tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" anybodyho's ever been caught in its gears can tell you, the great american outrage machine is a remarkable thing. one day you're having dinner with your family, imagine everything is fine. next, your phone exploding with calls from reporters who read you snippets from a press release written by democratic party operatives that the man to know how you could possibly could have said something so awful and -- it's a bewildering moment, especially when the quotes in question are more than a decade old. if not what you can do to respond, it's pointless to try

is tucker carlson the victim?ht when he says if he apologizes nothing ends and no is interested in his apology. that's true. that's how outrage mobs operate. if you are looking for me to say tucker carlson said bad things on the radio, that's true. i would apologize for them. i haven't said those bad things although i know i have some fans down in the media matters basement watching me for 15 years as well. shoutout, guys. but there is a difference between the pirro thing which is bigotry on her network and tucker's which is on the radio ten years ago. i wrote a book about how i don't like coming for people's heads and jobs because they say things people don't like. i believe what i wrote. there is another thing that's corrosive in addition to people saying mean things. it is the impulse to take people down and take people's jobs for saying errant facebook posts. that happens to real people, not just public figures. i like that tucker carlson is joan riversing this thing. when people said to joan rivers and said y

tucker carlson of being a millionaire funded by building a house you're not part of this. part of the problem actually. went to the heart of this debate about the role that media and well paid people within the media potentially contribute to the debate all the lack thereof around tax banks. and the criticism he wants a new report says the u.s. coverage of tax reform in mainstream news media is disproportionately luck while tax avoidance gets sporadic mentions when celebrities from the world of sports or entertainment are involved those advocating reform like rutger break members tend to blame corporate leaders and the ideology of their owners for the shortfall but the truth is the little. more complicated with a little less reductive some of the media's aversion to attack stories even corporate owned media isn't ideological it's commercial channels not wanting to lose viewers by testing their patients and burying them in numbers documents deductions credits and loopholes. you're right reporting on tax can be dry and it can be boring and ninety five percent of that work in

follow conventional wisdom. ♪ ♪ >>> fox news is under fire tonight over new audio released of tucker carlsonisogynistic, and sexist remarks. it is from radio interviews beginning in 2006 with a shock jock who calls himself bubba the love sponge. here's one where tucker was talking about iraq back in 2008. >> iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of semi-literate primitive monkeys. >> how can you salvage iraq at this point? >> it's beyond ire control. i mean if somehow the iraqis decided to behave like human beings or something. >> here's carlson and the host using anti-gay slurs in 2006. >> msnbc's very own tucker carlson. i like you. >> i like you too and i mean that. you always say that i mean that in a non[ bleep ] way but i mean it in a completely [ bleep ] way. >> and there was this conversation about martha stewart's daughter, also in 2006. we blanked out the vilest words. >> she seems like a -- she seems awful. >> she is awful. >> she seems extremely [ bleep ]. >> today carlson hasn't apologized, neither has fox. brian stelter said last night's program carried fewerer ads than us

tucker carlson is here tonight. he has an answer to that question, plus decoding beto's body language. arroyo will be here with us and it will be trump versus beto because trump likes, you know, too, but what do these different hand motions' style tell us about both people? it's very interesting, and arroyo will be with us next on "friday follies." be with us net >> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for "friday follies." beto's bizarre gestures what do they mean? is it appropriate for kids to strike from school over climate strike from school over climate "new york times" best-selling author of "the will wilder series," including the new amulet of power. all right, what on earth, it's like beta max, coming back. coming back. >> well, he's clearly trying to signal something here, laura. i did a lot of study over the last 24 hours and i was trained in body language and gestures as an actor. i'm not coming out of left side. beto's gestures actually tell us a lot about him as a person. now, it should be said,

tucker carlson is here tonight. he has an answer to that question, plus decoding beto's body language. o'roark will be here with us and it will be trump versus beto because trump likes, you know, too, but what do these different hand motions' style tell us about both people? it's very interesting, and arroyo will be with us next on "friday follies." nasty nightime heartburn? try alka-seltzer pm gummies. the only fast, powerful heartburn relief, plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. oh, what a relief it is! you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. [music playing] jerry has a membership to this gym, but he's not using it. and he has subscriptions to a music service he doesn't listen to and five streaming video services he doesn't watch. this is jerry learning that he's still paying for this stuff he's

look, if tucker carlson is unacceptable, then people won't watch it and the marketplace will decide. amanda, i have to go. i'm really over time. but go on. >> i would just say tucker's audience may buy this argument. i'm not sure the advertisers will, but this is really a larger question for fox. will you tolerate anything your hosts say on-air if they can blame someone else for it? it's an open question. >> thank you all. well, no, we're coming back. we'll be right back. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! >>> senator kirsten gillibrand has been one of the "me too" movement's biggest champions in congress and made change the centerpiece of her campaign. she was the first senator to call for former se

>> iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know -- >> and more disgusting audio of tucker carlson recovered. will fox news stay behind him. >>> and it is tuesday, march 12, 4:00 a.m. in the east. the boeing max 8 can stay in the air despite growing calls to keep it on the ground. the federal aviation administration declining to ground it following two recent crashes. investigators have not determined whether the same problem caused sunday's crash of an ethiopian airlines plane and lion air jet of the same type last october. >> bowinging eaowineing confirml deploy a soft ward updaware upde max 8. this is after the faa says it is mandating design changes. boeing stood by the max 8. >> very important is that the 737 max is safe. we're very confident in that. >> overnight several airlines and entire countries temporarily suspended operation of the 737 max 8. singapore, air mexico joining indonesia and all of china. u.s. based carriers sticking with the boeing model. american airlines flights 24, southwest flights 34. and they will continue to do so. >> experts' opinions on whether to

as a double ender or a d.t.l. a down the line interview which means the host is in one place tucker carlson at fox news's headquarters in new york the guest in another rutger bregman in a studio in amsterdam and it was prerecorded it wasn't a lot. of help and. now typically if that kind of interview goes wrong and the channel chooses not to air it the video never sees the light of day because it exists on the broadcasters server and nowhere else. but this one went viral obtained and released by the online site now this because in addition to showing up with an agenda. bregman had a plan he brought along a friend to record the video from the amsterdam and on his phone and to capture the audio from both things. he knew it was probably not against the group cost because he was raising issues that hurt them and make them look pretty bad and part. of their dirty money he was criticizing the fact that they are paid to represent a particular kind of ideology your millionaire. or you're not talking about what you thought is the classic car crash t.v. interview and i think that made him uncomfortabl

right behind him comes tucker carlson with about 2.9 million.think fox is going to say you've been a bad boy, we're going to have to let you go or we're going to have to reprimand you? i think his audience is there and they want the audience. if the advertisers do stick with him -- well, of course if they leave him he's toast. fox will suddenly discover that what he did was beyond the pale and let him go. but not now. >> it's interesting, i guess he was on msnbc when he started appearing on this radio show, so it's interesting that they seemed to be fine with it at the time. i want to play some of what tucker carlson had to say about this last night. >> the great american outrage machine is a remarkable thing. one day you're having dinner with your family imagining everything is fine. the next your phone is exploding with calls from reporters. it's a bewildering moment, especially when the quotes in question are more than a decade old. there's really not that much you can do to respond. it's pointless to try to explain how the words were spoken

look, if tucker carlson is unacceptable, then people won't watch it and the marketplace will decide. ave to go. but go on. >> i would just say tucker's audience may buy this argument. i'm not sure the advertisers will, but this is really a larger question for fox. will you tolerate anything your hosts say on-air if they can blame someone else for it? it's an open question. >> thank you all. well, no, we're coming back. we'll be right back. need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites and lets you filter by take-off time, layovers and more, so you can be confident you're getting the right flight at the best price. ♪ kayak. search one and done. [laughter] ♪ ♪ "i'm okay." ♪ ♪ >>> senator kirsten gillibrand has been one of the "me too" movement's biggest champions in congress and made change the centerpiece of her campaign. she was the first senator to call for former senator al frachk-tone resign after a compromising photo of him surfaced in 2017. now a lot of people are upset at her handling of a sexual harassment allegation from a woman who worked in her office for

tucker carlson. ( laughter ) yep. ( piano riff ) anyway, media matters went through all of tuck's appearancesnge, and he is none too kind to the ladies. for instance, here's one from 2010 where tucker's talking about then-supreme court nominee elena kagan: >> but i do feel sorry for her in that way. i feel sorry for unattractive women. >> yeah, well she can certainly, i mean, shape it up a little bit. i mean-- i mean, lose 10 or 15 pounds, get a tan, fix those teeth. i mean-- >> no, it's just absolutely fundamental. physically, the problems here-- >> i mean this woman-- >> with her are fundamental. she's never going to be an attractive woman. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: harsh words from the next double-o seven here. "the name's breather, mouth breather." ( laughter ) but he's got a point. we have to protect the supreme court's high standards of physical beauty. ( laughter ) mmm, justice breyer? break me off a piece of that. or just wait a bit, something will fall off. ( laughter ) but the most incredibly tucker thing carlson said was about former cult leader, warren jeffs, who was convict

then there's tucker carlson, the bad guy om every john hughes movie.t was reported that he made a series of racist, misogynist and homophobic comments on the radio in the 2000's hosted by a guy named bubba the love sponge. [ laughter j let t say, i was so confused to hear that tucker carlson went on a show hosted by someone named bubba the love sponge, that made the same face tucker carlson makes every night on his show. [ lahihter ] look a he always looks like he's 30 seconds into an allergic reaction. [ laughter ] "were there nutsn this muffin?" he looks like he's three quarters of the way to rudy giuliani. now, anyone who has pa any attention to politics at all knows that trump has spent years as a businessman, candidate, and presiden openly spouting anti-muslim bigotry yet trump's aides have been trying to memory hole his long history of racism and islamophobia. like his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. mulvaney said on sunday that he would like us all to ignore the things that trump says and focus instead on what he does. >> as a candidate, th

tucker carlson, see you next tuesday.ro, it's against the constitution to exercise your first amendment right and be muslim. i, donald j. trump, will ban all muslims in america. we've gone beyond that environment >> i think it's born in that environment, right? and from 2007 until he declared his presidency, he had a weekly gig. he had his entirely -- he had much of the police world view shaped by what he saw on fox news, and frankly that's why he won the nomination. he was saying things that most republicans situated in dc would not say because they were the brain child of liberal media. >> these are racist and m -- >> this was a business model long before we came in. he stepped into that and this was something that this was created as a business model to appeal to the "football viewer." what that means, and according to jane's reporting. and you're seeing manifestations of that and this drive to rile up the base on a daily basis now. it got people to the poles. once that wrapped, once the election wrapped, so did the ne

tucker carlson's comments have been given a pass. ty of controversy for what he says on his show. digging it up was an ideologicallily motivated effor. when you look at fox, are we seeing a bit of a seat change here? does he have less patience for the things we saw come to light here in the past week? >> tucker carlson is still on the air, and fox news remains the most maligned influence on american politics out there. it's fox news that brainwashed americans, made americans angry alongside talk radio. and they're not doing anything on that. and frankly we don't cover it well enough because we don't want to watch it. it's disgusting, but we have to cover what much of the america including the president of the united states is watching and what they're not watching and not seeing as a result. >> you've gone toe to toe with tucker carlson before. your reaction to what he had to say, what it tells you about him and his brand of political commentary? >> well, first, he digs up stuff on people all the time. that's part of his stick. we've

just putting forward ideas to discuss like tucker carlson does. he's always just asking question tz. not defending anything, just asking questions. >> i'm not defending trump -- >> president trump said what he said on the tape. i'm not defending it. i'm not defending white supremacy. >> you defend the ugliness of a lot of things online. i'm not defending the creepiness on the internet. i hate it like you do. >> and everyone knows what tucker is doing when he said this including white supremacist who recently leaked chats are praising carlson for how he injected ideals of white nationalism to the discourse through this cowardly disassociation with his own views but carlson has been doing this shstick forever. he's made on shock jock radio between 2006 and 2011 about, among many other things, when child rape is okay and defensible. you could tell from listening they are not made in jest. >> well he -- warren jeffs didn't marry und age girls. >> he's in prison for precipitation of child rape. >> whatever the hell that means. he's in prison because he

tucker carlson resurfaces. will fox news stand behind him. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm jessica dean. >> and i'm dave briggs. tuesday, march 12th. people around the world concerned following that deadly crash over the weekend. that is where we start this morning. the boeing max 8 can stay in the air despite growing calls to keep it on the ground. the federal aviation administration declining to ground it following two recent crashes. investigators have not determined whether the same problem caused sunday's crash of an ethiopian airlines plane and lion air jet of the same type last october. >> boeing confirmed that it will deploy a software update for the max 8. it has gone been -- it has been in the working since the lion air crash. this is after the faa says it is mandating design changes. boeing stood by the max 8. >> very important is that the 737 max is safe. we're very confident in that. >> overnight several airlines and entire countries temporarily suspended operation of the 737 max 8. australia moments ago joining the list. singapore

tucker carlson is up next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" "tucker carlson tonighte have seen a lot of change in the 2 years trump has been president. the american media has changed forever. these organizations that seemed like a big deal 5 years ago are extinct and some forgotten. those that remain degraded themselves beyond recognition like the new yorker or they have been purchased to conduct lobbying for amazon.com like the "washington post." not so long ago america had prestige media outlets. harvard graduates went to work for newsweek. not anymore. teen vogue has a news division and so does a blog called buzz feed. if you are an affluent single person who likes cats, then you know and love buzz feed. when a buzz feed headline commands you to stop everything and watch this, you do. you stop everything and you watch that cat. when buzz feed offers a trademark cat quiz, you take the quiz. what kind of purs-anality does your cat have? take this quiz. meow! you think you know a lot about cats. buzz feed knows more. all on questions feline buzz feed is the final aut

tucker carlson is up next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" "tucker carlson tonightident. the american media has changed forever. these organizations that seemed like a big deal 5 years ago are extinct and some forgotten. those that remain degraded themselves beyond recognition like the new yorker or they have been purchased to conduct lobbying for amazon.com like the "washington post." not so long ago america had prestige media

it's nothing they did. >> that's tucker carlson, host of fox's show at 8:00 at night.to ask tucker to apologize? >> we shall see. he released a statement saying he was caught saying something naughty. the full context of his comments, and he's calling into this shock jock show. that may be part of his defense. this goes well beyond something naughty. the comment about kagan is crass and clueless and perhaps an i indication of how he'd vote but his comments about warren jeffs and the child bride marrying in certain cults, that to me is even a starker example. and i don't think that can be excused away unless year embracing a new era of normalization. that's more serious that goes beyond humor. >> he calls women primitive. >> media matters dug up this old audio. the audio is real. the clips are real. there's many of them. misogynistic, perverse. instead of apologizing he says, hey, watch my show. come on my show, debate me. he's trying to turn this into a ratings ploy when, in fact, it's more evidence that some of these hosts on fox engage in shock jock behavior all the

there it is because of tucker carlson. >> tucker: that is so cool. that was in canada?ted me to come backstage after the show. and then that would have changed the whole trajectory of my life. >> tucker: probably best you didn't do that. we never would have met you if you had done that. without getting too heavy on live tv, we'ves. talked about this a numr of times. you decided that you were going to approach the challenges in your life in a positive way. >> mm-hm. >> tucker: how -- i mean, people are inspired when they hear>> t can you give advice to other people facing challenges? how do you do that? how do you stick with it? >> i wrote this book for mysel when i was diagnosed with ms and that was almost 15 years ag because i was looking for peopl doing well despite the challeng i couldn't find a lot of that.ei needed a book like this to make me feel like i wasn't alone. i wrote this book sort of for me 15 years ago, when i was facing a really dark time. i just wanted to know there was somebody out there doing well. >> tucker: whatever you did, really, i've never met

as a double ender or a d.t.l. a down the line interview which means the host is in one place tucker carlson at fox news's headquarters in new york the guest in another rutger bregman in a studio in amsterdam and it was prerecorded it wasn't a lot. of help and. now typically if that kind of interview goes wrong and the channel chooses not to parrot the video never sees the light of day because it exists on the broadcasters server and nowhere else. but this one went viral obtained and released by the online site now this because in addition to showing up with an agenda. bregman had a plan he brought along a friend to record the video from the amsterdam and on his phone and to capture the audio from go thinks. he knew it was probably going to go to the protest because he was raising issues that hurt them or make them look pretty bad and part. of their dirty money he was criticizing the fact that they are paid to represent a particular kind of ideology your millionaire. or you're not talking about what you thought is the classic car crash t.v. interview and i think that made him uncomfortable a

as a double ender or a d.t.l. a down the line interview which means the host is in one place tucker carlson at fox news's headquarters in new york the guest in another rutger bregman in a studio in amsterdam and it was prerecorded it wasn't a lot. of help and. now typically if that kind of interview goes wrong and the channel chooses not to air it the video never sees the light of day because it exists on the broadcasters server and nowhere else. but this one went viral obtained and released by the online site now this because in addition to showing up with an agenda. bregman had a plan he brought along a friend to record the video from the amsterdam and on his phone and to capture the audio from go thinks. he knew it was probably going to go to the group cost because he was raising issues that hurt them or make them look pretty bad and part. of their dirty money he was criticizing the fact that they are paid to represent a particular kind of idea looking your millionaire. or you're not talking about what you thought is the classic car crash t.v. interview and i think that made him uncomfor

as a double ender or a d.t.l. a down the line interview which means the host is in one place tucker carlsonat fox news's headquarters in new york the guest in another rutger bregman in a studio in amsterdam and it was prerecorded it wasn't a lot. of help and. now typically if that kind of interview goes wrong and the channel chooses not to air it the video never sees the light of day because it exists on the broadcasters server and nowhere else. but this one went viral obtained and released by the online site now this because in addition to showing up with an agenda. bregman had a plan he brought along a friend to record the video from the amsterdam and on his phone and to capture the audio from go thinks. he knew it was probably going to go to the protest because he was raising issues that hurt them or make them look pretty bad and part. of their thirty he was criticizing the fact that they are paid to represent a particular comfortable idea looking your millionaire. or your not talking about what you thought is the classic car crash t.v. interview and i think that made him uncomfortable a

xfinity, the future of awesome. >>> tucker carlson is under fire again after more clips surfacing ofng really offensive remarks. >> these are published by media matters for america. and the clips are remarkable, racist, homophobic language that he used repeatedly on a radio program between 2006 and 2011. >> iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of you know semi literate. i just have zero sympathy for them or their culture. >> obama would kick your ass playing basketball. he is black. he's a real brother. >> i don't know how black he is. >> over and over again also talk about views on child rape, under age marriage, criticizing the appearance of a sitting supreme court justice. >> a lot of these comments predate his time as a fox host. media matters says they are reflective of his views now. carlson is not backing down and not apologizing. here is part of what he said on his show last night. >> first, fox news is behind us as they have been since the very first day. toughness is a rare quality in a tv network and we are grateful for that. second, we always apologize when we are w

gave in mind tucker carlson is welcomed with open arms by the biggest cable news channels he was on c.n.n for years now he's been on fox news for years thank goodness our mainstream media errors stuff like that but purges all the anti-war an anti greed voices were raised as a more genocide that stuff is perfect for television just as long as you don't hurt the feelings of a pharmaceutical company or a weapons contractor this is long as you don't call out israel for war crimes which by the way even the united nations did this month saying israel killed one hundred eighty nine palestinians almost all of them targeted live ammunition and almost. all of them completely unarmed that story for the most part blacked out from your mainstream media imagine if the venezuelan military killed one hundred eighty nine unarmed people at their border i mean if venezuela farts in the wrong direction the us says we have to invade and bring down their government. but israel can massacre people not a problem meanwhile the european union is urging the world to abandon a militarized intervention in venezuela c

eastern but in the meantime, our friend tucker carlson is up next * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *♪ >>ucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. there is a loud debate in washington to participate in border's acute or. to build a wall and how much ice should get with detention center big enough to hold everyone they need to hold. people argue about these questions everyday. you watch it on tv so it seems like the parties are divided on the matter. but on a deeper level -- level, there is no debate but a consensus. everyone in the political system knows in our faith that mass immigration is good for the economy. immigrants make us richer and the chamber of commerce tells us that. think tanks to start to prove it's true. and the democratic party, it is a bedrock principle. america would collapse without his steady torrent of new bibles developing. that is what they tell us. immigration does not just improve the economy. we wouldn't have an economy without it. >> i want us to be a country where hardworking immigrants who pay taxes, and by the way, one have undocumented wor

tucker carlson coming up next. good night, everybody. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last summer cnn reporter caitlin collins was barred from the white house event after she asked questions the administration thought were too aggressive. as an organization cnn has relentlessly attacked fox news over the years. on the other hand, reporters ought to be allowed to ask hard questions of public officials. executives here at fox didn't hesitate. they loudly came to caitlin collins' defense. so did "special report" anchor bret baier, so did this show. >> tucker: the big story in washington today is that caitlin collins over at cnn was prevented from covering an event at the white house yesterday. caitlin worked for me for years. she is a fair and decent person and i don't think she should have been prevented from covering anything. >> tucker: whatever you think of cnn, caitlin collins is a great person defending her was not a tough call. then the white house briefly banned cnn corres

. >> let me show you a clip of a recent interaction you had with tucker carlson. >> so, you've talked a lot about russia, but you've also become known for your position on guns. why shouldn't my wife have the same firearm at home that your bodyguards use to protect you? is that fair or is that unfair? why is it unfair? >> that's a ridiculous argument. why can't we have a real conversation about -- >> this is a real conversation. >> all right. before i get you to react to that, in 1976, william f. buckley jr. had the washington bureau chief of the new york times on this program, tom wicker. and he was on to discuss politics and the press. and they had a different kind of conversation. you'll notice a very different and very decidedly different tone and tenor to their conversation. let's take a look. can you relate to what buckley said there at the top, which is that, often, you see one side being made to appear unreasonable by the use of rhetoric, rather than by the use of reason? hasn't that come to be the hallmark of the public square? >> yes. and i try and go back, again, to my trai

andd now back to tucker carlson. >> tucker: lastr month the residents of martin county kentucky receivedacebook from their sheriff john kirk. here's what the message said, quote: law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist. we are broke. lock your doors, load your guns and get you a barking, biting dog. if the sheriff's office can't protect you, who will? that's real. imagine hearing that from your own sheriff from your own government? in martin county kentucky the median household income is $18,000 a year. almost half the children live in poverty. one of the poorest places in the united states. the county is so broke the sheriff's department can no longer provide 24-hour police protection. keepep in mind that in martin county the opioid epidemic is still raging. they badly need help from law enforcement. more thanim 50 years ago lyndon johnson traveled to martin county, kentucky to pitch his war on poverty. clearly his solutions didn't work, obviously. but at least the goal was right. lbj wanted to improve america. that was laudable. that's the point of runni

they go after trump and tucker carlson and they been after me at lower cadence.y hold him up, ridiculed and worse the world and don't check their fact two what you think is driving the media. i just think they've thrown in with this hard round, i think the reporters are particularly bright, they reject history too, they don't look at huntley, brinkley, any of the people who built what it is they're standing on, and they go their own way like your typical progressive. history doesn't matter, context doesn't matter two i think if you go to a journalism school there will be. [inaudible] exposed the president and take down a president. it's kind of unfair to woodward. i think woodward has his moments. i think they go into this business to get somebody, gotcha. it's the gotcha journalism. i believe they think they are doing justice. >> not obama, he gets a pass. >> right. >> that's because of the ideology. i wrote up paper ones for cnn because i was working there and i wrote a paper on confirmation bias. look for evidence of what it is you believe in you turn the evid

. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" "tucker carlson tonight." been president. the american media has changed forever. these organizations that seemed like a big deal 5 years ago are extinct and some forgotten. those that remain degraded themselves beyond recognition like the new yorker or they have been purchased to conduct lobbying for amazon.com like the "washington post." it is hard to remember that not so long ago america had prestige media outlets. harvard graduates went to work

tucker carlson up next. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." various news outlets are telling us that the mueller report is finally on its way. we have no inside information about that. we should say apparently the white house believes it, too. mueller's report does arrive, it will go first to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. there's not much debate about what should happen after that. democrats have demanded the release of the entire document. the president agrees with them. he said he'd like to see that report go public so voters can assess it for themselves. for now, we'd like to take just a second to put this entire sprawling story into some perspective. our job on this show is to remember things, to create a record of what has happened in this country over the past few years and what has happened to it. our grandchildren will want to know. if the left has its way, it will all be whitewashed like so much else in our history has been. let's recall for the record what the robert mueller investigation is all about. the poi

i will see you back tomorrow night at seven, tucker carlson is on next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening andelcome to "tucker carlson tonight," this evening we want to tell you a story about collusion, actual collusion that's currently in progress. there are no shadowy hackers or imaginary rendezvous' in prague in this story, there's not a single russian spy or secret sex tape, there's nothing shadowy about the collusion were going to tell you about the takes place in the open on live television. this is a story about where your news comes from. this past sunday we learned the trump campaign did not collude with the government of russia, the investigation spent two years exhaustively looking into the question. this is good news for america, we don't have a spy in the white house. but it was apocalyptic for the democratic party and the press agents in the news media. these are people who would stake their reputations and fortunes on the collusion hoax and they were stunned. befuddled politicians tried to figure out what to say about the news, viewers of liberal media outlets didn't want to he

our friend tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight quick break from chasing after russian facebook trolls have exposed a very large nationwide effort by actors, lawyers, private equity moguls, to game the college admissions process, to cheat. and it worked. unimpressive students became geniuses, totally uncoordinated video game players became cocapr legendary poll vultures. some people even fabricated new racial identities to get into school.

i will see you back tomorrow night at seven, tucker carlson is on next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening ande want to tell you a story about collusion, actual collusion that's currently in progress. there are no shadowy hackers or imaginary rendezvous' in prague in this story, there's not a single russian spy or secret sex tape, there's nothing shadowy about the collusion were going to tell you about the takes place in the open on live television. this is a story about where your news comes from. this past sunday we learned the trump campaign did not collude with the government of russia, the

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" anybodyn tell you, the great american outrage machine is a remarkable thing. one day you're having dinner with your family, imagine everything is fine. next, your phone exploding with calls from reporters who read you snippets from a press release written by democratic party operatives that the man to know how you could possibly could have said something so awful and -- it's a bewildering moment, especially when the quotes in question are more than a decade old. if not what you can do to respond,

i'm surprised there is no contrition on tucker carlson's part so far, and i would say today is not theight day to thump your chest and say, i'm repe repentant about misogynistic things i said, even though they were a decade ago. >> why wouldn't the network be monitoring more closely what their anchors are saying? or is it possible they were monitoring them? >> if i'm correct and if memory serves correct, it was at a time when he was not on fox but was on msnbc. and brianna, i would also submit to you -- >> very important to note, i should say. >> the use of the c word has always been taboo. but i think it's important to note that there has been a sea change in attitudes in just the last few years, much less in the last decade of time. so very easily that could have flown under the radar screen because at that time it just wasn't guarded in the way it obviously being regarded today. i think it's also a little inappropriate to say, well, if you'd like my response to this, come watch my show. i mean, he's essentially seeking to gain ratings out of the controversy based on something that h

see you tomorrow. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight".e grateful for, but not everyone was impressed by it at the time. much of europe scoffed at the idea not just because they were monarchists, even free thinking people of the time. contemporary liberals were worried it wouldn't work. they didn't think it would. they thought democracy was a weak system. at some point they believed unscrupulous politicians would come to power, change the rules in their favor and establish a one-party state. what began as government by the people

tucker carlson is next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonighted north's negotiations as unacceptable and bad for the united states. is that good or bad? and then democratic presidential candidate tulsi gabbard has been expelled from her party. her crime? opposing war. happy to talk to her on this show. first, michael cohen spent a decade as trump's high-profile lobbyer, and defender and personal attorney. one day he

we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00, our friend tucker carlson is about to take over in k tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," beto o'rourke's campaign return america to 1995 is off to a surprisingly rough start tonight. instead of telling us more about the skate forward tricks and though we'd hook ups, o'rourke is apologizing for his skin color, truly. we have more than that in just ahead. but the mueller report coming any day now. we don't really know that it is coming any day now, but everybody in washington is saying that. but there are indications that it might be. matthew whitaker for one has said that it is pretty much wrapped up. in any case, all of this will end at some point. and when it does, it will be chaos in the