we will see you back here on monday night. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." as you know doubt know by now, press secretary sean spicer announced his resignation earlier today after a rough six month tenure.pr just one month after he was promoted intor new duties. meanwhile, anthony scaramucci has joined the white house as a communications director. he is the same man who just blotted cnn's nose by forcing them to retract a story linking him to russia. cnn had to fire three producers in the aftermath of that. he spoke to sean hannity following his departure. here's a preview of what that conversation looks like. >> he started sharing the podium with sarah

huckabee sanders, anthony scaramucci comes in, did you feel in any way that this was against you? did you feel you are pushed out in anyway? or was it totally your decision? >> the president wanted to add to the team more than anything. i think it was in the best interest of our communications to permit, of our press organization, to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. >> tucker: catch the rest of that interview in a little less than two hours at 10:00 p.m. eastern. meanwhile, dana perino was a white house press secretary, she is our friend over at the five, and sheho joins us tonight. >> how are you? >> tucker: i'm great. i'm wondering about the basic macro question, which is what the goal now? you've got anthony scaramucci as communications director, you've got sarah huckabee sanders as press secretary. they areth working together to achieve what? what is the primary goal? >> that's something i've been

thinking about, because you obviously have to congratulate sarah huckabee sanders picture she will be the third woman to be white house press secretary. a job that immediately immedias your job forever. sometimes you i might feel liket changes it for the worse, but it is for the better. i loved that job. i was glad it had an end date. for anthony scaramucci, he comes in with a clean slate. you heard sean spicer being vers gracious. if the president wants a new look and feel of the press office, he should have that fully and graciously stepped away. head sounds. that's great. now anthony scaramucci, he gets in there, he has a lot on his plate already. truthfully, even though it looks like whats you see of the job is something alwaysth on televisio, for communications director and especially the press secretary, 98% of what they do is behind the scenes and not public. so he has to set the vision. i wonder w does the president wt to see his approval ratings go h

up? does he want to advance legislation, i would be curious if he actually talked anthony scaramucci about that. there are different ways to get to that goal, whatever it is that the president ultimatelyll wants. >> tucker: my impression for the past six months has been that sean spicer was basically doing what he was asked to do. he was trying pretty hard, not a lazy man. a good-natured person who understands washington. it is hard for me, whatever his failings, and some of them were on display. it's hard for me to believe that he i is at fault for whatever problems they have had. >> i've always long believed that because it's public and everybody sees it that it's really easy to blame the communicators. i remember being in the situation room in the middle of the iraq war was terrible and you had civilians killed daily by suicide bombings in markets, and there's a guy from the pentagon who in the situation room said what we have here is a communications problem. i remember i looked at condoleezza rice, gave me a nod, i said with

all due respect, we have a fact problem. a problem we cannot communicate when their problems on the ground. reshaping higher committee had and can be interesting. mentioned in the opening how anthony scaramucci has taken on cnn. if you look at how he did that,n he did it with such a light touch. after they corrected it, he said cool, no problem, everybody makes mistakes. i'm good.. then he walked away. he let everyone else take the fight for him. i think that might be a different way of looking atve things because sean spicer was answering the president's call to be an attack dog and punch and hit and fight, uppercuts, all sorts of things. a he would try to fight back against what they see as unfair press coverage. anthony scaramucci might have the same type of goal, but may be a different tactic and see if it works.. >> tucker: i heard you say something off cam the other to add that was smart. he said one of the problems here is that there is no consensus

within the party about what the party ought to stand for. it's hard to have ao communication strategy if everybody, not just the people in the white house, the hill, there rnc are not all reading fm the same sheet. >> there trying to do massive changes in legislation for making americais great again was never going to be easy. if you look at big, wholesale changes in the party, the first thing that needed to happen was some work by the president of the united states to put some people behind, bringing the people together and say, here are the three things that i absolutely want to do this year. they've been taken off message almost every single day. sometimes it's their fault, sometimes things happen because things happen in the white house. this provides a clean slate. i wish them the very best. i certainly hope that sarah huckabee sanders knows that this is going to be a wonderful job, one thing i told her today is make sure you ask for the help you need. perhaps that's what the president was asking for today, too. >>ha tucker: one thing i will say about her and scaramucci is that they both seem like people, which i think is an advantage for a job or if today with people. they've got that going for them.

>> reporters are people, too. we will debate that next time. thanks for joining us. what is all this drama the white houses mean for the president and his agenda? joining us tonight is not net orion, and he joins us now. before we get there, there's a "washington post" story that just crossed my desk, made the hair on my arm stand up. apparently our intel agency, some of them have leaked classified communications between kislyak and his efforts and moscow to hurt the attorney general. no transcript has been available, but according to sources quoted in the post, the attorney general spoke before he was attorney general about u.s.-russia relations with kislyak. this is clearly anh effort by somebody who is not putting his namedy on it to use classified information to destroy the attorney general.

how is the white house going to respond? >> first of all, this is allegedly. i would love to see the transcripts and i would love to actually know what is going on. especially since the russians are experts at this information. this is a continuing story. i shared this with the president, listen, the deep state and the democrats, this is a cage fight between you and them. i hope that the president of the the united states is going to win this. they are not going to stop. they are going to weapon eyes this information. they will try to undermine president trump. i hope he continues to push back. i've encouraged him to go on the offense, again on the variety of things. w and reopen the v hillary clinton private email server case. really go after these leakers, make examples of a few of them, and hopefully stop these leaks. this is not whistleblowing, tucker.. this is what an amazing classified information to the undermine the duly elected president of the united states. >> tucker: we give enormous power and huge budgets to our intelligence agencies. to see the information they gather secretly used for political purposes domestically

is a total perversion. it's scary. it's not a defense of trump or russia policy or anything, no president should have to deal with his own intel agencies selectively leaking classified information in order to hurt people. why doesn't he have control over his intel agency? is a possible? >> when you see the intelligence communities, and agency pushback on some of his appointments and say we have the right to veto. in many ways, this really does crystallize with the elections were about. are we going to be ruled by an unelected bureaucracy or we going to be ruled or governed by the duly elected president of the united states? this is theec rub. i think the bureaucracy is out of control. i think they are the ones that think they call b the shots, thy feel they don't have to listen to trump. i think he does have to take aggressive means. go after these leakers. h i have encouraged him to encourage the office e of inspector generl at the doj to really go hunt down these leakers and make examples of them. again, let's not forget to leak

classified information is a 10-year prison sentence. you get six or seven of those i think you will see these leaks start to fade away. >> tucker:ve i wonder why this isn't being covered. i ran into an elected member of one of the intel committees. i won't say whatt house it is from. but this guy told me, and overseeing, providing oversight of the intel agencies that he would not speak on his cell phone because he was afraid that hise conversation was being recorded by our intelu agencies to be used against impaired one of the few people who would know! he is on the's intel committee! we have lost control. >> we c have lost control. in a strange way this is where the freedom caucus and the aclu are on the same page because at to actually used care about domestic spying and civil liberties and all these things. i think trump has an opportunity to say we are going to have this conversation, we are going to pull back the curtain and we are first of all going to say it's the duly elected president the calls the shots, but we also have to have the summer into the

forefront say we are going to tolerate this anymore. we respect privacy, civil liberty, and we don't want domestic spying, week to bring we have to bring these intelligence communities and agencies to heal. >> tucker: to heal. because it's not about term comments about civilian control of the government. that is worth defending. thanke you, ned. sorry to get all worked up. stories like that are scary. youre can see where it is going. >> it's deeply troubling. >> tucker:ro thanks. when historians look back at the trump administration, a likely point to yesterday as a turning point. 10:31, am. that's when bloomberg news posted a story entitled "mueller with business transactions." after the president told "the new york times" that robert mueller had no right to investigate his business transaction. mueller's or bloomberg sent back the clearest possible message.

yes i do. and i will. what arewh those transactions? basically any commercial activityti that trump or his family or his associates conducted over the last decade that might pertain to russia or anyone who's ever lived in russia.u according to bloomberg, o those would include russian purchases of apartments and buildings, his development in russia, the 2013 miss universe pageant which was held in moscow, and a sale of a florida mansion in 2008. that's right. the investigation created to determine whether the russian government influence the trump-hillary election now extends to a private sale of a house in florida during the bush of administration. talk about mission creep. let's be clear about the politics here. this is a massive threat to the white house. a determined prosecutor can prove almost anything he wants. a prosecutor with no time limit or budget or countability to voters, there is nobody more dangerous than that. throw in russia, and all bets are off.

it is a sketchy place. any financial transaction could be construed as criminal by an american prosecutor out for blood. ever bought a pack of cigarettes moscow?? independent prosecutor could probably get you for money laundering. we have a ton of laws. it depends on how you want to interpret and enforce them. it's hard to overstate how bad this is for the administration. the trump white house has lost control of its fate thanks to robert mueller. that's dawning on them now, and it may account for some of the turmoil we see this week. it's also sad as hell, especially for voters. they elected trump. they may not like it, but voters had their reasons and they are supposed to be allowed to pick their own leaders. that's not at all the view from washington were trump is seen as a terrifying threat to the permanent ruling class, which is been working for more than a year to neutralize him. hours after the election we were told that the results were not legitimate. or even real. a foreign government must've done this. there is no other logical expedition for this.

what evidence of russian involvement failed to serve us, we urged to have the justice department investigated. just to make certain. we owed it to our democracy. nine months later, nobody is talking like that anymore. questions of collusion and russian hacking look like footnotes. they're trying to figure out why he sold the manhattan apartment to a'r russian buyer. there's gotta be something there. and maybe in the end we will find out something is. it is a new york real estate business, after all. but at what cost? voters haveha learned a lot of d lessons from this russian story. they learn the president does not handle pressure well. they have learned that the elites in washington are as susceptible to mass hysteria as any medieval peasant h village. saddest of all they have learned that despite all the talk of democracy, they are not really in charge of their own government. people who are never elected are. jonathan truly is a law

professor at george washington university. i think you were comingu on. this is an investigation that went from trying to determine if russia had an effect on the election outcome and is now looking at real estate transactions in the united states between chump companies and russia ten years ago. how do we get from one to the other? >> the mandate that was given to mueller was perhaps ther most vague and ambiguous mandate i've special counselor. it's basically one line that says investigate the selection controversy. nothing else. there's no specific specific reference toto crimes. you canfe drive a semi through that language, that's what's going to happen. what people need to understand is that a special counsel investigation tends to have some mission. it broadens with time. if you start with a very broad language, they will fill that space and go beyond it. i think that mueller is going to be able to fit the financial

investigation under that language. that's what he was given by rosenstein. >>r: tucker: i don't believe that any person who does business in russia, no matter how well-meaning, could survive a forensic look into those business deals. i honestly think if i had dinner in russia last year i could be arrested. this seems like a real threat. >> it is a real threat. we've never had i a president wh this extensive portfolio that's transnational in character. these are transactions all around the world. they are very large. tithey tend to be messy. these are special counsel investigates, but they are federal investigators. if they see a crime, they will refer to the fbi or take it themselves. but that creates a very high risk for this administration. >> tucker: i i think it's fair to say that voters, who are the point of this whole exercise, knew that trump did business in russia. he did not release his tax returns. they were very aware of that. they elected him anyway.

so from the trump administration's point of view, this is all a disingenuous effort to nullify the election. that's how they feel about it. and i think they have a point. what can i doct about it? anything? >> there's not much that they can do about it. i can understand the frustration from the white house. it's like having a cop behind your car on the freeway just moving with you as you watch the speedometer to make sure you don't go over 60. it sort of unnerving. and that is going to be the reality for a while for the trump administration. it's like complaining about the weather. l i think they need to get a strategy.. they have to stop acting tactically.. that's what they'veac been doin. they've been a few steps behind and they've been reacting. they need and overarching strategy, and they need to keep a single coherent and cut, consistent narrative. that's the most important thing. you're going to have three major players going in front of committees next week. that's the most dangerous time for this administration. >> tucker: holy smokes. professor, thanks for joining us.

ask voters what they care about and they will tell your health care, immigration, even climate are all more important, way more important than russia, and yet russia dominates cable news coverage. why is that? we have a panel trying to answer that question next. plus who knows the most about news at fox news? a cage match between ed henry and griff jenkins in our final exam quiz show. it's demeaning and yet fantastic. stay tuned. ♪ this lovely lady has a typical airline credit card. so she only earns double miles on purchases she makes from that airline. what'd you earn double miles on, please? ugh. that's unfortunate. there's a better option. the capital one venture card. with venture, you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, everywhere, every day.

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>> tucker: would get a fox news look for a period annapolis police chief >> tucker: would get a fox news look for a period annapolis police chief has resigned less than a week after an officer gunned down an unmarried woman while responding to and 911 call. his hiring as a police officer was allowed the company by the many hapless government. some had suggested his death -- the death ofof the woman he shot was a product of the city's diversity policies. harteau is criticized for staying away on vacation after shooting and speaking publicly only yesterday. resignation came at the behalf of betsy hodges, who has herself attracted heavy criticism after the shooting this week. former congresswoman michele bachmann of minneapolis calleded the cop an affirmative action hire. the mayor is not a muslim, but is on thee covering in the effot to pander the city's large

smolai community. we will keep you posted on that story. if you watch the news these days, you know there is no bigger story in the history of mankind and russia and its dastardly role, its pivotal role in the 2016 presidential election. >> it's the president himself who may have made this look sinister. >> reporters, foreign policy analysts, and our allies can safely assume the worst. >> this is unprecedented. the closest we have is the nixon. of watergate. that didn't turn out too well. >> been so nice to the russians. you think our president is helping russia be great again? >> tucker: blah, blah, blah. the soviets learned, you can feed them propaganda but you can't make them eat it and digested. american television viewers don't seem to be. from a new bloomberg poll, chose

showing that the number one issue that americans actually care about, not russia, it is health care. 35%. after that it is jobs, than terrorism, immigration, and then climate. only 6% of americans think rush is the most important issue in the country.hi why the obsession on television? interesting question, two smart people to answer it. the senior correspondent for the federalist. and a writer for the hill, joining us tonight. firstt you, joy, you watch tv fr a living. are we overstating the proportions here? every time i flip on the tube, it is all russia, is that my imagination? >> let me give you some numbers, fascinating stuff, 73%, and we are going to pull the whole country, 73%, are concerned that the russia probes have caused congress to lose focus on issues

important to them. 56% said the media should move on from russia and on to other issues. the problem is we have lazy producers and hosts who love the narrative too much. they are too enamored to do something on health care.. to do a deep dive into reform, dand my wife is a doctor so i n talk about this, talking on the program and hundreds and billions at that cost and how that affects health care, should be ins, legislation is too complicated, because that would make producersrs do real work on television. insteadus of relying on a tape that was provided of jeff sessions saying here is the big for tonight. >> tucker: you can never undervalue the role of laziness, but you answer the big questions. answer this. the conventional understanding is that the media are liberal, they're trying to take down the president because he's a republican. if they focused on health care

that would not be good for thee republicans could they haven't done anything on health care. they could use that to criticize trump, and they are sticking to russia. why are they doing that? do they believe the conspiracy themselves? >> part of this goes back to 2016 in the presidential election. the media has this idea of itself in this heroic role where they are going to be the ones to hold the evil administration accountable.in just like during the campaign during the election, there on a crusade to discredit trump, make them seem like a buffoon, make the party seem like a buffoonish party for nominating him, voters like buffoons for voting for him. this is part of the grand narrative that the media has about itself and its role in american life. just like in the election, they don't really understand that they are out of step with the american people. the american people are buying into this narrative about the

heroic media. >> tucker: they don't even know that they don't understand. there's this pomposity, this hubris that's most unbearable. we watch anyway. we watch other channels even as the show is going on, and just about 4 minutes ago maxine waters of los angeles, one of the richest people in l.a., also a congresswoman, said she was going to attempt to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. here's also what she said. watch this. >>, tucker carlson claimed last night that you are running for president in 2020. >> no, just because i'm going to new hampshire to be the democratic party event for one of my colleagues, they made of the story. they they are trying every way they can to discredit me or to make people uncomfortable with me, you're going d to be hearina lot more from these people who are all aligned around trying to discredit maxine waters because she has stayed on trump's case.

you're going to hear a lot more from them. don't believe anything they'ree saying. [laughter] >> tucker: i couldn't control myself. maxine waters is self discrediting. why does maxine waters going on television, and no one mentions her ethical problems [laughs] they are super hyper skeptical of everything trump says and not skeptical of all of anything maxine waters says. why is that? >> it's the dan rather thing. w he played him in a clip for, and he's television often. he is talking about the moral virtues of journalism, people forget that he was fired from cbs in 2004 because he presented fake documents in a 60 minute story. is like having bernie on to do -- get them out of prison,

forget about the pyramid scheme thing, tell us about what we should do with our money. that is the dan rather effect. forget everything that happened, we want to hear your opinion. >> at what point does the press move of russia? do you think? >> they are going to stay on russia like the democrats are going to stay on russia, because they think that that is their meal ticket. the democrats think staying on russia asin their ticket to win the house, they are going to win on impeachment. are there going to run on russia.ch the media will bind to this narrative about itself, and the only thing that will get these people's attention is if they make people start tuning them out. which is starting to happen. you see with cnn's ratings taking a dive. their whole programming approach right now is built around hammering away at russia. i think the only thing that will

get their attention is a people tune them out. and hopefully they start doing so. >> tucker: i trust that. thanks a lot for that, appreciate it. coming up next there was an amazing piece in "the new york times" this weekend. you may not have seen it. a "new york t times" reporter ss he is mad at white women, all white women. because of what they do tos him on the sidewalk walking to work. kind of an amazing story. we will break that down jason whitlock coming up. ♪ so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it.

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>> tucker: kind of an amazing piece in "the new york times" the other day. an essay entitled "was that racist." it was highlighted what is the systemic racism of white women on new york city sidewalks. howard says when he is walking around the city, white women and only white s women repeatedly failed to walk in a courteous manner, forcinghi him onto the street or the grass if he hopeso to avoid a collision. he is very upset about it. jason whitlock is an anchor on our sister network fox sports 1 and he joins us tonight. jason, thank you for coming on. >> no problem. glad to be here. thiscker: so i read piece, and a couple thoughts went through my mind. one, i think it's a bad habit of mind to start generalizing abou groups of people as if they are all the same or people of a certain appearance act like every other person that looks like that person. that is kind of racism, b, i

feel like it is a psychiatric statement when you start thinking that one class of people s hates you, who don't en know you on the sidewalk. what did you make of this piece? >> i want to be completely transparent. i know w the writer a little bi. he's written about me. i've interviewed him for a job. also to be transparent with what i say, tucker,. i don't have a problem with interracial dating. i want to put that on the record. i've done it. i don't have a problem with it. black men like greg howard, who in his piece he spells out that he's had this great affinity towards white women, they've been sisters, his mother, they've been lovers, they've been his best friend. he has an obsession with white women. and black men who have an obsession with white women, and sometimes to date outside their race, they find as a defense mechanism for the chrism they take in the black community is to try to be publicly antiwhite.

they live a different life in private, and then publicly and through social media and through whatever their media jobs are, they try to act like they are the most militant malcolm x descendant that you can possibly be. what he has written is insincere, it's infantile, it's what he said, psychiatric, you have to wonder about his sanity and his own identity. he is confused. >> tucker: if one of my employees wrote a piece like this about any group and said there's some racial group that hates me and each one of them is looking at me weird on the street, first of all i would pull the piece because i think it's an attack on entire group which is not allowed. but second i would say you need to go talk to somebody. why didn't his editors do that? >> because it's "the new york times." they've devolved into an organization -- i had a lot of respect for them, but now it's just a lot of race baiting. it's the using of confused

young people. i think this young man is still under 30 years old pretties clearly got some issues as it relates to race appeared again, he loves the fruit of white america, the white woman. but he wants to hate the tree that produces it. it's embarrassing. if this piece were edited, somebody should've scrapped it, someone should have pointed out help.rhaps need some it's a diary entry attached to the brand of "the new york times" and presented as if it's something we should take seriously. it's just race baiting for the sake of race baiting. look, if a white woman had a problem with you on the sidewalk, if she were fearful of you, she would step out of your way to avoid you. she's walking towards you. he looks so harmless and so respectable that she just assumes, like most men who are chivalrous, he's going to step out of her way.

she is not going to walk dead into him and risk a conflict if she had a problem with him. again, it's like -- she can't win either way. if she steps out of the way it's that white women are afraid of me, and they stepped out of the way every time they see me. if she continues on her path ani says this is a respectful guy who looks like somebody i would be friends with, maybe she can smell the lust off of him and think that he will be a gentleman and step out of their way, because that's what most gentlemen do. >> tucker: that is never occurred to l me. that's a smart one. i appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker.. >> tucker: the republican party's effort to repeal obamacare seem to have failed for the moment. next we will talk to someone from national review who say it's time for republicans to consider a radically different course on health care. you may be shocked by this. stay tuned. plus we are debuting a brand-new segment. it's ed henry versus

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>> tucker: i want to make absolutely clear that not only are you conservative in good standing, butt you have been for all the time i've been you heavily come which is a long time, you're one of the very few people whose view on this i would take seriously because you are not chronic some ideological ax.m tell us why you think this might be from a conservative perspective a better solution. a >> it's very simple. we in america do not have a free market health care system. we have a complete jumble, a mess of a bare minimum for, maybe five health care systems. every single one is underwritten by government. every single one is wildly expensive and wasteful. if you are conservative, you want to move in a more rational direction. you need to acknowledge that you have to have a backstop. you have to have a safety net.

one way or another, people who have serious chronic illnesses, people who go bankrupt from their bills,le the government is going to step in. this government going to step in a sane, sensible way that makes sense and that saves taxpayers money? or is government going to step in in a crazy way, and game the system? >> tucker: the main fear, speaking for myself, my main fear about any single-payer system would be the massive increase in s government authority. power over my life that that would represent. >> and you should be concerned about that, that's legitimate. but single-payer does not necessarily refer to one system. it's a very broad rubric under which you can fit lots of different kinds of systems. the system that i think makes sense is what you might call a catastrophic single-payer system. that means that if you are spending all of your income on m the health bills of your daughter who hasou a serious disability, right, or if you are someone who has a chronic

illness which means that you have hiv, maybe you have some autoimmune disease, maybe cancer. you are not going to make sensible decisionsr about your health care. the thing is that that fear is the hugest political killer for republicans. the republicans have some decent ideas for making the health care system better. the thing is that americans of both political parties, americans and the broad middle, they do not trust their republicans are willing to put the lives of ordinary americans ahead of concerns that are very narrow fiscal concerns about how much taxes which people are going to pay. you need to convey simply that we are going to secure people's health care no matter what and then we are going to make it kemore cost-effective sensible system for everyone. >> that's what the president ran on. i think that they look at

great britain and are afraid of what they see there. how i much of the gdp, is there any country that has a system that we should emulate? >> we will have to create a made in america system. britain has a system of socialized, soup toe nuts, run y the state. canada has a system that is stingy or than people think. covers hospitalization, but does not cover drugs and a bunch of other benefits that we take for granted. wegr are going to have to creata system for this country that make sense and guarantees the safety net, but that might have more space for other individuals to make their own decisions. those things are compatible and we can do it. we have to be so stop -- stop being so ideologically terrified about the things that have been talked about in the last seven years. >> tucker: whatever we've tried has not worked, so i'm glad you are being open-minded. thanks a lot. time for a "final exam." which of these two fox regulars knows more about this week's

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♪ >> tucker: time now for "final exam." its a new segment we dreamed up in the shower one day where we quiz our panelists to see if they been paying attention to the news this past week. we hope they have been. they both work h here at fox ne. ed henry is chief national correspondent, and griff jenkins' ears will pick judgment, good luck.t i'm going to ask questions. the first one to buzz gets to answer the question. if you get a question right, you get a point. if you get it wrong, you lose a

point. best of five wins. you guys look a little nervous. >> i am. >> he studied. b2 we will see if you read them, ed. question one. yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of theis apollo 11 moon landing. this week and item used on theai space mission was auctioned. it was a bag containing what? let me try again. it was a bag containing what? both of you very smart. you're not going to answer. you're the only people in g washington that -- watch this. >> they use that bag to carry moon rocks and dust on the apollo 11 mission. it's previous owner bought the bag on a government auction website for less than a thousand dollars. >> tucker: moon dust, gentlemen. >> week question. >> tucker: blamed the question. i am the bank, i have all the

points. it's been a rough few weeks of the governor of new jersey. people in the area are going after him, including his number two, lieutenant governor. >> wait. >> tucker: he was booed in an stadium full of mets fans, what did he do? >> caught a baseball.et >> tucker: let's see if he is right.t >> he gets a a ball. left-handed catch.. >> nice to see them get from the beach to the ballpark. chris jenkins, ladies and gentlemen. he does not wait for the time mark. >> we don't have to be nice to you. >> i actually knew one question. >> tucker: i didn't even know that we were debating that. question three. a new law in washington state goes into effect this week. it imposes stiff penalties on those who drive under the influence of what? ed henry. >> marijuana. >> tucker: is a marijuana? >> a new dui goes into effect, driving under the influence of electrons.

it forbids the use of phones, tablets, and gaming devices, even while stopped. >> sean: not electronic marijuana vaporizers, just electronics. you arega negative one, let's se if you can redeem yourself. officials in china announcing that theyy were planning a pop singer from entering their country, talk about strict immigration laws, because of his controversial and controversial and takes off stage isis it? >> justin bieber. >> tucker: let's go to the tape! >> justin bieber has been blacklistedn and paying in beijing for his own behavior. staying his series of misbehaviors while abroad have caused public resentment. >> tucker: well, you have bieber fever, don't you? >> it wasn't fair. there needs to be an investigation. justin bieber was wrong. >> tucker: i completely agree. last question. melissa mccarthy, or

imitation of sean spicer brought him to a whole new level of fame. in that imitation of spicer, transportation to tuesday around? >> segway. >> tucker: to the tape we go. >> going to s new york, this prs interview isis over. >> podium. >> it's a podium segway. >> tucker: segway is close enough, you get it. the score is 2-1. i just won as a visual aid, these are the papers that ed henry brought into the studio. none of them are creased, i will .ell you only the crosswords have been lookednls at. >> he reads a justin bieber blog. >> tucker: attack your opponent, that is very good. go rebels. >> congratulations. >> tucker: follow the news closely for "final exam." fridays this summer. we'll be right back.

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>> tucker: that's it. we are out of time. there is a lot going on in the world right now. we hope you have a great weekend anyway. "the five" is next. we will see you monday. >> kimberly: this is a fox news alert. i'm kimberly guilfoyle. we are awaiting a press conference in minneapolis, minnesota from mayor betsy hodges following the resignation of the police chief at her request. she lost confidence following the shooting death of an unarmed australian woman by police officer. we are going to bring that to you when it begins. we are also following another big day of breaking news in washington. sean spicer is out as a press secretary. sarah huckabee sanders is in it. and anthony scaramucci will now lead the white house communications team. spencer resigned after the president appointed scaramucci to the post. he gave his interview to sean hannity. it will air in