tucker carlson is the new donald trump. tucker has taken trump's place as a right wing leader, as an outraged generator, as a fire starter and it is all happening on fox just like trump's campaign did. which means rupert and lock lynn murdock are ultimately responsible. think about all of the ways these two men are similar. every day carlson is throwing bombs, making online memes, offending millions of people and delighting millions of other and tapping into white mail rage and resentment, stoking distrust of big tech in the media. generally coursening the discourse, never apologizing for anything and setting the gop's agenda. sounds like a recently retired president, right? even before the 2020 election, there was informed speculation about carlton as a 2024 candidate. of course some of his attractors say he's just a troll. he's just really good at ticking people off. but isn't that what they said about trump for years? yes, tucker is known to critique trump and the republican party from time to time. this time last year he

tucker carlson is next. ks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." here's an amazing story.ni yesterday the pentagon special operations command made an announcement from its official twitter account.ad special operations command is a very significant thing in the u.s. military and in our country it.. oversees delta force the seal teams and most of our most celebrated best trained lethal war fighter the treat richard torres estrada is now the chief of diversity and inclusion of america's special forces and they included his picture with the announcement. then, at the very top of its website the special operations command included a link to its extensive quite long new diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of t standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn't find that on the website.e. in

tucker carlson is now. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a horrible story from the state

is on. >> the pentagon condemns the fox news host tucker carlson for his comments abouty outrages and memes make their ways on carlson's show to social media, offending millions, delighting others, stoking distrust. even about vaccines. >> his plan consisting essentially of vaccines, vaccines and more vaccines. turning biden into a boogie man after last week's address to the nation. mocking his small gatherings on independence day. acting like biden is a dictator. >> we might have to rescind that right but it's possible if you're obedient you'll get it. who are you talking to? this is a 47 people. this is a free country. how dare you tell us who we can spend the fourth of july with. >> every day carlson finding a new way to take up space and political brains. that sounds like a recently retired president, doesn't it? >> tucker carlson. >> i'm pretty sure tucker carlson spent the last 12 hours foaming at the mouth. >> and all of this may benefit carlson. he's under a long material contract but has not stopped the tucker 2024 chatter. in this straw poll of party loyalists,

in fact, he brought up to tucker carlson that he was out to dinner with tucker carlson a couple of yearst. >> actually, you and i went to dinner. about two years ago your wife was there, and i brought a friend of mine, you'll remember her, and she was actually threatened by the fbi, told if she wouldn't cop to the fact that i was somehow involved in a pay for play scheme that she could face trouble. >> and there's going to be some trouble corroborating that because tucker carlson then said he had no memory of that dinner or meeting that person. but the tale just gets wider and wider as matt gaetz talks about it. >> basically what matt gaetz just did is he made tucker carlson a witness to the investigation now. >> yes, he did. >> i also note that matt gaetz has, in the past, spun wild tales about a variety of different subjects, so it's not surprising that he would spin this wild tale. but, again, the fact that someone, even if it's true, in march tried to extort him or his family to allegedly make this case go away, doesn't change the fact that there is a case. there is a very serious fe

to his supporters, tucker carlson has fans. to his opponents, he has hostages.you hate him, i'm guessing that someone you love watches him. shows like his has driven a wedge between you and someone you love. and that hurts. so what you're feeling is not just anger, it's loss. especially if you've tried to have a reasonable conversation with someone about one of his commentaries. even fox news has argued, in court, that hyperbole and exaggeration are part of his act. he's not meant to be a reliable source of facts. fox news argued this in a slander case and got the case dismissed. this culture war sucks. i hate it more than i can say. and this situation is a prime reason why. we focus so much on the warriors that we forget about the wounded, because we're all wounded. and it is so much easier to rage on in war than to stop and tend to our wounds. just looking at them can be unbearable. but that pain is real. it matters. and it needs to be spoken. you lost someone. in some cases, they're so estranged it's almost like they died. you're basically dead to each other.

the pentagon has never been more progressively political. >> tucker carlson chose to respond by sayingust biden appointees rebuking him. but that is not what this is. the military at every level are rebuking carlson's comments because they are sexist and they are military. veterans like kate hetrick who was enlisted in the navy while she was pregnant with one of her children. >> someone serving while pregnant, it's very dispurging. none of us let this affect our positions and all came to work every day ready to do our jobs and we loved our jobs. again, he's entitled to his own opinion but i believe the people in the pentagon making these decisions have a lot more insight what our intale members need than someone who's never served a day of military service in his life. >> and general martin overseas training in the army, his daughter also served and tweeted this -- "contrary to what you're hearing, you wish your daughter was as awesome of mine, so back off." sergeant major of the army, most senior enlisted like many spoke out. >> the army has 185,000 women in our army today, and we hav

you don't have to stop watching tucker carlson to watch me.tv is your business. you are welcome here just as you are. and i hope you come back. if you can relate to this grief, to this sense of loss, i'm sorry. you should not have to go through this. and i am so sorry that you're in pain. i would like to help you reconnect with the people you're distant from, if you want that. the first step is to speak out. to be real about what is going on. if you are estranged from someone because of this culture war, what do you wish you could say to them right now? make my program your platform. what is that loss? who needs to know about it? email us. the week @msnbc.com. or tweet us. please include your name, where you're from, and keep it as brief as you can. 100 words or fewer is ideal for tv. the week@msnbc.com. we'll share some of your stories tomorrow night. the good news is more people are trying to rebuild these bridges. one psychologist said that half her clients are working through political differences. she'll join us to share what works, when

the other night when the fox decided the 1990s tv picture in a picture and smacked tucker carlson itg in a tiny box he raised his eyebrows when biden discussed the safety of the vaccine, once again heenforcing the skepticism of his audience. though that was hardly the first time. >> what about this vaccine? why are americans being discouraged from asking simple straightforward questions about it? questions like how effective are these drugs? are they safe, what's the miscarriage risk for pregnant women for example? is there a study on that? may we see it? >> i don't know when my number gets called. i'm actually beginning to have doubts. i've been telling my friends i'm going to get the vaccine. half of them agree and the other half think i'm absolutely nuts. i don't know who to listen to. if the vaccine was so great why are all these people -- bill gates is getting extraordinary powers about what you can and cannot do to your own body. >> and there's this, something a guest said on laura ingram's show that was so good she felt the need to tweet it out afterward. quote, you're becomin

it did clarify one thing and matt gaetz is determined to put tucker carlson at a table with whoever ittment is potentially investigating him over is tucker carlson potentially going to pop up on a witness list for this investigation? >> you know, hard to say that certainly seemed like it was what matt gaetz was trying to do in that really strange interview. the one thing that's clear, the only certain takeaway i have from this is that the congressman needs a lawyer and he needs to give someone legal advice and he's perilously close to conceding himself and just running his mouth in a way that no one who is the subject of a federal investigation should be doing. >> and he might want to do better than his favorite president in terms of his choice of lawyers michael, where is this going because the big question, i think, that seems obvious is there an individual young woman in question, you know, an underaged person in question that journalists like yourself are aware of is that a thing that you can report on or that you think will be revealed imminently in this very strange case? >> i th

she tweeted, "f" tucker carlson. two-step, america's female warriors were hunting down al qaeda and proving the strength of america's women. happy belated international women's day to everyone but tucker, who even i can dance better than. bloop. and the pentagon quite literally smited him for dissing diversity in the ranks. pentagon press secretary john kirby said the defense department won't be taking advice from a talk show host. well, that one really messed with his soul like ether, if he has a soul, because last night he went on his little show and whined about how he, tucker, is the victim. >> if the pentagon can show that pregnant pilots are the best, we will be the first to demand an entire air force of pregnant pilots. since when does the pentagon declare war on a domestic news operation? can't remember that ever happening. >> he should probably put the bow tie on. he'd look smarter and sound smarter. i'm now joined by pennsylvania congresswoman and retired air force captain, chrissy houlahan. i have no real

here's exactly what tucker carlson said. >> so we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy, our military needs to become, as joe biden, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist. the bottom line is it's out of control, and the pentagon's going along with this. again, this is a mockery of the u.s. military and its core mission, which is winning wars. >> i wonder if he just does that for attention. but a mockery? he's never served in the mill. he's insulting women who do serve in the military. joining me now, one of the incredible women who put her life at risk to protect this country, and that is major mj hegar. i really appreciate you joining us and thank you for your service. so you're a woman and a veteran. what was going through your mind when you heard those comments? >> yeah, it's difficult. a couple things went through my mind. one, clearly he's never served. y

reiner, i saw you calling out tucker carlson the other day on your twitter feed saying you might know the motive for why there are vaccine doubts spread on the channels like fox. what do you think the motive is? >> good morning, brian. it is hard to escape the notion that some of the conservative media outlets in particular tucker carlson is -- are and is purposely instilling doubt to achieve a political agenda. there is no serious doubt that this -- that these vaccines work. the data from multiple clinical trials is robust both in terms of efficacy and safety. so why would tucker carlson, who two months ago desperately wanted the former president to get the credit he deserves for helping to facilitate these vaccines, why now is he casting doubt on the american public to be vaccinated and an inescapable answer and conclusion is that he's trying to hamper what has become a spectacularly successful vaccine rollout by the current administration. now right now are vaccinating about 2.5 million people a day and we'll get to 3 million people a day. there will be an enormous success. so i th

this morning, fox news host tucker carlson going head-to-head with the pentagon. >> pentagon brass issued hostile statements. people in uniform sent out videos on social media. the dod even issued a news release attacking us. >> reporter: on his show this week, carlson ridiculed president biden for saying the military is making better efforts to accommodate women in uniform including new flight suits for pregnant military members. >> so we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits, pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy, our military needs to become as joe biden says more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore. >> reporter: the backlash from military officials was immediate. >> what we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host. >> reporter: sergeant major of the army michael grinston tweeting, quote, women lead our most lethal units with character. tey will dominate any future battlefield we're called to fight on and senator

and tucker carlson knows this. obviously tucker knows there are obviously easily accessible answers to these questions about the vaccines. he's not stupid. he just thinks his audience is, so he feeds into their fears by lying these shadowy people are out there. they're just questions, can't people ask questions? and this by the way is the most cowardly way to do this. i say this as someone with a platform myself. to hide behind a podium of contraryism because he can't say it outright, the vaccine will kill you unless he wants to find himself gone in the way of lou daubs. here is the data we have. let's look at what is happening in long-term care facility across the country. this is the actual data. this is what's happening in the u.s. once people started getting vaccinated in long-term care facilities, cases and deaths started to fall precipitously. look what is happening in israel where a cdc study found mass vaccinations led to drop in severe covid cases. johnson & johnson hopkins medicine, a really helpful page

there's people in the military, like anywhere in the country, that watch tucker carlson.ng a message, and they need to circle ranks. so to move out that swiftly and forcibly and to making make a point of calling it out, i think tells you how seriously think take the danger of tucker carlson. they are fighting real wars. they can't have to deal with the consult terr warriors that people try to smack in american society. i think it was entirely appropriate for lloyd austin and john kirby to do that. >> amy, for people who don't possibly feel like they don't have a voice, what does a crisis like this feel like inside? >> those of us that served, we know better. for women who have -- particularly women who have been military aviators on active duty, those of us who have had children, our kids have probably had nor flight time in military aircraft than tucker carlson. so, i mean, i think those of us who are women, we have served, we know what the deal is, and i think it's really important that ben brought this out, too, that our senior military leadership stand up, as they hav

host tucker carlson come under fire over comments about u.s. army efforts to accommodate servicewoman the fox news on his plans to create maternity flight suits carlson suggested such initiatives weaken the military. pregnant women are going to fight our wars it's a mockery of the u.s. military while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy our military needs to become as joe biden says more feminine whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist he's parked a lot in there from trance phobia to weave li extolling the masculinity of china's navy to his completely misplaced outrage at joe biden over those flight suits maybe he doesn't realize his comments are weakening the military after all he wouldn't know a deployment from a trip to nantucket or a rocket launcher from all across dick but that's what he is doing maligning pregnant service members tucker carlson is the new donald trump tucker has taken trump's place as a right wing leader as an outrage generator as a fire starter som

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>> first of all, can you just clarify for me, did tucker carlson, does he know anything about serving the country? has he ever put on the uniform? has he ever risked his life to america? the answer is no to all three. he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. it's offensive not just to women in the military but to men in the military too. it's offensive to leaders in the military. it's offensive to everyone who's willing to put on a uniform to defend our basic values. and by the way, it's also offensive to women in the workplace all over america. these views would be extreme for the 1950s and that seems to be more of an appropriate place for tucker carlson to have his talk show. but i think given the audience that he commands, it was appropriate for the pentagon to respond. when i served in iraq on my third and fourth tours, i served with one of the best marines i have ever met in my life, one of the toughest combat leaders that i know, someone who was able to work more closely with the iraqi military and iraqi police than anyone else i had experience with, and she was a woman

>> tucker carlson. >> i'm pretty sure tucker carlson has spent the last 12 hours foaming at the mouth. >> reporter: and all of this may benefit carlson. he's under a long-term contract, but that has not stopped the tucker 2024 chatter. >> and here are the results. >> reporter: in this unscientific cpac straw poll of party loyalists, carlson had fans. >> governor kristi noem in second place followed by don junior, mike pompeo, ted cruz, tucker carlson. >> reporter: leaving many critics feeling like they have to take on carlson's odious arguments even while getting him more attention. oliver concluded with this. >> tucker carlson shows sells in addition to utterly terrible pillows is very sed uktive. it's the idea this country is fundamentally color blind, that anyone who mentions race is trying to start trouble, that historic oppression is no longer relevant and that in fact you, his viewers, are the ones currently being oppressed. >> reporter: brian stelter, cnn, new york. >>> team biden crisscrossing the country to sell the president's covid relief package, but republicans are focusi

carlson is up next. most? ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."py monday. i hope you spent a restful weekend with the ones you love away from the insanity and if you did you were reminded this is still the very best country in the world for the simple reason it has the best people, happiest people. most people are happy. there is a lot of drama going on though, of course, as if we needed more. the george floyd trial has finally started in minneapolis the other trials channels are covering like a championship game. which makes sense if you your job is to hate each other and divide the country and that's how they see their job the opportunity to talk about george floyd all day is like your super bowl. so this morning cnn spent hours airing footage of prosecutors questioning one of the emergency dispatchers who happened to be on duty the day that george floyd died. it wasn't very interesting. it had no inherent news value is that your voice on the 911 recording the prosecutor asked at one point? yes, the dispatcher replied and so it went indeterminab

if tucker carlson had so much -- for the chinese navy, his journalism style suits that better. he should pack up. >> you have men and women who support you as well. he offered no apology tonight and said he's accusing the pentagon of a p.r. offensive against him when the reality is he was called out for his sexist remarks by soldiers in top brass. now he is playing the victim. >> yeah, it's funny, right? the cancel culture is always bad until they do it to us, right? the hypocrisy is pretty blatant, i think. something that's extraordinary to me and is actually really inspiring to me is it's pretty rare for top brass to make their opinions vocal. a lot of tyimes in the military we're raised to believe, you don't have opinions, or you keep them to yourself, i'm very hardened. i don't think this was spontaneous support from senior leaders. i think it was an organized -- people got to okay to have their voices heard, and that says something to me about the future of our military, the direction we're going, the fact that we're taking things serious. we have a serious culture problem

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ave seen just an hour or two ago that the "new york times" essentially accused congressman matt gaetz of sex trafficking. we don't have any background on this story. gates says it's a smear and a shakedown and he joins us on this show in just a minute with his side of this story. but first tonight, remarkable twist in a tragedy still ongoing whose effects have transformed this country forever. just days before authorities reported the first cases of the coronavirus in wuhan, a top inspector at the world health organization sat for an interview that was broadcast on youtube. that inspector was a man called peter diaz zac and he spoke with his research at the wuhan institute of virology which had been going on for more than 15 years. in that interview he also discussed his nonprofit organization which had received millions from the u.s. government i channeled substantial percentage of the money to the lab in wuhan which he described as, quote, a world class lab of the highest standard. s

she tweeted "f" tucker carlson.s practicing his two-step, america's female warriors were hunting down al qaeda and proving the strength of america's women. happy belated international women's day to everyone but tucker who even i can dance better than. she's wheelchair bound. did you consider going that far? >> well, it's great to hear that from a midwesterner. here in new jersey, we're no stranger to some salty language, so to hear it from a midwesterner, i think, shows just how offended we women military veterans are. i think all military veterans, as you see the support for our women in service from really everyone, men and women alike. >> you make such a great point. that is our standard new jersey greeting. such a great point. as a jersey girl myself. okay, so let's talk about, on a serious note, what's happening with the investigation into the insurrection at the capitol. veterans are disproportionately represented among the 300 people facing charges in connection there. at least 29 current and former service

tucker carlson should have a disclaimer on his show. the entertainer known as tucker carlson.sman. he is planting seeds of misinformation in a matter of time when we are in a life and death scenario. and this is promoting the i iidea, well, let me stand back and wait a while. it is promoting vaccine hesitantly that this covid task force is fearful of. dr. fauci, on the covid task force calls said he was hopeful for adult herd immunity by late summer, early fall. but when you have people planting seeds of doubt and offering misinformation it does not support a secure thought that i will take the vaccine. and not only is it an issue of misinformation going out for republicans. there is an issue of vaccine hesitancy in the black community because of misinformation as well. there was a recent call from cornell bell tram from brilliant corners that found that vaccine hesitancy in the black community is because of a lack of information, because of a lack of misinformation. for tucker carlson and all of those over at fox, state one media, who want to -- used to be state one media, bu

tucker carlson is up ♪ >>tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. lot of things going on in the world right now, but we thought this was significant barrier to jury selection has just begun i the mentor trial of he is one o the officers who has been accused of murdering george floyd in minneapolis last memorial day. on one level this trial is a local crime story come up one o many unfolding right now but of course it's also an calculi mor than that, the death of george floyd change the united states profoundly and forever. george floyd we were told wasn' an individual, he was every african-american in the country he wasn't just a cop, he was th physical embodiment of america' institutions. when he murdered george floyd h was doing to one man what our country has done to all african-americans. many people told us this including joe biden. >> i just want to say a few words about the horrific killin of george floyd in minnesota, but it sends a clear message to the black community, black live that are under threat every single day. >> they speak to a na

tucker carlson tonight."day afternoon this week, police say ali 21-year-old man called robert erin long walked into a massage parlor outside of atlanta and shot five people. he then drove to two other massage parlors and shot another four. of the nine people robert wong is accused of shooting, two were white, one was hispanic and the other six were asian women.he of those six women according to the south korean government, at least four of them were korean. police caught him within hours driving south on interstate 75. here is the sheriff's department press press conference yesterday explaining what happened next. speak of the suspect did take responsibility for thegs shootings he said early on once we began the interviews, he claims -- as the chief said, this is still early but he does claim it was not racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers to be a maga addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places, that he wanted to eliminate. >> tucker: the

"tucker carlson tonight" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlsonight." we are coming to you from el salvador on the pacific side of central america. we were here four years ago and we are back to take a close look at ms-13. nell a global criminal organization. our full investigation into ms-13 will air in an upcoming new series tucker carlson originals on fox nation. we just spoke to the country's president here at length. we asked the president of the migrant crisis on the southern border where portions of the interview in a moment. that is fascinating. right now we are in san salvador to compact a pretty place that is reined by dormant volcanoes. but unlike other countries in the region, this country el salvador not high-end beach resorts or tourist attractions along the coast. there has been very little foreign investment and there is a reason for that. for a long time el salvador has been a dangerous place in a few yours ranked the most by rent domain violent country in the world. ongoing fighting in the '80s with the brutal civil war and exten

it's called "tucker carlson today."ant in our society is change. it makes everything political. they want to politicize everything. they want to politicize art. they want to politicize poetry. all of the things that were meaningful in our lives have been picked up and spun through this cycle of politics. >> dagen: new episodes drop monday, wednesday and friday. they're unfiltered on the hot topic that tucker's show touch upon. tucker, just tell us what is in store. >> tucker: that interview made my day. it was one of those monday mornings where you wake up and so much going on so much that i disagree with and feel ominous and overwhelming. it's like what will happen to america? getting to spend an hour with dougly murray, one of the smartest people i ever met. not a lot of horsepower but so thoughtful and deep and connected to the things that matter that give you joy that are not politics, by the way. speaking to someone like that gave me hope. he made -- it's really reflecting. i'm not just saying that. all it takes is

after fox news host tucker carlson suggested last week that the u.s.nough because it made accommodations for pregnant troops, the pentagon defended all americans in uniform, but that was too much for little ted cruz who, let's not forget, helped incite the insurrection two months ago. the texas senator wrote in a statement, quote, under biden, the military is launching political attacks to intimidate tucker carlson and other civilians who criticize their policy decisions. we're back with elizabeth neumann and tim miller. tim, it strikes me and i'll have to go check my memory, but i don't really remember a statement that forceful defending his father from donald trump or his wife. >> well, look, nicole, i just, you know, sometimes with this faux masculinity schtick from ted cruz and tucker carlson, it's too much to take. these guys don't have a single blister on their thumb, not like i do either, but you know, i haven't seen them fighting in the military or throwing any punches and yet they've got to just sort of do this performative masculine bravado a

i just checked the lineup next is this guy named tucker carlson. listen to the drums. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." joe biden finally gave his first press conference this afternoon. no president has ever waited this long to answer questions in public. just as of yesterday we were not still entirely sure it would happen. a reporter at the white house saw biden ambling around and asked him if he was ready for his first press conference? what press conference, biden replied? apparently in the end somebody told him a staffer pointed biden toward the tape mark on the floor and gave him a shove. biden shuffled forth and started talking and pausing and talking some more and pausing. you heard the term pregnant pause. joe biden's pauses were third trimester quintuplets. these pauses were ready to burst. here is one of them. >> so the best way to get something done, if you -- if you hold near and dear to you that you -- like to be able to -- anyway. we're ready to get a lot done. >> tucker: got that, america? we will ge

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tucker carlson his host of tucker carlson tonight. let's miss you on the morning show.y forever. the stakes couldn't be higher, the question of who lives here is the central question for democracy. when you change the population you change the outcome of the vote. you change the way the country is run and that is the point of this. this country has gained 100 million people, most americans are not even aware of that. massive democratic changes not enough for the changes. this is an effort basically, if you opened the borders and sponsor legislation giving citizenship and voting rights, you are trying to change election outcomes. brian: those who think the hispanic the ghost of democrats didn't pay attention to the last election, a lot of precinct in texas in particular, eight in all mostly hispanic, they are getting 9000 illegal immigrants daily. currently we have 11,000 children, more like 12 in hhs, 5067 cvp. i don't understand, you can see the bigger picture better than i can. how does this help president biden's administration, a 70% approval rating, $1.9 trillion h

usaa ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."me.te cart loads of it. a middle aged professional golfer hurts his leg in a car accident and networks go wall-to-wall. they gave his car crash more coverage than they gave the bombing of syria, literalry. then a few weeks later some weird fake duchess from l.a. gives a boring interview to oprah and we stopped the presses. that's all we talked about for days. meanwhile, something legitimately momentous happens and it's crickets. just yesterday for example two

"tucker carlson tonight."funny how no one really covers "the big story." instead the news media bring us minutia all the time. cart loads of it. a middle aged professional golfer hurts his leg in a car accident and networks go wall-to-wall. they gave his car crash more coverage than they gave the bombing of syria, literalry. then a few weeks later some weird fake duchess from l.a. gives a boring interview to oprah and we stopped the presses. that's all we talked about for days. meanwhile, something legitimately momentous happens and it's crickets. just yesterday for example two sitting members of the united states senate announced that they opposed the entire foundation of american civil rights law and then proceeded to attack the core principle, the main principle of our country. some people on twitter were shocked by it but otherwise you would never know it happened. but it did happen. tammy duckworth of minnesota and mazie hirono of hawaii publicly informed the white house until the biden administration put

believes what tucker carlson says. sydney powell clearly saw that. however, the thing that has changed since fox's successful is making in that argument, is that we saw the a lot of people do take these shows seriously. will that affect what a judge decides in in case, do you think? >> absolutely. i think that the ability of fox to sort of use that defense is going to be directly impacted on the plaintiffs' ability to make plain the connection between what was said and the lies that were advanced by fox news in those instances. and then the subsequent actions of others. because at that point what happens is you have to then explain to the judge how is it that you you have said that a reasonable person cannot reasonably believe what it is they have said but then you have repeated instance after repeated instance where individual after individual continues to act on those things. you would have to basically explain how is it that all of these people all of a sudden are unreasonable? and that's where fox will fail in my o

it's tucker carlson.hing you need to know about the fox news playbook right now. >> look, we know there is a shrinking and small group of straight news journalists at fox, but it is a small section of what is at fox. they're in the reporter ranks, they're not the ones in general hosting shows. and increasingly, fox is moving into what the prime time has made them -- you know, has made them into. murdoch admitted that the fox audience, brian, is disappointed in the election results. how much does that factor into this strategy moving forward and the fox lineup? >> that is the big story. that is the major factor. the fox audience does not want to hear bad news about republicans, does not want to hear good news about democrats. so it is all a ratings ploy. and it is very clear from the programming and the sources inside fox who are speaking out about it. it is notable that lockland was speaking to investors saying, hey, the ratings are going to come back, the viewers are coming home. to some extent, that's s

overseas, praising america's female warriors. >> we died for this country, for the freedom, for tucker carlsonts coming just days after biden promoted two female generals one included jacqueline von ovost. >> you're the highest ranking female in the military has that sunk in >> reporter: she spoke with savannah last week, about how the military is more inclusive. >> we're allowing women to fly pregnant we did two things. we're developing a maternity flight suit, and a two-piece, to make it easier >> reporter: carlson defiant in the face of criticism. >> since when does the pentagon declare war on a domestic news operation? >> reporter: advocates, like the liberal group vote vets, out with a new ad, hoping they get the last word. >> this is the u.s. military, the men and women who defend your freedom something a prep schoolboy like you will never understand. >> hallie, obviously, this story has caught on all over social media. we heard from the pentagon spokesperson has anyone else from the pentagon weighed in? >> reporter: this has hit the very highest levels of the pentagon, savannah secretar

tucker carlson did not. i served with women who risked their lives to protect the country.men. joining me, james stavridis, author of the new book "2034: a novel of the next world war." we'll ask you about that, but admiral, first, set the record straight here about women in the military. >> first and foremost, every woman i have encountered in a long career, 37 years in the navy, was brave, determined, and a volunteer to serve her country. you know, i commanded a destroyer in the 1990s for about a year, and it had an all-male crew. then it became one of the first destroyers in the navy to embark women. so i then commanded the same ship for about a year and a half with a mixed gender crew, with women. i will tell you unequivocally, it was a better ship after the women came aboard, for a wide variety of reasons. we deployed, we went into combat, we did all the things you would expect. i would just conclude by saying, let's look at somebody like michelle howard, who is an african-american woman, first black four-star admiral woman. she is remarkable. she was our on-scene comm

"tucker carlson tonight" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlsonlobal criminal organization. our full investigation into ms-13 will air in an upcoming new series tucker carlson originals on fox nation. we just spoke to the country's president here at length. we asked the president of the migrant crisis on the southern border where portions of the

here is their official statemen on our segment, and a now familiar move, tucker carlson open to showast night by attacking the journalist. oh, a journalist, the one protected group left in america. journalist make their living trying to destroy their life, but if you say a single word about it, you're a criminal, a moral monster and must be stopped. this statement goes on, as we read this, we're not making thi up, criticizing taylor was a calculated and cruel tactic which carlson usually deploys t have vitriol and target. it's all pretty amusing when yo think about it. reading a tweet on television, that's fine when it was written by say donald trump, it's calle reporting, but when that tweet was written by a new york times reporter, reading it out loud i a calculated and cruel tactic. calculated to do what exactly? presumably calculated to get most people to disagree with taylor which they've already established is harassment. it's a pretty good little skim. they get to hurt you at will, but you're not allowed to notice . notice what they're doing, and your calculated and cruel. we

. >>> so this just in to cnn, top officials at the pentagon are now calling out fox news host tucker carlsone military. first let me read what tucker said. he was at the time responding to joe biden announcing some changes to the military to make it more inclusive. let me read part of what tucker said. he said, quote, we've got new h hairstyles and maternity flight suits. pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. and he went on from there. joining me right now, cnn's barbara starr. she's at the pentagon. how is the pentagon responding to this, barbara? >> this morning, kate, a furious response from several serving senior generals who called out tucker carlson, telling him what he must already know that women have fought and died for this country for hundreds of years. the pentagon really furious they would have to discuss this, that he would bring this up, because it's frankly so ridiculous. so many women. it all revolved around a photo that the military has now developed flight suits for women who are pregnant while serving. the pentagon press secretar

it's tucker carlson tonight, which is a commentary show. it worked for him in the mcdougal case. -- he is a host and he's certainly known to be full of it. she is a lawyer, and you know, the bar has some say over whether a lawyer can go in court and go before the public and just spout off stuff that isn't true. >> right, so there are real consequences here for powell, in a way that there are not for carlson. i had viewers email me and say, it seems like she's using carlson's defense. but carlson's viewers have been told not to trust the news, to only trust the commentary shows. so now this big lie, which takes a lot of people to promote, including powell and others, now powell and trump and the rest have to hope that the rest of the country doesn't hear about this ridiculous legal defense. they have to hope people don't hear about it because again, 24 hours ago, trump was on right-wing tv still claiming he won. it's still going on, brianna, every day. >> yeah. so, lot of -- it's a lot of money that she's being sued for, and that's -- might have something to do with it. >> the ult

i don't know why people would listen to tucker carlson about the vaccine over public health officials make any sense. i know tucker. he knows better than that. i think it's really unfortunate. but we got to keep, you know, keep our eye on the fact that most people are getting vaccinated. most people understand that it's the healthy thing to do. >> maybe he got a medical degree at his sailing prep school. nia, i am concerned when people who have a platform like that use it that way. i'm also concerned when you see in congress axios had yesterday that only 75% of congressional members who have the vaccine available to them have chose on the get vaccinated. now we're seeing certain senators explain why they didn't. ron johnson says because he had covid. we know you of course still should be vaccinated after that. but you really need everyone on board here. and it seems to me that they are try trying to -- >> that's right. it's unclear why. there has been an anti-vaccine movement going on in this country for years now. and perhaps this is a part of that as well. but it is highly irrespons

"tucker carlson tonight."ia bring us minutia all the time. cart loads of it. a middle aged professional golfer hurts his leg in a car accident and networks go wall-to-wall. they gave his car crash more coverage than they gave the bombing of syria, literalry. then a few weeks later some weird fake duchess from l.a. gives a boring interview to oprah and we stopped the presses. that's all we talked about for days. meanwhile, something legitimately momentous happens and it's crickets. just