jesse, you've been playing lot of neil diamond lately. is there a reason? the deal is, every host gets to choose their music. i pick a musical artist for the week. i let the producers pick the songs. i don't micromanage the songs. tucker is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" on saturday morning, august 10, 2019, attorney general william barr was working in his home office. when his chief of staff said jeffrey epstein was found dead. barr was shocked. his first reaction was to worry that some people in america might not buy the idea that jeffrey epstein killed himself.

no one will believe it was a suicide. there will be conspiracy theories all over the place. that's a pretty odd response if you think about it. at the time, there was no way that bill barr could have known how jeffrey epstein died. his first concern will be fining out what happened. instead, his first concern that the public might jump to conclusion about what happened. many americans did not believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself. given the strange circumstances of his death. he was going to take a sustained public relations campaign to convince americans that jeffrey epstein killed himself. bill barr was willing to make the effort. he flew to new orleans, gave a speech and said this. >> i was appalled and the whole department was, frankly, hangry

to learn of the mcc's failure to adequately secure this prisoner. we are learning serious of irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation. the fbi and the office of inspector general, are doing just that. we will get to the bottom of what happened. there will be accountability. >> tucker: so the country is skeptical and concerned. bill barr is skeptical and concerned. we will get to the bottom of what happened. there will be accountability. that turned out to be untrue. three and a half years after he died, no one has gotten to the bottom what happened that day. there's been no accountability for it. only people punished were two low level guards who fell asleep on duty. both pleaded guilty. last year with no remain explanation, an obama appointed

judge dropped all charges against both of them. one of the guards may still work for the federal government. as we're getting to the bottom of what happened, despite many promises, neither the fbi nor the justice department issued a report how jeffrey epstein died. once again, three and a half years after one of the most widely covered death of our time, there's still no answers and there was still no accountability. why is that? many reasons probably. one of them is that washington veteran bill barr, only man in the omodern era to serve attorney general twice, declared the epstein case closed. barr seemed to have good reason for doing that. by end of 2019, he writes, i was confident that jeffrey epstein committed suicide by hanging himself. why did bill barr believe that? the first piece of evidence is this. the new york city medical examiner had conducted an autopsy and ruled that epstein

killed himself by hanging. that's the first piece. second is this, it's a videotape that confirmed the medical examiner's finding. i personally reviewed that video footage. it shows that between the time epstein was locked in the cell 7:49 p.m. and the time he was discovered the next morning at 6:30, no one entered his tier. therefore, bill barr explained we can know for sure jeffrey epstein killed h himself. i think the agency is slowly on its way back. in other words, everything is fine. let's move on. virtually every news story about jeffrey epstein's death deannounced skepticals of the official story as crazy. baseless conspiracy theories. what's amazing is that none of these reporters, veterans at the

"washington post," the associated press, and others, none of them ever thought to revisit >> bill: bill barr's assessment of epstein's death. if you did that, you saw what bill barr said about jeffrey epstein was absurd and dishonest. barr began by claiming that the medical examiner ruled his death as suicide. that's not true. the initial cause of death was not suicide but pending. the medical examiner who performed the autopsy could not say how he died. the pathologist came away believing epstein was murdered. after reviewing more than thousand suicide by hanging. jeffrey epstein did not kill

himself. barbara sampson who was not present at the autopsy overruled the judgment of those who work. days later, barbara sampson declared jeffrey epstein's death a suicide. both camera did not work that night famously. no one explained why they didn't work. the video footage that bill barr said he watched didn't cover epstein's cell. no one came in or out of the tier barr said. therefore, jeffrey epstein killed himself.

let's consider that claim. on the night of august 9th, jeffrey epstein was held in the special housing unit in manhattan. the most secured part of the city's federal lock up. it will be physically impossible for a trainer to get out without an electronic pass and without being seen by countless cameras between the streets. if jeffrey epstein was murdered, he was not murdered by an intruder, he was murdered by someone on his own cell block. obviously. there were seven other cells. if you're looking for a killer, you would figure out who was in those cells. no one seems to have thought of that or done it. the bureau of prisons refused to provide us with a list of the inmates on epstein's tier. it's not clear how many were interviewed by investigators despite that some of them were transferred out of the facility after epstein's death. that's a baffling oversight.

instead, attorney general bill barr assured the country no one from outside came in and declared it solved. that's a remarkable way to assess a potential crime scene. bill barr was not a civilian or a crime novel aficionado. he was the nation's top cop. his job was to solve crimes. with all his law enforcement experience it never seemed to dawn on bill barr, if there was a killer, it would have come on epstein's tier. no one in the entire fbi suggested this to bill barr. excuse me mr. attorney general, it doesn't matter what the camera showed, what mattered is what happened inside the tier. no one at d.o.j. appeared to say that to bill barr and no one in the media noticed.

it's all strange. we've pressed pretty hard for the last few days on this question. we've pressed because you don't want to live in a country where it's possible to murder people in federal lock up, cover it up the killings and get away with it. that's scary. that should not be allowed. in the case of jeffrey epstein, it appears that it was allowed. one level you can see why it was. this is one of the those crimes that has no natural constituency pushing to solve it. the only people who liked jeffrey epstein was his friends. some of them are happy he's dead. here's bill gates who spent quite bit of time with jeffrey epstein. >> what did you do when you found out about his background? >> well, i said i regretted having those dinners there's nothing new. >> is there a lesson for you,

for anyone else looking at this? >> well, he's dead. in general, you have to be careful. >> tucker: well, he's dead. along with his many secrets about me and the rest of my friends. we're so sorry. you can imagine >> bill: bill clinton and others feel the same way. privately lot of people are happy about what happened to jeffrey epstein. this week, we called every person involved in the story surrounding jeffrey epstein's death. with few exceptions, none of them would speak to us. we hung up immediately. one of them, the d.o.j. case officer supposed assigned to investigate his death, refused to acknowledge that he worked for the federal government. i will not confirm or deny that when we reached him on the cell

phone. for his part, former attorney general bill barr turned down our offer to come on tonight. he did not explain why. one person we did speak to was jeffrey epstein, mark. the two were never in business together. he's not looking for money from the estate. he is interested in finding out what happened to his brother. here's a list of questions that any honest investigator would want the answers to. first, why do so many public officials persist and claiming that jeffrey epstein attempted suicide in prison once before. that's a very convenient claim if you trying to convince people that jeffrey epstein killed hymn. in fact, he denied ever trying to kill himself in prison or

out. he denied this to his friends, toe his lawyers and prison psychologists. he said he was injured by another inmate. according to david schoen, epstein seems upbeat, happy and confident. hspeaking of nearby cells, were the cell epstein's tier locked the entire night. we heard that they were not locked. the inmate were able to move from one cell to another. can the bureau of prisons give us clarity on this? by the way, who moved jeffrey epstein's body. he was discovered on the orange of august 10th who was the same guard who discovered him in fetal position on the floor after his previous falsely

reported suicide attempt. epstein's body had been moved to the prison infirmary. that's a clear violation of federal policy. jeffrey epstein was dead for at least two hours. by the time the em ts arrived jeffrey epstein was clad in a hospital house gown. why would anyone do that? to make it even stranger, jeffrey epstein's corpse was intubated. there was hand held video of all of of this happening. that video has never been released. authorities will not acknowledge that it exist. it does exist. nor, has the emt's account what they saw that day, ever been released. nor, most strikingly, are the

photographs of jeffrey epstein dead in his cell. that means it's impossible to know the position of his body when it was found or how he died. was jeffrey epstein hanging from a bed sheet? they say he was strangled by a ligature. his neck was bloody but the strip of sheet was not. or, was he killed from the electrical chord from his sleep apnea machine. these are very basic questions. these are not spheres theory -- conspiracy theories. they are the essential questions in any legitimate investigation. apparently, nobody tried to answer them. we call the department of justice asked them to explain. they refused on the grounds, there's an active investigation in progress. there's a lie. there's no investigation into jeffrey epstein's death. we're moving on four years now,

there has never been an investigation into jeffrey epstein's death. we can speculate why that is. all the explanations are bad. maybe someone in the new republican congress should look into all of this. not because jeffrey epstein is an american hero, it will be nice to see the federal government forced to tell the truth about something. an amazing and affirming story a man rescued after being lost at sea off the coast of florida and remarkable video to accompany that man join us straight ahead. plus, a major escalation in the war against russia. that's straight ahead.

>> tucker: 22-year-old dylan garden was free diving near florida keys on thursday when conditions got bad. his friend stayed back in the boat and he went out for a free dive. when he did that, the current swept him away. he was dragged 150 feet under water. he held his breath for two minutes before he came back up. hours later, he was rescued on

camera. watch this. >> oh my god. >> oh my god. dylan. >> tucker: there's no way people survive that. but he did. he join us. thank you for coming on. really an amazing story. i don't know what the odds of that surviving is. you must have thought you were going to die. what were you thinking? >> as the sun was fading, it seem like it was going to be a long night or it was going to be the end there. >> tucker: yeah. did it force you to think

through your life? did you face the fact that like the chances are being found at night is like zero. what was going through your head? >> i got to the point where i was thanking everybody for everything i been through in life. saying i loved everybody. kind of got down for a little bit. i realized, this is the end. i'm going to fight this night out. >> tucker: how did they find you? >> that's a miracle. i could hear an engine humming behind me. i turn around. the center console on the boat. i knew that was my grand pa's boat. >> tucker: amazing. free diving is a serious thing. you know what you doing.

how did you get swept away? >> the gulf stream was getting pushed in closer to where i was diving that day due to south wind. i was drift diving. i was having the boat follow me. i covered lot of ground to find more fish. got to the point where the gulf stream grabbed me. >> tucker: incredible. few people or any age go through this and face death and survival. are you making resolutions? >> definitely, going to try to figure out what i can do. i'm very grateful that i'm still here. >> tucker: unimaginable. thank you so much for joining us today. it's hard to believe in the middle of the worse drug epidemic in our city, the biden administration will be promoting more drug use. they are opening drug markets in

big cities. they call them safe injection sites they evenly sent crack pipes to crack addicts. they haven't encouraged addicts to stop using drugs. she's trying to change that. she's co-founder mothers against drug death. jackie, it's great to see you. can you just in the clearest terms, give us your message for the biden administration in the face of this. >> my message for the bidden administration is to not allow safe injection or safe consumption sites in the united states. to spend more money or more resources on addiction and recovery services. we keep -- in the united states, we're doubling down on addiction maintenance and we're not putting our resources into

recovery and treatment. >> tucker: no loving parent would ever do that to their own child. joe biden had a drug-addicted son. you would never do that if you love someone. why do you think they are doing that? >> i honestly am not sure. i'm appealing to the president as someone who understands what it's like to have a child that struggles with addiction, for him to appeal to the department of justice and attorney general merrick, to turn down these consumption base. to turn towards recovery and treatment. many cities are lacking services to help homeless, mentally ill population. my son is a victim of this in

san francisco. my greatest fear is that they will continue in the way they've been going and continuing to enable my son. he's basically in bondage because they gave him everything that he needs to stay addicted. they don't have the resources to help him get well. i don't want to see this multiplied across the united states. if our government, if our federal government decides to move forward with safe consumption sites, we'll see more deaths. >> tucker: it is bondage. thank you. good luck. the war between russia and ukraine has accelerated to a place that most americans may not fully understand. biden committed sending m1 tanks to ukraine followed by fighter planes. that will be followed by

tactical nuclear weapon. germany just declared war on russia for the second time in 100 years. where is this all going? that's next.

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>> tucker: it's zelenskyy's birthday today. ukraine is about to receive tanks from the u.s. military. here's joe biden. >> today, i'm announcing that the united states will be sending 31 tanks to ukraine. secretary austin recommended this step because it will enhance the ukraine's capacity to defend its territory and achieve strategic objectives. >> tucker: thgermany, and u.k. e sending tanks. germany's foreign minister mentioned that nato has declared

war on russia. >> i said already in the last days, yes, we have to do more to defend ukraine. yes, we have to do more on tanks. but the most important and the crucial part is that we do it together and we do not do the blame game in europe because we are fighting a war against russia and not against each other. >> tucker: since this conflict has been framed i about the idiot class, it's been a long time since the germans sent tanks to ukraine. that's what nato is planning, apparently. numerous biden officials said in recent weeks, the goal is to take back crimea. in the beginning they said push

russia back to pre-february in 2022. taking russian crimea from russia is essential port. russia said many times they have every reason to believe that will lead to nuclear war. that's the new plan? was this voted on? that's truly crazy. to do it, several senior officials in ukraine including the deputy defense minister have resigned. they were too corrupt for zelenskyy. where do all that money come from? the money came from us, congress has never audited the money sent to ukraine. this is nutts. no one in washington seem to care. it's hard to resist responding to this. here's pompeo. you have moral obligation to give zelenskyy everything he wants. >> we should be helping america. helping america means a sovereign nation that is

prepared to defend itself from invasion and attack. it's in the best interest for our economy and security and we should be doing everything ukrainians are asking us to do. >> tucker: we should do everything the most corrupt government in europe want to do because that's good for america. really. we don't want mean to beat up on poor mike pompeo. but are you serious? >> you got kids walking out here, man. you shooting in your neck bro? that's crazy. come on man. what you doing?

come on man, there's kids around. you shouldn't be doing this around here bro. you got to do that somewhere else. you right in front of a starbucks. shooting up dope. >> tucker: again, if you had to do list of things to do for america, this might rate higher than sending more money to zelenskyy. you might also since, you trying to help america, pompeo said, you might do something with the southern border has been overrun by foreign nationals. that's not the most important thing in washington. the single most important thing we can do is send ukraine whatever it wants. instead, clinton, thank you so much for coming on. the two concerns. this escalation will lead to

fighter jets and tactical nukes. the new plan seems to take russian crimea from russia. >> i'm worried about those things. i think the second point, the mission creep, is the bigger issue here. there's a mismatch between the means and the ends proposed by the biden administration. they're talking about retaking crimea from russia. when they fail, it's clear they will send more tanks and more armaments. this is just the beginning opening the floodgates unlimited supply of american arms used to take territory that russia said they will use nuclear weapons to defend. >> tucker: crimea is controlled by russia. it has been for century. obama was totally opposed. that's insane. when did this become the new

goal? >> you know, before the war it was russia that claimed that it was our goal to support ukraine in retaking crimea. we denied that. as soon as the war began, suddenly, there was this mission, because ukraine were the good guys, we would support anything they wanted to do. even if it endangered the american people and the world. russia has drawn a red line and threatened to use nuclear weapon. >> tucker: russia has to have its basic crimea, period, in order to be a functioning country. do you doubt their seriousness in responding in the most profound way if we were to back an attack on crimea? >> no, it's important to understand. it's not just russia's geostrategic interest, but it's the political interest of president vladimir putin. retaking crimea was his crowning accomplishment as a leader. i don't believe his government

could survive if crimea falls. the same people telling us that putin is a madman who will do anything to stay in man, are the ones attempting to back him in a corner. >> tucker: this is so nuts. most americans have no idea what's going on. republicans are okay with it. clint, thank you. we've kind of ignored the meghan markle and prince story. you can never know it's true. it is kind of an interesting story. we had a chance to talk meghan markle's sister. who knows the real story. it was a fascinating story. , samantha markle is a smart and wise person. here's part of it. >> i have to say if there's one theme, complete outsider paying half a attention daily mail

headlines. she's blowing up families. she seem like she caused problems in her husband's family. clearly she's gone after your family. is that something you saw in her before? >> no. we were kind of puzzled when both sides of the family were kept away from the royal wedding. we started wondering what's up with this. like why. we started to realize, when you have a wedding and people start drinking champagne at the reception, they started talking. what could the both motive be? the stories could come out. apparently, we found out there were lot of pork pies probably told to the royal and harry when they met her. in order to cover up, so you didn't get grants and scholarships. you never worked for the

embassy. our uncle mike who worked for the embassy as a favor to dad, dad paid for five week study program. uncle mike threw in letter of recommendation to be kind. five week study program is not -- that doesn't equate working at the embassy. all of these lies started coming up. we didn't know that she had told the royal family so many pork pies. oh my god, i got to keep everybody away. if they start talking, the lies come out. there was so many of them. why, it would have been so easy to be honest about who she is and to be proud and to empower other women when she's out there using her platform. be proud of who you are. work hard. you don't have to pretend to be

someone else, you don't have to dress like diana. give accolades to those who bring you up. >> tucker: is she not close to your father? >> meg? >> tucker: yes. >> they were incredibly close. which was also so bizarre. he was the first one that got the phone call. daddy, i met a prince. this is reportedly. my father told me about this. they were really close up until having to seal off all the hatches and keep everybody from talking. >> tucker: even if you're not interested in that story and most of the time is not, her description of meghan markle's treatment of her dad is one with the most shocking things. employee of the month up next, quick thinking nun foils a

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>> tucker: she's the director of the response to love center in buffalo, new york. it offers hot meals and guidance. on a saturday morning, early this month, thieves tried to rob the center. sister mary responded. she went outside and she saw the thieves setting up a ladder. she prayed as she kicked the ladder. the thieves ran away. she's a nun and a leader at the response to love center. she's also our employee of the month. show joins us. we are honored to have you on tonight. your response to this burglary amazes me. can you describe what happened? >> well, it happened i was tossing with wrestling with god because i wanted to sleep a little longer on saturday. something told me to get up. i got up, sat on green emerald island. that's my chair where i prayed. i sat there for an hour in prayer. i said i will have breakfast

with my two sisters. walked down the stairs and i heard noise. i thought it was the newspaper or someone driving down. i opened up the door, i saw the stepladder. i said oh, this doesn't belong here. closed the door again. i thought, i got to move that ladder. the light went on when i opened the door. one of the fellas ran away. next when i looked up, he was on the roof. i said he's got to come down but not on this ladder. by the grace of god, grabbed the ladder, threw it down. looked up. the fella jumped down, stood beside me. i said, this is god's property. this is god's mission. how dare you do this. i pointed my finger, i told him, get out. he ran away. that's how the story ended. i wondered, this was god's

mission for me. there's a lesson in all of this. there was no violence. no one was hurt. i wasn't hurt. may be a lesson was to be learned. i think that's what happened. not only for me, not only for them, but i think for the whole world to say, there's a god. we're here to protect him and his mission. that's what happened. >> tucker: you're an amazing person. were you afraid? >> no, i wasn't afraid. i knew it was something that had to be done. we're working in an area that's very poor. i'm no different than anybody who's there. they are subject to looting, theft, violence. i'm in that neighborhood. i have an identity that i share with my people. i'm no better and no different. i want to be there. the building that we're in is

special. it's a dining room. it's a place of safety. people coming together and enjoying a meal. just experiencing so much joy. why would someone want to hurt that mission? >> tucker: amen. great to see you. thank you for coming on the show. >> it's just an experience of god. it's an experience where god is so present, he wants that mission to reach out to poor people. to really share that they are loved, compassion. in our building, we don't have a lot of money. we raise all the money. we do all the service to make it special for people. >> tucker: i have the feeling this is going to help your fundraising. i hope it does. i appreciate you coming on. thank you. >> god does provide for us.

but so many people really join in. they help us so beautifully. they're always there for us with donations of clothing. donations of food. monetary gifts. >> tucker: you are not afraid. [ laughter ] thank you very much. great to see you. quick update in brazil. there was a presidential election there in october. it was contested. the supreme court seems to be lot of power in brazil. jailed protesters and new government is planning to ban fake news. glenn, how would you assess what's going on there? >> i think it's an extension of lot of the trends going around the world. including in the united states,

which is the government doing the internet. it gives power into the hands of people to communicate with one another to judge for themselves what to believe and governments are looking for ways, increasingly to control that and prevent individuals -- brazil has become this extreme manifestation where this is leading. i will call it judicial tyranny. this one judge has this ability to ban and sensor by telling social media companies unless they comply within two hours, they will start to experience very significant fines. he gives no reason. no evidence, no notice to the people who are being censored and a fair trial. it's just a secret decree, issued with no reasoning. these people have to be silenced, including politicians who got more votes than anyone from the brazilian people to represent them in congress. i think this is where lot of countries are headed.

>> tucker: you are hardlien a cheerleader for bolsonaro who lost. you've been attacked really strongly for pointing out that you have to have civil liberty. are you worried about your safety there for saying that? >> it's interesting. under the bolsonaro government, there were prosecutors who tried to imprison me for reporting what i did during those years. in all my time as a journalist, there was never a moment where i thought to myself, should i really criticize this political official? is it really worth the risk? until i started in the past few months, criticizing this particular judge. it was the really the first time in the back of my mind, may be it's not worth criticizing him because of the power he wheels at way he's prove he'll use it. that's a sign you live in a repressive climate when you start being scared of criticizing a government official. >> tucker: that's exactly right.

godspeed. keep us updated. thank you. we'll be right back. ard winningr who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers foundation. i was able to spend some time with cole and his family to reflect on those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedom. i know how much you care about america and our veterans and all the things. but you have such a platform now. yeah. and to share that with us that we need to get the word out that we have to take care of these great heroes and their families. you know, as i started to be more and more successful, i was like, how can i help? but when i heard of the tunnel of the towers, and i met brandon in idaho and his family, i was like, wow. there's actually a charity where we know where the money's. going to go. we have 95.1% of every dollar goes to our programs.

and i think brandon's a great spokesman for t2t and and his wife, shannon, has two daughters. i mean, oh, my god. they're just special families. so pretty much, if you put your life on the line, if something goes bad, they're there. that's awesome. yeah. they're incredible people, man. you saw all the stuff we put in these homes, right? i was i was blown away. and they deserve it. they earned it. this is not of course, we give them a mortgage free home, but look what they gave up. they gave up their bodies so, cole, why should americans give donate help? tunnel to towers foundation. i mean, is there any better organization to help the people that has fought for this country and the freedoms that we have? it's that simple. it is that let's take care of each other. and you're going to join us on that mission. thank you. hey, i'm cole hauser. i want you to join me in supporting our nation's heroes and their families. it's only $11 a month.

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be back tomorrow, same time. welcome to hannity we begin with a fox news reserve. police body cam showing the attack against nancy pelosi's husband paul will be released at any moment. thanks to a ruling from a california judge, as soon as the video becomes available we will show it to you on this program. also stay tuned tonight. the great one mark levine will be with us. we have the hannity hotseat. last call tonight, a liberal socialist called my radio show and it got interesting. we will see what grade w