one among countless examples of it former presidential candidate maureen le pen is facing a criminal prosecution for tweeting out photos of atrocities committed by isis. le pen didn t endorse isis or its atrocities, no. le pen faces three years in prison simply for showing what fundamentalists islamic groups actually do. in australia myspace police wawhatever youthink of him he hr advocated violence. he has never even been arrested. meanwhile radical muslim clerics enter australia all the time. anope police is being punished purely for political views and no doubt that is absolutely fine with cnn. what you are watching across the west is a new form of social control. it s modeled on the vast system of surveillance and punishment that american tech companies have helped design for china s fascist regime. step out of line and you will feel the pain big tech
monologue you said cnn had shared a debate question with the clinton campaign a singularly you mentioned that actually happened twice at two different town halls one they sponsored with another news organization.y one that they did solo. so this happened twice through donna brazile through the clinton campaign. it isthth interesting to hear them talk about. tucker: unbelievable. i didn t even know that that doesn t get a lot of coverage from their media critic zucker spokesman. i haven t seen that very much. bottom line unlike this network that brought in outside firm during the roger ailes controversy to investigate. cnn never brought in external firm to investigate f how that happened because that s a very serious thing, obviously. just unpack a couple things. you talked about how also said senior media correspondent talked about how democrats are d human on this network and that doesn t explain how tulsi gabbard appeared
years. she is a fair and decent person and i don t think she should have been prevented from covering anything. tucker: whatever you think of cnn, caitlin collins is a great person defending her was not a tough call. then the white house briefly banned cnn correspondent jim acosta, jim acosta is not a great person. he is awful. ask anyone who knows him. still, fox news stuck to principle. even awful people ought to be allowed to cover the white house. fox immediately filed am can you say brie amicus brief returning him to the press pool. acosta got his credentials back. you may dislike fox news there is no question about this channel s commitment to free speech. we defend speech, even when it s unpopular, even when the person speaking has attacked us personally. free expression is bigger than any one person or any organization. it is the very heart of this country. it s the foundation of all other freedoms. we really believe that cnn and msnbc do not believe
the other news networks can confirm that because it s true. watch the programming for a day and then theirs and for yourself. jeffrey lord fired from cnn for the crime of defending donald trump too effectively. they claim fox management is partisan. that s not true. those of us who work here know that just check google for confirmation. has any current fox news executive ever publicly boasted about plans to run for political office? nope. but jeff zucker has. zucker is a partisan democrat. he has said so many times. and that may be why zucker is so anxious to increase the partisan division in this country. that s exactly what he is doing by endorsing the dnc ban on fox. when cnn says this network should not be allowed to host a democratic debate what they are really saying is that disagreement shouldn t be allowed. they are making the case against compromise and against bipartisanship. we reject cnn s world view completely. yes, this is a divided
that is the story on this thursday night. the story goes on right here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson coming up next. good night, everybody. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. last summer cnn reporter caitlin collins was barred from the white house event after she asked questions the administration thought were too aggressive. as an organization cnn has relentlessly attacked fox news over the years. on the other hand, reporters ought to be allowed to ask hard questions of public officials. executives here at fox didn t hesitate. they loudly came to caitlin collins defense. so did special report anchor bret baier, so did this show. tucker: the big story in washington today is that caitlin collins over at cnn was prevented from covering an event at the white house yesterday. caitlin worked for me for