here♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson "tuckn tonight." the president will address the nation a little over an hour from now. he will make the case for a protective war along our southern border. then he will broadly argue that our immigration problems are real. not a figment of our imagination. they are hurting the country badly. the president will fail that in a few minutes. he will not go unchallenged the news media and operatives. they are not waiting for 9:00 p.m. to do it. they are up early every day waiting for the same set of talking points. today's slogan is simple. don't believe your own eyes, none of this is real. everything is just fine. >> it is salut absolute fiction that there is a national emergency here. >> showing this is not about a crisis. it's a political ploy. >> crisis, crisis. it's a crisis that doesn't exist. >> they're trying to create the notion that there is an emergency and something should be done immediately to prevent it. there is no emergency on the southern border. >> being from new jersey, i know national emergencies, you k

if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson " tonight."th the government shutdown is now entering its fourth week. and neither side has moved much. the president has been arguing for the past three years that the united states needs a wall on its southern border. s agree with his positions or not, trump has explained whyit he believes that repeatedly and in great detail. most recently in a live address to the country. democrats, meanwhile, have argued the opposite. america should not have a border wall, they have said again and again. but the difference is they really haven't explained why. at various times democratic leaders told us that walls don't work. walls are racist. walls are wasteful. they are insufficient. walls are excessive and too old fashion. they are medieval or ancient, depending who is reading the talking point at the time. some of the arguments are semi-real. others are transparently fake. still others flatly contradict one another. rhetorically, the democratic case against walls has

an attorney. legalzoom. where life meets legal. see you tomorrow. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a few minutes, we'll talk to the vice-president of the united states and ask him whether america is getting a border wall in the end, and what the white house is willing to give in exchange for that. that's just ahead. democrats have returned to power on one half of capitol hill after eight years out, nancy pelosi is once again the speaker of the house. we can expect, because they are telling us. she has signaled her opposition to the border with mexico. watch. >> are you willing to give him something for the wall? >> no, nothing for the wall. we are talking about border security. there is no persuasion he can do to say we want you to do something that is not effective, that costs billions of dollars, that sends the wrong message about who we are. >> tucker: so there is that. what else can we expect? alexandria cortez, now a member of congress from new york is pushing something called a green new deal. you may have heard theem term. what does it

every night. here's tucker. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there was a lot of drama on capitol hill today. democrats and the president continue battling over a border wall. yesterday, you probably saw, the house speaker nancy pelosi asked president trump to postpone his state of the union or have it somewhere else, not in congress. she argued the shutdown had created security concerns. that was not confirmed by anyone who actually provide security but that's what she said. today, the president struck a blow of his own. he cancelled a congressional trip abroad at the very last minute that pelosi was planning to take. fox chief national correspondent ed henry has been following every bit of this and he joins us tonight. >> shortly after returning from government on my christmas vacation in hawaii, you will render, and a mere hours before her government jet was at the take off again, before president trump dismissed it as a public relations event. today, pelosi was that he was all kinds of government security for an official congressional trip

health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet? we will see you tomorrow night. tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the government shutdownni continues at this hour as the debate over a border wall enters its fourth contentious week. neither side in this has shown any sign of willingness to compromise. this remains a stalemate as of now. the very definition of it. at least that's what it seems like from the outside.s in fact, this debate is over. we're not getting a barrier along our southern border. we can't, not now, not ever. that possibility was permanently destroyed today by a fact-seeking missile of truth launched by one of our country's premier cable news outlets in a single devastating act of journalism, cnn killed the wall.. took their biggest guns to do it. the network dispatched its chief white house correspondent/renaissance poet jim acosta to the u.s. mexico border, specifically to the town of mcallen, texas. once on the ground in mcallen, acosta wasted no time in proving once and for all that walls d

. good night from washington. had to new york to pet the dog. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." after more than a month of gridlock and fruitless debate, which we have chronicled extensively on this show, the administration has reached an agreement tonight with congressional democrats to end the government shutdown. there's a deal, what exactly is in it? we will tell that you in a minute. but first, just before dawn. this morning, the fbi raided the florida home of long time trump advisor roger stone, who will be joining news a minute. the cnn producer stood across the street recording it all with a camera as dozens of heavily armed agents piled out of vehicles and swarmed stone's house. some carried rifles with extra magazines heavy military gear. tactical gloves, one agent carried two separate rifles in addition to his side arm. the man in front of him appeared to have a flash bang grenade on belt. the whole team scrambled over stone's lawn and pounded on door. stone appeared. he was barefoot and wearing a t-shirt. the agents sl

on this program.kikikikikikikikiki. ♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. just moments ago the office of the special counsel, robert mueller, denied a report that ran last night in buzzfeed. that story said that president trump had ordered michael cohen to lie to congress. the story set off a full day of speculation in washington for members of congress and the media that impeachment and indictment might be imminent. now, to repeat, the special counsel is denying the substance of that story. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this is moving very fast. a remarkable day. trace gallagher has more on what is happening. trace? >> and this really is the bombshell, tucker. breaking right now as you said robert mueller's special counsel, a spokesperson, has knocked down this buzzfeed report quoting now buzzfeed's description of specific statement to the special counsel's office and characterization of documentation and testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. that is critical because, remember, the buzzfeed report laid thi

♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there is a new congress here in washington. but the government shutdown continues as before. the stalemate over border wall funding entered its third week. each sideir betting the other will give in first. negotiations continue at the white house today but apparently they bore no fruit. because afterwards the president emerged to say the situation on the southern border is so grave he may be forced to b build a wall without congressional approval. >> have you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authority to build this wall without congressional approval? and second -- >> yes, i have. >> you have? have., i i can do it if i want. >> so you don't need congressional approval? >> no. we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country. absolutely. no, we can do it. i haven't done it. i may do it. i may do it! but we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly. >> tucker: democrats call that extremism. but who are the extremists here? the one who refuse to defend their co

here tomorrow night. tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." well, they have got him, finally. traps like john dillinger outside the biograph feeder by the g men. democrats now state that they have finally obtained proof, concrete and irrefutable proof that the president is, in fact, a secret russian agent. >> this president seems to be putting russia's interest ahead of our own. >> the evidence suggests indeed trump is, has been a pawn of the russians. >> tucker: don has it nailed. as we told you last night we could have seen this coming. the fbi suspected it for some time. the bureau opened a criminal investigation into the president a year allege on the grounds that no loyal american would fire a leader at impressive as fbi director jim comey. putin must have ordered it. "the washington post" concurred with this as one of that paper's columnist noted trump is also, quote: endorsed populism. that's right. populism. that is the stink of russia all over it. it smells like vodka and day-old herring. people in washington have had their

," we will be back here tomorrow. have a good good night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," for a brief and shining moment earlier this week, the national press corps felt a mild pang of conscience for mishandling the covington high school story so thoroughly. that moment has passed, a blip on the screen and the presidents renewing that. that is the preview. first, a border wall battle, republicans and democrats in the congress held votes on two proposals that would end the government shutdown, but in the end it did not. ed henry was there and has always has the latest. >> as i've often said, you could try to teach a goat how to climb a tree but you are better off hiring a squirrel. actually i've never said that before until now. that was had by the republican senator john kennedy. you see him there on the left and quoting the republican senator who was trying to explain one plan pushed by chuck schumer there. his point being, we know a squirrel could climb a tree trust as we know a wall or a barrier of any kind will provide some kind of defense, he

special council is denying the substance ofto that story. >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. this is moving very fast and we have more on what is happening. trace. >> this is the bombshell, tucker. as you said robert mueller has knocked down this buzzfeed report. quoting buzzfeed's quoting of specific statements and characterization of documents andga testimony ... >> that is critical. remember the buzzfeed report laid this at the door of the special council quoting again ... >> one of the reporters who wrote the piece admitted he never saw the alleged damning documents. he stillll maintained his reporting was rock solid. listen to him. >> i am rock solid. my sourcing on this goes beyond the two on the record. it's one hundred percent happened. >> one hundred percent. exceptpt president trump said it one hundred percent didn't happen. tweet "lying to reduce jail time" referencing cohen's prison sentence. this comment was added. >> this is absolutely, absolutelyut ludicrous we're giving any credence or credibility to a news outlet like buzzfeed. >> he's>> right. buzzfeed h ha

you tomorrow. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." in a televised address to the country last night, as you know, the president made his case for why america needs of all our southern border, and why that while it is so important and it's worth shutting down the nafederal government to get it where democrats remain unmoved by the address. leaders in congress and the democratic side, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, deliver their party's initial response. their words were then echoed with mechanical precision by democrats up and down theni cha, from sitting members of congress all the way down to the left-wing lady muttering in your local dog park. talking points doesn't really do justice to the rhetorical discipline here. it was really like watching a 3d printer at work, turning out carbon copies of stilted propaganda one after the other after the other. a miracle of replication. you might even call the democratic response manufactured manufactured. >> this is a manufacturedhi crisis, and a crisis that manufactured by the term administration. a speaker

all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," the battle in congress over the border wall is still ongoing, now into its third week. large swaths of government remain shut down, trash remains on the ground. the president maintains he will not give in until he gets funding for a border wall. the president plans to address the company, country tomorrow night. going to travel to the border to make his case. on the democratic meanwhile, the battle lines remain exactly in place of their work last week. they can't allow a wall to be built under any circumstances, they said so many times mainly because of the risk it might actually secure the border. they can't say that out loud, needless to say, so they have other story lines. you know how those go. they argue that because walls of work well for thousands of years, somehow they won't work now. >> if were talking about border security, the overwhelming number of undocumented people in united states overstayed visas. they did not cross the border.

♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the state of the union address is still scheduled to take place next week but it's not clear where it will be delivered. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi has said the president is not welcome in the house. the latest on that just ahead. first, there was a brief moment, a small window at the beginning of this weekek when it seemed possible that our media establishment might look inward and learn something useful about itself humiliation was the best teacher and definitely humiliated in the space of a few days two separate high profile news stories turned out to be utterly fraudulent. first, buzzfeed announced that former trump lawyer michael cohen had been coached to commit perjury by the president of the united states. the cable news caucus immediately erupted in glee finally we got him until robert mueller's office weighed in to point out that the story thrilling as it sounded wasn't strictly speaking true. i so that was embarrassing. and then, just 24 hours later, our entire ruling class, united as one, to c

. that's "the story." we will see you tomorrow night, guys. >> welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's clear both of the country's political parties are have changed radically. they are changing still. we covered that every night on the show. donald trump is transformed the gop, you may have read about it. on the democratic side, there have been profound changes too. ones that don't get as much attention. party for hundred years stood with america's middle class now represents the nation's richest and poorest. the party position on policy have changed accordingly. a lot. this is about 20 years ago, democrats champion free speech. they worried about illegal immigration, loudly. they criticized voluntary foreign wars and they argued unrestricted trade hurt american workers. by the way, quite a few of them, democrats were pro-life too. senator harry reid among them. that's not surprising. democrats said they cared most about the vulnerable in our society. even bill clinton who vetoed partial abortion ban he wanted to keep abortion rare. he said that a lot. try that in today's democ

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

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson e tonight." one of the great secrets of washington, something we don't tell anyone outsidehi the city s that the only people who really benefit the presidential primaries are the political consultants who work in them. the candidates themselves almost always finish the experience sadder, poorer and humiliated. the public hates the whole thing. they get to spend half your tormented by the white noise of 32nd attack ads. only the consultants really seemed to enjoy themselves. why wouldn't they? they walk away rich. for them is a great deal. they've got every incentive to recruit new suckers to the game. their latest mark is a billionaire called howard schultz. the former ceo of starbucks.f a pair of slick consultants somehow convinced howard schultz that he could be president. so over the weekend he announced he may get in the race. here's the twist, schultz, who is an entirely conventional affluent liberal said that he is not planning to run aslu a democrat, but instead as an independent. democrats were horrified by this. bo

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

. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to tucker carlson tonight, we want to bring you the latest on what was a remarkable story that broke latn "the new york times," in no time to address at the end. according to what our apparently high-level sources within the department of justice in 2017 the fbi secretly began an investigation into whether the president is in fact a russian agent, the fbi apparently believe that president trump could be a one-man sleeper cell. personally taking direct orders from his handlers in moscow, and working from within the oval office to subvert this country. the fbi said that they believe that could've happened. so they spied apparently on the president of the united states. while, shocking, does not even begin to describe the story. nothing like this has ever happened in this country. these allegations are literally without precedent, that is not an overstatement. and the allegations are not tru true. the fbi did not find that donald trump is an fbi agent, no charges were filed against them. none will be, but an equally important question remains unanswered. how did this happen?

you time, so you can keep saving the world. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. if you were on social media over the weekend you probably saw this video. it was shot friday afternoon on the steps of the lincoln memorial it seemed to show a group of teenage boys taunting an elderly american indian man who was holding a drum. the young men had come to washington from a catholic school in kentucky to demonstrate in the march for life. some of them wore make america great again hats. they seem menacing. within hours the video is being replayed by virtually every news outlet in america. here's what you may have seen. [chanting] [inaudible] >> tucker: the american indian man with the drum you just saw is called nathan phillips. and he described the young men he encountered, the oneshe in the hats as aggressive and threatening. essentially shock troops for donald trump. watch. >> heard them saying build that wall. build that wall. this is indigenous lands. not supposed to have a

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

. see you then. ♪ >> tucker: a good evening and welcome to the "tucker carlson tonight" ." the battle of the congress and border wall is still ongoing as you know now until its third week. large swathes of government remain shut down and trash remains on the ground. the president says he will not give in until he gets funding for the border wall. he plans to travel to the mexican border to make his case. the battle lines remain exactly in place as they were last week. they can't allow a wall to be dealt under any circumstances, but they say it could be because of the risk to the secure borde border. malls have worked well for thousands of years, somehow they won't work now. >> if we are talking about border security, the overwhelming number of undocumented people in the united states overstayed visas. the solution to that is not a concrete wall, this is more >> t we don't think the wall is a good technology to do the objective. >> tucker: it's possible that the coordinated talking point, just guessing. but in case it doesn't work, here's another idea. >> the inference that you

subscribe. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson is coming up nex next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." longtime trump advisor roger stone was arrested on friday by federal agents and charged with seven felonies. none of the charges had anything to do with russian collusion or election meddling, but you'd never know that from the penalties he faces. if convicted, stone could die in prison. nobody in washington seems to find that punishment excessive. many have cheered it. officially stone was charged with lying, some of most of our political elite engage in every day. his real crime was flamboyance. stone has spent the last 40 years giving the finger to the people in charge. in the end, they got him. they always do. stone's arrest is already fading from the headlines were placed by the latest political crisis in the moment or a skirmish in the culture wars. soon we will forget it ever happened. before we do, it's worth taking just a moment to consider a few basic questions about it if only because nobody else is going

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

? have a good night. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we want to bring the latest on what was really a remarkable story that broke late friday in "the new york times," we didn't have time to address it then. according to what are apparently high-level sources within the department of justice, in 2017 the fbi secretly began an investigation into whether the president is in fact a russian agent. the fbi apparently believed the president trump could be a one-man sleeper cell personally taking direct orders from his handlerson in moscow and working from within the oval office to subvert this country. the fbi says they believed that could have happened so they spied, apparently, on the president of the united states. shocking doesn't even to begin to describe the story. nothing like this has ever happened in this country. these allegations are literally without precedent. that is not over statement. by the way, the allegations are not true. the fbi did not find that donald trump is a russian agentd no charges were ever filed against him. none will be. b

in the past week and this is from tucker carlson on fox news so we do see a topsy turvy didn't happening in the united states where we have the democratic base is very pro-war now the republican base is actually anti-war like what you see that in the latest polling data about pulling out of afghanistan or pulling out of syria that in fact most democratic voters are against ending those wars and a vast majority of republican voters are actually for ending those wars here here's tucker carlson sounding very progressive at least economically for get his social and you know racial stuff but here is tougher carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics america's ruling class carlson says are the mercenaries behind the failures of the middle class including sinking marriage rates he says and the ugliest parts of our financial system he won he went on any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having a system like that is the enemy of a healthy society he concluded with a demand for quote a fair country a decent country a cohesive co