as we learn more. well, one of the names on the president's short list to replace ruth bader ginsburg has gotten a lot of attention. she appears to be the front runnerot tonight, her name is ay coney barrett. what kind of justice would she be, what kind of person issued? we will talk to someone who has known her since high school after the break. and then as we have all night we are monitoring the rally underway in ohio and we will bring any news that emerges from it. we will be right back. ♪

♪ >> tucker: judge amy coney barrett, according to news reports, is tonight the top candidate in line to replace ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. the president nominated barrett to the seventh circuit court of appeals back in may of 2017. if you haven't seen her opening remarks during those confirmation hearings, they are worth finding on youtube. in it she introduces her family,

seven children, two adopted with special needs from haiti. her husband, her parents, a revealing look into amy coney barrett's life. mike johnson has known her for a very long time, represents louisiana in united states congress, they went to high school together. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. not legal analysis but just as a person she seems may be the finest person i've ever seen under discussion for this job. is she? >> that is certainly my view. we came from different parts of the state in louisiana but we met in student leadership events when we were younger and she stood out even then. when we were 17 years old, tucker, 1 this is a person who s extremely talented but also graciousxt and humble and that s the kind of leadership that is recognized and not imposed. she's had a phenomenal career, a brilliant constitutional scholar and i tell you what i told the president on saturday, i've spoken to him about amy on a couple of occasions over the last couple years because we wanted her to have this position. i saidn. mr. president, to sum t

up, she's a female scalia. she clerked for justice scalia and she learned and studied constitutional lawaw under him d i will tell you, she is exactly with the president promised the american people and he said he would appoint justices just like justice scalia. she's the one. >> tucker: we keep hearing about how positions of leadership -- and this is true to some extent -- the people who occupy them are role models for their gender, whatever group they are assigned. i mean, she seems -- i can't imagine a more sterling role model than this judge. as a person. >> she is an exceptional pick and an exceptional person, tucker. she's had this phenomenal career, a brilliant constitutional scholar asri everyone will see and hear but more important than that, she's a great person. n, she's a wife and a doting mother of seven children, two of them are adopted from haiti, one has special needs, her youngest. she's grounded. and that makes her a relatable person and i think that's exactly the kind of justice that we need on theel supreme court,

someone who can relate to real people and understand the real problems with real quandaries of real americans and i think she'll be a great pick. she's only 48 years old. she can serve on the court for more than a generation, you know? i think she checks all the boxes and if she is in the top slot, it will be great. >> tucker: someone who was exhibited personal decency, not just talked about decency or claimed to represent -- exhibited personal decency. i think that's important. congressman, i appreciate your insight in this. an inspiring potential choice.ot we've obtained video of the leading democratic candidate for the united states senate trashing the police inna the mot inflamed and honestly heinous way. we will show you the tape next. and we are mad out to mike monitoring the rally in the state of ohio for any news that might occur. ♪

>> tucker: i want to take you out with an exclusive. the democratic party's leading candidate in a special election

for the senate seat in georgia held by senator kelly loeffler. he is stacey abrams' handpicked successor, he has the endorsement of a lot of high-profile democrats. elizabeth warren, kamala harris and others. polls show he could win in a few months. what does he believe? raphael warnock has used his platform as a christian platform to attack specific people, police officers. he has called them thugs, and compared them to violent street gangs. at one point, he said police officers "often pose a danger to children." here is the video. >> in ferguson, police power, showing up in a kind of gangster and thug mentality. you know, you can wear all kinds of colors and be a thug. you can sometimes wear the colors of the state and behave like a thug. we shouldn't be surprised when we see police officers act like

bullies on the street. it's children's day and we've got to lift up our children because our children are in trouble. and there are often those who are sworn to protect cause more trouble. >> tucker: that's his christian sermon. that's his gospel. we want to be fair so we reached out to raphael warnock and invited him on the show. he refused. he's not embarrassed and why would he be? his party's official platform says that police terrorize people every day. kamala harris says she's proud of jacob blake who assaulted officers after he allegedly raped a woman. it is clear that he is not an aberration. it is exactly with the democratic party may stands for. warnock may have a seat in the united states senate. that's it for us. we are completely out of time but we will be back tomorrow and every weeknight at 8:00 p.m., the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.

and with that, we turn our show over to the man who takes the baton every evening at 9:00 p.m. from new york, america's largest city, sean hannity. >> sean: great show, thank you. welcome to "hannity." president trump speaking at a massive rally in ohio. we will take you there live in a few moments. first, big news today, before his trip to ohio, the president met with a potential supreme court nominee. the person whose name is mentioned most often and that is judge amy coney barrett. we'll have more on that in just a moment. tonight we are only 43 days when you become the ultimate jury. that means the 2020 presidential election will happen and now more than ever what are we witnessing? the radical, extreme socialist democratic party will do anything for power. right now, we are witnessing something that is historic. democrats, their allies in the media mob, state-run tv, they