shannon: we are out of time for tonight, but most grateful you spent the evening with us. we will see you tomorrow night. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight . roger stone was arrested on friday and chargedrg with seven felonies.ch none of the charges had anything to do with russian collusion or election meddling. but you never know that from the penalties he faces. if convicted, stone could die in prison. nobody in washington seems to find that punishment excessive. many have cheered it.n officially stone was charged with lying, something most of our political elite engage in day. his real crime was flamboyance. stone has spent the last 40 years giving the finger to the people in charge. in the end, they got him.as they always do.
today, brand-new the story podcast with congressman steve scalise. i hope you will listen and subscribe. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson is coming up nex next. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. longtime trump advisor roger stone was arrested on friday by federal agents and charged with seven felonies. none of the charges had anything to do with russian collusion or election meddling, but you d never know that from the penalties he faces. if convicted, stone could die in prison. nobody in washington seems to find that punishment excessive. many have cheered it. officially stone was charged with lying, some of most of our political elite engage in every day. his real crime was flamboyance. stone has spent the last 40 years giving the finger to the
flamboyance and his kind of stream of consciousness, and trade imbalances, the need for prison reform, there is a lot of truth in what connie was saying. he was the darling of the liberal left in 2005 when he said george w. bush didn t care about black people because of the way he handled hurricane katrina. now, the left hates him because he is embracing the president and a saying to black people, take a look at this guy substantively rather than automatically being always on the side of the democrats. martha: i agree with you 100%. i think when you peel it away, something that specifically touched on policy and that montage, for one thing he s raising questions about why it s assumed that black americans will always be democrats. he brings up this notion of welfare as he sees it, and in some ways it s kind of a box to keep people in.
and frank about a lot of people including the president of the united states. great to see you. thank you. neil: at the end of the book, you say of the president, never since nixon has a president had a worse relationship with the press. you go on to say, not the slickest ad libber. everything he says is construed in the most evil way possible. i insist that potus 45 is not wicked. that s news to a lot of the mainstream media. he s not. it s so frustrating to me that, you know, base of his flamboyance and his tweeting and some of the other spontaneous and none traditional aspects of his personality, he really is loathed by more than half of the country. neil: what is happening with the nastiness that came with it? in part, it s a reaction in response to the negativity that
was a golden thing he wasn t going to give up for nothing. the disgraced governor insists he never received a bribe or a kickback. he has been the federal prison system since 2012 and has fired a series of appeals which of all been denied, turned down once again today in the highest court. before blagojevich was apl miken prison, he was known for his flamboyance and fall from grace. tucker? tucker: matt finn, thanks a lot for that. writing is now is patricia blagojevich, the wife of the former governor. ms. blagojevich, thanks a lot for coming on. thank you so much for having. tucker: i was never a supporter of your husbands, but i have to say i thought he got an awful long time in prison. i don t know the details but i would be interesting in knowing if you can speak to the president, what would you say? what would be our pitch for pardoning your husband? we were so disappointed that the supreme court did not decide