tucker? >> tucker: that is an amazing fact and a terrifying fact. thank you, trace, for your nightly updates. appreciate it. well, the attorney general of nevada is participating, of course, in the investigation of the shooting at the highest level. he is here next to tell us what he knows. also, l.a., is famous for bad traffic, but never more so than today when illegal immigrant protesters made it much worse by blocking the streets in a country that is not their own. that story straight >> tucker: investigators have spent four days searching desperately for a motive to explain the horrifying killing spree in las vegas sunday night. nevada attorney general adam laxalt is playing a major role in that investigation, of course, and he joins us tonight with the latest. mr. attorney general, thanks a lot for coming on. so i'm sure you've got to be as anxious as anyone to understand why this man, paddock, did something like this. are you any closer to figuring that out? >> you know, i'd like to cor

." ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." two days after the deadliest mass shooting and almost a century, horror is being joined by confusion. stephen paddock shot hundreds of people from his hotel room in las vegas and what was one of the most thoroughly planned rampages we've ever seen. 59 murdered, more than 500 injured. two days later we know a lot about how he committed this atrocity, was, virtually nothing about why paddock left no manifesto, no suicide note that we've seen. his family and friends that he never seemed particularly interested in religion or politics despite the arsenal he had massed in firearms. he recently converted to islam and decided to convert to gianni, no evidence that is actually true. anything is possible at this point. 5064-year-old retired accountants don't typically becs murderers. we are beginning this hour with review of hope you don't and a look at where this investigation amy headed. for the very latest on all of i it, we go to trace gallagher. >> we can certainly tell you the investigat

. >> tucker: text. that sounds reasonable. >> no more texting and walking, stating that if you are caught doing this, you will be paying a $35 fine. >> oh! >> tucker: you are back to par, back to 0. >> i'm not even good at that, but there is no proof that i was here. i came here with the same score i entered with. >> tucker: we are preparing the headline, shannon bream actually reads the news. >> i watch "tucker," i watch "fox & friends," i listen to kilmeade on the radio. i'm dialed in. >> tucker: we'll see you tomorrow night to talk about your new book. brian kilmeade will be back tomorrow. >> same outfit. >> tucker: the same outfit. pay attention to the news, over the week, you can play along. we'll be back next thursday. ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare suppleme

>> tucker, let's say. this. >> tucker: is it preferable? >> are we prepared to say we want to support all families or not? >> tucker: are we prepared to stop with the bumper stickers and slogans. >> we should support all families. >> tucker: what you are doing is being a hack and give me a fake answer. >> actually what i'm saying is the reality of where we were 50 years ago is not where we are today. >> tucker: do you think that. >> if we are thinking about grand parents. >> tucker: i give up. i give up. nobody takes the left seriously. this is an actual issue that cuts across races. >> it does. >> tucker: cuts across the whole country. >> exactly. this is not a part son idea. >> tucker: you don't admit it's a disaster because they vote democrat. >> his daughter saying they have to do something about it. >> tucker: they are wrong. trump and his daughter are wrong if they don't see single parenthood on the scale we see it now as a disaster because it is. >> tucker, we need to say faith without works. we said it in james. make sure we are pro

>> 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: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months, almost a year, actually, the refrain has sounded. "russia hacked the election. russia colluded with donald trump." it was unprecedented behavior, treasonous. we have been told we need a massive, semipermanentit investigation to expose all of these crimes. we might even need to nullify the presidential election. okay, let's say that russia did hack the election. what would that look like? a few thousand dollars spent on lame, ineffective facebook ads? probably not. instead it might look like what was actually going on for years, at the podesta group, the democratic lobbying firm created by john podesta. according to a source we spoke to who worked for podesta for years, the company received huge sums of money from a pro-russia shell group in order to bolster russia's interests in washington, all without declaring itself an agent of a foreign power, which it demonstrably was. election hacking might also look like the infamous and fraudulent trump dossier which was compiled i

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a pretty remarkable white house press briefing this afternoon, unexpected as well, white house chief of staff john kelly weighed in on president trump's call to the mother of a slain u.s. soldier. he also spoke about the death of his own son in afghanistan seven years ago. kelly went on to sharply criticized florida congressman frederica wilson. he called her recent attacks on the president's stunning and shameful. kelly pointed out this is not the first time the congresswoman has used the death of others to burnish her own profile. watch. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. in october -- april, rather, of 2015, i was still on active duty, and i went to

now you can watch tucker. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the downfall of hollywood producer harvey weinstein 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 took 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 anger, ronan farrow, conclusively exposed mos against weinstein by women who say he sexually harassed, groped, even raped them, but the number killed that investigation. nbc news president noah oppenheim said the company had good reason for doing that, but that the company have

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 carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. here is something we have been wondering about avidly. why would one of the most famous news organizations in the world work so hard to kill one of the biggest news stories of the year. one of the many questions arising in the harvey weinstein scandal that may be the greatest of all the mysteries. nbc news had had this story brought to them months ago brought by-to-them by their own anchor ronan farrell. they not only turned it down they tried to suppress it he was barred from using weinstein accuser on camera. that's the holy grail of a tv story. noah openne on oppenheim interv. their job is to bring the news to the public not hide the news. what happened in this case. nbc news president noah oppenheim may be the key to that question. is he a screen write his or her has written several films apparently profit g from his work in hollywood even as he runs the network's news division. screen writers, of course, are dependent on film producers of home harvey weinstein was perhaps the mos

tucker is up ♪ . >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. we have exclusive new reporting on a story that has turned washington upside-down and caused more intrigue than anything in the city i've seen in 25 years. of course you've heard independent counsel robert mueller's investigation has zeroed in on its first targets. former donald trump campaign manager paul manafort and his business associate rick gates were both indicted on charges of money laundering, tax fraud and failure to report lobbying arrangements. now the indictment offers tantalizing details about how foreign lobbying works at the highest levels in washington. how manafort used offshore cash to expand his wardrobe, somehow spend $655,000 on landscaping for his house in the hamptons. it comes as no surprise for anyone who has watched manafort operate but of course the legal system will make the final call on that. paul manafort is just the first in a series of people in dc who are suddenly in deep, deep trouble. who is next? reading between the lines of the indictment and tal

. >> 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 carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months, almost a year, actually, the refrain has sounded, "russia hacked the election, russia colluded with donald trump." it was unprecedented behavior, tracing us. we have been told we need a massive, semipermanent investigation to expose all of these crimes. we might even need to nullify the presidential election. let's say that russia did hack the election. but with that look like? a few thousand dollars spent on lame, ineffective facebook ads? probably not. instead it might look like what was actually going on for years at the d podesta group, the lobbying firm created by john podesta. according to a source we spoke to who worked for podesta for years, the company received huge sums of money from april russia show group in order to bolster russia's interests in washington, all without declaring itself in agent of a foreign power, which are demonstrably was. it might also look like the infamous and fraudulent trump dossier which was compiled in 2016 and then released this pa

. ♪ >> 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 is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have exclusive new reporting on a story that has turned washington upside down and caused more intrigue than anything in the city i've seen in 25 years. of course you've heard independent counsel robert mueller's investigation has zeroed in on its first targets. today, former donald trump campaign manager paul manafort and his business associate rick gates were both indicted on charges of money laundering, tax fraud, and failure to report lobbying arrangements. the indictment, among other things, offers tantalizing details about how foreign lobby actually works at the highest levels in washington. manafort allegedly used laundered offshore cash to buy range rovers, expand his wardrobe, somehow spent $655,000 on landscaping for his house in the hamptons. manafort's indictment comes as honestly no surprise to anyone who has been in washington for a while and has watched him operate, but of course the legal system will make a final call on that. it's pretty clear that paul manafort is

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it has been four days since one of the biggest mass shootings in history, and most people still more questions and answers aboue gunman and particularly his motive. but if you've been watching any of the late night comedy shows or certain cable news outlets, you know those mysteries have been solved already. according to them, the real perpetrators are a law-abiding gun owners and the organizations that represent them. not an overstatement. watch this. >> do you feel like they are complacent, the g.o.p., the nra -- in the gun epidemic racing in america? >> of course they are. of course they are. >> break from the nra, which is making things worse, and work with us to get something done. >> let's face it, the reason we don't have gun safety measures in the united states today is because of the nra. >> tucker: well, chris cox is the executive director of the nra institute for legislative action, and he joins us on the set tonight. how do you feel when you see that, chris? you watch 58 p

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a pretty remarkable white house press briefing this afternoon, unexpected as well, white house chief of staff john kelly weighed in on president trump's call to the mother of a slain u.s. soldier. he also spoke about the death of his own son in afghanistan seven years ago. kelly went on to sharply criticize floridacr congresswomn frederica wilson.. he called her recent attacks on the president stunning and shameful. kelly pointed out this is not the first time the congresswoman has used the deathnd of others o burnish her own profile. watch. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutely stunsco me. and i thought at least that was sacred.. in october -- april, rather, of 2015, i was still on active duty, and i wen

let's take a wide shot and a sta ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. here is something we have been wondering about avidly. why would one of the most famous news organizations in the world work so hard to kill one of the biggest news stories of the year. one of the many questions arising in the harvey weinstein scandal that may be the greatest of all the mysteries. nbc news had had this story brought to them months ago brought by-to-them by their own anchor ronan farrell. they not only turned it down they tried to suppress it he was barred from using weinstein accuser on camera. that's the holy grail of a tv story. noah openne on oppenheim interv. their job is to bring the news to the public not hide the news. what happened in this case. nbc news president noah oppenheim may be the key to that question. is he a screen write his or her has written several films apparently profit g from his work in hollywood even as he runs the network's news division. screen writers, of course, are dependent on film producers of home harvey weinstein was perhaps the mos

. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the left has finally found the only immigrant in history who had no right to come to america. the only one who didn't improve the place by his presence. his name? christopher columbus. his crime? violating the sovereignty of the people who lived here already. plus he was the wrong ethnicity. try making that argument about any other immigrant to america and see how long you keep your job. but whatever, happy columbus day anyway.k enjoy it while you can. your grandchildren won't even know it existed. progressives have declared war on christopher columbus as they have on most things older than last week. this is year zero on the t revolutionary calendar. history starts now. ignorance of the past isn't simply tolerated, it's required. does your average protester know anything about christopher columbus? that he is celebrated as a heroi throughout much of latin america for example? of course not. the left speaks only ofeb his genocide, mostly because his ships brought old world diseases to

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." we are beginning tonight with a story we just learned a few hours ago, a story that amazed us. last night on the show we told you about how the john podesta group, a lobbying firm cofounded by hillary clinton's campaign -- have been sucked into the investigation of alleged russian interference in american politics. before last night's show was even over, we got an email from a man with direct personal knowledge of that story. the man, whose name we can reveal for the time being, is a former senior employee of the group. he worked there for years. he said he was motivated to contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago

. >> 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: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. a horrific attack in las vegas has become the single deadliest mass shooting in this country's history. more than 500 are injured after a gunman, a retired accountant perched in the mandalay bay window and opened fire on the country music concert. [indistinct] >> tucker: our own trace gallagher is a las vegas semite on top of the developments as they come in. trace. >> we now know there are four crime scenes, the mandalay bay directly behind comforting people older than them, freaking out, screaming. i meant to try and make a video for my parents and this guy started screaming and pounding on the wall and i just stopped what i was doing and had him sit down in front of me and take care of his wife or girlfriend or whatever. and then i went to the door to see if we could get out and as soon as i opened it a little bit, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. i shut the door and looked at a friend of mine, who was in there, just a little bit a ways away for me and i said everything is going to be

tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." the left has finally found the only immigrant in history who had no right to come to america. the only one who didn't improve the place by his presence, his name, christopher columbus. his crime? violating the sovereignty of the people who lived here already. plus he was the wrong ethnicity. try making that argument about any other immigrant to america and see how long you keep your job. but whatever, happy columbus day anyway, enjoy it while you can. her grandchildren won't even know it existed. progressives had declared war on christopher columbus as they have on most things older than last week. this is year zero on the revolutionary calendar. history starts now. ignorance of the past isn't simply tolerated, it's required. does your average protester know anything about christopher columbus? that he celebrated as a hero throughout much of latin america for example? of course not. the left speaks only of his genocide, mostly because his ships brought old world diseases to the new wo

[laughter] ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. here is something we have been wondering about avidly. why would one of the most famous news organizations in the world work so hard to kill one of the biggest news stories of the year. one of the many questions o arising in the harvey weinstein scandal that may be the greatest of all the mysteries. nbc news had had this story brought to them months ago brought by-to-them by their former anchor, ronan farrow. they not only turned it down they tried to suppress it he was barred from using weinstein accuser on camera. that's the holy grail of a tv story. noah oppenheim intervened. to keep the story off the air. news outlets don't typically act that way. their job is to bring then news to the public not hide the news. what happened in this case. nbc news president noah oppenheim may be the key to that question. he doesn't just oversee nbc news, he's also a screenwriter who has written several films. apparently profiting from his work in hollywood even as he runs the network's news divisi

. >> tucker: thank you. the central question i think of the last couple of years, certainly the one that drove the last election, what do you do about a middle class that is whose wages have risen in aa lot of cases in 50he years, does this help, specifically does it help them? >> this helps a lot. what i think the president said is correct. the corporate tax rate reduction expands wages and it expands employment dramatically. most economists agree that the real key to getting economic growth is bringing that corporate rate down from 35% hopefully to 15%, but 20% is where they propose it now. t that should be an enormous elixir to economic growth and create jobs. literally get people off the dole and put them on the jobs and raise wages and increase the number of people working. it will be a great thing for the u.s. >> tucker: judging by the equities market, corporations are making a lot of money. the problem is not corporate profit and you still have close to 100 million americans unemployed and the stagnan

good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in just a minute we will talk about a meeting at the weinstein company in los angeles today. also, there is no information about the laws of vegas security guard who apparently vanished into thin air, one of the rare eyewitnesses inside the hotel, the latest on that. but first, here's part of what the president just said about his tax plan. >> our framework provides a one time, low tax on profits currently sitting on the shores so that this money can come back right where it started, come back home to america where it belongs and believe me, we could use it in this country. we need it so badly for so many things, including infrastructure, which we will be doing. we will eliminate the penalty on bringing home -- and we have to do that, future earnings. my council of economic advisors estimates that this change, along with a lower business tax rate, would likely give the typical american household around a $4,000 pay raise, and that's money that will be spent in our economy. our tax pla

at a good night. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. a horrific attack in las vegas has become the single deadliest mass shooting in this country's history. more than 500 are injured after a gunman, a retired accountant perched in the mandalay bay window and opened fire on the country music concert. [indistinct] >> tucker: our own trace gallagher is a las vegas semite on top of the developments as they come in. trace. >> we now know there are four crime scenes, the mandalay bay directly behind me, the concert venue as well as the home of the suspect, stephen paddock in mesquite nevada with to mike about 75 miles north of here. reno, nevada, in the process of being rated. the sheriff's department also told us they found 18 guns inside at home in mesquite along with numerous explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition. inside the mandalay bay we now know that they found 17 guns, 16 rifles and a handgun and we should note it is still very unclear how many of those guns were converted to automatic weapons, the sheriff would not say. we

tucker is next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." almost 5 full days have passed since the horrifying mass shooting in las vegas. just a short time ago police updated us on the latest in the investigation. >> to date, we have run down more than 1,000 leads in this investigation. while some of it has helped create a better profile into the madness of the suspect, we do not still have a clear motive or reason why. >> tucker: as the rest of us try to understand why the gunman did it, the left decided in hours what they wanted to blame. middle american gun owners. late night coneddians and politicians like hillary clinton accused the nra and members for responsibility of stephen paddock's rampage. the "new york times" called for a repeal of the second amendment. left wing politicians and gun groups began fund-raising. did that make you safer? john calloway is a legislator from of the state of missouri and joins us. the question i have asked everyone i talked to this week on both sides: hours after this happened, you heard people, armchai

tucker carlson is right after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. for months you could hear the word echoing from congressional offices and television studios all over washington, russia, russia, russia. the very people who spent 70 years making excuses for the soviet union were suddenly convinced that russian agents had visited our shores in the dead of night to murder american democracy and install their puppet in our white house. trump won because of vladimir putin. that was their claim. it seemed confusing to mease people. but to our decadent and completely unimpressing ruling class, the explanation made perfect sense. how far else could their candidate the candidate of both nancy pelosi and the bush family have lost last november's election in the media assured them that would never happen. in fact, a year ago today the "new york times" ran this prediction, quoted: hillary clinton has a 93% chance to win. and they believed it. when she didn't win, our elites assumed a foreign power must have intervened. no other explanation made sense to them.

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> 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 clan 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 instead approving 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 this

then ♪ >> 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 clan 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 instead approving 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 this

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have learned a remarkable amount from the harvey weinstein scandal so far. the most powerful man in hollywood was a serial predator. the press assigned to cover him instead covered up for him. self-appointed guardians of women looked the other way. in some cases, an exchange for cash. the corruption was total and complete. nbc's role is especially shocking.ew executives at nbc news knew exactly what harvey weinstein wa year ago. yet, instead of reporting it, they did theiree best to keep tt information hidden from public view. thanks to the legwork of their former anchor, ronan farrow ronan farrow, nbc had taped interviews with a number of his victims. theyey even had weinstein himsef confessing to groping a model, caught on a tape., nbc had harvey weinstein cold, busted. no honest editor in america but have passed on that story, and yet nbc news chief noel oppenheimer did pass. he claimed there was not enough evidence to run. the network killed it. nbc standards for what is news h

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." we are beginning tonight with a story we just learned a few hours ago, a story that amazed us. last night on the show we told you about how the john podesta group, a lobbying firm cofounded by hillary clinton's campaign -- have been sucked into the investigation of alleged russian interference in american politics. before last night's show was even over, we got an email from a man with direct personal knowledge of that story. the man, whose name we can reveal for the time being, is a former senior employee of the group. he worked there for years. he said he was motivated to contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in a pretty remarkable white house press briefing this afternoon, unexpected as well, white house chief of staff john kelly weighed in on president trump's call to the mother of a slain u.s. soldier. he also spoke about the death of his own son in afghanistan seven years ago. kelly went on to sharply criticized florida congressman frederica wilson. he called her recent attacks on the president's stunning and shameful. kelly pointed out this is not the first time the congresswoman has used the death of others to burnish her own profile. watch. >> i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was sacred. in october -- april, rather, of 2015, i was still on active duty, and i went to

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. another mystery solved. less than an hour ago we finally learned who began funding of the trump dossier here in washington. an amazing and maybe not surprising tale. first, the avalanche of propaganda continues here. you can tell when the democratic party's pr apparatus feels it has come up with the talking point. you're hearing the exact same phrase from every cable news hack on television, including on this show. the latest is opposition research. that's what democrats are now calling the trump dossier, that collection of unverified allegations that in some cases appears to have come straight from the kremlin. last month the democrats told us that was evidence of treason and grounds for impeachment. now that it turns out hillary and the dnc paid for it it is being written off as opposition research. totally routine, move along, nothing to see here. why arehe you so uptight? we've heard this story a thousand times. right, not so fast. the trump dossier is far from opposition research. it's beenn the linchpi

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" ." a scandal swirling around hollywood producer harvey weinstein has moved from the tabloids to the political pages tonight and for good reason. there's no debate about his behavior, no gray areas or room for conflicting interpretations. according to a new account in the new yorker magazine at least 13 separate women claimed that weinstein sexually assaulted or harassed them between 1990 and 2015. four say he in front of them. three accuse him of rape. if he hasn't denied any of it. if the new yorker release tape in which he apparently confesse confesses. >> tucker: not all accusations of sexual harassment are real, this one is. the bigger scandal is the reaction to it or the lack of reaction. harvey weinstein isn't just a movie producer, he is a political figure on the left, a major donor to the democratic party, a personal friend to countless liberal activists and politicians. all of which helps explain why the reaction from self-described defenders of women has been so muted. for the

tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks. you want to know what corruption looks like, you're watching it. hillary clinton, countless people seem to determine to protect harvey weinstein and the consequences of his behavior. why exactly is that? marc stein is here to tell us here next. we are giving you the latest on the las vegas shooting. wings are getting weirder and more confusing in this investigation. we have the very latest. ♪ you know who likes to be in control? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. in the mirror everyday. when i look when i look in the mirror everyday. everyday, i think how fortunate i am. i think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure? i think how much i can do to help change people's lives. i may not benefit from those breakthroughs

h >> 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 "empty barrel" forever talking about herself and ever willing to exploit the dead to burnish her own reputation! her own reputation! tradition of empty barrels stood up to talk about how she is instrumental to get the fundingre for the building. we were stunned. had done it.she even for someone that is that empty a barrel. f 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 then. president over disagreements over policy. no wait, just kidding. in fact she seemed delighted on the attack because it made her mor

tucker carlson up next. ♪ >> tucker: a fox news alert, president trump has just finished speaking to the heritage foundation in washington where he has promoted a republican plan to reform america's tax code. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in just a minute we will talk about a meeting at the weinstein company in los angeles today. also, there is no information about the laws of vegas security guard who apparently vanished into thin air, one of the rare eyewitnesses inside the hotel, the latest on that. but first, here's part of what the president just said about his tax plan. >> our framework provides a one time, low tax on profits currently sitting on the shores so that this money can come back right where it started, come back home to america where it belongs and believe me, we could use it in this country. we need it so badly for so many things, including infrastructure, which we will be doing. we will eliminate the penalty on bringing home -- and we have to do that, future earnings. my council of economic advisors estimates that this change, along with a lo

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein is reportedly planning to flee the country for france, taking a cue from his longtime friend and director and fugitive child rapist roman polanski. weinstein's friends in the movie business and in progressive politics pretend to be stunned and aghast at all of this. "this isn't the harvey weinstein we knew," they claimed in anguished interviews arranged by their publicists. we're appalled. right. it's exactly the harvey weinstein they knew, the same one that seth macfarlane joked about at the academy award nominee announcements. >> congratulations. you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. >> tucker: when they mock you on one of the highest rated shows on television, it's not a secret, and indeed it wasn't. macfarlane now says he heard about weinstein's harassment from one of his many victims at the time. macfarlane knew, and so did everyone else. they are lying about it. who is lying? here's a partial

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's been nearly four weeks since stephen paddock committed the deadliest shooting in modern americanav history. tonight we have exclusive information from anm government sourceur given to us hours ago. it's remarkable. the las vegas security guard, the only eyewitness to the shooting, left this country shortly after it took place. we'll tell you where it went and what it may mean. first, the law of unintended consequences remains in force in washington's mind. investigation designed to uncover republican collusion with a foreign power has unearthed the opposite. the most powerful democratic lobbying firm in washington was at the center of russian efforts to shape american politics. this ph group, founded by hillary clinton's campaign chairman and his brother, took money from russian interests to influence the obama administration. there were russian agents in washington. they were working with democrats. we have also solved much of the mystery around the infamous trump dossier, the c

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the scandal swirling around hollywood producer harvey weinstein has moved from the tabloids to the political pages tonight and for good reason. there's no debate about his behavior, no gray areas or room for conflictingg interpretation. according to a new account in "the new yorker" magazine at least 13 separate women claimed that weinstein sexually assaulted or harassed them between 1990 and 2015. four say he masturbated in front of them.ss three accuse him of rape. weinstein hasn't denied any of it. indeed, "the new yorker" released tape in which he apparently confesses. >> tucker: not all accusations of sexual harassment are real. this one is. but the bigger scandal is the reaction to it or the lack of reaction. harvey weinstein isn't just a movie producer, he is age political figure on the left, a major donor to the democratic party, a personal friend to countless liberal activists and politicians. all of which helps explain why the reaction from self-describen defenders of women

tucker carlson is next. >> good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" tonight. today we have new exclusive information from a government source given to us just hours ago from the stephen paddock case. we'll tell you more in a minute. first, the law of unintended consequences remains in force in washington tonight. we now know the most powerful democratic lobbying firm in washington was at the center of russian efforts to shape american politics and policy. the podesta group founded by hillary clinton's campaign chairman and her brother. turns out, there were indeed russian agents in washington that were working with democrats. meanwhile, we have will also solved much of the mystery about the trump dossier, that collection of salacious and totally made-up allegations that buzz feed ran as a news story. chris steele was paid by anonymous republican donor who was hoping to undermine the trump campaign during the primaries. we've known that for a while. what we just learned and what has turned the story and washington on its head, once the republican primaries fini

that's not the profile we've come to expect. >> tucker: you know what tucker? that's one of the main reasons i rode this book. chad, that's his story, his radicalizati radicalization, how do you go from mainstream on your way to being within two years one step removed from the leader of al qaeda? that fascinated me because of the fact i work in counter terrorism. but i think it's a deep dive into the terrorist mindset that the all americans should understand. to answer all the questions that you're asking me now. why do they hate us? how do they go from hello to oh my god? >> tucker: up next, brian kilmeade of "fox & friends" is up late. he joins us in the friend zone to talk about andrew jackson, one of the most amazing american presidents. big news from advil, advil liqui-gels minis. our first concentrated pill that rushes powerful relief. a small new size that's fast, cause it's liquid. woohoo! you'll ask, what pain? new advil liqui-gels minis. ♪ [ music playing ] ♪ . >> tucker: time now for the friend shown. an irregular but beloved segment. brian kilme

we ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. for months you could hear the word echoing from congressional offices and television studios all over washington, russia, russia, russia. the very people who spent 70 years making excuses for the soviet union were suddenly convinced that russian agents had visited our shores in the dead of night to murder american democracy and install their puppet in our white house. trump won because of vladimir putin. that was their claim. it seemed confusing to mease people. but to our decadent and completely unimpressing ruling class, the explanation made perfect sense. how far else could their candidate the candidate of both nancy pelosi and the bush family have lost last november's election in the media assured them that would never happen. in fact, a year ago today the "new york times" ran this prediction, quoted: hillary clinton has a 93% chance to win. and they believed it. when she didn't win, our elites assumed a foreign power must have intervened. no other explanation made sense to them.

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months, you could hear the word echoing from congressional offices and television studios all over washington. russia, russia, russia!! the very people who spent 70 years making excuses for the soviet union were suddenly convinced that russian agents had visited our shores in the dead of night to murder american democracy and install their puppet in our white house. trump won because of vladimir putin. that was their claim. it seemed confusing to most people.e. but to our decadent and completely unimpressive ruling class, the explanation made perfect sense. how else could their candidate, the candidate of both nancy pelosi and the bush family, have lost last november's election? the media assured them that would never happen. in fact, a year ago today the "new york times" ran this prediction: "hillary clinton has a 93% chance to win. and they believed it. when she didn't win, our elites assumed a foreign power must have intervened. no other explanation made sense to them. the only