party, and in many ways, the dnc has been enabling it, this democratic primary. tucker: so i the last point you are making, and i m not a democrat, so i m from the outside looking in. but it seems to be right, just everything i m reading and hearing. why would they do that? because clearly most voters are closer to where you are than to where some of these other candidates are, so what would be the point? you know, you never know who is really making the decisions behind the scenes. i mean, they are requiring a certain number of small dollar donations to qualify for the debates. yet, we all know that the people who tend to make small dollar donations online tend to live in new york and california, and tend to represent the more extreme parts of the party. i mean, half the american people can t afford their basic necessities. i m running to help those people. they are not making a lot of donations to democratic candidates online. tucker: exactly. i think we have our priorities
do and shouldn t fight for. [cheers and applause] tucker: that party is getting more radical by the day. so where that does leave someone like john delaney? well, we recently talked to him about that, and here s what he said. so, the question is, has the democratic party changed irreversibly? are we going through a moment, you know, a frenzy that will subside and the party will get back to making economic arguments? i mean, put some perspective on this, if you would. i think we are going through a moment, and i do think the party will get back to the party of my dad s kind of democratic party. my dad was a union construction worker. and he used to say if you care about workers, you vote for the democrats. and that s the democratic party that i grew up in, and i think we ll get back there. that s where i get the sense most democrats are, but the loudest voices in the room are getting a lot of coverage right now, and the activists have had a very strong kind of voice in the
it s a appalling and talk about trampling or democratic norms and institutions. this is much worse than anything that trump has done. tucker: or that russia did. they don t believe in democracy. they are not hiding it anymore. that s fine. let s get rid of this then. this weird, half baked democracy is not fine and causes volatility. thanks for coming on tonight. yep. tucker: ian samuel is a former supreme court clerk. ian, thanks for coming on. i m not a security nut, but does occur to me the debates we are watching over impeachment because of ukraine, or a lot of our racial debates, all seem like side shows designed to prevent us from ever debating economic issues. like, what is the role of is private equity good for america, exactly? why are they paying half the taxes i m paying? things like real questions that actually matter? have you noticed this, or have i gone crazy? well, i don t know if you are crazy. although, i think that
not from this congress. look, the democrats decided that trump needed to be impeached the day after the election in 2016. and ever since then, they have been grasping at straws. first it was, oh, he fired comey, and then it was this russia collusion hoax. and now, we get this story about the ukrainian phone call. the american people aren t going to buy it. they have every reason to be suspicious of this democratic congress. tucker: yeah. i mean, it seems like in real life, you can t do impeachment except as a bipartisan matter. obamacare, maybe, is their model, can you squeak it through on one vote. but impeachment is bigger than any piece of legislation. it s undoing an election. do they really think they can do this party line in the house? yeah. absolutely. the last two impeachments we had, bill clinton and richard nixon, were both bipartisan affairs. in fact, the vote to just authorize impeachment inquiries got support from the opposing party. nancy pelosi won t even call for t
$50,000 a month no so job nothing to see here. move along. hunter biden receiving $50,000 a month from a ukrainian energy company, do you think that that is evidence of corrupt behavior? no. people sit on boards and they get monetary payments and what the evidence actually shows is that the ukrainians looked into this, terminated the investigation. found nothing there. tucker: uh-huh, yeah. that s not corrupt at all. but asking about it is an impeachable offense. is that really the story they can sell the public for the next year? john daniel davidson is political editor at the federalist, which, if you don t read, you ought to, and he joins us tonight. john, simple question. is that, distilled down to its essence, a message that they can ride to victory in impeachment or in the election? absolutely not. this is a half-baked story that the american people are not going to buy, especially