that's coming right up, after "the factor." thank you for watching us tonight. i am bill o'reilly, please remember the spin stops here. because we are definitely looking out for you. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." still hungry for bill o'reilly? you will join us on this program. it is free speech withering away on college campuses? protests erupted in another campus when charles murray showed up with some of his opinions. democrats are lashing out at house intelligence chairman devin nunes' saying he needs to recuse himself from the house of representatives investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 2016 election. the only person who can force him to do that though is paul ryan. he is defending him so far.

>> i still do not know why. if you give me a reason to recuse myself, i might consider it. >> do you know the source of this information? >> no and no. he is a member of the house, that is entirely up to the speaker. >> tucker: senior advisor for the democratic national committee or least he was. tom perez asked everyone to resign by the end of the month. he joins us here in the studio. i have to start off, do you still work for the dnc? >> i am today. it ends at the end of this week, as it was planned since january. >> tucker: good for tom perez, not just ranting about russia but how does the single most impressive person -- >> i think we know, it was in part by the russian government. >> tucker: for the last three or four months, democrats have

been saying every night on this show trump is a puppet of the kremlin. he is doing the bidding of the putin government. the entire russian economy is based on energy. trump's views on energy are very pro-american. he is totally for fracking. if you are doing the kremlin's bidding, you would be against fracking and you'd be talking a lot about global warming. how does that even make sense that trump is doing the bidding of russia? >> it makes sense that he is doing that if you look at the actions he has taken as president. the actual things he has done is he has removed sanctions on the russian spy network, attacked nato which was one of the top priorities of vladimir putin. and continues to praise putin at every turn. not only that, he attacks the european union. >> tucker: he loves putin? whatever. against soviet communism, it was great but you have to think that

putin's party maybe has changed in the 26 years since the soviet union collapsed and may be maintaining their economy might be at the top of the list. trump is actually working against russian interest on that. he's calling for more military spending and expanding the u.s. navy and air force. why in the world would put in before that? >> i do not understand how you can say that putin is for american policy and that donald trump is whatever you just said. >> tucker: i'm just making the obvious point that al gore and hillary clinton's views on energy, the single most important question on the russian economy are much closer to putin's band trumps. >> what i'm saying is that the single most important is lifting sanctions and that is what donald trump and his administration are doing. >> tucker: the propaganda against fracking? >> that's why the ambassador of

russia freaked out when it looked like the administration was going to impose new sanctions which is why they called michael flynn. it is a disaster for their economy. >> tucker: they were writing long pieces about fracking. >> it actually was running long pieces, boosting that up. they were talking about what an important boom this will be for the russian economy. if you are wrong on that. >> tucker: your point is and the point of democrats is that devin nunes is such a partisan, he cannot continue in his role. if he was such a partisan, of course he is an elected republican but if he was so partisan -- why would he be allowing hearings in the first place? democrats would never allow a hearing. >> he just canceled a public hearing on friday with sally yates. who is going to come and testify. he canceled at the same day that

allegations were going to come and contradict statements the white house had made about michael flynn. if your argument is that devin nunes is not partisan because he allows hearings, he's not. he just canceled two of them. >> tucker: we will have more. there are allowing -- i'm just saying as you well know, with a democrat in the white house, this would not happen. it's going to hurt our guy. we are not doing it. period. >> at some point we have to start thinking like americans and not partisans. we have a hostile foreign power that interjected itself into the selection. >> tucker: i've heard the talking points. >> do not believe that russia came in? >> >> tucker: i do not believe that russia out affected the outcome of this election. this whole conversation is stupid but let me ask you for specifically. if devin nunes were to step

aside, who would be less partisan? >> what we are calling for is an independent 9/11 -- the 9/11 commission was done after the 9/11 attacks. there is precedent -- it would be something that congress would decide. there were five democrats and five republicans, interviewed about 1200 people. it was not partisan. >> tucker: that settles the basic question of 9/11 which we are still arguing today? if you want a nonpartisan commission, who should commissi? you cannot take partisanship out of a partisan process. so this is a dumb conversation. why not have a real conversation? did and to what extent russia affected the outcome of the election and did the government spy on trump when he was a candidate? those are the real questions. >> which i am very happy to talk

about. and some of the questions that this independent commission would look at and what we need to find answers for. >> tucker: we know intel agencies run by barack obama spied on the trump transition team. >> false. >> tucker: the director of the fbi said that. >> tucker: actually he did. yes, he did. he said it right in front of congress. there was an investigation into russian interference, centered on people in the trump orbit. >> know so -- there's a difference between investigation and spying on members of the transition team. >> tucker: how is that different? >> your talk about surveillance as opposed to -- what we do know is that the fbi has been running the investigation since july. >> tucker: with no surveillance? >> i do not know that, do know that? >> tucker: i know the nsa

sweeps up every conversation in the united states. i am bothered by it. you claim to be a liberal. why am i the liberal in this case, arguing for civil liberties in the right to privacy? >> you are injecting facts that don't actually exist. you are supposing that nsa is somehow involved and they are sweeping up all sorts of communications that are there. a specific communication that you are talking about. >> tucker: this is like arguing about the sunrise. we know that the nsa -- i do not think you will meet anybody, if either party -- all the electronic communications -- the email you sent this morning. the point is, they have access to it and we should be worried about it. >> it is not a helicopter quest, it is a fact.

it's convenient because it allows congress and the press to ignore what he actually says. part of which is the americans are apparently having their information incidentally caught in the intelligence dragnet. >> recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump transition. >> it's all about improper unmasking, incidentally collected u.s. information. you did exactly the wrong thing. >> collection is not surveilling. a campaign or american citizens, surveilling a foreign agent. there are rules about -- i'd be curious to see if those rules are followed. >> tucker: congressman trey gowdy says that instead of chasing or may be in a distant to chasing russian phantoms, the press ought to be more worried about how american citizens are being spied upon and then unmasked by intelligence

officials for political reasons. congressman, thank you for coming on. i do not know the purpose of these statements. i am paying close attention -- i am totally confused. can you give us a quick summation of what we knew for certain about spying on american citizens? >> what we know is if there is an evidentiary basis for the president's tweets, it has not been tiered to the public. the allegations are very specific, obama wiretapped trump tower. there is not an entry basis for that. where gets a little more complicated is there are surveillance methodologies that allow the collection of hypothetically foreign to foreign communications. to the extent that u.s. citizens are mentioned or collected in that, in those surveillance programs. they are masked. i think you want the information collected from the national security standpoint but the

masking is important. so with that general flynn, with the public reporting -- he was unmasked. that is not only a breach of protocol, that is a violation of law. a felonious leaking of classified material. i want to know whether or not people have been unmasked even though you did not know about it publicly yet. >> tucker: interesting. in the intelligence community. my understanding from watching director comey is that intel agencies reported to the obama white house initiated an investigation with people around candidate trump before his inauguration. is that your understanding? >> it is not. i'd be surprised if anyone could confirm that. there is a warrant process you have to go through with a fisa court and it has to be approved. there is a public record of all of this, tucker, which would be in the custody of the now trump the department of justice. it would be pretty easy to lay

that out. there is a paper trail. >> tucker: why would direct your call may to reveal the existence of some investigations but not others? >> that was really surprising to me. if you remember what he said, confirmed not just an investigation but one that may manifest itself with criminality but when i asked him about the leaks, he said he could not confirm there was an investigation. i think they are both of national interest. one happens to be a felony so i was a little surprised and a little disappointed that he can't at least tell us -- we are investigating the felonious dissemination of classified material. >> tucker: and yet he could tell us other things. we interviewed someone on this show last week who spent 30 years at the nsa. who said that there is no question that the nsa has personal communications from then candidate trump and those around him on its servers.

do you think that is true? >> it depends. it depends on who they're talking to. if you're talking to someone for whom the intelligence agencies are authorized to collect, then yes, you may be captured on it. if there is a reason to collect on a non-u.s. citizen and you happen to call that person, then you will be collected as a u.s. citizen. that is where the masking and treating it confidentially comes in. >> tucker: he worked there for all these years, that nsa collects basically all data coming in and out of the united states. if you tap into the data trunk, what do they do with it? they have it. is that true? >> that is a little broader than what my understanding is. you would have to get a warrant. you have to get warrant application, fisa court. it is separate analysis. if you're talking u.s. to foreign, it is still a separate analysis but one that would require going to the fisa court.

>> tucker: he said on the committee overseas, are you satisfied if you requested on specific accounting of something, you will get it? >> i do not know that i would, tucker. i'm not dodging your question. there is something called the gang of eight. >> tucker: members of the committee would receive that information. >> speaker of the house, and the gang of eight -- if you are just a hip c member like i am -- >> tucker: they can get the full story, whatever they want. the intel agency will get that to them. >> only cavity you never know u got. it's been one that is a concern for ordinary voters like me. >> yes, sir. >> tucker: still confused and may be tired of this whole russia story? we do not blame you.

brit hume will be on next, do we need an investigation to involve it? charles murray was at notre dame today, the decline of the working class but instead of listening to those ideas, a bunch of people started yelling at him. we will go there, live. i had eyes. for relief beyond the nose. flonase.

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>> tucker: it seems like you need a phd at minimum to know the different strands of the trump-russia controversy/conspiracy theory. the alleged russian hacking, the collaboration between the president and put him. spying on american citizens and a ton of congressional bungling.

to get to the bottom of it, should we move on and forget this ever happened? brit hume joins us now. hey, britt, a go back and forth on this. is it something -- i've had a couple members of congress get emotional on the subject of russian hacking with the last election and i'm starting to think that this really is the touchstone to understanding american politics. do you think you believe it? >> i think they may, tucker. the question is whether that is what this is about. the metal in our election, as dick cheney suggested an act of war. if that was what this was really about, if that was what this case was really about, it would be almost unanimous bipartisan agreement to find out what

happened. however, there are two other elements that have happened with this as well. where the russians acting in collusion with the trump campaign, of which there is scant evidence so far but a lot of allegations and a lot of suspicions voiced about that. and if the intelligence agencies having incidentally swept up the names and information from our conversations by certain american citizens then proceeded to mishandle that information. the identities of course with situations like that are supposed to be masked. that is to say not revealed. not even across the intelligence agencies. it appeared that those constraints were not observed in some cases here. that is what devin nunes has been talking about, the chairman of that committee. related to the information that he apparently has been told confidentially from someone within the intelligence services. the democrats will like this to

be about the subject of collusion and the republicans would like to focus more on the allegations of the misuse of intelligence against american citizens by the obama administration. my sense about this is is that this reminds me of a lot of congressional situations i've covered through the years in which there is a lot of politics involved. an adversarial proceeding. on one side, one party tries to induce information that helps their side of the argument and the other party does the other thing. out of that kind of adversarial proceeding is some kind of emergence. test the many other cases, watergate. i don't think we are near the situation where there are enough findings for those counts to go outside special counsel. >> tucker: do know what it reminds me of? 1993, republicans cannot understand how anyone could have voted for bill clinton. they could not make sense of it at all. all these theories arose about running drugs in and out of an

airport or killing people rather than just addressing it directly. it was a resident with the voters. i think the democrats still do not understand why trump won. they made up this elaborate explanation. with russia, psychologically satisfying but maybe not plugged politically helpful. >> they would love it to be true, tucker. they believe based on things apart from this that donald trump is basically the illegitimate president, a man who has no qualifications for the job. it is an explicable person and they are afraid he will have the presidency for four years and rollback their agenda and will cause all kind of problems and they cannot stand the guy. if you could be shown that he colluded with russia to get elected, that would undermine his presidency almost totally. that is what they are going for in that in my view is what they are going for. >> tucker: boy, they really, really do not like to lose

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>> tucker: the second day of the first ever sanctuary city conference, today. gathering local politician for defying immigration law, top officials from both los angeles and new york have said they will defy the efforts to suppress sanctuary cities and enforce immigration law. >> we do not separate children from their families because it is inhumane. in los angeles, we do not demonize our hard-working neighbors just because they come from a different place. that's un-american. >> to fall back any signs or jurisdiction that willfully violates. >> new york city is the safest city in this country. and so -- if the president wants to put that at risk, to make a point to a dwindling base of support, then he is being held responsible but that is nothing new for this administration. >> tucker: the bend of benjamin

does a school, thank you for coming on. you just heard the mayor of los angeles described american immigration law as inhumane. you described it that way too in a piece in "the new york times." i think there are legitimate disagreements but it seems a little -- to the country, to describe the country as inhumane. or cruel. what country has done as much as we have for illegal aliens? >> there very few things you can find consensus among republicans and democrats but our immigration laws are deeply broken. it's not at all surprising that the mayors of the cities that have the largest immigrant population see the harm up front of a massive deportation system. tearing apart families, those are inhumane laws. >> tucker: i find so

remarkable the insult to the population. immigration has upsides for sure but it also has real costs, measurable costs. two american citizens who are here, born here and all that. their views and labs are never taken into account in the situation. what about everyone else? >> to the contrary, the vast majority of the reliable studies that have been conducted to show both immigrants make our come cy more viable. they make our cities and our country safer. very much. thinking that just about the immigrant population but about all americans and the way we benefit from it. >> tucker: unlocked has been written on this. the u.s. civil rights commissio commission, under the obama administration in 2010, they did a study on this. here's what they have.

both wages and employment for low skilled -- a number of whom are black men. i do not know any economists that would -- why don't you just admit that? >> there's been a wealth of data showing that immigrants actually are boosting our economy but to the extent that immigrants are being exploited and underpaid, the reason why that is happening is because republicans have obstructed comprehensive immigration reform. >> tucker: i want you to be able to get your point across but i want you to address what i just said. the u.s. civil rights commission has said what i think every economist has said, there are parts of the economy that benefit from immigration. rich people benefit but low-wage workers, disproportionately lack men, are not beneficiaries of

this. >> you can pick and choose one line from one report. >> tucker: the theme. >> you are reading one line from one report. the theme that runs across the economic research is that immigrants are a boon to our economy. >> tucker: people working for minimum wage benefit from people being here illegally? >> if you are worrying about low-wage workers, you need to stop the mechanisms of exploitation that allows immigrants to be underpaid. create a pathway to legalization such that they can no longer be exploited and we can level the playing field. >> tucker: they are exploited in a lot of cases. that's a real thing but i'm not talking about people who broke our laws to come here. i'm talking about people who were born here, including black people who have been here for 400 years. if we are the u.s. government, our whole purpose to look out for them and we are not.

we are not even talking about them and you keep dodging questions about them like they don't matter. and they do matter. >> i'm telling you directly, if you care about that sector of the labor economy, there's something you can do. talk to your republican allies and tell them to pass conference of immigration reform and get people work authorizations, so they can't be exploited in ways that are harmful to our economy. >> tucker: wouldn't it just be a lot simpler to acknowledge the law of supply and demand and no and a that when you have an over abundance of labor, the rate of labor goes down. are you denying that fact? >> if you talk to the agricultural economy, the agricultural sector, the construction sector, service sector, what they will tell you is that immigrant labor it's vital. blue-collar immigrant jobs are vital to our economy. and absent that labor, the

american economy is going to flow and that will harm all americans. >> tucker: this is like a macro question but i wonder if it ever occurs to you. how did you come a liberal law professor from new york city wind up as a spokesman for big employers who exploit low-wage labor? how did you get in that place customer you are defending agricultural and service sector employers who pay low wages? >> alignment and not sure we are having the same conversation. i'm saying the same thing that the organized labor said the last time we came close to comprehensive immigration reform. they supported conference of immigration reform because they knew it was good for all american workers. with republicans, they obstructed that. to the extent that there is exploitation of immigrants and that that is harmful to our economy, which i completely agree -- come >> tucker: you are taking the line of big

employers, of the chamber of commerce and you are repeating it verbatim. you are saying unless we have massive amounts of foreign low-wage labor, it's going to be hard on our economy. no, it's going to be hard for people who are seeking to pay lower wages to their workers. >> the law of supply and demand operate regardless of our immigration laws. that is why we have one of the reasons why we have a large undocumented population. our immigration system is so broken that they're not legal mechanism for the blue-collar workers. >> tucker: but we cannot throw any of these people out because that's inhumane. everyone's wages go up if you leave, we have a lot less poverty in the state of california. why is that bad? >> it does not work that way. it's not realistic to think there are 11 million undocumented people we can round up. we are spending more on immigration enforcement than

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>> shut it down! >> shut it down! at >> tucker: he was disposed to speak yesterday at middlebury college if it protesters it had not to stop him. uc berkeley is in turmoil tonight, real turmoil as rioters set fires and forth the cancellation of us beach. he is a fascist. >> you tried to express your views and was prevented by a violent mob. >> i was whisked away. and that is the price you pay

for being a libertarian or conservative on american college campuses. >> tucker: across the country we have seen an uproar in college campuses over free speech. when they got to be allowed to talk at all. if you have an idea that does not fall within the narrow spectrum of popular left-wing views, you can expect harassment, bullying, physical attacks. protesters almost a certainty. how did this happen? charles murray went to notre dame today and a mass of people showed up to get mad. matt finn was there. he joins us now for an update. hey, matt. >> hey, tucker. dr. charles murray is an acclaimed yet controversial social scientist with decades of research in social economics, race, and now the 2016 election but today dr. murray was greeted by protesters here on the campus of notre dame because students disagree with some of the conclusions in his book in which dr. murray writes that a person's intelligence depends on

a few key factors including genetics, upbringing, class and race. when murray writes that little boys who grow up without fathers tend to reach adolescence unprepared for life. protesters basically say murray's research is bogus because he is a racist while others say murray is simply presenting the hard truth from his research. take a listen to two students today on the campus and notre dame. >> yeah, i do think as a racist agenda. believing that you are superior to another. in the bell curve he's clearly states that black people are less intelligent than white people. he also believes that asians are more intelligent than white folk. >> they will take out little snippets of those quotes, pieces of analysis and presented that he has some white supremacist or nazi. putting ideas on him that he did

not actually express. i think that's the source of a lot of the controversy around him. not actually what he believes but rather what they want him to believe in order to have this kind of gigantic controversy. >> the rise of president donald trump, how he won because he tackled anger in the middle class that was tired of being ignored by the democratic elite. tucker. >> tucker: looks like a lot of fun, i'm sorry i missed it. devin nunes was the one who invited charles murray to speak and he joins us tonight. professor, thank you for coming on. >> it went pretty well at least inside the venue where he spoke. >> tucker: what i noticed is that the debate itself seems to be under attack and may be disappearing on college campuses, people who disagree with one another on issues can get together and kind of hashed them out. do your students and faculty feel that's a legitimate thing

to do? >> i think the vast majority of students, at least enough faculty do you think we should debate these ideas. listen to both sides and learn and figure out what we think the truth is. that is not true of everyone. we are doing all right. >> tucker: students are better than faculty? that is one heartening piece of news from the front line, that tomorrow's leaders are better than yesterday. did he say anything particularly controversial? was there a crescendo to this event? >> we invited a member of our faculty, i presume someone who is very liberal to offer commentary on the event and he gave a very critical evaluation of murray's work. he spoke for a good 15 minutes. critics spoke and then we opened it up to q and eight and there were some good, sharp questions. it was a good debate i thought.

>> tucker: man. that sounds so old-fashioned. one side says what it thinks, everyone goes out for coffee after. good for you for keeping this alive. this tradition that goes back 3,000 years. it did you take any heat from your fellow faculty members? >> sure. yeah. at some of the faculty were not very happy with me but i will say, 99 out of 100 comments were positive. i am proud of notre dame. i am proud of our leadership. even people who disagreed with murray wanted this to happen, to say look, we are not going to be bullied and not have a debate because you do not want one side to speak. we are a university. people need to be heard. >> tucker: are the people who disagreed with you, where did they tend to be from on campus? from the engineering, business school, sociology? if you can generalize? >> there were some social scientists, and professors in

the arts and letters. one correction for the record here, we did not go out for coffee after the event. >> tucker: [laughs] well, close enough. >> we are a catholic school, after all. >> tucker: of next, you could not get enough of "the o'reilly factor" tonight? bill will join us in just a minute to talk about his book. stay tuned. aleve with direct therapy

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>> tucker: time now for "the friend zone," with us tonight is the legendary bill o'reilly. he has been hosting "the factor" for more than 20 years. and to write an entire shelf of books, a bookmobile, really. he has released his 24th. it is called "old school: life in the sane lane." bill o'reilly joins us now. i really liked it, i am not just

saying that. >> i appreciate it. i figured you would dive right into it. it spoke to you, i bet. >> tucker: it did. i thought parts of this was actually hilarious. what is the difference -- you are trying to people help people understand old school and a snowflake. >> it is a philosophy of life. those of us who were raised in traditional homes as i was, we adopted -- many of us -- old school. i did not like the word values because that's as people who are not old school do not have values, that is not what i am getting at. it is a point of view. a point of view. the point of view is that there are certain things you do and certain things you do not do. whereby the snowflake culture that has risen dramatically in america in the last five years, they see life in a totally different way. so an old school, we spell out the traditional old school point of view.

as opposed to the snowflake pov. then you know who you are, which one you are. which one are you, carlson? >> tucker: i hope i am not a snowflake. >> some of these were really interesting. summit you would get, some you wouldn't. you know you are snowflake if every single day, the minute you go to sleep, find something to be outraged about. and it is all unforgivable. that's not just liberals who are like that, actually. that's across the line. >> tucker: there are a lot of people who are conservative who are like that as well. it does not go down with your politics. politics does not mean your old school or a snowflake. it crosses boundaries. one of the interesting things is it i wrote this book with a guy named bruce and we were on the boston university newspaper. he lives in l.a. he is an old-school guy, as i am. but he has a different kind of old school guy. we go to the same school but we

take different buses. he's got a little bit of a different take on this whole thing. i wanted that. because again, there is a whole bunch of subtlety involved in this philosophy. >> tucker: still reading this, one of the things that kept coming back with just how annoying some of these attitudes are. i thought it, how do we get here? do you think the country being really rich for 100 years has contributed to this? >> i think there's a softness that has come into the culture. i write about my culture, a father. he is the ultimate old-school guy, he's one of the stars of the book. he suffered through the depression and then went to world war ii. since the vietnam war, we had a volunteer army so the military is still tough but a lot of the americans are soft and full of entitlements, you've got to give me this. you owe me this. that is the snowflake culture. the world owes you stuff.

the government owes you this. you will never prosper under that. i feel bad for the snowflakes because sooner or later, they are going to crash land in a puddle and they are not going to be able to get out. they will dissolve and that is what i'm trying to get across. if you are a snowflake and you are committed to that, at least read old-school. their stuff in there that will help you. >> tucker: one last thing that surprised me, billy joel, someone you grew up with. you hold them up as an example is old-school. i would not have guessed that. >> i know, the others we have good examples of old-school folks are surprising as well. the reason is that joel did it by himself. he did not have a great family, he dropped out of high school. he did although wrong things. but he's an old-school guy because she believed in himself and develop his talent. he worked and worked and worked. then he broke through. he is still an old-school guy. i do not hang with him every

night but i see him occasionally. talk about the old neighborhood, i have known him since i was 12. he is still the same kind of guy. that is old-school. so that is why i included billy joel. >> tucker: you definitely made me like him more. the name of the book, old-school. it's good. i liked it. up next, a very strong woman just went back to weightlifting competition and to set a record doing it, what is the secret to her success? we will tell you the details after the break ♪ sometimes, the only difference between a moment that fades from memory, and a moment that stays with you forever, is where it happens. that's why we're proud to help families like yours, live a lifetime of memories on beautiful, healthy, lawns. live like it's spring. make life better, with a beautiful, healthy, trugreen lawn.

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>> sean: welcome to "hannity." we will check in with newt gingrich, monica crowley and ainsley earhardt. continuing the ongoing investigation into whether russia meddled in our presidential election. earlier president trump called out the clintons for their alleged ties to russia. the old left radical anti-trump propaganda media will not be covering. but we will. that is tonight's opening monologue. so last night, president trump took to twitter and wrote...