. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" ." we spent a lot of time covering the saga of russia's alleged undermining of our democracy on the show. we frequently pointed out how shaky the election hackingng narrative is at its core and that we have made some peoplele very angry for saying that. consider ralph peters who suggested that our skepticism put us in league with nazi sympathizers.ke hard to see why he is a threat to us. how many people can we be in opposition to at once? why not just except that bad people -- >> it sounds like charles lindbergh saying that hitler hasn't attacked us. >> tucker: i am not --at you cannot compare me. >> i think putin is. >> tucker: it's a gross overstatement. it's insane. >> you can think it's insane all you want. >> tucker: you just compared me to a nazi apologizer because i asked a simple question. slow down, slow down. common cause with a group trying to kill isis. >> vladimir putin invaded his neighbors, broke the long peace in europe, he assassinates dissidents and journalist, he bombs

i'm merely saying -- >> tucker: what are you arguing, tucker? tucker: in a world of threats, you create a hierarchy, you decide what is worst and you go down the list. >> and pressure is right up there? do you agree? russia as a threat to us? >> tucker: i think russia is in the top five is absurd and it makes me wonder about your judgment. i'm giving you a chance to answer the question, which is -- >> they are the only country that can destroy us with a nuclear strike. >> tucker: i'm beginning to think that your judgment has been clouded by ideology. i don't fully understand where it's coming from but i will let our viewers aside. >> your judgment has been clouded by ratings. ratings of the fox news channel. >> tucker: that's pretty funny. i vehemently disagree with the air strikes in syria -- the president called for them and i'm against them. i'm arguing principle. more than anything, i'm arguing for the right -- >> allowing this bloodbath to continue? >> tucker: you are incapable of giving a factual answer. i think our viewers can see tha tha

. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ou probably thought espn stood for entertainment and sports programming network. now it looks like endless stupid political nagging. the network has drawncr criticism for pulling robert lee off a uva football game because his name bore some resemblance to that of a dead confederate general. now it gets better.e jemele hill has gone on a bizarre twitter rant. learning this. donald trump is a white supremacist surrounded himself with white supremacists. more than a dozen follow-up tweets trump has empowered white supremacists see charlottesville. people noticed thisee and today espn released a statement in response saying "the comments on twitter from her jemele hill do not represent the position of espn. we have addressed this with jemele andnd she recognizes her actions were inappropriate." whatever that means, clay travis may know something about this.. he writes and joins estimates. clay, what exactly does that mean we have addressed it with an anchor. is that punishment? >> it means

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."t night, at a dinner with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, president trump apparently hammered up the framework to a deal that would protect 800,000 illegal aliens now covered under daca from being deported. they will get to stay, and under current law, so will millions of their relatives. it would be a massive amnesty, the biggest ever granted in american history. this is thrilling news for democrats and for open borders advocates everywhere. in return for this concession, the president receives nothing, no reduction in overall immigration totals, no titan restriction on foreign workers who take jobs from americans, no e-verify, no end to chain migration. the president isn't even getting a border wall, though he insisted he will somehow get one later possibly. >> able to get something in six months, will you continue the daca program? >> we'll talk about that, but i think adil will be made within six months. >> no relief for the wall, is that what you're saying? >> they cannot obstruct

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he battle over nfl players and the national anthem continues. over the past couple of days an array of media figures and political elites have demonstrated why they are often called talking heads rather than thinking heads as they repeatedly argued that the president's attacks on those millionaire athlete protesters were both scary and bigoted. watch. >> he came proverbially as close as you could possibly come to shouting at a rally the n-word. >> you tell me which of those children's mothers are a son of a "b," that is racism. >> when the president refers to colin kaepernick in alabama as a son of the b word, -- >> you don't have to agree with them but that's not really the point here. no american gets to tell another american how to express their love for this country. >> tucker: did you hear that? no american gets to tell another american how to express their love for this country. if only that were true, but it's not true, not even close. it'ss disingenuous nonsense. the same peopl

. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."merica's political culture is coming apart. the rhetoric is rapidly getting harsher, in case you haven't noticed. it is getting more venomous, most ominously, it is becoming more racialized. riots over race and politics were virtually unheard of ten years ago in this country. sadly, now they are common. we are living in a scary time, and people know it. a new fox poll found that 80% of voters think the bonds that hold this country together are weakening. just a decade ago, people joked about letting states secede from the union or splitting the country into two along political lines. none of that sounds very funny anymore or even far-fetched at this point. so at a volatile moment like this, the last thing this country needs is more demagoguery, especially racial demagoguery, which always leaves the deepest and longest-lasting wounds. on the other hand, whipping people into a frenzy of fearay and rage is a guaranteed ratings bonanza, and cnn can never resist that. watch how that network

tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."theast texas remains a dangerous place at this hour despite the fact hurricane harvey has moved on. a chemical plant in crosby texas is racked with explosions and fires after a critical refrigeration system failed in the storm. a hospital in beaumont has been forced to evacuate his patients to protect them from flooding. also worked in the state, recovery efforts are underway. vice president mike pence stop by for a while to help out. america may have to brace for another storm, though, on the horizon as hurricane irma, gaining strength at this hour in the atlantic, possibly headed for the united states. not expected to do so, we'll be tracking it, keeping you updated on the ongoing situation in texas. kamal balla, is among other things, a host on cnn. he host a show called "united states of america." he calls himself a political provocateur for that doesn't quite capture it. in fact, he is a supporter of antifa. on sunday, he showed up at the no hate in the bay rally and addressed a c

thank you, tucker. >> tucker: code, i appreciate that.eanwhile, in california, sacramento county sheriff's deputy murdered last week during a battle with a convicted felon. some in law enforcement in the states for governor jerry brown is in part to blame. the l.a. deputy sheriffs association, and other police union, say that a 2011 law designed to relieve prison overcrowding allowed little cloud to keep receiving failed despite multiple violent criminal offenses. jessica sloan is the mayor, a pretty place, she also cofounded the cut 50 50 campaign to drastically lower in conservation, and she joins us tonight. it is good to see her tonight. i just want to say that i think this actually is a complicated issue and i don't think everyone who, you know, does something wrong belongs in jail, and i think jail overcrowding is a real thing, and i recognize all of that. but it's got to give you pause. >> thank you for having me on, tucker. >> tucker: thank you for coming. again, i think it is a complex issue, but if enforcement is saying that law

. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to tucker karl son tonight.ast spring, president trump drove official washington into hyper ventilation by claiming the obama administration had wiretapped members of his campaign staff. in his office at trump tower prior to the last election. not everything the president says on twitter is factually accurate, but to anyone who has been in washington for a while, that claim didn't seem crazy or even really that unlikely, that's where sort of thing does happen here and everybody knows it. imagine now confusing it was to see a parade of washington figures leap forward to denounce trump's claim is not just untrue but insane. speaker of the house paul ryan confidently told reporters that, quote, we have not seen any evidence of wiretapping at trump tower or on anyone within trump tower. richard burr and mark warner those are the two top senators on the senate intel committee. the justice department denied surveying trump staff as then fbi director jim comey while givin testimony befe congress. the media laughed deri

"tucker" is up next. >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we want to start with the fox news alert. a new fire has broken out in a chemical plant in crosby, texas. volatile chemicals have been exploding and combusting. all following damage from hurricane harvey. people within 1.5-mile from the area have to evacuate. we have an update on that fire and other events in houston just up ahead. meanwhile, republicans won big last fall. not simply because they beat the party of hillary clinton but because they promise to undo key parts of the barack obama legacy. so far, they haven't. they did not defund planned parenthood. they definitely don't want to build a border wall. but now almost ten months into the republican congress, top republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. preserving president obama's immigration policy. the trump administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the obama era program which apparently illegally gives work permits to illegal immigrants who arriv

martha maccallum, we will see you back here at 7:00, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good eveningnd welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the administration today said it will suspend daca, president obama's program that grants special work permits and amnesty from deportation to illegal immigrants who arrived in this country as minors. you might think the move would set off a national debate about immigration, the pros, cons, how much of it we will need going forward, but no. instead the educated classes became completely hysterical lecturing the rest of us about the racism of the middle of the country. watch this. >> we can think about the policy issues, this is really red meat, it's really speaking to a kind of deep-seated cultural anxiety about the changing nature of the country. >> people who feel threatened by immigrants and they are using this concept of unconstitutional -- >> he might do away with daca, another moral line that he will be crossing, which is something that would be advancing white supremacy agenda and also against what the majority of americans want. >> tucker:

. ♪ >> tucker: could evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.he emmy awards aired last night in prime time. if you didn't watch you weren't alone and by the way, we don't judge. even by the usual standards of show business, last night show was a remarkable triumph of identity politics over art and entertainment. even before it began an actress called issa rae told the reporters she was going to judge the anomalies with solely on their skin color without reference to the town or achievement. she wasn't the only one. >> who are you rooting for them a? >> i'm for everybody black. >> i want to make dominic thanked him for making black people number one of the most depressed list. he's the reason and probably appear. >> tucker: those comments didn't seem to raise an eyebrow, but of course they didn't. it's 2017, so we are used to open rates open race hostility from the left, so used with that many of us no longer even notic notice. the entire show was like that. ithe came closer to political indoctrination than entertainment. as a u selection. >> unl

tucker is up next. and sean hannity returns to 9:00 in prime time tonight. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. football isn't just the most popular sport in this country, it is also one much the only institutions we have left that unites everybody here across race and income and geography. there are not many 6 those, no matter who they they voted for last fall, americans who love the same team can bond over football. no longer possible, sadly. now even the country's final nonpartisan refuge has been invaded by politics. on saturday, the president tweeted that nfl players who protest the national anthem ought to be fired and as if on cue the protests intensified. in london, players for the baltimore ravens and the jacksonville jaguars kneeled in contempt of the star-spangled banner while standing respectfully for god save the queen. in chicago the entire pittsburgh steelers team stayed off the field for the anthem say for a single player an army veteran who defied his

tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. irma has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but the threat remains. florida's governor warns that the biggest threat is now rivers overflowing throughout the state. of course, it will be a long road to recovery from devastation and the keys and the gulf coast of florida. in naples on the west side, they took a direct hit. steve, what does it look like? >> tucker, there is a down dowe trees all over the place in the naples area, downed power lines, when you combine that with stoplights and stop signs that are not there, it makes for treacherous driving. there is also significant flooding in parts around naples, 3-4 feet in some neighborhoods, but still very difficult driving around, the dreaded storm surge that was promised here is a possibility that could claim lives up to ten to 15 feet simply never happened, the back end of that storm was just too weak it, so no lives lost in the naples area. the real issue is electricity, it is dark and quiet, 2,000 people, almost the entire coun

we will see you back at 7:00, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tuckerarlson tonight. hillary clinton's epic cross-country blame to work continues tonight in a series of interviews promoting her book, "what happened," she insists that what happened is everyone else screwed up or was out to get her. she said as much this morning on the today show. watch. >> when it comes to the self-inflicted wounds, when you look at the list of them, and you go through them in the book, did you make enough mistakes yourself to lose the election without any of the other things you talk about? >> i will say no. i don't think that will surprise you. >> tucker: so how did she lose? one hillary clinton is telling the list of guilty parties is long, not surprisingly it does not include her. in an interview she blames the media, whose members supported her in the race, but somehow sabotaged her campaign anyway. >> i don't think the press did their job in the selection, with very few exceptions. >> is it as it's just not as, you know, as enticing to the prs because the other guy

tucker, back to you. >> tucker: steve, i appreciate it. thank you.unning twist, the company with the unofficial motto "don't be evil" is turning out to be very sinister. of course, the motto should have been a tip-off. google fired an engineer simply for writing a reasoned and moderate critique of the company's diversity policies on what was supposed to be an open forum. even employees of other companies aren't safe, it turns out. barry lind worked at a a nonpartisan think tank, it's work involved promoting opening markets and combating monopolies. part of that work, he praised an antitrust -- levied against google in europe. it turned out to be one of the think tank funders. google founder eric schmidt called the foundation head to express his displeasure and lind was fired. it's not hard to imagine a similar situation happening in almost any other organization here in washington. google funds hundreds of nonprofits and think tanks. on the right, they donate to the heritage foundation, the federalist society, americans for tax reform. on the left, t

>> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. hurricane armand is one of the strongest terms ever measured in the atlantic ocean and now it's making its way through the caribbean. south florida residents have already been ordered to evacuate, governor rick scott a ford it is warming storm is more powerful in 1992's hurricane andrew that devastated parts of that state. rick reichmuth is our chief meteorologist at fox, he's been tracking irma since the very beginning, he joins us now. what's it looking like? >> in the bahamas, i also want to show you, take a look at this, tucker. three hurricanes out there. jose out in the atlantic, that was going to get very close right here to the lesser antilles by saturday, the area that was just raked by this cat5 storm. kind of insult to injury right here. there's another one there in the gulf of mexico, that was going to move into mexico. that cat5 right there, irma that we are concerned about. you can cite my kind of c-2 i've all, kind of going through a replacement cycle, this is the thing

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."or more than half a century, hollywood liberals and america's foreign policy establishment eye at each other with suspicion, from vietnam to iraq, actors were often the harshest critics of whatever wars washington was pushing at the time. a lot has changed though. the rise of donald trump has caused elites from across the spectrum to realize they have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the american middle class. suddenly, liberals in l.a. are warming to the idea of pointless foreign wars. rob reiner is an actor, a director, a liberal. he now has a group designed to investigate russian interference in the last election. he has joined forces with all kinds of pro-war conservatives in washington. here is their latest ad. listen carefully. >> we have been attacked. we are at war. the free ward is world is counting on us for leadership. for 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example to the world of what we can all aspire to, and we owe it to the brave people who

tucker carlson up next! [ music playing ] . >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the emmy awards aired last night in prime time. if you didn't watch you weren't alone. by the way we don't judge. even by the usual standards of show business last night's show was identity politics over art and the entertainment even before it began. an actress told reporters she was planning to judge the nominees solely on the basis of their skin color and she will wasn't the only one. >> who are you rooting for tonight? >> i'm rooting for everybody black. >> i want to thank trump for making black people number one on the most oppressed list. he's the reason i'm probably up here. >> tucker: those comments didn't seem to raise an eyebrow. of course they didn't, it's 2017 so we're used to open race hostility from the left. so used to it that many of you don't even notice t the entire show was close to that. here is a selection. >> unlike the presidency, emmy's go to the winner of the popular vote. >> i

tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."outheast texas remains a dangerous place at this hour despite the fact hurricane harvey has moved on. a chemical plant in crosby texas is racked with explosions and fires after a critical refrigeration system failed in the storm. a hospital in beaumont has been forced to evacuate his patients to protect them from flooding. also worked in the state, recovery efforts are underway. vice president mike pence stop by for a while to help out. america may have to brace for another storm, though, on the horizon as hurricane irma, gaining strength at this hour in the atlantic, possibly headed for the united states. not expected to do so, we'll be tracking it, keeping you updated on the ongoing situation in texas. kamal balla, is among other things, a host on cnn. he host a show called "united states of america." he calls himself a political provocateur for that doesn't quite capture it. in fact, he is a supporter of antifa. on sunday, he showed up at the no hate in the bay rally and addressed a

have a great evening, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlsontucn tonight." one of the most striking features of the debate over immigration in america is the fact that it's not much of a debate. you will notice the failure, indeed the refusal of our elites to grapple with what exactly it means to allow millions of low skilled workers from around the world to move here. when it comes to details about that that quote the statue of liberty and they move on quickly. they don't really want to know much about the effects of their policies. maybe they really believe that every immigrant is a high school valedictorian or some world crest stem talent who is only prevented by founding apple or curing cancer by the biggest tree. either way, facts rarely enter into the conversation. it's wholly emotional. facts matter in senate we have some. under study for the of american immigration reform finds that this country's approximately 11 million immigrants cost taxpayers about $135 billion per year and medical, education and law enforcement expenses. there is

>> tucker: they do!> let me give you a statistic, almost every african-american in this country has a bad experience to report about the police. when they call the police they are not protecting or serving, they're doing a lot more than that. >> tucker: i actually think that's a valid conversation to have an accident many times on the show and i'm one of the only conservatives i know was willing to say i think police brutality is something we should discuss varied >> and protest are not! >> tucker: they are attacking the flag in the country and i'm just telling you that when the richest people in a society decide the country they are supposed to be running is corrupt it falls apart. if that's all i'm saying. we want to acknowledge that? >> this country is corrupt, you would agree with that. it's an imperfect union that has been even more imperfect for black people and brown people. >> tucker: does that mean -- it is that the message they're sending? >> america is doing their part in fixing and correcting

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."hat if one of america's two great political parties changed completely and nobody noticed? a we don't need to guess, it happened. the national press corps stares transfixed at the president's twitter feed, the democratic party has morphed into something that bears no resemblance to what it was even ten years ago. for many decades that party was a coalition of liberal intellectuals, the urban poot and the country's working class. that latter group kept the democrats grounded in the vicinity of reality and without them the democrats connection is gone. bill clinton ran twice against illegal immigration. he attacked it in his speeches and state of the union address. he understood that without borders you don't have a s country. he also knew and repeatedly said that a flood of low wage labor undermines the wages of american citizens because it does. try making that point today. keith ellison will denounce you as a nazi. ellison is a democratic congressman from minnesota. this year he was n

tucker is next. >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. hurricane irma less than two days from making landfall in florida. it could be one of the biggest and tev stating of our lifetime. fox's team of reporters and meteorologist are spread out over florida. we'll take you to an advisory coming from the national hurricane center who are delivering a live update at this moment. we'll go there now. >> good evening, this is the 8:00 p.m. update on hurricane irma. irma is remaining a dangerous hurricane to florida. it is it southeast of the floerpd peninsula and keys. we expect the center to brush the north coast of the cuba and turn north on saturday. the details of the turn are not quite clear yet. at this stage we believe the hurricane will be border line category 4, category 5. because the exact location is not known where it will turn, we don't know which coast will get which conditions. our greatest concern is the storm surge for southeast, southwest and florida keys, 5- 10 feet of the storm surge in the next 36- 48 hours as the hurricane

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's just one video shot on a cell phone at the university of california at riverside, but it tells you a lot about what our kids are learning at school and therefore where we may be heading as a country. in the video a student called edith sees a man wearing a make america great again hat and becomes so enraged that she steals it off his head. he demands it back, she refuses, and this exchange ensues. watch. >> you know what this represents? this represents genocide. >> i understand. >> genocide of a bunch of people. >> you do not get to take other people's property that is legally theirs in this country. >> they're recording me like i'm the criminal here. >> you stole my property. >> you stole this land. i hate this country, and i'm not leaving. i'm staying here because stuff needs to be fixed here. >> but you don't fix it to be breaking the law. >> we need to get rid of all you all. >> i don't care what you have to say. >> your freedom of speech is killing a lot of people out there