and he is fine. he will be making his rounds again this christmas. sincerely president john f. kennedy. tucker carlson coming up next from washington, d.c. have a good night, everybody. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight with two weeks to go before the end of the year. congressional republicans poised to mark very little legislative victory of session. tonight or early tomorrow the senate is expected to pass the final version of a major tax overhaul bill which is already approved by the house earlier today. the bill would radically cut the corporate tax rate, increase the standard deduction for individuals, repeal the obamacare individual mandate penalty and a lot of other things. fofox chief news correspondent ed henry has the delatest details. >> the left is howling about this tonight which can mean only one thing. president trump on the verge of a major victory. over 80% of taxpayers will see a reduction despite all

the democratic claims that this is for the rich and not the middle class. we have seen the stock market already on fire. economic growth steadily climbing in year one of the trump administration. but now, it may be about to really take off. and republicans are poised to get credit for that in next year's mid terms. because not a single democrat in either chamber has signaled they are voting for this. in fairness though, republicans will own this if it fails to have the desired effect. democrats noting public polls have suggested this package is deeply impoor imimpopular in part. this could end up increasing our national debt and the president is breaking a campaign promise by not eliminating the loophole on carried interest which makes hedge fund managers richer and big part of drain the swamp mantra during the campaign. this is a desperately needed win for the president. after failure to repeal and replace obamacare. remember this tax package includes as you noted elimination of the individual mandate within obamacare so it dismantles

at least a key plank of the last administration's legacy. quickly here's what is in it. it cuts the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. still going to have seven individual tax brackets but many drop down to a range of 10% to 37%. the child tax credit doubling to 2,000 a year. standard deduction doubling for 12,000 for individuals, 24,000 for married couples and deduct up to $10,000 of property or state and local taxes to deal with some those concerns i mentioned. take a look at how speaker paul ryan celebrated with a video showing just how long he has been working on tax reform, so long you might want to look at this boy's face that he flashed on c-span so many years ago and utters a phrase that suggests he is maybe more on board with the president than the critics think. >> our tax system is punishing all those qualities that make america great. >> make america great uttered by paul ryan some years ago. senate about to vote tonight 11:30 eastern with mike

pence presiding as the president of the senate. the house had already voted because of a procedural snafu they will have to vote a second time tomorrow. bottom line this tax cut so many nay sayers was going nowhere is actually going to the president's desk for a signature. tucker. >> tucker: what's the time table on, this ed? >> to get to the president? it could be by the end of the week. some at the white house say it might hold it over after the holidays start the year off with a bang. >> it would be done and take effect in the tax year 2018. >> tucker: ed henry thank you for that summary. representing the state of south dakota, congresswoman, thanks for coming on. >> absolutely. >> tucker: is this the tax bill you upghted. >> it is a very good bill. a compromise between the house and senate. i was on the conference committee that negotiated the differences. it prioritizes families and this country again. >> tucker: tell people their taxes are going down is good news and everyone would support that. >> absolutely. >> tucker: why hasn't it

broken 50% in popularity. >> i think a lot what the democrats are saying out there is just lacking the facts. and they are spinning a lot of shameful claims about this bill that we just as republicans need to get out there and tell the truth. my state of south dakota the average household income is $54,000 per calendar year. for our families that are in that situation, they are paying over $800 in taxes now. they are going to get a tax reimbursement now of $30. that's almost $1,600 difference for those families. and when you are making $54,000 a year. that's life changing. that seems a pretty simple message. why so hard to sell that? i don't understand. >> i don't know. i think that we have been as a member of ways and means committee. i have been in the room working on the policy. making sure that it works very well. and the politics of divide and scaring people has been effective in this country and it's time that we start offering them real change that makes a difference in their pocketbooks. >> the average family in your state gets 1600 extra bucks a year.

>> that's not counting the growth in our economy. >> tucker: that's kind of hard to project. >> it's hard to project. >> tucker: but 14% corporate tax cut, people look at this and say well, gee, you know, dow is at record highs to companies which are posting record profits really need this tax cut? >> absolutely. the reason they are posting record profits is because of the expectation that the stat reform would happen. if you look what happened under the obama administration, our growth stagnated. we did not seat stock market doing well. i think the status quo we have proven is unacceptable. that's why this tax package is necessary. you not only need to cut rates for individuals but get companies coming back to this country. get them hiring folks. putting them into higher paying jobs. that's what is going to turn them around. >> tucker: the carried interest loophole, a small thing by the numbers. but it is symbolically powerful. the president ran on it again and again drain the swamp by getting rid of this private equity tilt.

hedge fund managers. richest people in the society still there, why? >> we certainly had that debate back and forth between the house and the senate. i think that every sings gel provision in this bill based on low and middle income families and then growth. we did not want to discourage groit in this country. so we made sure we changed our international tax. made sure we changed our corporate tax to make us competitive and allow that reinvestment of dollars into our economy that's going to actually create the jobs. >> tucker: not a lot of the jobs outside of stanford and greenwich. they have gotten really rich during a period of economic stagnation for a lot of other people. who is for this specifically? i mean, look, have you got argue it's a small thing but it's a thing and contrary to what the president promised. i think it would be interesting to know who lobbied to keep this in. >> i don't think anybody really lobbied to keep it in specifically to me or my office as a member of the ways and means committee. i focused on the child tax

credit. worked with ivanka and marco rubio on that extensively. worked a lot on the small business provision. i worked on interest guckettability expensing. i worked on things that were important for small businesses and farmers and ranchers like i am one. eliminating the death tax. those are all provisions that i focused on making sure we were going to get our tax policy straight and reform done. >> tucker: so to close that out, it's not clear how this wound up there but it's there. >> all of these had debates. and when the decision was made, you know, so impressive was how chairman brady handled this process. he is the chairman of ways and means and also the chairman of this conference committee. we would put forward proposals. the entire republican conference would give feedback on. we would put in place those provisions that helped us with the growth numbers. helped us bring relief to families. and then the bill would change. i think one of the reasons that we are sitting here on this historic day with tax reform being done for the first time in over 30 years, it's because of that give and take process that we have. so there was debate between

members of the conference and bipartisan committee hearings held even bipartisan discussions at the white house that was -- this bill was the result of. >> tucker: these are both process questions because they were things that republicans said 8 or 9 years ago about obamacare, i think they were worth asking. this basically going through on party line vote no. democrats supporting it and at least some republicans have conceded they didn't read it before voting on it. you kind of want to avoid those if you would just because republicans always said and i said about obamacare you didn't even read it you couldn't get a single republican. how did we get to that? >> you know, we honestly did have a lot of bipartisan discussions on this. i have been on ways and means for several years. we have had many, many bipartisan hearings on tax reform proposals. economists come before the committee. we had a farmer from south dakota come and talk about what would be important provisions to have in this tax reform bill. the fact that the democrats stand on tv and say they weren't consulted is absolutely not true. i sat in the white house with president trump while we had bipartisan discussions on tax reform.

>> tucker: i believe that. >> that can be simply proven to be not true. they were consulted. they didn't want to play ball. they didn't want to help the american people. that is why this is a republican bill. americans will see benefits out of this bill next year. >> tucker: if you are scoring at home. >> um-huh. >> tucker: how do you know if this works and when will you know. >> in january your paycheck will be bigger. less withholding taken out of your paycheck. you will see that result immediately. even small businesses that have payroll, they will see more money that they have to reinvest in their business and increase wages. they will take advantage of standard deduction. increased child tax credit. they will see interest deductibility available. new small business tax deduction that is in place that has never been there before. we really prioritize those that are the job creators in this country. recognizing that would what we need to see is this economy turn around. >> tucker: kristi noem, thank you. >> thank you, tucker. i appreciate.

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>> tucker: hate to promote politico, they had piece. explain how the obama administration justice and state departments deliberately undercut efforts to bring down a billion-dollar drug cartel linked to hezbollah. the terror group.

it all happened in secret. apparently with the goal of getting a nuclear deal with iran. how did this happen? eli lake a columnist at bloomberg he wrote about national security and foreign policy for many years and joins us now. eli, first question, is the story from your reporting essentially true? >> well, it fits a pattern with what i would call the increasing. other concessions that were made not part of the explanation of the deal to the american public. i also heard a more general concern that as a general rule the obama administration went softer on, you know, lots of kind of iran's regional per accommodations. the specifics of this particular story i think i know the reporter josh meyer, i think it's solid. >> tucker: one thing to say look, we are not going to hassle iranian diplomats or we're going to look the other way at nonsense going on in lebanon. but hezbollah teeming up

with the mexican drug cartel to import tons of cocaine into the united states in the middle of a drug epidemic seems like a pretty big thing to overlook. >> it's not just that and you are right, that is a big deal from a drug enforcement perspective. >> tucker: yeah. >> it's illicit stream of income to the main arm of iran's foreign policy. >> tucker: explain to the viewers who didn't read the piece. >> it laundered money back to hezbollah but it also was a drug trafficking network. one of the things that it means is also a way for hezbollah to sort of have a revenue stream to then support their activities in syriaened a iraq and other places in the region where they are causing a lot of mayhem on iran's behalf. >> tucker: so there is no question that the obama people knew this was going on and overlooked it because they felt the iran deal was so important. i know you are probably not a fan of the iran deal is there any way you think ethically to justify that decision? >> well, there are decisions that are made all the time

between law enforcement and intelligence gathering. >> tucker: yes. >> that is a real thing. and you can, i think, proponents of the deal would say that it's very important to do what you can to try to disarm as much as you can for the 10 to 15 years that the iran deal lasts. my issue in particular is that all of these sorts of concessions that the obama administration made should have been told to the american people up front when congress is voting on it in 2015 and selling it to the american people. >> tucker: is there any indication that members of congress knew this was going on, that the d.e.a. was being prevented from interdicting drug trafficking on behalf of the d.e.a.? >> that did i a little bit of reporting on. i can tell that you republican members are shocked at this point. there has been push back from obama alumni. they haven't really addressed the central claims of the article. >> tucker: push back? >> consisted of saying on the record bias think tanks. the "on the record" search one of them was oin this task force telling his story

and anonymous sources as well. so it was sort of, you know, if you can't dispute the facts, dispute the -- >> tucker: of course, that's all's the way. >> thank you. >> tucker: david it furry former state department official he advise the campaign on foreign policy questions. 65,000 people died of drug od's. beyond the point there is not massive. obama administration as that crisis was ramping up in effect allow you had tons of narcotics to come into the country knowingly. that seems jaw-dropping to me. >> this is really a story about terrorism and about our iran policy. we can agree on a couple things. first of all, that hezbollah does support terrorism. that hezbollah is an arm of iran and it carries out iran an at this american, anti-western agenda. so we should be using law enforcement toll confront hezbollah. and we have been doing that this story suggests, however, that the obama administration pulled back on a major law enforcement

investigation in order to support the iran deal. that is troubling if true. however, this story is thinly supported. and eli lake noted some of the ways in which it's thinly supported, basically based on two former dea agents who have an agenda. there is -- i have a contact. he just left the treasury department last summer. he says that this is a disgusting hit job by a can a bowl of people with an agenda. so there are two sides to this story. >> tucker: that's not a side, actually. that's an ad hominem attack on the reporting without offering counters veiling evidence u let me stipulate that all stories in washington come with agenda explicit or not of course there are agendas. buff is he saying that it's untrue that the obama people knew that hezbollah was partnering with the mexico cab drawing cartel to import cocaine into the united states with terror money they did know that correct? >> if you look at his tweets, he is saying that's

not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is really just based on the testimony of just two people. and that's problematic. so it needs further investigation before you diet the entire obama administration. >> tucker: i don't know that's true. i'm not indicting the entire obama administration. the show is not long enough to enjoy it i'm herely saying this piece purportedly is based on interviews with dozens of people, it says, directly involved in this. there is an on the record piece of written testimony before congress obama treasury official saying that a specific d.e.a. operation, cassandra, meant to interdict cocaine

shipments here was stymied on purpose. so is that true or not? it sounds like it is true. how is that not true? >> there are plenty of quotes in the article that also from people in the obama administration who said no, that's not true. the obama administration did not provide. >> tucker: i read the piece carefully. >> the white house did not attempt to curve the dea efforts because of the iran deal. that's a direct quote. >> tucker: because of the iran deal. there is not one line in that piece that says the facts are not true. it's a question of motive. they are saying look, this is complex. by the way there are truth in this. these are complex and he a lie just noted there is often debate between intel people and law enforcement people. i get it there are a lot of priorities at stake. at no part of that piece does it say that the administration didn't lean on dea to stop being so aggressive with hezbollah. no one denying that. >> you highlighted an important thing. which is there were a lot of different objectives at work here. and there was another objective which was to reach the iran deal in order to

cush iran's effort to develop nuclear weapons that was actually important. we should have been doing both. and i would hope that we were able to do both. this report suggests we weren't. but it is, again, based on just a couple of people's testimony. >> tucker: no, it's not actually. it's based, again, on the testimony first hand of dozens of people but let's get to the point that eli made. which is that congress voted on this. had no idea this was going on. how exactly does that work? why should the democratically elected congress of the united states whose constitutional duty is to approver disapprove a deal like this? why shouldn't they have all the facts before doing that? why did the administration lie to them? i don't understand? >> congress definitely should have had all of the facts. >> tucker: but they didn't. >> there is plenty of legislation in congress right now that is anti-hezbollah that would help with the effort to confront hezbollah. and congress has the opportunity now, based on these facts and others to vote in favor of that legislation. >> tucker: slow down, slow down. the deal is done, okay. first of all, all those narcotics came into this

country and, again, 60,000 people died last year. so, you can't argue that it's not shaking american society to its foundation, it's drug addiction. it is. this is part of the problem. more than that, the iran deal is in place and decertifying it, undoing it, pulling out of it has all kinds of other ramifications. like obamacare. once you are in, it's kind of hard to get out actually. why didn't congress know before approving this the whole story? >> we don't know everything that congress knew. i mean. >> tucker: members of congress say -- >> -- the intelligence committees on congress they get classified information and they were probably getting some of this information. >> tucker: so treasury called over and said but just so you know in order to kind of sweeten the deal. we are letting hezbollah which we designating a hezbollah organization to partner with zaidy's drug war import tons of cocaine into the country. you are cool with that? >> you are overlooking some of this some of this was public knowledge. one of the people arrested was hezbollah person

arrested in prague. that was public information. there wasn't information there s information that was publicly out there. >> tucker: what wasn't public was that parts of the u.s. government tried to extradite that hezbollah official from prague and were stymied in their efforts by the obama administration which didn't want to rock the boat with iran. that's a perfect example as outlined in the piece. they let the guy sit there. and now he is back in beirut selling arms to people who shouldn't have them. >> that's the position this article takes. we don't know if that's true or not. >> tucker: i don't think -- >> the trump administration has not changed the policy towards hezbollah one iota. for instance, the trump administration has looked the other way as hezbollah linked militias in iraq have taken back territory. in fact, some of them are using u.s. arms that were supplied to the iraqi army and the iraqi army gave it to ha jaby which is basically hezbollah linked militia. >> tucker: one of the reasons. >> are you upset about that as well?

>> tucker: i think the iraq war empowered hezbollah and iran its client. >> we agree on that. >> tucker: the point i am making can you debate hezbollah and role on world stage. bad idea to allow terror group to import cocaine in your country. >> we both agree on that. >> tucker: thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: taylor swift got on the cover of "time" magazine for accusing a man of groping. the man she accused saying she was able to destroy his life and reputation and get him fired before he could even respond to the charges. we are giving him a chance to do that next. ♪ ♪

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>> only under the threat of lawsuit did they agree to sit ewith me. in that three hour conversation i was never told what the accusations were. who the accusers were. i was never allowed to provide any data or evidence to debunk anything that perhaps i could have debunked if i knew what we were talking about anyway. they wouldn't allow me to present any evidence and frankly didn't give me due process. >> tucker: tavis smiley told us on this sohio yesterday that his career has been unjustifiably ruined by anonymous and unproven allegations. he is not the only one who feels his reputation has been destroyed in this moment. this 2013 photo from tmz shows pop star taylor swift with a radio show host called david mule. swift accused mueller of groping her in the picture. he was fired almost

immediate yatly. and this month taylor swift who is on the cover of "time" magazine so-called silence breaker. mueller says he was never give the fans to defend himself before he was tanned and destroyed. david mueller joins us now. david, thanks for coming on. >> good evening, tucker. thanks for having me on. >> tucker: we have the picture. it looks like you are guilty. what about this are we misreading? >> well, i have always said the picture was awkward. i wasn't ready. my girlfriend was talking to taylor just prior to the photo being snapped and i was several feet away. i tried slide into the photo as best as i could and that was the result. but my hand was never under her skirt. i never grabbed her and my hand wasn't each open. >> tucker: huh, did she say anything to you at the moment? >> no. nobody did, tucker. >> tucker: she didn't whip around and say get your hands off me or anything like that? >> no. and her body guard was right there five feet away and he didn't do anything.

>> tucker: your girl friend was there too. she was in the picture as well. >> that's right. >> tucker: when did you first learn she accused you of touching her? >> we left the back stage area. i left the arena. a half an hour later we were on the main floor and i was approached by a large british body guard. and he wanted to talk to me. and that was when i found out that i was being accused. >> tucker: what did he say? >> he said do you want to tell me what happened earlier? and i said i would love to. i don't know what you are talking about. and then he proceeded to tell me that i grabbed taylor swift's rear end. and i said i did not. i didn't grab anybody. and then i asked for the police. i asked him to get my boss. my direct supervisor from the radio station. i knew he was there. and my girlfriend tried to interject because she was in the photo tent. and they told her to be quiet. next thing you know, we got

thrown out. we were told we would never be allowed at a taylor swift concert for life. that was a lifetime ban and we were on the cush. curb. i never got to talk to my was or the denver police department. >> tucker: you asked for your boss and the police right then and there. >> i asked for the police several times. and the next day i had to go in and talk to my bosses at the radio station. kygo. and i had a talent agent. i contacted my talent agent. i talked to my girlfriend's family because they were really the only people i was close to in denver at the time. and i went in and talked to my bosses and i told them i didn't do anything. and that -- and they said well why would she say that? i said i don't know. ask her. >> tucker: do you know? you were fired. she has become a kind of living symbol of the

resistance to boorish behavior like this a survivor. i say it's all made up. why would she make it up? >> that's a good question. the short answer is a business decision. you know, my bosses never talked to taylor swift or anyone else who was in the photo tent other than my girlfriend and me. and my girlfriend and i told my bosses at kygo nothing happened. and they talked to one person from her group, from team taylor. they never talked to taylor. the only -- the first time i heard that taylor swift actually was accusing me was when she filed a counterclaim to my lawsuit. that's the first time. i didn't even know that she had said it because when i was there, you would think she would have slapped me or said dude, get your hand off me. she never said a word to me. i had no idea there was a problem because there wasn't a problem.

>> tucker: how has this affected your life? >> well, the biggest thing it's done to me is put me in a position where i have to prove that i'm innocent which is almost impossible. but i have done the best i can. i sat down for two independent polygraphs. i passed them both. i'm willing to do another one. i've talked to all my friends in radio. i have tried to recover from this career wise. and so far i don't have many promising leads. i have a chance to get back in radio. i won't be at the level i was at. i don't have a girlfriend. my girlfriend stayed with me for a while but it was hard. and when she knew that i was going to file a lawsuit, she, you know, that was a bit much for her to handle. but i didn't have any resource. i had to. because i asked them to give me something in writing saying there was a misunderstanding. and there was nothing else i

could do. i had to file a lawsuit. >> tucker: i don't know anything other than what you just told us but it's clear your life has been basically destroyed by this. >> in a sense. >> tucker: david, thank you for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: the senate thinks it may have found another russian agent in this country. let me give you three guesses. you will never guess it green party presidential candidate jill stein. she is a secret agent. we will tell what you crime she apparently committed next. ♪ ♪ (chris) the very first time

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did it from 2007 to 2012. commander david fraffer worked as navy pilot for 18 years. in an interview yesterday he described his encounter. it happened in 2003. he came across an aircraft that he says was quote, not something from earth. it was shaped like a particular tack. it had no wings. it could whoever in place. moved faster than anything ever seen pilot. appeared to defy the laws of physics as we understand them. favor disunsd seem like a crazy man we entrusted him with a plane in the u.s. navy military. if he is not crazy than what he saw deserves serious consideration. he will be on this show tomorrow to tell us what he saw and we'll discuss the implications of it don't miss that well, anti-russia hysteria in washington has gotten to such a place that it's not just conservatives being swept up in it anymore. the senate intelligence committee is now investigating jill stein of the far left, pejorative but accurate in this case the far left green party for,

you guessed it, alleged collusion with russia. what did stein do getting all this attention? in 2015 she had the gull to attend a dinner in moscow with vladimir putin himself that was sponsored by the television network russia today which, of course, makes her rosenberg. joe concha writes for the hill and he joins us tonight. joe, here is what struck me about this story, many things. but, one, here you have a political candidate, a politician going to a dinner sponsored by news organization. i don't want r.t. okay. i don't agree with r.t., but it is a news organization. it's no causier tha cause crazin others ones out there. she is being investigated by the congress. there is no media outcry at all. everyone acts like this is totally normal. where are reporters in defending the freedom of the press they often say they believe n this case? >> well, because they are distracted by the blame anybody but hillary clinton for losing the 2016

election, i mean, let's think about this now. we have had bernie sanders, james comey, matt lauer, sexism, right resentment all blamed for hillary clinton's loss. jill stein is now part of that equation as well. and the calculus is that if all of stein's votes in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, all went to hillary clinton, magically and not for the libertarian ticket or donald trump, then she would have won those states and therefore the electoral college. so now a dinner that she had in russia is being called into question before one vote in the primary was cast, a trip that she paid for on her own. she only bought one aid and now she is happy to answer any questions. again, when you are obsessed with russia this much, you have to bring in as many actors as possible. even ones that have no business being there. >> tucker: somehow nobody in the media has noticed this is a terrifying witch-hunt that's gotten so ludicrous it's sweeping up jill stein as a secret russian agent? i mean, remember studying the mccarthy era when you were in school?

and the idea was that people who stood up and sort of ripped the mask off and called it ludicrous like ted morrow, they were heroes. where are those people now? >> you mentioned aliens before. i think aliens are laughing at us now when we start including these things and obviously the bob mueller investigation if you call that into question as well, then it's considered dangerous or treasonous. and the hill highlighted a poll from last week it was from harvard and harris. and 54%, a majority, said that they think that bob mueller is compromised in this investigation because of his prior relationship with james comey. and you look back at the coverage of ken starr and that investigation in 1998 when he was investigating president clinton. let me share with you the "new york times" from 1998. headline, white house is all out of tack on starr is paying off with his help. they talk about in glowing terms, james carville who was the campaign manager for

clinton saying there is going to be a war. there is another clinton official who says this is all part of our continuing campaign to destroy ken starr. here is one paragraph from this and have you got to hear this. given the white house state of the art public relations machine, it is not a surprise that the president has appeared to enjoy the you were hand. still mr. clinton's partisan says they are amaze with the the ease of which they have made mr. starr's tactics and not the president's relationship with ms. lewenski the most scrutinized topic. in other words, this was cheered back in 1998. >> tucker: i covered that i remember. >> i came across a story you wrote actually and i think it was "the weekly standard" where you talked with that as well. so, yeah, now criticize mueller dangerous. then cheers. >> tucker: look, we have never attacked mueller as a man on this show. i'm not judging him as a man. but i think all journalists ought to be skeptic call of what their government is doing at all levels. but i'm watching journalists and other channels say anybody who asks questions

is disloyal, inciting silence, basically unpatriotic. when did journalists become cheerleaders for prosecutions. >> apparently it changed somewhere between 1998 and today. look, is it fair to ask why bob mueller has 17 attorneys that are on this investigation, a majority of which donated to the clinton campaign? one actually worked in the obama administration, only one donated to republican and democrats? is that so much to ask or to question andrew weissmann's motivations here? obviously peter strzok is not part of the investigation anymore. but those texts were devastating. now i think in the public mind, this is becoming a lot like it did with keep starr where it looked like it is to be what it may be, a political witch-hunt. maybe there is evidence there. it hasn't been presented yet. but i think now the perception is going that way just like it did back in the late 1990s, tucker. >> tucker: distressing to watch reporters become lack keys. thank you. >> thanks for the tie by the

way. a nice match. we didn't talk about this. >> tucker: that's to migration one european country could become a third muslim in 30 years. will these changing demographics make western countries stronger or something else? that's next.

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♪ >> tucker: well, for centuries, the europeans fought a series of very costly wars to keep the confident from becoming a muslim thee dom. change for demographic change in europe. a recent study by pew found that all in all immigration sweden u.k. would be 10% islamic by 2050. if the continent experiences

high immigration sweden will be 30% muslim. germany will be 20. a board member damsz, the all dulles area muslim society he joins us now. thanks for coming on. >> tucker, thank you. and merry christmas. >> tucker: merry christmas, thank you. i guess what's interesting to me is how if the roles were reversed i think the attitude of elites would be different. if you saw, for example, jordan with the saudi kingdom moving toward, i don't know, 30% methodists and methodists were saying we really are demanding you serve blts in school. you know, no bacon? change your rules. people auto would say woe, wait a second, did you go to someone else's country you conform to your culture. that's the opposite we are seeing in europe and i wonder why. >> first of all from an islamic perspective we actually believe in following the law of the land. institution of the united states. constitution in european countries and being good citizens and rejecting

terrorism and condemning terrorism and working for the protection of life. >> tucker: good for you. >> religious freedom is very important. especially we do a lot of work with religious freedom of minorities and muslim majority countries. our mosques imam myself and others have worked to help christians in pakistan, christians in the middle east and working with evangelical christians to uphold. >> tucker: you are kind of making my point. i have gone to church in anglican church in pakistan where the rector carried a gun because he had to during the service. there is not in the world a tradition of religious pluralism, a freedom in muslim dominated countries. why wouldn't europeans be a little bit concerned about maintaining their traditions of pluralism with massive demographic change. >> there again so you know our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the attack that happened in a church in pakistan. we condemn that attack. muslims over there are working to try to protect the christians and we have to do more over there as far as in europe, as you know,

there is an indigenous european population of bosnia, coffees voyeur. there was immigration that came because of as we know europe colonized in north africa and middle east and south asia. commonwealth migration. >> tucker: actually, europe didn't really colonize. that's not historically accurate. they were there 20 minutes after the empire fell. i want to you answer my question which is a sincere one. if your population becomes 30% muslim, it changes. this is what the sweeds are looking at now. and our view over here is if you think that's bad, you are a bigot. and my question is, are there actual concerns? can you have a pluralistic society, a toler rent society if it becomes majority muslims. will christians be treated as they are now if the society continues to change at the pace it is. >> first of all. >> tucker: do you agree it's a fair question. >> it's a fair question and we actually host european

muslim leaders and governments they come to our mosque and learn about how american muslims are incident grating in society. we talk about good citizenship. we talk about counter violent extremism. counter radicalization as well as to have, you know, good commitment to the country. and so this is something that the muslim communities in europe are working for. muslim leaders there as well as the governments in law enforcement. they want better immigration. >> tucker: is there any arab country overwhelming muslim majority country actively welcoming christians and jews? >> if you look at muslim majority countries like indonesia, like malaysia. >> tucker: no, no. i meant, right, is there an arab country that's actively welcoming christians and jews the way europe -- >> -- look at jordan is a good example. some of the gulf countries are working to -- like some of them have built churches within their countries itself. there is work that needs to be done. and we are advocates for that muslim majority countries, middle eastern countries must do more to

welcoming all faiths and respecting all faiths there is a journey that we all have to work on together. >> tucker: i don't have an argument with you there good for you for doing that you are doing god's work if you are doing that. >> thank you. peace be with you. >> tucker: peace be with you. get rid of the bullet proof glass that drives men to murder. unbelievable. that story is next. ♪ ♪ than 24 hours. i need to shave my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® works like my body's insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. i'm always on call. an insulin that fits my schedule is key. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of day. so if i miss or delay a dose, i take it when i remember, as long as there's at least 8 hours between doses.

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risk. but council woman cindy bass told them a bigger principle is at stake. according to bass, quote: we want to make sure there isn't this sort of indignity, in my opinion, to serving food through a plexiglass only in certain neighborhoods. apparently that's why you don't see much crime in philadelphia suburbs or lincoln, nebraska, their stores don't have bullet proof glass so local residents still have their dignity intact and don't become dangerous criminals who shoot people. we await philadelphia's next innovation when they realize they can get rid of all crime simply by closing down the police department which will add a lot of dignity to the city. good luck, philadelphia. we are still watching the senate floor where the republican party can start voting on the final version of their tax bill at any minute. keep watching fox for all the developments inside the capital. we have live coverage of that throughout the night. that's about it for us this evening. tune in every night at 8:00 p.m. to the show that is the sworn enemy of lying pomposity, spun smugness and group think.

dvr it if you know how that works. good night from washington. kimberly guilfoyle is in for sean hannity. have a good night. >> kimberly: thank you so much. tucker great show. i'm kimberly guilfoyle in tonight for sean. republicans are on the verge of scoring a major victory for president trump by passing historic tax cuts and tax reform. the senate is debating the tax bill that the house passed earlier today. and is expected to have the votes needed to pass. however, democrats are using obstruction tactics to delay out entire process. also tonight, fbi director andrew mccabe is testifying on capitol hill and growing g.o.p. criticism over allegations of bias at the bureau and the department of justice. and, congressman bob goodlat and trey gowdy are calling on the doj to allow house investigators to interview mccabe and other key fbi officials on capitol hill tonight with the very latest on both of these stories is ed henry. ed? >> kimberly, great to see you. democrats are griping tonight about this major tax cut which can only mean one