prime time one of the broadcast from our town. i'd be happy to make it happen. >> i'm sure you would. seems like you run the town. we might have to run a background check on you first saw. dvr this photo. tucker carlson tonight it's up next. always remember, i'm waters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the promise of an america credit society is at the most capable people will rise to the occasion of the greatest authority. in a meritocracy you'd higher heart surgeons because a good heart surgery not because of how they look at her with her parents are. a meritocracy's ceiling where to run society. plus it works well.

fewer people died on the operating table when you do it that way. for generations this is how american society ran. if you were smart and work target could compete against anyone else in america. it was true. it was called the american dream. people moved here from all over the world to partake in that system. but there was a pearl about direct political problem with it. if you have a meritocratic society it's hard to play baseball text because race plays no part in advancement. group interests are irrelevant in a meritocracy. it may sound idyllic to you, the kind of country level event. but for the democratic party it was disaster. how do you get your odors to the pulse of they're not racially grieved? it's hard. so that the tail end of the civil rights movement, democrats introduced a new concept: they called it affirmative-action. the idea was to punish or reward

americans based on the color of his cabin. ironically this was precisely the evil practice of the civil rights movement was designed to abolish. racial discrimination was unequivocally wrong, that was the whole point of the march on washington. open no, said democrats. actually, racial discrimination can be good at it all depends on who was being discriminated against, there was argument. that still their argument more than 50 years later. but even now, after all this time, most people who can explain it clearly don't really buy it. wait, i can have a job or get a job because i was born with the wrong skin color? that sounds wrong. and of course the right. affirmative-action is wrong. it's totally immoral. it's completely unfair. enough of the first time in years, the democratic party's being forced to defendant in public. the supreme court in just now considering a case about

affirmative-action in college admissions at harvard. democrats are defending the indefensible with maximum ferocity. unfortunately for him that's how that is who you do. affirmative-action is normally the definition of racism it's also highly embarrassing in its particulars. the closer you get to it the more embarrassing it is. when you elevate people on the basis of their appearance, you tend to get not impressive people. why would you? unless you're buying sunscreen, skin tone is a totally relevant criteria. supreme court justice sotomayor openly concedes that she got her job because of affirmative action, she was completely and demonstrably unqualified for the position. obama chose her because of the way she looked. that may sound deranged but it actually happened, nobody set disputes at. today was of the consequences. so to my arm made a mistake that know your first year law school

student whatever make. she confused the terms to fecteau and to ensure. that's an inconceivable mistake. it's like confusing gasoline with diesel fuel. it doesn't happen because the terms of an entirely different meanings. defective mean something none of the law but happens anyway. does surety mean something happening that sanctioned by the law. see the distinction? of course you do. and you're not even a supreme court justice. but so my arm doesn't see it. watch. >> so even if we had to sure of discrimination now, segregation now, congress can't look at that. we certainly have sure segregation. racists are treated differently and a society in terms of their access to opportunity. >> that's what justice just s said. was this woman wearing a robe?

even after justice alito corrected her, she kept saying there is to ensure segregation in 2022. jim crossed on the books. okay. this is the society that affirmative action has created. it's hard to imagine a more case against affirmative-action than its results. and so is going to be that way because the color of your skin is irrelevant. and if you don't believe that, everything falls apart. so as the argument's him on, the case against affirmative-action something stronger. watch this exchange between brett kevin on the state's solicitor general. >> her applicants from little eastern countries classified? jordan, iraq, egypt, iran? >> my understanding is that just like other situations where they

might not fit within the particular boxes on the common application, we rely on self reporting and would ask, they can volunteer their particular country for us. >> but if they honestly check one of the boxes, which one? >> i do not know the answer to that question. >> tucker: . just remind you something you probably never think about, the u.s. government collects data on people's races. now in a society where are all equal as citizens of the law, why would they do that? that's what the did. where against keeping track people on the basis of race, art wait? how do we determine someone's race when there's so much at stake, do we measure the shape of people's heads and take blood tests? it's really dark. it's disgusting. the question that exchange is, what box to the middle eastern's check chris mark no idea!

should they identify as black? selected schools currently boost black compliments to the point room lights are penalized through an important ten points on the city for being white. asians are penalized 450 points for being asian. talk about systemic racism. how is that allowed? good question. and if anything, the systemic racism and that's exactly what it is, so some of the intensive level, has accelerated in the last decade. at harvard, skin color was determinative and admissions for more than half of all admitted african american applicants and roughly one-third of hispanic applicants. how patronizing to them by the way. from 2002 through 2017, it's all just unbelievable the difference

the standards are. it doesn't just happen at harvard or other schools but the entire society. a few years ago senior fellow called mark perry found black and hispanic students were favored heavily for medical school. this is compared to white students. they were nine times more likely compared asian students with similar scores. that's medical school. in the end, you have bad doctors. not because african american students made bad doctors but because the process of picking people on the basis of irrelevant criteria like their skin tone is insane. it has nothing to do with medicine. in fact, the product of itself discredits the medical schools that engage in it because it's so antiscience. this should make you uneasy. but when it gets worse.

here's an exchange from today. clarence thomas asked the solicitor general with the benefits of affirmative-action might be. >> the most concrete possible scenario stock trading. there are studies that find that racially diverse groups of people make trainings decisions perform at a higher level. the mechanism there is that it reduces groupthink and people have longer and more sustained disagreement and that leads to more efficient outcome. >> i can sit on porch let's porch let's talk in talk in that because i've heard similar arguments in favor segregation two. >> tucker: [laughs] so racial quotas to increase groupthink? and allow for a diversity viewpoint chris mack really? in a society that's by racial quotas is there a greater smaller diversity that is to be? it's insane. to clarence thomas it's on familiar, he said he's heard

similar arguments in favor of segregation. gimme this because of how it is born, that's the argument. it was wrong then and that's wrong now. the differences we no longer acknowledge the victims of it. millions of them exist by definition. there people like caitlin younger, white girl from texas, no family connections or advantage is all she had was hard work and intelligence. she scored a near-perfect 1550 on the s.a.t. apparently she thought the system was fair enough to reward her. but she wasn't rewarded when we know why. she was turned on from every selective college she applied to because of the king skin color. how do you feel about that? how do liberals feel about that? does anyone really want to live in a country like that? well if you do, kristen clarke does. she runs the civil rights division at doj.

she didn't get the job because she cares about civil rights. no. she was hired because she opposes civil rights and she has her entire public life in 2020. her political appointment should be killed, she declared. in response to a video of people chanting farah fauci, she said, did these people should be publicly identified and named, barred from treatment at any public hospital if and when they fall well denied common drugs daemonic coverage. >> oh just them. yes indeed. they can ascend to power because they become more powerful, they can continue to claim that they are victims. but they're not victims. she went to private school, kristen clarke. she is a product of privilege. what's interesting is that even as they tell you affirmative-action is the most important social policy, you

can't isolate anyone individually. it's totally not allowed to put other people at kristen clarke. are those protected groups doing? are they benefiting from generations of affirmative-action chris mcdonald or not. the kids of doctors are benefiting from affirmative action. s.a.t. results for black high school students are still abysmal. no one's helping them. how are they being helped? do not being out. the children of nonprofit executives and doctors were saying curtis and barack obama, they're all benefiting. but the people who need it or not getting any benefit, infective being ignored. it's ridiculous. some of the arguments in favor

of it today. science compels a racial's parole system. this is real. >> the supreme court could stem professionals, science, must stand against the white supremacy and scientific racism that fuels arguments against it. >> see a white if you are against racial. your good person arguing against bad people. they converted that. they've cowed people into silence. so joe biden solicitor general, the former miss idaho, he hired, argue today that affirmative-action is somehow vital for a national security to. >> our armed forces known from hard experience that when we do not have a diverse officer corps that's reflective of diversifying for us, our

strength and cohesion and military readiness suffered. so it's a critical national security and parenting obtain diversity within the officer corps. at present it's not possible to achieve that diversity without race conscious admissions including of the nation's service academies. the military experience recognizes what this court recognized in kruger where in a society where race matters in countless ways unfortunately, achieving diversity can some times require conscious acts by relieving educational institutions. >> okay. does she know anything but the subject she doesn't. u.s. military was the single most impressive institution in american life for generations precisely because it was meritocratic. because people advanced on the basis of individual effort and not on the basis of group interest. it's been completely corrupted and the most recent generation

on that corruption has accelerated under joe biden and the result of that is that the army is now dramatically short of its recruitment goal because no normal person of any color wants to join our rate system. they direct the military with this mine person. it was evil when it was practiced in the south 60 years ago and it's evil now. >> the author of a nation of victims joins us tonight. vic, thanks for joining us. why is this so hard to defend the color-blind meritocracy? why do you think this is an important fight? >> it's important for so many reasons but the first of them even for my own experience is that affirmative-action simply does not work to even help the very people it's supposed to help. because of it did help those people, then you would need to apply it to the same groups to

get into boarding school who then need to be the same groups who benefited getting into college, then graduate school, the same people who benefit from it in the professional work for us. if it was working you wouldn't need it at every step of the cascade? nobody makes a case for affirmative-action in the nba. nobody makes in the case for affirmative-action in the nfl because they know that would ruin basketball and it would ruin football. none of us would want to watch it. what we think it's any different when it comes to science or engineering? i'll tell you, that's exactly what's happening in our culture. we have an assault on meritocracy and an assault on excellence. i think it's an assault on the american soul. we need to put the merit back in america. we are at risk of losing the american dream unless we and affirmative-action which the supreme court has an opportunity to do right now.

>> tucker: people understood it was a fair system and they came here as a result. i don't understand if the nba is too important to destroy with affirmative-action then why is it okay at flight schools are medical schools? >> it makes zero sense. let's take the best counterargument from the other side, like in the harvard context. opponents will say they allow legacy admissions. so how come you're against affirmative-action on the basis of race? my response is great, let's get rid of both of them. if you want to get rid of legacy admissions, so be it. my kid doesn't need help to get in. let may the best succeed. may the most athletic succeed. that's what we need to revive and conservatives need to be more bold in declaring it. >> tucker: it's a foundational concept. if were not illegal as citizens, then what's the point?

thank you for defending that core american promise, feedback. >> tucker: so brazil is just had his presidential election, the incumbent, both so narrow, nearly defeated by us for convicted criminal opponent, da silva. there are a lot of questions about this election, whether all the ballots were, for example. bullis and aro is not conceded. but questioning the election results in brazil is no longer allowed their or even here. youtube is just announce it will censor any posts that raise doubts about the vote total in a statement u2 has said it is expanding its election integrity policy to eliminate false claims. wait a second. the election is still ongoing. the incumbent has not conceded. how do you know the claims are

false? of course you don't. you're taking sides. we are using censorship to cement the results in place. this is propaganda. youtube is interfering in a democratic election in a sovereign nation. how's that a lot? will there also reports to matt that several local snarls birds have been murdered in the streets. the footage is online. it's a major threat to democracy. why is that exactly? and why can't we know? why can an american citizen watch whatever he or she wants to? unwise youtube trying to affect the outcome of a presidential election? someone should ask. the mid turn elections are week from today, let's talk to her favorite physician to assess the health of john federal end. we'll talk come next. also, joe biden has completely

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>> tucker: middle-age rastafarian has never had a real job code john fetterman is not running for senate in pennsylvania. not doing a very good job. in a recent debate he was unable to speak coherently at all. his condition is not improved since then. here's an appearance on cnn from earlier today. >> inflation is a big concern for voters. what's the biggest concern? >> i just do. i think that simply is, let's talk about the trillions in massive tax or tax cuts to the corporate tax structure is well true. trillions of dollars that is added to the deficit and they still want to support those. in terms of being very serious about addressing inflation is about making sure those rates

are block stomach brought back into line with what they should have been rather able to fight the deficit. >> how can his wife allow that? the lust for power is the original sin indeed. we stuck nc's medical records, to assess his condition where joined by his top doctor. when you make of this doctor? >> tucker, that appeared confused at best. he doesn't have an indication that he understand what's the chump tax cut did four years ago. he flat out said again i'm not releasing my health records. you have transparent lector letters from doctors. that's fake. i want to know the specifics of why he not only would have problems expressing himself in that debate, but he seemed to

have problems with comprehension and with juggling two things at once, possibly impacting decision-making. i want to see what the neurologist wrote in records. his stroke came from a blood clot from irregular heart rhythm. i want to see the cardiologist record, the echo. he showed great courage by coming forward but the other issue is what about the voters of pennsylvania? what are they deserve? they deserve full disclosure, and transparency, someone who is fit to serve tucker. >> tucker: it's not all about john fetterman's personal journey. thanks for coming out tonight doctor. so federman obviously has cognitive problems but that's just the beginning. he has a track record of precisely zero achievement. his only real job was running a town in pennsylvania that was worse off now than when he ran it.

the leaders of the democratic party from showing up in pennsylvania telling you he's great. watch this. >> i know this job john is prepared right now to be an effective senator. with even more months of recovery, he's going to be back to where he was. i think you did really well. >> it would be great to have federman to move forward a positive agenda. >> it's about whether we have an adult, someone who is responsible. >> i thought was really good. there was strong. federman is pennsylvania. he is that he appears to be. we know where it stands, he has great courage, he has no reluctance to say what he thinks. he. he is my kind of guy. i think it's can be fine. >> tucker: the say anything, literally anything. oz is running against federman and he joins us tonight. thanks doctor for coming on.

as a nonpennsylvanian, i look at the race and think, you've never held elective office send your winning. that suggests to me that federman is done a uniquely bad job. where these democrats coming in and vouching for a guy who can't even win a race in his state that where's lieutenant governor? >> i think they just want the 51st vote in the senate. they don't appreciate that federman has been unable to defend his radical views. that's the issue in the campaign. these extreme positions are out of touch with pennsylvania values. he says fracking is staying on pennsylvania. he says he doesn't support fracking, but on the debate stage he keeps saying that he is strongly supportive of it. he can't reconcile it. pennsylvania is are saying that washington is getting it wrong with radical positions.

i stand for balance. the night of the debate, federman raised millions of dollars in order to advance his campaign. he's gotten more from other senate leaders right now that i could imagine being given. please help me fight back. go to dr. oz.com. this race will be defined by the ads playing on both sides. i would tell the truth about federman more than the lies about me. >> tucker: it's unreal that he attacks you for being rich, which you are. but you made your money. this is a guy who lived off his parents until late middle-age, he's never had a real job and he's got rich confused. he's against fracking. would he think role pennsylvania has? how can you be against fracking in a state that needs brett energy revenue? i don't understand. >> that's why it's been flip-flopping. he's taking the strong stance to protect criminals over the desires of the innocent great he's wanted to release one-third

of all prisoners good he argues if he could wave a magic wand he'd get rid of life sentences for felony murder. he tried to push 25 murders out of jail over the desires of other members of the parole board. businesses are leaving philadelphia because it's dangerous. the fraternal order of police voted for me unanimously because i just want to do their jobs. >> tucker: i appreciate you dr. oz. godspeed next week. speak to someone before the election someone breaks into nancy pelosi's house and assaults her 82-year-old husband with a hammer. it's awful but the details they're telling us don't make any sense at all. and will tell you it doesn't make sense after the break. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: we tried last night to get to the bottom of the story around the attack on paul losey in san francisco last friday night but we can't. police in san francisco san francisco for reasons that are not clear or defensible are still refusing to release the body camera footage that would answer most questions. no more questions about why the pelosi home was unguarded that night. according to cbs news, losey moved hundreds of capitol police officers to field officers in tampa. did you know that chris mark point was to protect congresspeople from donald trump's qanon army. somehow there was no security at the speaker of the house is home on friday night? it does make sense at all. you know it does make sense either which meant the supposedly log of the man

accused, david to pappy. at raids like an left-wing activist treatment of what a qanon person would post. the first time the site appeared on our kind of thing services was the day of the attack. what is that mean? how could you explain that? maybe there's a good expla explanation. i'm not alleging anything, just asking questions. those are fair questions. glenn greenwald is an independent journalist, he joins us tonight to assess. thanks for coming on glenn. everybody feels obviously in pain thinking of an 82-year-old man getting hit with a hammer. it's the worst thing imaginable. why should the rest of us sit here and accept obvious inconsistencies in the story that has public policy implications not say anything? >> this is the most important

point about all of this. how many millions of people have been conditioned to believe that it's immoral or even some kind of reflection of mental illness like you're a conspiracy theorist you don't immediately in unquestionably accept whatever story is told to you by institutions of authority? the amazing thing about that tucker is that this framework is being constructed by journalists, people whose primary purpose in life is supposed to be to question and challenge the claims of the powerful and instead they're demonizing anybody who does so. skepticism itself can never be wrong. it says, there are evidentiary holes and faulty reasoning and were being told, even of evidence does emerge later on to prove that the skepticism itself was not only valid but necessary. >> jason: >> tucker: so

julian's lounge is a criminal, the russians blow of their own pipeline, may be registered in the habit of accepting the most ludicrous claims and move onto the next thing. >> victoria newland, state the hartman official in charge of ukraine, went before congress and said were worried that the u.s. and ukraine have biological labs that are dangerous and if they fall into russian hands he can be a disaster. anyone is said, wait, what is she mean? was printed a conspiracy theorist. this is what they do, they demonize questioning. >> tucker: you around that night. shut up put an apologist! what? [laughs] glenn, your palate cleanser,

thanks for coming in. crime in the united states is out of control. paul pelosi's assault sadly another example of it. but there are others. new horrifying videos of crime emerging on social media. they don't want you to see these because they want you to think, everything's fine. we'll show them to you anyway. that's straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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>> dropped the knife. drop the knife, bro. drop the knife. >> are you out of your mind? >> tucker: across the country, republicans running for office who acknowledge that this is happening are doing very well. adam laxalt is one of them, running for the senate and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. is your opponent even willing to acknowledge that the country is being overturned by a surge in violent crime? >> definitely not a topic she wants to focus on. in fact she's closing the race with john legend, unknown defund the police advocate. the bottom line is she's running away from her record every second of the race. it's why we pulled ahead. it's a tight race.

they're spending almost $90 million to defeat me but this is the 51st seat and the democrats want to try to save her. we've had las vegas police flipped to me. they're fed up. they want someone to stand with the police through and thin, like you did through the blm riots. she has said she supports blm and that cops are systemically racist. now she tries to pretend she supports the police but the cops aren't buying it for one second. they know only one candidate stands for police. they know it's existential for them. we have to get our communities cleaned up. this is why the races swing in our direction. yes its economy about law and order on border issues are a

huge piece of white people are fed up and want something different. >> tucker: some creepy hollywood defund the police images. does anyone notice this? >> nobody's covering it. we put out a press release but the media ignore it. they won't cover that biden came out west, skip nevada, and he's at 37%. he wanted to be a month ago and said, what you mean, defund the police? we support the police. but she wants nothing to do with him even though she has supported them every step of the way. >> tucker: there's no way you could win in nevada, they said. but you are winning. adam laxalt, congratulations. >> tucker: the cities of the united states have collapsed. didn't happen organically, accidentally. the further you get from the

u.s. the more obvious it becomes. no it happen on purpose. that's the assessment of the president of el salvador, the most popular elected leader in the world. our cities are being destroyed on purpose by the people in charge of our country. this was told to us during a long and wide-ranging interview. here's part of it. ♪ ♪ >> the devise of the u.s. has to come from within. the enemies have to be inside. no external enemy could cost so much damage as internal. it's an internal operation. in the cities that were pristine lee beautiful 30 years ago our wastelands now. you see people in third world

countries, myself, i see cities here and say, i don't want to live here. so that would be unthinkable decades ago that a salvadoran would not want to win in an major u.s. city like los angeles or new york or chicago, philadelphia baltimore. when you look at how the cities are unloading so fast, this has to be by design. who would make so many stupid decisions? like, were going to give you money for drugs. really they're doing that. they give people drugs and some city. or they say, were going to give you money if you don't work. they make all of this law that

makes no sense. high crime, okay, let's defund the police, right push mark they make this analysis here. you see all of this campaign, defund the police, let's allow shoplifting up to this amount. they make these decisions openly. it's not a secret. we'll know what will be the consequence of it. defunding the police, allowing for shoplifting, giving drugs to drug addicts. money for people to stop work. be the consequence of it? you'll destroy the society, the city, the economy.

it's already happened. when they see more problems, they say, we need more of the same solutions that cause the problem in the first place in the neck more so they have more problems. you would think people can't be that dumb. they're very smart people in fact. where are they doing this? because it's by design it has to be. there's no no other logical explanation. >> tucker: to this day, we have no real idea why the president of el salvador, nayib bukele, came on to make these points, but were glad he did. it's an incisive assessment of where america is right now. apparently, joe biden has decided to speak a new language

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>> tucker: is a fox news will or it. joe from scranton started speaking southern. >> southerner from florida. i don't know where y'all been, boy expect sean hannity right now. >> hannity: oh, yeah, tucker, that's a real southern accent there. he's got rubio and desantis on the run, they're scared to death. we begin with a huge win for election integrity. they've now officially borrowed undated that misstated absentee ballots from being counted. in accordance with state law, both follow the law.