SEE YOU TOMORROW. ♪ ♪ >> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT." ANY DAY JOE BIDEN WILL ANNOUNCE HIS PICK FOR THE ACTUAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, THE PERSON WHO WILL RUN THE GOVERNMENT IF BIDEN WINS IN NOVEMBER. WE’VE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT THIS PROCESS FOR WEEKS. WE HAVE TAKEN A CLOSER LOOK AT THREE POTENTIAL CANDIDATES, ALL ARE SAID TO BE ON JOE BIDEN SHORT-LIST. STACEY ABRAMS, KAREN BASS, KAMALA HARRIS. IN A NORMAL YEAR, NO MAINSTREAM CANDIDATE WOULD CONSIDER ANY OF THESE PEOPLE. ALL OF THEM WOULD BE DISQUALIFIED WITHOUT DEBATE. KAREN BASS IS A LUNATIC FIDEL CASTRO ACOLYTE WHO PRAISED SCIENTOLOGY AND ONCE BELONGED TO AN ARMED REVOLUTIONARY GROUP. SHE IS OUT. STACEY ABRAMS IS SO DELUSIONAL, SHE THINKS SHE’S THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGE AND BY THE WAY SHE’S ESSENTIALLY UNEMPLOYED. ONE OF HER LAST REGULAR JOBS, SHE WROTE BAD PORN NOVELS. KAMALA HARRIS IS SO APPARENTLY TRANSACTIONAL THAT EVEN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS FOUND HER REPULSIVE. PRETTY MUCH NO ONE WHO KNOWS KAMALA HARRIS LIKES HER. OVERALL, IT’S NOT A BLUE RIBBON GROUP BUT ACCORDING TO JOE BIDEN, THIS ISN’T A NORMAL YEAR IN THE NORMAL STANDARDS DON’T APPLY. FOR WHAT COULD VERY WELL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB ON EARTH, BIDEN HAS DECIDED TO HIRE EXCLUSIVELY ON THE BASIS OF QUALITIES THAT ARE BOTH IMMUTABLE AND COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. RACE AND GENDER. THAT’S IT. BUT WAIT A SECOND, YOU ASK, ISN’T THAT INSULTING? ISN’T IT WRONG? ISN’T IT PROBABLY ILLEGAL? YES, IT IS ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS BUT NO ONE IS PUSHING BACK AGAINST IT SO BIDEN IS DOING IT. THE PROBLEM IS THAT ALL THREE OF THE PEOPLE WE JUST TOLD YOU ABOUT MIGHT WIND UP IN THE END HURTING THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. THEY ARE JUST TOO UNIMPRESSIVE TO RUN. BIDEN’S HANDLERS SEEM TO HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT. ABOVE ALL, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS TO WIN THIS YEAR. THEY ARE NOT IN IT FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS OR FOR LOVE OF JOE BIDEN. THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE POWER AND THEY WANTED BADLY. SO TODAY THE ODDS SEEMED TO SHIFT DRAMATICALLY IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, AWAY FROM KAREN BASS AND KAMALA HARRIS AND STACEY ABRAMS AND TOWARDS SOMEONE YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE. IT WOULD BE FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SUSAN RICE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, SUSAN RICE APPEARS TO BE IN THE LEAD FOR THE VP SLOT. THAT’S AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT SUSAN RICE, AND WE ARE ABOUT TO, BUT SHE’S NOT A BUFFOON. SUSAN RICE IS SMART. SHE IS HARD I’D COME EXPERIENCED. SUSAN RICE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT
SHE WANTS AND SHE UNDERSTANDS THE WANTS AND SHE UNDERSTANDS THE SYSTEM WELL ENOUGH TO GET IT. SHE’S A THREAT. WHAT EXACTLY DOES SHE BELIEVE? SUSAN RICE BELIEVES WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IN PERMANENT WASHINGTON BELIEVES. BECAUSE ABOVE ALL, RICE IS A PRODUCT OF D.C. SHE GREW UP THERE. TO OUR POLITICAL CLASS, RICE IS THE OPPOSITE OF AN OUTSIDER. SHE IS THE HOME TEAM. LIKE ALMOST EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON, SHE IS ABOVE ALL A FERVENT NEOCON. AS A MEMBER OF OBAMA’S CABINET SHE PUSHED THE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE KILLING OF MUAMMAR QADDAFI IN LIBYA. SHE HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED. FOR IT SHE SHOULD. CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, SHE SUPPORTED THE BOMBING OF A PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING REALLY RICE LED THE CHORUS OF LIARS WHO CLAIMED DONALD TRUMP WAS SECRETLY A RUSSIAN AGENT. >> HE HAS TAKEN A SERIES OF STEPS THAT HAVE VLADIMIR PUTIN DICTATED THEM HE COULDN’T HAVE MERITED MORE EFFECTIVELY. WHAT HIS MOTIVATIONS ARE I THINK OUR LEGITIMATE QUESTION, ONE THAT I TRUST THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IS INVESTIGATING. THE POLICIES OF THIS PRESIDENT HAVE SERVED VLADIMIR PUTIN’S INTEREST IN DIVIDING THE WEST, UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY. >> DO YOU THINK IT’S AN OPEN QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT HE’S COMPROMISED BY RUSSIA? >> I DON’T KNOW WHAT HIS MOTIVATIONS ARE. I THINK IT IS A LEGITIMATE QUESTION. >> Tucker: HA. TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THIS IS NOT SOMEONE WHO’S JUST JUST THROWING WORDS OUT. THIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED THE NUANCES OF FOREIGN POLICY. IN OTHER WORDS, SUSAN RICE KNEW PERFECTLY WELL WHEN SHE SAY WHAT YOU JUST HEARD THAT IT WAS FALSE. SHE KNEW THAT MUCH OF THIS ADMINISTRATION’S ACTUAL AGENDA FROM ARMING UKRAINE TO EXPANDING DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION HERE IN THE U.S. HURTS RUSSIAN INTERESTS BADLY. AND YET RICE DIDN’T ACKNOWLEDGE IT. INSTEAD SHE SMEARED THE PRESIDENT IS A KREMLIN POND. WHAT RICE OBJECTED TO WORK TRUMPS FOREIGN POLICY VIEWS. VIEWS WHICH NOT INCIDENTALLY THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SAY THEY SUPPORT. IT TURNS OUT THAT ONLY PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON LIKE SUSAN RICE WANT MORE POINTLESS WARS AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PROFIT FROM THEM. MOST NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T WANT MORE POINTLESS WARS BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONES WHO FIGHT THEM BUT RICE DOESN’T CARE EITHER WAY. WATCH HER REACTION TO THE ADMINISTRATION’S PLAN TO REMOVE TROOPS FROM SYRIA. >> I WOKE UP THIS MORNING TO HEAR THAT NEWS AND AS I DO, IT SEEMS LIKE SIX DAYS A WEEK I JUST PUT MY HEAD IN MY HANDS. THIS IS [BLEEP] CRAZY. >> Tucker: OH, YEAH. IT’S CRAZY. ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY TO BRING TROOPS HOME FROM A COUNTRY WE HAVE NO STRATEGIC INTEREST IN. FOR THERE TO FULFILL A MISSION WE CAN’T ARTICULATE. THAT’S CRAZY. BUT THAT’S THE CONSENSUS IN WASHINGTON. WHEN THE U.S. CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI WAS DESTROYED IN 2012, RICE HERSELF SAID SOMETHING THAT WAS ACTUALLY CRAZY. SHE BLAMED THAT ATTACK ON ON AN ONLINE VIDEO. ONCE AGAIN, RICE KNEW WHEN SHE SAID IT IT WASN’T TRUE BUT SHE SAID IT ANYWAY. >> WHAT SPARKED THE RECENT VIOLENCE WAS THE ERRING ON THE INTERNET OF A VERY HATEFUL, VERY OFFENSIVE VIDEO. IT BEGAN SPONTANEOUSLY IN BENGHAZI AS A REACTION TO WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED HOURS EARLIER IN CAIRO WHERE OF COURSE AS YOU KNOW THERE WAS A VIOLENT PROTEST OUTSIDE OF OUR EMBASSY SPARKED BY THIS HATEFUL VIDEO. WHAT HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI WAS IN FACT INITIALLY A SPONTANEOUS REACTION TO WHAT HAD JUST TRANSPIRED HOURS BEFORE IN CAIRO. WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK IN CAIRO, IN BENGHAZI, AND IN MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE REGION. >> TUNISIA, KHARTOUM. >> A DIRECT RESULT OF A HEINOUS AND OFFENSIVE VIDEO. >> Tucker: IT WAS HEINOUS. IT WAS OFFENSIVE. IT WAS HATEFUL. THIS VIDEO WHICH DARED CRITICIZE RADICAL ISLAM. PEOPLE SAW IT AND THEY WERE SO OFFENDED THEY’D JUSTIFIABLY ROSE UP AND STARTED SHOOTING AMERICANS. THAT WAS THE IMPLICATION OF WHAT SHE SAID. BUT RICE KNEW THAT WAS A LIE WHEN SHE SAID IT. SHE KNEW THE ATTACK IN BENGHAZI WAS NOT SPONTANEOUS. IT WASN’T BASED IN OUTRAGE, AND IT WAS NOT STATED IN RESPONSE TO THAT OR ANY OTHER VIDEO. SHE KNEW THAT BECAUSE HER OWN INTELLIGENCE REPORTS MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR. BUT IT WAS AN ELECTION YEAR. AND RICE SAID WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. BY THE WAY, THE MAN WHO ACTUALLY MADE THE VIDEO, THE HEINOUS OFFENSE OF HATEFUL VIDEO, WAS A COPTIC CHRISTIAN. HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER RICE’S APPEARANCES ON TELEVISION. HE WAS JAILED WITHOUT BAIL. IT WAS A PURELY POLITICAL PROSECUTION OF THE KIND THE REST OF US REASSURE OURSELVES DOESN’T HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY BUT UNFORTUNATELY SOMETIMES DOES. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT MAN? NO ONE CHECKED. WE DID TODAY. FOUR YEARS LATER HE WAS LIVING IN A HOMELESS SHELTER. HIS LIFE WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. SUSAN RICE HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED TO HIM. DOESN’T APPEAR DEEP EVEN LOOKED BACK. THAT IS A MORAL CRIME. HAS RICE COMMITTED LEGAL CRIMES? U.S. ATTORNEY JOHN DURHAM IS LOOKING INTO IT AND WE WILL BRING YOU THE RESULTS OF THAT INVESTIGATION WHEN THEY FINALLY APPEAR. WE ARE STILL WAITING. WE DO KNOW, THOUGH, THAT RICE MONITORED CONVERSATIONS THAT TRUMP ADVISORS WERE HAVING WITH FOREIGN OFFICIALS AND THEN REQUESTED THE UNMASKING OF THOSE ADVISORS. RICE WAS ASKED ABOUT THIS IN A TELEVISION INTERVIEW AND HERE’S HOW SHE RESPONDED. >> DURING THE TRANSITION, AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD BEEN ELECTED, HE AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM MAY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UP IN SURVEILLANCE OF FOREIGN INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR IDENTITIES MAY HAVE BEEN DISCLOSED. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS? >> I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS. I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE REPORTS FROM CHAIRMAN NUNES ON THAT COUNT TODAY. >> Tucker: HERE IS JUST A PRO TIP IN CASE YOU’RE WATCHING THIS INTERVIEW AT HOME. WHEN A POLITICAL FIGURE LAUGHS IN A WAY THAT SUGGESTS NOT REAL MIRTH BUT NERVOUSNESS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ANSWER, THAT’S A TOWEL. HE MEANS THEY’RE LYING. AND IN FACT SHE WAS LYING. WE KNOW THAT FOR CERTAIN. THE OTHER THING WE KNOW IS SUSAN RICE WITH SAY WHATEVER SHE THINGS IT TAKES WAS NOT
