>> martha: that's "the story" of monday, september 28th, 2020, we will see you back here with bret baier with the run up and then we head into the debate hall with chris wallace. interviewing the president and joe biden and we will see you tomorrow night. have a great night. usabl♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," on saturday the president formally announcing his pending nomination of amy coney barrett to the supreme court. confirmation hearings expected to begin just a couple weeks from now on october 12. there is no question that barry disqualified for the job, graduated first in her class in law school and a wonderful scholarship. she clicked on the supreme court and left in practice there and rejoined the alma mater. three years ago, barrett was confirmed and became a judge. while doing all of this, barrett

had five children with her husband and then adopted two more from haiti, one of whom is special-needs. the youngest child has down syndrome. on any level, amy coney barrett is a remarkable person and an unusual person and the most impressive person to receive a supreme court nomination in memory. here she is with her family at the announcement on saturday. >> if confirmed, i would not assume the role for the sake of those in my own circle. and certainly not for my own sake. i would assume this role to serve you. i would discharge the judicial oath which requires me to administer justice without respect to person. to equal rights to the poor and the rich, and fearfully and impartially perform my duties under the united states constitution. >> you can see the problem for

democrats and how would you derail the nomination of someone like that? a legal scholar who went through senate confirmation and is assented judge and has seven kids and well-adjusted and normal. it's the last point that jobs the the left completely insane. amy coney barrett looks like a happy person and for opponents, clearly, not happy people and their miserable and that's why the politics come from. on level, democrats understand that's a bad idea to attack oh woman for her family and religis base. they can help themselves. they are doing it. it amy coney barrett represents everything that makes us a great country and therefore, they despise her. watch msnbc legal and literalists denounce her as a fake christian. >> it's not catholic, devolved to turn away thy neighbor and it's not taking away people's health care as amy coney barrett said she will. it's not about catholics to

apply the death penalty which amy coney barrett has written that a good catholic judge should recuse themselves from situations implying the death penalty. she has not written that a catholic judge recuse themselves on a woman's right to choose but what we are left with is hypocrites. >> tucker: just in case your following at home, amy coney barrett doesn't enthusiastic about obamacare and therefore she's not a real question demand christian. others of course see her as too sincere christian. watch than happiest man in america, a guy pushing and shuffling toward the end of life with no clue what happens next. attacking amy coney barrett as mentally ill for daring to believe in more than shopping and vacation. >> apparently, the ticket will

be this amy coney barrett and i will be saying this name a lot because she's a [bleep] not. religion. i was right about that as well. amy coney barrett catholic really, really catholic and i mean really, really catholic like speaking in tongues. >> tucker: what this is about and you can guess it already is abortion. the left is worried that amy coney barrett doesn't love abortion enough. she and her husband have seven children so it's a pretty fair guess. this is a nomination to her highest court so it's interesting and you'll know this this is the debate continues, they never address the question of the law on abortion. on roe v. wade. does anyone really think that roe versus wha roe vs. wade mak? where exactly in the constitution is the guarantee of post-viability abortion and you can find in a can tell us where it's been hiding. but they can't find it and they

don't want to have the debate. so they attack amy coney barrett's family. the abortion industry lobby group tweeted that barrett "belongs to a group believes that husbands are in charge of their wives." larry is considering amy barrett's life and she seems pretty self-directed but other outlets places like politico and the guardian suggested that barrett belongs to a cold. they said the usual partisan operatives and think takes exist to give way to fake stories. in fact, barrett is a member of the mainstream christian group and part of the renewal movement that started in the '70s. of tens of millions of charismatic christians around the world. this is not a fringe sect. in fact, some members of people are actually politically liberal it turns out. one indication of this is pope francis. one of the auxiliary bishops

from portland, oregon. but the details aren't the point of this. attacking christianity is the point of this. why do they hate christianity, at its core, christianity is a threat to the left because it acknowledges an authority higher than the democratic national committee. when dianne feinstein told amy coney barrett during her first confirmation hearing three years ago, that "the dogma lives loudly with a neo." what she meant is that barrett's dogma might be more powerful and enduring than the democratic party's dogma. the idea of that is deeply offensive to them. the single person to serve in the senate, attacking on barrett's personal faith is fair game. >> i will question judge barrett under oath and other views because she has been very closely held views that will impact a woman's right to choo choose. the issue is whether or not her

closely held views on issues such as affordable care act, abortion rights, can be separated from her ability to be a fair and objective justice. >> tucker: closely held views. remember that phrase, the new euphemism for christianity. they don't want to say the word. on saturday, a guy calle attacky barrett and her husband for the sin of adopting children from haiti. here's what he wrote. "some white colonizers adopted black children and they civilized of th the average children while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents of the children out of the picture of humanity." hard to know exactly what that means the person who wrote it is

obviously a and can't write english. but the broad picture is very clear. it's better for a balletic person to starve in haiti than live with a white family in america. that's a point the clan might have made 60 years ago and, place on the left and pure racism and the definition of it. but twitter did not censor that expression of racism. the twitter ceo was donating $10 million to his antiracist research center, boston university. that's what jack's bunny is paying for not the only person making points like this. at this weekend longtime democratic party staffer said this. i'd love to know which adoption agency amy coney barrett and her husband used to adopt the two children they brought from hai haiti. many adoptions were "catchy as."

how did we get here? in healthy country, the fact that they adopted two children and five of their own would be seen as heroic because it is heroic. on the modern left, it is viewed as dangerous. to a party at war with nature, motherhood is a threat. listen to amy coney barrett describe how they adopted their second child and this is they d that they were pregnant. they wondered if they could pick up a three year old. that that's not an easy decision to make. watch how she made it. >> jus we were working out the logistics to pick up peter in florida and i wasn't really feeling that great. it turned out juliet was going to be coming along so we had an intense three are where period where we had to decide if were going to go forward with going to get him in florida.

because we had discovered that juliet was going to be coming that year too. we really wanted five but now it was kind of like it, five and six. i threw my coat on and we live close to campus and i threw my coat on and so if you are from south bend or lived there, you know the weather. i walked in i just sat down on one of the benches and i thought, okay, well, if life is hard at least it is short. [laughter] but i thought like, what greater thing can you do then raise children? >> tucker: life is hard to, but it is short. the best. but the nub of her explanation is this and this is a quote. what greater thing can you do then raise children? quick, what's the answer to that. get promoted to vp in the investment bank down town and

move up to an equity and hedge fund and by a bigger loft. too many in the ruling class, those are the answers. they view children as a distraction from the real point of life which is extended narcissism until death. no wonder they are so unhappy. an entire political party guided by the distorted personal priorities of highly neurotic, you can see where they've the idea of the stop amy coney barrett. a man lied for years serving in vietnam telling with a straight face that amy coney barrett is a legitimate. >> i've no intention o of meetig with judge barrett because i simply refuse to treat this process, a sham, and illegitimate process is really legitimate. and fair. >> tucker: this is not just a debate over procedure. on saturday, the most powerful democrat in the senate, mack

announced that amy coney barrett is standing against everything that america believes in and stands for. >> just about everything that america believes for and stands for like health care, labor rights, lgbtq rights, women's rights, judge barrett stands against all of that. justice ginsburg must be turning over in her grave up in heaven to see that the person they chose seems to be intends on the undoing all the things that ginsberg did. >> tucker: following the reasoning, rut ruth bader ginsbg is turning in her grave, we must honor her final dying wish. that's the position of the party that is against hope. it is such a lie. because democrats know that amy coney barrett's life refutes the

lies and they've pushed on for decades. they must destroy her personally and they have no choice. her happiness, her family's happiness is evidence that they are frauds. john kennedy is a senator from the state of louisiana and happy to have him on. if senator, thank you for coming. did you think that we would reach a point where democrats would say that out loud were going after her on her religious faith. >> i saw an indication of that in the confirmation for the court of appeal position. you are correct. it is only in monday. if so far, judge barrett has been called a religious bigot. a racist. and antifeminist. the anti-public health. her opponents haven't gotten around yet to calling her an alien lizard person, but it will

come. before it's over with, i'm afraid, that they will accuse her of drowning little newborn puppies. that's not what this is all about though, and i think almost all of my democratic colleagues know that none of these things are true. this is what they are upset about. judge barrett is a constitutionalist. which means she's a madisonian, which means she believes in the separation of powers. which means that federal judges are not politicians and robes. which means that she believes that the united states supreme court is not supposed to be a mini congress. which means that she believes that federal judges are not supposed to try to rewrite the constitution every other thursday to advance a political or social agenda that they can't get by voters. which means that she believes that the law is not supposed to

be politics practiced a different way. and that upsets, not all, but many of the democratic colleagues because they don't believe -- well, let me put it in the different way. if they believe in the clarity of numbers as opposed to representative numbers. if not all of them, but many of them. representative governments, the control policy through their elected representatives. declarative governments, which we have been moving towards policy is made by unelected judges and unelected members of the administration's. in other words, from bureaucrats. and barrett's believes that that should not be the case. having said all of that i'm on the judiciary committee, tucker, i will do my job. i'm going to test her, i'm going to probe her intellect, her

temperament, her character, her judicial philosophy, but i started reading her argues and opinions and its clear to me that she's a constitutionalist. it ended upsets a lot of my colleagues, not all, but many. >> tucker: if you believe in democracy, that's what you want, i would think. a senator, we will be watching you carefully. god speed up there. >> thank you. >> tucker: last week on the show friday and we told you we invited cryptocurrency trader one of the richest people in the country to come on and explain why he spent so much money to make your neighborhood more dangerous. it like bailing criminals out of jail and he will come tonight. we will tell you why, after the break. ♪ ood parent. ood parent. jared? i'm hearing the most awful things, people shouting at me. it's ok. when you live with schizophrenia like us, it can feel like you're living in a different world.

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♪ >> tucker: last week we told you the organization that's really has an effect on this country and hurt a lot of people. if it is funded by some of the richest liberals in the nation and called the bail project, it's been millions of dollars bringing thousands of kernels back on the street as quickly as possible. the horrifying result, the chairman of the board, michael nova graph, former hedge fund manager, cryptocurrency trader, princeton graduate.

we invited him onto the program on friday and wanted to ask him why are you doing this? we wanted to ask why an organizer that rented a truck before the riots there? we also want to know why a wealthy finance guy would want to bail out people like sami scott, scott facing charges and st. louis were beating his wife when the bail project came to the rescue. according to the police, he used the newfound freedom to beat his wife to death. he promised he was going to do that when he went to jail the first time and he apparently made to go in on it. thanks bail project. a number of stories like this last week and so on michael nova gratz bailed out and then he said he would come back tonight. but he's not coming. he sent an email to us today saying, nope, not coming. he's not alone. there's a lot of wealthy democrats were funding the projects and projects like it, chelsea clinton, apparently the

longest apartment in new york city. hedge fund manager herself unlikely but not true. clinton tweeted that she was talking to kids about why we're contributing daily to the bail project and we love to ask her what she thinks about these. killed by the people that chelsea clinton is bailing out. actors boast about a donation to the similar group of the minnesota freedom fund. it has failed a criminal accused of trying to kill a police officer and the man charged with rating an 8-year-old girl. good job, guys. nobody asked, but we would like to ask. kamala harris tweeted this now "chipping now to help those protesting on the ground in minnesota."

13 joe biden staffers contributed to the bail fund. this is not about people protesting on the ground, the people giving money it's about buying indulgences. if they donate money to social justice, they hope to avoid tough relevant questions like where did you get your money? when's the last time you did something for them country? what's a hedge fund, what we whd we be in favor of? those are great questions and we would love somebody to ask them. if you're wealthy liberal and giving the bail funds to assuage your throbbing conscious. come on our show, we would love to see you. friday, a model of peaceful protesters descended on the store in louisville in the demanded that the owner repeat black lives matter. he refused and he's an american and he doesn't have to repeat what the mom tells him to

repeat. one of the properties had been firebombed by blm activists and didn't feel like salivating the people who did it. here's the video of the exchange from "the daily caller." >> you say blue lives letter, the color black. >> you have an issue with that. i don't see color! white or black, both [bleep]! both are human beings! human beings, that's all i care about! >> tucker: i see you as a human being. what a wonderful line. the mob didn't know how to respond to that. the owner of bip smoke shop and we are happy to have him on. thank you so much for being on. i see you as a human being. that makes my day to hear so many say that aloud in this environment. why would you not just say what the mob wanted you to say? why did you resist?

>> no one can -- first of all, thank you for having me. the answer to that question is because no one can force me to do something that i don't want to do. it's just for the simple fact like, i'm a free man, you know? that's the simple answer to it. >> tucker: you are a free man. there are so few. were you born in this country? >> i was born and raised in jordan and i've been living in the u.s. for the past 24 years. tucker: i'm glad you came here. if you've seen the country change a lot and when you came here, i bet you never expected a mob of violent people trying to force he did say something don't believe in. >> absolutely. >> tucker: were you afraid? >> absolutely not. >> tucker: many american-born people seem to terrified and why were you not afraid to?

>> why i'm not afraid to, that's how i was raised. nobody can intimidate me basically, it's that simple. >> tucker: they were trying to intimidate you i noticed. >> yes time. >> tucker: when they showed up -- big time. what did they do to try to intimidate you? >> they basically tried to force me to say black lives matter or her name breonna taylor. and i was like, i'm not, i'm not going to do it. whether they like it or not. >> tucker: has anyone supported you in this? >> i've been given support from all over the country and i've been getting hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, messages from all over. i believe that there's a video

of me, which is the one that you just put on. and they got attention from everybody and even from the local news, surprisingly. now everybody wants to do an interview with me. >> tucker: i can see why. you've got a business to run. i am a free man, i feel like getting that tattooed on my arm. thank you, you're an inspiration to the rest of us and i hope you shamed some of the many cowards by your bravery. at thank you for joining us tonight. >> i appreciate you, sir, thank you. >> tucker: earlier this month, fox obtained footage of nancy pelosi getting her done without wearing a mask. it tonight, the show conclusively proves it's a trend. we obtained photo showing top democrats ignoring the rules that she makes. it's an amazing picture. we have it exclusively.

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>> more lawmakers are calling for nationwide roles for wearing face coverings, dianne feinstein rented two organizations for asking for an national mask policy. >> tucker: that was from june when dianne feinstein wrote a letter demanding everybody wear masks and airports. feinstein wrote that we need a mandatory mask policy for all airport and airline employees and passengers. "the agency head so confusion among passengers about whether masks are necessary but there enougnecessary. well, given that today this show exclusively obtained photographed -- this will rock your world, dianne feinstein in a private terminal in the dallas

airport. on friday. in the photographs, feinstein can see and be smiling without a mask on. she's so in confusion about whether masks are necessary, a pilot with a mask is walking in front of her carrying a bag and a dog. we reached out to dianne feinstein's office about the photograp photograph but wee sure of one thing. it's not her fault especially when the hair hair salon framedt nancy pelosi. it dallas airport, the diabolical fbo masterminds of the whole thing. we will stay on top of the story and bring in more evidence of the guilt as we inevitably find it. just last year, joe biden was in his mid-70s was giving us more previously undiscovered that details about his bio. he said "he got his start and historically black college

called delaware state." watch. >> i got started on hbcu will, delaware state. i don't want to hear anything negative about delaware state here. they're my folks. all kidding aside, the fact is hbcu is in trouble financially. remember why, black folks couldn't go to white colleges. >> tucker: come on, man, i'm black. it's especially nist at delaware state in the university said in a statement issued this weekend, "vice president joe biden did not attend at delaware student university." he was there in 2003-2016 when he gave commencement addresses. that was well after he became a senator and elected in 1972. he did not actually get his start and he was a middle aged man -- late middle aged man,

elderly actually. joe biden became a senator back in 1840 which makes sense. here it is. speak out that's why i made it a priority of my entire career to work closely with you, from the time i got to the senate 180 years ago. >> tucker: it's been quite some time and honestly it shows. how is tomorrow's debate going to go and joe biden will be there and dana perino will be covering it and she is the host of the "daily briefing" on fox. i think you're in cleveland and what happens? >> it's noah's ark being built just on the road here because it is pouring here. there's a lot of excitement to the siri and yo in the city ande first time that they've seen eah other. this is not a typical campaign and think about all the things that you have seen between march and october. when you didn't have a pandemic.

the other thing i wanted to point out, tucker, i could be on the cusp like less than 24 hours away from winning a bet with you that there would be this debate. >> tucker: that's absolutely right. the justification for my position, though, is stronger than it however has been which is that joe biden is not a skilled extern for rainiest speaker. how do his handlers and the people around him think he's going to do tomorrow night? >> i've heard that they think he will do fine and you're married, tucker, how are things going and your wife says fine. that means not great. it means that you better be on your toes. for the biden team, everything fine is just fine, like that's all he needs to do. you know, we have seen him so little on the campaign trail that tomorrow night i predict that it will be the most watched american presidential debate in the history of our country.

everybody is going to want to see them and i think it's not so much what they say as how they say it and who they say it to. i believe that joe biden has more to lose in this debate so then trump has to gain. biden's talking to multiple people and he's got the fractured bays, progressives are not trustable of him and then trump will try to push him on that and you're going to take the country too far to the left. the president has a record to run on that he can talk about. the other thing for thing for president trump, he has to show he can play more than one club in his bag. he can be counter punching joe biden and if joe biden is not mentally sharp tomorrow night, there is no need for president trump to bring it up because everybody will be able to see it. >> tucker: that's a very good point. the debate we should add is airing here on fox and were happy about that and preview it tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. you will be there and were running for you and we hope it's interesting, i bet it will be.

>> it's going to be great. thank you for having me. >> tucker: you may have heard about donald trump's tax returns and parts of them have been leaked to "the new york times." interesting story about the tax returns and telling us about america. we will tell you what's after the break. ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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♪ >> tucker: as you probably heard today, "the new york times" obtain details from the president's tax returns. there's a couple headlines from the story and only one of them in the paper. first it turns out donald trump was not in fact beholden to russian business interest or fos vladimir putin. you about guest out already. the second take away from the pieces in some years donald trump paid a strikingly lower rates than you are playing. if the accountants took advantage of the provisions in the tax code to make it possible. what the president did was illegal and all but universal for the affluent who earned them from investments. should the president use the conventional tax loopholes to

his own benefits it, leave that question to the professional hyper ventilators who are talking on it on the other channels. but far more interesting is this question. why does it remain so grotesquely on fair? billionaire should not be paying a lower rate and no matter who they are, who the president is. the main problem with america right now is that a shrinking group of people controls a growing share in the wealth of power. it's lopsided and getting more lopsided every year. it makes the country more unstable. it lopsided and this is why the tech oligarchs can tell you what to say and think and why young people seem so hopeless and nihilistic in so many of them aren't starting families. that's why your grandchildren are almost certainly earning less than you do. if by the way, it's also why donald trump got elected four years ago.

if americans can feel that something was profoundly wrong with the way our country was structured. suddenly, it did not feel like we're all in this together. it seemed clear to the people in charge they were in it for themselves. to fix it, voters went outside the system. four years later, some good things have happened. but the core drivers of the crisis that we faced, i'm dying middle class and the growing hegemony of billionaires, remain unresolved. this is not a small problem. if we do not fix it soon, it's a guaranteed disaster. no nation can live for long under the tyranny of selfish oligarchs. post-soviet russia could end. if we don't flatten our economy and make it possible once again, for normal people to live happy productive lives, america will become a very radical place and quickly. what happens then? russian history provides a look.

written in a remarkable book that comes out tomorrow. interviewing thousands of people who fled, they know perfectly well what's going on in america right now and they have seen it before. it tonight, they've got a message for the rest of us. joining us now and thank you so much for coming on and congratulations on the book. if you interviewed people who have seen the movie before and what's the message for us? >> the message for us is that we americans had better not think that it cannot happen here. it absolutely can and you're talking about what the oligarchs are doing here and how difficult it is for ordinary people to have middle-class lives. i got the same message at dinner and moscow last year from a dinner with the family. i said how is it that anybody could have believed what the bolsheviks said to? the father of the family said that you have to understand how hard life was in the country and how the rich had everything and most people had nothing. he said that the revolution was

obviously horrible, but it came from somewhere and we are seeing similar conditions right here in america. >> tucker: it came from somewhere, that's exactly right. vladimir putin came from somewhere and soviet classes, the small groups of oligarchs take care of everything and boom, putin. refugees from the system that you talk to, when they watch the woke revolution underway in our country, what's their reaction to a question mark >> it seems like old times because they have lived through this sort of thing before. it makes them so angry that americans don't believe them. they think that they are being alarmist. when i started talking to the people, tucker, really got into it and listen to them, i began to see the world like they do. that you think they're worried about that is not google logs in secret police coming, they see something more insidious. they see a social credit system like they have in china where

the oligarchs and the people who will be running the country will use all of the data that the corporations get from us through our smartphones and our computers, and will use that to deny people jobs, access to universities, and keep us on the margins of the economy and ruin our lives. they will be able to get what they want without having to use the hard totalitarian methods. this will be a soft totalitarian. >> tucker: no ukraine famine, but a gradual and very firm cracked down on the rest of us. i don't think i'm alarmist and i think that is in progress now. is it not? >> absolutely, yeah. we just do not see it because a lot of it is happening now through the government but through corporations. universities, and the media, social media. we have our eyes fixed on the governments in the george orwell 1984 model that actually we should be looking to woke

capitalists and the other institutions which have so much control over our lives. we are giving to them by our social media use. >> tucker: i got to ask you, you've been a writer for 30 years and mostly identified as a conservative. why don't conservatives see this? some do i think of a lot of our viewers do, but they sort of miss that the banks are missingt impossible to disagree, for example. >> that's exactly right. it does fit our gold war mind-set that says government by the business code. in fact, things have shifted buried at 2015 was the key moment when major corporations jumped into the culture war and a very big way on the side of identity politics and you can't escape it. if people think that if we just elected the right people and get the right judges that will take care of everything. they are missing it. plus a lot of americans believe

that america is always going to be the land of the free, home of the brave. they are ignoring the dissidents like all these other great people who stood up to communist totalitarianism say that it really can happen here. we've got to prepare ourselves right now for what may be to come. >> tucker: that's exactly right. i'm interested, you spent a long time writing the book and i can't recommend it more, how did it change your personal views? >> it taught me about how much we americans, including myself, need to learn how to suffer better. everybody i talked to, including people who have been beaten in prison, americans are so soft we don't know how to suffer. i been thinking a lot over the past year especially during covid, how we've gotten to be a lot more patient with our suffering so that we can endure what is to come because this is what the totalitarians are going to do. they will use our addiction to

comfort and total loss. >> tucker: that's a wise point. thank you so much for coming out tonight and i appreciate you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: after the break, we want to take a moment to remember our friend and historian, frequent guest ost oe show, professor steve cohen. ♪

>> tucker: we have sad news tonight. our friend, professor stephen cohan, a frequent guest on the show, passed away on friday at the age of 81. steve cohen was the greatest of his generation, for decades he taught russian studies at princeton nyu. he dreamed and russian. he was also a lifelong man of the left and his wife, beloved wife, to this day the publisher of the nation magazin. steve cohen's views never changed in the country and its politics changed around him.

but despite enormous a consistent pressure from countless longtime friends, coworkers, steve cohen refused to lie about what he knew to be true regardless did who the president was. here he is on our show almost two years ago. >> it's mystery of our time and i promise you that your kids and my grandkids and the historian wished other generation will look back on the terrible era, this gating era and asked who started it. why you got such traction and why it's done the it has done. >> sean: the clarity and crisis, and that might be easy for you to say something like that. it's not so easy for steve cohen. he took a huge amount of flak for telling the truth. steve cohen was a man of enormous personal courage as well as great indecency. much charm. he was a great man and we will miss him a lot. on that note, that's it for us

tonight. the show at 8:00 p.m. eastern, kicking off a great preview. we will see you tomorrow. sean hannity standing by in new york city. >> sean: tucker, big night tomorrow and we will have the super bowl like ratings all over the place when it's all counted up. a big moment, thank you, tucker. welcome to "hannity," and 24 hours from right now the nation will be watching the very first the debate between president trump and, yes, bunker joe biden. needless to say, joe spent in the basement bunker since before 10:00 a.m. this morning trying to cram again for tomorrow's big nights. he has all this lines to memorize that 70 elves wrote for him and i will give you my very unique take. what i believe is actually going on and has been going on in the basement bunker all season long. much more coming up. we play the very latest lowlifes