Nowhere, essentially. Hes suddenly leading the race in the critical super tuesday state of florida. What is Mike Bloomberg running on . Thats a trick question, actually. Bloomberg isnt running on anything. Not because he has ideas, he has plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream. But bloomberg does not think anything matters but hes not running on ideas. Not trying to convince voters of anything. Hes not making arguments or working to change their minds on policies that they care about. Hes trying to buy them and the presidency. Its the single most cynical Political Campaign run in this country and bloomberg is trying to subvert our democracy with cash and is going all in the do it. According to latest numbers, bloomberg and spent more than four to 17 million in advertising so far in this race. His nearest rival has been 40 million, thats less than a tenth. Joe biden, the man who they told us it is a front runner spent 3. 3 million. Say that again to the at least the 417 million lubricants pumped into the race just on advertising. Thats just the beginning. The number could go higher. Nothing like this has ever happened in america. Bloombergs spending is, and pick your metaphor here, us and ill be breaking over our political system. When the waters receded, theres nothing left. Its been flattened and wiped clean by the wake of Mike Bloombergs wealth. The tallest figure in the landscape, only one left upright. Thats his plan for all but admitted that his plan. Watching your disavowal stop and frisk, the single most successful policy he had as mayor of new york. I defended it looking at it too long because i didnt understand the unintended pain it was causing two young black and brown families and their kids. I heard their pain, confusion, and anger, ive learned from them and ive grown from that. Tucker think about what you just saw. Its not the normal pandering. Mike bloomberg believes passionately in gun control, its a signature issue. Stop and frisk may have been the most effective guncontrol policy ever administered anywhere. It took thousands of illegal firearms off the streets of new york. New York Democratic voters decided they dont like it, they dont like stop and frisk it without pausing, bloomberg gravels and the taxes on legacy. Why did he do that . Because he doesnt care. He will do whatever it takes. They say politicians are ethically flexible and, of course, they are pure this is different to read something ominous about it. Bloomberg can change his core beliefs because he doesnt think his beliefs are relevant to the outcome of this race. Only his wealth matters. The horrifying fact is he may be right. How wealthy is Michael Bloomberg . The richness of the russian oligarchs, ladled mickelson, is worth about 24 billion. Michael bloomberg could literally give away twice amount, or spend it on a president ial race and could still be five times as rich as donald trumps. Its still hard to imagine how much money that is. Bloomberg can seize power. A ruling class which worships money above all sees nothing wrong with it, they are equal to eager to help bloomberg with it. They are libertarian on economic matters, something that shared with only a tiny fraction of the population. No normal person things the widening wealth gap is a good thing. Its obviously making america unstable. But Mike Bloomberg has been one of its chief beneficiaries. He will defend the Current System above all else. There is a reason he is a favorite of finance moguls and tech commissars. Again, this is a total departure from anything we have seen before in the history of this country. Say what you will about donald trump, but in 2016 he ran for 2016 on ideas that large numbers of voters actually liked whether or not they liked him. Secure the border and counterproductive wars fight the fascism of political correctness. In selling those ideas, he spent about half of what Hillary Clintons bad. But bloomberg cannot be bothered with selling ideas or having a platform. Doesnt care what the this is the nightmare scenario that Campaign Finance reform activists to tell us about. They were right about one thing. Our system has been vulnerable to people like Michael Bloomberg for a long time. Hes the first one is actually try to do it. You should be alarmed by his campaign for president. Democracy doesnt break when voters choose unwisely. They sometimes do. Democracy collapses when what voters want becomes irrelevant. Jason nichols is a professor of akron americas studies at University Maryland africanamerican studies at university of maryland for this remind you of the expected rise in blue brings polarity among africanamerican voters. You did not things would happen. Why is this happening . Its the ubiquitous of his ads, they are everywhere. How well hes done in the things hes done for africanamerican communities whether they are out of context or what have you. I think the thing is he is not coming on shows like this and answering difficult questions. He is drowning out any kind of, you know, criticism that may come for things like stop and frisk. You and i will have to seriously disagree whether that was effective. That was completely ineffective. Hes able to drown it out with his own advertising for it he doesnt have to answer any questions. Hes probably not going to come out of the media until after super tuesday. Hes the winner here, he wins because he has money, a luxury that Elizabeth Warren didnt have or that Bernie Sanders didnt have when they faced a tough criticism, particularly when it comes to race, they had to go to the media and answer those questions. Hes avoiding everything and just making stump speeches and putting out ads. Tucker by definition, and i hope im honest enough, i hope im honest enough to say that this is an attack on democracy. When you overwhelm the system with your personal wealth. Are you bothered by the fact that its working . So, i think its working in the shortterm but eventually i think particular africanamerican voters, they are going to want answers. They are going to want to know when you have people like charles blow and other influencer pluralists are saying, stop and frisk was a violation of your constitutional rights. When they start asking, well, youve given to the campaigns of rick snyder, whos responsible for the flint water crisis. When you get into lindsey graham, when you give to rudolph giuliani, we want answers and hes going to have to sit there and answer it and we also know that bloomberg can be a very surly person. Hes not energetic like donald trump, which is what i think won donald trump the election, its not money, hes a charisma. Hes not an intellect or anything like that but he has tons of charisma, something bloomberg does not have, so hes going to have to go out in front of these audiences, answer these questions, and i really do not think its going to bode very well for him. Tucker thats the hope. We hope democracy kicks in at some point. Professor, thank you coming on. Appreciate it. Michael tracy is an independent generalist meaning he thinks for himself unlike most journalists. We are happy to have them here tonight. Take three steps back which i know you do for a living and tell us what it means for the country. Heres an interesting way to look at it. In the past few years, Mike Bloomberg has come out in public and said that he couldnt win the presidency, so he wouldnt even bother trying. And that was the characterization of his vision of his president ial fortunes in just the past few years. What is the National Governing agenda . Welcome in a mans to a of hyper corporatized smog surveillance state culture liberalism for which there is apsley no constituency to a mass scale. In the national electorate. Tucker may i stop you there . You look at the numbers and there is no constituency for the politics of the google board of directors. Most people did not want that. Shocking, right . So bloomberg rightly surmised that he was not going to go and win the presidency on the strength of his political convictions because they are completely ugly and despicable and alien too much of the country, so what has he done . He has had this vociferous focus purely on bashing donald trump, because there is a constituency for that. Whatever kind of behemoth Data Analytics and polling team that hes assembled correctly related to him that among older paranoid liberals, and some independents, there is some widespread pitch vacation that donald trump could win a second term for it rather than campaigning or visiting hymns of the media are doing anything resembling what the ordinary course of action would be for prisoners or candidates, rather than doing any of that, hes putting together these sleek, cutesy ads going, ive got billions, i spent 400 million plus so far pure thats chump change for me. Thats what my wealth appreciates two in a given week. I do not know what the interest increased their exactly, but he saying, look, i can go after trump all these petty characterological issues as people are confused as to what trumps personal it is sick and seas are to this point, but there is a constituency who look at to the Magnetic Field and say, my goodness, on the interested in these internet scene debates among the democrats. I was in New Hampshire and talked to a lot of standard democrats who did not care about the differences between a Bernie Sanders or an Elizabeth Warren or a joe biden for they just desperately wanted to beat trump and bloomberg recognizes that. He says, im uniquely equipped to beat trump, im going to flood your daily consciousness with these tedious ads that have been marked tested to press your emotional buttons. Thats what hes doing. Like you suggested, this is the most brazen, oligarchic intervention in the history of american electoral politics and its not even close. Its hugely disturbing. Whether you are on the right or left, anywhere in between, you should be incredibly alarmed at whats going on here. Tucker and yet you are one of the only people on the internet saying this which tells you how corporatized our media has become. Michael tracey, i hope you come back on the topic. Its good to see you tonight. We have more on the Michael Bloomberg campaign, which we cant say enough, you should be worried about. Not as a conservative or liberal, but as an american. Bloomberg not considering one but two former first ladies to use as is with low running might. Well talk with mark steyn ahe ahead. New yorks laws are unveiling all sorts of accomplishments that bloomberg had. Criminals are celebrating for thats next. Hi were glad you came in, whats on your mind . Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy, connect to the xfi gateway. What about internet speeds that keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. What about wireless data options for the family . Of course, you can customize and save. Can you save me from this conversation . That we cant do, but come in and see what we can do. Were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover. At your local xfinity store today. Tucker welcome a bit of good news from the political world today. Governor blackface or however were calling him, Ralph Northam of virginia, has stopped his effort punishing his entire state as penance for his disgusting personal failures by the house passed a bill that would ban the sale of socalled assault weapons, your socalled deer rifle, it wouldve made may thousands of lawabiding people felons by banning all magazines capable of holding more than a dozen rounds. But today, four democrats in the state senate join the a table the bill in chambers. In other words, its now dead and thats a victory for lawabiding citizens everywhere. They try again camille , youll hear about it first right here. Speaking of law and order, new yorks new builder from law has proven to be a real blessing for criminals across the country. Charles barry is a serial criminal has been arrested there 139 times, including six times just this year and its still february. After each one of these arrests, hes been released immediately after a hearing. After his most recent arrest on saturday, mary gloated about the power that new yorks new laws give him, given bail reform, its lit its the democrats, the democrats know me and republicans fear me. You cant touch me, i cant be stopped. Verbatim quote. He bragged about the money he stole and which so far hes based zero because one says. Watch this. Tucker according to new york lawmakers, the guy you heard throwing racist epithets as a victim and you are the big oppressing him. Bernie kerik, great to see you tonight. Thank you so much. If you really cared about the city you ran, guys like that would be punished, wouldnt th they . Guys like that would be punished. If you get rid of the mayor and you get rid of the governor. This is the governors responsibility. Its irresponsible. Its dangerous. And this demonstrate charles barrys arrest demonstrates why giulianis policing in early 1994 to 2002 was so successful in reducing Violent Crime by 65 and reducing the homicide rates by 70 , 50 of the people we arrested jumping turnstiles, a basic violation of a low level misdemeanor, were wanted on felony arrest warrants and four felonies and crimes they committed in the city this guy is completely out of control and you cant do anything to him. The judges, the prosecutors, nobody can do anything to him because of the bail reform law that Governor Cuomo signed into effect. Tucker you think of all the nice people in your from all backgrounds, working hard, paying their taxes, raising their kids, and lawmakers are taking the sides of this guy over and against them. And, tucker, its not just him, its others like him. Weve had people in the last six weeks since january 1st, weve had people arrested on the rape charges, let out, rerape, people on felony charges let out, murder. This has been going on the last six weeks and at some point somebody this isnt brain surgery. They are sitting around in a circle jerk right now trying to figure out what to do about it. They have to change it. The mayor should be standing on his pulpit screaming at the top of his lungs to fix it, and hes absent. Tucker is the political system so paralyzed in new york that no one will be punished for this . I cant believe anybody willing to defend this monstrosity in public, but would people be voted out of office over these few things . I would hope so. You have to go back to what happened in 1994 when Rudy Giuliani was elected. People elected Rudy Giuliani because crime was at its highest, no economic development, will real estate wasdropping, and atd people of new york city said enough is enough, we have to fix it. For the first time, tucker, in 25 years last week, i saw squeegee guys at the lincoln tunnel. Its absurd but we are going back to where we were in the 1990s, early 1990s, 1980s. It shouldnt be. Tucker people in charge are suicidal and decadent, i would say. Bernie kerik, great to see you tonight. Great to see you as always. Thanks, tucker. Tucker bill kristols friend john bolton didnt testify about impeachment in public but he still doing every thing he can to sell his book. His latest comments after the break with our as our special programming continues. Tucker welcome back to Tucker Carlson tonight. Our special programming pin jumble and did not get the war with iran he craved, but hes ensuring that hes getting sprinkles on an ice cream sundae. As if they could be any creepier. Imagine, john bolding on an ice cream sundae. The the white house reviewing hisbo, say they are planning to censor it bit Matthew Whitaker is acting former attorney general and he joins us tonight. Im not going to ask you about john bolton eating ice cream because we agree thats repulsive. But what do you make of sorry about that. What do you make of his book and what do you think it will contain . First of all, tucker, no doubt there is significant policy areas on this. Even before he became National Security advisor, this is the same man who wrote on a notepad, 10,000 trip to columbia when venezuela was a hotbutton iss issue. There was a very strong desire to have a very strong American Foreign policy of sending troops wherever in the world they might go, which is inconsistent oftentimes with what President Trump ran on in 2016. What i think this is is an attempt john bolton to sell more books. We know most of his disagreements and most of his thoughts on foreign policy, so hes got to stay relevant and talk about and make it sound like there are things in addition to the sprinkles that come with his book, theres actually some ice cream in his book, i do not think thats going to be the case. We already know whats going to be in most of these books. Tucker this is a question probably may be outside of your lane as a former attorney general, but what do you think the audience is for a book that promotes attacking iran . What percentage of americans would be interested in Something Like that, do you suppose . I dont think again, i do not think there is a very big audience for that. I dont sell books, so i dont have a lot of experience and what people want to read about. But again, sending troops to columbia or baiting iran, taking over syria or the middle eats , there is a reason that donald trump won the election because he wanted to get us out of the east, the decadelong war, not send troops to other places. Tucker i have to ask you, roger stone as you know is being sentenced on thursday, this thursday the 20th but he could be going to nine years for lying. Meanwhile, another liar, liar, demonstrably, Andrew Mccabe is enjoying a paid gig at cnn, not the first liar they hired, after learning they wont be prosecuted leaking to the press and lying to the fbi about it. Mccabe said he was offended that he was at any risk at all for lying watch. You been o