wars and a vast majority of republican voters are actually for ending those wars here here's tucker carlson sounding very progressive at least economically for get his social and you know racial stuff but here is tougher carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics america's ruling class carlson says are the mercenaries behind the failures of the middle class including sinking marriage rates he says and the ugliest part of our financial system he won he went on any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having a system like that is the enemy of a healthy society he concluded with a demand for quote a fair country a decent country a cohesive country a country whose whose leaders don't accelerate the forces of change purely for their own profit and amusement so profit in a museum and just what you're suggesting with the opioid epidemic it's. you know it's for profit and you know they muse meant by the way of the cable news sort of oh this is interesting in other words we're saying that the family is being attacked by drug companies who are

tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight longtime trump advisor roger stone was arrested on friday by federal agents and charged with seven felonies. none of the charges had anything to do with russian collusion or election meddling, but you'd never know that from the penalties he faces. if convicted, stone could die in prison. nobody in washington seems to find that punishment excessive. many have cheered it. officially stone was charged with lying, some of most of our political elite engage in every day. his real crime was flamboyance. stone has spent the last 40 years giving the finger to the people in charge. in the end, they got him. they always do. stone's arrest is already fading from the headlines were placed by the latest political crisis in the moment or a skirmish in the culture wars. soon we will forget it ever happened. before we do, it's worth taking just a moment to consider a few basic questions about it if only because nobody else is going to. first, why did the justice department staged what was in effect a

tucker carlson's exclusive interview with vice-president, mike pence. stick around. ood evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a few minutes, we'll talk to the vice-president of the united states and ask him whether america is getting a border wall in the end and what the white house is willing to give in exchange for that. that's just ahead. democrats have returned to power on one half of capitol hillah eight years out, nancy pelosi is once again the speaker of the house. we don't have to speculate what we can expect, because they are telling us. she has signaled her opposition to the border with mexico. >> are you

tucker carlson. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" the president made his america needs a wall on his southern boarder and why that wall is so personality that he's shutting down the federal government to get t. democrats remain removed by the address. and democrats, chuck shouper and nancy pelosi, their words were echoed with mechanical precision up and down the chain, granting a members of congress, and down to the lady muttering in the

until then, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonightcted utah senator mitt romney kicked off 2019 with an op-ed in the "the washington post" that savaged donald trump's character and leadership. romney's attack and trump's response this morning on twitter are the latest salvos in the long standing personal feud between the two men. it's even possible that romney is planning to challenge trump for the republican nomination in 2020. we'll see. but, for now, romney's piece is fascinating on its own terms. and well-worth reading. it's a window how the people in charge in both parties see our country. romney's main complaint in the piece is

tucker carlson. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" the president made his cation for why america needs a wall on his southern boarder and why that wall is so personality that he's shutting down the federal government to get t. democrats remain removed by the address. and democrats, chuck shouper and nancy pelosi, their words were echoed with mechanical precision up and down the chain, granting a members of congress, and down to the lady muttering in the dog park. it's like watching a 3d printer at work, turning out carbon copies of propagand a one after the other, after the other. a miracle of replication. you might even call the democratic response manufactur manufactured. >> this is a manufactured crisis and a crisis that is manufactured by the trump administration. >> this is a manufactured crisis, bill. >> how he manufactures crises like immigrants, seeking legal refuge. >> what the president is doing, is manufacturing a crisis. >> president trump must stop holding americans hostage and stop manufacturing a crisis. >> this president just used the backdr

tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.friday afternoon on the steps of the lincoln memorial it seemed to show a group of teenage boys taunting an elderly american indian man who was holding a drum. the young men had come to washington from a catholic school in kentucky to demonstrate in the march for life. some of them wore make america great again hats. they seem menacing. within hours the video is being replayed by virtually every news outlet in america. here's what you may have seen. ♪

tucker carlson up next live in d.c. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." been since the midterms in november. the most formidable candidates have not officially announced yet. they want to be fashionably late to the party. it's obvious who they are. they are lining up donors, genning up publicity and trying to be impressive. the biggest contender in the group is beto o'rourke. he nearly beat ted cruz

. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good eveningmedia over the weekend you probably saw this video. it was shot friday afternoon on the steps of the lincoln memorial it seemed to show a group of teenage boys taunting an elderly american indian man who was holding a drum. the young men had come to washington from a catholic school in kentucky to demonstrate in the march for life. some of them wore make america great again hats. they seem menacing. within hours the video is being replayed by virtually every news outlet in america. here's what you may have seen. [chanting]

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."urth week. and neither side has moved much. the president has been arguing for the past three years that the united states needs a wall on its southern border. agree with his positions or not, trump has explained why he believes that repeatedly and in great detail. most recently in a live address to the country. democrats meanwhile argued the opposite. america should not have a border wall. they have said again and again. but the difference is they really haven't explained why. at various times democratic leaders told us that walls don't work. walls are racist. walls are wasteful. they are

tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonightic high school in kentucky became the most hated figures in america, television anchors denounce them as bigots, journalists with harvard degrees called them privileged, republican commentators called them bad christians, a famous actor said that they should be punched in the face. some on social media called for them to be killed. they stood accused of mocking an elderly vietnam veteran, un-american indian man and doing it in the shadow of the

tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for a few overheated hours on saturday a group of boys from a catholic high school in kentucky became the most hated figures in america, television anchors denounce them as bigots, journalists with harvard degrees called them privileged, republican commentators called them bad christians, a famous actor said that they should be punched in the face. some on social media called for them to be killed. they stood accused of mocking an elderly vietnam veteran, un-american indian man and doing it in the shadow of the lincoln memorial. it had no inherent news of significance, it didn't mobilize troops or reopen the government but as a symbolic event it's hard to remember a moment more galvanizing in washington as they read their twitter feeds, the leaders of this country were in rare and solemn agreement. these teenage monsters, these remorseless thugs from our backward provinces are living examples of all that is rotten and immoral about america, that was the concessions on saturday. sudd

i'm tucker carlson. i'm like if those shorts with the little whalemn t came to life.ur top story tonight, president trump's heroic end to the shutdown it tooim 35 days, but he was finally able to get no wall. meanwhile, as the democrats stall, the crisis at our border raon. here with her take is the host of justice with judge jeanine. how are you? >> a lot. >> i'm going to ask q astion i already know the answer to. my voice will get very high. these de tcrats, doy want ms-13 t invadingheir towns and tieing up their handsnd feet with duct tape? >> sadly, the answer to that question is si senor. ms-13 isng get so brazen they're

tucker carlson's exclusive interview with vice-president, mike pence. stick around. that's coming up next. see you tomorrow. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a few minutes, we'll talk to the vice-president of the united states and ask him whether america is getting a border wall in the end and what the white house is willing to give in exchange for that. that's just ahead. democrats have returned to power on one half of capitol hillah eight years out, nancy pelosi is once again the speaker of the house. we don't have to speculate what we can expect, because they are telling us. she has signaled her opposition to the border with mexico. >> are you willing to give him something for the wall? >> no, nothing for the wall. there is no persuasion he can do to say we want you to do something that is not effective, that costs billions of dollars, that sends the wrong message about who we are. >> tucker: so there is that. what else can we expect? alexandria cortez, now a member of congress from new york is pushing something called a green new

tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.you were on social media over the weekend you probably saw this video. it was shot friday afternoon on the steps of the lincoln memorial it seemed to show a group of teenage boys taunting an elderly american indian man who was holding a drum. the young men had come to washington from a catholic school in kentucky to demonstrate in the march for life. some of them wore make america great again hats. they seem menacing. within hours the video is being replayed by virtually every news outlet in america. here's what you may have seen. ♪ [chanting] ♪ >> tucker: the american indian man with the drum you just saw is called nathan phillips. and he described the young men he encountered, the ones in the hats as aggressive and threatening. essentially shock troops for donald trump. watch. >> heard them saying build that wall. build that wall. this is indigenous lands. not supposed to have a wall here. never did. >> tucker: it's hard to remember the last time the great american people machine pro

tucker carlson is coming up next in washington, d.c. good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the state of the union address is still scheduled to take place next week but it's not clear where it will be delivered. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi has said the president is not welcome in the house. the latest on that just ahead. first, there was a brief moment, a small window at the beginning of this week when it seemed possible that our media establishment might look inward and learn something useful about itself humiliation was the best teacher and definitely humiliated in the space of a few days two separate high profile news stories turned out to be utterly fraudulent. first, buzzfeed announced that former trump lawyer

tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonightsted on friday by federal agents and charged with seven felonies. none of the charges had anything to do with russian collusion or election meddling, but you'd never know that from the penalties he faces. if convicted, stone could die in prison. nobody in washington seems to find that punishment excessive. many have cheered it. officially stone was charged with lying, some of most of our political elite engage in every day. his real crime was flamboyance. stone has spent the last 40 years giving the fin

discussions of that and then there came a time they did report this "new york times" story and tucker carlson said the following into the camera that may give us an indication of an early defense strategy.di we'll play that and talk about it on the other side. >> if you're keeping track at home and get a pen and paper because this is worth remembering, this is why you should never criticize the fbi. you think it's your birthright as an american. you can do it. i wouldn't try it though. they might open an investigation into you without your knowledge into something appalling, maybe it's beating your wife or dealing fentanyl to kids or betraying your country. you don't need to have done it but once they investigate you, they can always leak i don't know two years later that they were investigating you for the crime that you didn't commit or at least they found no evidence you committed.d. at least never charged it for n you, but it doesn't matter because you're instantly discredited. don't criticize the fbi.te very unwise.it >> chuck rosenberg, your is response. >> that's a deeply and profoundl

i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ruitless debate, which we have chronicled extensively on this show, the administration has reached an agreement tonight with congressional democrats to end the government shutdown. there's a deal, what exactly is in it? we will tell that you in a minute. but first, just before dawn. this morning, the fbi raided the florida home of long time trump advisor roger stone, who will be joining news a minute. the cnn producer stood across the street recording it all with a camera as dozens of heavily armed agents piled out of vehicles and swarmed stone's house. some carried rifles with extra

tucker carlson up next live in d.c. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he 2020 presidential race is effectively underway and has been since the midterms in november. the most formidable candidates have not officially announced yet. they want to be fashionably late to the party. it's obvious who they are. they are lining up donors, genning up publicity and trying to be impressive. the biggest contender in the group is beto o'rourke. he nearly beat ted cruz in a senate race this fall. democrats love him for that. affluent progressives on the coast love him best. he is one of them. in the betting markets, o'rourke is the favorite to win the democratic nomination. two years from now he plausibly could be in the oval office. so it's work taking beto o'rourke seriously. what kind of president would he be? at this point we can only guess. we know like most people in his social class he is totally against border walls. >> we will fought when necessary against a president focused on building walls. >> no wall is going to solve legitimate security concerns. then pe

here's what he just said on "tucker carlson tonight."fternoon wave. >> i'm in for the fight of my life. but i will not quit. i will not fold. i will not bend. i will not bear false witness against the president. i intend to fight because this indictment is fabricated. this indictment is thin as can be. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders say the charges don't have anything to do with the president and trump attorney jay sekulow also does not allege russian collusion by roger stone or anyone else meaning there is no evidence that stone conspires with wikileaks or the russian officials hot special counsel believes hacked the democratic emails. the indictment does say that stone repeatedly discussed wikileaks with campaign associates. here he is again. watch. >> but knowing what's in my email and my text messages, there is no corroboration whatsoever for this. and as for my email exchange with steve bannon, everything i told him in the exchange was publicly reported information. >> stone is obviously out on bail, $250,000 bond to b

now, stone remained resolute earlier with our own tucker carlson. >> i will not quit. i will not fold. i will not bend. i will not bear false witness against the president. i intend to fight. because this indictment is, is, is fabricated. >> laura: with me now is roger stone's lawyer, tyler nixon. tyler, thanks for being here, you have had a long day. i want to read from the indictment and get your reaction. a quote, after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization one, which we have learned is wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases, and what other damaging information, organization one had regarding the clinton campaign. tyler, who directed that campaign official? >> well, that's a mystery that i think remains to be seen and remains to be discovered. thanks for having me on, appreciate it, it's been a long day for sure. this witch hunt has been going on, has been taken to the extreme. and as we know, roger was carted off from his home, early raid, pre-daunl raid, in a manner that w

or maybe tucker carlson -- i'm going to get killed tonight. >> tucker: he is.finitely the man you thinkma he is. [laughter] >> i don't mind. to me, it's not a problem because i'm a public figure running a public charity. i can take a public platform and turn this kind of nonsense into what might be a thoughtful back-and-forth that might in fact change someone's mind. let's face it. it's also great publicity. it's hard to give away half a million dollars to the lens of work ethic. mikeroweworks.com right now if you want to apply for a work ethic scholarship. i am reduced to shameless plugs on your show because i don't really know how else to put that message out there without inflaming somebody who's going to start the sentence with "mike rowe, always been a fan of yours but..." till you sat down with that son of a gun over there and said this. now all of a sudden you are on the naughty list forever. >> tucker: we believe reason and decency will reemerge. that's why you always have a space to shamelessly plug anything on this show. mike rowe, thank you very much

and then i will be able to have a career, but rather, if i want to do something, be the next tucker carlsongo start a podcast, go start a youtube channel, get your hands dirty, experiment, tinker, that is the thing. >> tucker: that is such a wise point. i'm all for following rules, but there is also a downside, and our schools seem to be getting more rigid, less open to creativity. less open to unorthodox thinkin thinking. that is a bad a trend, then. >> it is. it is the nature and the structure, a massive system trying to push everybody through, same age group cohorts, you have to think beyond that kind of traditional rule following idea, and you've got to look at -- the opportunities out there, practice, we work with young people all the time, focus on trying to help them develop skills that are ultimately transferable and in demand no matter watch. the jobs around today, nobody knew these were going to be here 20 years ago, and a same thing is true of the future. we don't know the opportunities there, so it skills that are transferable and adaptable, creative, imaginative, communication

until then, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonightpy new year, newly elected utah senator mitt romney kicked off 2019 with an op-ed in the "the washington post" that savaged donald trump's character and leadership. romney's attack and trump's response this morning on twitter are the latest salvos in the long standing personal feud between the two men. it's even possible that romney is planning to challenge trump for the republican nomination in 2020. we'll see. but, for now, romney's piece is fascinating on its own terms. and well-worth reading. it's a window how the people in charge in both parties see our country. romney's main complaint in the piece is that donald trump is a divisive leader. that's true, of course. beneath the personal slice romney has a policy critique of trump. he seems generally angry that trump might pull troops out of the syrian civil war. romney doesn't explain how staying in syria would benefit america. he doesn't consider that a relevant question. more policing in the middle east is always better. we know t

if tucker carlson is getting ready to go in washington, d.c., cold nights out across the midwt and aaces. to stay warm, bundle up, stick around and watch more fox news throughout the night. good night, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," one of the great secrets of washington, something we don't tell anybody outside the city is that the only people who really benefit from the presidential primaries are the political consultants who work in them. the candidates themselves almost always finish the experience sadder, poirier, and humiliated. the public it's a whole thing, they get to spend half a year tormented by the white noise of 32nd attack ads. only the consultants really seemed to enjoy themselves. and why when that day, they walk away rich. it is a great deal. they have every incentive to recruit new suckers to the

tucker carlson is coming up next in washington, d.c. see you tomorrow night, everybody. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the state of the union address is still scheduled to take place next week but it's not clear where it will be delivered. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi has said the president is not welcome in the house. the latest on that just ahead. first, there was a brief moment, a small window at the beginning of this week when it seemed possible that our media establishment might look inward and learn something useful about itself humiliation was the best teacher and definitely humiliated in the space of a few days two separate high profile news stories turned out to be utterly fraudulent. first, buzzfeed announced that former trump lawyer michael cohen had been coached to commit perjury by the president of the united states. the cable news caucus immediately erupted in glee finally we got him until robert mueller's office weighed in to point out that the story thrilling as it sounded

. >> vice president with tucker carlson last night. the president upped the ante on this debate posting a powerful video on twitter, noting he believes there are dangers along the southern border and the wall would help address them. by the way, white house officials say it isn't immoral. as nancy pelosi has suggested. >> i wonder if she's going to go on a crusade and take them all the fences and walls across this country. i certainly hope not. i hope the people that have them around their homes, the institutions that have them, whether it's the vatican or anywhere else, aren't going to be really happy with the fact that nancy pelosi is calling their walls and their security immoral. it has never been immoral to protect people. >> i am checking my phone, just making sure i haven't gotten any new messages here, harris. we have heard a rumor that the president and republican leaders could be addressing the media over in the rose garden this afternoon. that's the conclusion of that briefing. we make that suggestion based in part upon what

i'm tucker carlson. i'm like if those shorts with the little whalesn them came to life., president trump's heroic end to the shutdown. it took him 35 days, but he was finally able to get no wall. meanwhile, as the democrats stall, the crisis at our border rages on. here with her take is the host of justice with judge jeanine. going to ask a question i already know the answer to. my voice will get very high. these democrats, do they want ms-13 invading their towns and tieing up their hands and feet with duct tape? >> sadly, the answer to that question is si senor.

there is a whole the debate on the right right now, the tucker carlson monologue heard round the world last week, lots of debates about economic policy and what is happening to thesees, and a lot of issues are issues that would be bringingable issues to unio women into the party. marco rubio is talking about a paid family leave program. those are the kinds of issues we need to take seriously as a party. susan: 10 minutes left. >> looking towards 2020, how do see heritage action playing in the election? you guys mainly focused on the house this past cycle with mixed results. candidates lost.abi any plan to get involved in senate race this time around? tim: we are formulating those plans as a team to figure out -- in the last cycle, we spent $2.5 million on 13 candidates. we had a split, 6-6, 1 to be to be decided. we felt good given that all those races were pulling in the democrats favor when we got in those races. being able to win in kentucky, representative bar, that was a hard race, we felt good about that. i think what we are trying to figure out is how much should we be doing lea

number of american servicemen that died in vietnam but i know you hear that sometimes like with tucker carlson and i think he's great at doing that but you don't hear about these issues here and it's because i think that the liberal media is moralize and they think they're simply better then their political opponents certainly they think they're better than the president of the united states and my character is my characterizing unfairly go ahead roger. oh i think you are but also there's another factor involved here and that's. the ever popular money i read where these people are trying to as a track track there already yes it's a very specific only this even though c.n.n. is fairly new m.s.n. b c which is almost a clone of c.n.n. . is attracting a larger audience they've. weeded c.n.n. at the same thing be it was a cost to horrify by the basically the same game where she really interested in the whole white house press corps who gets to be there in the first place one of the reasons things like the opioid crisis are not to mention is the people who are sitting in that room are mostly the sam

add something little that is going to hang on hang on and out on to say in fairness you know tucker carlson is not exactly the same is hannity and laura ok. ok there that i see that they do have a balance there though i mean those are the three programs that i watch at fox so it does cover a lot of area go ahead john in fort lauderdale you know it does and i agree with both of you but here's the other issue right even fox is missing something on fox is best night best night barring debates they get about five million viewers while sixty three million people voted for donald trump what are the other fifty eight million people watching that's a question i ask myself every day and what content do those other fifty eight million people over ninety percent of the trump voters that aren't watching fox news on its best night where are they what are they watching and what are the current networks the current cable outlets the broadcast outlets lacking that's that's preventing or causing those fifty. a million people i mean i go i think i have an answer to that i think a lot of people more and more