tucker: it was great, actually. there s billy ray cyrus. that was the 90s. but my big story was with steven tyler. and that s in the book. you helped me get my autograph on the actual picture of steven tyler and i 20 years later. do you know that story? tucker: i don t know. we had a moment together back home in ottawa. he never signed my picture until fox and friends a couple of years ago. i said, i have this great moment with steven tyler but i don t have an autograph. on twitter somebody contacted me and said, send me the picture, i ll get him to sign it. he did. there it is because of tucker carlson. tucker: that is so cool. that was in canada? yeah, that was backstage. he wanted me to come backstage after the show. and then that would have changed the whole trajectory of my life.
easily could be hot war, the party of neomccarthyism and a party that doesn t care as it used to about civil liberties. it seems to be a party that wants a death sentence for tax returns. that would put a lot of people in prison. tucker: russia seems to be the unifying force behind all of these changes. you re seeing censorship onlines that liberals in my childhood would have rebelled against, that they now support because it s done in the name of eliminating russian disinformation. yeah, i have a different way of formulating it. in the 20th century, we had three marriage episodes with russia or what president trump is calling cooperation. they were all done by i don t know if you have thought of this by republican presidents.
i was a dispatcher there and i would dispatch calls. i did that every summer while i was in school. it was a 10-69. we ve got a 10-69. so i did that for a while. and they tell me that i got my start in radio from dispatching those calls. and i did the actual uniform thing for about two weeks. i was terrible at it. there would be a dog across the street that i was supposed to catch and i would pretend that i didn t see it. tucker: i know that you know the name of every song written between 1960 and 2000. how long were you a disk jockey? on and off for 15 years. well, 10 years. i ve been at fox for 15 years. my broadcasting year was 25 years. i worked at a classic rock station. i met all these cool rockstars, which i document in mostly sunny. my hair was terrible back then.
sentenced, people are saying, that s too much. tucker: i will be the first one to say this is not a police state. okay. let me ask you. let s hope everybody is saying he should get a life sentence, too. tucker: i don t know what the guidelines are. i don t think he should get more than a fentanyl dealer. the phoniest person in washington is cory booker. he got on the senate floor telling us we are racist for putting fentanyl dealers in prison. now he s saying manafort needs to spend the rest of his life in prison for tax evasion. do you see the disconnect? i think the disconnect is how this particular judge sentenced a congressman who happened to be black for 12 years, but this guy lived an exemplary life, and
i still want to believe with everything that happened, that there s something about justice, because if i stop believing that, then what s it all for? tucker: beautiful. thank you, jessie. that s my new ring tone. i m not forget that. you shouldn t either. a week ago, smollett was a victim. now a grand injury has charged him with 16 felonies. the indictment accused him of lying to police officers to fabricate a hate crime against himself. those are the facts as we know them. what do they mean? thanks for coming on. i would say you re an expert at taking three steps back and assessing the meaning of news events. what s the meaning of this one? well, i think we had the