. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there is so much news happening. it took a minute what to include. we only have an hour. this is what we came up with. hillary clinton's new attitude on the f.b.i. investigation is remarkable given her previous statements. paula jones joins us later to discuss that. first up, by far the news of the day. brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination that is in suspended animation tonight thanks as you know for allegations he assaulted a psychology professor called chrstine blasey ford some 36 years ago. while both of them were still in high school. despite blanket media coverage, the basic details of the story is murky. ford has not said when or where it happened and she said she didn't tell a soul about it for three decades. there is significant inconsistencies in her account but we have never doubted her sincerity and we never questioned her motives. unless we learn new facts that give us reason to, we won't do that. we will give her every benefit of every doubt. but there is another side as well. brett kavanaugh. he a

tucker carlson is ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," we have marked extensively, we have denigrated the possible run for president, even gave him an unflattering nickname. but tonight after many requests he has agreed to come on her show in return we are prepared to give him the serious treatment he deserves. stormy daniels lawyer joins us minutes from now. but first, or, hurricane florence has arrived in the united states, causing havoc all along the carolina coast, expected landfall tomorrow, rick reckitt has been joining us from the beginning, and he joins us now. >> it might make landfall a couple of times, kind of bouncing along the coast. we cannot save that precision, maybe ten, 20 miles one way or the other. we do not have that just yet. but the satellite image, the storm very close, just south of the outer banks. at the center of it, crossing 160-mile path right there and tropical storm force winds, about 40 miles an hour and above, 400 miles across. a really large storm that is -- going to impact so many people. we see little tornadoes pop up throughout

so thank you, tucker. >> tucker: yeah, we are. the left is making its final pitch to americans before the midterms. you may have heard this before. vote for us or else you are a bad person. how did that work last time? we'll discuss that next. plus we will continue to watch the effect of what was once hurricane florence and is now a tropical storm. but it's still hurting people and still in our country. so, of course, we will tell you the latest. stay tuned. only imagine... a peaceful night sleep without frequent heartburn waking him up. now that dream is a reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. ♪ ♪ they're the moderne stone

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson.," there is so much news happening. we only have an hour. here's what we came up with. hillary clinton's new attitude on the fbi investigation is remarkable given her previous statements. first up, by far the news of the day. brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination remains and suspense. thanks as you will know to allegations of the assault fromc psychology professor, christina blowsy forward. both of them were still in high school. despite blanket media coverage, the basic details remain worth murky. she does not memberer where or d when it happened. she didn't tell a soul about it for threees decades. there are significant inconsistencies. we've never questioned her motives unless we learn new facts that give us reason to, we won't do that. we will give her every benefit of every doubt. but there is another side as well. brett kavanaugh.h. he also has a family and a career and a reputation. all have been gravely damaged by the claims. the democrats could have helped clear it up weeks ago if they asked kavanaugh abou

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this is the tenth day in a row that we have devoted a large portion of the show to brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination. we have done that because the story matters. not simply because the supreme court itself matters. the way kavanaugh has been treated by the democrats in the senate, as well as by the media, and the left wing interest groups who do their bidding in concert, gets the most basic questions about what kind of country we want to live in.nt does every american deserve due process? are the accused presumedme innocent rather than guilty? does fairness still matter in this country? well, to all of those we answer yes. the left argues no. to them, acquiring power justifies anything.ue that is the real debate here. we thought you should know that. after the developments -- and there are many -- after yesterday's hearing, the debate must be drawn to a close. it's hard to imagine watching what kavanaugh said to the senate yesterday without feel profound sympathy. this is a

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president held his first news conference in over a year this afternoon, he took questions for an hour and a 21 minutes and 44 seconds,, because we were counting. it was mostly about brett kavanaugh's supreme court 4 nomination but in case you missed it, here's part of what he said. >> they have destroyed a man's reputation and they want to destroy it even more and i think people will see that in the midterms. what they've done to this family, what they've done to these beautiful children of his and what they have done to his wife. and they know it is a big, fat con job. they go into a room and a i guarantee you they laugh like hell. 36 years, there is no charge. all of a sudden, the hearings are over and the rumors start coming out. then you have this other con artist, avenatti, come out with another beauty today. look, these are very dishonest people. these are con artists. the first knows it but the press doesn't write it. i could pick another court justice, i could pick another

♪ >> tucker: welcome back to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." can your children be friends with white people? that's an actual question posed by an actual person in an actual newspaper, "the new york times." the author wasn't optimistic about the answer. "i will teach my boys the lessons generations old" he wrote. "i will teach them caution, i will teach them suspicion. i will teach them distrust. i will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible." those doubts, of course, mirrored the writer's own, as he put it. "history is provided little reason for people of color to trust white people." the piece remains one of the most popular on the website for days after it ran. while the professor wrote the piece and we spoke to him. >> tucker: you are making generalizations across racial groups. so you say for example i will have to discuss with my boys whether they can truly be friends with white people. history has provided little reason for people of color to trust white people. i have profound doubts that fri

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the creepy porn lawyer's back. the ladies of "the view" are very concerned about america's declining f moral tone so they invited him on. he was creepier than ever. spine-tinglingly creepy. we will give you details. first tonight, in the state of california, a man of screaming obscenities about the president attacked republican congressional candidate ruby peters over the weekend. he tried to stab him with ait switchblade. meanwhile, here in washington police are investigating an angry progressive who apparently threatened to shoot from supporters of the trump international hotel. the man had a twitter avatar promoting the democratic socialists of america. at the university of southern nevada, professor called mark byrd apparently became so enraged by trump that he showed up at school with a gun and was going to stage some kind of protest. in the end he shot only himself in the arm. it may say more about his competence than anything else. sort of amusing. sociology professor, of cours

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." all of washington is girding for next monday, six days from nowr when palo alto psychology professor christine ford has been invited to testify on capitol hill about the assault that she says she's suffered att the hands of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sometime around 1982. both republicans and democrats say they want ford to testify on the hill but no one has explained exactly what the rest of us could possibly learn from that. ford says she has already recounted everything she can remember about the details at this point are thin including when and where that assault allegedly took place. brett kavanaugh for his part has denied that any of it ever happened, and so has as high school friend of mark judge who ford claims was there a that night. so that is the sum total of what we know and it's still a matter of she said, they said. without a lot more evidence it's hard for anyone to prove anything. but that has not stopped leading democrats from reaching a firm conclusion in

welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." one of the stories we're following, there is a new deadline for brett kavanaugh's accuser chrstine blasey ford to respond to the senate judiciary's committee. her attorneys according to the chairman of the committee, have less than two hours fromci right now to respond and explain when and where she will testify. if they don't, the vote will be held on monday. obviously, we're monitoring that. the other big story, blockbuster. "new york times" dropped remarkable allegation today about the number two man in the department of justice. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. according to the paper in the spring of 2017, in the middle of a meeting, rosenstein proposed secretly recording the president in an effort apparently to expose chaos of the administration and discredit it. the "times" says rosenstein talked about recruiting members of the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and remove the president from office in an internal coup. rosenstein denied the story but almost nobody i

tucker carlson is coming up next, have a good night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the most powerful machine in history, the results shape the way we understand the world. most of us assume that on some level it is honest, google search. but what if it's not honest? what if google is secretly corrupting its search results to influence votes? we have exclusive evidence that may in fact be happening. we'll have the report for you in a minute. don't miss that. do not miss the championship edition of hampi and she exam shannon bream and katie pavitt for the bell. brett kavanaugh who committed some kind of sexual assault in high school has set aside into something different, something ugly, something threatening to all of us. we've learned remarkably little from brett kavanaugh from christian ford in the past week, despite lots of words on their behalf. the facts of the case are still sparse and murky. but we've learned a disturbing amount of the left and what it's willing to do in order to maintain control of this country. watch a clip from today in whi

liberty ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." tonight, the news keeps coming. the president is scheduled to speak tonight at a rally in montana, one of the great states. we will take you there live as soon as he does begin.ea it got very heated at capitol hill today, the y confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh, that hearing is stil going on at this hour. we will show you some of the intense altercations, includingh one with senator cory booker of new jersey, which was amazing. but first, donald trump has complained for months that the permanent class in washington is working in secret to undermine his presidency. virtually everyone in washington thinks that is hilarious. it is delusional. the very fact that trump says stuff like that says he is probably mentally ill, and nuts. the guy sitting next to you on the bus babbling about the trilateral condition. but suddenly they are not saying that anymore. why? because yesterday afternoon, "the new york times" ran an anonymous op-ed that confirmed every single one ofinin trump's su

[buzzer] >> tucker: shannon. >> marijuana smoke. >> tucker: no way! >> but what happens if you eat it? >> tucker: it's maine. is it marijuana smoke on the lobsters? >> they are now getting lobsters stone to kill them in the most humane way. the lobsters now o.d. on chex party mix! >> tucker: there is something even sadder about that. acknowledging pain. >> are they happy when they go bye-bye?bo >> they don't know what's happening. >> delicious. >> tucker: question four, this one is multiple-choice. a lot of rain, that causes subway stations to flood. an animal protecting itself with the rising water on the train platform through the animal has been given a nickname. rat?" shannon bream? >> flood rat. i think. >> this has become famous. dubbed flood rat after he was caught shielding himself on the bottom of the screens on a subway platform. we just had to show it to you. you can just make him out right there.f >> okay. >> i feel like he's scared! >> shannon, it's a rodent. >> tucker: you don't need to feel sorry for the rats in the subway. final questi

see ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a remarkable day. brett kavanaugh just stepped away from the microphone in the senate hearing room. he spent three and a half hours there. it was a remarkable moment. stunning in many ways like without precedent in the lifetimes of many who watched it. until this afternoon, kavanaugh had struck many who watched him as bookish and academic. the classic temperment of a federal judge. but he emerged transformed. a man on fire, fighting with everything to save his family, himself, and the presumption of innocence. kavanaugh began the testimony with an unequivocal denial of the allegations against him. "i did not sexually assault chrstine blasey ford or anyone else at any time." he said, his voice rising. "the charges are false." but then he broadened the response and aimed it at senate democrats sitting before him. >> this confirmation process has become a nationall disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process. but you have replaced advise and consent with searc

tucker? >> tucker: depending on who defines who middle of the road is brit, thank you very much we will speak with you later this hour. >> yes. i just heard what google says it does. the question is can we trust them. that is the central question. background on the company. google just removed famous catchphrase don't be evil from code of conduct earlier this year. symbolic change but ominous for the most powerful company in google history. google's market cap is now $860 billion. that's more than the gross domestic product of almost every country in the world. 170 countries have smaller g.d.p.es than google. the federal trade commission prepared an antitrust case against the tech giant a few years ago. but the obama justice department didn't take it. google now controls roughly 90% of the search engine market. 65% of the internet browser market. it controls 85% of the mobile operating systems on the phones in our pockets right now google controls downline ad market online advertising that is

to "tucker carlson tonight." it's been more than a week since a california psychology professor named christine ford accused judge brett kavanaugh of committing some form of sexual assault against her back in 1982. they were both high school students of the time. ford's claim has stopped cavanaugh's supreme court nomination in place. washington has been consumed with the debate ever since. a number of republicans are said to be undecided on kavanaugh's guilt or innocence but they would like to hear more from christine ford when she testifies. strikingly though, every one of them plans to defend kavanaugh. and now this wrinkle. now these allegations, and a leading democrats calling these new claims powerful, compelling and highly credible. they are all but daring republicans to question new accusers and the victims they say must be believed. here's a selection selection of the charges. >> i saw bridget bishop with the devils. >> i saw somebody else with the devil. >> >> tucker: that's a scene from "the crucible" w

. ♪ "tucker carlson tonight" good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight, colin kaepernick is an awfully brave man, being celebrated by those in power and a massive corporat. we will discuss the deal ahead. also tell you a lot more about nbc news chairman and the lack and the maneuverings of that channel to protect predator harvey weinstein. a brand-new report on that that is fascinating and unnerving. but first as you know, capitol hill was in chaos today thanks to the first day of hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. just a few days ago, that was history, but see if you can recall talking heads telling you that john mccain's funeral, if it meant anything meant that unity and stability had to return to washington. >> all of these people who are warring on normal days coming together. it was really dramatic. but this notion of unity is really what i have been seeing. >> speakers at the service spoke of bipartisanship and putting country over party. >> tucker: country over party, that did not happen today. judiciary chairman chuck grassley of iowa could not even get

and tucker takes over. have a great night. ♪ >> tucker: well, the president is speaking at a rally in the state of missouri. we are keeping a close eye on what he is saying. there is a lot of news going on and if the president responds to any of it, we will bring it to you right away. good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." one of the stories we're following, there is a new deadline for brett kavanaugh's accuser chrstine blasey ford to respond to the senate judiciary committee. her attorneys according to the chairman of the committee, have less than two hours from right now to respond and explain when and where she will testify. if they don't, the vote will be held on monday. obviously, we're monitoring that. the other big story, blockbuster. "new york times" dropped remarkable allegation today about the number two man in the department of justice. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. according to the paper in the spring of 2017, in the middle of a meeting, rosenstein proposed secretly r

tucker? >> tucker: so basically they are just making it legal to cross the border for everyone, right?: b or am i missing something? >> sounds like it. >> tucker: it does sound like it. ed henry, great to see you tonight. thank you for that. we just heard how the boston d.a. candidate rachel rollins wants to reduce the prison population by cutting down on the criminal prosecution. the long list of the laws she plans to not prosecute if elected. we'll talk to her after the break. see if we heard all of this correctly. stay tuned. where are we taking him? i have no clue. we're just tv doctors. if this was a real emergency, i'd be freaking out. but thanks to cigna, we can do more than just look heroic. we can help save lives by getting you to a real doctor for a check-up. nurse, this thing's defective. please don't touch that. we are the tv doctors of america. together with cigna reminding you... to go, know, and take control of your health. doctor poses! cigna. together, all the way. you wouldn

to "tucker carlson tonight." it's been more than a week since a california psychology professor named christine ford accused judge brett kavanaugh of committing some form of sexual assault against her back in 1982. they were both high school students at the time. her claim has stopped kavanaugh supreme court nomination in place. washington has been consumed by the debate ever since. a number of senate republicans are said to be undecided on the question of kavanaugh's guilt or innocence where they say would like to hear more from christinc ford on thursday when she is scheduled to testify. strikingly, though, not a single democrat remains undecided. everyone of them plans to vote against kavanaugh. they've made up their minds, they don't need the evidence. now this wrinkle: tonight there are more allegations, consistent in many ways with the allegations we have already heard. leading democrats are calling these new claims powerful, compelling, and highly credible. they are all both daring republicans to question

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." ken starr joins us in a minute with new information on the clinton investigation that made him famous. we now know he considered perjury charges against hillary clinton. he'll tell us about that. but first a nice, and exclusive investigation from the show. for two years, the alleged threat that russia poses to our elections has been official washington's obsession. the usual business of governmenb has come to a halt as democrats and their allies in the press fret that russian agents may be interfering with our democracy. the root of these fears, a handful of russian ads on facebook that almost nobody saw and a small number of efforts to hack democratic party email accounts. now let'ss assume that all these deeply worried people are sincere. that they really care about the integrity of our democracy. then, why has almost nobody said about the tech monopolies thatt now dominate te exchange of information in this country? if a few dozen facebook ads are enough to subvert an election, sho

>> oh, come on, tucker. if you at wherever on the debate society at school and did model u.n., you know that calling people a soft piece of [bleep] is dispositive in an argument, it is ruthless, forensic, logic. it is utterly persuasive. it's right up there with calling your political opponent supporters the dregs of society. that is the way this guys are doing it. this guy, rob delaney, it's interesting to me how i am a drag of society. i don't know whether you can be i don't know whether you can be a singular drag, but i am. i'm always interested to know how high up thest drags go to te hollywood guys. one of these people who are madd about it, jeffrey light who played felix in the bond movies a couple years back, he says christine ford will now face of barbaric republican wrath and also lifelong ostracizing bike kavanaugh's suburban maryland seersucker and dock siders country club set. you were wearing dockside you are probably wearing a airs tonight, tucker. seersucker suit under that phony suit you have

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. veteran members of both parties in washington suddenly seem pretty excited about forcing the president from office without bothering to call an election. call that what you will, it's not democracy. not that they care. they just want their power back. but, before that happens, we have some questions for the permanent class in washington about what exactly it is they believe and what they plan to do if they retake power. just ahead. but, first, in case you were starting to sour on donald trump after all the drama over the last week, barack obama reappeared today to remind us why america elected trump in the first place. in remarkable departure from tradition and decorum, obama gave a bitterly partisan campaign speech at the university of illinois at champaign urbana in which he urged voters to support democrats in the midterm election. like virtually all obama speeches the subtext was about the omni presence of white racism which obama needless to say blamed for the rise of trump. but

he's a good musical ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." brett kavanaugh just finished speaking with martha maccallum t and he pushed back pretty aggressively against attacks and has personal decency. and denied completely all of the allegations against him. in doing that he had times provided a level of informationn about his personal life that would have been unthinkable just days ago. >> through all thesese years in question, you were a virgin? >> that's correct. >> never had sexual intercourse with anyone in high school and college, since we are probing into that? >> many years after, i will leave it at that. many years after. >> tucker: wow. not your conventional interview. he was asked repeatedly about allegations against him and his wife sat by him as he denied all of them. >> i'm not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process. we are looking for a fair process where i can be heard and defend my integrity and my lifelong record. >> tucker: nobody expected anything like this when that confirmation process started. we

tucker? >> tucker: ed henry. thanks, eddie. congressman maxine waters is leading the democratic charge this fall and her weapon of choice is rage. in a speech last weekend she vowed that democrats would impeach not simply president trump, but once they finish doing that, vice president mike pence as well. >> this deplorable, despicable human being that occupies the white house should not be there. i say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. it if you are able to impeach, you knock one down. we look at him, too. >> tucker: keep in mind if democrats win in two months, maxine waters will be a committee chairman. mark penn, and who is in charge of the democratic message do you think? >> that's a good question. there doesn't seem to be a democratic message or republican message as we go into this, other than trump is no good and we have to put guardrails on hi him. the democrats have gone too far to the left, and that's what pass for a good message. >> a lot of former democrats voted for trump because they felt left behind by the e

fda approved for over 18 years. >> tucker: welcome back to our special "tucker carlson >> tucker: welcome back to our special "tucker carlson tonight" tech tyranny. tyranny is not an overstatement in this case. the man behind the book and movie clinton cash that expose their pay relationship is coming out with a new film and the target is big tech, here's a preview. >> they suppress certain types of results based on what they think, based on what your followers are representing. >> it's what google and facebook are doing on a regular basis by suppressing stories, steering us toward other stories rather than the stories we are actually seeking. >> they willic always favor one online music service over another and one candidate over another. >> google crosses the creepy line every day. >> tucker: t the film comes out september 17th, peter schweitzer the man behind the project and he joins us. congratulations on this film, remarkably prescient and i'm sure it will bere as smart as yr last project was. he spent all this time looking into the subject, tell us the salient thingshe you learned,

tucker? >> tucker: ed henry. thanks, ed. congressman maxine waters is leading the democratic charge this fall and her weapon of choice is rage. in a speech last weekend she vowed that democrats would impeach not simply president trump, but once they finish doing that, vice president mike pence as well. >> this deplorable, despicable human being that occupies the white house should not be there. they say, maxine, please don't say "impeachment" anymore. when they say that, i say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. when someone asks, what about mike pence? if you are able to impeach, mike pence will be worse. i said, one at a time. you knock one down and then we'll be ready and we'll take them, too. >> tucker: keep in mind if democrats win in two months,at maxine waters will be a committee chairman. mark penn, a pollster and strategist for bill clinton, joins us tonight. you spent a lot of time thinking about messages. he was in charge of the democratic message? >> that's a good question. there doesn't seem to be ain democra

. >> tucker: good evening >>good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. both parties in washington suddenly seem excited about forceing the president from office without bothering to call an election. call that what you will. it's not democracy. not that they care. they just want their power back. before that happens, we have some questions in washington about what exactly it is they believe and what they plan to do if they retake power. that's just ahead. but first, in case you were starting to sour on donald trump, barack obama reappeared today to remind us of why america elected trump in the first place. obama gave the bitterly partisan campaign speech, in which he urged voters to support democrats in the midterm election. the subtext was mostly about the omnipresence of white racism, which obama blamed for the rise of trump. but then he got creative. watch, for example, as obama blames the current administration for the exact same russia policy that he once did. >> what happened to the republican party? its central organizing principle in foreign poli

and tucker carson a smart guy. i don't know who this tucker is because that's not the same tucker who was on cross fire and making those arguments. and now all of a sudden he's turned into this nationalist because it seems what fox news wants to do -- >> well, you just answered your own question. >> it is what it is. it's a shame because you're fomenting that. which is the last thing we need. given what trump has done. >> he's trying to blame the blow back he's received from this on the organized left, trying to silence dissent. is that a deflection? >> yes, it's a deflection. we're sick and tire offend stupidity, sick and tire offend nationalism. and my concern is not donald trump. i know many on the right are concerned about donald trump getting satisfied from fox news. but my concern is the millions of people who watch tucker carlson every single night who actually absorb that and take that in, and my hope is they know tucker carlson is channelling nationalism -- that's not what makes america great. >> carlson.

do you feel you succeeded with tucker? >> i think i did succeed because i think tucker looked terrible coming out of that interview. he constantly spoke over me. i thought the use of the creepy porn lawyer at the bottom of the screen, which i was not aware of at the time, otherwise i would have called him out on it i thought that was completely unprofessional and uncalled for. and i think that tucker lost whatever monochrome of respect he had as a journalist as a result of that interview. >> he said he'd give you time to state your case. do you feel he followed through on that commitment? >> absolutely not. and another prerequisite was he was not going to interrupt me and talk over me and he continually did that and did not allow me to answer the questions. >> if you're going to be a fight eyou have to get used to people interrupting you? >> and i am used to that. if you look at that interview, i demonstrated an ability to deal with that to a certain degree. i was not given ample time to deal with many of the ridiculous qu

- [laughing] - all right, thanks, tucker. - i'm just-- say this. i--you're like my brother, but i'm glad, for like a millisecond, the heat's off me and on you. okay, so i'm--i'm feeling-- - oh, i appreciate that. - you know, it says a lot about your news network when all of your top anchors are playing scandal tag. it's like, "i made fun of the parkland kids. tag, you're it! i'm out! thank god!" now, what people are really wondering is this: whatever legal advice was, why didn't hannity get it from his regular attorney? right, instead of turning to a guy who's specifically known for paying off mistresses? why did he go to him? but according to hannity, "baby, this is not what it looks like." - to be absolutely clear, they never involved any matter, any-- sorry to disappoint so many, matter between me, or third party, a third group at all. and are my questions exclusively almost focused on real estate? - wow, he really slipped in the "almost" there. did you hear it? yeah, it was super quick. it was super quick. he was like, "all my questions to mich

yes, over the years, tucker has debased himself. he has degraded his reputation by saying disgusting things with his mouth, all in front a camera for the cheap thrills of an audience of old men, just for a few dollars, but he needed the money. all i'm saying is being tucker carlson is a legitimate profession. you just shudder to think of your children growing up to do it. ( cheers and applause ) he's somebody's little boy! he's somebody's little boy! ( laughter ) meanwhile-- boy, i got over that emotional moment quickly. meanwhile, we're less than two months away from the midterms, when millions of americans will head to the polls to vote against a man who is not on the ballot. at stake is control of the congress. the senate's a long-shot for the democrats, but it's a different story in the house, where the latest polls find that democrats have a 14-point lead over republicans. voters-- ( cheers and applause ) uh-huh. you forgot what happened two years ago? okay. voters were asked whether they support a generic republican or a gener