Responding to their own cheerleaders on cable news. If precedent means anything in the trump era, donald trump will be, must be impeached. But if they dont impeach, democrats will advocate a clear constitutional chance to hold this president fully accountable. The National Nightmare is upon us. The basic rules of our democracy are under attack from the president. We begin tonight with a series of admissions by the president that all but assures his impeachment in the house of representatives. I dont understand why the facts that impeachment is polarizing makes them just as cowardly as the republicans. Absolutely. To my mind, it also is an abby occasion of their constitutional responsibility. Will there be any consequences for this president who is continuing to defy the rule of law. Tucker the rule of law. Hear that mr. And mrs. America. Its a national emergency. If they dont impeach, democrats, listen carefully, democrats, will ant voyeur be. Thats the hair hats on tv men who ware makeup and yelling at their assistants were telling Democratic Leaders night after night after night. Remarkably, and it is remarkable looking back democrats believed them. So what happened next . Lets see, have you read the new vanity fair . Im sorry rhetorical question. Nobody reads vanity fair anymore. It likely wont exist by this time next year. Before the title disappears forever, check out this months issue. There is a fascinating piece by ken stern that assesses new polling on impeachment. Heres the headline. Among independents, the only group that matters in an election support for impeachment, impeaching trump has dropped by 10 points since the process started. How to explain this. In political terms, this is the andrea dorea a routine cruise that suddenly becomes a disaster, a debacle. They spent two weeks telling that you donald trump was a criminal. And by the end, nor people sympathized with donald trump. How did that happen . Take a close look at the numbers. And its obvious how it happened. Independent voters were asked to rank 11 issues in order of their importance. First on the list was fiscal health. 74 of independent voters said that the budget deficit was their main concern. 72 percent said healthcare was the main concern. 70 percent said infrastructure. Pretty conventional. Impeachment, that came in dead last. 11 out of 11. Only 37 of independents thought it was a priority at all. By a margin of 3 to 1, and this is hilarious, independents said that impeachment was more important to politicians and the media than it was to them. These are not subtle numbers. How did democrats miss them . Well, because they only talk to each other. This is what happens when you let jeff zucker run your political party. You start to imagine that cnns prime timelineup somehow speaks for america rather than for a tiny outoftouch little part of it. Zucker tells you that impeachment is the only matter that matters. His munich agree with them. Come fall you lose the election. Fall nonpoliticians who seem to see things the most clearly. Here is andrew yang after last weeks president ial debate. But, when i talk to voters around the country, i have to say i get very, very few questions about impeachment. I know that there are people who are very intent on the impeachment proceedings day to day. But that doesnt line up with what im hearing from voters here on the ground. So would democrats, you believe, be better off simply wrapping up this impeachment process sooner rather than later . I do think that the more time that goes on the less time the democrats have to present a positive vision for the country that will get people excited and help us win in 2020. Tucker out in santa monica the pilates mom saying andrew yang, did he impeachment . Is he a racist . Is he telling us that voters want politicians to care more about their lives than they want politicians to extract symbolic televised revenge on their political enemies . [laughter] if you watch msnbc its hard to believe that could be true. Thats what the yang guy is claiming. In the wake of those poll numbers we just read, other democrats appear to be considering the same thing. Even adam schiff may be coming around. Watch this. Do you think President Trump should be impeached . I want to discuss this with my constituents and my colleagues before i make a final judgment on it. And. And youve also said that what you have seen is, quote, far more serious than what nixon did. Explain to me how you have not come to the conclusion that the president should be impeached. It sounds like you think he should be impeached. I certainly think that the evidence thats been produced overwhelmingly shows serious misconduct by the president. But i do want to hear more from my constituents and i want to hear more from my colleagues. This is not a decision i will be imagine alone. Tucker he is not going to make the decision alone. Just so you got the decision clear. The man in charge of impeachment in the house, the member you just watched for two full weeks shepherding the impeachment hearings. The guy who cried on Television Just thinking how much donald trump need to be impeached right now, that guy isnt really sure is he for impeachment. You know, he needs to talk to his colleagues. He needs to hear more from his constituents. Its a lot to think about. He is going to prayerfully consider it over the holiday weekend, just alone, just in some reflection. Thats adam schiffs position now. In other words, its over. Democrats lost. Michael anton is a lecturer at Hillsdale College and National Security official in the trump administration. Author of a great new piece empire strike back 15 people texting me and for good reason. Mr. Anton, thank you for coming on tonight, adam schiff not sure he is for impeachment. He doesnt want to get over his skis here. What does it tell us . It tells us as you said the hearings were a disaster. They needed to move the numbers up in favor of impeachment. They moved the numbers down. They are getting cold feet. I still think they have a big problem as you pointed out. The pilates moms, their base core supporters absolutely expect this. Tucker angry witch ladies. If schiff and pelosi dont deliver it, they will be accused of a betrayal. The base is going to rebel. It could cost them the house. On the other hand, if they go through with it, and the public is enforced to endure who knows how many more weeks or months of this and they really get from us straited and have Congress Wasting the american peoples time when there are so many pressing priorities they could lose seats in the house and loads the house over that. They dont have any great options now. Somebody who thought this was a joke, mainly me, im kind of laughing like you are right now. Tucker i know, it tells you a number of things, one of them that nancy pelosi isnt speaker by accident. I dont think she is a genius. But politically she has got some insight after 70 years of doing it. This is a trap. How do they as you point out, how do they get out of it. People overpromised to her. Thats my guess. Schiff went to her and said we have something totally solid now. We have caught him redhanded and she trusted him. That was obviously a mistake especially when you look back on the last three years of people saying we have him now, he did this, he did this, he did this. Knob of them ever pan out. I dont know how they get out of it. I think my own guess is that they have to take the vote and go ahead and impeach him. And then we will see how a senate trial goes. I think it would be a waste of time. I have think it would be better for the american people, better for the country, better for all the things we need to get done for them to drop it, let it go. You know, pass this new trade deal between canada and mexico and the u. S. Thats on the desk. Lets get after the border wall. Lets do something about mexican cartels crossing our border and killing our people. Lets do something about the opioid crisis, infrastructure, lets do something about all of these things. If they feel that they have to go through with it and they cant stand down, well, in that case, lets have a senate trial and really embarrassed the people who pushed this and show the world for once and for all how flimsy it was from the beginning. Tucker that really is it. You are absolutely right to point out this is all being done at the expense of the country ands many real problems. Not fake problems but actual ones. Yes. Tucker if it is going to happen, you are sincerely convinced, not just saying this, that it would help the administration. I dont know that it would help the administration in every leadership respect. If i were the president , i wouldnt want to be impeached, especially over something trivial and stupid and nothing. Its an insult to the president himself. Its unfair. Its unjust. It wastes time. It ties up his administration. It takes away resources and man hours that they should be utilizing to do things they were elected to do. I wouldnt want it to happen if i were the president. I dont see how it helps the democrats to put the country through a saga that the country is already tired of, laughing at or doesnt understand and really as andrew yang pointed out very concerned about other things. So, i dont know that anybody comes out a winner. Tucker i think thats right. Michael anton, great to see you tonight. Congrats on the piece. Richard goodstein an attorney and former advisor to the left. Guy who got imbeached bill clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton. What guy couldnt pull his numbers up 10 points in two weeks. Thats amazing. Why dont they keep at it and trump will be elected with 70 percent of the vote. Right. I would say ask andy bevin or matt bevin, excuse me or his pony irispone how emphasiziw unjust impeachment was how that worked for them. Look at matt bevin on election day he pointed to how horrible impeachment was and how it was going to bring people to the polls and then of course we saw what happened. Tucker i gte the rhetorical point you are making, if you look a little bit into either one of those races, kind of hard to conclude that they are a sign of a coming democratic wave. Maybe you really think that maybe you actually think impeachment is helping democrats. Do you really think that . What i think is that the polls. You point a vanity fair piece that is a monthly. Im looking at the polls that have come out since the hearings were over. Tucker this is one of them and by the way i should be fair. This piece ran on the website and referring to a political point. Rasmussen has donald trump under 11 points. Rasmussen. Which donald trump points to. 4445. 70 poll last week said what donald trump did with ukraine was wrong. The difference between clinton and trump in 98 democrats basically said what bill clinton was not right. It was bad. But it wasnt impeachable. Republicans cant bring themselves to say what donald trump did by putting the arm on a leader to investigate his political enemy was even wrong. 70 disagree. Tucker do you think its a little weird that here you have joe bidens neer do well son using his fathers position to make a Million Dollars a year that business he knows nothing about. Trump is being impeached for asking about it. Do you think thats a little bit weird . Is it your classic case of sort of missing the thread in washington . There is open corruption and the guy who points it out is punished. [laughter] good thing about having these transcripts out is he didnt mention the word corruption once. And he didnt want an investigation. Tucker thats what im calling it . He wanted a simple announcement. This is what a reality tv star does. He doesnt care about the substance. He wanted something announced not actually done. Tucker since we are very deep people. We are. Tucker we do care about the substance of it. And the substance of it is that trump, for all of his sins and i will concede some of them, has never taken close to a Million Dollars a year from Ukrainian Energy company to do nothing because his dad is the Vice President. So, hunter biden did. I actually like hunter biden but thats totally corrupt and you know it. Why is it worse to ask about it than do it . Because people are dying on the front lines. Tucker why do i care what is going on in the conflict between ukraine and russia . Im serious. Why shouldnt i root for russia which i am. Those of us watching myself, preserving democracy is important. When dick cheney said what the russians did was an attack. Tucker i dont care. More like annual attack on the u. S. I think if donald trump gets off the hook on, this is he going to put the arm on the chinese and everybody else. Tucker hold on a second, we should put a strong arm on the chinese colonizing the world and beating us economically. Soon militarily if we dont watch out. Why should i root for ukraine against russia. Im sincerely confused. Latvia against moldova. Why should i care at all. Russia is trying to undo our democracy. Ukraine is not. They actually want our democracy to succeed and theirs to succeed. Tucker are you kidding . So you really last sentence. You really believe that russia. Yeah. Tucker is a greater threat to the United States than china . Just say it. Just say it . I think russia and china are threats in different ways. Tucker umhuh. Because i noticed our industry just went to china today and sucking up to xi. What can we do mr. Chairman. And thats totally cool. If i dont root for urk in some esoteric border war with russia. Front line stopping russia. Tucker who cares . People of western europe, nato cares. You may not. Tucker i dont live in western europe i live in d. C. And i dont care. Democracy hinges. Tucker it does not it. Hinges on elections which we are having in a year and you are trying to short circuit with a dumb impeachment. Make sure its profoundly unfair. You think its a joke. Most people do. Tucker nice try. David karesh, donald trump, according to cnn they all v. Something in common. They are all cult leaders. You have think we are making that up, no. That was an actual segment that jeff zuckers marinette ran over the weekend. Watch if you dare. The word cult has been popping up more and more. None of them are Mental Health experts. Steven hasan is. He has escaping the Unification Church in the 1970s. He believe there is something seriously long with our politics. You say the president is using mind control. How is that provable. We can start with the pathological lying, which is characteristic of destructive cult leaders. Shunning and kicking out anyone who raises questions or concerns about his own behavior. It is frightening to hear a cult expert saying you see all these signs right now today in american politics. Tucker its very fright thingening to watch a cult expert. [laughter] dont object to that guy. Just enjoy it. Its really actually more amusing than you think it is. If you want to see actual brainwashing, you could turn on cnn whose hosts spend each day hip not particularly repeating the same chosen phrases. Here is one among many examples. Underway right now america in the middle of a constitutional crisis. Its a constitutional crisis. Are we in a constitutional crisis . We are in a constitutional crisis. The u. S. Is facing a constitutional crisis. Why are nearing that kind of constitutional crisis at this point. This is probably a constitutional crisis. Putting the nation on the brink of a constitutional crisis. On the cusp of a constitutional crisis because there is not enough push back . I think they are happy to have this constitutional crisis. Tucker what is it . All with us now, its a constitutional crisis. Scott adams created dilbert the author of the book loser think he joins us night to assess this constitutional crisis. Scott thanks for coming on. I will throw this up to you and let you hit. The claim is this is a cult engaged in brainwashing. Not what you just saw on the media but the administration. Is it . Well, i didnt believe it but i was worried enough to shay my head. To shave my head. Get ahead of this whole cult business. As i understand it, one of the requirements for a cult is you have a strong leader who has all kinds of power. We have got a leader who cant get legislation passed that both sides agree on. We have got a leader who almost got fired because he made a phone call and he worded it wrong. Thats exactly the opposite of whatever like a dominant leader with all kinds of control is. Another requirement is that you are in your own little bubble. Tucker yeah. Its pretty clear that people are pretty much everybody is in their own little bubble, which is what loserthink is all about. I dont think its one side. But it does seem at least the evidence is that the conservatives at least sample the news on the other side. So at least they have a sense of what the other side is saying. But, when i talk to people on the left, they dont have a sense of what the other argue. Is. Argument is. Thats a real problem. Tucker that is a hallmark, i think we didnt even need a cult expert on to explain it. That is a hallmark of a religious movement where the other side isnt even allowed. Yeah. And i think that came about because of one technological change. The moment the news and social media could measure with precision who was clicking on what, it really led us toward the more dramatic, provocative hair on fire kinds of stories. So the same kinds of stories that before we well, you have got that opinion. I have got this one. Neither of us care too much. Suddenly we care about all kinds of stuff and most of it isnt even real. I mean, i have been spending the last two years caring about things that eventually get debunked like the impeachment thing is going to fizzle out any day now. So im kind of exhausted from caring but not much of it is real. Tucker i wonder will there come a point . It does seem like this is, yet, another example of the left accusing the other side of doing what they are doing. So you are suggesting is that actually theres a pretty vibrant cult flourishing on the left right now. Yeah. I think everybody is in their own little bubble. I think that the group that is out of power has it the worst. Because if you are a trump supporter, you can look at things he has done and say hey, here is some things he has done. But if you are antitrump, you kind of have to make stuff up. And thats what we have seen for a few years. Like well, we think he is worshiping satan. We dont have the evidence yet, yet because they like to tell you its on the way any moment now we are going to have that. Tucker let me just say, this scott. If true, if true, satan worship will be a bombshell, indeed possibly a constitutional crisis. Thats what im thinking. The great scott adams. Great to have you on tonight. Thank you. Tucker greg gutfeld says high. One of your biggest fans. Michelle obama has told us recently she has no interest in running for president. In washington thats a sign that maybe she d