interviewing the president and joe biden and we will see you tomorrow night. have a ♪ >> tucker: it well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." over thee weekend on saturday te president formally announced the impending nomination of the supreme court. for confirmation hearings, expected weekend just a couple weeks on october 12th. tere's no question that barrett is qualified for the job. she graduated first in her class on a full ride scholarship. she went to up top law form and rejoined as a law professor. three years ago, barrett was confirmedar by the united states senate and became a judge. while doing all of this, barrett had five children with her

husband jesse and adopt two more from haiti, one of which has special needs. the youngest child hased down syndrome. so on any level, amy coney barrett is a remarkable person, may be the most impressive person to receive a supreme court nomination and memory. here she has with her family at the announcement on saturday. >>on if confirmed, i would not assume that 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 persons.ht equal rights to the poor and rich and faithfully and impartially discharge my duties under the united states constitution. >> tucker: okay, so you can kind of see the problem for democrats. how f would you derail the nomination of someone like that?

a legal scholar who just went through senate confirmation and is now a sitting federal judge, and on top of all that all has seven kids and is well-adjusted and normal. it iss the last point but drives the left completely insane. amy coney barrett looks like a happy person. her opponents are clearly not happy. that's where their politics come from. even on some level, they understand rationally it is a very bad to attack a woman for her family and religious faith. they can't help themselves. so they are doing it. amy coney represents everything that made this a great country. therefore, they despise her. look as they denounce her for a fake christian. >> it is not devout to turn away thy neighbor. it iswa not devout to take away people's health care. as amy coney barrett said she will repeatedly do.at it is not catholic 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 is not written that a good catholic judge could recuse themselves on the women's right to choose. what we are left with is a hypocrite. >> tucker: okay, just in case you are following at home, amy coney barrett doesn't seem sufficiently enthusiastic about obamacare, therefore she is not a real christian. such a theological analysis on msnbc. others of course see barrett as to sincere a christian. look at the happiest man at america,n a guy pushing 70 with no clue what happens next, attack amy coney barrett as mentally ill for daring to believe in more than shopping and vacations. watch. >> but apparently the pick is going to be amy coney barrett --

we will be saying this name a lot i'm sure because she is a [bleep] not. amy coney barrett, really catholic. i mean really, really catholic. like speaking in tongues. >> tucker: it's of what is really about? you've guessed this already, abortion. amy coney barrett doesn't love abortion enough.ne her and her husband have seven children, so it's a fair guess. this is a nomination to the highest court. so it'st interesting, as the debate continues, they never addressed the question of the law on abortion. on roe v. wade. does anybody really think that roe vs. wade make sense as an actual supreme court decision? and if it does, where exactly in the constitution is this guarantee of post-viability abortion? you can find it, maybe you can tell us where it'sn been hidin. but they can't find it, they don't want to have that debate.

so they attack amy coney family.s tweeted but barrett believes that husbands are in charge of wives. hilarious considering amy coney barrett's life. she seems self corrected. several other outlets suggest she belongs to a cult. they are betting that you don't know the first thing about religion. in fact, barrett is part of a mainstream christian group as a part of the charismatic renewal movement that started in the 70s. tens and millions of charismatic christians around the world. this is not a fringe sect. in fact, some members are actually liberal it turns out.ra one of the. the details are not the point of

this. attacking christianity is the point of this. why do they hate christianity? because at its core, christianity is a threat to the left because it is acknowledges authority higher than the tick of a producdemocratic national . duringst her first confirmation hearing, the dogma lives in you. that mayba be her dogma may be more powerful and enduring than the democratic party's dogma. the very idea of that is deeply offensive to them. watch mazie hirono explained that attacks on barrett's personal faith are fair game. >> of course i will question judge barrett under oath because she has a very closely held views that will impact a woman's right to 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. that's their new euphemism for christianity. they don't even f want to say te word. on saturday, a guy called abram kennedy, the best selling author very famous antiracist boston university, he attacked barrett and her husband for their adoption of their child from haiti. "while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity." it's hard to know exactly what that means. if theno e person who wrote it s obviously a and could barely

write english. the broad picture is very clear. it is better for a black child to starve in haiti than to live with a white family in america. that is the point they may have made 60 years ago. it is now commonplace on the left. obviously.acism but twitter didn't censor that expression of racism. in fact,m. the summer, twitter o announced he was donating $10 million to his antiracist research center at boston university. so that is what jack's money is pain four. this weekend a long time democratic party staffer tweeted this. "i would love to know which adoption agency amy coney barrett enter has been used to adopt the two children they brought here from haiti. many adoptions from haiti are sketchy."

and a healthy country, the fact thathe barrettes adopted childrn from haiti would be seen as heroic because it is heroic. on the modern left, it is viewed as dangerous.an to a party at war with nature, motherhood is a threat. listen to amy coney barrett described how she and her husband adopted their second child. she just learned that day she was pregnant when the adoption agency called and said there had been a devastating earthquake in haiti and if they could pick up a 3-year-old. that is not an easy decision toa make. watch how she made it. >> jesse was on the phone with the adoption agency working out the logistics to go pick up john peter in florida. i just wasn't really feeling that great. turned out juliet was going to be coming along that year. so we had an intense three hour period where we had to decide where we going to go forward with going to get john peter in florida.be because we discovered that juliet was going to be coming that year too.

that was what we have really was five. but now it was kind of like -- i threw my coat on. and it was january, so those of you from south bed know thend weather. i walked up to the cemeteryr on campus and i just sat down in one of the benches and i just thought "okay, well, if life is really hard at least it is short." but i thought, what grade i think and you do then raise children? >> tucker: life is hard, but at least it's short. the best. but the nub of her explanation as this. and this is a quote."ha "what greater thing can you do then raise children?" let's see, get promoted at an investment bank downtown. maybe buy a bigger loft in

tribeca. maybe go to raves and of bees appear to have branches. to many in a ruling class, those are the answers. they view children as a distraction from the real point of things which is extended narcissism and tell death. no wonder they are so unhappy. an entire political party guided by the distorted priorities. you can see why they've got to stop amy coney barrett. here is one connecticut senator telling you with a straight face that amy coney barrett is illegitimate. >> i have no intention of meeting with judge barrett because i simplyec refuse to trt this sham process is really legitimate and fair. >> tucker: okay. so this isn't just a debate over procedure. on saturday, the most powerfulhe democrat in the senate, chuck schumer, announced that

amy coney barrett actually stands against everything that america believes in and stands for. grotesque. watch. >> just about everything that america believes in an and standser for when it comes to issues with health care, lgbtq rights, women's rights. judge barrett stands against all of that. just as ginsberg will be turning over in her grave to see that the people they chose seems to be intent on undoing all the things that ginsberg did. >> tucker: okay. so follow this>> reasoning. if you can. ruth bader ginsburg is quote turning on her grave, we must honor her final dying wish, from a party that is against cults. precisely since democrats know that amy coney barrett's life -- they have pushed on the rest of us for decades.

they must destroy her personally. they have no choice. her happiness, her family's happiness, is evidence that they are frauds. john kennedy is the senator from louisiana. thanks much for coming. would you reach a point where democrats would say out loud that they would go after her after her religious faith russian mark >> i saw an indication of that and her confn from her court of appeal position. you are correct, it is only monday so far judge barrett has been called a religious bigot, a racist, and antifeminist, a anti-public health, her opponents haven't gotten around to calling her an alien lizard person. but it will come. before it's over with i'm afraid

thath, they will accuse her of drowning little warm puppies. that's notha what this is all about though. i think almost all of them are democratic -- all of my colleagues note that none of this is true. this is what they are upset wi with. judge barrett is a constitutionalist which means she believes in the separation of powers. which means that she believes that federal judges are not politicians and robes. which means she believes that the united states supreme court is not supposedve to be a mini congress. which means she believes federal judges are not supposed to try to rewrite the constitution every other thursday to advanced a political or social agenda that they can't get by the voters. which means that sheh believes that the law is not supposed to

be politics practiced a different way. and that upsets not all but many of my democratic, colleagues. because they don't believe -- well, let me put it in a positive way. they believe in declarative government as opposed to representative government. not all of them, but many of them. representative government, the people control policy to their elected representatives. in declarative government, which we have been moving toward, policy is made by unelected judges and unelected members of the administrative staff. another word for bureaucrats. and barrett believes that that should not be the case. having said all of that, i am on the judiciary committee, tucker, i will do my job. i am going to test her, i am going to probe her intellect, her temperament, her character, hermp philosophy, but i've stard

reading her articles and it is clear to me she is a constitutionalist. and that upsets a lot of my colleagues. not all, but many of them. >> tucker: if you believe with democracy, that is what you would want. senator kennedy will b to we wil be watching carefully. godspeed. last week on the show we invited a cryptocurrency trader to come on and explain why he hasn't spent so much money to make your neighborhood more dangerous. he was going to come tonight, he's backed out again prayed we will tell you why after the break. ♪ to live with schizophrenia? i am a good 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. you should definitely talk to your doctor and ask about fanapt.

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♪ >> tucker: last week we told you we had an organization that's really had an effect on this country, hurt a lot of e people.rt it is funded by some of the richest liberals in the nation. it's called the bailn project. it spent millions of dollars putting thousands of accused governmencriminals back on the s quickly as possible. the horrifying result, the chairman of the board man named michael -- a princeton graduate, cryptocurrency manager. we invited him on friday wanting

to ask "why are you doing this?" why an organizer for the bail project that the rioters used as a armory. whypl they would want to bail ot someone like samuel lee scott. he was beating his wife and the bail project came to the rescue. he then used his newfound freedom to beat his wife to death. he said he was going to promise when he went to jail the first time.ro we told you a number of stories like this last week. he was bailed out friday, but he said he would come back tonight. but michael is not coming. he sent an email to us today say no, not coming. he's not alone. there are a lot of wealthy democrats who l are funding this project and project like it. chelsea clinton, for example. she owns the longest apartment

in new york city. she is a rich person. she was a hedge fund manager herself. unlikely, but true.se in may, clinton tweeted about how she was contributing daily to the bail project. we would love to ask her what she things of the effect of it. we could put her together with some of the families of the people who have been killed by those who have been bailed out. seth rogen and others have boasted about the minnesota h freedom fund. the 36-year-old man charged with raping a 8-year-old girl. we would like to ask why they are doing now. what did they think of the effect on the country? in june, kamala harris quoted "chip in it now to the minnesota freedom fund." at least 13 joe biden staffers have contributed to the

minnesota freedom fund. this isn't about people protesting on the ground. for the people giving money, it's about buying indulgences. if they donate money to social justice, they hope to avoid questions like "where did you get your money?" when is the last time you did something for the country? what exactly is cryptocurrency trading?t what is a hedge fund? why are you paying half the taxes we are? those are great questions. we would love to ask them. if you are a wealthy liberal giving money to one of these bail funds toea assuage your throbbing conscious come on our show. we would love to see you. on friday, a mob of peaceful protesters descended on a store in louisville and they demanded that the owner repeat "black lives matter." he refused because he is an american, he doesn't have to. one of his properties had been

firebombed and he didn't feel like celebrating the people who did it. here's the video of that exchange. >> it's okay, you can say all lives matter. >> you have ann issue. i don't have an issue. i don't see color. i don't care about all that [bleep]. i see you as a human being, that's all i care t about. >> tucker: i see you as a human being. what a wonderful line. they didn't know how to respond to that. fadi faouri is the one who said that. we are happy to have him on tonight. thanks so much for joining us. i see you as a human being. that just makes my day to hear someone say that out loud in this environment. why wouldn't you just say what the mob wanted you to say? why did you resist?

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

>> that's how i was raised. nobody can intimidate me basically. it's not simple. >> tucker: they were trying to i noticed. >> yes, big time. >> tucker: 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, breanna taylor. and i was like, i'm not going to do it. whether they liked it or not. >> tucker: has anyone supported you in this? >> i've been getting support from all over the country. i been getting hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, messages from all over. i believe there is a video of

me, the one you justt put on, it's got attention from everybody. even from the local news. 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. you are an inspiration to the rest of us. i hope you change others with your bravery. thank you very much for joining us joining us. >> thank you, sir. >> tucker: earlier this month fox obtained footage of nancy pelosi getting her hair done without a mask. she writes the rules, she doesn't have to follow d them. thee night, this show will shows is a trend. ignoring the rules that she makes. we have that exclusively, next.

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>> more lawmakers are calling for nationwide roles for wearing face coverings, dianne feinstein rented two organizations for asking for an >> tucker: that was news footage from june. demanding everyone wear masks and airports, feinstein wrote that we need a mandatory mask policy forrp all airline passengers. there was confusion about whether they are necessary, but they are necessary says diana feinstein. well, given that, today that show exclusively attained photographs of dianne feinstein in a private terminal at dallas

airport. and fbo as they say. in the photographs, feinstein can be seen smiling without a mask on. one might even say she's sowing confusion about whether or not masks are necessary bit a pilot and mask in front of her carrying a bag and a dog. we reached out to her about these photographs, we haven't heard back. we can be sure of one thing. this isn't really diane feinstein's fault. salonike when the hair. framed nancy pelosi caught not wearing a mask while getting her hair done. dallas airport, the diabolical fbo, probably mastermind the whole m thing. we are going to stay on top of the story and bring you more evidence of the airports guilt as we inevitably find it. so just last year, joe biden was in hisst mid-70s and giving us more previously undiscoverednd detail about his bio. he said he "got his start" at a

historically black college called delaware state. watch.h. >> i got started out of a delaware state. i don't want to hear anything 'tnegative at about delaware st. the fact is that hp sa see you s in trouble. >> tucker: come on, man, i'm black. i went to delaware state. that was news to everyone. but it was especially news to delaware state. the university said in a statement issued this weekend "vice president biden didd not attend delaware state you." no, he didn't. he was there in 2003 and 2016 when he gave commencement addresses. of course, that was well after joe biden became senator. he was elected in 1972. so we didn't actually get to start there. he was a middle-aged man, late middle-aged man.

he suggested he actually became a senator back in 1840, which makes sense. here it is. >> that's why made it a priority to work closely with you. from the time i got to the senate 180 years ago. >> tucker: 180 years ago. it's been quite some time, and honestly it shows. how is tomorrow's debate going to go? the host of the daily briefing on fox, we are happy to see her tonight. i think you are in cleveland? what is going to happen? >> yeah, i think noah's ark is just being>> built down the road here. because it is pouring here. there's a lot of excitement in the city. you can feel that even in the midst of coronavirus people y kw that there's a big debate here. it's the first time they will be seen each other, it has not been a typical campaign. thing about all the information in the things he would've seen between march and october in a regular year when you didn't have a pandemic. so i think that the other thing i wanted to point out, tucker,

is that i could be on the cusp. less than 24 hours away from winning a batch with you that there would be this debate. >> tucker: that is absolutely right. i think the justification for my position was stronger than it ever has been. which ist that joe biden is noa skilled speaker. trying to be delicate now andw avoid medical terminology but how do his handlers think he's going to do tomorrow night? >> what i've heard is that they think he will do fine. you are married, tucker. if you say how are things going and your wife says "fine" that means not great. that means you better be on your toes. in this case, for the biden team, everything's fine is just fine. that's all he needs toin do. we have seen him so little out on the campaign trail that tomorrow night at predict will be i the most watched american tpresidential debate in the history of our country.

everybody is going to want to see them. 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 than president trump has to gain. biden is talking to multiple people, he's got a fractured face, president trump is going to push them on that and say you are going to take the country too far to the left. the president now has a record he can talk about. the other thing for president trump as he has show he can play with more than one club and his bag. he can't be counter punching joe biden. if joe biden is not mentally sharp tomorrow night, there will be no need for president trump to bring that up. because everybody will be able to see it. >> tucker: that's a very good point. that debate, we should add, is airing here on fox. we will preview it tomorrow at eight. i hope it's interesting, i bet it will be. >> it's going to be great,

thanks for having me. >> tucker: thank you. you may have heard about donald trump's tax returns. parts of them have been leaked to "the new york times." there is an interesting story about those tax returns. tells people a lot about america. we will tell you what, after the break. ♪ ♪

♪ >> tucker: as you probably heard, "the new york times" attained some details from the president's tax returns. there's a couple of headlines from that story, only one appeared on the paper. it turns out donald trump was not in fact in russian business, for that matter vladimir putin. the second take away from the pieces that in some years donald trump paid a strikingly low federal tax rate, probably lower than what you've been playing. he took advantage of the tax code to make that possible. what the president did was legal. in fact, it's all universal. should the president have used these conventional tax loopholes to his own benefit?

we will leave that question to the professional hyper ventilators on the other channels. they are probably talking about it right now. of course they are. far more interesting is this question, why does our tax code remain unfair russian mark billionaires should not be paying a lower rate than you are pain, no matter who they are, no matter who the president is. the main problem with america is a shrinking group of people polled the power. america is lopsided and it gets more left-sidelopsided every ye. it's why young people seem so hopeless and nihilistic, why so many of them are not starting families. it's why some of them are breaking things in the streets. it's why your grandchildren will almost certainly earn less than you do. and by the way, it is also why donald trump got elected four years ago. americans could feel that

something was profoundly wrong with the way our country was structured. suddenly he didn't feel like we were all in this together, it seemed clear that the people in charge were in it for themselves. so to fix it, voters went outside the system. four years later, some good happened.e but the corporate drivers of the crisis that we face, a dying middle-class and the growing longevity of billionaires, remains unsolved. this is not small problem. if we don't fix it soon, it is a guaranteed disaster. post soviet russia couldn't survive, that's how they got putin. if we don't flatten our economy, if we don't make it possible for a normal happy to live happy and productive lives, america is going to become a very radical place. and quickly. what happens then? once again, russian history provides a guide.

"live not by lives" comes out tomorrow. he interviewed dozens of people who sought for your lives here in the west. they know perfectly well what is going on in america. tonight they have a message for the rest of us. roger joins us now. rod, thank you so much. congrats on the boat. you've interviewed people who have seen this movie before. what is their message for us? >> their message for us is that we americans had better not think that it can't happen here. it absolutely can. you were talking about what the oligarchs are doing here and how is for ordinary people to have middle-class lives. i got the same message and dinner in moscow last year. i was having dinner with a family and i said "how is it that anybody could have believed what they said?" the father of the family said you have to understand how hard life is in this country and how rich had everything and most people have nothing. he said the revolution was

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

would be running this country would use all of t the data that the corporations get from us to our smartphones and computers and would use that to deny people jobs, to deny us access to universities, and to keep us on the margins of the economy and ruin our lives. will be able to get just what they want without having to use the heart to tell message. >> tucker: so no ukraine famine, but a firm crackdown on the rest of us. i don't think i'm an alarmist, but i think that is in progress now. is itt not? >> absolutely. you are absolutely right. we just don't see it because a lot of it is happening through corporations. so we have our eyes fixed on the government like in the george orwell 1984 model. we should actually be looking to book capitalists and these other

institutions which have so much control over our lives. control that we are giving to them by our social media use. >> tucker: i have to ask you. you've been a writer for 30 years, mostly identified as a conservative. why don't conservatives see this? some do come i think a lot of our viewers do. but out there and conservative worlds, the focus is on. because that's exactly right, it doesn't fit our cold war mind-set that says government bad, business good. in fact, things have really shifted. 2015 was the key moment when major corporations jumped into the culture war in a very big way on the side of identity politics. now you can't escape it. if people think that if we just elect the right people, get the right judges on the bench, that will take care of everything. plus a lot of americans believe that america will always be the

land of the free, home of the brave. they are ignoring what things like all these other great people who stood up to communist totalitarianism which is to say it really can happen here. we have to prepare ourselves right nowgh for what may be to come. this bill and i exactly right. i'm always interested, you spent a long time writing this book, how did it change your personal views? >> it taught me about how much we americans, including myself, need to learn how to suffer better. that's what everybody i talk to you including people who have been beaten in prison side that americans are so comfortable and so soft. we don't know how to suffer. i've been thinking a lot over the past year, especially during covid-19, about how we have got to be a lot more patient with our suffering so we can and do what is to come. because this is what the totalitarians are going to say. they are going to use our addiction to control us.

>> tucker: it's a very wise point. >>ha think so much for coming o, i appreciate it. at the break we want to take a moment and remember our friend and historian and frequent guest on the show, steve going. ♪ keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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>> tucker: we have sad news tonight. our friend professor see february cohen, who was a frequent guest passed away on friday at the age of 81. he was the greatest american on russian studies. for decades he taught it at princeton and nyu. he dreamed in russian. he was also a lifelong man of the left. his beloved wife is to this day the publisher of the nation magazine. in some ways steve cohen's views never changed. the country and its politics changed around him but despite

enormous and consistent pressure from countless long-time friends, steve cohen refused to lie about what he knew to be true regardless of who the president was. here he is on our show almost two years ago. >> it's a mystery of our time, and i promise you, that your kids and my grandkids and the historians of their generation will look back on this terrible era, this russia-gate era and ask who started it? why it got such traction and why it's done the damage that it's done? >> tucker: the clarity in crisis, that's always the measure of a man. that might be easy for you to say something like that it was not so easy for steve cohen. i took a huge amount of flack for telling the truth. but steve cohen was a man of enormous personal courage as well as great decency and much charm. he was great man and we'll miss him a lot. >> on that note that's it for us tonight.

a programming note, we'll be here tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern, killing off -- kicking off the debate tomorrow night, we'll see you tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. sean hannity standing by in new york city. >> sean: it will be a big night tomorrow. we'll have super bowl-like ratings all over the place when it's counted up. a big moment. thank you, tucker. welcome to "hannity." 24 hours from now right now the nation will be watching the very first debate between president trump, and yes, bunker joe biden. needless to say joe has been in his basement bunker since before 10:00 a.m. this morning trying to cram again for tomorrow's big night. after all, he has all these lines to memorize that somebody else wrote for him. let me give you my unique take. what i believe is actually going on and what has been going on in the basement bunker all summer long, we'll have more coming up plus we'll play the very latest low lights from joe's pathetic weekend on the