>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING.
WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT."
GOOD NIGHT, EVERYBODY.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC
SENATE PRIMARY IN PENNSYLVANIA
BACK IN MAY, STAFFERS FOR THE
JOHN FETTERMAN CAMPAIGN
ANNOUNCED THEIR CANDIDATE HAD
TRAGICALLY SUFFERED A STROKE.
NO PROBLEM.
IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT
PURPORTEDLY WRITTEN FROM THE
HOSPITAL, JOHN FETTERMAN SAID
I’M FEELING MUCH BETTER.
DOCTORS TOLD ME I DIDN’T SUFFER
COGNITIVE DAMAGE.
OKAY.
SO THE PRIMARY CONTINUED AS
PLANNED WITH FETTERMAN’S NAME ON
THE BALLOT AND FETTERMAN WON.
HE BECAME THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE.
THAT WAS THE LAST THAT MOST
VOTERS HEARD ABOUT JOHN
FETTERMAN’S STROKE.
FOR MONTHS, FETTERMAN REMAINED
IN SEMISECLUSION.
AS THE CAMPAIGN PROGRESSED, THE
POLLS TIGHTENED, HE HAD TO
VENTURE.
HE HAD NO CHOICE.
VIDEOS SURFACED OF FETTERMAN
SPEAKING AT RALLIES IN WHAT
SEEMED A BIZARRE AND HIGHLY
DISJOINTED WAY. SOME WONDERED IF HE’D SUFFERED,
SOME WONDERED IF HE’D SUFFERED,
QUOTE, NO COGNITIVE" DAMAGE.
THEY RUSHED FORWARD TO BRING
SCIENCE TO BEAR ON THIS
QUESTION.
IN CLIFFORD CHEN’S CONSIDERED
OPINION AS A RESPECTED MEDICAL
PROFESSIONAL, WHO WORKS AT A
MAJOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITY, JOHN
FETTERMAN WAS ABSOLUTELY FINE.
FETTERMAN WAS, QUOTE, RECOVERING
WELL FROM HIS STROKE.
HE HAD, QUOTE, NO WORK
RESTRICTIONS AND CAN WORK FULL
DUTY IN PUBLIC OFFICE.
IN OTHER WORDS, JOHN FETTERMAN
WAS AS SHARP AND AS HEALTHY AS
YOU OR ME, AS ANYONE IN AMERICA.
IN FACT, MORE SO, READY FOR THE
SENATE.
FETTERMAN’S WIFE, WHO PRESUMABLY
WOULD FOE, KNOW, SECONDED THIS
ASSESSMENT, AND ATTACKED ANYONE
WHO DISAGREED.
A STROKE?
NO BIG DEAL.
IT’S A GOOD THING.
OUGHT TO BE A PREREQUISITE FOR
SERVICE IN THE SENATE.
FOR THEIR PART, MORRIS OF THE
REPORTERS WHO COVERED JOHN
FETTERMAN DAY-TO-DAY WORKED HARD
TO CALM CONCERNS ABOUT HIS
HEALTH.
HIS JOHN FETTERMAN A
SILVER-TONGUED WORDSMITH, NO,
THEY CONCEDED, HE NEVER HAS
BEEN, BUT BRAIN DAMAGE, COME ON.
DON’T BE A BIGOT.
THAT’S ABLEIST.
UNTIL LAST NIGHT, THAT’S PRETTY
MUCH WHERE THINGS STOOD.
SOME PEOPLE, MOSTLY REPUBLICANS,
THOUGHT JOHN FETTERMAN MIGHT NOT
BE MENTALLY FIT TO WORK IN THE
SENATE.
OTHERS, MOSTLY DEMOCRATS, AGREED
WITH CLIFFORD CHEN, HIS DOCTOR,
THAT FETTERMAN WAS ABSOLUTELY
FINE.
SO IT WAS A NEAT PARTISAN SPLIT.
THEN FETTERMAN APPEARED ON STAGE
FOR HIS FIRST AND ONLY DEBATE
AND SETTLED THIS QUESTION FOR
ALL TIME.
JOHN FETTERMAN IT TURNS OUT IS
NOT CAPABLE OF DRIVING A CAR.
HE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO
OPERATE A MICROWAVE OVEN.
THERE’S NO CHANCE UNDER ANY
IMAGINABLE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT
JOHN FETTERMAN COULD, QUOTE,
SERVE IN THE U.S. SENATE.
IT’S NOT A CLOSE CALL.
WATCH.
>> YOU’RE RUNNING FOR A SEAT
THAT COULD DECIDE THE BALANCE OF
POWER IN WASHINGTON.
WHAT QUALIFIES YOU TO BE A U.S.
SENATOR?
YOU HAVE 60 SECONDS.
THE.
>> HI.
GOOD NIGHT, EVERYBODY.
>> Tucker: WHAT?
SO THAT WAS HIM AT THE TOP.
YOU KNOW THIS WAS NOT A DEBATE
LIKE THE DEBATES YOU’VE SEEN
BEFORE.
MOST DEBATES FEEL PRETTY
SCRIPTED.
IN FACT, THIS DEBATE WAS
SCRIPTED.
JOHN FETTERMAN HAD A SCRIPT.
HE WAS READING IT.
BUT HE WAS STILL INCAPABLE OF
FOLLOWING THAT SCRIPT.
HERE, FOR EXAMPLE, IS HOW
FETTERMAN RESPONDED TO MAYBE THE
MOST OBVIOUS QUESTION OF THE
NIGHT, ONE HE KNEW WAS COMING,
AND OF COURSE WOULD ARE PREPARED
FOR.
HERE’S HIS ANSWER.
>> YOU’RE SAYING TONIGHT THAT
YOU SUPPORT FRACKING, THAT
YOU’VE ALWAYS SUPPORTED
FRACKING, BUT THERE’S THE 2018
INTERVIEW THAT YOU SAID, QUOTE,
I DON’T SUPPORT FRACKING AT ALL.
HOW DO YOU SQUARE THE TWO?
>>
>> I DO SUPPORT FRACKING.
I DON’T -- I DON’T -- I SUPPORT
FRACKING.
I STAND -- AND I DO SUPPORT
FRACKING.
>> SO A LOT OF CONCLUSIONS HERE,
THE MOST OBVIOUS, WHY IS
CLIFFORD CHEN STILL PRACTICING
MEDICINE?
IF YOU’RE A PHYSICIAN, ARE YOU
ALLOWED TO LIE FOR PARTISAN
REASONS?
SHOULD DOCTORS DO THAT?
HE’S CLEARLY LYING.
THAT’S NOT A MAN WHO CAN WORK
WITH NO RESTRICTIONS IN THE U.S.
SENATE.
FAR FROM IT.
EVERYONE WATCHING, EVERY HONEST
PERSON, WOULD COME TO THAT
CONCLUSION.
WE COULD PLAY YOU A LOT OF CLIPS
LIKE THAT.
PROBABLY SEEN THEM ALREADY
TODAY.
NOT EVERYONE IS AN HONEST
PERSON.
TO PROVE IT, WE’LL SHOW YOU HOW
MSNBC COVERED THIS DEBATE THE
MOMENT IT ENDED.
HERE IS YOUR "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE
REBECCA TRACER.
>> CLEARLY THIS WAS A CANDIDATE
WHO WAS FEELING STRESSED, AND
THERE WAS INTENSE SCRUTINY,
OFTEN ABLEIST SCRUTINY, ON HOW
HE WAS GOING TO COMMUNICATE, AND
HE JUST DID A DEBATE IN FRONT OF
THE NATION, YOU KNOW, AN
AUDIENCE OF ANYONE WHO COULD
LISTEN.
IT WAS SO TRANSPARENT.
HE DID FUMBLE.
HE DID MAKE VERBAL MISTAKES, YOU
KNOW, IT WAS ALL ON VIEW.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT’S ALSO
REALLY INTERESTING, YOU PLAYED A
LOT OF CLIPS, THERE WERE MOMENTS
WHERE HE WAS STRONG, INCLUDING
THE BERNIE SANDERS CLIP,
INCLUDING HIS FLUID AND DIRECT
RESPONSE ON RAISING THE MINIMUM
WAGE I THOUGHT WAS A STRONG
MOMENT.
>> Tucker: SO WE JUST KEEP CLIPS
LIKE THAT AROUND JUST FOR FUTURE
HISTORY JANES TO ASSESS WHAT
WENT WRONG IN AMERICA.
WE WANT THE HACKIEST POSSIBLE
RESPONSE, THE MOST DISHONEST
ASSESSMENT EVER OFFERED OF ANY
PUBLIC EVENT, AND WE JUST PLAYED
IT FOR YOU.
HE WAS FACING EVILLIST SCRUTINY.
HA-HA-HA!
BECAUSE WE LITERALLY CAN’T
CONTROL OURSELVES, YOU JUST
HEARD HER SAY THAT FETTERMAN HAD
A STRONG ANSWER TO A QUESTION.
TALK ABOUT PATRONIZING, BY THE
WAY.
WE THOUGHT WE’D CHECK WHAT WAS
HIS ANSWER.
YOU CAN ASSESS YOURSELF WHETHER
IT WAS STRONG.
HERE IT IS.
>> WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SMALL
BUSINESS OWNERS WHO HAVE TOLD US
THAT IF THE MINIMUM WAGE WERE
INCREASED TO $15 AN HOUR IT
WOULD PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS.
YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS.
>> WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT
EVERYONE THAT WORKS IS ABLE
TO -- THAT’S THE MOST AMERICAN
BARGAIN, THAT IF YOU WORK FULL
TIME YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE
IN DIGNITY AS WELL TRUE.
AND I BELIEVE THEY HAVEN’T HAD
ANY BUSINESSES BEING -- BEING --
YOU CAN’T HAVE BUSINESSES BEING
SUBSIDIZED BY NOT PAYING
INDIVIDUALS THAT JUST SINGLY
CAN’T PAY THEIR OWN WAY.
>> Tucker: OKAY.
AGAIN, WE COULD FILL THE HOUR
RECAPPING JOHN FETTERMAN’S SAD
RESPONSE, BUT IT’S NOT REALLY
THAT SURPRISING.
ANYONE WHO’S BEEN FOLLOWING JOHN
FETTERMAN FOR THE PAST FIVE
MONTHS, YOU KNEW THAT HE WAS
PROFOUNDLY COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED.
TURNS OUT HE IS.
SO YOU LEARN REALLY NOT THAT
MUCH NEW ABOUT HIM.
WHAT YOU LEARN IS THAT EVERYONE
AROUND HIM FROM HIS DOCTOR TO
HIS WIFE TO THE MEDIA, TO THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THEY’RE ALL
LIARS, AND THEY ALL JUST GOT
CAUGHT LYING.
THEY WENT ON AND ON AND ON LIKE
THIS.
DURING DR. OZ’S CLOSING
STATEMENT, FETTERMAN BEGAN
SHOUTING UNCONTROLLABLY ABOUT
SOCIAL SECURITY UNTIL THE
MODERATOR LOOKED HIM.
REALLY.
LOOK IT UP.
THE EFFECT IS TO MAKE YOU FEEL
SAD FOR JOHN FETTERMAN.
IT’S HUMILIATING.
HE LOOKS LIKE BILLY BOBBY
THORNTON.
YOU WONDER ABOUT HIS WIFE, AS
YOU DO ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S WIFE.
IT SEEMS CRUEL TO DO THIS TO A
MAN, EVEN FOR POLITICAL POWER.
AGAIN, IT’S THE MEDIA WHO
COVERED JOHN FETTERMAN WHO
SHOULD BE THE MOST ASHAMED.
THEY’VE KNOWN THE TRUTH FOR
MONTHS.
WITH ONLY ONE EXCEPTION, THAT BE
NBC REPORTER DASHA BURNS, THE
MEDIA LIED TO VOTERS ABOUT IT.
WE DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
DASHA BURNS, BUT SHE AT LEAST
TRIED TO BE SORT OF HONEST.
HERE’S WHAT SHE SAID AFTER
MEETING JOHN FETTERMAN.
>> HE ALSO STILL HAS SOME
PROBLEMS, SOME CHALLENGES WITH
SPEECH.
I’LL SAY, KATIE, THAT JUST IN
SOME OF THE SMALL TALK PRIOR TO
THE INTERVIEW BEFORE THE CLOSED
CAPTIONING WAS UP AND RUNNING,
IT DID SEEM THAT HE HAD A HARD
TIME UNDERSTANDING OUR
CONVERSATIONS.
>> Tucker: OH, THAT’S NOT
ALLOWED.
SO HERE YOU HAVE A YOUNG
REPORTER, THAT CLEARLY DOESN’T
KNOW THE RULES.
NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SEE,
OR EXPERIENCE, OR REPORT, YOU
CAN’T REVEAL ANYTHING THAT MIGHT
HURT THE FORTUNES OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
IT MIGHT SLOW DOWN THE TEAM.
SO CLEARLY DASHA BURNS HADN’T
GOTTEN THAT MEMO.
FOR DARING TO SAY THAT, FOR
HONESTLY REPORTING WHAT SHE SAW,
LIBERALS TRIED TO DESTROY HER.
REBECCA TRACER OF "NEW YORK"
MAGAZINE SAID FETTERMAN IS NOT
AT ALL IMPAIRED.
HE UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING.
ANOTHER SAID SHE SPOKE TO
FETTERMAN, AND, QUOTE, HE
UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING I WAS
SAYING, AND HE WAS FUNNY.
PODCAST HOST KARA SWISHER --
THIS IS LIKE THE WORST PEOPLE ON
SOCIAL MEDIA -- WROTE THIS ON
TWITTER.
QUOTE, SORRY TO SAY, BUT I
TALKED TO JOHN FETTERMAN FOR
OVER AN HOUR WITHOUT STOP OR ANY
AIDES.
THIS IS JUST NONSENSE.
MAYBE THIS REPORTER IS BAD AT
SMALL TALK.
BLAME THE GIRL.
WILL YOU, KARA SWISHER, OF
COURSE.
THEN CHARLOTTE ALTCHER OF "TIME"
MAGAZINE, WHATEVER THAT IS, ALSO
INTERVIEWED FETTERMAN RECENTLY.
SHE DECIDED TO COVER FOR JOHN
FETTERMAN, BECAUSE SUPPORTING
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS OF
COURSE HER JOB.
IN THE HOURS BEFORE THE DEBATE,
SHE DID THE DIRECT BIDDING OF
THE FETTERMAN CAMPAIGN BY TRYING
TO LOWER EXPECTATIONS.
THAT WAS THEIR GOAL.
SHE WORKED ON THEIR BEHALF.
QUOTE, FETTERMAN HAS NEVER BEEN
A GOOD DEBATER, ADDING, QUOTE,
EVERYONE WILL BE WATCHING FOR
HIS STROKE SYMPTOMS.
I CAN TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
HE SOMETIMES SAYS SLIGHTLY THE
WRONG WORD OR CONJUGATES
SOMETHING THE WRONG WAY.
HA-HA-HA.
OKAY.
THEY’RE NOT EMBARRASSED.
THEY’RE CAUGHT WORKING FOR A
DEMOCRATIC SENATE CAMPAIGN AND
SHRUG IT OFF.
THEY NEVER SLOW DOWN.
ONCE FETTERMAN GOT ON STAGE AND
THERE WAS NO LYING ABOUT IT, HE
HUMILIATED HIMSELF.
THE USUAL CHORUS PIPED UP TO
SAY, YEAH, HE’S DEMENTED, BUT IT
DOESN’T MATTER THAT HE’S TOTALLY
INCAPABLE OF THINKING OR
SPEAKING.
WHY?
BECAUSE ABORTION.
ABORTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
ANYTHING.
BECAUSE IT’S NOT A CHILD
SACRIFICE CULT AT ALL.
NO, IT’S NOT.
DON’T WORRY.
IN A RESPONSE TO A POST STATING
THE OBVIOUS THAT FETTERMAN IS
TOTALLY IMPAIRED, A LAWYER AT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAID, HIS
ABILITY TO PROTECT A WOMAN’S
RIGHT TO CHOOSE IS NOT IN DOUBT.
THIS IS A HARMFUL TWEET.
DELETE IT.
HA-HA-HA!
DELETE IT!
ABORTIONS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO
NOTE THE OBVIOUS.
SENATE DEMOCRATS TWEETED
EFFECTIVELY THE MESSAGE AFTER
THE DEBATE.
QUOTE, MEHMET IS A THREAT TO
WOMEN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
THAT’S THEIR RESPONSE TO A GUY
WHO IS LITERALLY INCAPABLE OF
TALKING.
IT TELLS US THAT ABORTION IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING
ELSE.
ABORTION IS WHAT MATTERS TO THE
LEFT.
IF YOU DOUBT THAT, CONSIDER THE
CASE OF 89-YEAR-OLD DIANNE
FEINSTEIN, WHO SUPPOSEDLY
REPRESENTS THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST
STATE IN THE U.S. SENATE.
AT THIS POINT EVERYONE IN
WASHINGTON KNOWS DIANNE
FEINSTEIN ISN’T REPRESENTING
ANYONE.
SHE’S NO LONGER CAPABLE OF
RECOGNIZING OLD FRIENDS.
IN AN APRIL, THE "SAN FRANCISCO
CHRONICLE," TO ITS CREDIT, RAN A
STORY, IN WHICH FORMER STAFFERS,
NOT POLITICAL ENEMIES, BUT
REGISTERED DEMOCRATS WHO
VOLUNTARILY WORKED FOR DIANNE
FEINSTEIN IN WHICH THESE PEOPLE,
HER FRIENDS, DESCRIBED HER
MENTAL DECLINE, SAYING SHE WAS
TOO SENILE TO SERVE IN THE
SENATE.
SO IN RESPONSE TO THAT, NANCY
PELOSI DISMISSED THEIR FIRSTHAND
ACCOUNTS AS, QUOTE,
UNCONSCIONABLE AND RIDICULOUS.
NOT JUST WRONG, BUT IMMORAL.
IN OTHER WORDS, SHUT UP.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS ON OUR TEAM,
AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS.
TO EMPHASIZE THAT POINT,
YESTERDAY KAMALA HARRIS WENT ON
A TIRADE, NOT ABOUT INFLATION,
HOUSING PRICE OR FENTANYL DEATHS
OR THE BORDER, THE LOOMING
THREAT WITH RUSSIA, BUT WHAT
MATTERS MOST TO HER, WHICH IS
ABORTION.
WATCH THIS.
>> LAWS ARE BEING PROPOSED THAT
WOULD PUNISH WOMEN WHO DARE TO
EXERCISE SELF-DETERMINATION AND
MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY
KNOW TO BE IN THEIR BEST
SELF-INTEREST, BECAUSE
APPARENTLY THERE ARE SOME, I
CALL THEM EXTREMIST SO-CALLED
LEADERS, WHO HAVE DECIDED
THEY’RE IN A BETTER POSITION
THAN SHE IS TO MAKE DECISIONS
ABOUT WHAT’S IN HER BEST
INTEREST.
HOW DARE THEY.
I THINK THAT WE NEED TO TAKE
BACK THE FLAG ON THIS ISSUE.
THIS IS ABOUT FREEDOM AND
LIBERTY.
>> Tucker: OH, IT’S ABOUT
FREEDOM OF LIBERTY, SAYS THE
CHILDLESS MIDDLE-AGED LADY WHO
FORCED WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY
OUT OF THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THEY WOULDN’T TAKE THE VACCINE SHE
WOULDN’T TAKE THE VACCINE SHE
WAS PUSHING.
BARACK OBAMA, HIS ARGUMENT, OF
COURSE, ABORTION AGAIN.
WATCH.
>> IN PENNSYLVANIA, YOU’VE GOT
SOME IMPORTANT CHOICES TO MAKE
THIS YEAR, INCLUDING WHO
REPRESENTS YOU IN THE U.S.
SENATE.
THAT’S WHY I’M ASKING YOU TO
VOTE FOR JOHN FETTERMAN THIS
ELECTION, NEW NOVEMBER 8th.
SO WHEN THE FATE OF OUR
DEMOCRACY, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO
CHOOSE ARE ON THE LINE, I KNOW
JOHN WILL FIGHT FOR
PENNSYLVANIANS.
YOU CAN COUNT ON JOHN FETTERMAN.
MAKE SURE HE CAN COUNT ON YOU.
>> Tucker: IT ALL GOES BACK TO
THAT ONE ISSUE. IT ALWAYS DOES.
IT ALWAYS DOES.
WHY IS THAT?
FETTERMAN’S CANDIDACY, LIKE JOE
BIDEN’S CANDIDACY TWO YEARS AGO,
TELLS US SOMETHING DARK ABOUT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THE WHAT IT TELLS US THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS SUCH
CONTEMPT FOR VOTERS AND FOR
DEMOCRACY ITSELF AND SO MUCH
CONFIDENCE IN ITS OWNERSHIP OF
THE MEDIA AND OF BIG TECH THAT
IT NO LONGER HAS TO TRY TO WIN
YOUR VOTES.
DEMOCRATS CAN RUN RAPHAEL
WARNOCK, AN AGGRESSIVELY FAKE
CHRISTIAN PASTOR, WHOSE WIFE
DETAILED ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST HIM ON CAMERA, AND
THAT’S OKAY.
STILL GOOD ENOUGH FOR A SENATE
SEAT IN GEORGIA, BECAUSE THE
MACHINE KEEPS WORKING.
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE PERSON.
IT’S ABOUT THE PARTY.
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL.
IT’S ABOUT THE GROUP.
AND TO PROVE IT, THEY CAN EVEN
RUN MENTALLY DEFECTIVE
CANDIDATES WHO CAN BARELY SPEAK.
NOT ONLY EXPECT THEM TO WIN, BUT
EXPECT YOU TO ACCEPT THE OUTCOME
NO MATTER HOW TRANSPARENTLY
ABSURD IT IS.
ON NOVEMBER 9th, THEY WILL BE
TELLING YOU THAT JOHN FETTERMAN