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

tucker carlson is up next! >> tucker: good evening. welcome to tucker carlson. the story keeps getting bigger. the ongoing backlash against sexual misconduct by the powerful. tonight is consuming a sitting u.s. senator. model and radio show host leeann tweeden in an uso tour abroad, she was kissed and groped by comedian al franken who is now a fairly well known democratic senator representing the state of minnesota. trace gallagher has been on the story all day. he has the latest. >> the allegations comes from the radio and television personality that says the growing me2 movement is what gave her the couragement to fight back. tweeden is accusing al franken in two separate incidents in the uso tour when franken was a cast member of "saturday night live," including one that happened in a rehearsal for a skit that tweed would consider sexual assault. here she is. >> he put his hand on the back of my head. he mashed his face against me. it happened so fast. he mashed his lips against my face. he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. i pushed him off with my hands

>> well, tucker. you are holding the sheriff county responsible, let's hold the people in washington, d.c., responsible and kicking the can down the road for decades. this is my home, tucker. i live with these problems day. >> tucker: hold on, you are also asking for federal money. you say we don't want to spend all this money, you have concerns with the federal budge budget. i want money for my department, which is fine. but how do you know that's going to work when it hasn't worked in the last five decades? >> we have to have that commitment. we have to change the discourse on this and hold the people in washington, d.c., responsible. i'm struggling to buy cars for my deputies, they are responsible for patrolling 9,200 square miles of my county. there is nowhere in this discourse any discussion about helping border sheriffs and border communities that deal with this problem every day because washington, d.c., has failed us under many different administrations to address this problem. >> tucker: that

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it was a testy weekend between the president and the press who cover him. those of you with better things to do may not have seen it by saturday was the night of the white house correspondents dinner, the party were washington's finest dressed up and pretend it is the oscars here in d.c. the party was a little different this year, not only to the media's preferred candidate failed to win last year's presidential election, a fact that was so crushing for money in the press there's some literally cried on camera, but the election's actual winner did not bother to show up, even though president trump was in there, he did not ignore it. watch this. >> media outlets like cnn and msnbc are fake news. fake news. and they are sitting and they are wishing in washington. they are watching right now. they are watching. and they would love to be with us right here tonight. but they are trapped at the dinner, which will be very, very boring. but next year, maybe we all make it more exciting for th

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." an outrage bomb went off in washington last night, and by don today there was still a thick cloud of sanctimony and self-righteousness hanging over the city choking out all normal life. the cause, donald trump, jr.,'s meeting with a russian lawyer last summer. no one here had ever seen anything like that before. so they said. there was stiff competition, but the senator from connecticut may have won the highest indignation award when he suggested not only is donald trump, jr., a bad person, he may in fact be a russian spy. >> these emails are a textbook example and evidence of criminal intent. that is potentially a violation of the espionage act. treason. >> tucker: yes, the espionage act. the very one that sent julius and ethel rosenberg to the electric chair. they stole the plans to the atomic bomb. donald trump talk to an attorney about adoption law. both massive threats to the physical and moral security of this country. cnn thought so. it's three hour morning show spent a total o

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the trump administration is going to war with leakers. the attorney general jeff session held a precedence work leak investigations have tripled compared to the administration before. the attorney general viewed to bring criminal charges against the leakers, who are successfully identified. >> let me say that i strongly agree with the president and condemn in the strongest terms the staggering number of leaks, undermining the ability of our government to protect this country. leaks are incredibly damaging to our intelligence mission, and capables. simply put, these leaks hurt our country. finally, here's what i want to tell every american today. this nation must end this culture of leaks. we will investigate and seek to bring criminals to justice. we will not allow region, anonymous sources, with security clearances to sell out our country. >> tucker: well the administration has reason to be upset. these aren't just conventional political leaks set by appointas was is going on with sc

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

looking like thursday into friday, tucker. that's when those folks he dry off, put up the umbrellas and take account to all the damage. >> tucker: man, that's a long time, adam. thanks for joining us. >> yep. >> tucker: black stock is a volunteer in texas. they're boaters using to save people from the storm. thanks for coming on tonight. >> thank you. yes, sir. >> tucker: so what is your last three days been like? >> craziness. >> tucker: i can't even imagine. >> yeah, it's something that we have never seen anything like this before. it's just unprecedented. it's unreal. >> tucker: where are you finding people? >> everywhere. you know, we worked through the emergency operations center and get dispatched to wherever people are calling in from. >> tucker: have you seen any looters? >> no, i have not, thank goodness. i've seen none and heard no reports of any. >> tucker: thank goodness. that's great. i'm glad to hear that. so have people been in trouble? >> oh, yes. i mean, personally i've done about 110 rescues since yesterday m

it's not a simple question, tucker. >> tucker: we are unfortunately out of time. i will give you some time to think about this and i want you to come back on with actual numbers. >> for people watching, go to the -- >> tucker: sell the product and we'll go. i want you to think about it. it's a real question. >> i have more. it doesn't fit -- >> tucker: i will give you 8 minutes. just tell me the number. >> 8 minutes, great. >> tucker: jose, thank you. it's been visible ever since trump started running for president close to two years ago. his campaign rallies and inauguration almost every police policy action he has made as president have all been treated as a chance to begin a violent act. ♪ [chanting] [chanting] ♪ >> tucker: what is driving the left political violence? there's an awful lot of it and it's worth thinking about it. brit hume joins us tonight. you have covered politics for an awful long time. this kind of thing hasn't happened in a while. it is a bigger than it was amis '60s and where's it going? >> it reminds me of the 60s, tucker, when the cha

tucker? >> tucker: thanks, ed. one thing the president said today deserves more attention than it will likely get. yesterday a monitor down a civil war soldier's memorial in durham, north carolina. police stood idolly by and liberals across the country applauded it which statues are next, the president asked today, george washington, thomas jefferson. it's not a joke. suddenly it's a serious question. thomas jefferson indisputably was a great man. he was the author of the declaration of independence. founder of the university of west virginia and most importantly the greatest thinker in american political history. all of us live in his shadow. unfortunately, however, jefferson was also a slave holder. that's real. it's a moral taint. we ought to remember it. but the fanatics on the left it means that jefferson must be purged from public memory forever. the demands are already coming that we do that. in 2015, the students at the university of missouri demanded the removal of a jefferson statue. two years ago, on cnn

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

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

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it was a short reign, but none of us will ever forget it. white house communications director anthony scaramucci is gone a mere ten days after he arrived and four days after f he trashed then white house chief of staff reince priebus in a now-famous interview with "the new yorker." according to published reports, scaramucci's abrupt fall was ordered by the new chief of staff, general john kelly. the goal was ending chaos in the white house and making it clear that kelly is in charge from here on out. t white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders had this to say to say about what just happened. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position and he didn'tre want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> tucker: david bossie is president of citizens united, he was trump's deputy campaign manager. he doesn't work at the white house, but he knows what is going on over there, and he joins us tonight. dave,

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

now you can watch tucker. >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the downfall of hollywood producer harvey weinstein is essentially complete tonight. the allegations are far too numerous to ignore. he has been fired from his own company and he is apparently in some kind of rehab facility talking about himself while the nypd investigates criminal charges against him. whatever happens next,, you pretty much know what harvey weinstein's wikipedia entry is going to say 20 years from now. but the larger weinstein saga is just beginning. many powerful people knew what harvey weinstein was doing and not only ignored his crimes but actively tookrv his side against his many victims. it's a long list, but at the very top of that list is nbc news. nbc had the story months ago. their former anchor, ronan farrow, conclusively exposed more than a dozen allegations against weinstein by women who say he sexually harassed, groped, even raped them, but the network killed that investigation. nbc news president noah oppenheim said the company had good reason for doing

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." after a brief one day rest bite from bashing the supreme courtnd nomination, democrats are back to attacking executive order on immigration. >> he can ban catholics, jewish people, we've got to stand for each other right here right now. >> donald trump, 2/3 of your wives are immigrants. your children's mothers are immigrants. do you have any concern for this country? >> tucker: he has shown no sign of backing down. he said it's about keeping bad people with bad intentions out of the country. michelle brane, director of migrant rights into the justice programs -- she has called on people to resist president trump's executive orders and said that sanctuary cities make this country safer. she joins us now. michelle, thank you for coming on. i think that your motivations seem totally true, i think you're trying to do good work for people in need. i respect that. but i'm looking also at the polling on refugee resettlement and the public cannot be described as supporting it now or in the pa

tucker is is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." he's been on tv for a long time but he had his show suspended last week by pbs after pbs says it received "credible allegations of sexual misconduct." smiley admits to having several relationships with his employees, but he says he's not a harasser, has never groped or coerced anyone. he also said pbs never gave him a chance to response to the anonymous allegations against him. meanwhile on cnn this weekend, former obama spokesperson jen saki said that all accusations of sexual misconduct should be presumed true without exception. >> there are false accusations out there. it does happen. even the most liberal, most progressive advocates for women against violence could concede the point. as an accusation enough? >> yes, it is enough. i completely agree that in the time we are in right now this is going to be perhaps a bloodied period. the fact is that democrats and democratic party -- where you have a waiver, zero tolerance, but... >> tucker: that's the state of play. kevin smiley joi

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight, one refugee resettlement group as loudly protested the restriction on refugee arrivals, the head of that group will join us right here. former cia officer says his agency's shadow war against the president is imperiling democracy itself and he'll join us too. a whole month into the trump administration and it's still rolling out its administration n agenda, sean spicer suggested that the white house may start rolling back legal immigration as well, here's part of what he said. >> i want to save the white house and doesn't trump have any interest in curtailing legal immigration. >> as a priority level, right now there's millions of people in this country that are in the country illegally, the focus continues to be that eight or 900,000 that have had in order to have them removed and get them processed through in a way that continues to keep america safe. legal immigration, is a completely separate subject that includes a visa reform and all that other stuff. at the president has talked about that, with business leaders

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you remember last week, when an angry mob ripped a confederate statue from its pedestal and durham, north carolina, as police stood passively by? no matter how you feel about civil war history, it seemed like a significant moment, one of those events that announce the end of one thing in the start of another. in this case, the destruction of america's delicate social fabri fabric. indeed, that is what it turned out toer be. what happened in durham was not the beginning of a slippery slope, it was a ski jump. much of the american left is still airborne. here are some snapshots from the hysteria now in progress. in baltimore, new orleans, madison, daytona beach, helena, austin, new york, at least two cities in ohio, monuments and statues have been torn down in the past week without deliberation or public debate. in florida, roadway markers have been ripped up and streets renamed. in virginia, the city of alexandria plans remove jefferson davis' name from a major highway. enrichment, the

tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." amid the flurry of sexual assault allegations, there is one important when you may have missed today. a woman named courtney morris told "the washington post" by john conyers once propositioned her for while driving her home in 2001. when she refused, she says he brought up the disappearance of former intern chandra leavy who was killed in washington that year. essentially she claims invoking the threat of murder. at that point, morse said she got out of the car and ran away. we should point out she was only 20 at the time. conyers is the longest serving member of congress, he announced his resignation this week. we got some news about members of conyers families. melanie sloan joins us tonight. you are one of the reasons this story has come to light, tell us how it happened. >> after i told my story to "the washington post" and appeared in the news, courtney morris reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. she was considering whether or not to come forward and i

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." kathy griffin has just been bounced from cnn after apologizing for her gruesome donald trump beheading video. in a minute, we'll ask what happened to comedy and my head has suddenly been replaced by pg from dumb people? a real concern. but first, hillary clinton appears to be making a fashion statement by adopting the left's trendiest new no excess of accessory, a tinfoil hat. we'll take your questions at a tech conference at california today, clinton dismissed for scandal over her private email server as a nonissue of zero importance. >> my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. this is the biggest nothing burger ever. it was a mistake. i said it was a mistake. obviously, if i could turn the clock back, i wouldn't have done it in the first place. by the way it was used was very damaging. >> tucker: it meant nothing. it was totally irrelevant. which raises the question, if i didn't mean anything, why did it hurt her campaign so much? she is an explana

. >> tucker: well, good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you will remember yesterday white house chief of staff john kelly delivered 18 minutes of mesmerizing remarks from the briefing room and begged politicians and the press not to politicize the mourning of gold star families. general kelly singled out florida congresswoman frederica wilson for special criticism and called her an "elty barrel" forever talking about herself and ever willing to exploit the dead to burnish her own reputation! the congresswoman in tradition of empty barrels stood up to talk about how she is instrumental to get the funding for the building. we were stunned. stunned that she had done it. even for someone that is that empty a barrel. we were stunned. >> tucker: how did the congresswoman respond? chastened for the criticism of a man who has given his life of his son. she apologized for the demagoguery and said she will stick to fighting the president over disagreements over policy. no wait, just kidding. in fact she seemed delighted on the attack because it made

. >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," we'll talk to the mayor of a city on the verge of bankruptcy who insists on maintaining sanctuary cities status. we'll talk to a leader of theea transgender rights groups who was furious with president trump's recent action on bathrooms. first up, it's undoubtedly a new rumpage of nationalism. politicians who reject globalism are thriving all over the globe and nowhere is that more obvious than at cpac the last three days, watch. >> president trump: globalha cooperation, dealing with other countries, getting along with other countries is good, it's very important. but there is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency, or a global flag. this is the united states of america. i'm not representing the globe, i'm representing your country. >> it's not only not good to get better it's going to get worse every day. [laughter] and here is why. the internal logic makes sense. they are corporatists, globalist middle of the tmac to -- they are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda that donald trump has. >> i always believe we shou

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tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. today, more than 30 democratic senators demanded that senator al franken of minnesota resigned in response to multiple allegations of sexual harassmen harassment. >> i do not feel that he should continue to serve. >> we can't force him to resign, but i hope you will do the right thing when he tells us what his decision as. >> but i think it would be better for the country for him to offer that clear message that he values women, that we value women, and that this kind of behavior is not acceptable. >> senator franken's conduct was wrong. he has admitted to it, and he should resign. >> tucker: franken's office says he will make an announcement tomorrow. it is widely believed, and it is probably true, that he will announce he is leaving the senate. many on the right are reacting gleefully to all this, to what is happening to franken, and you can understand the impulse. franken was a mediocre senator and a thoroughly miserable person, cruel to those beneath him, narcissistic, monumentall

. >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the united states may be losing a star from its flag for the first time ever. that is what activists in the state of california want. ever since the election of president trump, the campaignme for calexit, the succession ofof for calexit, the succession of california to become an independent country, has been gaining steam while the rest of us have been talking about russia. well, now supporters for that plan believe that they are closm to breaking way. they are pushing for a 2018 ballot referendum that would declare california no longer an inseparable part of the united states. and would order the governor to negotiate for greater autonomy up to and including national independence as a country. if campaigners can get 585,000 signatures by january 22nd of next year, the question will go on the ballot. shankar singam is a californian. he's campaigning for his state to become a separate nation. and he joins us tonight. shankar, thanks for coming on. >> hello. >> tucker: this is one of t

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

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president trump announced an inauguration crack town. but is it enough? someone says he's already betraying his promises campaign promises. one of its chief architects is going to join us to discuss its decline and fall and to defend but first, a "wall street journal" report reveals that the tenacious but unverified 35 page dossier published by buzzfeed news. it had been co-opted by russian intelligence and hardly proves the documents liability to have its claims come from a businessman instead of intelligent sources. why did buzzfeed publish it in the first plates? joining us now is ben smith, editor-in-chief of the buzzfeed news. instead of only presenting known facts, they left it to readers to reckon with a messy reality. i know you have taken a lot of flak for this. let me just ask the obvious question which is, let's say i had an unverified document given to me by one of your enemies claiming that you had committed a crime. let's say that was in the hands of law enforcement but

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have spent nearly a year looking for a russian scandal. for months it's been basically the only thing anyone in washington talked about. many people were certain it would end in impeachment and prison terms. >> i've come to conclude that trump has the kremlin clanp surrounding him, there's more to be learned about it. i believe there has been collusion. >> it's starting to smell more and more like collusion to, i think, the public. >> we saw cold, hard evidence of the trump campaign, the trump family eagerly intending to collude possibly with russia. >> tucker: it's finally happened, we have a russian scandal, but insteadhe of proving collusion between the trump campaign and the government of vladimir putin, this one reveals deep wrongdoing and the obama administration, and it's real. we've known for several years that russian money was flowing to the clinton family and the foundations during the exact same period the obama administration approved the russian acquisition of 20% of

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." jeff sessions announced today that cities opposing immigration raids can expect a different kind of raid on their finances. in a press conference, sessions said sanctuary cities will lose millions of dollars in funding. >> they know that when cities and states refused to help enforce immigration laws, our>> nation is less safe. failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk. >> tucker: by happy coincidence, it was also the start of the first ever sanctuary cities conference. politicians from around the country converged in new york, we will talk to one of those conference speakers in just a minute. but first, here is rick leventhal who was inside the sanctuary city conference.te hey, rick. >> they say there is no such thing as a coincidence that we are not sure why the ag chose today to speak out about sanctuary cities. at this first ever national conference, supporting sanctuary cities is well underway but that is exactly what happened.

and tucker carlson is next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." is it time for big bird to fly south? the new budget includes a proposal to eliminate $148 million in federal funding for the national endowment for the arts. the nea. along with hundreds of millions more for art and entertainment programs, pbs and npr. some of them are irate, and advocacy group opposes trunk cuts -- we are joined now by robin. good to see you tonight. i disagree with you on this for many years. i continue to disagree with you now. the nea is welfare for rich liberal elites. that is who consumes the products that they produce, why should taxpayers subsidize this for rich people? >> it stumps me that you think the nea subsidizes programs for the rich elite. you are so smart, you are so global, tucker. you know that the nea has grants to every congressional district in the united states. i know you know that for every dollar the nea puts into a community, ten dollars comes back. so even if you don't believe in the arts, which i know you do, i know you believe in the rig

tucker. >> tucker: thanks a lot, john. it's almost like they are people in washington who like to undermine the relationship between u.s. and russia. back to the question of hysteria. critics of the media often say that donald trump is to administering the american partisan sea and a time there is truth to that. but it is also true that in covering trump the way that they have, many journalists have degraded and humiliated themselves. their callous examples of this but watch this one, as a maker from another network describes a conversation she had last year with kellyanne conway. >> this is a woman, by the way, who came on our show during the campaign, and what a shell for trump, and extensive fashion, then, she would get off the air, the camera would be turned off, the microphones taken off, and she would say, i need to take a shower. because she disliked her candidate so much. >> tucker: i have no idea if kellyanne conway actually said anything like that. i do know that tv anchors almost never reveal what their gas have

. >> tucker: okay... >> these are facts, tucker. you don't operate in facts. >> tucker: i am not contesting -- no name-calling here. >> i'm not calling you names. i operate in facts. >> tucker: stop that. my question to you, what does that have to do with anything? you're not answering my question is, if a country has a right to determine who is here and under what circumstances, what are you arguing about? what is the argument if you are here illegally, what am i missing? >> why am i here? what are the root causes of my migration? what does the foreign policy have to to do with migration patterns? these are the harder questions. >> tucker: i get your argument. this is the new argument. america has no moral standing to say people can't come here because we have done so many bad things that we deserve illegal immigration. >> i'm not going to fall into this hole. we must be fully aware of our own history. i got that statement from the african union was really interesting. slaves built america but we can't accept refugees? >> tucker: y

this >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." pretty good show up ahead, we will be talking to a leader of one of the many airport protests that may have kept you from missing your flight. also debuting new segment segment, looking at what our top journalists really think when they are not writing or on camera. but first, president donald trump's executive order, seven majority muslim nations not be allowed entry. it is being faced with astonishing hostility. press secretary sean spicer said the meltdown over the weekend was unjustified. here's what he has said. >> this is blown way out of proportion, in a 24-hour period -- it's a shame that people were inconvenienced but at the end of the day we're talking about a couple hours. being able to come to america is a privilege, not a right. >> tucker: joining us now is one critic of the president's objective order, the ceo and president, the refugees settlement director -- thank you for joining us, marc levine. part of it, you said this. with the stroke of a pen, donald trump has abd

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

. >> tucker: okay. well the city i live in, is named after the founder of the country, first president, whose plantation which was populated by slaves is right down the road at mount vernon. this notices a rhetorical question, it's a real question, should we change the name of the capital of the country? what should we do about george washington? >> george washington is not like a confederate general. george washington is the founder of a country and put his life on the line in order to do so. he was a flawed human being but created a great thing. part of the great creation that is self perpetuating and self correcting. that's what the process is about. right now, we can get to george washington and washington, d.c. but right now we need to take care of these confederate statues. >> tucker: i don't want to get to washington or washington, d.c. i don't want to rewrite the history of the country. i like where you left off the first time, he redeemed himself with his good deeds. which he did. thank you, re

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker karl sonl. the nag con flagration has burned another career. up in smoke. charlie rose, been around for years on television, on pbs and the morning show on cbs has been suspended by both broadcasters after eight women accused him of groping, lewd phone calls, and other forms of harassment. al franken is facing adigsal accusations tonight a one called lindsey minz claims franzen groped her taking a photograph at a state fair. she said in 2010 al franken groped me. i felt violated and embarrassed. but franken and rose are not alone. more and more liberal women are sticking knives into the clintons. nbc morning host recently attacked hillary clinton while california con doctor is wouldman jackie spehr took a shot at her husband. >> hillary clinton needs to stop talking about this topic unless bill clinton wants to apologize for settling with women. >> some have argued a reevaluation of president clinton's presidency is required. >> i think that the victims who came forward were not treated as they

tucker: i know there is no evidence. i don't even think we know that the russians hacked john podesta's emails. i have talked to people who say there is no evidence of that but i wonder if the people alleging this conspiracy have bought into it themselves. i know we are getting to motives but i can't resist asking, do you think some of them are sincere? >> i think some of them probably want to believe it even absent evidence. i think their sincerity is probably there but a lot of them, i just don't -- if you tried to go even an inch deep into what sort of evidence they have, they've got nothing. nothing. >> tucker: you would never know that from the press conferences they hold. congressman chaffetz, thanks for joining us. >> tucker: earlier tonight on our first show, we debated a democrat who said congress sought to impeach president trump right now without waiting for the speetwelve investigation. she will be back to tell us if she still feels that way. ♪ hi, i'm frank. i take movantik for oic, opioid-induced constipa

>> tucker, tucker, tucker, the government knows how many cars i own. >> tucker: what should they do about it. he had background checks already. >> tucker, stop. this is just?-- this is not productive. let's go to the next question. >> tucker: you are not answering my question. what should the government do? >> this is not productive. we have allowed ourselves to end the gun control debate in this country. >> tucker: this is just propaganda. >> [overlapping talking]. >> the gun debate is over. >> tucker: i have had enough. this is not useful. thanks for joining us. everyone in the press and on television had an opinion about gun control, but the least serious commentary came from comedians on late night tv. the less a person knows about firearms the more enthusiastic they are about controlling those fire arms with new laws. one is the daily show host who got defensive when a journalist pointed out he is not even american. >> there was some guy on the news and he was [bleep]. i think we have a clip here. >> the day after the horrible shooting in las vegas it struck the wrong chord for a lot

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

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this evening we have brand new numbers, striking numbers that have never been seen before and they may reshape how you think about illegal immigration. so you have heard the same line a million times. it's repeated like a mantra by the left during every debate on the subject. all immigrants are hard-working and law abiding. they do jobs you wouldn't consider doing and they do them cheerfully. they sacrifice for theirco families in ways you probably don't. in fact, and this is always the last point, it's always delivered with the confident satisfaction of someone shutting down a debate withit superior data. undocumented immigrants actually commit fewer crimes on average than native bornn americans. not only are immigrants more virtuous than you are, they are safer to be around. in other words, stope complaining, they are your superiors. but, wait, are we sure that that is true? are people who are in this country precisely because they were willing to break our immigration laws really l

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight," the "campus craziness" addition. as a country, we invest a tremendous amount of money and power and our higher education system. we count on our universities to train future leaders, who will sustain their freedoms over 100 years. is that happening? how all of those freedoms being preserved on campus is? that is a subject of tonight's show, a special hour-long addition of "campus craziness." now, no campus represents a shift more vividly than uc berkeley. in the '60s, berkeley was the heart of a free speech movement. now, things are very different. a student at berkeley, also works as a correspondent for campus reform, who we talk to him recently by the current intellectual climate at his school. >> tucker: you want and spoke to the antifascists. what did you say wouldn't you talk to them? >> tucker, thank you for having me on, i just want to let my story be known. i went to this meeting because i wanted to have these antifascists own up to the violence they perpetrated unpe

that was her crime, tucker. >> tucker: she didn't believe her husband for a second. don't insult my intelligence. she attacked women who accused him. i was there. i covered this in 1998. and she led the charge against monica lewenski who did nothing wrong. she was a kid. and mrs. clinton is the one who said she is a stalker and nut case and don't believe her. she did that. it wasn't just her husband. >> look, tucker, i think monica lewenski is owed an apology by a lot of people. >> tucker: i agree. >> myself included. i think everybody on the left and the right who attacked that woman and painted her with a scarlet letter when she was just a 20-something star eyed person. >> tucker: i agree with that. >> i feel there is nobody in my lifetime who i feel was treated worse than her politically. >> tucker: i agree. >> i think that's something that needs to be rectified. >> tucker: the fbi ought to be held responsible also. they sweated her. she didn't do anything wrong. she was an intern. no more people responsible for ruining monica lewenski's wife than hillary clinton.

>> come on, tucker. you know why that is. >> tucker: i am a man who asks questions that i am asking a question about the statement you made. >> there are acts of terror committed in the name of a la that do not reflect the muslim community. however, -- >> tucker: they may or they may not, but he'll concede, this isn't random. it's not that the u.s. government or police departments are looking for some religious group to persecute or is that what you are saying? >> i am saying that. >> tucker: why don't they do it to the amish? why don't they do it to the amish? hasidic jewish people? they speak a different anguish, not assimilated. i don't see a lot of terror attacks committed by them, do you? >> it is not profitable to be speaking against these other groups. it is very profitable to be speaking against muslims because it is feeding into this wartime effort. >> tucker: we can debate the details but i think it's important to acknowledge a baseline and that is that there has been an awful lot of attacks we

i am headed back to new york, leaving the swamp an ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it is been a busy week in washington, not that any others are not busy these days. in the senate, republicans are making one last effort to make it genuine repeal to obamacare. in the house, debbie wasserman schultz is an awkward position of explain why she employed a pakistani i.t. expert after he was linked to major security breaches, fraud, data theft, and more. we'll have a lot more on that i had. and then the white house. there is turmoil still over the fate of the attorney general jeff sessions. one man at the heart of everything is the vice president mike pence. we sat down with him of the white house, lori spoke about the repeal of obamacare, russia conspiracies, and the drama between his president and the attorney general. thank you for joining us. those of us were watching and our viewers are basically supportive of, i think, the administration, that things are not chaotic as they seem sometimes pure and >> vice president pence: we've making incredible progress, 86