brian: all right. so we had tucker carlson had a big brawl yesterday. with the aclu, flash political director. listen to this. and tell me how think comes out on top. i m asking you why you put him next to man who was tried in court and convicted of flongs and sentenced to prison when as you just noted hasn t done any of those things. that individual also denied the accusations. i think you would appreciate, tucker, we are criticizing people on the left and the right. tucker: i don t care about the left and right i care about the principles. if you are not defending people unpopular who you disagree with why do you still exist? we absolutely defend the people. we are doing so right now. tucker: you are a hack. you should be shamed. look at the case defending nra and definiting myelo. you made this country better and now making it worse. you abandoned your principles and you should be ashamed of yourself with total ensign sater. that is not true.
the incident. a record breaking number of people tuning into the first gop presidential debate on fox news. an estimated 24 million people watched the prime time debate with the top 10 candidates. the debate becoming the highest nonsports cable program of all time. the highest rated cable news program of all time and fox newschannel s most watched program ever. the u.s. job market preparing to be full health. july mark eld the latest month and a streak of solid hiring with employers adding 215,000 jobs. the unemployment rate holding at 5.3%. i m patricia stark. now here is red eye. welcome to red eye. i m tom shillue. let s check in with andy levey at the red eye news desk. still recovering from the big brawl yesterday. quite a day, wasn t it?